{"id":190040,"date":"2025-02-25T07:29:48","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T12:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=190040"},"modified":"2025-02-25T07:29:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T12:29:49","slug":"cougars-place-three-on-all-wbl-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/02\/25\/cougars-place-three-on-all-wbl-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougars place three on All-WBL team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three Van Wert Cougars have been named to the All-WBL boys basketball team in balloting done by league coaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Freshman post player Zach Crummey, who averaged nearly 13 points and eight rebounds per game during the regular season was named second team All-WBL, while starting sophomore point guard Keaten Welch, who averaged 11 points per game for the Cougars, was named third team All-WBL. In addition, Van Wert\u2019s three-point specialist, junior guard Griff McCracken (nine points per game), earned honorable mention All-WBL accolades.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"399\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Zach-Crummey-2-9-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-189395\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Zach Crummey (23) has been named second team All-WBL. Two teammates, Keaten Welch and Griff McCracken also earned All-WBL honors. <em>Bob Barnes photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>League champion Shawnee and runner-up Elida dominated the first team. Shawee\u2019s Beckett Bertke and Trevick Bertke earned first team All-WBL honors, while Elida guards Zori Island and A\u2019mari Wash were named to the first team as well. Bath\u2019s Logan Markley and Defiance Kahlil Ligon round out the first team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beckett Bertke, who\u2019s averaging 21.2 points, 8.1 rebounds, and 4.3 assists per game, was named WBL Player of the Year, while Shawnee head coach Mark Triplett, who guided the Indians to a 20-2 (9-0 WBL) regular season mark was named Coach of the Year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>First team<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Logan Markley, Bath; Kahlil Ligon, Defiance; Zori Island, Elida; Amari Wash, Elida; Beckett Bertke, Shawnee; Trevick Bertke, Shawnee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0<strong>Second team<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jaxon Foster, Bath; Kaiden Werntz, Celina; Josiah Schlatter, Defiance; Grady Toumazos, Ottawa-Glandorf; Zach Crummey, Van Wert; Ryan Richardson, Wapakoneta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Third team<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Parker Crim, Elida; Brody Fortman, Ottawa-Glandorf; Tate Bender,Shawnee; Keaten Welch, Van Wert; Caleb Moyer, Wapakaoneta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Honorable mention<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jaden Ryan, Bath; Gavin Wicker, Celina; Logan Hutcheson, Defiance; Marcus Hill, Elida; Steven Piper, Kenton; Ross Maag, Ottawa-Glandorf; Jagger Hutchins, Shawnee; Alex Hoenie, St. Marys Memorial; Griffin McCracken, Van Wert; Blake Rogers, Wapakoneta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Player of the Year:<\/strong> Beckett Bertke, Shawnee<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Coach of the Year:<\/strong> Mark Triplett, Shawnee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent sports Three Van Wert Cougars have been named to the All-WBL boys basketball team in balloting done by league coaches. Freshman post player Zach Crummey, who averaged nearly 13 points and eight rebounds per game during the regular season was named second team All-WBL, while starting sophomore point guard Keaten Welch, who averaged [&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-190040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 21:20:30","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\/190040","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=190040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190041,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190040\/revisions\/190041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}