{"id":176344,"date":"2024-02-27T04:40:56","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T09:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=176344"},"modified":"2024-02-27T04:40:56","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T09:40:56","slug":"random-thoughts-congrats-shot-clock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2024\/02\/27\/random-thoughts-congrats-shot-clock\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Thoughts: congrats, shot clock"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

The latest installment of Random Thoughts includes congratulations, a good night, a shot clock thought, and spring training baseball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congratulations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congratulations to Wren Sheets for being named NWC Player of the Year in boys basketball and Kevin Sensabaugh for being named Coach of the Year. Both honors are well deserved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More congratulations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congratulations to Crestview\u2019s Gavin Grubb for becoming the school\u2019s first ever wrestling sectional champion. He captured the title at the Division III sectionals at Lima Central Catholic on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday night<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday night was a good one for all three Van Wert County teams, as Crestview, Lincolnview and Van Wert posted wins in their respective regular season finales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crestview enjoyed a 74-44 win over Leipsic in the final NWC meeting between those two schools. Lincolnview snapped a 13-game losing streak with a 54-43 win over Ada, also the final time those two will meet in NWC play in basketball. Van Wert shot the lights out in a 62-42 win over Celina, a victory that ended a 10-game losing streak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best of luck to all three schools as sectionals get underway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shot clock<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve heard some high school shot clock supporters say its needed to help prepare players for college basketball. I\u2019m not sure they realize only about three percent of high school basketball players actually go on to play at the collegiate level \u2013 any level, Division I-III or NAIA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

That aside, if that\u2019s the argument, prepping for college, shouldn\u2019t the season be extended to about 30 games and shouldn\u2019t there be longer quarters? I\u2019m not suggesting that happen, I\u2019m just saying you never hear anyone say either of those things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As many of you know, I don\u2019t see the need for a shot clock at the high school level. However, I also realize it\u2019s coming at some point, probably sooner than later and honestly, it won\u2019t change my life one bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spring training baseball<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s so nice to have spring training baseball. Mix it in with this part of the college basketball season and it\u2019s a great time of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent editor The latest installment of Random Thoughts includes congratulations, a good night, a shot clock thought, and spring training baseball. Congratulations Congratulations to Wren Sheets for being named NWC Player of the Year in boys basketball and Kevin Sensabaugh for being named Coach of the Year. Both honors are well deserved. More congratulations […]<\/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-176344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 05:50:58","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\/176344","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=176344"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176346,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176344\/revisions\/176346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}