{"id":171655,"date":"2023-10-23T03:52:50","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T08:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=171655"},"modified":"2023-10-23T03:53:40","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T08:53:40","slug":"scott-leads-cougar-boys-to-regionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2023\/10\/23\/scott-leads-cougar-boys-to-regionals\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott leads Cougar boys to regionals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

COLUMBUS GROVE — Gas up the bus \u2013 Van Wert\u2019s boys\u2019 cross country team is headed to regional competition in Tiffin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Cougars finished as the runner-up to Bryan and had the individual runner-up during Saturday\u2019s Division II district meet at Columbus Grove. The Golden Bears won the team title with 61 points, while Van Wert finished with 69 points. Defiance was a distant third with 119 points, followed by Celina (123) and Ottawa-Glandorf (129). The remaining finishes, 6-11, were Wauseon (140), St. Marys Memorial (190), Bath (192), Coldwater (198), Napoleon (254) and Kenton (254). Napoelon won the 10th place tiebreaker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Owen Scott (left) and Drew Laudick (middle) were among the leaders in Saturday’s district race. Photo courtesy of Monica Campbell<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHeading into districts this week we felt if our boys ran solid we could advance as a team,\u201d Van Wert head coach Kimberly Laudick said. \u201cI feel like our boys collectively put together one of their best races of the season despite some illness within our team.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ottawa-Glandorf junior Ty Rosengarten won the individual title with a time of 15:47.29. Van Wert junior Owen Scott was the runner-up with a personal record time of 15:49.99.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teammate John Kramer finished 11th overall (16:57.26) and Drew Laudick finished 13th (17:06.45). Harrison Sloan (21st, 17:32.06) and Rylan Miller (22nd, 17:34.77) rounded out the scoring for the Cougars. Johan Gemmer finished 27th (17:50.36) and Noah Spath recorded a 34th place finish (18:11.42).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe had four of our seven runners run season-best times,\u201d Laudick stated. \u201cOwen ran a lifetime best of 15.49.99, John finally broke into the 16\u2019s by running a lifetime best 16:57.26. He has been so close to doing this and I\u2019m so happy he crossed that threshold. Harrison Sloan really stepped up for our team today and ran a 25 second personal record and even though he didn\u2019t score for us, I thought Noah Spath had a great race and a lifetime best time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Division II regionals will be held at Hedges-Boyer Park in Tiffin, with the boys slated to run at 12:45 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll run in a very tough Tiffin regional but with a very solid week of practice we feel confident if we do our job we will put ourselves into the mix to qualify some individuals for state, but more importantly, the whole team,” Laudick said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The season came to an end for the Lady Cougars on Saturday. The girls finished seventh overall with 153 team points. Ottawa-Glandorf easily won the team title (32 points), followed by Kenton (82), Bryan (84), Napoleon (109), Celina (152), Defiance (152, tiebreaker won by Celina), Van Wert, Wauseon (197) and St. Marys Memorial (199).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alyssa Knittle led Van Wert with a 19th place finish (21:15.24), and Noelle Byrum placed 28th (22:00.00). Lizzie Spath (35th, 22:30.10), Harmony Schuerman (41st, 23:12.02), and Brenna Kimmet (55th, 24:38.05) rounded out the scoring for the Lady Cougars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe knew going into it we could be anywhere from fifth to seventh as a team but also knew anything can happen in tournament,\u201d Laudick said. \u201cOverall we saw more personal records and solid competitive performances from all the girls. They showed grit the entire race and continued to fight until the end.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although it wasn\u2019t in the cards to advance, I couldn\u2019t be more proud of the girls\u2019 determination and grace this entire season to do the best they could.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bryan\u2019s Kate Thormeier won the individual title with a time of 18:20.54.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent editor COLUMBUS GROVE — Gas up the bus \u2013 Van Wert\u2019s boys\u2019 cross country team is headed to regional competition in Tiffin. The Cougars finished as the runner-up to Bryan and had the individual runner-up during Saturday\u2019s Division II district meet at Columbus Grove. The Golden Bears won the team title with 61 […]<\/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-171655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-08 00:39:46","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\/171655","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=171655"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171708,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171655\/revisions\/171708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}