{"id":211323,"date":"2026-10-18T20:50:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T01:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=211323"},"modified":"2026-10-18T20:50:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T01:50:15","slug":"wbl-boys-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/10\/18\/wbl-boys-champions\/","title":{"rendered":"WBL boys&#8217; champions!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"442\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Van-Wert-CC-10-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-211320\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Van Wert capped off cross country\u2019s regular season by winning the WBL boys\u2019 championship at Wapakoneta on Saturday. The Cougars had two top 10 finishers \u2013 freshman Oliver Scott (eighth, 16:31) and sophomore Calvin Byrum (10th,16:34). The girls\u2019 team finished third behind Celina and Ottawa-Glandorf and also had a pair of top 10 finishers \u2013 Noelle Byrum (fourth, 19:18) and Symphony Schuerman (10th, 20:02). <em>Photo submitted<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert capped off cross country\u2019s regular season by winning the WBL boys\u2019 championship at Wapakoneta on Saturday. The Cougars had two top 10 finishers \u2013 freshman Oliver Scott (eighth, 16:31) and sophomore Calvin Byrum (10th,16:34). The girls\u2019 team finished third behind Celina and Ottawa-Glandorf and also had a pair of top 10 finishers \u2013 [&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-211323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-26 00:13:33","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\/211323","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=211323"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211340,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211323\/revisions\/211340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}