{"id":112012,"date":"2019-01-18T05:44:07","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T10:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=112012"},"modified":"2019-01-18T05:44:13","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T10:44:13","slug":"cold-shooting-hurts-vw-in-loss-to-shawnee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2019\/01\/18\/cold-shooting-hurts-vw-in-loss-to-shawnee\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold shooting hurts VW in loss to Shawnee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

Sometimes the ball just won\u2019t go through the hoop and unfortunately, Thursday night was one of those games for Van Wert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Lady Cougars (3-11, 0-5 WBL) struggled from the floor and with turnovers throughout the game and fell to visiting Shawnee 44-33. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI can\u2019t fault the effort,\u201d Van Wert head coach Rob Adams said. \u201cWe play hard most games but offensively \u2013 it\u2019s just take care of the ball. We had multiple opportunities and just got ahead of ourselves, and that\u2019s kind of been our thing all season long.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThese are the ones you have to get, especially on your home court,\u201d Adams continued. \u201cOur defense is rock solid, I love our defensive tenacity \u2013 we\u2019re getting after people, but it\u2019s our offensive identity \u2013 we\u2019re still struggling with that, but hopefully we can figure some things out in practice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Van Wert trailed 13-8 after the first quarter and 19-17 at halftime. Caylee Phillips tied the game 19-19 early in the third period, but Shawnee scored the next seven points, including back-to-back triples by Tessa Jordan and Grace O\u2019Connor to take a 26-19 lead. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Lady Cougars trailed 30-21 to begin the fourth quarter and chipped away at Shawnee\u2019s lead. A bucket by Abby Jackson, a pair of foul shots by Jerica Huebner and another basket by Jackson pulled Van Wert to within two, 35-33 with 1:42 left. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The Lady Cougars had a chance to tie the game a short time later, but missed three consecutive shots, including two off offensive rebounds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think at that point if that goes down the momentum swings a little bit and once we didn\u2019t get that opportunity, the wind went out of the sails and some heads started going down and we started trying to do everything by ourselves,” Adams said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From there, Shawnee (3-12, 2-3 WBL) scored the final nine points of the game, including four foul shots and a basket and trey by Aaliyah Fowler. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite being in foul trouble much of the night, Jackson led Van Wert with 10 points, and Allison Schaufelberger provided solid relief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe\u2019s been playing really well for three or four games now,\u201d Adams said of Schaufelberger. \u201cI\u2019m proud of Alli and she knows that, and she\u2019s going to continue to get better as a sophomore.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Van Wert will host county rival Crestview on Monday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scoring summary<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Van Wert 8 9 4 12 \u2013 33
\nShawnee 13 6 11 14 \u2013 44<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Van Wert: Sierra Shaffer 2-0-4; Jaylyn Rickard 1-0-3; Reagan Priest 2-0-4; Caylee Phillips 4-0-8; Jerica Huebner 0-2-2; Allison Schaufelberger 1-0-2; Abby Jackson 5-0-10<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shawnee: Grace O\u2019Connor 2-3-9; Aaliyah Fowler 3-0-8; Tessa Jordan 3-4-12; Kerri Robinson 1-1-4; Trinity Gearing 2-2-6; Maddi Peterman 2-1-5<\/p>\n\n\n\n

JV: Shawnee won 35-33 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent sports editor Sometimes the ball just won\u2019t go through the hoop and unfortunately, Thursday night was one of those games for Van Wert. The Lady Cougars (3-11, 0-5 WBL) struggled from the floor and with turnovers throughout the game and fell to visiting Shawnee 44-33. \u201cI can\u2019t fault the effort,\u201d Van Wert head […]<\/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-112012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 05:33:52","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\/112012","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=112012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}