{"id":86589,"date":"2017-04-19T05:54:37","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T10:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=86589"},"modified":"2017-04-19T05:55:45","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T10:55:45","slug":"lady-knights-top-lincolnview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/04\/19\/lady-knights-top-lincolnview\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Knights top Lincolnview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong><em>independent sports editor<\/em><\/p>\n<p>CONVOY &#8212;\u00a0It was a game that began last week and ended Tuesday. When the dust settled, the Crestview Lady Knights held off the Lincolnview Lady Lancers 5-3 in a Northwest Conference softball game featuring two Van Wert County rivals.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_86595\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86595\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-86595\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Cview-Lview-softball-4-18-17-Macala-Ashbaugh.jpg\" alt=\"Lincolnview pitcher Macala Ashbaugh winds up during Tuesday's Northwest Conference softball game between the Knights and lincolnview Lancers. Scott Truxell\/Van Wert independent\" width=\"350\" height=\"518\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-86595\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Lincolnview pitcher Macala Ashbaugh winds up during Tuesday&#8217;s Northwest Conference softball game between the Knights and lincolnview Lancers.<\/strong> <em>Scott Truxell\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The game got underway last Monday, but with Crestview leading 4-0 in the top of the third inning, play was halted due to rain. When the contest resumed yesterday, Caitlyn O\u2019Hagan scored an insurance run for Crestview in the bottom of the fourth to make it 5-0.<\/p>\n<p>Lincolnview rallied for three runs in the fifth inning, with Allison Berryman, Alena Looser and Lakin Brant each driving in runs, but the Lady Lancers could draw no closer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe came in knowing we were down four runs, and they (the girls) didn\u2019t hang their heads, they just came out and hit,\u201d Lincolnview head coach Kylie Owens said.<\/p>\n<p>In addtion to Berryman, Looser and Brant, Lana Carey and Morgan Miller had hits for Lincolnview.<\/p>\n<p>Crestview had seven hits in the game, including a home run by Avery McCoy and a double by Kristen Etzler. Sydney Bowen and O\u2019Hagan each had a pair of hits.<\/p>\n<p>Victoria Litchtensteiger struck out eight, and earned the win on the mound.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re just thankful for the win tonight,\u201d Crestview head coach Carl Etzler said. \u201cIt was a conference win and a rivalry game, and everyone wants to win that one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Crestview improved to 5-8 (2-1 NWC), while Lincolnview dropped to 3-5 (1-2 NWC).<\/p>\n<p>Box score:<\/p>\n<p>Lincolnview 000 030 0\u2013-3<br \/>\nCrestview \u00a0 \u00a0400 100 0\u2013-5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent sports editor CONVOY &#8212;\u00a0It was a game that began last week and ended Tuesday. When the dust settled, the Crestview Lady Knights held off the Lincolnview Lady Lancers 5-3 in a Northwest Conference softball game featuring two Van Wert County rivals. The game got underway last Monday, but with Crestview leading 4-0 in [&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-86589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 20:10:30","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\/86589","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=86589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}