{"id":117588,"date":"2019-05-08T19:46:02","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T00:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=117588"},"modified":"2019-05-08T22:07:19","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T03:07:19","slug":"vw-cougars-beat-bath-eye-wbl-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2019\/05\/08\/vw-cougars-beat-bath-eye-wbl-title\/","title":{"rendered":"VW Cougars beat Bath, eye WBL title"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Van Wert independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIMA &#8212; Van Wert took another step toward a possible Western Buckeye League baseball championship with an 8-1 win at Bath on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Owen Treece held the Wildcats to just four hits, while striking out six and walking one. <\/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>Jaxson Amweg broke a scoreless tie in the top of the third inning with an RBI single that plated Keaton Brown. Brown later stole home to give the Cougars a 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bath\u2019s only run came in the bottom of the third, then after a scoreless fourth inning, Van Wert struck for four runs in the fifth. With the bases loaded, Jake Lautzenheiser singled in Brown, then Jalen McCracken scored on a fielder\u2019s choice. A single by Nathan Temple drove in Amweg, then Hayden Maples scored on a single by Lawson Blackmore, increasing the lead to 6-1. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert\u2019s final two runs came in the seventh inning, when Parker Conrad doubled in Blackmore and TJ Reynolds drove in Treece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cougars (17-2, 7-1 WBL) are scheduled to host Elida today. A win would guarantee at least a share of the league championship. Bath (7-10, 3-4 WBL) will host Defiance on Friday. A Defiance win would force a co-championship, while a Bath upset would give Van Wert an outright title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent sports LIMA &#8212; Van Wert took another step toward a possible Western Buckeye League baseball championship with an 8-1 win at Bath on Wednesday. Owen Treece held the Wildcats to just four hits, while striking out six and walking one. Jaxson Amweg broke a scoreless tie in the top of the third [&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-117588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 08:43:55","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\/117588","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=117588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}