{"id":122153,"date":"2019-09-04T03:46:03","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T08:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=122153"},"modified":"2019-09-04T03:46:34","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T08:46:34","slug":"preview-hicksville-0-1-at-crestview-0-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2019\/09\/04\/preview-hicksville-0-1-at-crestview-0-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview: Hicksville (0-1) at Crestview (0-1)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong>independent sports editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CONVOY — Two teams in search of their first win will meet in Convoy on Friday night and if recent history is any indicator, it should be an entertaining matchup between Crestview and non-conference rival Hicksville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After losing 33-20 to Parkway last Friday night, the Knights (0-1) will open the home portion of their schedule against the Aces (0-1), a team that suffered a 56-0 season opening loss to Archbold. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Versatile Crestview speedster Caylib Pruett (14) can hurt defenses running and catching the ball.<\/strong> Wyatt Richardson\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The Knights and Parkway were tied 20-20 entering the fourth quarter, while the Aces found themselves trailing 22-0 after the first quarter and 43-0 at halftime. Both teams had two turnovers in their respective games. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the Week No. 1 losses, both head coaches \u2013 Crestview\u2019s Jared Owens and Hicksville\u2019s Lucas Smith found some positives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI thought we played physical and competed like crazy,\u201d Owens said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA lot of what I saw on film is fixable,\u201d Smith said. \u201cThe guys did a lot of things that were uncharacteristic of how we played the previous week in our Fort Recovery scrimmage. We just have to get back to doing things the way they are taught and we as coaches have to do a better job of coaching it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was a rough start and I expect us to compete harder and execute better than we did,\u201d Smith added. \u201cWe just need to stick together and keep working hard to fix the mistakes we made.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The Aces are led by senior quarterback Jacob Miller, who completed 6 of 15 passes for 77 yards and two interceptions against Archbold. Junior Mason Commisso had 12 carries for 31 yards and two receptions for 30 yards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHicksville has a very smart, athletic quarterback,\u201d Owens said. \u201cThey have a very nice running back and some good wide receivers. They are always a physical team defensively and coach Smith always does a great job of having his teams ready to play.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brody Brecht powered his way to 203 yards rushing and a pair of touchdowns on 29 carries, and the junior running back also took snaps at quarterback and completed 4 of 6 passes for 27 yards. Caylib Pruett had 14 carries for 31 yards and four receptions for 43 yards and a touchdown against Parkway. Jayden Ward completed both of his passes for 24 yards and a touchdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey are a run dominate team,\u201d Smith said of the Knights. \u201cThey are extremely well coached and prepared, and they will play physical. We have had some really close games with them in recent times and we need to be prepared in all phases.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year, the Knights held off the Aces to win 39-34 and in 2017, Crestview rallied from an early 18-point deficit to win 41-40.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With an eye on a possible victory, both coaches explained what needs to happen to win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have to eliminate penalties, take care of the ball, tackle in space and establish the run,\u201d Owens said. \u201cWe have to know our assignments on every play in all phases of the game.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDo the opposite of what we did against Archbold,\u201d Smith said. \u201cWe have to be fundamentally sound in all aspects. We can\u2019t just line up and expect things to automatically happen \u2013 we have to make them happen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday\u2019s Crestview-Hicksville game will air live on WKSD 99.7FM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent sports editor CONVOY — Two teams in search of their first win will meet in Convoy on Friday night and if recent history is any indicator, it should be an entertaining matchup between Crestview and non-conference rival Hicksville. After losing 33-20 to Parkway last Friday night, the Knights (0-1) will open the home […]<\/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-122153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 02:32:53","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\/122153","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=122153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}