{"id":205935,"date":"2026-05-15T20:56:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T01:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=205935"},"modified":"2026-05-15T20:56:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T01:56:58","slug":"prep-baseball-cougars-lancers-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/05\/15\/prep-baseball-cougars-lancers-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Prep baseball: Cougars, Lancers fall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Wayne Trace 9 Van Wert 6<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert scored four runs in the bottom of the seventh inning but it wasn\u2019t enough as the Cougars fell to Wayne Trace 9-6 at Russell Fisher Field on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two of the seventh inning runs came on a double by Wyatt Scott. Griffin McCracken, Easton Putman and Zach Scott each drove in a run against the Raiders. The Raiders led 6-1 after three innings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cougars (11-12) will travel to Columbus Grove on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ottawa-Glandorf 5 Lincolnview 1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>OTTAWA &#8212; Titans pitcher Carson Yaeger gave up just one hit to Lincolnview, a double by Chayse Overholt in the seventh inning, and Ottawa-Glandorf defeated the Lancers 5-1 on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Titans scored a run in the first, two in the second and two more in the third.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lincolnview will host Delphos St. John\u2019s today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent sports Wayne Trace 9 Van Wert 6 Van Wert scored four runs in the bottom of the seventh inning but it wasn\u2019t enough as the Cougars fell to Wayne Trace 9-6 at Russell Fisher Field on Friday. Two of the seventh inning runs came on a double by Wyatt Scott. Griffin McCracken, Easton [&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-205935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-23 02:51:19","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\/205935","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=205935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205936,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205935\/revisions\/205936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}