{"id":176176,"date":"2024-02-23T04:39:50","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T09:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=176176"},"modified":"2024-02-23T04:39:50","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T09:39:50","slug":"elida-ends-van-werts-season-37-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2024\/02\/23\/elida-ends-van-werts-season-37-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Elida ends Van Wert’s season 37-22"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

ELIDA — Points were at a premium but there was plenty of physical play during Thursday\u2019s Division II sectional semifinal at the Elida Field House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a rough-and-tumble game, Van Wert fell behind 10-2 in the first quarter and could never really recover in a 37-22 loss to the Bulldogs. The loss ended Van Wert\u2019s season at 6-17. The game was a rematch of last Thursday\u2019s regular season finale, which Van Wert won 44-35, but the second time around was very different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe knew they were very capable of playing physical,\u201d Van Wert head coach Hannah Phlipot said. \u201cWe prepared to see both zone and some man and I think we were surprised to see so much man. With the physical nature in the first half they (the officials) let them play for the most part, especially out front and we didn\u2019t handle that real well. That\u2019s where quite a few of our turnovers came from.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kendra Deehring (4) scored eight points vs. Elida. Photo courtesy of Monica Campbell<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Van Wert was held without a basket in the second quarter but the Cougars convered five of six foul shots, with Katie DeAmicis and Jazzlyn Florence each converting a pair. However, two treys by Elida\u2019s Oliveah Sanders in the final 90 seconds of the half gave the Bulldogs a 22-11 lead at the break.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the third quarter, Amaya Dowdy scored four of Van Wert\u2019s six points and the Cougars trailed 30-17 entering the final period. Kendra Deehring, who was saddled with three fouls and an injury in the first half, hit a pair of baskets in the fourth quarter. She finished with a team high eight points, while Dowdy added seven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Cougars were 6-of-25 shooting and 10-of-14 from the foul line, with 12 rebounds and 24 turnovers. Elida was 17-of-40 from the field and 0-2 from the free throw line with 23 rebounds and 25 turnovers. JoJo White and Alexis Ward each scored eight points for the Bulldogs (7-16), who will play No. 1 seed Bryan in the sectional finals on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The game was the final one for Van Wert\u2019s lone senior, Jordanne Blythe and Phlipot had nothing but praise for her only upperclassman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe is a silent leader and she has been for four years for us,\u201d Phliphot stated. \u201cShe\u2019s a coach\u2019s dream and she does everything a coach asks her to do. She does it with 100 percent effort and the kids follow. The tears that you see are because she\u2019s gone\u2026everyone else is coming back.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re upset that we lost and there\u2019s some emotions around that but I think when you talk to our kids the emotions are that Jordanne\u2019s not coming back next year,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She also lauded the rest of the players on team and said their effort and coachability were top-notch throughout the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere was never a moment that they questioned a single thing the coaches asked of them to do,\u201d Phlipot said. \u201cThey may not have been able to totally execute everything we asked them to do but they tried it with full heart and effort.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Phlipot noted the roster has some talented underclassmen and she talked about priorities during the off-season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen you look at some of our games, turnovers, jump balls, things like that, we just came across some teams that were physically bigger and stronger than we are and we\u2019re in control of that,\u201d the coach explained. \u201cWe can fix that so that\u2019s going to be the No. 1 priority and then get in the gym and work on skills.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Bulldogs 12 10 8 7 \u2013 37
Cougars 6 5 6 5 \u2013 22<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elida: Leah Ramirez 1-0-2; JoJo Knight 4-0-8; Lilly Sifrit 2-0-4; Alexis Ward 4-0-8; Oliveah Sanders 3-0-9; Emma Mitchell 3-0-6<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Van Wert: Kendra Deehring 4-0-8; Katie DeAmicis 0-2-2; Jordanne Blythe 0-1-1; Jazzlyn Florence 1-2-4; Amaya Dowdy 2-3-7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent editor ELIDA — Points were at a premium but there was plenty of physical play during Thursday\u2019s Division II sectional semifinal at the Elida Field House. In a rough-and-tumble game, Van Wert fell behind 10-2 in the first quarter and could never really recover in a 37-22 loss to the Bulldogs. The loss […]<\/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-176176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 06:52:36","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\/176176","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=176176"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176181,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176176\/revisions\/176181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}