{"id":105108,"date":"2018-07-25T12:39:18","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T17:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=105108"},"modified":"2018-07-26T05:36:48","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T10:36:48","slug":"legion-post-178-falls-in-extra-innings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/07\/25\/legion-post-178-falls-in-extra-innings\/","title":{"rendered":"Legion Post 178 falls in extra innings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Van Wert independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n<p>LANCASTER &#8212; Lancester American Legion Post 11 defeated Van Wert American League Post 178 5-4 in 11 innings in the opening round of the state tournament at Lancaster\u2019s Beavers Field on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Trailing 4-2, Post 11 scored a pair of runs in the bottom of the seventh to tie the game and force extra innings. The score remained the same until Post 11 won on a two out walk off hit.<\/p>\n<p>Things looked good early on for Post 178, when Jaden Youtsey singled in Clayton Agler for a 1-0 first inning lead. A third inning sacrifice fly by Youtsey scored Caleb Fetzer and increased Van Wert&#8217;s lead to 2-0, a score that stood until the top of the fifth inning, when T.J. Reynolds hit an RBI single that plated Agler. Reynolds later scored on an error to give Post 178 a 4-0 advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Lancaster cracked the scoreboard with a pair of runs in the bottom of the fifth, setting the stage for a dramatic comeback.<\/p>\n<p>Van Wert Post 178 will play Pemberville Post 183 at 10 a.m. today, with the winner playing again on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent sports LANCASTER &#8212; Lancester American Legion Post 11 defeated Van Wert American League Post 178 5-4 in 11 innings in the opening round of the state tournament at Lancaster\u2019s Beavers Field on Wednesday. Trailing 4-2, Post 11 scored a pair of runs in the bottom of the seventh to tie the game [&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-105108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 18:27:44","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\/105108","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=105108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}