{"id":113888,"date":"2019-02-25T04:40:07","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T09:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=113888"},"modified":"2019-02-25T04:40:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T09:40:13","slug":"steyer-bretz-battle-qualify-for-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2019\/02\/25\/steyer-bretz-battle-qualify-for-district\/","title":{"rendered":"Steyer, Bretz, Battle qualify for district"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Van Wert independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NAPOLEON &#8212; Van Wert\u2019s Gabe Steyer and Isaiah Bretz won individual sectional championships while Malachi Battle earned a runner-up finish at the Division II wrestling sectionals at Napoleon High School on Saturday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wauseon won the team title with 240.5 points while Van Wert (87 points) finished eight at the 12 team sectional. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/VW-Cougars_stacked-copy.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-96499\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>After pinning Defiance\u2019s Hunter Grunden in 2:46 and defeating Otsego\u2019s Ian Kress 6-3, Steyer (36-2) won the 138 pound weight class with a 5-0 decision over Wapakoneta\u2019s Luke Beach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bretz improved to 31-0 by recording two technical falls, 17-2 over Bryan\u2019s Broston Bernath and 22-5 over Napoleon\u2019s Tyler Bostelman, before capturing the 145 pound weight class title by defeating 10-7 decision over Otsego\u2019s Jesse Wright.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a pair of byes, Battle (24-14) defeated second seeded Cole Steele of Otsego 7-0 in the semifinals, then fell 9-6 to No. 1 seed Tommy Mabry of St. Mary\u2019s Memorial in the 160 pound title match. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Killian Sudduth (113) finished fifth with a 7-5 win over Wapakoneta\u2019s Bryce Knapke and Lloyd Eutsler recorded a fifth place finish with a 20-10 major decision over Shawnee\u2019s Joey Hale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Steyer, Bretz and Battle will wrestle in the Division II districts Friday and Saturday at Norwalk High School, while Sudduth and Eutsler will serve as alternates.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent sports NAPOLEON &#8212; Van Wert\u2019s Gabe Steyer and Isaiah Bretz won individual sectional championships while Malachi Battle earned a runner-up finish at the Division II wrestling sectionals at Napoleon High School on Saturday. Wauseon won the team title with 240.5 points while Van Wert (87 points) finished eight at the 12 team [&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-113888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 03:28:43","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\/113888","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=113888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}