{"id":163433,"date":"2023-02-25T00:26:21","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T05:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=163433"},"modified":"2023-02-25T00:27:09","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T05:27:09","slug":"balanced-knights-win-sectional-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2023\/02\/25\/balanced-knights-win-sectional-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Balanced Knights win sectional title"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

It\u2019s a formula that\u2019s worked all season for No. 5 Crestview \u2013 a stingy defense and balanced scoring. The top-seeded Knights displayed both on Friday night and went on to capture a 70-40 Division IV sectional championship win over No. 6 seed Miller City at Van Wert High School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was the second victory over the Wildcats this season (63-43, season opener) and it set up a rematch against Delphos St. John\u2019s in the district semifinal next Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Carson Hunter scored 16 points vs. Miller City, including 10 in the second quarter. Bob Barnes\/file photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The Knights (20-3) led by just two, 9-7 after the first quarter but Crestview came alive in the second quarter, outscoring the Wildcats 25-10. Carson Hunter scored 10 points in the period, Wren Sheets added four and Mitch Temple and Nate Lichtle each knocked down a trey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m proud of our guys tonight,\u201d Crestview head coach Doug Etzler said. \u201cWe fought through some first half foul trouble and our depth was huge tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Already leading 34-17 to start the third quarter, Temple hit two more triples, Jaret Harting had three baskets and Wren Sheets put in five points, allowing the Knights to carry a commanding 57-32 lead into the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hunter led the Knights with 16 points, Temple had 14 and Sheets finished with 13. In addition, Gavin Etzler had nine points and Lichtle finished with eight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m happy with the way we shared the ball,\u201d the elder Etzler said. \u201cOur ball movement led to some really good looks. I\u2019m also happy with the way we attacked Miller City\u2019s full court pressure.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Silas Niese led Miller City (14-10) with 11 points, including three treys in the third quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Crestview will play No. 5 seed Delphos St. John\u2019s in the second game of the Division IV district semifinals at 7:30 Tuesday night at Elida. The two teams met February 4 and the Blue Jays posted a 48-43 win. Delphos St. John\u2019s advanced to Tuesday\u2019s game with a 52-45 win over Pandora-Gilboa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday\u2019s first game at Elida will pit No. 2 seed Kalida against No. 3 seed Ottoville. The winners will meet Friday night for the district championship and a spot in the regional semifinals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Crestview 9 25 23 13 \u2013 70
Miller City 7 10 15 8 \u2013 40<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crestview: Gavin Etzler 2-4-9; Mitch Temple 5-1-14; Carson Hunter 7-2-16; Jaret Harting 3-0-6; Nate Lichtle 3-0-8; Wren Sheets 6-1-13; Nasir Easterling 0-2-2; Wesyn Ludwig 1-0-2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller City: Branson Bartage 3-2-8; Silas Niese 4-0-11; Thomas Weis 2-0-5; Jude Otto 3-0-6; Will Otto 0-1-1; Andon Ruhe 3-3-9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent editor It\u2019s a formula that\u2019s worked all season for No. 5 Crestview \u2013 a stingy defense and balanced scoring. The top-seeded Knights displayed both on Friday night and went on to capture a 70-40 Division IV sectional championship win over No. 6 seed Miller City at Van Wert High School. It was 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-163433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 04:22:18","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\/163433","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=163433"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163446,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163433\/revisions\/163446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}