{"id":85432,"date":"2017-03-20T07:15:42","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T12:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=85432"},"modified":"2017-03-20T07:15:42","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T12:15:42","slug":"st-johns-perry-boys-in-state-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/03\/20\/st-johns-perry-boys-in-state-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"St. John&#8217;s, Perry boys in state tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong><em>independent sports editor<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Two area teams are in, while two others missed going to this week\u2019s State Boys\u2019 Basketball Tournament in Columbus.<\/p>\n<p>On the strength of Friday\u2019s 44-43 regional championship win over Mansfield St. Peter\u2019s, Midwest Athletic Conference member Delphos St. John\u2019s (21-4) will take on Cleveland Heights Lutheran East (18-9) in the Division IV state semifinals at 5:15 p.m. Thursday at the Jerome Schottenstein Center.<\/p>\n<p>The winner will play for the small school title against Northwest Central Conference member Perry (24-3) or Columbus Wellington School (21-7) at 2 p.m. Saturday.\u00a0Perry won two regional games, after assistant coach and head football coach Herb Lane died in a traffic accident.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-34103\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Basketball.png\" alt=\"Basketball\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/>A second MAC member played for a spot in Columbus, but fell short. Marion Local (18-9) lost to Archbold 48-24 in Saturday\u2019s Division III regional championship game at the University of Toledo.<\/p>\n<p>Western Buckeye League member Elida just missed a trip to the Division II State Tournament. In Saturday\u2019s regional championship game at Toledo, the Bulldogs pushed Wauseon to overtime, but fell 54-45.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the matchups and the schedule for the State Tournament.\u00a0 All 12 games will air live on WKSD 99.7 FM, and will stream live on <em>The Van Wert Independent <\/em>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/\">www.thevwindependent.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday, March 23<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Division II<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>10:45 a.m.\u2013-Wauseon 26-1 vs. Columbus Eastmoor Academy (22-6)<\/li>\n<li>2 p.m.\u2013-Akron St. Vincent St. Mary (23-5) vs. Trotwood Madison (25-2)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Division IV<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>5:15 p.m.\u2013-Delphos St. John\u2019s (21-4) vs. Lutheran East (18-9)<\/li>\n<li>8:30 p.m.\u2013-Wellington School (21-7) vs. Perry (24-3)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>*Note\u2013-1996-1997 Lincolnview Lancers will be honored at halftime of the 8:30 p.m. game.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday, March 24<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Division III<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>10:45 a.m.\u2013-Cleveland Villa Angela St. Joseph (21-6) vs. Fairland (24-1)<\/li>\n<li>2 p.m.\u2013-St. Bernard Roger Bacon (23-4) vs. Archbold (22-5)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Division I<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>5:15 p.m.\u2013-Pickerington Central (26-2) vs. Cincinnati Moeller (27-0)<\/li>\n<li>8:30 p.m.\u2013-Lakewood St. Edward (23-5) vs. Massillon Jackson (26-2)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Saturday, March 25<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Division II finals\u2013-10:45 a.m.<\/li>\n<li>Division IV finals\u2013-2 p.m.<\/li>\n<li>Division III finals\u2013-5:15 p.m.<\/li>\n<li>Division I finals\u2013-8:30 p.m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent sports editor Two area teams are in, while two others missed going to this week\u2019s State Boys\u2019 Basketball Tournament in Columbus. On the strength of Friday\u2019s 44-43 regional championship win over Mansfield St. Peter\u2019s, Midwest Athletic Conference member Delphos St. John\u2019s (21-4) will take on Cleveland Heights Lutheran East (18-9) in the Division [&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-85432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 07:39:15","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\/85432","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=85432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}