{"id":18666,"date":"2012-01-06T05:47:15","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T10:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=18666"},"modified":"2012-01-06T06:00:33","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T11:00:33","slug":"cougar-girls-knock-off-kenton-wildcats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2012\/01\/06\/cougar-girls-knock-off-kenton-wildcats\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougar girls knock off Kenton Wildcats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Van Wert independent sports<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was all tied up at the end of one quarter, but the Van Wert Lady Cougars pulled away after that to beat Kenton 51-36 in a Western Buckeye League match-up in the Cougar\u2019s Den on Thursday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18667\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18667\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-18667\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/?attachment_id=18667\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18667 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/VW-girls-vs.-Kenton-2012-A.-Morrow.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"380\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18667\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lady Cougar Alex Morrow fights for a basket against Kenton on Thursday. (Jan Dunlap\/Van Wert independent)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Lady Wildcats matched baskets with Van Wert for the first quarter, which ended in a 12-12 tie. But the Cougars upped the defensive and offensive intensity to outscore Kenton 15-9 in the second stanza and go up by six points, 27-21, at the half.<\/p>\n<p>In the third quarter, Van Wert only scored 11 points, but held the Wildcats to 8, adding to their lead for a nine-point advantage, 38-29, at the three-quarter mark. The key statistic: the Cougars shot well at the charity stripe during the game and also went to the line a lot more times than Kenton, making 19 of 26 free throws to provide the margin of victory. Kenton was 2 of 7 from the free throw line.<\/p>\n<p>Van Wert nearly doubled the score on the Wildcats in the final quarter, outpointing them 13-7 for the victory.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Morrow again led the Cougars with 12 points, while freshman Alexis Dowdy added 11 points for the Cougars. Kenton\u2019s Jackie Stalder led all scorers with 18 points.<\/p>\n<p>With the win, Van Wert is now 6-4 on the year and 3-1 in league play. The Wildcats are 1-3 in the WBL and 5-4 overall.<\/p>\n<p>The Cougar junior varsity team also won, 44-35, and is now 7-3 overall on the year. Jenna Weigle led the JVs with 11 points.<\/p>\n<p>Van Wert will next play Saturday evening at Fort Jennings. Start time is 1 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-18668\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/?attachment_id=18668\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18668\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/VW-girls-vs.-Kenton-2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"148\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent sports It was all tied up at the end of one quarter, but the Van Wert Lady Cougars pulled away after that to beat Kenton 51-36 in a Western Buckeye League match-up in the Cougar\u2019s Den on Thursday. The Lady Wildcats matched baskets with Van Wert for the first quarter, which ended [&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-18666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-03 10:30:01","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\/18666","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=18666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}