{"id":34986,"date":"2013-02-15T07:07:54","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T12:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=34986"},"modified":"2013-02-15T07:07:54","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T12:07:54","slug":"cougars-beat-st-marys-in-wbl-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2013\/02\/15\/cougars-beat-st-marys-in-wbl-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougars beat St. Marys in WBL clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Van Wert girls\u2019 basketball news<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Van Wert Lady Cougars used a tenacious defense to beat St. Marys 45-27 in a Western Buckeye League contest played Thursday in the Cougar\u2019s Den.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_34988\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34988\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/VW-girls-vs.-St.-Marys-2-2013-Handy.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34988 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/VW-girls-vs.-St.-Marys-2-2013-Handy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"411\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34988\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lady Cougar Cheyenne Handy (23) goes in for a layup in Thursday night&#039;s WBL contest against St. Marys. The Cougars won the game 45-27. (Jan Dunlap\/Van Wert independent)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Lady Cougars led 11-4 at the end of a quarter of play but St. Marys cut the lead to three points, 13-10, by outscoring Van Wert 6-2 in the second quarter. The Cougars came out fast in the third stanza, outscoring the Lady Roughriders 18-2 to lead by 19 points, 31-12, with only eight minutes remaining in the game.<\/p>\n<p>St. Marys rallied in the final quarter, outscoring the Cougars 15-14, but it wasn\u2019t enough to overcome Van Wert\u2019s big lead.<\/p>\n<p>The Cougars were led by Erin Morrow\u2019s 11 points, including 9 of 10 from the free throw line, while Alexis Dowdy and Emilie Moonshower each scored 8 points for Van Wert. The Lady Riders were led by Lee Ann Bertke, who scored a game-high 12 points.<\/p>\n<p>With the win, the Cougars improve to 10-12 overall on the year and are 3-6 in the WBL. St. Marys is 3-19 overall and 2-7 in league play.<\/p>\n<p>Van Wert also won the junior varsity game, 34-25 over the Lady Roughrider JVs. Riley Jones led the Cougar JVs with 13 points, while Phoebe Eutsler added 11 points for Van Wert. St. Marys\u2019 Lindi Cisco was the game\u2019s top scorer with 18 points.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/VW-girls-vs-St.-Marys-boxscore-2-2013.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34987\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/VW-girls-vs-St.-Marys-boxscore-2-2013.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"147\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert girls\u2019 basketball news The Van Wert Lady Cougars used a tenacious defense to beat St. Marys 45-27 in a Western Buckeye League contest played Thursday in the Cougar\u2019s Den. The Lady Cougars led 11-4 at the end of a quarter of play but St. Marys cut the lead to three points, 13-10, by [&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-34986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 17:16:26","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\/34986","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=34986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}