{"id":19794,"date":"2012-01-27T05:07:20","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T10:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=19794"},"modified":"2012-01-27T05:07:20","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T10:07:20","slug":"cougar-girls-lose-wbl-contest-to-celina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2012\/01\/27\/cougar-girls-lose-wbl-contest-to-celina\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougar girls lose WBL contest to Celina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DAVE MOSIER\/<\/strong><em>independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Van Wert Cougars got off to a slow start against Celina and never caught up, losing to the Lady Bulldogs 59-49 in a Western Buckeye League game played in the Cougar\u2019s Den.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19796\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19796\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-19796\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/?attachment_id=19796\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19796 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/VW-girls-vs.-Celina-1-2012-Dowdy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"445\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19796\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Van Wert&#039;s Alexis Dowdy (30) tries to push to the basket against a Celina defender during Thursday night&#039;s Western Buckeye League contest won by the Bulldogs, 59-49. (Jan Dunlap\/Van Wert independent)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Celina led 12-4 at the end of the first quarter, but the Cougars rallied a bit in the second period, outscoring the Lady \u2018Dogs 12-11 to trail by seven points, 23-16, at the half.<\/p>\n<p>Celina went on a 16-12 run in the third quarter to push its lead to 11, 39-28, heading in to the final stanza. Both teams played about even in the fourth period, with the Cougars outpointing Celina 21-20 in the quarter for the final score.<\/p>\n<p>Free-throw shooting was an important factor in the fame, with the Lady Bulldogs making 26 of 31 (83.8 percent) versus 17 of 23 for Van Wert (73.9 percent).<\/p>\n<p>Kylee Bader led the scoring for both teams with 21 points, including an 8-of-8 performance at the free-throw line. Emily Bihn scored 11 for Celina, while Taylor Guingrich added 10 points.<\/p>\n<p>Molly Gamble and Alexis Dowdy led the Cougars with 13 points apiece.<\/p>\n<p>With the loss, Van Wert drops to 8-8 overall and 3-3 in league play. Celina is now 5-1 in the WBL and 11-3 overall.<\/p>\n<p>The Van Wert junior varsity team continued its winning ways, beating the Bulldog JVs 36-31. The Cougars had balanced scoring with four players scoring 6 points apiece to lead the team, which is now 12-4 overall.<\/p>\n<p>Van Wert will next host non-conference foe Lima Central Catholic on Monday, January 30, starting at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-19795\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/?attachment_id=19795\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19795\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/VW-girls-vs.-Celina-1-2012-boxscore.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"142\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAVE MOSIER\/independent sports The Van Wert Cougars got off to a slow start against Celina and never caught up, losing to the Lady Bulldogs 59-49 in a Western Buckeye League game played in the Cougar\u2019s Den. Celina led 12-4 at the end of the first quarter, but the Cougars rallied a bit in the second [&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-19794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 00:28:05","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\/19794","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=19794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}