{"id":140616,"date":"2021-02-25T21:36:59","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T02:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=140616"},"modified":"2021-02-25T21:37:38","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T02:37:38","slug":"crestview-shuts-down-north-central-39-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/02\/25\/crestview-shuts-down-north-central-39-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Crestview shuts down North Central 39-11"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

DEFIANCE — Defense was the name of the game during Thursday night\u2019s Division IV district semifinal game between Crestview and North Central.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The top-seeded Lady Knights held the No. 8 seed Eagles to just 5-of-26 (19 percent) shooting and forced 23 turnovers on the way to a 39-11 victory. The win put Crestview (20-3) in Saturday\u2019s district finals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Both teams struggled to score in the first half, especially North Central. Crestview led 6-2 after the first quarter, with all six points coming from Laci McCoy, who had to take a seat after two quick fouls in the opening period. Myia Etzler, Raegan Hammons and Olivia Cunningham each scored a basket in the second quarter to give the Lady Knights a 12-4 halftime advantage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDefensively we were really good, but the key was holding them to one shot,\u201d Crestview head coach Mark Gregory said. \u201cThat was what I was most proud of defensively.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Led by Cunningham, the Lady Knights picked up the pace in the second half. The 5-6 senior guard hit a bucket and drilled a pair of treys in the third period and Crestview had a 24-9 lead entering the final stanza. Cunningham went on to finish with a game high 13 points and six rebounds, and Myia Etzler scored six of her eight points in the fourth quarter, while Cunningham and Bailey Gregory each added a triple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe struggled making shots in the first half, but played great defensively,\u201d coach Gregory said. \u201cWe just knocked down those same shots in the second half.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crestview was 15-of-45 from the floor and 5-of-6 from the foul line and the Lady Knights won the rebounding battle 25-17. North Central (12-12) didn\u2019t attempt a free throw during the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two players accounted for all of North Central\u2019s scoring. Kendall Bonney finished with six points and Kendee Hollstein scored five.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The Lady Knights will face Ottoville in the district championship game at 8 p.m. Saturday at Defiance. The Big Green defeated Wayne Trace 47-36 to advance to the finals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have to make some shots, get some stops, and take care of the ball,\u201d Gregory said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday\u2019s Crestview-Ottoville game will air live on 99.7 WKSD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Crestview 6 6 12 15 \u2013 39
N. Central 2 2 5 2 \u2013 11<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crestview: Bailey Gregory 1-0-3; Cali Gregory 1-0-2; Laci McCoy 4-1-9; Myia Etzler 2-4-8; Raegan Hammons 2-0-4; Olivia Cunningham 5-0-13<\/p>\n\n\n\n

North Central: Kendal Bonney 3-0-6; Kendee Hollstein 2-0-5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent sports editor DEFIANCE — Defense was the name of the game during Thursday night\u2019s Division IV district semifinal game between Crestview and North Central. The top-seeded Lady Knights held the No. 8 seed Eagles to just 5-of-26 (19 percent) shooting and forced 23 turnovers on the way to a 39-11 victory. The win […]<\/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-140616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 06:37:57","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\/140616","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=140616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}