{"id":154814,"date":"2022-06-03T20:40:52","date_gmt":"2022-06-04T01:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=154814"},"modified":"2022-06-03T20:40:53","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T01:40:53","slug":"cougar-relay-teams-advance-to-the-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2022\/06\/03\/cougar-relay-teams-advance-to-the-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougar relay teams advance to the finals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>COLUMBUS &#8212; Day No. 1 of the OHSAA track and field state meet saw a pair of Van Wert relay teams qualify for the finals at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Division II preliminaries, the girls 4&#215;200 meter team of Kendra Deehring, Macy Johnson, Danesha Branson and Sofi Houg broke a school record set at last week\u2019s regionals by finishing third in 1:44.57. The previous record was 1:44.61.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The boys 4&#215;400 meter relay team (Trey Laudick, Nate Phillips, Nate Jackson and Connor Pratt) finished fifth with a time of 3:23.68 and advanced to Saturday\u2019s finals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deehring finished ninth in Friday\u2019s 100 meter preliminaries (personal record 12.66).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The boys 4&#215;200 team (Pratt, Phillips, Jackson, Laudick) ended the season by finishing sixth in their heat (1:30.38). In addition, the 4&#215;800 team finished 11th (Gage Wannemacher, Rylan Miller, Laudick, Hunter Sherer, 8:13.20).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Division III, Lincolnview\u2019s Daegan Hatfield finished his career with a 10th place finish in the high jump (6-2) while the 4&#215;800 team of Kreston Tow, Jackson Robinson, Conner Baldauf, Hatfield) finished 11th with a time of 8:20.17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent sports COLUMBUS &#8212; Day No. 1 of the OHSAA track and field state meet saw a pair of Van Wert relay teams qualify for the finals at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium. In the Division II preliminaries, the girls 4&#215;200 meter team of Kendra Deehring, Macy Johnson, Danesha Branson and Sofi Houg broke a [&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-154814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-09 21:40:01","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\/154814","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=154814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154815,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154814\/revisions\/154815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}