{"id":200974,"date":"2025-12-28T21:46:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T02:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=200974"},"modified":"2025-12-28T21:46:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T02:46:46","slug":"cougars-win-again-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/12\/28\/cougars-win-again-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougars win again&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"359\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Griffin-McCracken-12-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-200975\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Van Wert\u2019s Griffin McCracken (above) leads the break during Saturday\u2019s boys varsity basketball game against Ottoville. Keaten Welch (5) tries to dribble by a defender and Zach Crummey (23) and Ottoville\u2019s Grady Leach (24) get tangled up while jockeying for the basketball. Van Wert won the game 63-32. <em>Bob Barnes\/VW independent<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Keaten-Welch-12-2025-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-200976\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Zach-Crummey-12-2025-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-200977\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert\u2019s Griffin McCracken (above) leads the break during Saturday\u2019s boys varsity basketball game against Ottoville. Keaten Welch (5) tries to dribble by a defender and Zach Crummey (23) and Ottoville\u2019s Grady Leach (24) get tangled up while jockeying for the basketball. Van Wert won the game 63-32. Bob Barnes\/VW 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-200974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 23:41:18","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\/200974","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=200974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200978,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200974\/revisions\/200978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}