{"id":208682,"date":"2026-08-07T20:25:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T01:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=208682"},"modified":"2026-08-07T20:25:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T01:25:16","slug":"cougar-tennis-team-drops-season-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/08\/07\/cougar-tennis-team-drops-season-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougar tennis team drops season opener"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cougars opened their season at home and picked up wins at first and third singles, but fell to Archbold 3-2 on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lauren Gearhart cruised to a 6-1, 6-2 win over Baegan Gerken at first singles, while Allie Spieles enjoyed a similar win at third singles, 6-1, 6-1 over Claire Bailey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At second singles, Archbold\u2019s Willa Ruffer defeated Madilyan Thompson 6-2, 6-1. The first doubles team of Autumn Nafzinger and Logan Ruffer topped Van Wert\u2019s Ella Kimmel and Bristol Wollet 6-4, 6-1, while the Archbold second doubles team of Bella Miller and Courtney Stuckey defeated Annabelle Miller and Eli Miller 6-0, 6-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert (0-1) will host Lehman Catholic at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent sports The Cougars opened their season at home and picked up wins at first and third singles, but fell to Archbold 3-2 on Friday. Lauren Gearhart cruised to a 6-1, 6-2 win over Baegan Gerken at first singles, while Allie Spieles enjoyed a similar win at third singles, 6-1, 6-1 over Claire Bailey. [&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-208682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-15 13:35:43","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\/208682","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=208682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208683,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208682\/revisions\/208683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}