{"id":138380,"date":"2020-12-18T23:21:31","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T04:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=138380"},"modified":"2020-12-18T23:22:18","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T04:22:18","slug":"lancers-cash-in-at-ft-line-for-56-48-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2020\/12\/18\/lancers-cash-in-at-ft-line-for-56-48-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Lancers cash in at FT line for 56-48 win"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong><em>independent sports editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SPENCERVILLE &#8212; Games are won or lost at the free throw line and Lincolnview used the charity stripe to improve to 4-0 (1-0 NWC) with a 56-48 win at Spencerville on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"409\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Clayton-Leeth-12-18-2020.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-138382\"\/><figcaption>Clayton Leeth (3) goes up with the ball against Spencerville.<em> Photo courtesy of Hanna Young <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The game was tied 48-48 with 1:49 left and the Lancers received free throws by Aaron Cavinder and Collin Overholt, and four straight by Creed Jessee to secure the victory. Lincolnview finished 11-of-15 from the foul line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe were able to make some big shots down the stretch,\u201d Lincolnview head coach Brett Hammons said. \u201cCollin and Creed were big for us down the stretch from the free throw line. It\u2019s good to get to 1-0 in conference play.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lancers held a 15-11 lead after one quarter, with Clayton Leeth accounting for seven of Lincolnview\u2019s points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a low scoring second quarter, the visitors enjoyed a 23-20 halftime lead, then Overholt and Leeth combined for 13 of Lincolnview\u2019s 15 third quarter points. Spencerville\u2019s Josh Henline scored eight of his 15 points in the period and the Bearcats trailed by just one, 38-37, entering the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe knew it was going to be a tough game,\u201d Hammons said. \u201cCoach (Kevin) Sensabaugh always has his teams prepared and ready to play. They are a very physical team and we had to match that tonight and for the most part I felt we did that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overholt led Lincolnview with 24 points, while Leeth added 15. Jessee tallied nine points and led the Lancers with five rebounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Spencerville (2-5, 0-2 NWC) will travel to Kalida tonight and Lincolnview is scheduled to host the Wildcats on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Scoring summary<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spencerville 11 9 17 11 \u2013 48<br>Lincolnview 15 8 15 18 \u2013 56<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spencerville: Josh Henline 6-2-15; Dylan Smith 3-3-9; Keegan Goecke 5-0-10; Tyler Koenig 1-1-3<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lincolnview: Clayton Leeth 6-1-15; Aaron Cavinder 1-1-3; Collin Overholt 8-8-24; Landon Price 1-0-3; Jake Bowersock 1-0-2; Creed Jessee 2-4-9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent sports editor SPENCERVILLE &#8212; Games are won or lost at the free throw line and Lincolnview used the charity stripe to improve to 4-0 (1-0 NWC) with a 56-48 win at Spencerville on Friday. The game was tied 48-48 with 1:49 left and the Lancers received free throws by Aaron Cavinder and Collin [&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-138380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 18:27:28","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\/138380","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=138380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}