{"id":30747,"date":"2012-10-29T06:58:29","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T11:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=30747"},"modified":"2012-10-29T06:58:29","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T11:58:29","slug":"5-local-runners-qualify-for-state-cc-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2012\/10\/29\/5-local-runners-qualify-for-state-cc-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"5 local runners qualify for state CC meet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Van Wert independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30748\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30748\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/VW-regional-CC-meet-2012-Foster.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30748   \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/VW-regional-CC-meet-2012-Foster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"306\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30748\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Van Wert&#039;s Andrea Foster runs in the Division II girls&#039; cross country race in Tiffin on Saturday. She finished in 15th place to qualify for a berth in the state cross country meet this coming Saturday in Hebron. (Monica Campbell for the Van Wert independent)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Five local runners will be heading to the state track meet in Hebron this coming Saturday after qualifying during regional track meets held at Tiffin\u2019s Hedges Boyar Park this past weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Van Wert High School will be sending four runners to the state track meet following the Division II regional track meet on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Jared Fleming won the boys\u2019 Division II regionals with a time of 15:57.31, who beat out Defiance\u2019s Abel Flores for the meet\u2019s top sport. Fleming was followed by fellow Cougar Kase Schalois, who came in ninth in a time of 16:29.09, while Connor Holliday also qualified for state with a 14th place finish in 16:37.81.<\/p>\n<p>As a team, the Cougar boys were fifth, just out of the running for a berth in the state meet.<\/p>\n<p>On the girls\u2019 side, Van Wert\u2019s Andrea Foster qualified as an individual with a 15th place finish in 20:14.54.<\/p>\n<p>In the Division III boys\u2019 race, Crestview\u2019s Mycah Grandstaff came through with a 11th-place finish in 16:48 to qualify for the state cross country meet in that division.<\/p>\n<p>Like the Cougars, the Lincolnview boys just missed out on a trip to the state track meet, finishing fifth in the 16-team Division III race. Top runners for the Lancers were Bayley Tow, who was 26th in a time of 17:10.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30749\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30749\" style=\"width: 545px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/VW-regional-CC-meet-2012-Boy-qualifiers.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30749 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/VW-regional-CC-meet-2012-Boy-qualifiers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"366\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30749\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cougar boy qualifiers include (from the left) Kase Schalois, Jared Fleming and Connor Holliday. (Monica Campbell for the Van Wert independent)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent sports Five local runners will be heading to the state track meet in Hebron this coming Saturday after qualifying during regional track meets held at Tiffin\u2019s Hedges Boyar Park this past weekend. Van Wert High School will be sending four runners to the state track meet following the Division II regional track [&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-30747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 04:11:54","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\/30747","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=30747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}