{"id":146146,"date":"2021-09-20T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=146146"},"modified":"2021-09-20T04:00:04","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T09:00:04","slug":"vwco-cross-country-teams-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/09\/20\/vwco-cross-country-teams-in-action\/","title":{"rendered":"VWCO cross country teams in action"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

All of Van Wert County’s cross country teams were in action Saturday, a week ahead of the Van Wert Health Invitational. Below are the various results. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lancers boys finish first, girls second at W-G Invite<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

WAYNESFIELD — Lincolnview\u2019s Jackson Robinson enjoyed a first place finish and the Lancers won the boys\u2019 Waynesfield-Goshen Night Meet on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robinson, who finished with a time of 17:19, led a pack of six Lancers who finished in the top 12. Daegan Hatfield finished third (17:43), followed by Baldauf Conner (sixth, 18:24), Kreston Tow (ninth, 18:39), Evan Johns (11th, 18:47) and Brandon Renner (12th, 18:49).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Lancers finished with 30 team points, followed by Wapakoneta (54), Elgin (85), Fairbanks (88) and Waynesfield-Goshen (106).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the girls\u2019 side, Lincolnview finished second out of three teams, with Julia Stetler recording a fourth place finish and a time of 21:51.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Olivia Snyder and Kendall Coil finished No. 9-10 with respective times of 23:22 and 23:28. Lindsay Hatcher finished 12th (23:31.70) and Emma Hatcher rounded out the scoring with a 17th place finish and a time of 25:56.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wapakoneta won the team title with 36 points, followed by Lincolnview (38) and Waynesfield-Goshen (49).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cougars second, fourth at O-G Invite<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

OTTAWA — Van Wert finished second behind Holgate in the Blue Division of the Ottawa-Glandorf Blue\/Gold Invitational on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Tigers won the team title with 62 points while the Cougars finished with 75 and Ottawa-Glandorf was third (103) out of 15 teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drew Laudick led Van Wert with a 13th place finish (18:04.07), followed by John Kramer (15th, 18:20.71), Gage Wannemacher (16th, 18:20.97), Gate Springer (18th, 18:25.23) and Hunter Sherer (20th, 28:25.75).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kyra Welch led the Lady Cougars with a fifth place finish (21:24.71), followed by Tyra McClain (ninth, 21:48.25), Alyssa Knittle (25th, 23:28.95), Sarah Verville (47th, 25:13.64) and Emma Dolan (51st, 25:41.08).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crestview at Galion Cross Country Festival<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

GALION — Crestview finished 12th out of 20 teams at the Galion Cross County Festival on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hayden Tomlinson was the top finisher for the Knights (36th, 19:05.7) with teammate Isaiah Watts not far behind at 38th with a time of 19:08. Logan Foudy was 59th (19:55), Gavin Grubb 94th (21:51), Nolan Walls 95th (21:58), and Aiden Ankney 107th (22:55).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Lady Knights placed 12th out of 13 teams, with Lauren Walls leading the pack with a 19th place finish (22:24.9). Baylee Miller was 70th at 26:41, Megan Mosier 80th (27:25), Kate Sawmiller 85th (27:54) and Alexis Flagg 97th 31:22.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lincolnview, Van Wert and Crestview will compete at the Van Wert Health Invitational on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Van Wert independent sports All of Van Wert County’s cross country teams were in action Saturday, a week ahead of the Van Wert Health Invitational. Below are the various results. Lancers boys finish first, girls second at W-G Invite WAYNESFIELD — Lincolnview\u2019s Jackson Robinson enjoyed a first place finish and the Lancers won the boys\u2019 […]<\/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-146146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 11:54:11","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\/146146","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=146146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}