{"id":43029,"date":"2013-09-16T06:36:17","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T11:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=43029"},"modified":"2013-09-16T06:37:16","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T11:37:16","slug":"cougar-boy-runners-win-o-g-invitational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2013\/09\/16\/cougar-boy-runners-win-o-g-invitational\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougar boy runners win O-G Invitational"},"content":{"rendered":"

Van Wert cross country news<\/i><\/p>\n

OTTAWA — The Van Wert boys continued their winning ways with a victory over regional powers Pemberville Eastwood and Bryan during the Ottawa-Glandorf Invitational cross country meet on Saturday. The boys left Ottawa Memorial Park, site of this year\u2019s OHSAA District, adding 22 more wins to their record, moving them to 95 wins and only five losses, on the season.<\/p>\n

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Connor Shaffer finishes seventh in the Ottawa-Glandorf Blue\/Gold Invitational cross country tournament held Saturday in Ottawa. The Cougar boys won the meet. (photo by Monica Campbell for the Van Wert independent)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Leading the way for the Cougars was junior Connor Shaffer, who finished in seventh place, clocking a 16:49. The Cougar pack was quite impressive, as there was only 30 seconds between Van Wert\u2019s first and fifth runners.\u00a0 Sophomore Cade Fleming (17:06), junior Connor Holliday (17:07), junior Daniel Perry (17:12), and junior Jordan Butler (17:19), rounded out the scoring by finishing 12th, 13th, 15th, and 17th, respectively. Junior\u2019s Nick Keber and Ryan Rice completed the varsity squad by finishing 23rd and 27th (17:31 and 17:39).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe boys ran very well today; it\u2019s always important to run well at Ottawa, as it gives you a great preview to the district course,\u201d said Van Wert Coach Brendon Moody. \u201cIt builds confidence for these kids so they know they can run fast here again in five weeks.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith that said, five weeks is a long time away and we have to keep healthy, injury free, and focused on each week,\u201d Coach Moody added.<\/p>\n

A short-handed Cougar girls\u2019 squad had a solid showing, while missing three of their usual top five girls due to injury and illness. Leading the charge for the girls\u2019 team was first year runner, senior Amanda Clay, who finished sixth in a time of 20:10. Clay was followed by sophomore Megan Barnhart, 20th (21:03); junior Whitney Meyers, 22nd (21:08); freshman Natalie Riethman, 23rd (21:10); and sophomore Alicia Danylchuck, 43rd (21:55).\u00a0 Leah Brubaker (57th in 22:51) and Marissa Sperry (58th in 22:57) finished out the top seven for the girls.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a lot of girls run season best times today,\u201d Coach Moody. \u201cThey definitely stepped up in the absence of some of our top girls.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m very proud of how they responded in the face of adversity,\u201d the Cougar coach added.<\/p>\n

Van Wert cross country teams are back in action next weekend as they host the 35th annual Van Wert County Hospital Invitational.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Van Wert cross country news OTTAWA — The Van Wert boys continued their winning ways with a victory over regional powers Pemberville Eastwood and Bryan during the Ottawa-Glandorf Invitational cross country meet on Saturday. The boys left Ottawa Memorial Park, site of this year\u2019s OHSAA District, adding 22 more wins to their record, moving them […]<\/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-43029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-17 06:40:45","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\/43029","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=43029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}