{"id":123731,"date":"2019-10-14T04:05:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T09:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=123731"},"modified":"2019-10-14T04:05:43","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T09:05:43","slug":"phillips-wins-back-to-back-wbl-cc-meets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2019\/10\/14\/phillips-wins-back-to-back-wbl-cc-meets\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillips wins back-to-back WBL CC meets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

DEFIANCE — For the second straight season, Caylee Phillips won the Western Buckeye League individual cross country championship and in the process set a new league championship meet record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Van Wert senior won Saturday\u2019s WBL meet in Defiance with a time of 18:42 to easily outdistance the Celina duo of Kaylie Dameron (19:16) and Joscelyn Dameron (19:51).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Caylee Phillips<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCaylee\u2019s peformance wasn’t impressive just because she ran the second fastest time of her career and set the WBL championship meet record, which had stood for 25 years \u2013 it was most impressive because she did it completely by herself,\u201d head coach Ryan Holliday said. \u201cShe took the lead from the gun, never looked back and ran the race without any competitors near her. It was a great tune up and confidence builder heading into the postseason, a time when she knows she\u2019ll be at her best.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kyra Welch was Van Wert\u2019s next highest finisher, placing 11th with a time of 20:40, followed by Rachel Spath (20th, 21:02), Tyra McClain (24th, 21:10) and Ali Gemmer (27th, 21:24). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a team, the Lady Cougars finished third with 83 points, behind Shawnee (59) and Celina (64). Defiance was fourth, (87), followed by St. Marys Memorial (125), Kenton (130), Wapakoneta (170), Bath (183) and Ottawa-Glandorf (231).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe went into the race knowing Shawnee was the team to beat,\u201d Holliday said. \u201cWe keyed off of them and although we fell a little short of our ultimate goal of beating them and winning the WBL championship, we left feeling very encouraged about who we are as a team.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe had some outstanding individual performances that give us even more confidence moving forward,\u201d Holliday continued. \u201cWe\u2019ll get another shot at them (Shawnee) at districts and we know we\u2019ll be a week fitter and fresher.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the boys side, Hunter Sherer was Van Wert\u2019s highest finisher, placing seventh overall with a time of 16:51. Teammate Gage Wannemacher finished 20th with a time of 17:41, followed by Jacob Sealscott (39th, 18:26), Jayden Welker (44th, 18:38) and Ben Lange (49th, 18:46). As a team, the Cougars finished fifth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Defiance had the top three finishers \u2013 Mhalicki Bronson (15:23), Cooper Morton (16:26) and Brennen Roehrig (16:27), and the host Bulldogs easily won the team title with 22 points. Ottawa-Glandorf finished as the runner-up (77 points), followed by St. Marys Memorial and Shawnee (97 each), Van Wert (139), Celina (140), Wapakoneta (211), Elida (218), Kenton (221) and Bath (249).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Van Wert will run at the Division II district meet at Ottawa Park in Ottawa on Saturday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent sports editor DEFIANCE — For the second straight season, Caylee Phillips won the Western Buckeye League individual cross country championship and in the process set a new league championship meet record. The Van Wert senior won Saturday\u2019s WBL meet in Defiance with a time of 18:42 to easily outdistance the Celina duo of […]<\/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-123731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 22:19:02","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\/123731","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=123731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}