{"id":139972,"date":"2021-02-07T15:06:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-07T20:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=139972"},"modified":"2021-02-07T15:09:24","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T20:09:24","slug":"boys-sectional-hoops-pairings-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/02\/07\/boys-sectional-hoops-pairings-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Boys sectional hoops pairings announced"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Van Wert independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boys basketball seeds were awarded and sectional pairings were set on Sunday afternoon, including the highly anticipated Division IV Elida district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year, the higher seeded team will host sectional semifinal and sectional championship games. Neutral sites will continue to be used at the district level, and the Ohio High School Athletic Association is expected to announced regional and state tournament sites in the near future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Division II Spencerville district<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seed order: 1. Shawnee; 2. Wauseon; 3. St. Marys Memorial; 4. Defiance; 5; Wapakoneta; 6. Napoleon; 7. Van Wert;<\/em><\/strong> 8. Celina; 9. Bryan; 10. Elida; 11. Kenton<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sectional semifinals \u2013 all games 7 p.m. Tuesday, February 23<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No. 11 Kenton at No. 10 Elida
No. 8 Celina at No. 5 Wapakoneta
No. 9 Bryan at No. 6 Napoleon<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sectional finals \u2013 all games 7 p.m. Friday, February 26<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elida\/Kenton winner at No. 1 Shawnee
No. 7 Van Wert at No. 4 Defiance<\/em><\/strong>
Wapakoneta\/Celina winner at No. 2 Wauseon
Napoleon\/Bryan winner at No. 3 St. Marys Memorial<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Division IV Elida district<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seed order: 1. Columbus Grove; 2. Ottoville; 3. Crestview; 4. Kalida; 5. Lincolnview; 6. Leipsic; 7. Cory-Rawson; 8. Pandora-Gilboa; 9. Continental; 10. Miller City; 11. Fort Jennings; 12. Delphos St. John\u2019s; 13. Patrick Henry<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sectional semifinals \u2013 all games 7 p.m. Tuesday, February 23<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No. 11 Fort Jennings at No. 8 Pandora-Gilboa
No. 9 Continental at No. 4 Kalida
No. 13 Patrick Henry at No. 5 Lincolnview<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sectional semifinals \u2013 both games 7 p.m. Wednesday, February 24<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No. 12 Delphos St. John\u2019s at No. 6 Leipsic
No. 10 Miller City at No. 7 Cory-Rawson<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sectional finals \u2013 all games 7 p.m. Friday, February 26<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pandora-Gilboa\/Fort Jennings winner at No. 1 Columbus Grove
Kalida\/Continental winner vs. Lincolnview\/Patrick Henry winner
Leipsic\/Delphos St. John\u2019s winner at No. 3 seed Crestview<\/em><\/strong>
Cory-Rawson\/Miller City winer at No. 2 seed Ottoville<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

In addition to those pairings, Wayne Trace is the No. 2 seed at the Division III Lima district and will host the winner of No. 7 Riverdale and No. 8 Liberty-Benton in the sectional finals on Friday, February 26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No. 10 seed Paulding will travel to No. 4 seed Coldwater in the Division III sectional semifinals, with the winner advancing to the sectional semifinals to face No. 4 Fairview or No. 9 Allen East, and No. 12 seed Delphos Jefferson will play at No. 5 seed Bath in the semifinals, with the winner playing at No. 3 seed Lima Central Catholic in the sectional finals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Division IV Defiance district, Antwerp is the No. 1 seed and after a bye will host the winner of No. 12 seed Stryker\/No. 14 Hilltop in the sectional finals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parkway is the No. 8 seed at the Division IV Wapakoneta district and will host No. 9 seed Ridgemont in the sectional semifinals on Tuesday, February 23, with the winner moving on to play at No. 2 seed Minster on Friday, February 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Van Wert independent sports Boys basketball seeds were awarded and sectional pairings were set on Sunday afternoon, including the highly anticipated Division IV Elida district. This year, the higher seeded team will host sectional semifinal and sectional championship games. Neutral sites will continue to be used at the district level, and the Ohio High School […]<\/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-139972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 23:27:01","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\/139972","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=139972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}