{"id":8656,"date":"2011-05-31T04:26:15","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T09:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=8656"},"modified":"2011-05-31T04:31:03","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T09:31:03","slug":"knights-vw-track-athletes-earn-state-berths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2011\/05\/31\/knights-vw-track-athletes-earn-state-berths\/","title":{"rendered":"Knights, VW athletes earn state berths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Van Wert independent sports<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was a good weekend for local athletes, with Crestview earning its third trip to State in four years with a 7-2 victory over Fremont St. Joseph during the Division IV regional final at Findlay on Saturday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7938\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7938\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7938\" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/WBL-track-meet-2011-2nd-day-Riethman.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"329\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7938\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sydney Riethman is shown competing in the long jump during the Western Buckeye League meet earlier this month. (VW independent file photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Maddie Preston went the distance for the Lady Knights, giving up two earned runs on six hits, while striking out six and walking just one batter in seven innings.<\/p>\n<p>Danica Hicks led the Crestview offense with a home run and a single, while the Knights&#8217; other Maddie &#8212; Etzler &#8212; also had a home run, and Taylor Springer and Preston doubled.<\/p>\n<p>Crestview will play its state semifinal game Friday at 5:30 p.m. at Firestone Stadium in Akron against Columbiana (<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Final-Four-Shirt-Order11.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a><\/strong> to order Final Four t-shirts).<\/p>\n<p>Also Saturday, Van Wert&#8217;s Sydney Riethman and Jared Fleming earned berths in the Division II State Track Meet during regional competition in Lexington.<\/p>\n<p>Riethman won the regional championship in the long jump with a leap of 17 feet, 4 1\/2 inches, while Fleming took second place in the 1600-meter run in a time of 4:16.46.<\/p>\n<p>The Cougar girls were 12th overall out of 42 teams, while the boys finished in 16th place out of 43 teams.<\/p>\n<p>Both Riethman and Fleming will compete on Saturday at Jesse Owens Stadium on the campus of The Ohio State University in Columbus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent sports It was a good weekend for local athletes, with Crestview earning its third trip to State in four years with a 7-2 victory over Fremont St. Joseph during the Division IV regional final at Findlay on Saturday. Maddie Preston went the distance for the Lady Knights, giving up two earned runs [&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-8656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 06:32:05","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\/8656","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=8656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}