{"id":102866,"date":"2018-05-19T00:03:29","date_gmt":"2018-05-19T05:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=102866"},"modified":"2018-05-18T21:00:26","modified_gmt":"2018-05-19T02:00:26","slug":"braun-lady-cougars-shine-at-districts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/05\/19\/braun-lady-cougars-shine-at-districts\/","title":{"rendered":"Braun, Lady Cougars shine at Districts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong><em>independent sports editor<\/em><\/p>\n<p>DEFIANCE &#8212; Megan Braun had a banner day at the Division II track and field district finals on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The senior qualified for regionals in four different events, set a new district record in the 400 meter dash and led the Lady Cougars to a runner-up finish. Toledo Central Catholic won the district title with 84 points, while Van Wert finished with 77.5 team points.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_102868\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-102868\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-102868\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/MeganBraun5-19-18.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"138\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-102868\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Megan Braun<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Braun\u2019s time of 58.94 in the 400 broke the record of 59.0 set by Kaitlyn Clark of Rossford during Wednesday\u2019s preliminaries. Clark finished second on Friday with a time of 59.30.<\/p>\n<p>Braun also won the long jump (17-07.50) and was part of the 4&#215;200 relay team with Caylee Phillips, Nicole Clay and Cassidy Meyers that took first with a time of 1:48.38.<\/p>\n<p>Braun, Meyers, Julia Springer and Phillips made up the 4&#215;400 relay team that finished second (4:09.09) and qualified for regionals.<\/p>\n<p>Phillips, Clay, Springer and Meyers also qualified for regionals in the 4&#215;800 by placing fourth (10:03.47).<\/p>\n<p>Tabatha Saam and Abby Jackson moved on to next week\u2019s competition by placing second and third in the shot put with throws of 36-07.25 and 35-06.50 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, teammate Kirsten Clay took second place with a discus throw of 120-07, and the 4\u00d7800 relay team (Phillips, Clay, Springer and Meyers) finished fourth (10:03.47).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Van Wert\u2019s Blake Henry took top honors in the high jump (6-00), and Austin Clay finished second in the discus (150-04).<\/p>\n<p>Jacob Hart placed fourth and qualified for regionals in the 200 meter dash (23.84), while Jacob Wasson moved on to next week in the 3200 by finishing fourth (10:21.51).<\/p>\n<p>Clay won the shot put with a throw of 54-00.50, while Rager placed third in the long jump (20-04.25) during Wednesday portion of the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Elida edged Wauseon (88-87) to win the district title, while the Cougars finished sixth with 54 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent sports editor DEFIANCE &#8212; Megan Braun had a banner day at the Division II track and field district finals on Friday. The senior qualified for regionals in four different events, set a new district record in the 400 meter dash and led the Lady Cougars to a runner-up finish. Toledo Central Catholic won [&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-102866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 00:59:08","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\/102866","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=102866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}