{"id":34756,"date":"2013-02-09T07:30:52","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T12:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=34756"},"modified":"2013-02-09T07:30:52","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T12:30:52","slug":"knight-boys-crush-bluffton-in-nwc-tilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2013\/02\/09\/knight-boys-crush-bluffton-in-nwc-tilt\/","title":{"rendered":"Knight boys crush Bluffton in NWC tilt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Van Wert independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n<p>CONVOY &#8212; The Crestview Knights came out shooting and the Bluffton Pirates didn\u2019t have a chance, as the Knights gave Bluffton a 75-36 pounding in Northwest Conference boy\u2019s basketball action on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Crestview had a 10-point lead, 17-7, at the end of the first quarter and stretched that to 24 points, 40-16, at the half. Both teams scored 11 in the third quarter, but the Knights then went on a 24-9 tear in the final stanza for the 39-point margin of victory.<\/p>\n<p>With the win, Crestview is now 16-2 on the year and 5-2 in the NWC. Bluffton falls to 8-10 overall and 2-5 in league play.<\/p>\n<p>Tyson Bolenbaugh led Crestview with 24 points, while Damian Helm scored 12, Connor Lautzenheiser added 10 points and Cam Etzler and Alex Brown each scored 9 points in the contest. The Pirates were led by Michael Donley\u2019s 11 points, while Noah Stratton added 10 for Bluffton.<\/p>\n<p>The Knights shot well from the field, knocking down 27 of 44 field goal attempts (61.4 percent) and 5 of 14 from three-point range (35.7 percent). Crestview was 16 of 22 from the free-throw line (72.7 percent). Thanks to the stifling Knight defense, Bluffton hit just 10 of 32 field goal attempts (31.3 percent), and were 3 of 9 from three-point range (33.3 percent). The Pirates hit 13 of 15 free-throw attempts (86.7 percent).<\/p>\n<p>Bluffton outrebounded the Knights 22-12, but Crestview\u2019s hounding defense forced the Pirates into 26 turnovers, versus seven for Crestview. The Knights also had 15 steals to four for Bluffton.<\/p>\n<p>The Crestview junior varsity team also got an easy win, 57-30, over the Pirate JVs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Crestview-boys-vs.-Bluffton-boxscore-2-2013.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34757\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Crestview-boys-vs.-Bluffton-boxscore-2-2013.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"149\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent sports CONVOY &#8212; The Crestview Knights came out shooting and the Bluffton Pirates didn\u2019t have a chance, as the Knights gave Bluffton a 75-36 pounding in Northwest Conference boy\u2019s basketball action on Friday. Crestview had a 10-point lead, 17-7, at the end of the first quarter and stretched that to 24 points, [&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-34756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 01:42:36","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\/34756","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=34756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}