{"id":149827,"date":"2021-12-30T04:40:26","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T09:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=149827"},"modified":"2021-12-30T04:40:49","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T09:40:49","slug":"knights-ground-the-blue-jays-41-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/12\/30\/knights-ground-the-blue-jays-41-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Knights ground the DSJ Blue Jays 41-26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

CONVOY — Rock solid defense and a productive night at the foul line were two big keys in Crestview\u2019s 41-26 victory over Delphos St. John\u2019s Wednesday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Crestview’s Mitch Temple scored 11 points against Delphos St. John’s. Bob Barnes\/file photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The Knights (6-2) held the Blue Jays to 9-of-33 shooting, including just 3-of-20 in the first half. In addition, Crestview connected on 15-of-19 free throws, compared to 5-of-11 by Delphos St. John\u2019s (4-4).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf we were going to win the game we had to do a good job of taking away their main scorers and I\u2019m very proud of our effort tonight,\u201d Crestview head coach Doug Etzler said. \u201cThey do a great job of driving baseline, they do a great job of getting 3\u2019s in the corner and I though we took that away and made them do some different things.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was a great bounce back game for us,\u201d the coach added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crestview raced out to a 14-2 after one quarter, including a pair of treys by Mitch Temple. Points were tough to come by in the second quarter as the Blue Jays outscored the Knights 7-4 but still trailed 18-9 at the break.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t expect to bust out to a 12 point lead in the first quarter against St. John\u2019s,\u201d Etzler said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crestview was able to extend the lead to 27-15 after three quarters. The Knights were forced to play the final five minutes of the period without Carson Hunter, who was whistled for his fourth personal foul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Nolan Schwinnen led all scorers with 12 points, all in the second half, while Temple led Crestview with 11 points. Rontae Jackson added 10 points and five rebounds. Nasir Easterling added six points and seven rebounds off the bench.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think this could have been Nasir\u2019s best game of the season,\u201d Etzler said. \u201cThey had cut it to six and he got a big offensive putback and plus one opportunity. Defensively he walled up and did a great job rebounding.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delphos St. John\u2019s will play at Pandora-Gilboa tonight and Crestview will return to action January 7 at Bluffton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Crestview 14 4 9 14 \u2013 41
St. John\u2019s 2 7 6 11 \u2013 26<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crestview: Gavin Etzler 0-6-6; Rontae Jackson 4-2-10; Mitch Temple 3-3-11; Carson Hunter 1-2-4; Nate Lichtle 1-2-4; Nasir Easterling 3-0-6<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delphos St. John\u2019s: Landen Grothaus 1-1-3; Noan Schwinnen 5-0-12; JJ Bonifas 1-0-3; Ethan Druckemiller 0-3-3; Landon Elwer 2-1-5<\/p>\n\n\n\n

JV: Crestview 36-23<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent editor CONVOY — Rock solid defense and a productive night at the foul line were two big keys in Crestview\u2019s 41-26 victory over Delphos St. John\u2019s Wednesday night. The Knights (6-2) held the Blue Jays to 9-of-33 shooting, including just 3-of-20 in the first half. In addition, Crestview connected on 15-of-19 free throws, […]<\/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-149827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 04:15:38","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\/149827","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=149827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}