{"id":139457,"date":"2021-01-23T00:24:42","date_gmt":"2021-01-23T05:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=139457"},"modified":"2021-01-23T00:24:48","modified_gmt":"2021-01-23T05:24:48","slug":"cougars-no-match-for-no-1-shawnee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/01\/23\/cougars-no-match-for-no-1-shawnee\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougars no match for No. 1 Shawnee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Van Wert independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIMA &#8212; It was the George Mangas Show at Lappin Gymnasium on Friday night, as the Shawnee senior scored 37 points to lead the top-ranked Indians by Van Wert 72-46.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shawnee (14-0, 5-0 WBL) has won 43 consecutive regular season games, while Van Wert fell to 1-9 (0-5 WBL).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 6-4 senior scored 11 points in the first quarter and the Indians led 24-9 at the of the period, with Aidan Pratt accounting for seven of Van Wert\u2019s points. Mangas added 12 more points in the second quarter and Shawnee led 44-24 at halftime. Van Wert\u2019s Ethan Brown scored 13 of his team high 15 points in the second period, including three triples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Indians pulled away in the third quarter and led 66-36 at the end of the period. Mangas scored 10 more and Caden Vermillion added six, while Pratt, who finished with 12 points, added five more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cougars were 16-of-50 (32 percent) from the floor and 9-of-17 from the free throw line with 18 turnovers. Shawnee finished the night 28-of-50 from the floor and 9-of-10 from the foul line with 16 turnovers. The Indians held a 24-18 rebounding advantage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shawnee won the junior varsity contest 47-43 in overtime. Van Wert trailed 18-4 at the end of the first quarter, but battled back to force the extra session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert will travel to Coldwater tonight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Scoring summary<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shawnee 24 20 22 6 \u2013 72<br>Van Wert 9 15 12 10 \u2013 46<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shawnee: Brady Wheeler 4-1-10; Jarin Bertke 2-0-6; George Mangas 15-5-37; Caden Vemillion 5-2-12; Austin Miller 2-0-5; Ja\u2019Mari Johnson 1-0-2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert: Ethan Brown 5-2-15; Owen Treece 2-2-7; Garett Gunter 2-0-4; Aidan Pratt 4-3-12; Trey Laudick 1-0-2; Ty Jackson 0-2-2; Maddix Crutchfield 1-0-2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent sports LIMA &#8212; It was the George Mangas Show at Lappin Gymnasium on Friday night, as the Shawnee senior scored 37 points to lead the top-ranked Indians by Van Wert 72-46. Shawnee (14-0, 5-0 WBL) has won 43 consecutive regular season games, while Van Wert fell to 1-9 (0-5 WBL). The 6-4 [&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-139457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 08:50:21","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\/139457","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=139457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}