{"id":139315,"date":"2021-01-19T23:45:37","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T04:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=139315"},"modified":"2021-01-19T23:46:13","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T04:46:13","slug":"no-4-ottoville-edges-crestview-in-ot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/01\/19\/no-4-ottoville-edges-crestview-in-ot\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 4 Ottoville edges Crestview in OT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

CONVOY — Two of northwest Ohio\u2019s best Division IV teams met at Ray Etzler Gymnasium on Tuesday night and the game lived up to the hype.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A late overtime trey by Ottoville\u2019s Will Miller was the difference as the No. 4 Big Green defeated Crestview 61-59. The winning shot came off an assist by Josh Thorbahn, and it happened after JJ Ward put the Knights ahead 59-58 with 17 seconds left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Crestview’s Kalen Etzler goes up for two points against Ottoville. Etzler went on to finish with 21 points and 11 rebounds. Bob Barnes\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have trusted our guys to get a look in that situation before and I believe in putting in our guys to execute, so I can\u2019t be more happy for him and to have Josh trust him and hit him with a really great pass,\u201d Ottoville head coach Keith Utendorf said. \u201cI\u2019m really proud of both of them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTwo tremendous teams that really had multiple guys step up and make some big plays in big moments,\u201d Utendorf added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m proud of our guys effort tonight,\u201d Crestview head coach Doug Etzler said. \u201cBoth teams made big plays in the fourth quarter and in overtime. Give Ottoville credit for hitting a big \u20183\u2019 to win the game.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The game was tied 9-9 after the first quarter, with Kalen Etzler accounting for seven of Crestview\u2019s points, then the Knights scored the first 11 points of the second quarter and led 20-9 with just over four minutes left. However, Ottoville closed the quarter with a 13-6 scoring run and trailed 26-22 at halftime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe fought through a lot of adversity in the first half with foul situations and we were kind of disjointed,\u201d Utendorf said. \u201cCredit Crestview, they frustrated us and guarded us really and made us do some things we were uncomfortable with on the offensive end.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ottoville held a 32-31 lead with 2:15 left in the third quarter, but Crestview rallied to take a 41-35 lead entering the fourth. Thorbahn scored seven of his 29 points in the period, while Gavin Etzler countered with a pair of treys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Miller scored seven points in the fourth quarter, Thorbahn added six and Ottoville held a 51-49 lead with 1:52 left, but were able to tie the game and force the extra session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We were able to force some turnovers in the second half and that changed the momentum,” Utendorf said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thorbahn scored the first seven of Ottoville\u2019s points in overtime, while Ward and Gavin Etzler each hit treys and Carson Kreischer added a bucket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kalen Etzler led Crestview with 21 points and 11 rebounds, Ward scored 16 points, Gavin Etzler added 14 and Kreischer finished with seven points and 11 rebounds. The Knights held a 32-29 rebounding advantage, but committed 19 turnovers, compared to just seven by Ottoville. In addition, Crestview was 4-of-8 from the foul line, while Ottoville was 14-of-18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller finished with 12 points and Ryan Suever added 10 points and 10 rebounds for the Big Green.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crestview (10-4) is scheduled to host Ada on Friday, while Ottoville (12-2) will entertain Fort Jennings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scoring summary<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crestview 9 17 15 10 8 \u2013 59
Ottoville 9 13 13 16 10 \u2013 61<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crestview: Kalen Etzler 8-2-21; Gavin Etzler 5-0-14; JJ Ward 6-0-16; Carson Kreischer 3-1-7; Nathan Lichtle 0-1-1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ottoville: Will Miller 4-2-12; Kyle Manns 2-3-8; Ryan Suever 3-2-10; Kellen Schlagbaum 0-2-2; Josh Thorbahn 11-5-29<\/p>\n\n\n\n

JV: Ottoville 51-48<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent sports editor CONVOY — Two of northwest Ohio\u2019s best Division IV teams met at Ray Etzler Gymnasium on Tuesday night and the game lived up to the hype. A late overtime trey by Ottoville\u2019s Will Miller was the difference as the No. 4 Big Green defeated Crestview 61-59. The winning shot came off […]<\/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-139315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 00:37:56","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\/139315","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=139315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}