{"id":154286,"date":"2022-05-17T03:53:30","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T08:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=154286"},"modified":"2022-05-17T03:54:01","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T08:54:01","slug":"154286","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2022\/05\/17\/154286\/","title":{"rendered":"Baseball: Cougars win, No. 3 Lancers fall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Van Wert 9 Coldwater 6<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kaden Shaffer and Brylen Parker each had two RBIs to help Van Wert to a 9-6 Senior Night victory over Coldwater at Russell Fisher Field on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"231\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Luke-Wessell-5-2022.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-154278\"\/><figcaption>Luke Wessell beats the throw during Monday&#8217;s game against Coldwater. <em>Wyatt Richardson\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Shaffter doubled in TJ Stoller for a 2-1 lead in the second inning, then singled home Stoller in the third to increase the lead to 5-1. Parker had a two-RBI double in the fourth, scoring AJ Proffitt and Luke Wessell, giving Van Wert an 8-4 lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the fifth inning, Turner Witten singled home Shaffer for the final margin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Josh Reichert, Sam Houg and Wessell combined to strike out six Coldwater batters, while allowing nine hits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert (13-7) will play at Antwerp at 5 p.m. today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kalida 9 Lincolnview 5<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kalida defeated No. 3 Lincolnview 9-5 in the regular season finale on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No game information was available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lancers will host Ada or Spencerville in the Division IV sectional finals at 5 p.m. Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent sports Van Wert 9 Coldwater 6 Kaden Shaffer and Brylen Parker each had two RBIs to help Van Wert to a 9-6 Senior Night victory over Coldwater at Russell Fisher Field on Monday. Shaffter doubled in TJ Stoller for a 2-1 lead in the second inning, then singled home Stoller in the third [&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-154286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 08:42:19","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\/154286","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=154286"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154288,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154286\/revisions\/154288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}