{"id":151462,"date":"2022-02-19T01:04:23","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T06:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=151462"},"modified":"2022-02-19T01:05:09","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T06:05:09","slug":"lancers-win-regular-season-finale-49-41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2022\/02\/19\/lancers-win-regular-season-finale-49-41\/","title":{"rendered":"Lancers win regular season finale 49-41"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong><em>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ADA &#8212; The regular season ended on a positive note for Lincolnview as the Lancers earned a 49-41 win at Ada on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Avery-Slusher-2-18-2022.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-151463\"\/><figcaption>Avery Slusher puts up a short against Ada on Friday. Slusher finished with seven points. <em>Photo courtesy of Hanna Young<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Lincolnview finished the regular season 5-17 (3-5 NWC), while Ada fell to 4-18 (0-8 NWC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI felt that we played hard tonight,\u201d Lincolnview head coach Brett Hammons said. \u201cWe did a good job on both ends of the floor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Garrett Richardson scored seven points in the opening quarter but Ada\u2019s Grant Preston scored eight points of his 11 points, including a pair of triples and the Bulldogs carried a 14-13 lead into the second quarter. The Lancers connected on just four baskets in the second period but three were treys, which allowed Lincolnview to take a 24-22 lead into halftime. Ada countered with six points by Cayden Murphy, who went on to finish with 13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lincolnview was able to gain a bit of separation in the third quarter as Daegan Hatfield and Ethan Crow each scored four, while Avery Slusher and Carson Fox each drilled a triple to put the Lancers ahead 38-31 at the end of the quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The final stanza saw Slusher add four more points while Richardson converted three of four foul shots to help secure the win. Richardson finished with 13 points and Crow added 10, while Fox finished with eight points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI felt we were very balanced on the offensive end of the floor and guys stepped up,\u201d Hammons said. \u201cI felt our defense did a good job of making shots difficult for them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a team, the Lancers finished 18-of-49 from the floor and 7-of-9 from the foul line with 31 rebounds, including eight each by Crow and Hatfield. Ada was 15-of-46 shooting and just 8-of-20 from the free throw line with 27 rebounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Lincolnview will face Delphos St. John\u2019s in the Division IV sectional semifinals at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Bluffton University. The two teams met January 29, and the Blue Jays posted a 69-42 win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The winner of the rematch will move on to face No. 2 seed Columbus Grove in the sectional finals next Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Box score<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lancers 13 11 14 11 \u2013 49<br>Bulldogs 14 8 9 10 \u2013 41<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ada: Cayden Murphy 4-5-13; Carter Conley 3-0-6; Jaden Leal 1-0-2; Spencer Wall 1-2-4; Grant Preston 4-1-11; Ethan Murphy 2-0-5<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lincolnview: Avery Slusher 2-2-7; Garrett Richardson 4-3-13; Cal Evans 2-0-5; Carson Fox 2-2-8; Daegan Hatfield 3-0-6; Ethan Crow 5-0-10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent editor ADA &#8212; The regular season ended on a positive note for Lincolnview as the Lancers earned a 49-41 win at Ada on Friday. Lincolnview finished the regular season 5-17 (3-5 NWC), while Ada fell to 4-18 (0-8 NWC). \u201cI felt that we played hard tonight,\u201d Lincolnview head coach Brett Hammons said. \u201cWe [&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-151462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-31 00:52:31","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\/151462","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=151462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}