{"id":151602,"date":"2022-02-23T04:53:49","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T09:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=151602"},"modified":"2022-02-23T04:54:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T09:54:19","slug":"lancers-fall-to-dsj-in-sectional-semifinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2022\/02\/23\/lancers-fall-to-dsj-in-sectional-semifinals\/","title":{"rendered":"Lancers fall to DSJ in sectional semifinals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

BLUFFTON \u2013 A slow start proved to be very costly as No. 10 seed Lincolnview fell behind early and couldn\u2019t catch up in a 53-43 loss to No. 8 seed Delphos St. John\u2019s in the Division IV sectional semifinals at Bluffton University on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In his final game, Lincolnview’s Ethan Crow puts up a shot over Aaron Moenter. Crow went on to score eight points against the Blue Jays. Photo courtesy of Hanna Young<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The loss ended Lincolnview\u2019s season at 5-18, while the Blue Jays (11-12) advanced on to face No. 2 seed Columbus Grove in the sectional finals at 7:30 p.m. on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We told our guys that we needed to be solid for four quarters tonight and unfortunately we weren’t able to do that,” Lincolnview head coach Brett Hammons said. “We got off to a tough start but I felt after that we settled down and did a good job. We were able to execute on both ends but we just dug ourselves into a hole early and it was hard to come all the way back from that.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Behind eight points by Landen Grothaus and a pair of baskets by Nolan Schwinnen, Delphos St. John\u2019s jumped out to an 18-8 first quarter lead, then the Blue Jays pushed the lead to 30-13 at halftime. Daegan Hatfield scored four of Lincolnview\u2019s eight first quarter points and Garrett Richarson accounted for all five of his team\u2019s points in the second period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grothaus, who finished with a team high 14 points, scored two more baskets in the third quarter and Delphos St. John\u2019s carried a comfortable 40-24 lead into the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richardson scored 10 of his 20 points in the fourth quarter, including a 5-of-6 showing at the foul line, while Cole Binkley and Ethan Crow combined for Lincolnview\u2019s remaining nine points in the period. Crow finished with eight points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to Grothaus, two other Blue Jays hit double figures \u2013 Landon Elwer had 11 while Aaron Moenter finished with 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

It was the final game for nine Lincolnview seniors \u2013 Richardson, Hatfield, Crow, Binkley, Avery Slusher, Elijah Peterson, Hugo Salinas, Carson Fox and Landon Price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I\u2019m so proud of the nine seniors that we had on this team,” Hammons said. “They battled and did everything that we asked of them and they will be missed from our program.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Box score<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blue Jays 18 12 10 13 \u2013 53
Lancers 8 5 11 19 \u2013 43<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delphos St. John\u2019s: Landen Grothaus 5-2-14; Nolan Schwinnen 4-0-8; JJ Bonifas 1-0-3; Austin Moenter 2-0-5; Ethan Druckemiller 1-0-2; Landon Elwer 5-1-11; Aaron Moenter 4-0-10<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lincolnview: Garrett Richardson 6-6-20; Cal Evans 1-0-2; Carson Fox 1-0-2; Landon Price 1-0-2; Daegan Hatfield 1-2-4; Cole Binkley 2-0-5; Ethan Crow 4-0-8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent editor BLUFFTON \u2013 A slow start proved to be very costly as No. 10 seed Lincolnview fell behind early and couldn\u2019t catch up in a 53-43 loss to No. 8 seed Delphos St. John\u2019s in the Division IV sectional semifinals at Bluffton University on Tuesday. The loss ended Lincolnview\u2019s season at 5-18, while […]<\/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-151602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-08 06:11:44","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\/151602","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=151602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}