{"id":4372,"date":"2011-03-09T01:12:33","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T06:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=4372"},"modified":"2011-03-09T01:12:33","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T06:12:33","slug":"ymca-names-basketball-tourney-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2011\/03\/09\/ymca-names-basketball-tourney-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"YMCA names basketball tourney winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The YMCA of Van Wert County recently held a fourth grade basketball classic. Six teams participated in the tournament, including: Van Wert 1, Parkway, Wapakoneta, Crestview, Shawnee, and Van Wert 2.<\/p>\n<p>Pool play was on February 26 and each team played three Saturday games. On February 27, the top four teams played in a tournament.\u00a0It was Van Wert 1 vs. Crestview and Parkway vs. Shawnee.\u00a0Crestview beat Van Wert 1 and Parkway beat Shawnee to play for the championship.<\/p>\n<p>Crestview beat Parkway, with Crestview then placing first. The Crestview roster included coaches Andy Etzler, David Lichtensteiger and Zach Burch; players were Drew Kline, Ethan Greulach, Landon Burch, Derrick Dealey, Collin Pucket, Javin Etzler, Austin Sheets, Josh Gibson, Griffin Painter, Colton Lautzenheiser, Brant Richardson and Jace Vining.<\/p>\n<p>The second-place team, Parkway, included coaches Trey Stober, Tom Lyons and Bob Wehe; players were Hunter Winters, Matt Gaerke, Colton Kraner, Evan Boroff, Nick Riley, Noah Riley, Gage Etgen, Austin Clutter, Mason Baxter, Jaxon Bruns, Connor Lyons, Jack Wehe and Preston Stober.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a great tournament and a lot of basketball was played over the weekend,\u201d stated Mitch Price, Y program director.\u00a0 \u201cWe were excited with the turn-out and hope to continue holding more of these in the future,\u201d Price concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Information about this and other programs available at the Van Wert YMCA can be found by calling 419.238.0443, visiting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vwymca.com\">www.vwymca.com<\/a> or emailing <a href=\"mailto:mitch@vwymca.org\">mitch@vwymca.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The YMCA of Van Wert County is a United Way funded agency.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4373\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4373\" style=\"width: 545px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Crestview-first-place-in-YM-4th-grade-classic-3-2011.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4373 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Crestview-first-place-in-YM-4th-grade-classic-3-2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"419\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4373\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">First-place team Crestview. (YMCA photos)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4374\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4374\" style=\"width: 545px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Parkway-2nd-place-team-in-4th-grade-YM-tourney-3-2011.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4374 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Parkway-2nd-place-team-in-4th-grade-YM-tourney-3-2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"402\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4374\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Second-place tournament team, Parkway.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The YMCA of Van Wert County recently held a fourth grade basketball classic. Six teams participated in the tournament, including: Van Wert 1, Parkway, Wapakoneta, Crestview, Shawnee, and Van Wert 2. Pool play was on February 26 and each team played three Saturday games. On February 27, the top four teams played in a tournament.\u00a0It [&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-4372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 10:18:26","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\/4372","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=4372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}