{"id":192915,"date":"2025-05-16T20:58:57","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T01:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=192915"},"modified":"2025-05-18T11:21:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T16:21:25","slug":"cougars-set-records-at-wbl-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/05\/16\/cougars-set-records-at-wbl-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougars set records at WBL meet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong>independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

DEFIANCE — Ottawa-Glandorf swept the Western Buckeye League Track and Field Championships at Defiance High School on Friday. The Titans captured the girls\u2019 title in comfortable fashion with 137.75 team points, compared to 83 for runner-up Bath. On the boys\u2019 side, the Titans tallied 95.83 team points, while runner-up Defiance finished with 80 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe WBL per usual is loaded this year,\u201d Van Wert head coach Nate Hoverman said. \u201cO-G\u2019s boys and girls teams are well rounded and dominant. Top to bottom our league in track and field is incredible \u2013 great athletes who are well coached and performing at their best.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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Van Wert’s 4×800 relay team set a new WBL record of 7:59.21. Photo submitted<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Van Wert finished seventh on the boys\u2019 side (43 points) and fourth (50.75 points) on the girls\u2019 side. As has been the case throughout the season, the Cougars were led by distance runner Owen Scott, who shattered the existing WBL record in the 1600 meter run. He covered the 1-mile race in 4:14.92. The previous record was set by Jared Fleming (4:22.16) in 2013. Fleming passed away last Saturday.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scott also cruised to the individual championship in the 3200 meter run with a time of 9:33.66. Teammate Harrison Sloan finished fourth overall (10:27.47).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During Wednesday\u2019s portion of the meet, Scott and the 4×800 relay team (Andrew Laudick, Noah Spath, Evan Keuneke, Scott) also set a new WBL record, 7:59.21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Laudick finished third in the 800 meter run (2:01.56) behind Ottawa-Glandorf\u2019s Ty Rosengarten (2:00.17) and Masen Vogt (2:00.58).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur boys distance carried us tonight,\u201d Hoverman said. \u201cIt started on Wednesday with the 4×800 team and then carried over tonight with Owen Scott winning the 1600 and cruising to the 3200 title as well. Drew Laudick had a big night scoring in the 1600 and getting a big third place in the 800.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

On the girls\u2019 side, Claire Benner finished as the WBL champion in the shot put (33-07.00). Kendra Deehring was the runner-up in the 100 meter dash (12.89) behind Alivia Grothause of Ottawa-Glandorf (12.71), and the same duo finished 1-2 in the 200 meter dash (Grothause, 26.07; Deehring 27:03). Deehring also anchored the 4×200 relay team (Olivia Vaas, Vanessa Vaughn, Harper Roop, Scott) that finished as the runner-up (1:47.97) behind Ottawa-Glandorf (1:46.25), and Sophie Gearhart finished third in the pole vault and set a new school record (8-08).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cKendra again had a great night and our girls sprint relays ran very well,\u201d Hoverman said. \u201cOverall I thought the kids performed really well tonight. Claire winning the shot put and Sophie\u2019s third place finish in the pole vault really got us going. Those two seniors have done a great job in the field events all year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are really proud of our teams and are excited to start a tournament run next week,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Full results can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent sports DEFIANCE — Ottawa-Glandorf swept the Western Buckeye League Track and Field Championships at Defiance High School on Friday. The Titans captured the girls\u2019 title in comfortable fashion with 137.75 team points, compared to 83 for runner-up Bath. On the boys\u2019 side, the Titans tallied 95.83 team points, while runner-up Defiance finished with […]<\/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-192915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 20:10:49","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\/192915","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=192915"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192931,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192915\/revisions\/192931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}