{"id":201192,"date":"2026-01-04T21:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T02:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=201192"},"modified":"2026-01-04T21:39:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T02:39:11","slug":"cougars-vs-lancers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/01\/04\/cougars-vs-lancers-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougars vs. Lancers&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Xavier-Kelly-1-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-201193\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Van Wert\u2019s Xavier Kelly (above) attempts a three pointer against Lincolnview, while Zach Crummey (23) and Xander Coil (3) find themselves surrounded by defenders during Saturday\u2019s game. <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\/2026\/01\/Zach-Crummey-II-1-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-201194\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Zander-Coil-1-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-201195\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert\u2019s Xavier Kelly (above) attempts a three pointer against Lincolnview, while Zach Crummey (23) and Xander Coil (3) find themselves surrounded by defenders during Saturday\u2019s game. 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-201192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-06 23:48:53","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\/201192","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=201192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201196,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201192\/revisions\/201196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}