{"id":179507,"date":"2024-05-20T10:12:55","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T15:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=179507"},"modified":"2024-05-20T22:15:58","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T03:15:58","slug":"fishpaw-bollenbacher-earn-accolades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2024\/05\/20\/fishpaw-bollenbacher-earn-accolades\/","title":{"rendered":"Fishpaw, Bollenbacher earn accolades"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Another NWC baseball title has led to top honors for Lincolnview head coach Eric Fishpaw and one of his players. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fishpaw has been named NWC Co-Coach of the Year, along with Kasey Krendyl of Bluffton. Fishpaw has guided the Lancers to an 18-6 (8-0 NWC) record, an outright NWC championship, the fourth consecutive outright conference title for Lincolnview. The Lancers are 32-0 in the NWC since the 2021 season. Lincolnview is also the No. 2 seed at the Division IV Patrick Henry district and has already won a sectional championship. The Lancers, ranked No. 7 in the final OHSBCA Division IV poll, will face No. 1 seed Leipisic in the district semifinals on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lincolnview’s Luke Bollenbacher is the NWC’s Player of the Year. Photo courtesy of Hanna Young<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Luke Bollenbacher has been named the NWC Player of the Year. On the mound this season, Bollenbacher is 8-1 with 101 strikeouts, 18 walks and an ERA of 1.181 in 59 innings. In NWC play, he finished 5-0 with 54 strikeouts and an ERA of .429. At the plate, Bollenbacher is hitting .538.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He\u2019s the sixth consecutive Lancer to win the Player of the Year Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bollenbacher was one of three Lancers named first team All-NWC, with the others being Austin Bockrath and Chayse Overholt. Second team All-NWC honors went to teammates Jack Dunlap, Myles Moody and Holden Price, and honorable mention All-NWC accolades went to Aiden Hardesty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crestview had a pair of players named first team All-NWC \u2013 Hunter Jones and Preston Kreischer. Bryson Penix was named second team All-NWC and Connor Sheets was named honorable mention All-NWC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

First team<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Luke Bollenbacher Sr Lincolnview<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quin Schroeder Sr Leipsic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hunter Jones Sr Crestview<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tommy Offenbacher Jr Leipsic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Austin Bockrath Sr Lincolnview<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jackson Thompson So Allen East<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ethan Zeisloft Sr Leipsic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Luke Jebsen Jr Bluffton<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Preston Kreischer Sr Crestview<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kyle Hopkins Jr Columbus Grove<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chase Overholt So Lincolnview<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second team<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bryson Penix Jr Crestview<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evan Osting Sr Spencerville<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jack Dunlap Sr Lincolnview<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brady Basinger Fr Columbus Grove<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Karder Agner Jr Delphos Jefferson<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Caden Hedrick Sr Allen East<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Myles Moody Jr Lincolnview<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evan Speicher Jr Bluffton<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tyler Lammers Jr Leipsic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Holden Price So Lincolnview<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Max Puerto Jr Ada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Honorable mention<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donovan Kennedy Sr Allen East<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kerry Wright Sr Bluffton<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everett Palte Sr Columbus Grove<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Connor Sheets Sr Crestview<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aiden Hardesty Sr Lincolnview<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trent Siefker Sr Leipsic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Landen Worcester Jr Bluffton<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gavin Schwartz Jr Spencerville<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evan Sautter Sr Columbus Grove<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carter layman Sr Spencerville<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Caleb Lybarger Fr Allen East<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mason Wibley So Ada<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VW independent sports Another NWC baseball title has led to top honors for Lincolnview head coach Eric Fishpaw and one of his players.  Fishpaw has been named NWC Co-Coach of the Year, along with Kasey Krendyl of Bluffton. Fishpaw has guided the Lancers to an 18-6 (8-0 NWC) record, an outright NWC championship, the fourth […]<\/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-179507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 16:15:58","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\/179507","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=179507"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179556,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179507\/revisions\/179556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}