{"id":141012,"date":"2021-03-11T19:16:42","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T00:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=141012"},"modified":"2021-03-11T19:18:07","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T00:18:07","slug":"crestview-falls-in-d-iv-state-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/03\/11\/crestview-falls-in-d-iv-state-semis\/","title":{"rendered":"Crestview falls to No. 1 Fort Loramie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

DAYTON — The No. 1 team in Division IV flexed their muscles against Crestview during Thursday\u2019s state semifinal game at UD Arena at the University of Dayton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Crestview’s Laci McCoy (10) is double teamed by Fort Loramie’s Corynn Heitkamp (20) and Jaydn Puthoff (31) during Thursday’s Division IV state semifinal game in Dayton. Bob Barnes\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Fort Loramie, the 2020-2021 Associated Press poll champion, took control early and went on to defeat the Lady Knights 66-24, ending Crestview\u2019s memorable season at 23-4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m extremely proud of my team,\u201d Crestview head coach Mark Gregory said. \u201cThis team truly has come together and has formed a truly awesome bond and I\u2019m just so proud of them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both coaches agreed Fort Loramie\u2019s depth was just too much for Crestview to overcome. The Redskins used a nine-player rotation for much of the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs I was watching our kids out there, sucking air and struggling as the game went on I really felt like that was a big part of (it),\u201d Gregory said. \u201cTheir bench was so better than ours and they don\u2019t have a dropoff. We pretty much played seven or eight all year long and I think that definitely caught up to us today.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think year we have a good six or seven girls who can start for us and when you have those players coming off the bench and their kicking up the same level of play that the starters are playing, that\u2019s just an added bonus,\u201d Fort Loramie head coach Carla Siegel said. \u201cEverybody puts five great players on the floor in a state tournament and when you can rely on your bench to go in, it\u2019s an added bonus that we have at Fort Loramie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The Redskins (28-1), who led from start to finish, jumped out to an early 8-3 lead but a pair of baskets by Olivia Cunningham and one by Laci McCoy pulled Crestview to within one, 10-9. However, Fort Loramie closed the quarter with seven unanswered points and carried a 17-9 lead into the second quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was very upset in the first quarter, I didn\u2019t think our rebounding was very good and I thought Crestview was getting too many second looks,\u201d Siegel said. \u201cI think maybe it was the fatigue on their part but I think we did a better job in the last three quarters keeping them off the boards.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lead ballooned to 27-13 with about five minutes left in the second period, then Fort Loramie went on a 13-5 run to make to 40-18 at halftime. Dana Rose scored eight of her 22 points in the quarter and the Redskins forced Crestview into 16 turnovers in the first half, while out-rebounding the Lady Knights 16-10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Crestview’s Cali Gregory looks to pass to a teammate during Thursday’s state semifinal game against Fort Loramie. Bob Barnes photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Fort Loramie\u2019s Kenzie Hoelscher took over in the third quarter, scoring eight of her 12 points to help boost the lead to 58-22 at the end of the period. Cali Gregory scored all four of Crestview\u2019s points in the quarter, and the 5-8 freshman scored her team\u2019s only two points in the final period, which was played with a continuous clock. She was Crestview\u2019s leading scorer with six points, while Bailey Gregory had five.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTheir length, their defensive intensity was as good as I\u2019ve seen,\u201d coach Gregory said. \u201cWe played a lot of good teams in our conference and in the tournament, but their length was phenomenal and they just do such a great job of getting in the passing lanes. They do a good job of capitalizing on mistakes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fort Loramie finished the game 25-of-54 shooting and 11-of-15 from the foul line, compared to 11-of-36 and 1-of-4 for Crestview. The Redskins had a slight rebounding advantage, 30-27 wtih Rose pulling down seven. Cunningham had five boards for the Lady Knights. Fort Loramie had just three turnovers in the game, all in the first half, while Crestview had 24, leading to 34 Fort Loramie points. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The game was the final one for seven seniors on the roster \u2013 Cunningham, Breena Grace, Bailey Gregory, Kylie Etzler, Mandy Macki, Raegan Hammons and Adalynn Longstreth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fort Loramie will face McDonald in the championship game at 10:45 on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Fort Loramie 17 23 18 8 \u2013 66
Crestview 9 9 4 2 \u2013 24<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fort Loramie: Caitlyn Gasson 4-0-8; Corynn Heitkamp 4-2-10; Kenzie Hoelscher 4-4-12; Dana Rose 8-4-22; Colleen Brandewie 2-1-6; Ava Sholtis 3-0-6; Clara Gephart 0-2-2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crestview: Bailey Gregory 2-0-5; Cali Gregory 3-0-6; Laci McCoy 1-1-3; Myia Etzler 1-0-2; Olivia Cunningham 2-0-4; Brynn Putman 2-0-4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent sports editor DAYTON — The No. 1 team in Division IV flexed their muscles against Crestview during Thursday\u2019s state semifinal game at UD Arena at the University of Dayton. Fort Loramie, the 2020-2021 Associated Press poll champion, took control early and went on to defeat the Lady Knights 66-24, ending Crestview\u2019s memorable season […]<\/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-141012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 03:17:16","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\/141012","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=141012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}