{"id":35508,"date":"2013-02-27T15:22:03","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T20:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=35508"},"modified":"2013-02-27T15:22:03","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T20:22:03","slug":"knight-basketball-begins-tournament-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2013\/02\/27\/knight-basketball-begins-tournament-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Knight Basketball begins tournament season"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_35509\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35509\" style=\"width: 545px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/KITN3.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35509 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/KITN3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"373\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35509\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"> The American Legion selected Sarah Klinger, Chloe Lautzenheiser, Emily Adams, Sophia Smith, Scott Miller, Daniel Joseph, Tanner Skelton and Copsey Bogle (not pictured) to participate in Buckeye Boys and Girls State. (Photo by E. Adams)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>By Emily Adams<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last Friday students enjoyed their first snow day since Christmas break. Many students enjoyed sleeping in and relaxing on Friday morning. Students also anticipate tomorrow\u2019s teacher in-service as a time to either catch up on sleep or enjoy time with friends. \u201cSince we didn\u2019t have school on Friday, I hung out with my friends and watched movies,\u201d sophomore Kaitlyn Hallfeldt said.<\/p>\n<p>Also last Friday night, the boys played in their last regular season game against Ada at home. They won with a score of 70 to 33. The boys will play in their first tournament game on Friday night at Van Wert High School. \u201cMy goals for tournament are to play to our full potential as a team, and make it past districts,\u201d junior Isaiah Simerman said.<\/p>\n<p>The girls beat St. John\u2019s in their first tournament game and will advance to play against Kalida in their next game.<\/p>\n<p>Buckeye Boys and Girls State is held every year to give students, who show an interest in government, a chance to live in a stimulated town. The American Legion selects students to attend this each year. This year the attendants who will be attending Boys State are juniors Scott Miller, Tanner Skelton, Daniel Joseph, Copsey Bogle, and Jon Young. The attendants for Girls State are juniors Chloe Lautzenheiser, Sophie Smith, and Emily Adams, with Sarah Klinger as the alternate. \u201cI\u2019m looking forward to learning about the state government and meeting new people,\u201d junior Scott Miller said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Emily Adams Last Friday students enjoyed their first snow day since Christmas break. Many students enjoyed sleeping in and relaxing on Friday morning. Students also anticipate tomorrow\u2019s teacher in-service as a time to either catch up on sleep or enjoy time with friends. \u201cSince we didn\u2019t have school on Friday, I hung out with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crestviewcolumn"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 02:50:23","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\/35508","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=35508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}