{"id":210029,"date":"2026-09-13T20:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T01:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=210029"},"modified":"2026-09-13T20:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T01:34:09","slug":"champs-runners-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/09\/13\/champs-runners-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Champs, runners-up!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"414\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/VW-CC-Carnival-champs-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-210030\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Van Wert finished as the Division III team champion at the Tiffin Cross Country Carnival at Hedges-Boyer Park on Saturday. Freshman Oliver Scott led the Cougars with a fifth place finish (17.10.7) and Van Wert had four other top 10 finishers \u2013 Alex Bauer (eighth, 17:17.4), Quintin Parrish (ninth, 17:19) and Nate Drerup (10th, 17:22.2). On the girls\u2019 side, Van Wert finished as the runner-up behind Ottawa-Glandorf. The Cougars had a pair of top 10 finishers \u2013 Noelle Byrum (eighth, 19:53.3) and Symphony Schuerman (10th, 20:03). In the Division IV race, Lincolnview finished sixth on the girls\u2019 side and seventh on the boys\u2019 side. Full results can be found here. <em>Photos provided<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/VWHS-CC-girls-runner-up-Carnival-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-210031\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert finished as the Division III team champion at the Tiffin Cross Country Carnival at Hedges-Boyer Park on Saturday. Freshman Oliver Scott led the Cougars with a fifth place finish (17.10.7) and Van Wert had four other top 10 finishers \u2013 Alex Bauer (eighth, 17:17.4), Quintin Parrish (ninth, 17:19) and Nate Drerup (10th, 17:22.2). [&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-210029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-21 02:03:25","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\/210029","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=210029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210032,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210029\/revisions\/210032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}