{"id":169778,"date":"2023-09-05T03:44:26","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T08:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=169778"},"modified":"2023-09-05T03:44:27","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T08:44:27","slug":"runners-compete-at-col-grove-invite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2023\/09\/05\/runners-compete-at-col-grove-invite\/","title":{"rendered":"Runners compete at Col. Grove Invite"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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COLUMBUS — Local runners turned in top performances at the always tough Columbus Grove Cross Country Invitational on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the varsity Red division, Van Wert\u2019s Owen Scott finished as the runner-up to Ottawa-Glandorf\u2019s Ty Rosengarten. Rosengarten spanned the 5K course in 16.04.17, with Scott right behind at 16:06.87.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Van Wert\u2019s Drew Laudick placed 16th (17.04.61), followed by John Kramer (19th, 17:07.77), Rylan Miller (30th, 17:36.33) and Johan Gemmer (52nd, 18:15.25). As a team, the Cougars finished third behind Toledo St. Francis and Liberty-Benton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Lady Cougars finished 10th out of 15 teams and were led by Alyssa Knittle, who finished 36th (22:20.04).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Gray division, the Lincolnview boys placed third behind West Liberty Salem and Maplewood, while Crestview finished eighth. On the girls\u2019 side, Lincolnview finished fourth and Crestview 11th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Lancers were led by Conner Baldauf, who placed third (16:06.43) and Evan Johns (9th, 16:35.85). Crestview was paced by Lincoln Smith, who finished 39th (18:09).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brynleigh Moody led the Lady Lancers with a fourth place finish (19:37.49) and Ava Milligan (6th, 19:47.30). Ava Gardner led Crestview with a 31st place finish and a time of 21:56.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VW independent sports COLUMBUS — Local runners turned in top performances at the always tough Columbus Grove Cross Country Invitational on Saturday. In the varsity Red division, Van Wert\u2019s Owen Scott finished as the runner-up to Ottawa-Glandorf\u2019s Ty Rosengarten. Rosengarten spanned the 5K course in 16.04.17, with Scott right behind at 16:06.87. Van Wert\u2019s Drew […]<\/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-169778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 06:13:27","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\/169778","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=169778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169779,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169778\/revisions\/169779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}