{"id":140168,"date":"2021-02-12T05:09:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T10:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=140168"},"modified":"2021-02-12T05:09:04","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T10:09:04","slug":"crestview-girls-win-share-of-nwc-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/02\/12\/crestview-girls-win-share-of-nwc-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Crestview girls win share of NWC title"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

CONVOY — Crestview survived a barrage of three pointers by Paulding and the Lady Knights earned a share of the 2020-2021 Northwest Conference championship with a 57-51 win over the Lady Panthers on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crestview (17-3, 7-1 NWC) shares the title with Delphos Jefferson (17-5, 7-1 NWC). The Wildcats defeated Spencerville 48-41 on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Crestview’s Laci McCoy (10) looks for an outlet while double teamed by Paulding during Thursday night’s game. McCoy scored 15 points and pulled down seven rebounds. Bob Barnes\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

With Laci McCoy scoring seven points in the opening stanza, the Lady Knights led 10-4 after the first quarter and 18-10 in the second quarter, before Paulding hit five consecutive triples, including three by Leigha Egnor, enough to give the Lady Panthers a 27-26 halftime lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Engor went on to finish with a team high 16 points plus seven rebounds, while Sadie Estle added 12 points and seven rebounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The game was tied 33-33 in the third quarter when Crestview went on an 11-0 run, which included a pair of treys by Bailey Gregory and one by freshman Cali Gregory, who finished with a game high 17 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Paulding responded with eight unanswered points, including two triples to make it 44-41 at the end of the period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey shot the ball so well in the second quarter and in the third quarter they made a run on us, and I knew they weren\u2019t going to stop,\u201d Crestview head coach Mark Gregory said of Paulding. \u201cCredit our girls for making plays down the stretch. I\u2019m just so proud of my team.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The Lady Panthers hit 10-of-20 treys in the game, while Crestview countered with a 7-of-11 shooting performance beyond the arc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A quick offensive rebound and bucket by Estle pulled Paulding to within one, 44-43 early in the fourth quarter, but a basket by Raegan Hammons and a bank shot by McCoy pushed Crestview\u2019s advantage to 48-43. Later in the period, another basket by McCoy and successive free throws by Olivia Cunningham and Bailey Gregory put the Lady Knights ahead 57-48.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gregory and McCoy each had 15 points and McCoy finished with seven rebounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe\u2019s really stepped up her game,\u201d the elder Gregory said of McCoy. \u201cShe\u2019s just doing all the little things \u2013 she\u2019s getting steals, she\u2019s rebounding, she\u2019s scoring, she\u2019s doing all the things we\u2019ve talked about all season long and I\u2019m just so proud of her. We had Bailey step up, we had Cali, we had Liv and we have girls who are playing lots of minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paulding had a slight advantage on the boards, 23-20, but the elder Gregory said he was pleased with how his team battled for rebounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI thought we had to rebound the basketball or it was going to be a long night for us,\u201d the coach said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crestview committed just nine turnovers in the game, compared to 17 by Paulding. The Lady Knights converted 10-of-15 foul shots, while the Lady Panthers shot just two all game, hitting one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crestview will finish the regular season at Van Wert on Saturday (11 a.m. junior varsity start), and Paulding will play the winner of Jefferson\/Tinora in the sectional championship game on February 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Crestview 10 16 18 13 \u2013 57
Paulding 4 23 14 10 \u2013 51<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crestview: Breena Grace 1-0-2; Bailey Gregory 5-0-15; Cali Gregory 6-2-17; Laci McCoy 6-2-15; Raegan Hammons 1-0-2; Olivia Cunningham 2-4-6<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paulding: Claire Schweller 3-0-9; Jalynn Parrett 2-0-5; Janae Pease 3-1-9; Leigha Egnor 6-0-16; Sadie Estle 6-0-12<\/p>\n\n\n\n

JV: Paulding 34-33<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Crestview head coach Mark Gregoryi draws up a play during Thursday’s NWC finale against Paulding. The play worked and the Lady Knights finished as conference co-champions. Bob Barnes photo<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent sports editor CONVOY — Crestview survived a barrage of three pointers by Paulding and the Lady Knights earned a share of the 2020-2021 Northwest Conference championship with a 57-51 win over the Lady Panthers on Thursday. Crestview (17-3, 7-1 NWC) shares the title with Delphos Jefferson (17-5, 7-1 NWC). The Wildcats defeated Spencerville […]<\/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-140168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 15:46:23","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\/140168","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=140168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}