{"id":177321,"date":"2024-03-26T03:46:01","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T08:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=177321"},"modified":"2024-03-26T03:46:02","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T08:46:02","slug":"roundup-tennis-baseball-softball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2024\/03\/26\/roundup-tennis-baseball-softball\/","title":{"rendered":"Roundup: tennis, baseball, softball"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

VW independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tennis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Van Wert 4 Ayersville 1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Cougars opened the 2024 season with a 4-1 victory over visiting Ayersville on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Van Wert won all three singles matches. At first singles, Keaton Foster defeated Lucas Dennie 6-0, 6-1 and at second singles, Aaron Reichert topped Cody Hammersmith 6-1, 6-1. Jaymison Moyniham won at third singles, posting a 6-1, 6-0 victory over Ashtyn Schierer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayersville\u2019s first doubles team defeated Caleb Bledsoe and Devon Story 1-6, 6-3, 6-1. The second doubles team of Fletcher Smith and Kaedyn Swander won by default.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was nice to go outside and play against someone other than ourselves for the first time this year,\u201d head coach Eli Alvarez said. \u201cAyersville was a good test for us. Coach Sobecki is laying a solid foundation with that program. There were a lot of positive takeaways from this match and we\u2019ll use everything we learned as a teaching moment for our kids as we get ready for WBL on Thursday at Kenton.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Baseball<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Van Wert 9 Spencerville 1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

SPENCERVILLE — Van Wert plated seven runs in the first inning and the Cougars went on to enjoy a 9-1 season opening victory at Spencerville on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hayden Davis doubled and drove in a pair of runs in the first inning, Sam Houg and Kaydin Doner had back-to-back RBI singles. Kaden Shaffer tripled and drove in Hayden Dowler in the third and the next batter, Briston Wise singled in Shaffer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shaffer, Davis and Houg each had two hits and Shaffer and Davis each finished with two RBIs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Houg pitched five innings and allowed just three hits while striking out nine and walking two. Dowler pitched the remaining two innings and didn\u2019t give up a hit while striking out two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Van Wert is scheduled to host Lincolnview on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Softball<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Archbold 7 Crestview 2<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CONVOY — The season opener didn\u2019t go as hoped for Crestview, as the Lady Knights lost to Archbold 7-2 on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Violet Dirr went 1-3 with two RBIs and Kaylee Mollenkopf also chipped in with a hit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crestview will host Miller City on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VW independent sports Tennis Van Wert 4 Ayersville 1 The Cougars opened the 2024 season with a 4-1 victory over visiting Ayersville on Monday. Van Wert won all three singles matches. At first singles, Keaton Foster defeated Lucas Dennie 6-0, 6-1 and at second singles, Aaron Reichert topped Cody Hammersmith 6-1, 6-1. Jaymison Moyniham won […]<\/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-177321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 07:39:13","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\/177321","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=177321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177322,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177321\/revisions\/177322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}