{"id":142499,"date":"2021-05-03T03:53:41","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T08:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=142499"},"modified":"2021-05-03T03:54:01","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T08:54:01","slug":"cougars-rally-by-northwestern-in-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/05\/03\/cougars-rally-by-northwestern-in-9\/","title":{"rendered":"VW Cougars rally by Northwestern in 9"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Van Wert independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DAYTON \u2013 Ethan Rupert\u2019s RBI double in the ninth inning gave Van Wert a thrilling 4-3 win over Northwestern at Day Air Ballpark in Dayton on Saturday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jacob Place opened the final inning with a double to right field, then after a pair of outs, including a fielder\u2019s choice, TJ Stoller scored from first on Rupert\u2019s second hit of the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/VW-Cougars_stacked-copy.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-96499\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Warriors (2-15) scored all three of their runs in the first inning, including a two out, two-RBI single by Ethan White. The Cougars (16-4) answered with a pair of runs in the bottom of the first \u2013 Turner Witten\u2019s RBI single that scored Stoller and an RBI double by Aidan Pratt that plated Rupert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert tied the game in the bottom of the second when Luke Wessell singled to open the inning then scored on an RBI single by Place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Owen Treece pitched the first five innings and allowed just four hits while striking out 10 and walking one. Wessell came out for the remaining four innings and held Northwestern to a single hit with a pair of strikeouts and two walks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert is scheduled to play at New Haven (IN) today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent sports DAYTON \u2013 Ethan Rupert\u2019s RBI double in the ninth inning gave Van Wert a thrilling 4-3 win over Northwestern at Day Air Ballpark in Dayton on Saturday night. Jacob Place opened the final inning with a double to right field, then after a pair of outs, including a fielder\u2019s choice, TJ [&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-142499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 03:17:53","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\/142499","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=142499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}