{"id":176132,"date":"2024-02-22T04:46:21","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T09:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=176132"},"modified":"2024-02-22T04:46:46","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T09:46:46","slug":"crestview-rolls-to-opening-round-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2024\/02\/22\/crestview-rolls-to-opening-round-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Crestview rolls to opening round win"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

CONVOY — Simply put, it was a mismatch on paper and on the court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No. 4 Crestview, the top overall seed in the Division IV Defiance district, jumped out to a huge early lead and the Lady Knights went on to defeat No. 12 seed North Central 80-12 in the sectional semifinals at Ray Etzler Gymnasium on Wednesday. The victory puts Crestview in the sectional title game against No. 11 seed Fayette on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Myia Etzler (14) goes to the basket for two of her 18 points vs. North Central. Bob Barnes\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The Lady Knights (21-2) used their superior size and jumped out to a 14-0 lead less than three minutes into the first quarter. As Crestview forced numerous turnovers, the lead grew to 22-3 before Cali Gregory drilled back-to-back triples to make it 28-3 with 90 seconds left in the opening period. By the end of the first quarter, Crestview led 33-3, with 14 of those points coming from Gregory and eight more from 6-2 senior forward Myia Etzler. The 33 points is believed to be a Crestview single quarter scoring record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe talk about it all the time, wanting to get out to a quick start,\u201d Crestview head coach Mark Gregory said. \u201cWe did a great job tonight. We shared the basketball which was one of our goals for tonight and I\u2019m just so proud of our team. I thought North Central played really hard all night long and I told their coach (Jamie Brown) that they\u2019ve got a lot to be proud of with their effort tonight and their attitude.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gregory and younger sister Kaci Gregory each scored five points in the second quarter and the Lady Knights took a 53-7 lead into halftime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The entire second half was played with a continuous clock and the entire game took 59 minutes from start to finish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe got to play everybody lots of minutes and I thought girls that don\u2019t always play as much gave us some great minutes and did some really great things,\u201d Gregory said. \u201cThat\u2019s part of the thing we want to continue to grow here in the tournament \u2013 getting those opportunities because you never know what you\u2019re going to need somebody down the stretch.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Crestview was 35-of-53 from the floor (66 percent) and 7-of-11 from the foul line with 25 rebounds and just four turnovers. Cali Gregory finished with 23 points and eight steals, Etzler added 18 points and 10 rebounds, Kaci Gregory tallied 13 points and Ellie Kline finished with 10 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe wanted to be mentally and physically tough tonight and we did a good job with that,\u201d the coach said. \u201cWe did a nice job of not giving up a lot of second, third and fourth chance opportunities and we also took really good care of the basketball.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

North Central did not hit a two-point basket all night. The Eagles finished 0-of-11 from two-point range and 3-of-6 from beyond the arc, and 3-6 from the free throw. North Central had 10 rebounds and 23 turnovers. Madeline Zimmerman led the Eagles (1-21) with four points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday\u2019s sectional championship game against Fayette (4-18), the final home game of the season for Crestview, will begin at 3 p.m. at Ray Etzler Gymnasium. Fayette had a first round bye. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to watch some film on them and put our game plan together but we\u2019re really focused on continuing to grow and get better,\u201d Gregory said. \u201cIt\u2019s another great opportunity to play in front of our home crowd again.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Knights 33 20 17 10 \u2013 80
Eagles 3 4 3 2 \u2013 12<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crestview: Myia Etzler 8-2-18; Kaci Gregory 5-2-13; Ellie Kline 4-1-10; Cali Gregory 10-0-23; Haley McCoy 2-0-4; Kennedy Crider 2-2-6; Josie Kulwicki 2-0-4; Eliza Reinhart 1-0-2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

North Central: Madeline Zimmerman 1-1-4; Mireya Cruz 1-0-3; Grecia Dominguez 1-0-3; Ava Gruber 0-2-2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent editor CONVOY — Simply put, it was a mismatch on paper and on the court. No. 4 Crestview, the top overall seed in the Division IV Defiance district, jumped out to a huge early lead and the Lady Knights went on to defeat No. 12 seed North Central 80-12 in the sectional semifinals […]<\/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-176132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 08:13:32","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\/176132","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=176132"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176144,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176132\/revisions\/176144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}