{"id":206358,"date":"2026-05-27T21:32:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T02:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=206358"},"modified":"2026-05-27T21:32:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T02:32:22","slug":"cougars-win-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/05\/27\/cougars-win-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougars win!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Easton-Putman-5-27-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-206359\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Van Wert\u2019s Easton Putman (above) fires a pitch during Wednesday\u2019s Division IV district semifinal game against No. 1 seed Bath. Jace Huebner (below) swings at a pitch and Griffin McCracken (bottom) slides safely. The Cougars won Wednesday\u2019s game 6-1, putting them in the district championship game against No. 2 seed Bryan at 5 p.m. Friday at Fort Jennings. <em>Photos courtesy of Monica Campbell<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Jace-Huebner-5-27-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-206360\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Griffin-McCracken-5-27-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-206361\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert\u2019s Easton Putman (above) fires a pitch during Wednesday\u2019s Division IV district semifinal game against No. 1 seed Bath. Jace Huebner (below) swings at a pitch and Griffin McCracken (bottom) slides safely. The Cougars won Wednesday\u2019s game 6-1, putting them in the district championship game against No. 2 seed Bryan at 5 p.m. Friday [&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-206358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-04 03:44:28","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\/206358","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=206358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206362,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206358\/revisions\/206362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}