{"id":202932,"date":"2026-02-20T22:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T03:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=202932"},"modified":"2026-02-20T22:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T03:32:13","slug":"knights-fall-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/02\/20\/knights-fall-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Knights fall&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"520\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Liam-Putman-2-20-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-202933\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Liam Putman (1) of Crestview looks up at a sky high Xavier Pernell, while Will Sheets (23) powers his way to the basket against the Thunderbirds. The Knights came up short in the regular season finale, losing 71-56 on Friday. See the recap above for more details. <em>Wyatt Richardson\/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=\"648\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Will-Sheets-2-20-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-202934\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Will-Sheets-2-20-2026.jpg 550w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Will-Sheets-2-20-2026-509x600.jpg 509w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liam Putman (1) of Crestview looks up at a sky high Xavier Pernell, while Will Sheets (23) powers his way to the basket against the Thunderbirds. The Knights came up short in the regular season finale, losing 71-56 on Friday. See the recap above for more details. Wyatt Richardson\/Van Wert independent<\/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-202932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 14:36:06","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\/202932","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=202932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202935,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202932\/revisions\/202935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}