{"id":35109,"date":"2013-02-19T07:42:15","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T12:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=35109"},"modified":"2013-02-19T07:42:15","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T12:42:15","slug":"cougars-blow-out-delphos-jefferson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2013\/02\/19\/cougars-blow-out-delphos-jefferson\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougars blow out Delphos Jefferson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DAVE MOSIER\/<\/strong><em>independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n<p>DELPHOS &#8212; The Van Wert Cougars dialed in from long distance Monday night to provide the offensive muscle needed to power over the Delphos Jefferson Wildcats 81-58 during a non-conference boys\u2019 basketball game held at Jefferson.<\/p>\n<p>The Cougars had three players in double figures and two others close to that plateau, led by AJ Smith\u2019s 29 points that included a 9-of-14 performance from three-point range. Matt Bidlack scored 16 points for Van Wert, while Connor Holliday added 10 points and Kyle Keber and Nathan Stoller each scored 9 points for the Cougars.<\/p>\n<p>Delphos was led by Ross Thompson\u2019s 26 points, while Trey Smith added 17 points for Jefferson.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, Van Wert was 15 of 29 from beyond the arc &#8212; and was also 15 of 29 from two-point range (51.7 percent). The Cougars made 6 of 10 free-throw attempts (60 percent). Delphos was 15 of 27 from two-point range (55.6 percent) but hit just 2 of 7 three-point attempts (28.6 percent). The Wildcats were 22 of 36 from the free-throw line (61.1 percent).<\/p>\n<p>Jefferson also had the edge in rebounding, 29-24, over Van Wert, but had twice as many turnovers, 9-18, as the Cougars.<\/p>\n<p>Van Wert led 20-11 at the end of the first quarter, but the Wildcats cut the lead to six points, 30-24, at the half. The Cougars then went on a 51-34 second-half offensive spurt to run away with the game.<\/p>\n<p>With the win, Van Wert is now 11-10 on the year, while the Wildcats fall to 4-17 overall.<\/p>\n<p>The Cougar junior varsity team is now 20-1 on the season with a 43-20 win over Delphos. Joey Moreland had 12 points to lead Van Wert.<\/p>\n<p>The Cougars will next play Friday night at home against Western Buckeye League rival Ottawa-Glandorf in the regular season finale.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/VW-boys-vs-Delphos-Jefferson-boxscore-2-2013.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35110\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/VW-boys-vs-Delphos-Jefferson-boxscore-2-2013.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"166\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAVE MOSIER\/independent sports DELPHOS &#8212; The Van Wert Cougars dialed in from long distance Monday night to provide the offensive muscle needed to power over the Delphos Jefferson Wildcats 81-58 during a non-conference boys\u2019 basketball game held at Jefferson. The Cougars had three players in double figures and two others close to that plateau, led [&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-35109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 12:38:16","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\/35109","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=35109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}