{"id":141930,"date":"2021-04-13T03:49:47","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T08:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=141930"},"modified":"2021-04-13T03:49:51","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T08:49:51","slug":"cougars-sink-the-pirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/04\/13\/cougars-sink-the-pirates\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougars sink the Pirates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Jace-Fast-4-12-2021.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-141928\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert\u2019s Jace Fast (above) and Bryce Miller (below) picked up wins during Monday\u2019s match against Bluffton and the Cougars went on to defeat the Pirates 4-1. Fast won at first singles by beating Eden Nygaard 6-2, 6-3, while Miller topped Grant Klinger 6-4, 6-4 at third singles. At second singles, Bluffton\u2019s Luke Shadle defeated Sam Moonshower 6-2, 2-6, 6-1. Van Wert\u2019s first doubles team of Micah Rager and Kaden Thomas beat Bryan Zimmerman and Thad Mittendorf 6-3, 6-3, and the second doubles team of Ian Cowan and Evan Knittle defeated Eli Wenger and Braeden Ackerman 6-2, 7-5. The Cougars (2-2) will play at Defiance today. <em>Scott Truxell\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"545\" height=\"485\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Bryce-Miller-4-12-2021.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-141929\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert\u2019s Jace Fast (above) and Bryce Miller (below) picked up wins during Monday\u2019s match against Bluffton and the Cougars went on to defeat the Pirates 4-1. Fast won at first singles by beating Eden Nygaard 6-2, 6-3, while Miller topped Grant Klinger 6-4, 6-4 at third singles. At second singles, Bluffton\u2019s Luke Shadle defeated [&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-141930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-21 22:17:15","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\/141930","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=141930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}