{"id":201369,"date":"2026-01-08T22:21:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T03:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=201369"},"modified":"2026-01-08T22:21:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T03:21:31","slug":"knight-girls-win-cougars-and-lancers-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/01\/08\/knight-girls-win-cougars-and-lancers-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Knight girls win, Cougars and Lancers fall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Celina 46 Van Wert 21<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert trailed by just two after the opening quarter but Celina pulled away for a 46-21 win Thursday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cougars were down 9-7 after the first quarter, with Jazz Florence supplying four of Van Wert\u2019s points. Celina outscored the hosts 13-8 in the second quarter for a 22-15 halftime lead. The Bulldogs enjoyed a 24-6 scoring advantage in the second half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Florence led Van Wert with eight points. Celina\u2019s Brenna Korte led all scorers with 14 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert (0-12, 0-4 WBL) will host Paulding on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Crestview 51 Bluffton 44<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BLUFFTON &#8212; At Bluffton High School, Kaci Gregory and Haley McCoy each scored 15 points and Crestview snapped a four game losing streak with a 51-44 victory over the Pirates Thursday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Six of Gregory\u2019s points came in the third quarter and McCoy scored seven points in the final period. A big key was free throw shooting in the fourth quarter. Leading 36-32 to start the period, the Lady Knights converted 9-of-10 foul shots in the final stanza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Crestview (6-7, 1-2 NWC) will host Parkway on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Spencerville 41 Lincolnview 36<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SPENCERVILLE &#8212; The Bearcats defeated Lincolnview 41-36 on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spencerville (11-2, 3-0 NWC) will travel to St. Henry on Saturday and Lincolnview (5-8, 1-1 NWC) will head to Antwerp on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent sports Celina 46 Van Wert 21 Van Wert trailed by just two after the opening quarter but Celina pulled away for a 46-21 win Thursday night. The Cougars were down 9-7 after the first quarter, with Jazz Florence supplying four of Van Wert\u2019s points. Celina outscored the hosts 13-8 in the second quarter [&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-201369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 21:15:03","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\/201369","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=201369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201370,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201369\/revisions\/201370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}