{"id":92483,"date":"2017-08-31T07:35:58","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T12:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=92483"},"modified":"2017-08-31T07:35:58","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T12:35:58","slug":"knights-hope-to-trump-the-aces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/08\/31\/knights-hope-to-trump-the-aces\/","title":{"rendered":"Knights hope to trump the Aces"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

CONVOY — After a 38-26 season-opening victory at Parkway, the Crestview Knights will open the home portion of their schedule tomorrow night against Hicksville.<\/p>\n

The Knights used a pair of third quarter scores by Trevor Gibson and a fourth quarter interception return for a touchdown by Drew Kline to secure the win over the Panthers. Gibson finished with a team-leading 18 carries for 105 yards and two touchdowns. Along with the pick six, Kline had 170 yards passing and one touchdown, while rushing for 75 yards and a score.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was proud that our team had no panic in them,\u201d Crestview head coach Jared Owens said. \u201cI could tell from their body language at halftime they were going to play well in the second half.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnything can happen in a week one game, but I thought we took good care of the football and won the turnover battle,\u201d Owens added.<\/p>\n

\"\"With a season-opening victory in hand, the Knights have spent the week preparing for Hicksville. The Aces opened the season with a 37-0 loss to the Archbold Blue Streaks, but Owens believes Hicksville is solid, with a spread offense and a base 5-3 defense.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are very athletic,\u201d Owens explained. \u201cThey have one of the best quarterbacks (Jacob Greer) that we will see and coach Smith is a great leader, game planner, and motivator. It will be a great test for our team.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the loss to Archbold, Greer was 10-18 passing for 74 yards and an interception, and he rushed for eight times for 37 yards. As a team, the Aces were held to just 112 yards of total offense.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe played well in our scrimmages and then against Archbold it was like we forgot how to play, we became selfish and just did our own thing,\u201d Hicksville head coach Lucas Smith said.<\/p>\n

Smith also noted the Knights will present several challenges to his team.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey make you play disciplined football, you have to take care of multiple guys on every play or it will cost you,\u201d Smith said. \u201cThey have nice size up front, which we don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crestview and Hicksville will air live on WKSD 99.7 FM, and will stream live at www.thevwindependent.com<\/a>. Pregame coverage will begin at 6:30, with kickoff at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent sports editor CONVOY — After a 38-26 season-opening victory at Parkway, the Crestview Knights will open the home portion of their schedule tomorrow night against Hicksville. The Knights used a pair of third quarter scores by Trevor Gibson and a fourth quarter interception return for a touchdown by Drew Kline to secure 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-92483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-08 04:14:55","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\/92483","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=92483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}