{"id":12966,"date":"2011-09-02T23:37:17","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T04:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=12966"},"modified":"2011-09-02T23:45:31","modified_gmt":"2011-09-03T04:45:31","slug":"lcc-blasts-knights-58-7-in-nwc-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2011\/09\/02\/lcc-blasts-knights-58-7-in-nwc-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"LCC blasts Knights 58-7 in NWC opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Van Wert independent sports<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CONVOY &#8212; The Crestview Knights were victimized by Lima Central Catholic\u2019s overpowering offense and stifling defense, as the Knights lost 58-7 during their home and season opener on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>With the win, the Thunderbirds go to 2-0 overall and 1-0 in the Northwest Conference. Crestview is now 0-1 in league play and 0-2 overall.<\/p>\n<p>LCC amassed 558 yards of total offense, 333 yards of that on the ground, while holding the Knights to 142 yards of offense.<\/p>\n<p>The T-Birds scored once in the first quarter, three times in the second stanza, three times in the third quarter and twice in the final quarter of play. LCC led 28-7 at the end of the first half, while the score was 44-7 at the three-quarter mark in the game.<\/p>\n<p>T-Bird quarterback Tyler O\u2019Connor was the big gun in the game, passing for two touchdowns and running for two more scores. Crestview\u2019s lone score came on a 3-yard fumble recovery by Zach Burdette.<\/p>\n<p>LCC dominated in the states, earning 24 first downs to just 5 for the Knights. Penalties also hurt Crestview, which was whistled for six of them for 46 yards. The T-Birds had just three penalties for 25 yards.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, the Knights led in time of possession, 24:05 to 23:55 for LCC.<\/p>\n<p>T-Bird Jonathon Washington was the game\u2019s leading rusher, with 10 carries for 131 yards and a touchdown. Crestview was led by Trevor Roop, who also carried 10 times, but for just 34 yards.<\/p>\n<p>LCC\u2019s Mykale Rogers was the top receiver of the game, with five catches for 89 yards and a touchdown, while Sam Huffman also had five receptions for 52 yards and a TD. Noah Gebert led the Knights with one reception for 38 yards.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12971\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Crestview-football-vs-LCC-2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Crestview-football-vs-LCC-2011.jpg 545w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Crestview-football-vs-LCC-2011-523x600.jpg 523w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent sports CONVOY &#8212; The Crestview Knights were victimized by Lima Central Catholic\u2019s overpowering offense and stifling defense, as the Knights lost 58-7 during their home and season opener on Friday. With the win, the Thunderbirds go to 2-0 overall and 1-0 in the Northwest Conference. Crestview is now 0-1 in league play [&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-12966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-05 17:16:14","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\/12966","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=12966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}