{"id":142531,"date":"2021-05-04T03:52:23","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T08:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=142531"},"modified":"2021-05-04T03:52:27","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T08:52:27","slug":"cougar-baseball-team-wins-tennis-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/05\/04\/cougar-baseball-team-wins-tennis-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougar baseball team wins, tennis falls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Van Wert independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Baseball<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Van Wert 4 New Haven 3<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NEW HAVEN (IN) \u2013 A run in the sixth inning snapped a tie and gave state ranked Van Wert (No. 11, Division II) a 4-3 win over New Haven on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Luke Wessell grounded out but scored Aidan Pratt, who had tripled in the previous at-bat. The Bulldogs had two runners on in the bottom of the sixth and two more in the seventh inning but the Cougars were able to hold on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ethan Rupert pitched a complete game and allowed nine hits while striking out five and walking one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Owen Treece had two hits for Van Wert including a first inning RBI double that scored Jacob Place. Treece doubled again and drove in Kaiden Bates in the top of the third, tying the game 2-2. Bates gave the Cougars the lead in the fourth with an RBI single that plated Pratt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert (17-4) will host Elida today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tennis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>St. Marys Memorial 4 Van Wert 1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ST. MARYS &#8212; Van Wert\u2019s Micah Rager posted a 6-1, 6-3 win over Kameron MacClean at second singles but the Cougars lost their final Western Buckeye League match of the year, falling 4-1 to St. Marys Memorial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Roughriders were paced by Joey Vanderhorst, who posted a 7-5, 6-3 victory over Jace Fast at first singles and Rhet Chisholm, who defeated Bryce Miller 6-4, 5-7, 6-2 at third singles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>St. Marys also won both doubles matches, with Correy Nelson and Preston Wilson beating Kaden Thomas and Sam Moonshower 6-3, 7-5 and Connor Milner and Isaac Wibbeler topping Ian Cowan and Evan Knittle 6-1, 6-3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert (6-7, 4-5 WBL) will play at Lima Central Catholic today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent sports Baseball Van Wert 4 New Haven 3 NEW HAVEN (IN) \u2013 A run in the sixth inning snapped a tie and gave state ranked Van Wert (No. 11, Division II) a 4-3 win over New Haven on Monday. Luke Wessell grounded out but scored Aidan Pratt, who had tripled in the [&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-142531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 03:22:55","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\/142531","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=142531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}