{"id":140489,"date":"2021-02-23T04:56:07","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T09:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=140489"},"modified":"2021-02-23T04:56:58","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T09:56:58","slug":"random-thoughts-tournament-time-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/02\/23\/random-thoughts-tournament-time-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Thoughts: tournament time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

This week\u2019s edition of Random Thoughts centers around an exciting winter sports season at Van Wert High School, boys and girls tournament time and spring sports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A rare accomplishment<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congratulations and good luck to Van Wert High School senior bowler Lorrie Decker, who qualified for this week\u2019s Division II state tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Decker earned her fourth consecutive trip to Columbus by winning the individual district championship in Lima last week, an impressive feat. Even more impressive is getting to state four times in any sports. It\u2019s a rare accomplishment for anyone at any school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best of luck to her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Swimming<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Van Wert\u2019s Jayden Welker is headed east to Canton to swim the 100-yard butterfly at the Division II state tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like any sport, getting a spot in the state tournament is difficult but in some ways it seems more difficult in swimming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best of luck to Welker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Van Wert hoops<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve been covering high school sports for a long time and I can\u2019t think of an in-season turnabout like the one at Van Wert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m talking about the boys\u2019 basketball team, which won 10 of its final 11 games to finish the regular season 11-10. I\u2019ve seen teams start slow and finish fast but never like this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday night at Defiance should be very interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tournament time<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boys sectionals get underway tonight as Lincolnview entertains Patrick Henry. Crestview and Van Wert have byes and will play Friday and Saturday, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m going to make a prediction \u2013 some might agree with it, some might not, but I think all three teams will be playing in next week\u2019s district semifinals. Yes, that will involve Van Wert and Lincolnview pulling off upsets, but I believe both will do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the girls\u2019 side, I fully expect to see Crestview in the Division IV district finals in Defiance on Saturday. Who the Lady Knights will play is a coin flip, at least in my opinion. Wayne Trace and Ottoville seems to be evenly matched entering their district semifinal game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrestling sectionals are set for this Friday and Saturday and all three of Van Wert County\u2019s teams improved throughout the season. I\u2019m excited to see how things go this weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spring sports<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You wouldn\u2019t know by looking outside that it\u2019s time for spring sports practices, but it is. Practices began on Monday (indoors of course) and before it, baseball, softball and track and field will be underway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019ll be nice to have those sports back, after COVID-19 robbed 2020 of spring sports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I expect there will be some bumps along the way, but at least there will be a season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you have thoughts on any of the above subjects, feel free to email me at sports@thevwindependent.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent sports editor This week\u2019s edition of Random Thoughts centers around an exciting winter sports season at Van Wert High School, boys and girls tournament time and spring sports. A rare accomplishment Congratulations and good luck to Van Wert High School senior bowler Lorrie Decker, who qualified for this week\u2019s Division II state tournament. […]<\/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-140489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-10 08:02:19","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\/140489","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=140489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}