{"id":200732,"date":"2025-12-18T21:35:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T02:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=200732"},"modified":"2025-12-18T21:35:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T02:35:40","slug":"cougar-wrestlers-win-big-over-bath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/12\/18\/cougar-wrestlers-win-big-over-bath\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougar wrestlers win big over Bath"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent sports\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIMA &#8212; Van Wert had no trouble with Bath, posting a big 69-12 WBL wrestling victory over the Wildcats on Thursday. The Cougars were led by senior Briggs Wallace who came away with a fall in 1:19 over his opponent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Individual results are as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>106 &#8211; Alianna Estrada (VW) forfeit\u00a06-0 VW<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>113 &#8211; Owen Bates (V) forfeit 2-0 VW<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>120 &#8211; Eli Jamison (B) fall 2:29 over Jillian Sempkowski (VW) 12-6 VW<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>126 &#8211; Heath Calvelage (VW) forfeit 18-6 VW<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>132 &#8211; Ryan Wallace (VW) fall 1:25 over Greyson Marstellar\u00a0(B) 24-6 VW<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>138 &#8211; Roman Martin (VW) fall :40 over Bentley Matthewson (B)\u00a030-6 VW<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>144 &#8211; Tristan Theibaut (VW) fall 1:40 over Jonathon Espinoza (B)\u00a0 36-6 VW<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>150 &#8211; Carter Bledsoe (VW) fall 3:24 over Sonny Owczarzak (B)\u00a042-6 VW<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>157 &#8211; Briggs Wallace (VW) fall 1:19 over Ethan Boulis\u00a048-6 (B) VW<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>165 &#8211; Bentley Webb (B) fall 1:18 over Devon Burker (VW) 48-12 VW<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>175 &#8211; Phillip Burker (VW) 15-12 OT decision over Carson Music (B)\u00a051-12 VW<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>190 &#8211; Auston Welker (VW) forfeit\u00a057-12 VW<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>215 &#8211; Max Heuerman (VW) forfeit\u00a063-12 VW<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>285 &#8211; Breese Bollenbacher (VW) forfeit\u00a069-12 VW<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cougars will return to action December 29-30 at the Defiance Tri-State Border Wars at Defiance High School.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent sports\/submitted information LIMA &#8212; Van Wert had no trouble with Bath, posting a big 69-12 WBL wrestling victory over the Wildcats on Thursday. The Cougars were led by senior Briggs Wallace who came away with a fall in 1:19 over his opponent. Individual results are as follows: The Cougars will return to action [&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-200732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 22:15:11","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\/200732","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=200732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200733,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200732\/revisions\/200733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}