{"id":99935,"date":"2018-03-17T07:15:41","date_gmt":"2018-03-17T12:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=99935"},"modified":"2018-03-17T07:19:27","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T12:19:27","slug":"knights-fall-to-p-g-in-regional-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/03\/17\/knights-fall-to-p-g-in-regional-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockets top Knights in regional finals"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

BOWLING GREEN — Drew Johnson scored 28 points, and Pandora-Gilboa used a stifling defense to defeat Crestview 70-58 in Friday night\u2019s Division IV regional finals at Bowling Green State University.<\/p>\n

The loss snapped a 19-game winning streak, and it ended Crestview\u2019s season at 23-4. The Rockets (26-1) won their 20th consecutive game and advanced to next week\u2019s State Tournament in Columbus.<\/p>\n

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Derek Stout drives to the basket against Pandora-Gilboa.<\/strong> Bob Barnes\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After a 15-14 first quarter, the difference was Pandora-Gilboa\u2019s 10-2 run to end the second quarter, then a 6-2 run to open the third period.<\/p>\n

The Rockets led 21-20, when Riley Larcom hit a basket with 3:35 left in the second quarter. Johnson added a trey and Eli Phillips connected from the floor to make it 28-20. Crestview\u2019s Wade Sheets scored off an offensive rebound to make it 28-22 with 2:03 left, but Cooper McCullough hit a triple, then Jared Breece hit two foul shots with 2.6 remaining to give the Rockets a 33-22 halftime lead.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe second quarter really wasn\u2019t all that advantageous for us, but give them credit, they hit some huge shots,\u201d Crestview head coach Jeremy Best said. \u201cOn the defensive end, I thought we had a pretty good idea of what we wanted to do, but they passed the ball well and they hit huge shots in key situations.\u201d<\/p>\n

McCollough opened the third quarter with a quick basket, then Johnson drained a trey that gave Pandora-Gilboa a 38-22 lead with six minutes left in the period.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s diverse,\u201d Best said of the 6-5 Johnson. \u201cHe can shoot it, he can drive it and we lost him a few times early in transition.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Crestview’s five seniors — Brett Schumm, Trevor Gibson, Derek Stout, Grant Schlagbaum and Charles Stefanek finished their high school basketball careers with a regional runner-up trophy.<\/strong> Bob Barnes photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After a timeout, the stunned Knights tried to get back in the game. Javin Etzler and Derek Stout combined for nine points, with Etzler converting a basket and three pointer, while Stout hit a bucket and two free throws. Stout hit another basket then Jace Vining scored, but Pandora-Gilboa still had a 43-35 lead with 1:29 left in the period. Johnson hit a right corner three and McCullough converted a foul shot, before Etzler hit a buzzer beater to make it 47-37 at the end of three quarters.<\/p>\n

Etzler, who scored 10 points in the fourth quarter and finished with 17 points and 10 rebounds, trimmed the gap to 47-40 early in the fourth quarter, but the Rockets countered with bucket and free throw by Larcom and a right wing triple by Johnson that extended the lead to 53-40.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnytime we would try to make a run (they would answer), and that\u2019s what good teams do,\u201d Best said. \u201cThey just did a good job of plugging gaps, but our guys fought, and I was proud of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Knights were able to pull within eight, 59-51 with less than two minutes left, but Pandora-Gilboa used the free throw line to secure the win.<\/p>\n

The Rockets finished the game 24 of 43 from the floor (55.8 percent), while Crestview was 22 of 54 from the field (40.7 percent).<\/p>\n

Derek Stout finished his Crestview basketball career with a team high 23 points.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll season we battled and played hard, we played as a family, and I guess sometimes you can\u2019t win every game,\u201d Stout said. \u201cThey outplayed us today. It was a great season, but unfortunately we came up short today.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scoring summary:<\/p>\n

Pandora-Gilboa 15 18 14 23 \u2013 70
\nCrestview\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a014\u00a0 8 15 21 \u2013 58<\/p>\n

Pandora-Gilboa: Jared Breece 3-4-10; Cooper McCullough 2-4-9; Drew Johnson 10-3-28; Riley Larcom 6-1-14; Eli Phillips 3-3-10<\/p>\n

Crestview: Wade Sheets 1-0-2; Javin Etzler 6-1-17; Drew Kline 2-0-4; Derek Stout 10-3-23; Derick Dealey 1-2-5; Kalen Etzler 0-2-2; Jace Vining 1-0-2; Trevor Gibson 1-0-3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent sports editor BOWLING GREEN — Drew Johnson scored 28 points, and Pandora-Gilboa used a stifling defense to defeat Crestview 70-58 in Friday night\u2019s Division IV regional finals at Bowling Green State University. The loss snapped a 19-game winning streak, and it ended Crestview\u2019s season at 23-4. The Rockets (26-1) won their 20th consecutive […]<\/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-99935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 11:50:22","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\/99935","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=99935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}