{"id":209155,"date":"2026-08-21T05:59:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T10:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=209155"},"modified":"2026-08-21T05:59:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T10:59:29","slug":"tennis-team-wins-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/08\/21\/tennis-team-wins-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis team wins!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"404\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Girls-tennis-8-20-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-209156\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Van Wert picked up its first girls tennis win of the young season with a 3-2 win at Elida on Thursday. Both Cougar doubles teams posted victories, with Bristol Wollet and Ella Kimmel defeating Elida\u2019s Abigail Lewis and Chloe Myers 6-1, 6-0 at first doubles, while the second doubles team of Annabelle Miller and Ixchell Castillo topped Katelyn Warner and Julianna Ferguson 6-0, 6-1. Van Wert\u2019s other win came at third singles, with Alli Spieles defeating Morgan Dunahay 6-1, 6-2. The Cougars (1-3, 1-1 WBL) will host Celina at 9 a.m. Saturday. <em>Photo submitted<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert picked up its first girls tennis win of the young season with a 3-2 win at Elida on Thursday. Both Cougar doubles teams posted victories, with Bristol Wollet and Ella Kimmel defeating Elida\u2019s Abigail Lewis and Chloe Myers 6-1, 6-0 at first doubles, while the second doubles team of Annabelle Miller and Ixchell [&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-209155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-10 11:23:34","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\/209155","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=209155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209157,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209155\/revisions\/209157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}