{"id":191757,"date":"2025-04-11T20:37:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T01:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=191757"},"modified":"2025-04-11T20:38:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T01:38:04","slug":"baseball-softball-tennis-roundup-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/04\/11\/baseball-softball-tennis-roundup-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Baseball, softball, tennis roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Baseball<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Van Wert 5 Elida 1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert improved to 4-0 (1-0 WBL) in the Western Buckeye League opener with a 5-1 win over Elida on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three of Van Wert\u2019s runs came in the first inning. A two-out double by Briston Wise scored Griffin McCracken and Case Stegaman, then Cam Werts singled home Wise. In the fifth inning, Wise singled in Stegaman, then scored on a dropped third strike. Elida\u2019s lone run came on an error in the sixth inning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wise finished with a team high three hits and three RBIs, and pitched a complete game gem by striking out 15 Bulldog batters, walking one and allowing five hits. McCracken and Stegaman each had two hits for the Cougars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lincolnview 5 Perry 2<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIMA &#8212; Holden Price singled twice and the Lancers defeated Perry 5-2 on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Graham Kill earned the win on mound. The freshman right hander went five innings and allowed just two hits while striking out three and walking two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Softball<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Crestview 12 Fairview 11<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SHERWOOD &#8212; Crestview snapped a four-game losing streak with a 12-11 road win over Fairview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No game information was available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Elida 15 Van Wert 0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ELIDA &#8212; The Bulldogs shut out Van Wert 15-0 on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No game statistics were available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tennis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Elida 4 Van Wert 1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ELIDA &#8212; Van Wert dropped to 0-2 (0-1 WBL) with a 4-1 loss to Elida on Friday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent sports Baseball Van Wert 5 Elida 1 Van Wert improved to 4-0 (1-0 WBL) in the Western Buckeye League opener with a 5-1 win over Elida on Friday. Three of Van Wert\u2019s runs came in the first inning. A two-out double by Briston Wise scored Griffin McCracken and Case Stegaman, then Cam Werts [&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-191757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 11:24:36","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\/191757","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=191757"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191759,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191757\/revisions\/191759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}