{"id":127232,"date":"2020-01-22T04:54:48","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T09:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=127232"},"modified":"2020-01-22T04:54:53","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T09:54:53","slug":"kalida-boys-shut-down-van-wert-60-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2020\/01\/22\/kalida-boys-shut-down-van-wert-60-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Kalida boys shut down Van Wert 60-29"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Van Wert independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KALIDA &#8212; Van Wert struggled offensively and defensively in a 60-29 at Kalida on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cougars found themselves down 16-0 at the end of the first quarter, with Gabe Hovest and Luke Erhart accounting for 14 Kalida\u2019s points. Van Wert\u2019s first points came on a pair of Owen Treece free throws early in the second period, and the team\u2019s first basket was scored by Clayton Proffitt nearly halfway into the second stanza. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kalida led 28-7 at halftime, then the Wildcats expanded the advantage to 43-20 at the end of the third quarter. Much of the fourth quarter was played by reserves from both teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Treece led Van Wert with 12 points, with eight of those coming in the third quarter. Clayton Proffitt finished with eight, including five of Van Wert\u2019s seven second quarter points. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cougars were 11 of 32 (34 percent) from the floor and 3 of 7 from the foul line with 14 rebounds and 23 turnovers, including eight in the first quarter. Kalida was 22 of 42 (52 percent) from the field and a perfect 8 of 8 from the free throw line, 22 rebounds and only seven turnovers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kalida (8-6) had three players in double figures, led by Hovest\u2019s 20. Evan Roebke and Erhart finished with 13 and 12 respectively. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert (3-9) will play twice at home this weekend \u2013 against No. 5 Shawnee on Friday and against Coldwater on Saturday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent sports KALIDA &#8212; Van Wert struggled offensively and defensively in a 60-29 at Kalida on Tuesday night. The Cougars found themselves down 16-0 at the end of the first quarter, with Gabe Hovest and Luke Erhart accounting for 14 Kalida\u2019s points. Van Wert\u2019s first points came on a pair of Owen Treece [&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-127232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 04:31:34","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\/127232","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=127232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}