{"id":142082,"date":"2021-04-17T02:21:35","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T07:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=142082"},"modified":"2021-04-16T20:25:23","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T01:25:23","slug":"friday-baseball-softball-tennis-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/04\/17\/friday-baseball-softball-tennis-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday baseball, softball, tennis recap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Van Wert independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lincolnview and Van Wert posted baseball wins on Friday as did Van Wert\u2019s tennis team, while Crestview\u2019s softball team fell to Fairview. Below is a recap of the action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Baseball<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lincolnview 12 Fort Jennings 0 (five innings)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lincolnview\u2019s Collin Overholt and Jack Dunlap combined to hold Fort Jennings to just one hit and the Lancers rolled to a 12-0 win over the Musketeers on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overholt allowed a hit in three innings while striking out six and walking one. Dunlap pitched two innings and held Fort Jennings hitless with one strikeout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eight of Lincolnview\u2019s runs came in the third inning. Leading 4-0, Clayton Leeth tripled and scored Carson Fox and Creed Jessee. The next batter, Dunlap, drove in Leeth for a 7-0 lead. Later in the inning, Landon Price scored on a fly ball by Dane Ebel, Fox drove in Overholt and Leeth singled home Fox.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lincolnview (8-3) will play Delphos St. John\u2019s at Day Air Ballpark in Dayton at 1 p.m. today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Van Wert 3 Wapakoneta 2<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

WAPAKONETA — Jacob Place knocked in all three of Van Wert\u2019s runs and the Cougars recorded a 3-2 victory at Wapakoneta on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With two outs in the fourth, Place rapped a single to left field that scored Luke Wessell and Levi Eddins, giving the Cougars a 2-0 lead. Place\u2019s third RBI came in the sixth, a single to center field that plated Eddins. He finished with three of Van Wert\u2019s eight hits, while Turner Witten had a pair of hits, including a triple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wapakoneta (2-9, 0-4 WBL) scored runs in the fourth and the sixth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Luke Wessell pitched a complete game for the Cougars and gave up seven hits while striking out seven and walking two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Van Wert (10-3, 3-1 WBL) will host Kalida at noon today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Softball<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fairview 11 Crestview 0 (five innings)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

SHERWOOD — Crestview was held to two hits and the Lady Knights had four errors in an 11-0 loss to Fairview on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kali Small and Raegan Hammons had Crestview\u2019s hits, while Olivia Ricica had three hits and four RBIs for Fairview. The Apaches led 4-0 after the first inning, 6-0 after two and 10-0 after three.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Lady Knights will play at the Celina quad today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tennis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Van Wert 5 Wapakoneta 0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Van Wert improved to 3-3 (2-2 WBL) with a 5-0 sweep of Wapakoneta on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At first singles, Jace Fast defeated Bryce Cousino 6-0, 6-0, while Sam Moonshower posted a 6-4, 6-2 win over Connor Coffey at second singles. The first doubles team of Micah Rager and Kaden Thomas beat Nathan Doll and Angel Coffey 6-1, 6-0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bryce Miller (third singles) and Ian Cowan and Evan Knittle (second doubles) won by default.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Cougars will host the Van Wert Invitational starting at 10 a.m. today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Van Wert independent sports Lincolnview and Van Wert posted baseball wins on Friday as did Van Wert\u2019s tennis team, while Crestview\u2019s softball team fell to Fairview. Below is a recap of the action. Baseball Lincolnview 12 Fort Jennings 0 (five innings) Lincolnview\u2019s Collin Overholt and Jack Dunlap combined to hold Fort Jennings to just one […]<\/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-142082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 09:26:59","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\/142082","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=142082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}