{"id":153241,"date":"2022-04-15T21:15:23","date_gmt":"2022-04-16T02:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=153241"},"modified":"2022-04-15T21:15:25","modified_gmt":"2022-04-16T02:15:25","slug":"cougars-win-o-g-meet-girls-finish-5th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2022\/04\/15\/cougars-win-o-g-meet-girls-finish-5th\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougars win O-G meet; girls finish 5th"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>OTTAWA &#8212; Another meet, another first place finish for the Van Wert boys\u2019 track team, as the Cougars won the competitive nine team Ottawa-Glandorf Gold Medal Meet on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"286\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Van-Wert-4x400-team-4-15-2022.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-153243\"\/><figcaption>Nate Jackson, Nate Phillips, Connor Pratt and Trey Laudick won the 4&#215;400 meter relay at the O-G Gold Medal Meet on Thursday. <em>Photo courtesy of Jeff Pratt<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert finished with 99 team points, compared to 94 for runner-up Bluffton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 4&#215;400 meter relay team of Trey Laudick, Nate Phillilps, Nate Jackson and Connor Pratt won with a time of 3:32.06.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pratt also won the 400 meter dash (51.79).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Runner-up finishes for the Cougars included Logan Dotson, shot put, 48-09.50; the 4&#215;800 meter relay team (Gage Wannemacher, Laudick, Gage Springer, Hunter Sherer), 8:34.97; Wannemacher, 1600 meter run, 4:49.53; Springer, 800 meter run, 2:05.62; Laudick, 200 meter dash, 23.43.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the girls\u2019 side, the Lady Cougars finished fifth out of nine teams, with 44 points. Ottawa-Glandorf took first place with 127 team points, followed by Liberty-Benton (111).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 4&#215;200 relay team of Kendra Deehring, Macy Johnson, Danesha Branson and Sofi Houg finished as the runner-up with a time of 1:52.55. Houg finished second in the 400 meter dash (1:02.55) and the 200 meter dash (27.23).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Full results can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baumspage.com\/track\/ottawa\/2022\/Gold%20Medal%20Results%2022.pdf\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert will return to Ottawa-Glandorf for a Western Buckeye League quad meet with the Titans, Kenton and Wapakoneta on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent sports OTTAWA &#8212; Another meet, another first place finish for the Van Wert boys\u2019 track team, as the Cougars won the competitive nine team Ottawa-Glandorf Gold Medal Meet on Thursday. Van Wert finished with 99 team points, compared to 94 for runner-up Bluffton. The 4&#215;400 meter relay team of Trey Laudick, Nate Phillilps, [&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-153241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 10:53:13","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\/153241","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=153241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}