{"id":20437,"date":"2012-02-10T05:43:46","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T10:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=20437"},"modified":"2012-02-10T05:43:46","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T10:43:46","slug":"cougars-take-out-wapak-in-wbl-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2012\/02\/10\/cougars-take-out-wapak-in-wbl-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougars take out Wapak in WBL contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DAVE MOSIER\/<\/strong><em>independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Van Wert Lady Cougars shot the eyes out of the basket at the charity stripe en route to a 54-39 victory over Wapakoneta in a Western Buckeye League battle Thursday night in the Cougar\u2019s Den.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20440\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20440\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/VW-girls-vs.-Wapak-2-2012-A.Morrow1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20440 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/VW-girls-vs.-Wapak-2-2012-A.Morrow1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"564\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20440\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senior Alex Morrow (23) powers her way inside against a Wapakoneta defender in last night&#039;s WBL contest won by the Cougars, 54-39. (Jan Dunlap\/Van Wert independent)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It was Seniors Night and two seniors, Alex Morrow and Brooke Keber, took a leadership role in the game. Morrow led the Cougars with 18 points, including an 8-for-8 performance at the free throw line, while Keber scored 10 points for Van Wert. Freshman Alexis Dowdy was also on, offensively, adding 13 points for the Cougars.<\/p>\n<p>The Lady Redskins were led by Sarah Warner\u2019s 11 points, while Tasha Helmstetter added 10 points for Wapak.<\/p>\n<p>Van Wert had a two-point lead, 10-8, at the end of the first quarter, but outscored the Redskins 16-3 in the second period to go up by 15, 26-11, at the half. Both teams scored 28 points in the second half to maintain the 15-point margin of victory.<\/p>\n<p>The key to the game was the free-throw line, where the Cougars hit 16 of 20 (80 percent), versus 6 of 12 (50 percent) for Wapakoneta.<\/p>\n<p>With the win, Van Wert goes to 11-8 overall and 5-3 in the WBL, while the Lady Redskins are now 10-8 overall and 5-3 in league play.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t a complete positive for Van Wert, though, as the junior varsity Cougars lose 46-35 to Wapak. The Van Wert JVs are now 14-5 on the year.<\/p>\n<p>The Lady Cougars will next play next Thursday, February 16, at St. Marys Memorial High School in their last WBL contest of the year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/VW-girls-vs.-Wapakoneta-boxscore-2-2012.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/VW-girls-vs.-Wapakoneta-boxscore-2-2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAVE MOSIER\/independent sports The Van Wert Lady Cougars shot the eyes out of the basket at the charity stripe en route to a 54-39 victory over Wapakoneta in a Western Buckeye League battle Thursday night in the Cougar\u2019s Den. It was Seniors Night and two seniors, Alex Morrow and Brooke Keber, took a leadership role [&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-20437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-05 19:07:43","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\/20437","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=20437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}