{"id":190205,"date":"2025-03-01T08:10:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T13:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=190205"},"modified":"2025-03-01T08:10:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T13:10:23","slug":"knights-vs-t-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/03\/01\/knights-vs-t-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Knights vs. T-birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"689\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Braxton-Leeth-3-1-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-190206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Braxton-Leeth-3-1-2025.jpg 550w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Braxton-Leeth-3-1-2025-479x600.jpg 479w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>No. 1 seed Crestview and No. 2 seed Lima Central Catholic met in the Division VI district championship game in Elida Friday night. The Thunderbirds scored a game-clinching layup in the closing seconds and won the game 48-44, ending Crestview\u2019s season at 20-5. Above, Braxton Leeth (3) attempts a reverse layup. Below, Tommy Heffner (10) dribbles against LCC\u2019s Jordan Priddy and Wren Sheets (33) tries to get by defender Dom McKee. See a full game story below. <em>Bob Barnes\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Tommy-Heffner-3-1-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-190207\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Wren-Sheets-II-3-1-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-190208\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No. 1 seed Crestview and No. 2 seed Lima Central Catholic met in the Division VI district championship game in Elida Friday night. The Thunderbirds scored a game-clinching layup in the closing seconds and won the game 48-44, ending Crestview\u2019s season at 20-5. Above, Braxton Leeth (3) attempts a reverse layup. Below, Tommy Heffner (10) [&hellip;]<\/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-190205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 19:42:56","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\/190205","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=190205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190209,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190205\/revisions\/190209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}