{"id":6366,"date":"2011-04-14T03:53:19","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T08:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=6366"},"modified":"2011-04-14T03:53:19","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T08:53:19","slug":"knights-down-unbeaten-vw-in-softball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2011\/04\/14\/knights-down-unbeaten-vw-in-softball\/","title":{"rendered":"Knights down unbeaten VW in softball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Van Wert independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n<p>CONVOY &#8212; The Crestview girls\u2019 varsity softball team, which has struggled at times early in the season, got a boost with a hard-fought 6-5 non-conference victory Wednesday over previously unbeaten Van Wert. The After trailing 2-0 in the first inning, the Lady Knights got the short game going in the third inning, putting on a bunting display that helped them score four runs.<\/p>\n<p>In the fifth inning, Maddie Etzler led off with an inside-the-park home run to give the Knights 5-2 lead.<\/p>\n<p>The Cougars weren\u2019t out of it, though, as they came back with three runs of their own in the top of the sixth to tie the score at 5 apiece.<\/p>\n<p>Crestview\u2019s Maddie Preston started off the bottom of the sixth with a single to left, with Etzler bunting her to second. Dani Hicks then came up with the game-winning hit to score Preston from second base.<\/p>\n<p>Preston got the win on the mound for the Knights while Etzler led the Knights with two hits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent sports CONVOY &#8212; The Crestview girls\u2019 varsity softball team, which has struggled at times early in the season, got a boost with a hard-fought 6-5 non-conference victory Wednesday over previously unbeaten Van Wert. The After trailing 2-0 in the first inning, the Lady Knights got the short game going in the third [&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-6366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 15:36:05","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\/6366","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=6366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}