{"id":196962,"date":"2025-09-10T20:44:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T01:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=196962"},"modified":"2025-09-10T20:44:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T01:44:05","slug":"area-teams-run-at-grandstand-invite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/09\/10\/area-teams-run-at-grandstand-invite\/","title":{"rendered":"Area teams run at Grandstand Invite"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent sports\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Crestview had five runners in the top 10 at the Grandstand Invite held at the Van Wert County Fairgrounds on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Derek Young was the individual runner-up with a time of 10:09.6, while Kale Vining finished third overall in 10:14.7. Teammates Hudson Perrott and Lincoln Smith (both 10:30.4) finished 7-8 and Andrew Heth placed 10<sup>th<\/sup> (10:46.4). The individual champion was Columbus Grove\u2019s Caiden Squillante, who logged a time of 10:04.5 in the 2-mile race, and the Bulldogs won the team title by finishing with 25 points. Crestview was second (30), followed by Lincolnview (71), Van Wert (101), Parkway (145) and Elida (161).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Led by Max Hammons, Lincolnview had five runners place 11-17, with Hammons finishing with a time of 10:48.1. Zander Coil placed 12<sup>th<\/sup> (10:54.3), followed by Aaron Sawyer (15<sup>th<\/sup>, 11:03.7), Noah Peters (16<sup>th<\/sup>, 11:04.9) and Kale Kundert (17<sup>th<\/sup>, 11:05).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert was led by Johan Gemmer, who finished 14<sup>th<\/sup> overall (11:02.5). Isaak Castillo and Owen Bates finished 19-20 with times of 11:09.8 and 11:15.2, followed by Calvin Byrum (22<sup>nd<\/sup>, 11:27.9) and Wyatt Scott (28<sup>th<\/sup>, 11:48.3).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the girls\u2019 side, Crestview, Lincolnview and Van Wert had the top three finishers in Tuesday\u2019s 2-mile race, and the Cougars won the team title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Crestview freshman Emily Heth won the individual title with a time of 12:04.9), followed by Lincolnview\u2019s Brynleigh Moody (12:09.3) and Van Wert\u2019s Symphony Schuerman (12:11.6).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cougar Noelle Byrum finished fifth overall (12:28.6) and was followed by teammates Ruby Dicke (12:56.6), Jasleen Sharma (13:05.8), Faith Stoller (13:45.6) and Harmony Schuerman (13:51.2) as Van Wert edged Lincolnview for the title 48-50.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After Heth, Crestview\u2019s top finishers were Anna Gardner (12:50.5), MacKenzie Harting (14:20.5), Ava Motycka (16:36.4) and Marlee Temple (16:49), and after Moody, Lincolnview was led by Keira Breese (12:55.2), Josie Miller (13:10.5), Kendall Hoffman (13:11) and Harper Reindel (13:11.1).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After Van Wert and Lincolnview, Columbus Grove finished third in the team standings with 65 points, followed by Parkway (111), Crestview (117), Elida (158) and Kalida (178).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent sports\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Crestview had five runners in the top 10 at the Grandstand Invite held at the Van Wert County Fairgrounds on Tuesday. Derek Young was the individual runner-up with a time of 10:09.6, while Kale Vining finished third overall in 10:14.7. Teammates Hudson Perrott and Lincoln Smith (both 10:30.4) finished 7-8 and Andrew [&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-196962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 10:06:07","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\/196962","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=196962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196963,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196962\/revisions\/196963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}