{"id":188574,"date":"2025-01-17T07:10:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T12:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=188574"},"modified":"2025-01-17T07:10:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T12:10:56","slug":"cougar-wrestlers-fall-to-wapakoneta-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/01\/17\/cougar-wrestlers-fall-to-wapakoneta-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougar wrestlers fall to Wapakoneta"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

It was a tough night for Van Wert wrestlers, as Wapakoneta defeated the Cougars 54-15 in WBL dual meet action at Van Wert High School on Thursday. Van Wert\u2019s lone wins on the mat came at 215 and 285 pounds. Results are listed below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

106 – Zane Russell (W) forfeit                                                   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

113 – Urijah Cordray (W) pinned (1:38) Heath Calvelage (VW)   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

120 – Carson Pummell (W) tech fall 20-4 over Ryan Wallace (VW) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

126 – Caden Mellott (W) pinned (1:28) Tristan Hoehn (VW)       <\/p>\n\n\n\n

132 – Gavin Ridenour (W) pinned (1:54) Renson Spear (VW)     <\/p>\n\n\n\n

138 – Lane Fisher (W) tech fall 17-1 over Roman Martin (VW)   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

144 – Briggs Wallace (VW) 5-2 decision over Gauge Vaughn (W)       <\/p>\n\n\n\n

150 – Keyno Mendez (W) tech fall 18-1 over Phillip Burker (VW)   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

157 – Cash Benshoff (W) maj. dec. 8-0 over Alex Benner (VW)     <\/p>\n\n\n\n

165 – Dawson Ware (W) tech fall 19-1 over Auston Welker (VW)   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

175 – Wyatt Buell (W) pinned (1:35) Max Heuerman (VW)             <\/p>\n\n\n\n

190 – Double forfeit                                                                         <\/p>\n\n\n\n

215 – Ben Verville (VW) pinned (1:27) Hunter Byrd (W)                 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

285 – Breese Bollenbacher (VW) pinned (3:52) over Johnny Carnes (W)   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Girls result<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

115 – Jillian Sempkowski (VW) pinned (1:56) Eliza Lawrence (W)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Cougars are back in action at the Celina Lions Invitational on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VW independent sports\/submitted information It was a tough night for Van Wert wrestlers, as Wapakoneta defeated the Cougars 54-15 in WBL dual meet action at Van Wert High School on Thursday. Van Wert\u2019s lone wins on the mat came at 215 and 285 pounds. Results are listed below. 106 – Zane Russell (W) forfeit    […]<\/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-188574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 01:30:47","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\/188574","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=188574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188575,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188574\/revisions\/188575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}