{"id":203695,"date":"2026-03-11T22:45:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T03:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=203695"},"modified":"2026-03-11T22:45:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T03:45:57","slug":"cougars-vs-pioneers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/03\/11\/cougars-vs-pioneers\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougars vs. Pioneers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Keaten-Welch-3-11-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-203696\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Van Wert\u2019s Keaten Welch (5) tries to fight through a double team against Jonathan Alder. Xavier Kelly (2) soars to the basket and Zach Crummey (23) mixes it up inside during Wednesay night\u2019s Division IV regional semfinal game at Bowling Green State University. Unfortunately for the Cougars, the Pioneers were too much to handle and won the game 63-45. <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=\"688\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Xavier-Kelly-3-11-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-203697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Xavier-Kelly-3-11-2026.jpg 550w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Xavier-Kelly-3-11-2026-480x600.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"688\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Zach-Crummey-3-11-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-203698\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Zach-Crummey-3-11-2026.jpg 550w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Zach-Crummey-3-11-2026-480x600.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert\u2019s Keaten Welch (5) tries to fight through a double team against Jonathan Alder. Xavier Kelly (2) soars to the basket and Zach Crummey (23) mixes it up inside during Wednesay night\u2019s Division IV regional semfinal game at Bowling Green State University. Unfortunately for the Cougars, the Pioneers were too much to handle and [&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-203695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-09 08:28:35","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\/203695","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=203695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203699,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203695\/revisions\/203699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}