{"id":111135,"date":"2018-12-29T05:56:29","date_gmt":"2018-12-29T10:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=111135"},"modified":"2018-12-29T06:07:42","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T11:07:42","slug":"vw-cougars-fall-at-ottoville-65-62","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/12\/29\/vw-cougars-fall-at-ottoville-65-62\/","title":{"rendered":"VW Cougars fall at Ottoville 65-62"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

OTTOVILLE — The one-two punch of 6-5 sophomore Josh Thorbahn and 6-7 sophomore Ryan Suever was too much for Van Wert, as the pair combined for 50 points in Ottoville\u2019s 65-62 victory over the Cougars at L.W. Heckman Gymnasium on Friday.<\/p>\n

Thorbahn finished with 30 points, including a pair of critical foul shots late in the fourth quarter, while Suever tallied 20 points on the night, including six in the final period.<\/p>\n

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Drew Bagley puts up a shot against Ottoville’s Ryan Suever (5) and Grant Kortokrax (10). Bagley scored 11 points in the 65-62 loss.<\/strong> Bob Barnes\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re two special players and they work their butts off,\u201d Ottoville head coach Keith Utendorf said of his two sophomores. \u201cIt\u2019s a credit to them and they found themselves in the right spots tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen two players score 50 of their 65, I don\u2019t like our chances,\u201d Van Wert head coach Mark Bagley said. \u201cIt was a difficult game and the second quarter just killed us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought we were ready to roll but obviously Ottoville is a very good team, and give them credit,\u201d Bagley added. \u201cI don\u2019t want to discredit Ottoville at all because they played a nice game tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n

The two teams were tied 15-15 entering the second quarter, but the Big Green outscored Van Wert 11-3 in the first five minutes of the period. Suever and Thorbahn combined for eight of those points to put Ottoville up 26-18. Lawson Blackmore scored five straight points off offensive rebounds to draw the Cougars to within three with 1:25 left quarter, but Van Wert was unable to score again before halftime.<\/p>\n

Baskets by Drew Bagley, Nate Place and Owen Treece tied the game 29-29 with 6:05 left in the third, but Suever answered with five straight points to give Ottoville a 34-29 advantage. Place went on to finish with 19 points, Treece had 15 and Bagley scored 11.<\/p>\n

The Big Green later pushed the lead to 45-35, then Van Wert answered with a pair of foul shots by Blake Henry and a bucket by Treece to close the gap to 45-39. However, Thorbahn drilled a triple to give the hosts a 48-39 lead entering the final quarter.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe got back in it in the third quarter but we stopped rebounding and had layup turnovers, which killed us all night,\u201d Bagley said.<\/p>\n

The Cougars remained within striking distance the entire fourth quarter and trailed by three, 61-58, with 34 seconds left. Thorbahn hit two foul shots with 30 seconds left, then Will Miller hit two more with 14 seconds left to secure the win.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was nice in the fourth quarter to see our kids step up and make the free throws that counted to keep Van Wert at bay,\u201d Utendorf said. \u201cWe needed a game like that, the adversity of them coming back at us and having to respond.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ottoville (8-2) will host Lincolnview tonight, while Van Wert (2-4) will travel to Columbus Grove.<\/p>\n

Scoring summary<\/p>\n

Ottoville 15 13 20 17 \u2013 65
\nVan Wert 15\u00a0 8 16 23 \u2013 62<\/p>\n

Ottoville: Joseph Miller 2-4-8; Ryan Suever 9-2-20; Josh Thorbahn 10-4-30; Drew Fisher 0-3-3; Will Miller 1-2-4<\/p>\n

Van Wert: Owen Treece 6-0-15; Nate Place 7-3-19; LeTrey Williams 2-0-4; Blake Henry 1-2-5; Lawson Blackmore 3-2-8; Drew Bagley 5-0-11<\/p>\n

JV: Van Wert 39-29<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent sports editor OTTOVILLE — The one-two punch of 6-5 sophomore Josh Thorbahn and 6-7 sophomore Ryan Suever was too much for Van Wert, as the pair combined for 50 points in Ottoville\u2019s 65-62 victory over the Cougars at L.W. Heckman Gymnasium on Friday. Thorbahn finished with 30 points, including a pair of critical […]<\/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-111135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 02:50:57","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\/111135","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=111135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}