{"id":198228,"date":"2025-10-10T23:18:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T04:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=198228"},"modified":"2025-10-10T23:18:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T04:18:54","slug":"cougar-backfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/10\/10\/cougar-backfield\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougar backfield&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Zach-Crummey-10-10-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-198229\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Van Wert\u2019s Zach Crummey (above) keeps the ball and barrels through Ottawa-Glandorf tacklers, while Xavier Kelly scores a touchdown for the Cougars during Friday night\u2019s 38-20 homecoming win over the Titans. <em>Bob Barnes\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Xavier-Kelly-10-10-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-198230\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert\u2019s Zach Crummey (above) keeps the ball and barrels through Ottawa-Glandorf tacklers, while Xavier Kelly scores a touchdown for the Cougars during Friday night\u2019s 38-20 homecoming win over the Titans. Bob Barnes\/Van Wert independent<\/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-198228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-23 00:13:23","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\/198228","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=198228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198231,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198228\/revisions\/198231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}