{"id":103193,"date":"2018-05-29T06:51:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T11:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=103193"},"modified":"2018-05-29T06:51:43","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T11:51:43","slug":"baseball-softball-state-tournaments-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/05\/29\/baseball-softball-state-tournaments-set\/","title":{"rendered":"Baseball, Softball State Tournaments set"},"content":{"rendered":"

Van Wert independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n

COLUMBUS — Three area teams \u2013 top ranked Wapakoneta, No. 6 Coldwater and No. 9 Hicksville \u2013 will represent the Northwest region at the 2018 OHSAA Baseball State Tournament at Huntington Park in Columbus this week.<\/p>\n

Hicksville will take on Whiteoak in Division IV action Thursday at 1 p.m., Coldwater will square off against Minford in Division III Thursday at 4 p.m., and Wapakoneta will play Circleville Friday at 4 p.m. Winners will play for the state title on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Below is the full schedule of games for baseball, and the schedule for the 2018 OHSAA Softball State Tournament at Akron Firestone Stadium Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Tinora is the only area team in the state semifinals.<\/p>\n

Baseball<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Division IV\"\"<\/strong><\/p>\n

Garfield Heights Trinity (22-3) vs. No. 15 Fort Loramie (25-6), Thursday, 10 a.m.
\nNo. 9 Hicksville (20-5)<\/strong><\/em> vs. No. 1 Mowrystown Whiteoak (28-2), Thursday, 1 p.m.
\nDivision IV State Championship: Saturday, 10 a.m.<\/p>\n

Division III<\/strong><\/p>\n

No. 6 Coldwater (25-6)<\/strong><\/em> vs. No. 12 Minford (24-2), Thursday, 4 p.m.
\nCincinnati Madeira (21-6) vs. Canfield South Range (16-15), Thursday, 7 p.m.
\nDivision III State Championship: Saturday, 1 p.m.<\/p>\n

Division I<\/strong><\/p>\n

Medina Highland (19-9) vs. No. 2 Powell Olentangy Liberty (26-4), Friday, 10 a.m.
\nNo. 8 Whitehouse Anthony Wayne (25-4) vs. No. 7 Mason (26-5), Friday, 1 p.m.
\nDivision I State Championship: Saturday, 4 p.m.<\/p>\n

Division II<\/strong><\/p>\n

No. 1 Wapakoneta (22-1)\u00a0<\/strong><\/em> vs. Circleville (19-10), Friday, 4 p.m.
\nNo. 17 Tallmadge (18-11) vs. Dayton Chaminade Julienne (22-5), Friday, 7 p.m.
\nDivision II State Championship: Saturday, 7 p.m.<\/p>\n

Softball<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Division II<\/strong><\/p>\n

Beloit West Branch (26-3) vs. No. 8 Plain City Jonathan Alder (21-6), Thursday, 10 a.m.
\nNo. 1 LaGrange Keystone (32-0) vs. Lancaster Fairfield Union (14-10), Thursday, 12:30 p.m.
\nState Final: Saturday, 10 a.m.<\/p>\n

Division I<\/strong><\/p>\n

No. 3 Perrysburg (30-2) vs. West Chester Lakota West (25-3), Thursday, 3 p.m.
\nAshville Teays Valley (23-3) vs. Massillon Perry (23-5), Thursday, 5:30 p.m.
\nState Final: Saturday, 1 p.m.<\/p>\n

Division IV<\/strong><\/p>\n

No. 1 Jeromesville Hillsdale (24-2) vs. Bradford (22-3), Friday, 10 a.m.
\nDefiance Tinora (17-6)<\/strong> <\/em>vs. No. 5 Strasburg-Franklin (20-5), Friday, 12:30 p.m.
\nState Final: Saturday, 4 p.m.<\/p>\n

Division III<\/strong><\/p>\n

No. 3 Richwood North Union (25-2) vs. No. 1 Warren Champion (29-0), Friday, 3 p.m.
\nNo. 4 Cardington-Lincoln (25-3) vs. Lore City Buckeye Trail (22-3), Friday, 5:30 p.m.
\nState Final: Saturday, 7 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Van Wert independent sports COLUMBUS — Three area teams \u2013 top ranked Wapakoneta, No. 6 Coldwater and No. 9 Hicksville \u2013 will represent the Northwest region at the 2018 OHSAA Baseball State Tournament at Huntington Park in Columbus this week. Hicksville will take on Whiteoak in Division IV action Thursday at 1 p.m., Coldwater will […]<\/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-103193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-05 17:44:23","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\/103193","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=103193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}