{"id":150537,"date":"2022-01-24T04:49:43","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T09:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=150537"},"modified":"2022-01-24T04:50:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T09:50:18","slug":"vw-cougars-rally-past-coldwater-57-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2022\/01\/24\/vw-cougars-rally-past-coldwater-57-45\/","title":{"rendered":"VW Cougars rally past Coldwater 57-45"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

A big first half scoring run turned things around for Van Wert on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Van Wert’s Garett Gunter plays defense against Coldwater’s Nick Fisher during Saturday night’s non-conference game at the Cougar’s Den. Bob Barnes\/Van Wert independent <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

After Coldwater\u2019s Jace Wood drilled an early second quarter trey that gave the visitors a 19-12 lead, the Cougars flipped the script by scoring 17 unanswered points. Ethan Brown had six consecutive points during the run and Garett Gunter added a pair of baskets. A layup by Nate Jackson completed the run and gave Van Wert a 29-19 lead. The Cougars also switched to a zone defense during the run, which affected the Cavaliers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The run helped propel Van Wert to a 57-45 victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI thought were a little flat to start and part of that might have been a little bit of a hangover from Friday night (vs. Ottawa-Glandorf) as far as a highly emotional game, but I was pleased with how we responded in the second quarter,\u201d Van Wert head coach Ben Laudick said. \u201cWe\u2019ve been working on our zone and I think we took some things away from Coldwater.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe challenged the guys at the end of the first quarter and told them we\u2019re better than that,\u201d Laudick added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leading 31-21 at halftime, the Cougars opened the third quarter in strong fashion, with Jackson draining a triple and Aidan Pratt adding six straight points. Van Wert steadily pulled away and led 48-31 entering the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Coldwater\u2019s Kevin Fisher hit a pair of treys in the first quarter and Evan Harlamert drained one as well, helping the Cavaliers to a 16-12 lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gunter picked up his second foul two minutes into the second quarter, prompting Laudick to turn to Nate Phillips for much of the period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m happy for Nate,\u201d Laudick said. \u201cHe\u2019s responded to a different role, a role that we think is going to propel us to where we want to be at the end of the season. We got a great effort from all 10 guys tonight and that\u2019s what I like about us \u2013 I want us to be hard to scout.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gunter and Pratt each finished with 12 points, with two of Pratt\u2019s points coming on a crowd-pleasing two-handed dunk. The Cougars finished 23-of-47 from the floor and 6-of-12 from the foul line. Van Wert enjoyed a 25-19 rebounding advantage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coldwater was led by Fisher, who scored 13 points. The Cavaliers were held to 15-of-46 shooting, but converted 7-of-9 free throws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Van Wert will host Shawnee on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTournament seeding is coming up in a couple of weeks and we need to focus and get victories any way we can to put ourselves in position to get a good tournament draw,\u201d Laudick. \u201cWe still need to focus one game at a time, so we\u2019ll turn our attention to Shawnee.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Box score<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Van Wert 12 19 17 9 \u2013 57
Coldwater 16 5 10 14 \u2013 45<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Van Wert: Ethan Brown 3-2-8; Carson Smith 1-1-4; Garett Gunter 6-0-12; Aidan Pratt 6-0-12; Nate Jackson 2-0-5; Nate Phillips 1-3-6; Luke Wessell 3-0-7; AJ Proffitt 1-0-3<\/p>\n\n\n\n

JV: Coldwater 47-36<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent editor A big first half scoring run turned things around for Van Wert on Saturday. After Coldwater\u2019s Jace Wood drilled an early second quarter trey that gave the visitors a 19-12 lead, the Cougars flipped the script by scoring 17 unanswered points. Ethan Brown had six consecutive points during the run and Garett […]<\/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-150537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 03:52:34","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\/150537","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=150537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}