{"id":154397,"date":"2022-05-20T22:11:32","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T03:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=154397"},"modified":"2022-05-20T22:11:54","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T03:11:54","slug":"baseball-cougars-win-sectional-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2022\/05\/20\/baseball-cougars-win-sectional-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Baseball: Cougars win sectional title"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BRYAN &#8212; Luke Wessell shut down Bryan and received plenty of help at the plate as No. 4 seed Van Wert won the Division II sectional championship with an 8-0 victory over the Golden Bears on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wessell pitched a complete game and allowed just four hits while striking out eight and walking two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"386\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/VW-baseball-sectional-champs-5-2022.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-154403\"\/><figcaption>Van Wert won the Division II sectional championship with an impressive 8-0 win at Bryan on Friday. <em>Photo courtesy of Pat Agler<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Briston Wise had three hits, including a second inning RBI triple that scored Damon McCracken and a fifth inning two-RBI double that scored Turner Witten and Wessell, giving the Cougars a 6-0 lead. Ethan Rupert had a sixth inning triple that plated TJ Stoller and Kaiden Bates. Van Wert\u2019s remaining run came in the second inning when Wise scored on a single by Stoller.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cougars (14-8) will face No. 2 seed Napoleon in the district semifinals at 6 p.m. Thursday at Memorial Park in Archbold. The Wildcats defeated Toledo Central Catholic 11-7 on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent sports BRYAN &#8212; Luke Wessell shut down Bryan and received plenty of help at the plate as No. 4 seed Van Wert won the Division II sectional championship with an 8-0 victory over the Golden Bears on Friday. Wessell pitched a complete game and allowed just four hits while striking out eight and [&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-154397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 21:13:09","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\/154397","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=154397"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154414,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154397\/revisions\/154414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}