{"id":202928,"date":"2026-02-20T22:33:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T03:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=202928"},"modified":"2026-02-20T22:33:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T03:33:52","slug":"cougars-win-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/02\/20\/cougars-win-7\/","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=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Griffin-McCracken-2-20-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-202929\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Griffin-McCracken-2-20-2026.jpg 550w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Griffin-McCracken-2-20-2026-489x600.jpg 489w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Van Wert\u2019s Griffin McCracken (above) scored 19 of his 21 points in the first half of Friday\u2019s game against Kenton, while Cohen Bragg scored nine points against the Wildcats, including seven in the first quarter. The Cougars won the game handily, 63-21. See recap below for more details. <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=\"712\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Cohen-Bragg-2-20-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-202930\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Cohen-Bragg-2-20-2026.jpg 550w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Cohen-Bragg-2-20-2026-463x600.jpg 463w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert\u2019s Griffin McCracken (above) scored 19 of his 21 points in the first half of Friday\u2019s game against Kenton, while Cohen Bragg scored nine points against the Wildcats, including seven in the first quarter. The Cougars won the game handily, 63-21. See recap below for more details. 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-202928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 22:04:26","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\/202928","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=202928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202931,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202928\/revisions\/202931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}