{"id":132808,"date":"2020-07-06T21:52:55","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T02:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=132808"},"modified":"2020-07-09T20:41:56","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T01:41:56","slug":"cougars-pick-up-11-1-win-over-knights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2020\/07\/06\/cougars-pick-up-11-1-win-over-knights\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougars pick up 11-1 win over Knights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong><em>independent sports editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A big third inning was the catalyst for Van Wert\u2019s 11-1 summer season baseball win over county rival Crestview at Russell Fisher Field on Monday night. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The victory boosted Van Wert&#8217;s record to 8-7, while Crestview fell to 2-5 on the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a scoreless first two innings, Crestview took a 1-0 lead in the third when Trever Sheets singled home Nick Helt, but the Cougars responded with eight runs in the bottom half of the inning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"545\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/TJ-Stoller-7-6-2020-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-132813\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/TJ-Stoller-7-6-2020-1.jpg 545w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/TJ-Stoller-7-6-2020-1-511x600.jpg 511w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><figcaption>As Crestview&#8217;s Trever Sheets slides into second base, Van Wert&#8217;s TJ Stoller attempts to turn a double play during Monday&#8217;s game between the two county rivals. <em>Wyatt Richardson\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Luke Wessell doubled, Aidan Pratt singled, then Wessell tied the game when he scored on a wild pitch. Two batters later, TJ Stoller\u2019s two-RBI single to left field plated Pratt and Breckin Boroff. Kaiden Bates scored on a wild pitch, then Stoller and Owen Treece scored on an error to boost Van Wert\u2019s lead to 6-1. Jacob Place knocked in Ethan Rupert then with two outs, Xavier Okuly scored the final run of the inning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a scoreless fourth inning, the Cougars added their final three runs in the fifth. Treece doubled in Stoller, then later scored on a wild pitch. Rupert singled in Turner Witten for the final margin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rupert had two of Van Wert\u2019s seven hits in the game and Stoller finished with a game high two RBIs. Joshua Halker pitched the first four innings and allowed a run on just three hits with four strikeouts and a pair of walks. Wessell pitched the final inning and allowed one hit and one walk while striking out one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sheets, Ayden Lichtensteiger, Tyler Hart and Ian Bailey had Crestview\u2019s hits. Carson Hunter and Will Sharpe split pitching duties for the Knights and surrendered a combined 10 walks.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Crestview will return to action at Delphos St. John\u2019s at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, and Van Wert will host Kalida at 7:15 p.m. the same night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent sports editor A big third inning was the catalyst for Van Wert\u2019s 11-1 summer season baseball win over county rival Crestview at Russell Fisher Field on Monday night. The victory boosted Van Wert&#8217;s record to 8-7, while Crestview fell to 2-5 on the season. After a scoreless first two innings, Crestview took a [&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-132808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 10:01:05","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\/132808","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=132808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}