{"id":117861,"date":"2019-05-14T22:18:43","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T03:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=117861"},"modified":"2019-05-14T22:19:23","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T03:19:23","slug":"rivals-to-meet-for-district-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2019\/05\/14\/rivals-to-meet-for-district-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Rivals to meet for district championship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Van Wert independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ELIDA &#8212; Northwest Conference rivals Lincolnview and Crestview will meet in the Division IV district finals, with a regional softball berth on the line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two teams won their district semifinal games at Dorothy Edwards field in Elida on Tuesday, with Lincolnview stunning No. 1 seed and perennial power Parkway 4-3, and Crestview defeating No. 2 seed Wayne Trace 3-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lady Lancers and Lady Knights will square off at 5 p.m. Thursday in Elida, with the winner advancing to next week\u2019s Findlay regional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Lincolnview 4 Parkway 3<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lakin Brant snapped a 3-3 tie with a sixth inning RBI single that scored Annie Mendenhall and gave the No. 4 seed Lady Lancers the win. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brant had three hits, including a solo home run to start the game. Lincolnview (15-4) added a run in the second inning when Tori Boyd scored on an error. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Parkway scored three runs in the fourth, but Lincolnview tied the game in the fifth on a bases loaded walk that plated Mendenhall. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amy Beair held Parkway to just three hits, while striking out four and walking two.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Crestview 3 Wayne Trace 1<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>A three run sixth inning proved to be the difference, as No. 3 seed Crestview rallied past Wayne Trace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Breena Grace opened the sixth with a single, then after an out, Kali Small doubled in Emily Gruelach, who was in as a courtesy runner. Two batters later, Codi Miller two RBI single scored Mandy Macki and Lexi Gregory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Small had two hits and an RBI and she was the winning pitcher, holding Wayne Trace to five hits, as Crestview improved to 20-4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emily Dyson led the Lady Raiders with two hits. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent sports ELIDA &#8212; Northwest Conference rivals Lincolnview and Crestview will meet in the Division IV district finals, with a regional softball berth on the line. The two teams won their district semifinal games at Dorothy Edwards field in Elida on Tuesday, with Lincolnview stunning No. 1 seed and perennial power Parkway 4-3, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 11:11:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}