{"id":210157,"date":"2026-09-16T20:26:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T01:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=210157"},"modified":"2026-09-16T20:26:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T01:26:05","slug":"tennis-team-defeated-by-bluffton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/09\/16\/tennis-team-defeated-by-bluffton\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis team defeated by Bluffton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BLUFFTON &#8212; Lauren Gearhart picked up a win at first singles, but Van Wert fell to Bluffton 4-1 in non-conference tennis action on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gearhart defeated Ari Bowling 6-1, 6-1. Bluffton\u2019s second singles player,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hope Luginbill, defeated Maddy Thompson 6-0, 6-2. At third singles, Leah Hoffman trailed 5-2 in the first set but rallied to defeat Van Wert\u2019s Alli Spieles 7-5, 6-2. Bluffton\u2019s first doubles taem Kate Klinger and Willow Angel topped Bristol Wollet and Ella Kimmel 6-2, 6-2, and the second doubles team of Bekah Rehm and Peighton Bowers defeated Jr. Annabelle Miller and Ixchell Castillo 6-0, 6-2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent sports BLUFFTON &#8212; Lauren Gearhart picked up a win at first singles, but Van Wert fell to Bluffton 4-1 in non-conference tennis action on Tuesday. Gearhart defeated Ari Bowling 6-1, 6-1. Bluffton\u2019s second singles player, Hope Luginbill, defeated Maddy Thompson 6-0, 6-2. At third singles, Leah Hoffman trailed 5-2 in the first set [&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-210157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-25 15:43:18","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\/210157","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=210157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210158,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210157\/revisions\/210158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}