{"id":101272,"date":"2018-04-13T04:45:35","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T09:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=101272"},"modified":"2018-04-13T04:45:35","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T09:45:35","slug":"cougars-make-short-work-of-celina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/04\/13\/cougars-make-short-work-of-celina\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougars make short work of Celina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Van Wert independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hayden Maples, Lawson Blackmore and James Acquaviva each finished with two RBI, and the Van Wert Cougars blanked Celina 12-0 in five innings at Russell Fisher Field on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Maples also went the distance on the mound, allowing five hits while striking out four and walking five.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-96499\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/VW-Cougars_stacked-copy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"113\" \/>The Cougars (3-1, 1-1 Western Buckeye League) scored all twelve runs in the first three innings \u2013 four in each frame.<\/p>\n<p>An error allowed Blackmore to reach first and plate TJ Reynolds and Maples, then Acquaviva closed the first inning with a double that scored Blackmore and Owen Treece.<\/p>\n<p>Jake Lautzenheiser and Reynolds singled to open the second inning, then scored on a single by Maples to increase the lead to 6-0. Maples scored on a single by Nathan Temple, then Blackmore sent Temple home with a single of his own.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Lee and Lautzenheiser each walked to start the third frame, then Reynolds singled in Lee. Lautzenheiser scored on a fielder\u2019s choice, then Reynolds was sent home on an RBI single by Blackmore. A two-out error by the Bulldogs allowed Maples and Temple to score the final runs of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Van Wert finished with 11 hits, 10 of them singles.<\/p>\n<p>The Cougars will travel to St. Marys today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent sports Hayden Maples, Lawson Blackmore and James Acquaviva each finished with two RBI, and the Van Wert Cougars blanked Celina 12-0 in five innings at Russell Fisher Field on Thursday. Maples also went the distance on the mound, allowing five hits while striking out four and walking five. The Cougars (3-1, 1-1 [&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-101272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 14:27:33","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\/101272","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=101272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}