{"id":202814,"date":"2026-02-17T20:21:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T01:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=202814"},"modified":"2026-02-17T20:21:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T01:21:29","slug":"girls-hoops-van-wert-routs-rossford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/02\/17\/girls-hoops-van-wert-routs-rossford\/","title":{"rendered":"Girls hoops: Van Wert routs Rossford"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ROSSFORD &#8212; Van Wert made the most of an hour and 45 minute trip to Rossford on Tuesday. The No. 9 seed Cougars made the long trek to northern Wood County for a Division IV sectional semifinal game against the No. 8 seed Bulldogs and Van Wert cruised to a 60-23 blowout win over the hosts.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert led 11-5 at the end of the opening quarter, with Amaya Dowdy scoring six points. In the second quarter, the Cougars held Rossford to just two points while increasing the lead to 25-7 at halftime, with Dowdy and Katie DeAmicis each scoring five points. Any hopes of a Rossford (5-18) comeback were dashed in the third quarter as Van Wert outscored the Bulldogs 26-8 in the period. Dowdy scored nine points in the period, Jazz Florence added 10 more and DeAmicis scored five points, as the lead ballooned to 51-15. Dowdy and Florence each scored 20 points, while DeAmicis finished with 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert (2-21) will travel to Findlay to face No. 1 seed Liberty-Benton (17-5) in the sectional championship game at 2 p.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent sports ROSSFORD &#8212; Van Wert made the most of an hour and 45 minute trip to Rossford on Tuesday. The No. 9 seed Cougars made the long trek to northern Wood County for a Division IV sectional semifinal game against the No. 8 seed Bulldogs and Van Wert cruised to a 60-23 blowout [&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-202814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 21:14:58","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\/202814","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=202814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202815,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202814\/revisions\/202815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}