{"id":209182,"date":"2026-08-21T22:10:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T03:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=209182"},"modified":"2026-08-21T22:10:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T03:10:40","slug":"soccer-ottoville-tops-lincolnview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/08\/21\/soccer-ottoville-tops-lincolnview\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer: Ottoville tops Lincolnview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was \u201cFutball\u201d Friday night at Lincolnview High School as the Lancers and Ottoville Big Green opened their respective boys soccer seasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ottoville proved to be too much for Lincolnview in a 4-0 win for the Big Green.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hard to fault our kids tonight,\u201d Lincolnview head coach Eli Alvarez said. \u201cThey played as hard as they could, but we came up against a much more seasoned and experienced team. We told our group that we don\u2019t want to hang our hats on moral victories, but we saw a lot of correctable mistakes tonight. We feel confident that we can learn from those mistakes and build from this loss.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe made too many simple mistakes and good teams like Ottoville are going to capitalize on those opportunities,\u201d he continued. \u201cOur biggest test now is how we respond. Our next few games don\u2019t get any easier and we\u2019re going to find out what we\u2019re made of mentally and physically over the next week.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOverall, we\u2019re excited about what we\u2019re building and the direction of the program. We know there is still a lot of work ahead of us. We have to continue getting better, getting our kids to buy in, and trusting the process.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ottoville also won the junior varsity game 3-0. The two teams played one half.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent sports It was \u201cFutball\u201d Friday night at Lincolnview High School as the Lancers and Ottoville Big Green opened their respective boys soccer seasons. Ottoville proved to be too much for Lincolnview in a 4-0 win for the Big Green.&nbsp; \u201cIt\u2019s hard to fault our kids tonight,\u201d Lincolnview head coach Eli Alvarez said. \u201cThey [&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-209182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-10 10:30:29","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\/209182","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=209182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209183,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209182\/revisions\/209183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}