{"id":187668,"date":"2024-12-19T22:19:18","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T03:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=187668"},"modified":"2024-12-19T22:19:18","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T03:19:18","slug":"cougar-grapplers-fall-to-celina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2024\/12\/19\/cougar-grapplers-fall-to-celina\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougar grapplers fall to Celina"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a rough night for Van Wert wrestlers, as the Cougars lost to Celina 60-15 at home on Thursday. Owen Bates, Renson Spear and Briggs Wallace won their matches for the Cougars (2-1 WBL).&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>285 &#8211; Cash Patrick (C) 3-2 OT decision over Breese Bollenbacher&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>106 &#8211; Owen Bates (VW) pin in 1:22 over Issac Helmer &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>113 &#8211; Josiah King (C) pin in 1:57 over Jillian Sempkowski&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>120 &#8211; Leland Dross (C) pin in 3:12 over Ryan Wallace&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>126 &#8211; Kristoff Melendrez (C) Fall 2:50 over Tristan Hoehn&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>132 &#8211; Renson Spear (VW) 15-13 decision over Aaren King&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>138 &#8211; Payton Staugler (C) 16-1 technical fall over Carter Bledsoe&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>144 &#8211; Briggs Wallace (VW) pin in 2:30 over Zach Colobong&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>150 &#8211; Noah Russell (C) 18-2 technical fall over Phillip Burker&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>157 &#8211; Luke Maxwell (C) 19-1 technical fall over Gavin Baker&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>165 &#8211; Kahne Shaffer (C) pin in 4:40 over Auston Welker&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>175 &#8211; Wes Gerber (C) pin in 2:33 over Max Heuerman&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>190 &#8211; Anthony Nuding (C) forfeit&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>215 &#8211; Carter Ly (C) pin in 3:45 over Ben Verville&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cougars will return to action December 27-28 at the Tri-State Border Wars hosted by Defiance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent sports It was a rough night for Van Wert wrestlers, as the Cougars lost to Celina 60-15 at home on Thursday. Owen Bates, Renson Spear and Briggs Wallace won their matches for the Cougars (2-1 WBL).&nbsp;&nbsp; 285 &#8211; Cash Patrick (C) 3-2 OT decision over Breese Bollenbacher&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 106 &#8211; Owen [&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-187668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-09 03:19:43","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\/187668","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=187668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187669,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187668\/revisions\/187669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}