{"id":122917,"date":"2019-09-23T03:45:56","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T08:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=122917"},"modified":"2019-09-23T03:46:38","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T08:46:38","slug":"phillips-wins-van-wert-health-cc-invite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2019\/09\/23\/phillips-wins-van-wert-health-cc-invite\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillips wins Van Wert Health CC Invite"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

Bolstered by an individual championship by Van Wert\u2019s Caylee Phillips, the Lady Cougars edged Shawnee by a single point to win the girls\u2019 eight team Van Wert Health Invitational on Saturday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Van Wert finished with 46 points, while Shawnee finished with 47.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the boys\u2019 side, Lincolnview finished third behind Ottawa-Glandorf and Shawnee, Van Wert finished fifth and Crestview was sixth out of 12 teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Caylee Phillips won an individual title and the Lady Cougars won the Van Wert Health Invitational.<\/strong> Wyatt Richardson\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Phillips ran the 5K course in 20:20.3, while Lincolnview\u2019s Madison Williams was second with a time of 20:32.5, as the Lady Lancers finished fourth overall. Ragen Harting and Emily Greulach notched fifth and sixth place finishes, clocking in at 21:34.2 and 21:44.5, respectively, and the Lady Knights finished third in the team standings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Van Wert\u2019s Tyra McClain finished 10th (22:12), while teammates Kyra Welch and Rachel Spath were right behind with 11th and 12th place finishes time of 22:13 and 22:17. Alli Gemmer recorded a 16th place finish (22:47).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur girls team showed what they are capable of when they put together a solid team effort,” Van Wert head coach Ryan Holliday said. \u201cOur top five were firing on all cylinders, and we were excited to come out on top. The girls went into the meet simply wanting to become better team and individual racing versions of themselves. We know that’s what we need to do every week from here on out to get to where we want to be.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe also know Shawnee is one of the best teams in the WBL, so it was a great challenge to compete with them and we’re looking forward to racing them again at the league meet in a few weeks,\u201d Holliday added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Crestview\u2019s Lauren Walls finished 18th (23:02), Kate Leeth 27th (24:37), Adalynn Longstreth 29th (24:53), and Megan Mosier (33rd, (25:13).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After Williams, Lincolnview was paced by Julia Stetler (15th, 22:42), Victoria Snyder (20th, 23:13), Dylann Carey (36th, 25:34), and Kenna Mason (50th, 26:38).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMadison again had a strong race placing second overall, and Julia and Tori had one of their best overall races of the season,\u201d Lincolnview head coach Matt Langdon said. \u201cWe still need to close the gap behind Madison, but we are taking some steps forward. We hadn’t raced in over 10 days so it was good to get back at it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Van Wert\u2019s Hunter Sherer led county runners with a third place finish and a time of 17:11, while Devon Bill led Lincolnview with a time of 17:44 and a fifth place finish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After Bill, other finishers for Lincolnview included Joe Sadowski (14th, 18:18), Jackson Robinson (21st, 18:39), Brandon Renner (23rd, 18:40), Daegan Hatfield (24th, 18:41) and Brad Korte (44th,19:59). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDevon had a very strong race and my normal four and five guys were three and four today, a sophomore and a freshman, and that makes us a lot better given our pack time was under a minute for the first time all season,\u201d Langdon said. \u201cWe have yet to put it all together in the same day, but we are trusting that day is coming soon.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to Sherer\u2019s third place finish, Jayden Welker placed 20th (18:37) for Van Wert, followed by Gage Wannemacher 25th, 18:43), Ben Lange (34th, 19:03) and Jacob Sealscott (50th, 20:28).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSeveral of our guys brought really fantastic efforts on a hot day,\u201d Holliday said. \u201cHunter Sherer, Jayden Welker, and Ben Lange, to name a few, all competed extremely well. We knew with the conditions, times would likely be slow, so we wanted to focus on how we race. These guys became better versions of themselves and put themselves in a position to take an even bigger step next time we get the chance to compete.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jacob Forwerck led Crestview with a 16th place finish (18:20), followed by Hayden Tomlinson (31st, 18:54), Cameron Cearns (33rd, 19:03), Danil Lichtensteiger (36th, 19:21), Isaiah Watts (41st, 19:39), Dayton Schuerman (42nd,19:49) and Brian Myers 43rd, 19:51). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBoth of our teams used a high level of effort to continue on a path of improvement,\u201d Crestview head coach Jeff Bagley said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHosting Saturday’s invitational was a chance for us to try to provide other teams with an incredible meet experience,\u201d Holliday said. \u201cIt was also a chance to showcase our program to the Van Wert community. We wanted to show people how well we work hard and have fun.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe were thrilled with the support we received from local businesses, the school, and the community,\u201d Holliday added. \u201cAll in all, it was a fantastic day to celebrate the sport of cross country and running.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Team scores<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Girls: 1 \u2013 Van Wert (46); 2 \u2013 Shawnee (47); 3 \u2013 Crestview (80); 4 \u2013 Lincolnview (107); 5 \u2013 Parkway (138) 6 \u2013 Ottawa-Glandorf (147) 7 \u2013 Spencerville (154) 8 \u2013 Paulding (217)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boys: 1 \u2013 Ottawa-Glandorf (61); 2 \u2013 Shawnee (65); 3 \u2013 Lincolnview (79); 4 \u2013 Parkway (119); 5 \u2013 Van Wert (123); 6 \u2013 Crestview (147); 7 \u2013 Elida (178); 8 \u2013 Ottoville (213); 9 \u2013 Bluffton (217); 10 \u2013 Paulding (251); 11 \u2013 Allen East (274); 12 \u2013 Ada (350) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent sports editor Bolstered by an individual championship by Van Wert\u2019s Caylee Phillips, the Lady Cougars edged Shawnee by a single point to win the girls\u2019 eight team Van Wert Health Invitational on Saturday. Van Wert finished with 46 points, while Shawnee finished with 47. On the boys\u2019 side, Lincolnview finished third behind Ottawa-Glandorf […]<\/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-122917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 05:42:23","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\/122917","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=122917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}