{"id":99980,"date":"2018-03-19T07:16:01","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T12:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=99980"},"modified":"2018-03-19T07:16:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T12:16:01","slug":"girls-state-champions-crowned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/03\/19\/girls-state-champions-crowned\/","title":{"rendered":"Girls state champions crowned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Van Wert independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n<p>COLUMBUS &#8212; Champions in four different divisions were crowned during the 43rd annual State Girls Basketball Tournament title games held Saturday at the Jerome Schottenstein Center.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Division IV<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Minster (26-3) scored the final 16 points of the game and defeated Ottoville 63-48. Courtney Prenger led Minster with 17, while Bridget Landin, Amber Miller and Kasey Knippen each finished with 13 for Ottoville (27-3).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Division III<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Columbus Africentric (27-3) jumped out to a 15-8 first quarter lead and held off Associated Press poll champion Versailles (28-2) 53-48. Africentric\u2019s Alexia Smith led all scorers with 22 points.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Division II<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Zia Cooke scored 33 points and pulled down 14 rebounds to lead Toledo Rogers to a 51-37 victory over Gilmour Academy. It was the first ever state title for the Lady Rams. Gilmour Academy\u2019s Naz Hillmon set a Division II state record with 19 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Division I<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pickerington Central captured a record seventh state championship with a 49-45 win over Solon. Madison Greene scored 17 points for the Lady Tigers, who previously won state titles in 1985, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1998 and 1999.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent sports COLUMBUS &#8212; Champions in four different divisions were crowned during the 43rd annual State Girls Basketball Tournament title games held Saturday at the Jerome Schottenstein Center. Division IV Minster (26-3) scored the final 16 points of the game and defeated Ottoville 63-48. Courtney Prenger led Minster with 17, while Bridget Landin, [&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-99980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 10:45:25","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\/99980","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=99980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}