{"id":85106,"date":"2017-03-08T08:28:15","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T13:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=85106"},"modified":"2017-03-08T08:30:52","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T13:30:52","slug":"knights-overcome-kalida-for-district-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/03\/08\/knights-overcome-kalida-for-district-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Knights overcome Kalida for district win"},"content":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong>independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n

ELIDA\u00a0— The Crestview Knights made clutch free throws late in the fourth quarter and held off a physical Kalida Wildcats team 41-37 in last night\u2019s Division IV district semifinal game at the Elida Fieldhouse.<\/p>\n

The Knights (17-6) will play Delphos St. John\u2019s for the district title Friday night back at Elida. The Blue Jays (18-4) advanced with a 53-31 win over Continental.<\/p>\n

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Crestview sophomore Wade Sheets (3) drives in for a layup against Kalida in Tuesday’s Division IV district semifinal game at the Elida Fieldhouse.<\/strong> Bob Barnes\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tuesday’s win wasn’t an easy one for Crestview, with the lead still changing hands late in the game.\u00a0A bucket by Kalida\u2019s Noah Lambert gave the Wildcats a 36-35 lead with 2:25 left in the fourth period. It would be the final basket the Wildcats would hit in the game.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Crestview\u2019s Derek Stout drilled two free throws with 2:04 left, then Brett Schumm hit two more with 1:20 remaining to give the Knights a 39-36 lead. Kalida\u2019s Owen Recker connected on a charity toss with 1:01 left, then Spencer Rolsten calmly hit two to seal the victory for Crestview<\/p>\n

\u201cOur guys just locked on,\u201d Crestview head coach Jeremy Best said of his team\u2019s play late in the game. \u201cThey did a good job of not letting them turn the corner, not letting them get off a three, and closing off all the gaps.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Knights led 12-5 at the end of the first quarter, with Wade Sheets accounting for half of those points. Sheets led all scorers with 17.<\/p>\n

Kalida (12-13) opened the second quarter with a 7-0 run to tie the game, before the Knights got back-to-back baskets by Sheets and Javin Etzler to go up 16-12. Those would be the only points of the quarter for Crestview, while Kalida managed just one more score, a trey by Recker.<\/p>\n

The third quarter saw three ties, but not much scoring. Etzler and Stout each hit a pair of baskets, while Sheets had a bucket and a free throw. The Wildcats had just three baskets in the quarter, but two were triples\u00a0—\u00a0one each by Trent Sieberneck and Lambert.<\/p>\n

It appeared the Knights might pull away early in the final quarter. Already leading 27-24, Stout hit back-to-back free throws and Sheets scored to give Crestview a 31-24 lead with 6:10 left. However, the Wildcats fought back with a charity toss by Collin Nartker, then consecutive treys by Grant Laudick and Siebeneck.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was proud of our kids for being as physical as their bodies would allow them to be, and still maintain control and play basketball,\u201d Coach\u00a0Best said. \u201cOverall it was a nice team effort, and I\u2019m proud of our guys.\u201d<\/p>\n

Friday\u2019s district championship game against Delphos St. John\u2019s will tip off at 6:15 Friday night. It can be heard live on WKSD 99.7, and will stream live on The Van Wert Independent<\/em> (www.thevwindependent.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The winner of the game will advance to next Tuesday\u2019s regional semifinal game at Bowling Green State University, and will play Holgate or Ayersville.<\/p>\n

Box score:<\/p>\n

Kalida \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 5 \u00a0 10 \u00a0 9 \u00a0 13\u2013-37<\/p>\n

Crestview \u00a0 \u00a012 \u00a0 \u00a04 \u00a011 \u00a014\u2013-41<\/p>\n

Kalida\u00a0(37) —\u00a0Trent Siebeneck 8, Noah Lambert 7, Grant Laudick 4, Collin Nartker 9, Owen Recker 7, Trevor Lambert 2.<\/p>\n

Crestview\u00a0(41) —\u00a0Wade Sheets 17, Derek Stout 12, Javin Etzler 8, Spencer Rolsten 2, Brett Schumm 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent sports ELIDA\u00a0— The Crestview Knights made clutch free throws late in the fourth quarter and held off a physical Kalida Wildcats team 41-37 in last night\u2019s Division IV district semifinal game at the Elida Fieldhouse. The Knights (17-6) will play Delphos St. John\u2019s for the district title Friday night back at Elida. The […]<\/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-85106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 17:05:57","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\/85106","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=85106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}