{"id":61452,"date":"2015-03-06T10:31:48","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T15:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=61452"},"modified":"2015-03-06T10:31:48","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T15:31:48","slug":"ottoville-shocks-knights-in-district-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2015\/03\/06\/ottoville-shocks-knights-in-district-semis\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottoville shocks Knights in district semis"},"content":{"rendered":"

DAVE MOSIER\/<\/b>independent sports<\/i><\/p>\n

LIMA — Ottoville shocked the state-ranked Crestview Lady Knights, 48-47, in the Division IV district semifinals at Lima Senior High School. It was the first loss for the Lady Knights, who end the season at 23-1.<\/p>\n

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Crestview’s Mackenzie Riggenbach (22) puts up a shot against Ottoville in the Knights’ loss in Thursday’s district semifinal game.<\/strong> (Bob Barnes\/Van Wert independent)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Big Green (17-7) used intense defensive pressure to take Crestview out of its offensive game, while finding players open all night long for uncontested baskets.<\/p>\n

Ottoville led 12-7 after eight minutes of play and was up, 21-18, at the half. It was 32-25, at the three-quarter mark, while the Knights made their comeback efforts a bit too late, outscoring the Big Green 22-16 in the final stanza, but coming up a point short at the end.<\/p>\n

Mackenzie Riggenbach led the Knights with 17 points, while Emily Bauer added 11 points for Crestview. Top scorer Lindsey Motycka was held to seven points on the night, including 3 of 4 from the line.<\/p>\n

The Lady Big Green had three players in double figures, led by Nicole Kramer\u2019s 13 points. Alicia Honigford scored 12 points, while Annie Lindeman added 10 points for Ottoville.<\/p>\n

The Knights were 16 of 36 from the field (44.4 percent) and were 9 of 12 from the free-throw line (75 percent). Ottoville made 12 of 38 field-goal attempts (31.6 percent), and canned 17 of 26 from the free-throw line (65.4 percent).<\/p>\n

The Big Green had seven three-pointers in the game, while Crestview made six treys, including three by Riggenbach.<\/p>\n

Coach Dave Kleman\u2019s Ottoville squad will now play in the Division IV district finals at Lima Senior on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DAVE MOSIER\/independent sports LIMA — Ottoville shocked the state-ranked Crestview Lady Knights, 48-47, in the Division IV district semifinals at Lima Senior High School. It was the first loss for the Lady Knights, who end the season at 23-1. The Big Green (17-7) used intense defensive pressure to take Crestview out of its offensive game, […]<\/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-61452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-09 20:34:26","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\/61452","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=61452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}