{"id":211120,"date":"2026-10-11T20:32:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T01:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=211120"},"modified":"2026-10-12T08:20:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T13:20:53","slug":"recap-cross-country-volleyball-soccer-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/10\/11\/recap-cross-country-volleyball-soccer-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Recap: cross country, volleyball, soccer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

Cross country<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Knights, Lancers run in Coldwater<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

COLDWATER — Crestview\u2019s boys cross country team continued its  impressive season, earning runner-up honors in a deep 22-team field at the Coldwater Invitational on Saturday. Derek Young led the charge placing third (15:59). The Knights then stacked five runners within a tight one-minute window: Caleb Thomas in 26th (17:06.65), Kale Vining in 27th (17:06.86), Hudson Perrott in 28th (17:08), and Andy Heth in 34th (17:19).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Versailles was the team champion, while Lincolnview also competed and finished 19th out of 22 teams. The Lancers were led by Evan Young, who placed 75th overall (18:14.58).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the girls\u2019 side, Crestview placed 14th out of 20 teams, while Lincolnview was 20th<\/sup>. Emma Heth led the Knights with a 17th place finish (22:17), while Moriah Bertsch led the Lancers (122nd, 26:06.47).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Versailles was the team champion and Liberty Center was the runner-up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Van Wert 3 Waynesfield-Goshen 0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Van Wert enjoyed a 25-23, 25-23, 25-21 sweep of visiting Waynesfield-Goshen on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flannery Foster led the Cougars with 14 kills, while Amaya Dowdy and Josie Coleman each had 10 kills. Dowdy had a team high 17 digs and Grace Kitson added 13 digs. Jazzlyn Florence had 24 assists and Leah Krites had 13 assists. Layla Sudduth had five aces for the Cougars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Cougars (2-17) will finish the regular season with three matches this week, with all three at home \u2013 Antwerp on Monday, Kenton on Tuesday and Bryan on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Fort Jennings 2 Crestview 1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

FORT JENNINGS — The Musketeers edged Crestview 2-1 in non-conference girls\u2019 soccer action on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emma Ward scored Crestview\u2019s lone goal, with the assist going to Evie Williman. Ella Lamb had 26 saves on goal for the Knights (1-12-1).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crestview will host Columbus Grove today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VW independent sports Cross country Knights, Lancers run in Coldwater COLDWATER — Crestview\u2019s boys cross country team continued its  impressive season, earning runner-up honors in a deep 22-team field at the Coldwater Invitational on Saturday. Derek Young led the charge placing third (15:59). The Knights then stacked five runners within a tight one-minute window: Caleb […]<\/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-211120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 15:53:09","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\/211120","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=211120"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211132,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211120\/revisions\/211132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}