{"id":110438,"date":"2018-12-11T06:10:15","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T11:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=110438"},"modified":"2018-12-11T06:11:55","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T11:11:55","slug":"lady-cougars-fall-to-spencerville-55-37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/12\/11\/lady-cougars-fall-to-spencerville-55-37\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Cougars fall to Spencerville 55-37"},"content":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong>independent sports editor<\/em><\/p>\n

Inconsistent shooting by Van Wert, along with a pair of late quarter scoring runs by Spencerville plagued the Lady Cougars in a 55-37 non-conference loss to the Lady Bearcats on Monday.<\/p>\n

Van Wert dropped to 1-4, while Spencerville improved to 5-0 on the season.<\/p>\n

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Sierra Shaffer (2) drives to the basket for two of her eight points against Spencerville.<\/strong> Photo courtesy of Jerry Mason<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t shoot the ball well,\u201d Van Wert head coach Rob Adams said. \u201cIf we\u2019re not shooting the ball well we\u2019re not going to win games.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll have to watch the film, but that\u2019s been our Achilles heel. You can\u2019t fault the girls\u2019 effort, but we\u2019re just having mental lapses. We did show improvement tonight, but it\u2019s not enough. We\u2019re going to keep fighting, because that\u2019s all we can do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Spencerville jumped out to a 12-2 first quarter lead before a trey by Jaylyn Rickard and a bucket by Jerica Huebner helped close the gap to 14-7 at the end of the period.<\/p>\n

The Lady Bearcats pushed the lead to 19-9 at the 5:50 mark of the second quarter, before a free throw by Caylee Phillips and baskets Sierra Shaffer and Carly Smith made it a 19-14 game. However, Spencerville scored the final six points of the quarter on buckets by Alex Carter, Nelaya Burden and Emma Leis, giving the visitors a 25-14 halftime advantage. Burden went on to finish with a game high 18 points, while Leis finished with 10.<\/p>\n

Carter went to work early in the third quarter, scoring two quick baskets to increase the lead to 29-14, and the 6-4 senior went on to tally 14 points. Later in the period, Van Wert trimmed the deficit to 37-28 on buckets by Smith, Shaffer and Allison Schaufelberger, but Spencerville responded with a 7-0 run, including a buzzer beating three pointer by Gillian Goecke to close the quarter.<\/p>\n

The closest Van Wert could get in the fourth quarter was 13 points.<\/p>\n

Abby Jackson led the Lady Cougars with nine points, followed by Shaffer\u2019s eight.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe ran out of gas and we were a little short on the bench,\u201d Adams said. \u201cTheir three point shooting hurt us a little a bit. They knocked down some outside shots and we\u2019re still trying to find it from the outside.\u201d<\/p>\n

Spencerville hit six treys in the game, while Van Wert hit two from beyond the arc, and the Lady Bearcats enjoyed a 30-23 rebounding advantage. The Lady Cougars committed just 10 turnovers, compared to 19 for Spencerville.<\/p>\n

Van Wert missed the services of Reagan Priest, who\u2019s out with a leg injury.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou lose a senior who provides a spark and a little bit more length (it hurts), the coach explained. \u201cBut we can\u2019t worry about who\u2019s not playing, we have to worry about who\u2019s in front of us, and it\u2019s kind of a next girl up mentality.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOur motto going forward is how do we be tougher and how do we get over these mental lapses,\u201d Adams added. \u201cThis team is resilient and I think we\u2019ll be fine down the stretch, we just need to find some offense.\u201d<\/p>\n

Van Wert will play at Wapakoneta on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Scoring summary:<\/p>\n

Van Wert\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 7\u00a0 \u00a07 14\u00a0 \u00a09 \u2013 37
\nSpencerville 14 11 19 11 \u2013 55<\/p>\n

Van Wert: Sierra Shaffer 4-0-8; Alexis Metz 1-0-3; Carly Smith 2-0-4; Jaylyn Rickard 3-0-7; Caylee Phillips 0-2-2; Jerica Huebner 1-0-2; Allison Schaufelberger 1-0-2; Abby Jackson 2-5-9<\/p>\n

Spencerville: Gillian Goecke 2-0-6; Kelsey Shaffer 2-0-6; Abbygayle Satterfield 0-1-1; Nelaya Burden 6-4-18; Emma Leis 4-2-10; Alex Carter 7-0-14<\/p>\n

JV: Spencerville 43-40<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent sports editor Inconsistent shooting by Van Wert, along with a pair of late quarter scoring runs by Spencerville plagued the Lady Cougars in a 55-37 non-conference loss to the Lady Bearcats on Monday. Van Wert dropped to 1-4, while Spencerville improved to 5-0 on the season. \u201cWe don\u2019t shoot the ball well,\u201d Van […]<\/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-110438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-03 21:45:22","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\/110438","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=110438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}