{"id":209008,"date":"2026-08-17T20:52:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T01:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=209008"},"modified":"2026-08-18T06:06:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T11:06:24","slug":"vw-independent-prep-golf-roundup-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/08\/17\/vw-independent-prep-golf-roundup-6\/","title":{"rendered":"VW independent tennis, golf roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tennis <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>St. Marys Memorial 4 Van Wert 1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ST. MARYS &#8211; After a week of rainouts, Van Wert was finally able to return to the courts on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lauren Gearhart enjoyed a 6-1, 6-0 victory over Madilynn Fischbach, but Van Wert dropped a  WBL match at St. Marys Memorial 4-1.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At second singles,Mackenzie Beth defeated Madilynn Thompson in a hard fought match, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4. The third singles match was also competitive, with Sophia Zhena of the Roughriders posting a 5-7, 6-4, 6-2 win over Alli Spieles. Memorial&#8217;s first doubles team of Sophie Long and Olivia Tester topped Van Wert&#8217;s Ella Kimmel and Bristol Wollet 6-2, 4-6, 6-4, while the second doubles team of Hannah Brandt and Aleah Brandt beat Ixchelle Castillo and Annabelle Miller 6-2, 6-0. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cougars will host Lima Central Catholic at 4:30 p.m. today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Boys golf<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Antwerp 165 Crestview 198<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At Hickory Sticks on Monday, Antwerp\u2019s Noah Lucas shot a 39 to earn match medalist honors and the Archers defeated Crestview 165-198. Kyler Johnson was one stroke behind at 40, followed by Emerson Morrow (41) and Lincoln Lucas (45). Crestview was led by Kash Lichtensteiger, who fired a 45. Chase Feasby chipped in with a 48, followed by Maverik Hammons (51) and Zaine Cereghin (54).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Girls golf<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lincolnview 200 Antwerp 241<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WOODBURN (IN) &#8212; Lincolnview\u2019s Grace Custer earned match medalist and the Lancers defeated Antwerp 200-241 at Pond-A-River Golf Club on Monday. Custer shot a 43 and was followed by Avery Zielke (47), Eme Renner (52) and Bellamy Miller (58). Antwerp\u2019s Madison Schmidt and Kara Pierce each shot a 53, followed by Alia Clem (61) and Alaina Reinhart (74). Edgerton and Hicksville also competed, but had just two golfers each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent sports Tennis St. Marys Memorial 4 Van Wert 1 ST. MARYS &#8211; After a week of rainouts, Van Wert was finally able to return to the courts on Monday. Lauren Gearhart enjoyed a 6-1, 6-0 victory over Madilynn Fischbach, but Van Wert dropped a WBL match at St. Marys Memorial 4-1. At second [&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-209008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-26 01:00:03","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\/209008","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=209008"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209022,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209008\/revisions\/209022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}