{"id":163463,"date":"2023-02-27T04:40:28","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T09:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=163463"},"modified":"2023-02-27T04:41:05","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T09:41:05","slug":"crestview-rallies-for-district-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2023\/02\/27\/crestview-rallies-for-district-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Crestview rallies for district championship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

DEFIANCE — It wasn\u2019t easy, but Crestview is regional bound for the third consecutive season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The top-seeded Lady Knights found themselves trailing by two entering the final period but rallied to defeat No. 2 seed Ayersville 46-36 in the Division IV district championship game at Defiance High School on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Pilots (18-7) led by 30-23 with a minute left in the third quarter, but Crestview scored the final five points of the quarter, with Cali Gregory hitting a trey and Laci McCoy converting two foul shots. Ally Schindler and Kaylee Dockery combined to score all 15 of Ayersville\u2019s points in the quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Crestview overcame adversity to win a third consecutive Division IV district championship. Photo submitted<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Things changed in the fourth quarter, as the Lady Knights outscored Ayersville 18-6. Kline scored seven of her 10 points in the quarter and Laci McCoy converted four free throws to help seal the victory. Gregory fouled out with 2:43 left in the game, while McCoy was saddled with four fouls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur defense in the fourth quarter with Laci and Cali with four fouls and eventually Cali fouling out, put us into a spot we haven\u2019t been in,\u201d Crestview head coach Mark Gregory said. \u201cCredit our girls for taking that challenge and finding a way to get it done.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gregory finished with 13 points and nine rebounds, McCoy had eight points and five rebounds and Kennedy Crider chipped in with seven points and six rebounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLaci defended, rebounded, and made some huge shots for us,\u201d Gregory said. \u201cShe is like the Swiss Army knife, she can do a little bit of everything. Ellie made some huge plays in third and fourth quarters. I can\u2019t say enough about these two, but also Kennedy Crider, Haley McCoy, Josie and Macy Kulwicki, and Nevaeh Ross coming in and playing as a team.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scoring was at a premium in the first half. Crestview led 8-4 after the first quarter and 18-15 at halftime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both teams struggled from the floor. Crestview was 16-of-43, including 2-of-16 from three point range, while Ayersville connected on 14-of-37 shots. The Lady Knights were 12-of-28 from the foul line while Ayersville was 7-of-14. Crestview finished with a 32-28 rebounding advantage and committed just five turnovers, while Ayersville finished with 13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cAyersville mixed up their defenses from Diamond-and-1, 3-2, 2-3, and man-to-man,\u201d Gregory said.\u201d But really we just struggled putting the ball in the basket. We took care of the ball.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schindler led all scorers with 19 points and the 5-10 junior added eight rebounds before fouling out with 2:52 left in the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crestview (21-4) will face Toledo Christian (20-4) in the Division IV regional semifinals at 6 p.m. Wednesday at the Elida Fieldhouse. The second game of the night will pit Columbus Grove against Hopewell Loudon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cToledo Christian is a really good team that have shooters, an inside presence, and can get after you with full court pressure,\u201d Gregory said. \u201cIt\u2019s a tremendous opportunity to be in the final 16 teams in Division IV. We will be ready.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Crestview 8 10 10 18 \u2013 46
Ayersville 4 11 15 6 \u2013 36<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crestview: Macy Kulwicki 1-2-4; Ellie Kline 4-1-10; Cali Gregory 5-2-13; Lacy McCoy 1-6-8; Kennedy Crider 3-1-7; Josie Kulwicki 1-0-2; Haley McCoy 1-0-2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayersville: Mabel McGuire 0-3-3; Neve Sheets 0-1-1; Kaylee Dockery 4-0-9; Ally Schindler 8-3-19; Zarriya Young 2-0-4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent editor DEFIANCE — It wasn\u2019t easy, but Crestview is regional bound for the third consecutive season. The top-seeded Lady Knights found themselves trailing by two entering the final period but rallied to defeat No. 2 seed Ayersville 46-36 in the Division IV district championship game at Defiance High School on Saturday. The Pilots […]<\/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-163463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 19:11:12","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\/163463","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=163463"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163491,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163463\/revisions\/163491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}