{"id":202427,"date":"2026-02-06T23:37:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T04:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=202427"},"modified":"2026-02-06T23:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T04:37:07","slug":"cougars-win-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/02\/06\/cougars-win-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougars win!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"486\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Keaten-Welch-2-6-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-202428\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Van Wert\u2019s Keaten Welch (above) drives by an Ottawa-Glandorf defender, while Griffin McCracken (below) gets squared up on defense against the Titans. The Cougars won the game 61-51 to remain undefeated in WBL play. <em>Photos courtesy of Monica Campbell<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"518\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Griffin-McCracken-2-6-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-202429\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert\u2019s Keaten Welch (above) drives by an Ottawa-Glandorf defender, while Griffin McCracken (below) gets squared up on defense against the Titans. The Cougars won the game 61-51 to remain undefeated in WBL play. Photos courtesy of Monica Campbell<\/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-202427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 21:58:10","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\/202427","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=202427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202430,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202427\/revisions\/202430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}