{"id":210092,"date":"2026-09-14T22:07:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T03:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=210092"},"modified":"2026-09-14T22:07:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T03:07:16","slug":"roundup-tennis-volleyball-golf-soccer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/09\/14\/roundup-tennis-volleyball-golf-soccer\/","title":{"rendered":"Roundup: tennis, volleyball, golf, soccer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

VW independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tennis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Van Wert 5 Kenton 0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Senior Night, Van Wert enjoyed a 5-0 sweep of Kenton on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At first singles, Lauren Gearhart had an quick victory when her opponent, Amanda Van Horn, retired early (3-0). At second singles, Madilynn Thompson defeated Mia Vermillion 6-4, 6-3 and Allie Spieles won at third singles, 6-0, 6-1 over Belle Werner. Van Wert\u2019s first doubles team of Ella Kimmel and Bristol Wollet topped Diana Nease and Katelyn Lowe 6-1, 6-1, while the second doubles team of Annabelle Miller and Ixchell Castillo cruised to a 6-2, 6-2 win over Emily Grasely and Ella Bowman.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Crestview’s Delanie Balliet gets things going with a bump. Wyatt Richardson\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The Cougars will travel to Bluffton tonight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volleyball<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parkway 3 Crestview 1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CONVOY — Crestview gave No. 1 Parkway (Division VI) all it could handle in a marathon match, but the top-ranked Panthers came away with a 25-18, 26-28, 25-19, 34-32 win on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was loud, it was hot and both teams showcased some very big plays with long volleys,\u201d Crestview head coach Tammy Gregory said. \u201cIt was everything a good volleyball match should be.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayla Kreischer had 19 kills, 18 digs and was 20-of-20 serving with a pair of aces. Kaci Gregory finished with 16 kills and 24 digs and was 13-of-15 serving with an ace. Nora Perkins had 24 assists and Kenadie Schwartz finished with 24 assists, 13 kills and 11 digs. Kaylee Owens was 14-of-15 serving with an ace and had nine kills, and Delanie Balliet was 17-of-17 from the service line with an ace. Alecta Baxter had four stuff blocks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crestview (2-4) will open NWC play at Lincolnview tonight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spencerville 3 Van Wert 0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

SPENCERVILLE — The Bearcats swept Van Wert 25-20, 26-24, 25-11 on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Van Wert (1-7) will play at Delphos St. John\u2019s tonight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Golf<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NWC quad match<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

LIMA — At the Oaks Golf Club on Monday, Lima Central Catholic shot a 167 as a team, two strokes ahead of Allen East (169) and ahead of Crestview (190) and Spencerville (217).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chase Feasby led the Knights with a 44, followed by Maverick Hammons (48), and Kash Lichtensteiger and Zaine Cereghin (49 each). Lima Central Catholic\u2019s Brady Parker was the match medalist with a 37. Allen East was led by Reese Parker (40), and Gavin Comer\u2019s 49 led Spencerville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soccer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crestview 2 Lima Central Catholic 2<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

LIMA — Crestview and Lima Central Catholic played to a 2-2 tie at Spartan Stadium on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the Knights, Emma Ward scored a goal off an assist by Evie William, then Williman scored the second goal with the assist going to Olivia Welch. Ella Lamb had 15 saves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crestview (1-5-1) will host New Haven today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VW independent sports Tennis Van Wert 5 Kenton 0 On Senior Night, Van Wert enjoyed a 5-0 sweep of Kenton on Monday. At first singles, Lauren Gearhart had an quick victory when her opponent, Amanda Van Horn, retired early (3-0). At second singles, Madilynn Thompson defeated Mia Vermillion 6-4, 6-3 and Allie Spieles won at […]<\/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-210092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-26 17:40:43","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\/210092","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=210092"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210095,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210092\/revisions\/210095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}