{"id":110973,"date":"2018-12-23T23:08:15","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T04:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=110973"},"modified":"2018-12-23T23:09:06","modified_gmt":"2018-12-24T04:09:06","slug":"treece-place-lead-vw-past-raiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/12\/23\/treece-place-lead-vw-past-raiders\/","title":{"rendered":"Treece, Place lead VW past Raiders"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

HAVILAND — Van Wert head coach Mark Bagley challenged his players shortly before the tipoff of Saturday\u2019s game at Wayne Trace, and the Cougars responded with a convincing 67-55 victory over the Raiders.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe major challenge I said was I trust you guys and I believe in you guys to play the way we\u2019ve practiced \u2013 that\u2019s to play fast, defend, rebound and run and I thought our kids did started the game to a \u2018T\u2019 with that challenge,\u201d Bagley explained.<\/p>\n

\"\"
Nate Place slams home two points against Wayne Trace. The senior went on to finish with 17 points.<\/strong> Wyatt Richardson\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Cougars (2-3) opened the game with an 11-0 run, including nine consecutive points and a slam dunk by Nate Place. The Raiders (5-2) didn\u2019t get on the board until Reid Miller scored with 3:25 left in the period and when the quarter ended, Van Wert held a 19-9 lead, with Place accounting for 12 of those points.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s set the tone, and the 11-0 start was obviously huge,\u201d Bagley said.<\/p>\n

\u201cVan Wert is a very physical and athletic team,\u201d Wayne Trace head coach Jim Linder said. \u201cThey shot it very well and had everything working right for them. Place is very tough kid to guard and they presented tough match ups for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Place went on to finish with 17 points.<\/p>\n

Owen Treece took over in the second quarter, scoring Van Wert\u2019s first eight points of the period to increase the lead to 27-12. Treece scored 15 of his game high 25 points in the period, including a buzzer beating triple just inside the half court line to give the Cougars a 37-23 halftime advantage.<\/p>\n

\u201cOwen Treece was unbelievable for us in the summer and that\u2019s what he reminded me of tonight,\u201d Bagley said. \u201cOwen\u2019s defense was good, he was confident and obviously it helps when you make a half court shot. I thought he was a real key for us tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Along with 25 points, Treece finished with seven rebounds, including four on the offensive end.<\/p>\n

\u201cTreece shot it very well which we rolled the dice on making them beat us from the outside rather than inside with their size and strength,\u201d Linder said. \u201cWe did not have our best offensive night tonight but that is due to their defense They took us out of many things tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Van Wert maintained a double digit lead for much of the third quarter, but the Raiders scored the final seven points of the quarter on two buckets by Alex Reinhart and a trey by Jace Vining to close the gap to 50-43 at the end of the period.<\/p>\n

Miller, who finished with 24 points, made it 50-45 with a quick basket to start the fourth quarter, but the Cougars scored the next 10 points. It started with back to back triples by Treece and Blake Henry, then conventional two point buckets by the same two. Henry scored six of his 12 points in the period.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think they (Wayne Trace) got tired and our depth wore them out,\u201d Bagley said. \u201cEverybody contributed off the bench for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Drew Bagley closed out Van Wert\u2019s scoring with four free throws.<\/p>\n

Wayne Trace will host Woodlan (IN) on Friday, while the Cougars will travel to Ottoville the same night then will play at Columbus Grove on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Scoring summary<\/p>\n

Wayne Trace 9 14 20\u00a0 12 \u2013 55
\nVan Wert\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a019 18 13 17 \u2013 67<\/p>\n

Wayne Trace: Reid Miller 6-10-24; Nate Gerber 2-2-6; Trae Sinn 3-5-11; Josiah Linder 2-0-4; Jace Vining 1-0-1; Evan Mohr 0-1-1; Alex Reinhart 3-0-6<\/p>\n

Van Wert: Owen Treece 11-0-25; Nate Place 7-1-17; Blake Henry 5-0-12; Drew Bagley 2-3-7; Clayton Proffitt 1-0-3; Tanner Barnhart 0-1-1; Lawson Blackmore 1-0-2<\/p>\n

JV: Van Wert 42-38<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent sports editor HAVILAND — Van Wert head coach Mark Bagley challenged his players shortly before the tipoff of Saturday\u2019s game at Wayne Trace, and the Cougars responded with a convincing 67-55 victory over the Raiders. \u201cThe major challenge I said was I trust you guys and I believe in you guys to play […]<\/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-110973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 07:37:16","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\/110973","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=110973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}