{"id":149868,"date":"2021-12-30T23:49:23","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T04:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=149868"},"modified":"2021-12-30T23:49:51","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T04:49:51","slug":"cougars-jump-out-early-beat-lincolnview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/12\/30\/cougars-jump-out-early-beat-lincolnview\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougars jump out early, beat Lincolnview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Van Wert scored early and often and never looked back during Saturday\u2019s 61-26 win over Lincolnview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the dust settled, 10 different players scored for the Cougars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Carson Smith puts up a shot for two of his 11 points Lincolnview. Bob Barnes\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m just pleased with our guys and with getting contributions from some other people tonight,\u201d Van Wert head coach Ben Laudick said. \u201cWe\u2019re kind of a Swiss army knife in a way.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ethan Brown and Aidan Pratt combined for 13 points in the first quarter and the Cougars and Van Wert closed the period with 12 unanswered points to take a 20-6 lead. Ethan Crow accounted for all six of Lincolnview\u2019s first quarter points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back-to-back buckets by Carson Smith late in the second quarter gave Van Wert a 31-11 advantage and the Cougars went on to lead 34-13 at halftime. The advantage was extended to 47-19 after three quarters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have to find ways to be better at both ends of the floor, Lincolnview head coach Brett Hammons said. \u201cWe didn\u2019t shoot it very well, we have to do a better job of rotating on defense, staying in front of the basketball, taking charges and rebounding.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOn the offensive end we broke the press and I thought we did a good job with that,\u201d Hammons continued. \u201cWhen we got into the half court we got shots, we just missed and in order to beat teams like this, making shots is part of it. We need to find a way to put the ball in the basket.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Pratt led all scorers with 17 points while Smith added 11 points, all in the first half. Crow led the Lancers with 11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI thought Carson Smith had a really good night,\u201d Laudick said. \u201cHe was able to knock down some shots and get us really going. I know he was a little frustrated after Monday\u2019s loss (Columbus Grove) and he had two really good practices and I\u2019m glad he was rewarded for that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI thought he (Crow) played well at both ends, Hammons said. \u201cOn the defensive end I thought he guarded well and I thought he rebounded for us. He made some nice moves on the block and he hustled for us tonight and gave us some good minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both teams are back in action next weekend. Lincolnview will host Spencerville on Friday then will travel to Miller City on Saturday. Van Wert will head to Wapakoneta on Friday then will host Marion Local the following night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe going to take a couple days to rest but we know come Monday we have some work to do, some toughness stuff that we need to work on,\u201d Laudick said. \u201cOur focus will be Wapak but we know there\u2019s a pretty difficult challenge on Saturday as well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scoring summary<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Van Wert 20 14 13 14 \u2013 61
Lincolnview 6 7 6 7 \u2013 26<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Van Wert: Ethan Brown 3-1-7; Carson Smith 4-0-11; Garett Gunter 1-0-2; Trey Leroux 1-0-2; Ty Jackson 2-1-5; Aidan Pratt 7-2-17; Nate Jackson 1-0-2; Maddix Crutchfield 2-0-4; Luke Wessell 3-0-8; AJ Proffitt 1-0-3<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lincolnview: Garrett Richardson 2-0-4; Cal Evans 2-0-5; Landon Price 1-0-2; Austin Bockrath 1-0-2; Cole Binkley 1-0-2; Ethan Crow 5-1-11<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent editor Van Wert scored early and often and never looked back during Saturday\u2019s 61-26 win over Lincolnview. When the dust settled, 10 different players scored for the Cougars. \u201cI\u2019m just pleased with our guys and with getting contributions from some other people tonight,\u201d Van Wert head coach Ben Laudick said. \u201cWe\u2019re kind of […]<\/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-149868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 05:51:10","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\/149868","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=149868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}