{"id":140823,"date":"2021-03-04T22:23:43","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T03:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=140823"},"modified":"2021-03-04T22:23:47","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T03:23:47","slug":"lady-knights-ground-the-eagles-54-41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/03\/04\/lady-knights-ground-the-eagles-54-41\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Knights ground the Eagles 54-41"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

ELIDA — In a matchup of two No. 1 seeds, Crestview\u2019s zone defense helped hold Toledo Christian at bay during Thursday night\u2019s Division IV regional semifinal game at the Elida Fieldhouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Lady Knights limited the Eagles to just 13-of-49 (26.5 percent) shooting on the way to a 54-41 victory and a spot in the Elite Eight. In addition, Toledo Christian (16-6) was just 1-of-14 from three point range and Butler University-bound Madison Royal-Davis was held to just nine points, 16 shy of her average.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Crestview’s Bailey Gregory (3) puts up a shot during Thursday night’s Division IV regional semifinal game against Toledo Christian. The 5-5 senior guard finished with 16 points. Bob Barnes\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The Eagles entered the game averaging 65.5 points per game, but had just 16 through two quarters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe watched a lot of film because that\u2019s what you do at this time of year and what we saw was, it wasn\u2019t a comfortable spot for them,\u201d Crestview head coach Mark Gregory said of the zone. \u201cThey like to go up against a man-to-man. We were ready to play other defenses but we just felt like it was working and things were going well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey were using clock which was exactly what we were hoping for,\u201d Gregory added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crestview led 13-11 after the first quarter, with nine points coming on a pair of treys by Bailey Gregory and one by Olivia Cunningham. The Lady Knights expanded the lead to 29-16 at halftime, with Cunningham adding nine more points in the second quarter, including a late triple, while Cali Gregory also added a trey with a minute left in the period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Lady Knights pushed the lead to 33-17 early in the third quarter, but Toledo Christian closed the period with a 15-2 run that made it 35-32. Royal-Davis scored seven points in the quarter, while younger sister MacKenzie Royal-Davis added four. She went on to finish with 14 rebounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

A pair of early fourth quarter foul shots by Toledo Christian\u2019s Cat Jones made it a one point game, 37-36, but the Eagles would draw no closer. A pair of treys by Bailey Gregory and two more by Cali Gregory helped stretch Crestview\u2019s lead to 50-39. The Lady Knights finished the game 9-of-20 from three point range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI thought we did a good job screening and I thought we did a good job with communication and that was a big deal tonight, communication \u2013 we talked about it all week,\u201d coach Gregory said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cunningham led all scorers with 19 points, while Bailey Gregory added 16 and Cali Gregory nine points and assists. Laci McCoy had a game high 15 rebounds, while Cunningham and Myia Etzler each added seven boards. Etzler also had seven blocked shots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c15 rebounds for Laci and she\u2019s a sophomore, I love that,\u201d the coach said. \u201cMyia battled all night long and all five of my starters played a lot of minutes and they played their tails off. Cali hit some big shots, Bailey hit some big shots, Liv hit some big shots and had some big drives to the basket.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crestview (21-3) will return to Elida to face Northwest Conference foe Columbus Grove in the regional finals at 7:30 p.m. Saturday. The Bulldogs defeated Buckeye Central 47-38 to advance to the championship game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not looking at the game after that, we\u2019re looking at one game now,\u201d Gregory said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Crestview 13 16 6 19 \u2013 54
Tol. Christian 11 5 16 9 \u2013 41<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crestview: Bailey Gregory 6-0-16; Cali Gregory 3-0-9; Laci McCoy 2-3-7; Myia Etzler 1-1-3; Olivia Cunningham 7-3-19;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Toledo Christian: Madison Royal-Davis 4-1-9; Jacquelyn Norman 2-1-5; Cat Jones 6-4-17; MacKenzie Royal-Davis 1-8-10<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Once again, the Crestview Lady Knights were all smiles as they left the court after Thursday’s 54-41 win over Toledo Christian. Bob Barnes photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent sports editor ELIDA — In a matchup of two No. 1 seeds, Crestview\u2019s zone defense helped hold Toledo Christian at bay during Thursday night\u2019s Division IV regional semifinal game at the Elida Fieldhouse. The Lady Knights limited the Eagles to just 13-of-49 (26.5 percent) shooting on the way to a 54-41 victory and […]<\/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-140823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 06:46:23","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\/140823","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=140823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}