{"id":149111,"date":"2021-12-11T00:48:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T05:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=149111"},"modified":"2021-12-11T00:48:34","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T05:48:34","slug":"knights-beat-spencerville-in-nwc-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/12\/11\/knights-beat-spencerville-in-nwc-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Knights beat Spencerville in NWC opener"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Van Wert independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CONVOY &#8212; Crestview rallied from three down in the fourth quarter to defeat previously undefeated Spencerville 46-44 in the Northwest Conference opener for both teams on Friday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trailing 40-38, a left corner trey by Nathan Lichtle gave the Knights a 41-40 lead with 5:30 left in the game, then Gavin Etzler connected from the same spot a minute later to put Crestview ahead 44-40, but Spencerville\u2019s Josh Henline drilled a triple to make it a one point game, 44-43. A steal and layup by Rontae Jackson with 3:15 left sealed the win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jackson led all scorers with 14 points, including eight in the second quarter. Carson Hunter added 11 points and Etzler finished with 10. Lichtle had nine points, all on treys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Crestview led 17-12 after one quarter and 27-23 at halftime. Spencerville turned the tables in the third quarter, outscoring the Knights 15-8 to take a 38-35 lead into the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Henline, Tyler Koenig and Eli Harter each scored 10 for Spencerville (3-1, 0-1 NWC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bearcats will play at Ottoville tonight and Crestview (3-1, 1-0 NWC) will travel to Fort Jennings on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent sports CONVOY &#8212; Crestview rallied from three down in the fourth quarter to defeat previously undefeated Spencerville 46-44 in the Northwest Conference opener for both teams on Friday night. Trailing 40-38, a left corner trey by Nathan Lichtle gave the Knights a 41-40 lead with 5:30 left in the game, then Gavin [&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-149111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-31 13:38:36","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\/149111","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=149111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}