{"id":34403,"date":"2013-02-01T05:03:36","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T10:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=34403"},"modified":"2013-02-01T05:03:36","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T10:03:36","slug":"knights-clinch-share-of-nwc-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2013\/02\/01\/knights-clinch-share-of-nwc-crown\/","title":{"rendered":"Knights clinch share of NWC crown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Crestview girls\u2019 basketball news<\/em><\/p>\n<p>CONVOY &#8212; The young Crestview Lady Knights did something Thursday they haven\u2019t done since their magical undefeated regular season back in 2009: win a Northwest Conference championship. Crestview clinched at least a share of that title by defeating Allen East 59-43.<\/p>\n<p>The game went back and forth for three quarters as both of these talented teams delivered their best shots. Crestview took the lead by two at the three-quarter mark.\u00a0However, the last stanza was a different story as the Knights tightened up the defense and hit crucial shots down the stretch to outscore the Allen East 26-12 and close out the game.<\/p>\n<p>Crestview continued its hot shooting, going 13 of 23 from two-point range (56 percent) and a sizzling 6 of 12 from three-point land (50 percent), including a perfect 4 for 4 in the second half.\u00a0The Lady Knight defense forced Allen East into shooting just 13 of 55 (28 percent) from the field.<\/p>\n<p>Mackenzie Riggenbach was the hot shooter for Crestview in this game, as she led the Knights with a total of 23 points.\u00a0Emily Bauer and Terra Crowle chipped in 10 and 9 points, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Crestview is now 17-1 on the season and a perfect 7-0 in NWC play. They will next battle the Celina Bulldogs (15-2) Tuesday night at Ray Etzler Gymnasium in a matchup of two of the area\u2019s marquee teams.<\/p>\n<p>Crestview\u2019s junior varsity team also defeated Allen East, 40-28, to remain unbeaten in conference play and move to 11-5 overall.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Crestview-girls-vs.Ada-boxscore-1-2013.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34404\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Crestview-girls-vs.Ada-boxscore-1-2013.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"139\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crestview girls\u2019 basketball news CONVOY &#8212; The young Crestview Lady Knights did something Thursday they haven\u2019t done since their magical undefeated regular season back in 2009: win a Northwest Conference championship. Crestview clinched at least a share of that title by defeating Allen East 59-43. The game went back and forth for three quarters as [&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-34403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-29 06:27:58","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\/34403","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=34403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}