{"id":203182,"date":"2026-02-26T22:23:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T03:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=203182"},"modified":"2026-02-26T22:23:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T03:23:06","slug":"cougars-win-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/02\/26\/cougars-win-8\/","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=\"668\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Keaten-Welch-2-26-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-203183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Keaten-Welch-2-26-2026.jpg 550w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Keaten-Welch-2-26-2026-494x600.jpg 494w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Van Wert\u2019s Keaten Welch (above) goes in for a layup during Thursday\u2019s Division IV sectional championship game against Napleon while below, Xavier Kelly puts up a jump shot against the Wildcats. The Cougars won the game 52-37. <em>Bob Barnes\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"788\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Xavier-Kelly-2-26-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-203184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Xavier-Kelly-2-26-2026.jpg 550w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Xavier-Kelly-2-26-2026-419x600.jpg 419w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert\u2019s Keaten Welch (above) goes in for a layup during Thursday\u2019s Division IV sectional championship game against Napleon while below, Xavier Kelly puts up a jump shot against the Wildcats. The Cougars won the game 52-37. Bob Barnes\/Van Wert 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-203182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 21:56:41","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\/203182","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=203182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203185,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203182\/revisions\/203185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}