{"id":20771,"date":"2012-02-18T05:15:21","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T10:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=20771"},"modified":"2012-02-18T05:38:21","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T10:38:21","slug":"cougars-down-st-marys-in-wbl-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2012\/02\/18\/cougars-down-st-marys-in-wbl-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougars down St. Marys in WBL contest"},"content":{"rendered":"

DAVE MOSIER\/<\/strong>independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n

St. Marys got out to a fast start, but the Van Wert Cougars put the finish on the game, winning in a runaway, 68-43, in Friday\u2019s Western Buckeye League contest played in the Cougar\u2019s Den.<\/p>\n

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Junior AJ Smith (10) led the Cougars with 18 points in a 68-43 league win over St. Marys in the Cougar's Den on Friday. (Jan Dunlap\/Van Wert independent)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Roughriders scored 17 points in the first quarter to take a one-point lead, 17-16, over Van Wert to start Friday\u2019s game. Then the Cougars got both their offense and defense working and that was all she wrote.<\/p>\n

Van Wert outscored the \u2018Riders by 10, 21-11, in the second quarter to take a nine-point halftime lead, 37-28. In the second half, St. Marys couldn\u2019t even get into double figures in a quarter, offensively, as the Cougars put the game out of reach with a balanced offense and ever stickier defense.<\/p>\n

Van Wert was led by junior AJ Smith\u2019s 18 points, while Joe Moonshower (12) and Jacob Myers (11) also were in double figures for the Cougars and Reggie Phillips added 9 points.<\/p>\n

For St. Marys, D.J. Manning had 12 points, while Dustin Fisher added 10 for the Roughriders.<\/p>\n

Van Wert also returned to its normal offensive form after last week\u2019s humiliation by St. Henry, hitting 5 of 12 three-point attempts (41.6 percent) and an impressive 23 of 33 of its two-pointers (69.7 percent) for a total field goal percentage of 62.2 percent). The \u2018Riders made 7 of 18 three-pointers (38.9 percent), but were only 7 of 23 from two-point range (30.4 percent) for a combined field goal percentage of 34.1 percent.<\/p>\n

Both teams shot well from the free-throw line. The Cougars were 9 of 11 at the line (81.9 percent), while St. Marys made 8 of 11 free-throw attempts (72.7 percent).<\/p>\n

Rebounds and turnovers were pretty much even, with Van Wert getting the edge, 22-21, in rebounds and also having fewer turnovers, 10-12, than the Roughriders.<\/p>\n

With the win, the Cougars are now 13-5 overall and 6-2 in league play. St. Marys is 5-13 and 1-7 in the WBL.<\/p>\n

Van Wert\u2019s junior varsity team also won Friday, 47-30, over the \u2018Riders. Joey Moreland led the Cougar JVs with 12 points, while Chris Miller added 10 points for Van Wert.<\/p>\n

The Cougars will next play Monday against Northwest Conference foe Delphos Jefferson and then end the regular season next Friday against WBL opponent Ottawa-Glandorf.<\/p>\n

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DAVE MOSIER\/independent sports St. Marys got out to a fast start, but the Van Wert Cougars put the finish on the game, winning in a runaway, 68-43, in Friday\u2019s Western Buckeye League contest played in the Cougar\u2019s Den. The Roughriders scored 17 points in the first quarter to take a one-point lead, 17-16, over Van […]<\/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-20771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-05 07:44:37","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\/20771","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=20771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}