{"id":106396,"date":"2018-08-29T06:26:17","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T11:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=106396"},"modified":"2018-08-29T20:45:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T01:45:07","slug":"vw-lview-fare-well-at-cc-invite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/08\/29\/vw-lview-fare-well-at-cc-invite\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougars, Lancers shine at WT Invite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Van Wert independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n<p>HAVILAND &#8212; State ranked cross country teams from Van Wert (No. 13 in Division II) and Lincolnview (No. 9 in Division III) battled heat and humidity to finish 1-2 respectively at Tuesday\u2019s Wayne Trace Invitational.<\/p>\n<p>Jacob Wasson led the Cougars with a fourth place finish (17:55), followed by Gage Chiles (sixth, 18:27), Holden Reichert (eighth, 18:48), Hunter Sherer (ninth, 18:49), Gage Wannemacher (14th,19:22) and sixth man Noah Carter, who\u2019s time broke a tie with the Lancers (21st, 20:09). Jacob Sealscott finished 31st with a time of 21:03.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Noah&#8217;s performance was quite literally the difference maker as we would have tied\u00a0Lincolnview 37 to 37, but won based on Noah&#8217;s race\/place as our sixth man. Noah ran the 3rd best spread (0:45) on the\u00a0team and passed 13 runners from mile one to the finish and six runners in the last mile,&#8221; Van Wert head coach Ryan Holliday said.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Lancers were led by Alek Bowersock (second), Jacob Keysor (seventh), Joe Sadowski (12th), Devon Bill (16th), and Daegan Hatfield (29th). Rounding out the varsity was Sam Wolfrum (35th) and Austin Welker (50th).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a different week for us,\u201d Lincolnview head coach Matt Langdon said. \u201cThe boys were not scheduled to race tonight (Tuesday), but due to our meet being canceled on Saturday we chose to race in Wayne Trace\u2019s invitational. It was a starting point, but due to the heat and the sloppy course, it is hard to tell just how fast the boys ran.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully, this will allow us to race better on Saturday now that we have one race behind us,\u201d Langdon added.<\/p>\n<p>On the girls\u2019 side, Caylee Phillips finished second overall with a time of 21:15, while Rachel Spath finished 15th (24:39), as the Lady Cougars finished in the runner-up spot. Ali Gemmer finished 18th (25:11), Brianna Bebout 26th (26:52), Kirsten Dunning 28th (27:01), Shayna Dull 34th (28:00) and Hannah Kraner 55th (32:53).<\/p>\n<p>Van Wert and Lincolnview will compete at the Columbus Grove Invitational on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent sports HAVILAND &#8212; State ranked cross country teams from Van Wert (No. 13 in Division II) and Lincolnview (No. 9 in Division III) battled heat and humidity to finish 1-2 respectively at Tuesday\u2019s Wayne Trace Invitational. Jacob Wasson led the Cougars with a fourth place finish (17:55), followed by Gage Chiles (sixth, [&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-106396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 13:06:04","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\/106396","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=106396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}