Van Wert volleyball news<\/i><\/p>\n
HAVILAND — The Van Wert Cougar volleyball team was back in action on Saturday with a tri-match at Wayne Trace that also included Bryan. The Lady Cougars first defeated Wayne Trace in the first match 25-21 and 25-19.<\/p>\n
The second match of the day was between Van Wert and the Lady Golden Bears, with Bryan winning the first game, 25-22. The Lady Cougars picked up their game, though, and won the second game of the match 25-11 to tie the match. Van Wert then led all the way in the final game and won 25-20 for the match victory.<\/p>\n
The Cougars are now 10-2 overall for the season and 3-1 in Western Buckeye League matches.<\/p>\n
The Van Wert freshman team defeated Wayne Trace 25-13 and 25-11, while the junior varsity team lost to the Lady Raider JVs in three games, 24-26, 25-13 and 15-25, and defeated Bryan 25-22 and 25-20. The Cougar JVs are now 6-4 on the season.<\/p>\n
Statistics leaders are as follows:<\/p>\n
Van Wert vs. Wayne Trace<\/strong><\/p>\n Serving \u2013 McKenna Merkle, 11\/12; Claire Gamble, 10\/10.<\/p>\n Hitting \u2013 Taylor Doidge and Amanda Coplin, 4 kills each.<\/p>\n Defensive digs \u2013 Cheyenne Handy and Merkle, 9 digs each.<\/p>\n Setting \u2013 Riley Jones, 5 assists; Coplin, 4 assists.<\/p>\n Van Wert vs. Bryan<\/strong><\/p>\n Serving \u2013 Coplin, 15\/17; Jones, 12\/12; Gamble, 11\/11, and Merkle 10\/11.<\/p>\n Hitting \u2013 Doidge and Alexis Dowdy, 8 kills each.<\/p>\n Defensive digs \u2013 Alexa Dunlap, 31 digs; Gamble, 18 digs; Jones, 16 digs.<\/p>\n Setting \u2013 Jones, 17 assists; and Coplin, 12 assists.<\/p>\n The Lady Cougars will host cross-county rival Crestview this evening in a non-conference match-up. The JV game will start at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Van Wert volleyball news HAVILAND — The Van Wert Cougar volleyball team was back in action on Saturday with a tri-match at Wayne Trace that also included Bryan. The Lady Cougars first defeated Wayne Trace in the first match 25-21 and 25-19. The second match of the day was between Van Wert and the Lady […]<\/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-43327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 01:15:19","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\/43327","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=43327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}