{"id":157125,"date":"2022-08-22T03:40:08","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T08:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=157125"},"modified":"2022-08-22T03:40:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T08:40:08","slug":"monday-mailbag-wbl-prediction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2022\/08\/22\/monday-mailbag-wbl-prediction\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Mailbag: WBL, prediction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong><em>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week\u2019s limited Monday Mailbag features questions about WBL football teams in Week No. 1 and a preseason prediction,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Q: The WBL went 4-6 Friday night \u2013 does this mean the league will be down this year? Name withheld upon request<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>A: In my opinion, no. Van Wert, Defiance, Elida and St. Marys Memorial all posted wins, while Bath, Celina, Kenton, Ottawa-Glandorf, Shawnee and Wapakoneta lost their games.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Bath, Celina, Kenton and Wapakoneta all played MAC schools, which is always a tough matchup. Shawnee lost to highly regarded Lima Central Catholic and Ottawa-Glandorf lost to perennial power Eastwood. In other words, those were tough opening weekend matchups for anyone.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Q: Last week you said Van Wert could finish anywhere between 7-3 and 10-0 this season. Care to revise that after Friday\u2019s win over Bryan? Name withheld upon request<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>A: Not really. Friday\u2019s performance certainly was impressive and if the Cougars play like that each week, they have a real shot at 10-0. If they don\u2019t or if injuries start to mount, that could be trouble in league play.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have a sports question or comment for the next Monday Mailbag, please email it to <a href=\"mailto:sports@thevwindependent.com\">sports@thevwindependent.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent editor This week\u2019s limited Monday Mailbag features questions about WBL football teams in Week No. 1 and a preseason prediction, Q: The WBL went 4-6 Friday night \u2013 does this mean the league will be down this year? Name withheld upon request A: In my opinion, no. Van Wert, Defiance, Elida and St. [&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-157125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 05:05:17","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\/157125","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=157125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157126,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157125\/revisions\/157126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}