{"id":29235,"date":"2012-09-24T08:53:40","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T13:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=29235"},"modified":"2012-09-24T11:17:50","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T16:17:50","slug":"knight-outlast-ae-in-rain-delayed-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2012\/09\/24\/knight-outlast-ae-in-rain-delayed-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Knights outlast AE in rain-delayed game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Van Wert independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n<p>HARROD \u2013 The Crestview Knights had a 13-7 lead when rain washed out Friday night\u2019s Northwest Conference game with Allen East. A day didn\u2019t hurt much, either, as the Knights returned on Saturday to finish off the Mustangs 23-15 for the win.<\/p>\n<p>With the victory, Crestview is now 3-2 overall and 1-2 in the NWC, while the Mustangs are 0-5 overall and 0-4 in league play.<\/p>\n<p>Turnovers hurt both teams, but they hurt Allen East the most. Quarterback Casey Crow\u2019s five interceptions often gave the Knights good field position and they made the most of it.<\/p>\n<p>Crestview scored first in the game when Jacob Harmon ran 4 yards for a touchdown with 9:56 left in the first quarter. The point-after attempt was no good and it was 6-0, Knights.<\/p>\n<p>In the second stanza, Crestview again scored when Preston Zaleski found Jake Lippi for a 38-yard touchdown pass with 5:39 left in the first half. Kameron Grubaugh kicked the PAT and it was 13-0 in favor of the Knights.<\/p>\n<p>The Mustangs got their chance early in the third period when Ross Stewart ran 16 yards for a score with 9:40 left in the quarter. Evan Thomas kicked the extra point and it was 13-7, Allen East. That\u2019s how the score stood when the game resumed on Saturday, but the Knights\u2019 Grubaugh added his own points to the contest with a 27-yard field goal with 6:04 left in the third stanza for a 16-7 Crestview lead.<\/p>\n<p>The Knights pushed their lead to 16 points when Malcom Oliver raced 31 yards for the score with a minute left in the game and Grubaugh added the point-after.<\/p>\n<p>Allen East still had some life, though, as the Mustangs scored their final TD with 30 seconds left on the clock when Casey Crow connected with Nick Kohlrieser for a 29-yard scoring strike. Thomas ran the PAT in for two points and the game ended at 23-15.<\/p>\n<p>Allen East\u2019s Stewart was the game\u2019s top rusher with 119 yards on 26 carries (4.6 yards per carry average), while Tyler Friesner had 72 yards on 7 carries and Thomas ran for 60 yards on 11 carries for the Mustangs. Nate Owens led Crestview with 35 yards on 5 rushes. Zaleski completed 8 of 15 passes for 133 yards and a touchdown, while Crow was 11 of 25 for 161 yards, a touchdown and those five interceptions.<\/p>\n<p>Kohlrieser led Allen East in receptions with 3 for 72 yards, while Thomas and Stewart also had three catches for the Mustangs for 39 and 33 yards, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Isaiah Simerman had three receptions for 50 yards for Crestview, while Lippi ended with two catches for 53 yards and a touchdown. Oliver had two catches for 37 yards.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Crestview-vs.-Bluffton-football-stats-20121.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29237\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Crestview-vs.-Bluffton-football-stats-20121.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"563\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent sports HARROD \u2013 The Crestview Knights had a 13-7 lead when rain washed out Friday night\u2019s Northwest Conference game with Allen East. A day didn\u2019t hurt much, either, as the Knights returned on Saturday to finish off the Mustangs 23-15 for the win. With the victory, Crestview is now 3-2 overall 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-29235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-05 03:43:18","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\/29235","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=29235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}