{"id":140348,"date":"2021-02-17T22:47:04","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T03:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=140348"},"modified":"2021-02-17T22:47:59","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T03:47:59","slug":"van-wert-falls-in-d-ii-sectional-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/02\/17\/van-wert-falls-in-d-ii-sectional-semis\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Wert falls in D-II sectional semis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

LIMA — No. 9 seed Van Wert had no answer for the freshman duo of Zoe Best and Grace Freiberger, as the two combined for 47 points in No. 6 seed Shawnee\u2019s 68-43 Division II sectional semifinal win at Lappin Gymnasium on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best finished with 27 points and Freiberger had 20, including 18 in the first half, as the Indians avenged a 55-50 loss to the Lady Cougars on February 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In her final game, Van Wert’s Jaylyn Rickard scored 13 points, including 11 in the third quarter of Wednesday’s sectional semifinal game against Shawnee. The Lady Cougars lost 68-43. Photo by Wyatt Richardson\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Shawnee (14-7) raced out to a 14-2 lead and enjoyed an 18-8 advantage at the end of the first quarter, with Best and Freiberger teaming up to score 16 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a pair of free throws by Sofi Houg early in the second quarter, Shawnee scored 14 unanswered points to take a 32-10 lead and Freiberger hit a deep triple from the left wing at the buzzer to put the Indians ahead 35-12 at halftime. Van Wert\u2019s only other points of the period came on two Jaylyn Rickard foul shots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shawnee connected on 14-of-22 shots in the first half and went on to finish 28-of-47 from the floor, while Van Wert (8-12) hit 4-of-22 shots in the opening half and 13-of-47 in the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey shot lights out and credit them on a great game plan, they clearly executed a lot of their strengths,\u201d Van Wert head coach Hannah Phlipot said. \u201cOur kids are resilient, they fight and that\u2019s stuff you can\u2019t coach and that\u2019s just the innate character of those girls.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rickard connected on three third quarter triples and scored 11 points in the period, but Shawnee countered with a pair of treys by Emily Skinner and led 49-29 entering the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very hard to come back from that and we preached to our kids that they couldn\u2019t make it all up in one possession, you have to chip away at it,\u201d Phlipot said. \u201cLittle things got us and we dug ourselves a hole and it\u2019s tough to come back from.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Shawnee controlled the boards with a 26-19 advantage and the Indians hounded Van Wert into 20 turnovers, while committing 11 themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was the final game for three Van Wert seniors \u2013 Rickard, Carly Smith and Allison Schaufelberger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAll three of our seniors \u2013 Jaylyn, Carly, Alli \u2013 have done more for this program than they realize,\u201d Phlipot said. \u201cThey\u2019re leaders to our younger kids and they do a lot of the unseen work. They\u2019re going to be extremely hard to replace.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shawnee will face No. 5 seed Toledo Central Catholic for the sectional championship on Saturday. The Irish beat Toledo Scott 61-13 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Shawnee 18 17 14 19 \u2013 68
Van Wert 8 4 17 14 \u2013 43<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shawnee: Zoe Best 10-6-27; Hailee Conrad 3-0-6; Grace Freiberger 8-1-20; Emily Skinner 3-0-9; Kelly Cooper 1-0-2; Zoe Smith 2-0-4<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Van Wert: Kyra Welch 2-1-5; Sofi Houg 3-4-11; Jaylyn Rickard 4-2-13; Allison Schaufelberger 2-2-6; Carlee Young 1-0-2; Lexi Barnhart 1-0-2; Erin Schaufelberger 0-2-2; Maria Bagley 0-2-2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent sports editor LIMA — No. 9 seed Van Wert had no answer for the freshman duo of Zoe Best and Grace Freiberger, as the two combined for 47 points in No. 6 seed Shawnee\u2019s 68-43 Division II sectional semifinal win at Lappin Gymnasium on Wednesday. Best finished with 27 points and Freiberger had […]<\/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-140348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 09:52:23","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\/140348","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=140348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}