{"id":201626,"date":"2026-01-16T23:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T04:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=201626"},"modified":"2026-01-16T23:59:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T04:59:29","slug":"knights-outduel-allen-east-68-57","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/01\/16\/knights-outduel-allen-east-68-57\/","title":{"rendered":"Knights outduel Allen East 68-57"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong><em>independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HARROD &#8212; Crestview\u2019s season got off to a rough start with just one win in five games against a loaded schedule. As of late though, the Knights have won six of their last seven games, including a 68-57 victory at Allen East Friday night. Meanwhile, the Mustangs, who started the season 7-0, have lost five of their last six games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 68 points is a season high for Crestview.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"467\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Will-Sheets-1-16-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-201627\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Will Sheets (23) goes to the hoop for two of his 16 points. <em>Wyatt Richardson\/VW independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m proud of the way our guys executed tonight,\u201d head coach Doug Etzler said. \u201cIt was a very good team win on the road for us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Behind seven first quarter points by Hayden Perrott, the Knights got out to a 15-13 lead. Perrott added six more points in the second quarter and Cash Hammons chipped in with five points to give Crestview a 35-24 halftime lead. Owen Hecker scored eight of his 12 points in the third quarter, which helped the Knights to a 49-38 advantage entering the fourth quarter. Perrott scored seven more points in the final stanza and finished with a game high 20 points. Will Sheets was steady throughout the night and finished with 16 points, hitting two baskets in each of the four quarters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c\u201dWe did a good job attacking the basket off the bounce and also did a good job of finding will on his post ups,\u201d Etzler stated. \u201c\u201cWhen we missed shots we did a great job of attacking the offensive boards and got several second chance points.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Knights had 16 offensive rebounds in the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keagan Jones led Allen East with 13 points, Brady Brooks added 12 and Camden Smith chipped in with 11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Crestview (8-6, 2-2 NWC) will host Fort Recovery tonight, with the junior varsity game tipping off at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Box score<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Crestview&nbsp; 15&nbsp; 20&nbsp; 14&nbsp; 14 \u2013 68<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Allen East&nbsp; 13&nbsp; 11&nbsp; 14&nbsp; 19 \u2013 57<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Crestview:<\/strong> Hayden Perrott 7-5-20; Liam Putman 3-0-6; Cash Hammons 3-3-9; Hudson Perrott 1-0-3; Owen Heckler 5-2-12; Will Sheets 8-0-16; Denver McDougall 1-0-2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Allen East:<\/strong> Deacon Jones 1-0-2; Ethan Hershberger 3-0-8; Keagan Jones 5-2-13; Brady Brooks 4-4-12; Camden Smith 4-3-11; Braxston Montgomery 3-0-9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent sports HARROD &#8212; Crestview\u2019s season got off to a rough start with just one win in five games against a loaded schedule. As of late though, the Knights have won six of their last seven games, including a 68-57 victory at Allen East Friday night. Meanwhile, the Mustangs, who started the season 7-0, [&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-201626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 22:12:52","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\/201626","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=201626"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201638,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201626\/revisions\/201638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}