{"id":153778,"date":"2022-05-03T03:48:06","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T08:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=153778"},"modified":"2022-05-03T03:48:09","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T08:48:09","slug":"random-thoughts-very-random-edition-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2022\/05\/03\/random-thoughts-very-random-edition-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Thoughts: very random edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

A half-marathon winner with local ties, softball sectionals, this week\u2019s baseball poll, NWC and WBL baseball and softball races are among this week\u2019s Random Thoughts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winner<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congratulations to 2019 Lincolnview High School graduate Karter Tow, who won Saturday\u2019s Capital City Men\u2019s Half-Marathon in downtown Columbus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s quite an accomplishment to say the least.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Softball sectionals<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Van Wert is the No. 6 seed at the Division II UNOH district and the Lady Cougars are dangerous enough to make other teams in the sectional and district uncomfortable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, it\u2019s quite possible we\u2019ll see a Crestview-Lincolnview rematch in the Division IV district semifinals at Wapakoneta. The two teams are slated to face off this Thursday. Both have sectional semifinal byes next Tuesday and if both win their sectional championship games, they would square off again May 17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Baseball poll<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite Saturday\u2019s 4-3 loss to Fort Loramie at Day Air Ballpark, Lincolnview moved up one spot to No. 4 in this week\u2019s Division IV Ohio High School Baseball Coaches Association poll. The Lancers trail Lucasville Valley, Hopewell-Loudon and Newark Catholic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of note, WBL member Defiance is No. 1 in this week\u2019s Division II poll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Races<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It looks like the NWC baseball championship race is a three horse race between defending champion Lincolnview, Crestview and Leipsic. The Lancers are currently in the driver\u2019s seat with no conference losses, while the Knights and Vikings each have one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Crestview (7-0 NWC) has clinched a share of the conference championship and can win it outright with a victory over Lincolnview on Thursday. A loss would mean the two rivals would share the title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No. 1 Defiance (7-0 WBL) has won at least a share of the WBL baseball championship and can win it outright with one more league victory. The Bulldogs will play Celina today and Wapakoneta tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wapakoneta (7-0 WBL) has won at least a share of the league softball title and can win it outright with one more victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NFL draft<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019re an NFL fan you have thoughts on the NFL draft but realistically, it\u2019s going to be at least two or three years before we truly know if a particular team\u2019s draft was successful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, it\u2019s fun to debate and see all of the draft grades, but bottom line, it\u2019s way too early to tell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reds<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve said it before but I\u2019ll said it again \u2013 Reds fans, you deserve better than this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s going on now is almost incomprehensible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As always if you have thoughts about any of the above subjectds, feel free to email me at sports@thevwindependent.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent editor A half-marathon winner with local ties, softball sectionals, this week\u2019s baseball poll, NWC and WBL baseball and softball races are among this week\u2019s Random Thoughts. Winner Congratulations to 2019 Lincolnview High School graduate Karter Tow, who won Saturday\u2019s Capital City Men\u2019s Half-Marathon in downtown Columbus. It\u2019s quite an accomplishment to say the […]<\/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-153778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-05 03:03:20","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\/153778","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=153778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}