{"id":205239,"date":"2026-04-25T09:02:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T14:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=205239"},"modified":"2026-04-25T09:03:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T14:03:01","slug":"defiance-holds-van-wert-in-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/04\/25\/defiance-holds-van-wert-in-check\/","title":{"rendered":"Defiance holds Van Wert in check"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DEFIANCE &#8212; Cam Werts singled in Trevor Halker in the first inning but the Cougars were held off the scoreboard for the rest of the game and fell to Defiance 5-1 in Western Buckeye League baseball action on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bulldogs tied the game with a run in the bottom of the first and the game remained 1-1 until the bottom of the fourth, when an RBI double by Jaren Honsberger gave Defiance the lead for good. The Bulldogs then added three more runs in the fifth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Halker finished with two of Van Wert\u2019s four hits. Jace Huebner pitched the first 4 <sup>1<\/sup><em>\/<\/em><sub>3<\/sub> innings and allowed five runs (three earned) on five hits with two strikeouts and seven walks. Finley Dickinson pitched the remaining 1 <sup>2<\/sup><em>\/<\/em><sub>3<\/sub> innings and gave up two hits with a strikeout and a walk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert (5-8, 1-4 WBL) will play at Delphos St. John\u2019s today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent sports DEFIANCE &#8212; Cam Werts singled in Trevor Halker in the first inning but the Cougars were held off the scoreboard for the rest of the game and fell to Defiance 5-1 in Western Buckeye League baseball action on Friday. The Bulldogs tied the game with a run in the bottom of the [&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-205239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-04 11:28:19","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\/205239","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=205239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205240,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205239\/revisions\/205240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}