{"id":154702,"date":"2022-05-31T03:38:16","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T08:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=154702"},"modified":"2022-05-31T03:38:17","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T08:38:17","slug":"cougar-tracksters-bound-for-ohsaa-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2022\/05\/31\/cougar-tracksters-bound-for-ohsaa-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougar tracksters bound for OHSAA state"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PIQUA &#8212; There won\u2019t be a shortage of Van Wert Cougars at this week\u2019s state track and field meet in Columbus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 4&#215;400 meter relay team of Trey Laudick, Nate Phillips, Gage Springer and Connor Pratt won the Division II regional championship at Piqua on Saturday, finishing with a time of 3:23.89. The 4&#215;200 team of Pratt, Phillips, Nate Jackson and Trey Laudick claimed a regional title as well, winning in 1:29.83. They\u2019ll join the 4&#215;800 team (Gage Wannemacher, Laudick, Springer, Hunter Sherer), who won the regional title on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, Laudick finished fifth in the 400 meter dash (50.38) and claimed an at-large spot at the state meet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not to be outdone, the girls 4&#215;200 team of Kendra Deehring, Macy Johnson, Danesha Branson and Sofi Houg won the regional championship in a school record time of 1:44.61. Deehring also advanced in the 100 meter dash by placing fourth (12.86), and Mia Rager moved on to state in the long jump with a third place finish (16-05).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cougars finished fourth among boys teams and the girls placed 11th out of 42 teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The state track and field meet will be held June 3-4 at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent sports PIQUA &#8212; There won\u2019t be a shortage of Van Wert Cougars at this week\u2019s state track and field meet in Columbus. The 4&#215;400 meter relay team of Trey Laudick, Nate Phillips, Gage Springer and Connor Pratt won the Division II regional championship at Piqua on Saturday, finishing with a time of 3:23.89. [&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-154702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-06 17:06:59","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\/154702","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=154702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154703,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154702\/revisions\/154703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}