{"id":188645,"date":"2025-01-19T21:59:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T02:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=188645"},"modified":"2025-01-21T00:33:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T05:33:22","slug":"188645","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/01\/19\/188645\/","title":{"rendered":"Scoop to the hoop!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Keaten-Welch-1-2025-e1737437570529.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-188646\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Van Wert\u2019s Keaten Welch (5) drives to the basket during Saturday\u2019s game against Bryan. Welch finished with 20 points, including 10 consecutive points to end the first quarter and the beginning of the second quarter, and the Cougars wrapped up a weekend sweep with a 57-47 win over the Golden Bears. Teammates Zach Crummey (23) and Cohen Bragg (24) also contributed to the win. A game recap can be found on the Sports page. <em>Bob Barnes\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert\u2019s Keaten Welch (5) drives to the basket during Saturday\u2019s game against Bryan. Welch finished with 20 points, including 10 consecutive points to end the first quarter and the beginning of the second quarter, and the Cougars wrapped up a weekend sweep with a 57-47 win over the Golden Bears. Teammates Zach Crummey (23) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 03:18:11","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\/188645","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=188645"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188715,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188645\/revisions\/188715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}