{"id":155835,"date":"2022-07-08T03:44:01","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T08:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=155835"},"modified":"2022-07-08T04:35:41","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T09:35:41","slug":"cougars-hang-on-against-delphos-st-johns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2022\/07\/08\/cougars-hang-on-against-delphos-st-johns\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougars hang on against Blue Jays"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ELIDA &#8212; No. 1 seed Van Wert withstood a late surge by Delphos St. John\u2019s to win Thursday\u2019s Acme district semifinal 3-2 at Elida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cougars led 3-0 entering the bottom of the seventh but the Blue Jays quickly loaded the bases and scored on one-out back-to-back RBI singles by Brayden Pohlman and Brayden Conley. The hit by Conley put runners at the corners, but Luke Wessell, who came to relieve starting pitcher TJ Stoller was able to record the final two hours and preserve the victory for Van Wert (16-1).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Kaden-Shaffer-7-7-2022.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-155836\"\/><figcaption>Van Wert&#8217;s Kaden Shaffer slides in safely during Thursday&#8217;s game against Delphos St. John&#8217;s. <em>Photo courtesy of Eric McCracken<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Stoller pitched 6 1\/3 innings and had a no hitter going into the seventh. In addition to giving up a pair of hits in the final frame, he struck out seven and walked just one and earned the win. Wessell pitched the remaining 2\/3 inning and tossed just five pitches to earn the save.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cougars plated a pair of runs in the second on consecutive RBI singles by Sam Houg and Kaydin Doner, scoring Stoller and Kaden Shaffer. Blake Bohyer scored on a wild pitch in the top of the third.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Briston Wise accounted for two of Van Wert\u2019s six hits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cougars are scheduled to play either the Blue Jays or Elida at 1 p.m. Saturday, with the winner claiming the district title. Delphos St. John\u2019s and the Bulldogs are scheduled to play at 6 tonight. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent sports ELIDA &#8212; No. 1 seed Van Wert withstood a late surge by Delphos St. John\u2019s to win Thursday\u2019s Acme district semifinal 3-2 at Elida. The Cougars led 3-0 entering the bottom of the seventh but the Blue Jays quickly loaded the bases and scored on one-out back-to-back RBI singles by Brayden Pohlman [&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-155835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 08:43:41","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\/155835","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=155835"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155845,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155835\/revisions\/155845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}