{"id":33982,"date":"2013-01-22T07:41:57","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T12:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=33982"},"modified":"2013-01-22T07:41:57","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T12:41:57","slug":"crestview-downs-persistent-cougars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2013\/01\/22\/crestview-downs-persistent-cougars\/","title":{"rendered":"Crestview downs persistent Cougars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Van Wert independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Crestview Lady Knights overcame the persistent Van Wert Lady Cougars and came away with a 44-34 non-conference victory Monday night in the Cougar\u2019s Den.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33984\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33984\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/VW-girls-vs-Crestview-1-2013-Motycka-Dowdy.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33984 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/VW-girls-vs-Crestview-1-2013-Motycka-Dowdy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"429\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33984\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crestview&#039;s Lindsey Motycka (34) puts up a shot while Cougar sophomore Alexis Dowdy attempts to block it during the two teams&#039; game Monday in the Cougar&#039;s Den. (Jan Dunlap\/Van Wert independent)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Knights led by only one point, 9-8, at the end of the first quarter, but opened up a 10-point lead, 25-15, by halftime, thanks to a 16-7 second-quarter run.<\/p>\n<p>The Cougars came back though, to cut the lead to six after outscoring Crestview 10-6 in the third quarter. But Van Wert couldn\u2019t generate offense when it needed it and fell to the Knights in the final stanza, thanks to a 13-9 fourth-quarter run.<\/p>\n<p>The Cougars held Crestview\u2019s high-scoring Emily Bauer to just 4 points in the game, but Mackenzie Riggenbach stepped up to score 14 points in the game, while Kennis Mercer and Lindsey Motycka each added 8 points for the Lady Knights.<\/p>\n<p>Van Wert was led by Alexis Dowdy\u2019s 9 points, while Erin Morrow and Claire Butler each added 8 points for the Lady Cougars.<\/p>\n<p>Crestview had a total of seven players in the scoring column, while six Cougar players produced points.<\/p>\n<p>With the win, the Lady Knights go to 14-1 on the year, while Van Wert falls to 7-8 overall.<\/p>\n<p>Crestview also won the junior varsity game, 23-12.<\/p>\n<p>The Cougars will next play on Thursday at Celina for a Western Buckeye League match-up, while the Knights will also return to league play on Thursday with a Northwest Conference contest at Spencerville.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Crestview-girls-vs.Van-Wert-boxscore-1-2013.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33983\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Crestview-girls-vs.Van-Wert-boxscore-1-2013.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"137\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent sports The Crestview Lady Knights overcame the persistent Van Wert Lady Cougars and came away with a 44-34 non-conference victory Monday night in the Cougar\u2019s Den. The Knights led by only one point, 9-8, at the end of the first quarter, but opened up a 10-point lead, 25-15, by halftime, thanks to [&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-33982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 04:46:40","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\/33982","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=33982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}