{"id":132459,"date":"2020-06-24T21:13:42","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T02:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=132459"},"modified":"2020-06-24T21:13:45","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T02:13:45","slug":"treece-fans-12-vw-tops-crestview-7-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2020\/06\/24\/treece-fans-12-vw-tops-crestview-7-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Treece fans 12, VW tops Crestview 7-0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong><em>independent sports editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CONVOY &#8212; Owen Treece scattered three hits over seven innings while striking out a dozen batters to help Van Wert to a 7-0 summer season baseball win over Crestview on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"541\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Owen-Treece-6-24-2020.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-132458\"\/><figcaption>Owen Treece turned in a dominating performace against Crestview by allowing just three hits and striking out twelve batters. He also had an RBI. <em>Wyatt Richardson\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In his last two outings, Treece has fanned 28 batters and against the Knights, he also drove in the team\u2019s opening run with a first inning RBI single that scored Kaiden Bates. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After advancing to third on a wild pitch, Ries Wise scored on a second inning error, then Bates scored on a third inning error by Crestview to make it 3-0. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert (5-4) opened the fourth inning with singles by Ethan Rupert, Joshua Halker and Wise. After that, Rupert was called out at home but Halker scored on a fielder\u2019s choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bates scored on a wild pitch and Jacob Place scored on a bases loaded walk in the fifth to increase Van Wert\u2019s lead to 6-0. The game\u2019s final run came in the sixth, when Logan Collins crossed home plate after a wild pitch. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wies had a team high two hits, including a second inning double, for the Cougars, Pratt finished with two RBIs and Bates scored three runs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Crestview\u2019s Nathan Litchle pitched the first 4.1 innings and allowed six runs on six hits while striking out three and walking three. Tyler Hart went 1.2 innings and gave up a run while fanning three and walking five. Michael Joseph pitched the remaining inning and induced two fly ball outs and a grounder. The Knights were plagued by five errors in the game. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Crestview\u2019s three hits were singles by Nathan Litchle, Nick Helt and Grant Mefferd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert will host Shawnee at 6 p.m. tonight and Crestview (1-3) will return to action Friday at home against Delphos St. John\u2019s. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent sports editor CONVOY &#8212; Owen Treece scattered three hits over seven innings while striking out a dozen batters to help Van Wert to a 7-0 summer season baseball win over Crestview on Wednesday. In his last two outings, Treece has fanned 28 batters and against the Knights, he also drove in the team\u2019s [&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-132459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 06:13:18","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\/132459","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=132459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}