{"id":182515,"date":"2024-08-15T21:05:09","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T02:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=182515"},"modified":"2024-08-15T21:05:10","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T02:05:10","slug":"mccracken-earns-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2024\/08\/15\/mccracken-earns-honor\/","title":{"rendered":"McCracken earns honor&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"544\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Griff-McCracken-8-15-2024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-182516\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Van Wert Cougars successfully opened the Western Buckeye League portion of their schedule at&nbsp;Willow Bend on Thursday. Led by Griff McCracken, the Cougars enjoyed a 19-stroke victory, 156-175, over the Bulldogs. McCracken was the match medalist after firing an excellent round of 38. Hayden Dowler and Keaton Foster each shot a 39 and Sam Houg was right behind with a 40. In addition, Brock Stoller shot a 45 and Zach Stoller a 48.&nbsp;The Cougars are 2-0 overall and 1-0 in the WBL.&nbsp;They\u2019ll return to action on Monday at Hidden Creak Golf&nbsp;Club as they take on the Bath Wildcats. <em>Photo courtesy of Mike Hernandez<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Van Wert Cougars successfully opened the Western Buckeye League portion of their schedule at&nbsp;Willow Bend on Thursday. Led by Griff McCracken, the Cougars enjoyed a 19-stroke victory, 156-175, over the Bulldogs. McCracken was the match medalist after firing an excellent round of 38. Hayden Dowler and Keaton Foster each shot a 39 and Sam [&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-182515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 12:37:42","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\/182515","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=182515"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182530,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182515\/revisions\/182530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}