{"id":205943,"date":"2026-05-17T20:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T01:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=205943"},"modified":"2026-05-17T20:27:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T01:27:17","slug":"local-runners-shine-at-nwc-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/05\/17\/local-runners-shine-at-nwc-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"Local runners shine at NWC meet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SPENCERVILLE &#8212; Columbus Grove swept the Northwest Conference Track and Field Championships, winning the boys\u2019 and girls\u2019 titles. Bluffton was the runner-up on both sides. Crestview finished fourth and Lincolnview sixth on the boys\u2019 side, while the Lancers finished third and Lady Knights fifth on the girls side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Crestview\u2019s Lincoln Smith and Derek Young finished 1-2 in the 3200 meter run with times of 9:40.58 and 9:57.82 respectively. The 4&#215;100 relay team of Drayden Hoffman, Brentyn Rodriguez, Braxton Leeth and Liam Putman finished first (44.28), and the same quartet won the 4&#215;200 (1:32). The 4&#215;400 relay team of Brentyn Rodriguez, Kale Vining, Leeth and Hayden Perrott also finished first with a time of 3:33.17. Hudson Perrott was the runner-up in the 1600 meter run (4:42.45).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Noah Peters led Lincolnview with second place finishes in the 110 meter hurdles (15.75) and 300 meter hurdles (40.34).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the Crestview girls, the highest placers were the 4&#215;100 and 4&#215;200 meter teams of Graylie Grose, Delanie Balliet, Ellieannah Ward and Lydia Grace. They finished third in both events with times of 51.45 and 1:52.38.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lincolnview\u2019s Joey-Kate Carey was the long jump champion (15-07.50) and Brynleigh Moody finished second in the 1600 meter run (5:25.72).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent sports SPENCERVILLE &#8212; Columbus Grove swept the Northwest Conference Track and Field Championships, winning the boys\u2019 and girls\u2019 titles. Bluffton was the runner-up on both sides. Crestview finished fourth and Lincolnview sixth on the boys\u2019 side, while the Lancers finished third and Lady Knights fifth on the girls side. Crestview\u2019s Lincoln Smith and [&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-205943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-26 01:48:38","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\/205943","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=205943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205944,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205943\/revisions\/205944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}