{"id":70390,"date":"2015-11-28T08:56:31","date_gmt":"2015-11-28T13:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=70390"},"modified":"2015-11-28T08:56:31","modified_gmt":"2015-11-28T13:56:31","slug":"crestview-boys-down-van-wert-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2015\/11\/28\/crestview-boys-down-van-wert-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Crestview boys down Van Wert at home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>DAVE MOSIER\/<\/b><i>independent sports<\/i><\/p>\n<p>CONVOY &#8212; The Van Wert Cougar boys fought hard but lost 54-43 to a talented Crestview squad in both teams\u2019 opener on Friday at Crestview.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_70392\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70392\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-70392 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"Crestview's Cody Mefferd (22) goes up high over two Van Wert defenders for a basket in Friday's game won by the Knights, 54-43. (Bob Barnes\/Van Wert independent)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/VW-boys-vs.-Crestview-11-27-15-Mefferd.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"453\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70392\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Crestview&#8217;s Cody Mefferd (22) goes up high over two Van Wert defenders for a basket in Friday&#8217;s game won by the Knights, 54-43.<\/strong> <em>(Bob Barnes\/Van Wert independent)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Josh Braun of Van Wert and Cody Mefferd of Crestview led their respective teams with 19-point offensive performances, but the Knights\u2019 more balanced offense was the difference in the game.<\/p>\n<p>Connor Lautzenheiser added 13 points for Crestview, while Derek Stout added 8 points for the Knights. No other Cougar player was in double figures, but Jacoby Kelly had 8 points in the game, while Ryan McCracken added 7 points for Van Wert.<\/p>\n<p>The Knights had a good first quarter, opening up a 10-point lead, 18-8, over Van Wert. That, in essence, was the ballgame as the Cougars struggled the rest of the game to catch up, but never quite made it.<\/p>\n<p>The Cougars cut the Crestview lead to nine points in the second quarter and trailed 31-22 at the half.<\/p>\n<p>That lead was just four points at the end of the third quarter, as Van Wert outscored the Knights 13-8 in the third stanza.<\/p>\n<p>Crestview kept its poise, though, outscoring the Cougars 16-8 in the final period for the 11-point victory.<\/p>\n<p>Van Wert was 14 of 39 from the field (35.9 percent), including a dismal 3-of-19 performance from three-point range (15.8 percent). The Cougars were also subpar from the free throw line, hitting just 12 of 26 free-throw attempts (46.2 percent).<\/p>\n<p>The Knights weren\u2019t much better from the field, hitting 16 of 44 attempts for 36.4 percent. Crestview was 4 of 15 from three-point range (26.7 percent). The Knights were much better at the line, hitting 18 of 29 free throws (62.1 percent).<\/p>\n<p>Crestview had the edge in rebounding, 28-22, while also having one fewer turnover than the Cougars (5-6).<\/p>\n<p>The Van Wert junior varsity team won their contest, 45-33, with Nick Place the Cougar JVs\u2019 lead scorer with 10 points. Brett Schumm led all scorers in the JV game with 15.<\/p>\n<p>Van Wert will host Lincolnview at home this evening, while Crestview will play Wayne Trace.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-70391\" alt=\"VW boys vs Crestview boxscore 11-2015\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/VW-boys-vs-Crestview-boxscore-11-2015.jpg\" width=\"545\" height=\"160\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAVE MOSIER\/independent sports CONVOY &#8212; The Van Wert Cougar boys fought hard but lost 54-43 to a talented Crestview squad in both teams\u2019 opener on Friday at Crestview. Josh Braun of Van Wert and Cody Mefferd of Crestview led their respective teams with 19-point offensive performances, but the Knights\u2019 more balanced offense was the difference [&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-70390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 14:44:56","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\/70390","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=70390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}