{"id":86688,"date":"2017-04-20T07:36:05","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T12:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=86688"},"modified":"2017-04-20T07:36:05","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T12:36:05","slug":"crestview-loses-late-lead-to-minster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/04\/20\/crestview-loses-late-lead-to-minster\/","title":{"rendered":"Crestview loses late lead to Minster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Van Wert independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n<p>MINSTER \u2013 Crestview scored a dozen runs, but it wasn\u2019t enough, as the Knights lost Wednesday\u2019s eight inning non-conference road game to Minster, 13-12.<\/p>\n<p>The Wildcats won it when the batter, Jon Niemeyer was hit by a pitch while the bases were loaded in the extra inning.<\/p>\n<p>Crestview (7-3) led for much the game. The Knights enjoyed a 2-0 advantage in the first inning, when a single to center field by Spencer Rolsten scored Caden Hurless and Brant Richardson.<\/p>\n<p>The Knights extended the lead to 5-0 in the third, when Hurless scored on a sacrifice fly by Luke Gerardot, then Jacob Painter hit a single that plated Richardson. A single by Zechariah Simerman also scored Rolsten.<\/p>\n<p>Minster (8-5) came back with four runs in the bottom of the third, including a two-RBI triple by Jack Heitbrink, but Crestview extended the lead to 7-4 in the top of the fourth, when Rolsten drove home two more runs with a single to center field.<\/p>\n<p>The Knights scored four more runs in the sixth inning, but the Wildcats countered with four of their own to make it 11-8 heading into the seventh.<\/p>\n<p>Richardson blasted a triple that scored Hurless in the top of the seventh, but once again, the Wildcats scored four runs that tied the game at 12 and forced an extra inning.<\/p>\n<p>When all was said and done, Minster finished with 11 hits, and Wildcat batters walked 14 times.<\/p>\n<p>The Knights finished with 10 hits and eight walks. Hurless scored five of Crestview\u2019s runs, and Rolsten had four RBI.<\/p>\n<p>Box score:<\/p>\n<p>Crestview 203 204 10\u2013-12<br \/>\nMinster 004 004 41\u2013-13<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent sports MINSTER \u2013 Crestview scored a dozen runs, but it wasn\u2019t enough, as the Knights lost Wednesday\u2019s eight inning non-conference road game to Minster, 13-12. The Wildcats won it when the batter, Jon Niemeyer was hit by a pitch while the bases were loaded in the extra inning. Crestview (7-3) led for [&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-86688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 13:35:34","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\/86688","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=86688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}