{"id":11791,"date":"2011-08-10T00:06:30","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T05:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=11791"},"modified":"2011-08-10T00:06:30","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T05:06:30","slug":"cougar-golfers-4th-at-defiance-tourney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2011\/08\/10\/cougar-golfers-4th-at-defiance-tourney\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougar golfers 4th at Defiance tourney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Van Wert independent<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>DEFIANCE &#8212; The boys\u2019 golf team at Van Wert High School started its season off with a fourth-place finish out of 18 teams at the Defiance Invitational at Eagle Rock Golf Course in Defiance.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Matt Cucciarre carded his best 18-hole round ever with a 7-over-par 78. His round was highlighted with a chip in birdie on No. 4 and many great up and downs to save par. Individual honors were dominated by Defiance. Bulldogs Jacob Behringer and Josh Scott were in a play-off for medalist at 74, while teammate Jacob Moore was third with a 75.<\/p>\n<p>The remainder of the Cougar golfers pitched in\u00a0as follows: Jacob Brake, 82; Tyler Turnwald, 83; Vince Moreland, 84; and Brandon Hernandez, 89. Dropping the high score gave Van Wert a 327 total, four strokes better then last year\u2019s third-place finish of 331.<\/p>\n<p>The varsity team returns to action Wednesday at the Liberty Benton Invitational at Sycamore Springs outside Arlington, with a shotgun start at 9 a.m.\u00a0Coach Jeff Hood said he sees a ton of potential for this year\u2019s team and is expecting to see big improvement in course management and putting throughout the season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Team results<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. Defiance\u00a0300\u00a0(team course record), 2. Bryan 319; 3. Wauseon 321; 4. Van Wert 327; 5. Napoleon 333; 6. Stryker 337; 7. North Central 337; 8. Liberty Center 341; 9. Kalida 347; 10. Defiance B 352; 11. Tinora 352; 12. Wayne Trace 360; 13. Archbold 367; 14. Ottawa-Glandorf 377; 15. Celina 380; 16. Ayersville 411; 17. Fairview 422; 18. Paulding 479.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent DEFIANCE &#8212; The boys\u2019 golf team at Van Wert High School started its season off with a fourth-place finish out of 18 teams at the Defiance Invitational at Eagle Rock Golf Course in Defiance. Senior Matt Cucciarre carded his best 18-hole round ever with a 7-over-par 78. His round was highlighted with [&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-11791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 01:53:54","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\/11791","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=11791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}