{"id":197059,"date":"2025-09-13T00:23:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T05:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=197059"},"modified":"2025-09-13T00:23:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T05:23:20","slug":"football-friday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/09\/13\/football-friday-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Football Friday night&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Xavier-Kelly-II-9-12-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-197060\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Van Wert\u2019s Xavier Kelly (11) runs away from the Celina defense during Friday night\u2019s WBL game at Cougar Alumni Field at Eggerss Stadium. Unfortunately, after falling behind early, the Cougars lost the game in overtime 38-37. Meanwhile, Crestview\u2019s Braxton Leeth ran for over 300 yards and seven touchdowns and the Knights beat Fort Loramie 55-38. Complete game stories can be found on the Sports page. <em>Bob Barnes\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert\u2019s Xavier Kelly (11) runs away from the Celina defense during Friday night\u2019s WBL game at Cougar Alumni Field at Eggerss Stadium. Unfortunately, after falling behind early, the Cougars lost the game in overtime 38-37. Meanwhile, Crestview\u2019s Braxton Leeth ran for over 300 yards and seven touchdowns and the Knights beat Fort Loramie 55-38. [&hellip;]<\/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-197059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 04:48:16","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\/197059","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=197059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197061,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197059\/revisions\/197061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}