{"id":205357,"date":"2026-04-28T21:39:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T02:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=205357"},"modified":"2026-04-28T21:39:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T02:39:58","slug":"teams-compete-in-annual-county-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/04\/28\/teams-compete-in-annual-county-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"Teams compete in annual county meet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Crestview, Lincolnview and Van Wert finished 1-2-3 on the boys\u2019 side and Lincolnview, Van Wert and Crestview 1-2-3 on the girls\u2019 side at the Van County Invitational held at Lincolnview on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Knights had first place finishers \u2013 Drayden Hoffman in the 100 meter dash (11.14), Hoffman in the 200 meter dash (22.96), Hayden Perrott (400 meter dash, 53.25), Hudson Perrott, (1600 meter run, 4:40.11), Derek Young (3200 meter run, 9:39.25), the 4&#215;100 relay team (Hayden Perrott, Drayden Hoffman, Liam Putman, Braxton Leeth, 45.17), 4&#215;200 relay team (Drayden Hoffman, Liam Putman, Brentyn Rodriguez, Braxton Leeth, 1:35.37), 4&#215;400 relay team (Braxton Leeth, Kale Vining, Hayden Perrott, Brentyn Rodriguez, 3:37.01), 4&#215;800 relay team (Derek Young, Lincoln Smith, Ian Owens, Kale Vining, 8:40.83) and Bentley Scott (pole vault, 10-0).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lincolnview\u2019s first place finishers were Noah Peters (100 meter hurdles, 15.10; 300 meter hurdles (41.08) and Lucas Grubb (high jump, 5-6; long jump, 20-1.75).<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Noah-Peters.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-205359\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Lincolnview&#8217;s Noah Peters won the 100 and 300 meter hurdles. <em>Wyatt Richardson\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Van Wert\u2019s Evan Keuneke won the 800 meter run (2:05.49). Maverik Bigham won the discus (122-8) and Nick Edwards was the shot put champion (40-1.25).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the girls\u2019 side Lincolnview\u2019s Brynleigh Moody swept the long distance events (800 meter run, 2:29.12; 1600 meter run, 5:46.39; 3200 meter run, 12:33.54). Joey-Kate Carey won the 400 meter dash (1:04.91) and the long jump (15-5), while Annabel Horstman was the 100 and meter hurdles champion (16.51; 48.63). Ainsley Hoffman won the pole vault (7-6) and Beth Hughes captured the shot put title (36-2.25).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert was led by Haven Hunt (200 meter dash champion, 27.02), Livie Parrish (4-10), Flannery Foster (discus, 113-10), along with the 4&#215;400 relay team of Ruby Dicke, Harper Roop, Leah Krites, and Haven Hunt (4:18.48). Livie Parrish and Lily Greve shared the high jump title (4-10).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Crestview\u2019s 4&#215;100 and 4&#215;200 relay teams (Delanie Balliet, Graylie Grose, Lydia Grace, Ellieannah&nbsp;Ward) won those events with times of 52:58 and 1:52.82). Grose won the 100 meter title with a time o 12.95.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Full results can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/oh.milesplit.com\/meets\/715939-van-wert-county-2026\/results\">here<\/a>. Check back Thursday for more pictures. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent sports Crestview, Lincolnview and Van Wert finished 1-2-3 on the boys\u2019 side and Lincolnview, Van Wert and Crestview 1-2-3 on the girls\u2019 side at the Van County Invitational held at Lincolnview on Tuesday. The Knights had first place finishers \u2013 Drayden Hoffman in the 100 meter dash (11.14), Hoffman in the 200 meter [&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-205357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 22:29:57","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\/205357","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=205357"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205361,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205357\/revisions\/205361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}