{"id":2801,"date":"2011-02-09T02:01:48","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T07:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=2801"},"modified":"2011-02-09T02:10:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T07:10:00","slug":"cougar-girls-beat-lima-senior-in-ot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2011\/02\/09\/cougar-girls-beat-lima-senior-in-ot\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougar girls beat Lima Senior in OT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Van Wert independent sports<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It took an overtime period, but the Van Wert Lady Cougars finally prevailed over a feisty Lima Senior team, 57-51, in a non-conference game Tuesday evening in the Cougar\u2019s Den.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2802\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2802\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/VW-girls-vs-Lima-Senior-2-2011-Morrow.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2802 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/VW-girls-vs-Lima-Senior-2-2011-Morrow.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"313\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2802\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lady Cougar Alex Morrow (white 23) battles her Lima Senior counterpart for a rebound in Tuesday&#039;s non-conference game won by Van Wert. (Jan Dunlap\/Van Wert independent)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In one of Van Wert\u2019s higher-scoring games this season, Destri Long\u2019s Cougar girls were led by a 19-point effort from Alex Morrow. Kaitlyn Hall added 9 points for Van Wert, while Molly Gamble scored 7 points. The Lady Spartans had more offensive balance, with three players in double figures \u2013 Callahan with 17 points, Hurley with 12 and Benjamin with 11 markers \u2013 but the Cougars had more players in the scoring column, especially with three players with 6 points (Brooke Keber, Ashley Mohr and Toni Aquaviva).<\/p>\n<p>Van Wert led 15-10 at the end of the first period, but had a major letdown in the second quarter as the Lady Spartans outscored them 23-4 to lead 33-19 at the half. The Cougars chipped away at the lead in the third quarter, trailing by 10, 42-32, with a period yet to play.<\/p>\n<p>Van Wert made a 15-5 run in the fourth period and it was tied up at 47-all at the end of regulation. The Cougars then outscored Lima Senior 10-4 in the overtime period to ice the victory.<\/p>\n<p>With the win, Van Wert goes to 5-12 on the year, but is 1-6 in the Western Buckeye League.<\/p>\n<p>Also Tuesday, Celina eked out a 47-43 victory over the Crestview Lady Knights in a non-conference match-up at Crestview.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/VW-girls-vs-Lima-Senior-boxscore-2-2011.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2805\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/VW-girls-vs-Lima-Senior-boxscore-2-2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"129\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent sports It took an overtime period, but the Van Wert Lady Cougars finally prevailed over a feisty Lima Senior team, 57-51, in a non-conference game Tuesday evening in the Cougar\u2019s Den. In one of Van Wert\u2019s higher-scoring games this season, Destri Long\u2019s Cougar girls were led by a 19-point effort from Alex [&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-2801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 13:32:56","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\/2801","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=2801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181298,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801\/revisions\/181298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}