{"id":197385,"date":"2025-09-21T20:52:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T01:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=197385"},"modified":"2025-09-21T20:52:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T01:52:05","slug":"knights-win-local-cross-country-invite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/09\/21\/knights-win-local-cross-country-invite\/","title":{"rendered":"Knights win local cross country invite"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

VW independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crestview\u2019s top four runners finished the top eigiht and the Knights cruised to the boys\u2019 title at the 27th<\/sup> annual OhioHealth Invitational on Saturday, while Ottawa-Glandorf captured the girls\u2019 title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leading the Knights was Lincoln Smith, who finished second overall with a time of 16:11. He was followed by Derek Young in third place (16:18), Kale Vining in seventh (16:53), and Hudson Perrott in eighth (17:03). Andy Heth finished in 14th (17:28), followed by Caleb Thomas in 17th (17:35), and Drayden Hoffman in 36th (18:15). Crestview finished with 33 team points.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Crestview’s Lincoln Smith finished second at the OhioHealth Invitational on Saturday. Wyatt Richardson\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Van Wert (100) finished as the runner-up and was led by Harrison Sloan, who finished ninth overall (17:04). Johan Gemmer finished 14th<\/sup> (17:26), followed by Alex Bauer (21st<\/sup>, 17:43), Owen Bates (27th<\/sup>, 17:56), Calvin Byrum (34th<\/sup>, 18:11) and Jayden White (40th<\/sup>, 18:24).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lincolnview finished eighth out of 15 teams and the Lancers were led by Max Hammons, who finished 16th<\/sup> (17:32). Noah Peters finished 24th<\/sup> (17:51), followed by Aaron Sawyer (32nd<\/sup>, 18:09), Wyatt Polley (50th<\/sup>, 18:40), Eliajah Martz (55th<\/sup>, 18:58) and Oslo Ingledue (56th<\/sup>, 18:58.1).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New Haven High School\u2019s Bryan Garcia was the individual champion with a time of 15:55.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the girls\u2019 side, Van Wert\u2019s Symphony Schuerman and Noelle Byrum finished third and fourth overall with respective times of 19:26 and 19:31. Ruby Dicke finished 11th<\/sup> (20:45), followed by Jasleen Sharma (19th<\/sup>, 21:33), Faith Stoller (23rd<\/sup>, 22:04) and Harmony Schuerman (25th<\/sup>, 22:18). The Cougars finished with 52 points, while Ottawa-Glandorf finished with 36.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lincolnview finished with third with 83 points with Bryleigh Moody leading the way with a fifth place finish and a time of 19:42. Kassidy Hammons finished 18th<\/sup> (21:30), followed by Josie Miller (20th<\/sup>, 21:49), Elyssa Renner (24th<\/sup>, 22:18), Kendall Hoffman (27th<\/sup>, 22:24) and Keira Breese (29th<\/sup>, 22:32).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crestview finished sixth out of 11 teams. Leading the way for the Lady Knights was Emily Heth, who placed seventh with a time of 20:16. She was followed by Anna Gardner in 14th place (21:21), Kenzie Harting in 41st (23:44), Ava Motycka in 77th (27:08), Taylor Kittle in 86th (28:24), Marlee Temple in 98th (31:27), and Chloe Miller in 106th (32:51).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Full results can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VW independent sports Crestview\u2019s top four runners finished the top eigiht and the Knights cruised to the boys\u2019 title at the 27th annual OhioHealth Invitational on Saturday, while Ottawa-Glandorf captured the girls\u2019 title. Leading the Knights was Lincoln Smith, who finished second overall with a time of 16:11. He was followed by Derek Young in […]<\/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-197385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 09:44:44","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\/197385","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=197385"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197423,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197385\/revisions\/197423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}