{"id":33032,"date":"2012-12-24T08:33:20","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T13:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=33032"},"modified":"2012-12-24T08:33:20","modified_gmt":"2012-12-24T13:33:20","slug":"lady-cougars-beat-jefferson-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2012\/12\/24\/lady-cougars-beat-jefferson-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Cougars beat Jefferson girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Van Wert independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After a close first quarter, the Van Wert Lady Cougars upped their defensive pressure and ran away from the Delphos Jefferson Lady Wildcats, winning 60-40 in a non-conference game played on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The game was close, 18-17, at the end of the first quarter, but Van Wert then outscored the Jeffcats 16-5 in the second period to go up by 12, 34-22, at the half.<\/p>\n<p>The Cougars continued with their dominance over Delphos in the second half, outscoring the Wildcats 14-5 in the third quarter for a 20-point lead, 48-28, heading into the final stanza of play. Both trams scored 12\u00a0 points in the fourth quarter to maintain the margin of victory.<\/p>\n<p>Van Wert was led by Alexis Dowdy\u2019s 13 points, while Erin Morrow added 12 for the Lady Cougars. Claire Butler and Emilie Moonshower each added 9 points for Van Wert. The Wildcats\u2019 Rileigh Stockwell was the game\u2019s top scorer, with 14 points and was the only Jefferson player in double figures.<\/p>\n<p>Van Wert is now 3-6 on the year, while the Wildcats are also 3-6.<\/p>\n<p>The Cougar junior varsity team was edged 36-24 by Delphos Jefferson. Sophomore Riley Jones led Van Wert\u2019s JVs with 21 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent sports After a close first quarter, the Van Wert Lady Cougars upped their defensive pressure and ran away from the Delphos Jefferson Lady Wildcats, winning 60-40 in a non-conference game played on Saturday. The game was close, 18-17, at the end of the first quarter, but Van Wert then outscored the Jeffcats [&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-33032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 11:07:49","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\/33032","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=33032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}