{"id":205617,"date":"2026-05-06T21:37:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T02:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=205617"},"modified":"2026-05-06T21:37:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T02:37:46","slug":"roundup-van-wert-sweeps-crestview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/05\/06\/roundup-van-wert-sweeps-crestview\/","title":{"rendered":"Roundup: Van Wert sweeps Crestview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Baseball<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Van Wert 2 Crestview 1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CONVOY &#8212; A pair of runs \u2013 one in the third and one in the fourth \u2013 proved to be enough as Van Wert edged Crestview 2-1 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Noah Krites opened the third with a single, then later scored on a single by Trevor Halker. In the fourth, Easton Putman scored on a sac fly by Wyatt Scott. Crestview\u2019s lone run came in the bottom of the fifth, when Luke Sawmiller doubled in Jace Wehner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each team had just four hits in the game, with two of Van Wert\u2019s hits coming from Putman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert (8-10) is scheduled to host Wapakoneta today, while Crestview will face Heritage on the road on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Softball<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Van Wert 17 Crestview 6 (six innings)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Haley Dunlap had five hits and drove in four runs to lead Van Wert by Crestview 17-6 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three of the runs came on a home run by Haley in the second. Lauren Geahart had four hits Layla Sudduth and Emma West each had three hits,&nbsp; and two RBIs, while Meah Johnson had three hits and drove in a run. As a team, the Cougars pounded out 25 hits. Dakota Thornell led Crestview with three hits and two RBIs, and Kaci Gregory and Alli Thatcher each had two hits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Crestview (6-13) is scheduled to host Ayersville today, and Van Wert (7-7) will host St. Henry on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent sports Baseball Van Wert 2 Crestview 1 CONVOY &#8212; A pair of runs \u2013 one in the third and one in the fourth \u2013 proved to be enough as Van Wert edged Crestview 2-1 on Wednesday. Noah Krites opened the third with a single, then later scored on a single by Trevor Halker. [&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-205617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-21 20:53:28","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\/205617","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=205617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205618,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205617\/revisions\/205618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}