{"id":145902,"date":"2021-09-13T03:54:28","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T08:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=145902"},"modified":"2021-09-13T03:54:31","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T08:54:31","slug":"cougar-knight-runners-in-seneca-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/09\/13\/cougar-knight-runners-in-seneca-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougar, Knight runners in Seneca County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Van Wert independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crestview and Van Wert\u2019s cross country teams made the trek to Seneca County on Saturday to compete in a pair of different events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stars, Stripes and Lights<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ATTICA — With three runners in the top nine, Van Wert finished as the runner-up to Woodridge at Seneca East\u2019s Stars, Stripes and Lights night race on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Competing in the Division II classification, Hunter Sherer and Gage Springer finished No. 4 and 5 with respective times of 16:36.33 and 16:38.95, while teammate Gage Wannemacher finished ninth (16:47.41) out of more than 240 runners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition, Drew Laudick (17:49.17) finished 30th and Rylan Miller (47th, 18:20.12) rounded out the scoring for the Cougars. Jayden Welker (48th, 18:21.97) and Owen Scott (56th, 18:43.81) also ran for Van Wert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Woodridge also won the girls\u2019 Division II team title while Van Wert finished seventh out of 17 teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kyra Welch paced the Lady Cougars with a 17th place finish and a time of 20:12.39, followed by Tyra McClain (32nd, 21:42.57), Alyssa Knittle (47th, 22:42.61), Tayler Carter (62rd, 23:22.51) and Sarah Verville (83rd, 24.24.74).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tiffin Cross Country Carnival<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

TIFFIN — It\u2019s billed as the largest cross county race in the United States, with dozens of teams and thousands of high school and middle school runners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After an off-year in 2020 due to COVID-19, the Tiffin Cross Country Carnival took place at Hedges Boyer Park on Saturday, with the Crestview Knights taking part in the massive event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Boys High School Division III-A race, Hayden Tomlinson led the Knights by placing 77th (18:22.4), followed by Isaiah Watts (106th, 19:07.8), Logan Foudy (114th, 19:25.8), Jayden Renner (127th, 19:45.9), Gavin Grubb (151st, 20:59.7), Aiden Ankney (163rd, 21:48.6) and Nolan Walls (22:02.5).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a team, Crestview finished 25th out of 28 teams. East Canton won the team title, followed by Fort Loramie and Columbus Grove.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Division II-III girls open, Lauren Walls posted a fine fourth place finish with a time of 22:25.9, trailing only Anna Brown (22:01.8) and Maggie Ramsey (22:24.7) of Eastwood and Sabrina Henige of Columbus Grove (22.25.5).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crestview will compete in the Galion Cross Country Festival on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Van Wert independent sports Crestview and Van Wert\u2019s cross country teams made the trek to Seneca County on Saturday to compete in a pair of different events. Stars, Stripes and Lights ATTICA — With three runners in the top nine, Van Wert finished as the runner-up to Woodridge at Seneca East\u2019s Stars, Stripes and Lights […]<\/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-145902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 19:17:37","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\/145902","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=145902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}