{"id":200215,"date":"2025-12-04T22:05:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T03:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=200215"},"modified":"2025-12-04T22:05:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T03:05:50","slug":"girls-hoops-cougars-fall-knights-win-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/12\/04\/girls-hoops-cougars-fall-knights-win-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Girls hoops: Cougars fall, Knights win"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kenton 44 Van Wert 29<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The home opener and WBL opener for Van Wert was a close one in the first half but Kenton pulled away  for a 44-29 win on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cougars trailed 11-8 after one quarter, with five of Van Wert\u2019s points coming from the foul line. Jazz Florence scored the only basket of the period, a three pointer. Kenton (3-1, 1-0 WBL) led 17-15 at halftime, then outscored the hosts 17-8 in the third quarter for a 34-23 lead. Sydney Payne scored seven of Kenton\u2019s third quarter points, then added six more in the final stanza and finished with a game high 14 points. Florence led Van Wert with 11 points, including three triples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert (0-3, 0-1 WBL) will return to action at Spencerville on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Crestview 62 Lima Central Catholic 11<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIMA &#8212; Crestview overwhelmed Lima Central Catholic in the Northwest Conference opener at Msgr. E.C. Herr Gymnasium, 62-11 on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lady Knights scored early and often and led 27-4 after the first quarter, with Kaci Gregory scoring 14 points on a pair of treys, two baskets and two foul scouts. Crestview extended the lead to 39-9 at halftime and 49-11 after three quarters. Much of the second half was played with a continuous clock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gregory led all scorers with 22 points, Lydia Grace added 10 points and Peyton Hoffman added eight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Crestview (2-1, 1-0 NWC) will host Fort Recovery on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent sports Kenton 44 Van Wert 29 The home opener and WBL opener for Van Wert was a close one in the first half but Kenton pulled away for a 44-29 win on Thursday. The Cougars trailed 11-8 after one quarter, with five of Van Wert\u2019s points coming from the foul line. Jazz Florence [&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-200215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 22:45:44","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\/200215","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=200215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200216,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200215\/revisions\/200216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}