The YMCA of Van Wert County is partnering with the Fort Wayne, Ind., Mad Ants for \u201cVan Wert YMCA Mad Ants Night\u201d on Sunday, February 12, starting at 6 p.m. at the Memorial Coliseum.<\/p>\n
Those who buy tickets for this game through the Y or online at www.wepay.com\/tickets\/vanwertymca<\/a> will get discounted tickets — $7.50 for Upper Level Sideline (regularly $10) and $14.50 Lower Level (regularly $20); a chance to meet the Chicago Bulls mascot, Benny the Bull, who will be performing at half-time; and a free basketball clinic with Mad Ants players and coaches on Tuesday, February 7. A portion of each ticket sold will also be contributed to the Van Wert Y.<\/p>\n The free basketball clinic for those who buy tickets will be held as follows: children 4 years of age through second grade will held from 6-7 p.m. and those in grades 3-6 will go from 7-8 p.m.\u00a0 The Mad Ants coaching staff and players will run Y ball players through a series of basketball drills and be available for autographs\/pictures afterward.<\/p>\n Ticket orders must be placed at the Y or online at the above website by Tuesday, January 31, in order to get these great deals.<\/p>\n Information about this and other programs available at the Y can be found by calling 419.238.0443, visiting the YM website at www.vwymca.org<\/a> or emailing mitch@vwymca.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n The YMCA of Van Wert County is partially funded by The Van Wert County Foundation and United Way of Van Wert County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The YMCA of Van Wert County is partnering with the Fort Wayne, Ind., Mad Ants for \u201cVan Wert YMCA Mad Ants Night\u201d on Sunday, February 12, starting at 6 p.m. at the Memorial Coliseum. Those who buy tickets for this game through the Y or online at www.wepay.com\/tickets\/vanwertymca will get discounted tickets — $7.50 for […]<\/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-19570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-02 13:56:50","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\/19570","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=19570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}