{"id":200777,"date":"2025-12-19T23:43:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T04:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=200777"},"modified":"2025-12-19T23:44:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T04:44:00","slug":"cougars-win-in-ot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/12\/19\/cougars-win-in-ot\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougars win in OT!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"724\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Xavier-Kelly-12-2025-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-200778\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Xavier-Kelly-12-2025-1.jpg 550w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Xavier-Kelly-12-2025-1-456x600.jpg 456w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Xavier Kelly scored 10 points, including the game winner with a second left in overtime, and Van Wert snapped a two-game losing streak with an exciting 42-40 win over Bath (4-2, 1-1 WBL) at Bath High School Friday night. The Cougars led 12-11 after one quarter and 21-18 at halftime. The Wildcats rallied for a 29-27 lead after three quarters and the game was tied 40-40 at the end of regulation. Cohen Bragg led Van Wert with 11 points, while Bath\u2019s Logan Markley led all scorers with 17 points. Van Wert (4-2, 2-0 WBL) will play Holland Springfield at Defiance High School today (5:45 p.m.). <em>Photo courtesy of Monica Campbell<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xavier Kelly scored 10 points, including the game winner with a second left in overtime, and Van Wert snapped a two-game losing streak with an exciting 42-40 win over Bath (4-2, 1-1 WBL) at Bath High School Friday night. The Cougars led 12-11 after one quarter and 21-18 at halftime. The Wildcats rallied for a [&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-200777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-04 23:52:58","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\/200777","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=200777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200779,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200777\/revisions\/200779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}