{"id":200971,"date":"2025-12-28T21:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T02:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=200971"},"modified":"2025-12-28T21:59:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T02:59:13","slug":"cougars-roar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/12\/28\/cougars-roar\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougars roar!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"467\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/VW-five-starters-12-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-200972\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Van Wert Cougars played their final game of 2025 Saturday night. Xavier Kelly (2), Keaten Welch (5), Griffin McCracken (3), Cohen Bragg (24) and Zach Crummey (behind Welch) proved to be too much for the Big Green to handle, as the Cougars rolled to a 63-32 victory and improved to 7-2 on the season. A game recap and more can be found on the Sports page. <em>Bob Barnes\/VW independent<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Van Wert Cougars played their final game of 2025 Saturday night. Xavier Kelly (2), Keaten Welch (5), Griffin McCracken (3), Cohen Bragg (24) and Zach Crummey (behind Welch) proved to be too much for the Big Green to handle, as the Cougars rolled to a 63-32 victory and improved to 7-2 on the season. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-01 16:23:42","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\/200971","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=200971"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200979,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200971\/revisions\/200979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}