{"id":103561,"date":"2018-06-08T07:04:21","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T12:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=103561"},"modified":"2018-06-08T07:04:21","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T12:04:21","slug":"cougars-sweep-bath-shawnee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/06\/08\/cougars-sweep-bath-shawnee\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougars sweep Bath, Shawnee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Van Wert independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Van Wert enjoyed a home ACME baseball sweep over Bath and Shawnee on Thursday. One game lasted just five innings and featured a no-hitter, while the second game was a low scoring shutout.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Van Wert 15 Bath 0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hayden Maples and Josh Halker held Bath hitless in a run-ruled, 15-0 summer league win. Maples pitched the first inning and struck out one, while Halker pitched the remaining four innings and fanned two.<\/p>\n<p>Offensively, the Cougars scored 10 runs in the first inning. An RBI single by Maples plated Jake Lautzenheiser for the first run, then Maples scored on a single by Nathan Temple. Jalen McCracken gave Van Wert a 4-0 lead with a two-RBI single that scored Lawson Blackmore and Temple, then Keaton Brown rapped a single that plated Owen Treece.<\/p>\n<p>McCracken scored on a wild pitch, then Ryan Hollingsworth\u2019s hit scored Jaxson Amweg to give the Cougars a 7-0 advantage. Brown crossed home plate on a grounder by Lautzenheiser, Hollingsworth scored on an error, then Lennon Bartley closed the scoring with a sacrifice fly that plated Lautzenheiser.<\/p>\n<p>The Cougars scored a pair of runs in the third \u2013 a single by Bartley that allowed Brown to cross home plate, then Lautzenheiser scored on a wild pitch.<\/p>\n<p>The final three runs came in the fourth inning, when Treece and McCracken scored on the same error, then Amweg was plated by an RBI single by Brown.<\/p>\n<p>Bartley, McCracken and Brown each finished with two RBI, and Brown led Van Wert with three hits. Lautzenheiser, Maples, McCracken and Amweg each had two hits.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Van Wert 3 Shawnee 0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hayden Maples pitched a complete game one-hitter in the nightcap, and the Cougars blanked Shawnee 3-0.<\/p>\n<p>Maples struck out nine and walked just one.<\/p>\n<p>The game was scoreless until Van Wert struck for all three runs in the bottom of the fifth inning.<\/p>\n<p>Maples singled and scored Levi Newell, then Lennon Bartley scored on a grounder by Ryan Hollingsworth. Nathan Temple\u2019s RBI single scored Keaton Brown for the final margin.<\/p>\n<p>Temple had two of Van Wert\u2019s seven hits.<\/p>\n<p>The Cougars (4-2) are scheduled to host Lincolnview today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent sports Van Wert enjoyed a home ACME baseball sweep over Bath and Shawnee on Thursday. One game lasted just five innings and featured a no-hitter, while the second game was a low scoring shutout. Van Wert 15 Bath 0 Hayden Maples and Josh Halker held Bath hitless in a run-ruled, 15-0 summer [&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-103561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 17:44:25","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\/103561","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=103561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}