{"id":151981,"date":"2022-03-04T00:09:14","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T05:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=151981"},"modified":"2022-03-04T04:54:09","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T09:54:09","slug":"new-knoxville-shuts-down-crestview-35-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2022\/03\/04\/new-knoxville-shuts-down-crestview-35-26\/","title":{"rendered":"New Knoxville shuts down Crestview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

ELIDA — A fast start wasn\u2019t enough for Crestview during Thursday night\u2019s Division IV regional semifinal against No. 3 New Knoxville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Crestview’s Myia Etzler looks to pass to a teammate during Thursday’s regional semifinal game against New Knoxville. Bob Barnes\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The Lady Knights jumped out to a 10-0 lead and had a 10 point lead early in the second quarter but the Rangers were able to rally for a 35-26 victory at the Elida Fieldhouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crestview finished the season 21-5 while New Knoxville improved to 23-2 and advanced to Saturday\u2019s regional title game against Toledo Christian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Myia Etzler and Ellie Kline each scored a pair of baskets and Crestview raced out to a 10-0 advantage, then led 10-2 at the end of the first quarter. New Knoxville\u2019s only points came on a bucket by Haley Fledderjohann with just 35 seconds left in the period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A basket by Kline put the Lady Knights ahead 14-4 90 seconds into the second quarter but it was the final time Crestview would score in the quarter. In fact, it was the final basket for the Lady Knights until the 6:12 mark of the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ellie Gabel sparked New Knoxville with a triple \u2013 the only three-pointer of the game \u2013 and the Rangers went on to close the gap to 14-13 at halftime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey are very sound offensively and defensively,\u201d Crestview head coach Mark Gregory said. \u201cGive them a lot of credit \u2013 we got them down early and they got back in the game.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Baskets by Avery Henschen, Melisa Waterman and Gabel put New Knoxville in front 19-14. Crestview ended a 15-0 run with a foul shot by Laci McCoy. Cali Gregory later added a pair of foul shots and the Lady Knights trailed 25-17 after three quarters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gabel increased the lead to 27-17 then Gregory answered with a bucket and Kline added a pair of free throws to pull Crestview to within six, 27-21 with 5:20 left. Etzler and Gregory trimmed the lead to 29-25 with 1:29 left but New Knoxville used the foul line to secure the win, going 6-of-6 down the stretch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am so proud of our girls from top to bottom,\u201d Gregory said. \u201cWhat an effort defensively. We needed to hit a couple of shots to make it interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gregory led Crestview with 12 points, including six in the fourth quarter, while Henschen led New Knoxville with 13 points and Gabel added 12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two teams finished with nearly identical shooting numbers. Crestview was 10-of-31 from the floor (0-of-9 from three point range) while New Knoxville was 11-of-31 (1-of-8 beyond the arc). The Lady Knights were 6-of-9 from the foul line while the Rangers were 12-of-17. Crestview finished with a 24-21 rebounding advantage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The game was the final one in a Crestview uniform for four seniors \u2013 Emily Greulach, Brynn Putman, Lauren Walls and Kylee Reno.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI can\u2019t say enough about our four seniors,\u201d Gregory said. \u201cThey are so unselfish and true student-athletes. I am going to miss them tremendously.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

New Knoxville 2 11 12 10 \u2013 35
Crestview 10 4 3 9 \u2013 26<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New Knoxville: Haley Fledderjohann 1-0-2; Avery Henschen 3-7-13; Carsyn Henschen 1-1-3; Melisa Waterman 1-0-2; Ellie Gabel 4-3-12; Rebecca Leffel 1-0-2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crestview: Ellie Kline 3-2-8; Cali Gregory 4-4-12; Laci McCoy 0-1-1; Myia Etzler 3-0-6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent editor ELIDA — A fast start wasn\u2019t enough for Crestview during Thursday night\u2019s Division IV regional semifinal against No. 3 New Knoxville. The Lady Knights jumped out to a 10-0 lead and had a 10 point lead early in the second quarter but the Rangers were able to rally for a 35-26 victory […]<\/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-151981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 20:40:46","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\/151981","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=151981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}