{"id":143355,"date":"2021-06-01T03:55:21","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T08:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=143355"},"modified":"2021-06-01T03:55:25","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T08:55:25","slug":"cougar-runners-advance-to-d-ii-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/06\/01\/cougar-runners-advance-to-d-ii-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougar runners advance to D-II State"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Van Wert independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PIQUA &#8212; Van Wert High School will be well represented at the Division II Ohio High School Athletic Association Track and Field Tournament at Pickerington North High School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"85\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/VW-Cougars_stacked-copy.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-97555\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to the 4&#215;800 meter relay team of Gage Wannamacher, Trey Laudick, Gage Springer and Hunter Sherer, two other Cougars relay teams qualified for this week\u2019s state meet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 4&#215;400 team (Ethan Brown, Nate Phillips, Trey Laudick, Connor Pratt) earned a regional championship at Piqua on Saturday with a time of 3:37.35 and the 4&#215;200 team, made up of the same four runners, advanced by finishing third (1:31.56).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Springer also qualified for the state meet by placing third in the 800 meter run (2:01.67), while Pratt and Brown advanced to Pickerington by finishing 3-4 in the 400 meter dash with respective times of 51.49 and 51.59 in the regional finals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a team, the Cougars (49) finished third in the final regional standings behind Waynesville (70) and Bryan (51).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent sports PIQUA &#8212; Van Wert High School will be well represented at the Division II Ohio High School Athletic Association Track and Field Tournament at Pickerington North High School. In addition to the 4&#215;800 meter relay team of Gage Wannamacher, Trey Laudick, Gage Springer and Hunter Sherer, two other Cougars relay teams [&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-143355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-10 23:15:34","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\/143355","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=143355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}