{"id":203188,"date":"2026-02-26T22:31:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T03:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=203188"},"modified":"2026-02-26T22:32:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T03:32:25","slug":"sectional-champions-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/02\/26\/sectional-champions-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Sectional champions!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"688\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Jeremy-Best-2-26-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-203189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Jeremy-Best-2-26-2026.jpg 550w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Jeremy-Best-2-26-2026-480x600.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Van Wert head coach Jeremy Best celebrates after the Cougars won the Division IV sectional championship with a 52-37 victory over Napoleon Thursday night. A full game story and more pictures can be found on the Sports page. <em>Bob Barnes\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert head coach Jeremy Best celebrates after the Cougars won the Division IV sectional championship with a 52-37 victory over Napoleon Thursday night. A full game story and more pictures can be found on the Sports page. 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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 04:48:27","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\/203188","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=203188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203190,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203188\/revisions\/203190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}