{"id":164518,"date":"2023-03-28T03:43:36","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T08:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=164518"},"modified":"2023-03-28T03:43:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T08:43:37","slug":"cougars-open-baseball-softball-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2023\/03\/28\/cougars-open-baseball-softball-seasons\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougars open baseball, softball seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Baseball<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Van Wert 10 Spencerville 0 (five innings)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TJ Stoller threw a perfect five inning game and the Cougars opened the 2023 season with a five inning 10-0 win over Spencerville at Smiley Park on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stoller struck out eight Bearcat batters and 44 of his 55 pitches were strikes. At the plate he had two hits, drove in three runs scored a pair of runs. Kaden Shaffer also had two hits, an RBI and scored two runs, while Luke Wessell, Conner Loughrie, Blake Bohyer and Sam Houg each drove in a run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The game was scoreless after two innings then the Cougars erupted for eight runs in the third, then added two more in the fifth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert (1-0) is scheduled to play at Lincolnview on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Softball<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Parkway 19 Van Wert 0 (five innings)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At Smiley Park, Parkway scored in each of the five innings and rolled to a 19-0 win in the season opener on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Panthers led 2-0 after the first inning then added four runs in the second, five in the third and fourth innings and three more in the fifth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brittyn Bruns, Madison Louth and Meg Henkle each drove in three runs for Parkway, while Paige Stephenson had two RBIs.Bruns and Louth each scored three runs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Parkway (1-0) will play at St. Marys Memorial today and Van Wert (0-1) is scheduled to play at Lincolnview on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent sports Baseball Van Wert 10 Spencerville 0 (five innings) TJ Stoller threw a perfect five inning game and the Cougars opened the 2023 season with a five inning 10-0 win over Spencerville at Smiley Park on Monday. Stoller struck out eight Bearcat batters and 44 of his 55 pitches were strikes. At the [&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-164518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-01 22:50:09","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\/164518","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=164518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164519,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164518\/revisions\/164519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}