{"id":172790,"date":"2023-11-17T22:26:15","date_gmt":"2023-11-18T03:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=172790"},"modified":"2023-11-17T22:26:17","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T03:26:17","slug":"teams-move-on-to-state-semifinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2023\/11\/17\/teams-move-on-to-state-semifinals\/","title":{"rendered":"Teams move on to state semifinals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several area high school football teams are state bound after claiming regional championships on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Division III Region 12, No. 6 seed Celina (12-2) upset No. 1 seed Hamilton Badin (13-1) 37-25. The Bulldogs will face Columbus Bishop Watterson (13-1) in the Division III state semifinals in Xenia on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Columbus Grove (12-2) claimed a second consecutive Division VI Region 22 championship by holding off Bluffton (12-2) in a rematch, 17-10, in Findlay. The Bulldogs also defeated the Pirates 14-7 in the regular season finale. Columbus Grove will face Versailles (12-2) at Wapakoneta on Friday. The Tigers defeated Anna 31-14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Division VII, Region 28, defending state champion Marion Local (14-0) scored 41 points in the second half and claimed a 48-0 win over Ansonia (13-1). The Flyers will face Patrick Henry (12-2) in Friday\u2019s state semifinals in Lima. The Patriots held off McComb 40-38.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coldwater\u2019s season came to an end with a 17-7 loss to Liberty Center in the Division V Region 18 finals at Lima.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent sports Several area high school football teams are state bound after claiming regional championships on Friday. In Division III Region 12, No. 6 seed Celina (12-2) upset No. 1 seed Hamilton Badin (13-1) 37-25. The Bulldogs will face Columbus Bishop Watterson (13-1) in the Division III state semifinals in Xenia on Friday. Columbus [&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-172790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-11 01:58:02","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\/172790","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=172790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172791,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172790\/revisions\/172791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}