{"id":140414,"date":"2021-02-19T23:53:43","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T04:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=140414"},"modified":"2021-02-19T23:54:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T04:54:20","slug":"crestview-gets-by-stubborn-spencerville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/02\/19\/crestview-gets-by-stubborn-spencerville\/","title":{"rendered":"Crestview gets by stubborn Spencerville"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong><em>independent sports editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SPENCERVILLE &#8212; In his final regular season game, Crestview\u2019s Kalen Etzler scored 21 points and pulled down nine rebounds to help power the Knights by Spencerville 62-52 on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"465\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Kalen-Etzler-2-19-2021.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-140412\"\/><figcaption>Crestview&#8217;s Kalen Etzler goes high to the hoop for a slam dunk against Spencerville on Friday. Etzler finished with 21 points. <em>Wyatt Richardson\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Knights finished the regular season 17-5 (7-1 NWC) and Spencerville finished 7-15 (3-5 NWC)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nine of Etzler\u2019s points came in the opening quarter, but Josh Henline countered with seven points and Spencerville led 16-13 at the end of the period. The Knights outscored the Bearcats 12-9 in the second quarter and the game was tied 25-25 at halftime. Henline scored six of Spencerville\u2019s second quarter points and finished with 13 points, all in the first half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Crestview enjoyed an 18-10 third quarter scoring advantage, with Gavin Etzler and Carson Kreischer each scoring seven points in the period. Kreischer went on to finish with 17 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Knights won the fourth quarter scoring battle 19-17, with Rontae Jackson scoring six of his 10 points in the final period and Kalen Etzler adding five.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was a really physical game and I thought our guys did a good job with the adjustments we made at halftime,\u201d Crestview head coach Doug Etzler said. \u201cSpencerville did a good job making things tough for us at the offensive end but we did a good job of attacking and getting to the free throw line tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Knights finished 13-of-20 from the foul line and 23-42 from the floor with 23 rebounds. Spencerville was 17-of-39 shooting and 12-of-16 from the free throw line with 16 rebounds. Crestview committed 12 turnovers, compared to 17 by the Bearcats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m pleased with the effort our guys gave tonight and I\u2019m happy to come out with a hard fought road win,\u201d Etzler said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Spencerville will face Upper Scioto Valley in the Division IV sectional semifinals at 7 p.m. Tuesday, while Crestview will host the winner of Tuesday\u2019s Leipsic\/Delphos St. John\u2019s game at 7 p.m. on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Scoring summary<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spencerville 16 9 10 17 \u2013 52<br>Crestview 13 12 18 19 \u2013 62<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spencerville: Josh Henline 3-5-13; Dylan Smith 5-0-12; Cade Elling 1-0-2; Keegan Goecke 2-4-8; Tyler Koenig 1-3-5; Dalton Prichard 3-0-7; Dylan Cook 2-0-5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent sports editor SPENCERVILLE &#8212; In his final regular season game, Crestview\u2019s Kalen Etzler scored 21 points and pulled down nine rebounds to help power the Knights by Spencerville 62-52 on Friday. The Knights finished the regular season 17-5 (7-1 NWC) and Spencerville finished 7-15 (3-5 NWC) Nine of Etzler\u2019s points came in the [&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-140414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-09 20:11:40","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\/140414","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=140414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}