{"id":206263,"date":"2026-05-25T18:42:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T23:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=206263"},"modified":"2026-05-25T18:47:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T23:47:33","slug":"crestview-knights-fall-on-walk-off-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/05\/25\/crestview-knights-fall-on-walk-off-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"Crestview Knights fall on walk-off hit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HAMLER &#8212; Crestview\u2019s baseball season came to a heartbreaking end in the Division VI sectional title game on Monday, as the Knights fell to No. 2 seed Patrick Henry 6-5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The No. 7 seed Knights (7-11) gave the Patriots all they could handle. Crestview led 4-1 entering the bottom of the sixth, but Patrick Henry scored three runs to tie the game. A single by Braxtyn Couts scored Zaine Cereghin in the top of the seventh and gave the Knights a 5-4 lead, but the Patriots tied the game 5-5 on an RBI single by Mack Hieber. After that, Jackson Neienburg\u2019s RBI single provided the walk-off win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Crestview\u2019s first run came in the second inning when Jace Wehner doubled home Couts. Patrick Henry tied the game 1-1 in the bottom of the third, but a two-RBI single by Owen Heckler put the Knights ahead 3-1. Conner Hammons belted a solo homer in the sixth to increase Crestview&#8217;s lead to 4-1. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the loss, first year head coach Kole Rolesten found a silver lining. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Denver McDougall and Evin Brincefield each finished with two hits for Crestview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Our guys stayed the course and kept getting better,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;m proud of their effort and growth.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent sports HAMLER &#8212; Crestview\u2019s baseball season came to a heartbreaking end in the Division VI sectional title game on Monday, as the Knights fell to No. 2 seed Patrick Henry 6-5. The No. 7 seed Knights (7-11) gave the Patriots all they could handle. Crestview led 4-1 entering the bottom of the sixth, [&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-206263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-02 20:15:54","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\/206263","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=206263"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206266,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206263\/revisions\/206266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}