{"id":143277,"date":"2021-05-28T03:52:43","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T08:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=143277"},"modified":"2021-05-28T03:52:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T08:52:47","slug":"friday-flashback-knights-vw-to-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/05\/28\/friday-flashback-knights-vw-to-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Flashback: Knights, VW to state"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Note: This week&#8217;s Friday Flashback goes back to late May, 2011, when the Lady Knights made a return trip to the softball state semifinals and a pair of Van Wert track and field athletes earned spots at the state track meet. Below is the story as it appeared on the VW independent Sports page. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Van Wert independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a good weekend for local athletes, with Crestview&#8217;s softball team earning its third trip to State in four years with a 7-2 victory over Fremont St. Joseph during the Division IV regional final at Findlay on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/WBL-track-meet-2011-2nd-day-Riethman.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7938\"\/><figcaption>Sydney Riethman is shown competing in the long jump during the Western Buckeye League meet earlier this month. <em>VW independent file photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Danica Hicks led the Crestview offense with a home run and a single, while the Knights&#8217; other Maddie &#8212; Etzler &#8212; also had a home run, and Taylor Springer and Preston doubled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Crestview will play its state semifinal game Friday at 5:30 p.m. at Firestone Stadium in Akron against Columbiana. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also Saturday, Van Wert&#8217;s Sydney Riethman and Jared Fleming earned berths in the Division II State Track Meet during regional competition in Lexington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Riethman won the regional championship in the long jump with a leap of 17 feet, 4 1\/2 inches, while Fleming took second place in the 1600-meter run in a time of 4:16.46.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cougar girls were 12th overall out of 42 teams, while the boys finished in 16th place out of 43 teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both Riethman and Fleming will compete on Saturday at Jesse Owens Stadium on the campus of The Ohio State University in Columbus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note: This week&#8217;s Friday Flashback goes back to late May, 2011, when the Lady Knights made a return trip to the softball state semifinals and a pair of Van Wert track and field athletes earned spots at the state track meet. Below is the story as it appeared on the VW independent Sports page. Van [&hellip;]<\/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-143277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-09 12:32:23","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\/143277","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=143277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}