{"id":35561,"date":"2013-03-01T07:05:24","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T12:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=35561"},"modified":"2013-03-01T07:05:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T12:05:24","slug":"van-wert-comes-up-short-against-bath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2013\/03\/01\/van-wert-comes-up-short-against-bath\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Wert comes up short against Bath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PAULDING &#8212; The young Van Wert Lady Cougars battled hard, but lost to the Bath Wildkittens 41-36 in their Division II district semifinal game Thursday night at Paulding High School.<\/p>\n<p>Bath outscored the Lady Cougars 8-0 in the first quarter, but went on a 15-6 run in the second quarter to lead by a point, 15-14, at the half. The Wildkittens rallied in the third quarter, outscoring Van Wert 14-7 to go up by six, 28-22, but the Cougars wouldn&#8217;t quit, outscoring Bath 14-13 in the final stanza, but couldn&#8217;t come up with enough offense to win the game.<\/p>\n<p>Although the loss was disappointing for Van Wert, it was definitely a better result than the 59-25 whipping the Wildkittens administered when the two teams met in league play during the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>The Cougars were led by Erin Morrow&#8217;s 12 points, while Alexis Dowdy had 9 points, and Cheyenne Handy added 8 for Van Wert. Bath was led by Emily Ruhe&#8217;s 16 points, while Madison Dackin added 8 for the Wildkittens.<\/p>\n<p>Bath, now 22-2, will play Celina (22-2) in the district finals, while a young Cougar team ends its season at 11-13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PAULDING &#8212; The young Van Wert Lady Cougars battled hard, but lost to the Bath Wildkittens 41-36 in their Division II district semifinal game Thursday night at Paulding High School. Bath outscored the Lady Cougars 8-0 in the first quarter, but went on a 15-6 run in the second quarter to lead by a point, [&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-35561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-31 17:40:42","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\/35561","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=35561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}