Crestview girls\u2019 basketball<\/i><\/p>\n
CONVOY — The Crestview Lady Knights ran their conference-winning streak to 17 games and earned their second consecutive Northwest Conference championship with a 49-26 victory over Bluffton on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Crestview held the Lady Pirates to just 27 percent shooting while shooting a respectable 45 percent itself. \u00a0The Lady Knights dominated the boards, grabbing 30 rebounds and holding Bluffton to just 14 boards.<\/p>\n
Crestview\u2019s balanced scoring was led by Kennis Mercer\u2019s 11 points, while Emily Bauer and Lindsey Motycka added 9 and 8 points, respectively.\u00a0Crestview seniors Courtney Grote and Kirstin Hicks were victorious in their last home game at Ray Etzler Gymnasium as Crestview wrapped up the regular season with a 20-1 record.<\/p>\n
The Knights were 20 of 44 from the field (45 percent), while holding Bluffton to 27 percent shooting on 10 of 37 field goal attempts.\u00a0Crestview made 5 of 17 three-point attempts (29 percent), compared to a 2-of-10 three-point shooting performance (20 percent) by the Lady Pirates. The Knights were a perfect 4-of-4 at the line, while Bluffton made 4 of 6 free throw shots (67 percent).<\/p>\n
Crestview dominated the boards, bringing down 30 rebounds to 14 for the Pirates, and had one more turnover, 12-11, than Bluffton.<\/p>\n
The Lady Knights will play in sectional championship at Van Wert on Saturday, February 22, at 6:15 p.m., versus the winner of Delphos St. John\u2019s and Lincolnview.<\/p>\n
The Lady Knight junior varsity team was defeated by Bluffton, 40-37, and finish the season with a 14-6 record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Crestview girls\u2019 basketball CONVOY — The Crestview Lady Knights ran their conference-winning streak to 17 games and earned their second consecutive Northwest Conference championship with a 49-26 victory over Bluffton on Thursday. Crestview held the Lady Pirates to just 27 percent shooting while shooting a respectable 45 percent itself. \u00a0The Lady Knights dominated the boards, […]<\/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-48583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 07:15:59","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\/48583","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=48583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}