{"id":47675,"date":"2014-01-22T03:37:47","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T08:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=47675"},"modified":"2014-01-22T03:37:47","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T08:37:47","slug":"cougars-edge-kalida-to-reach-500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2014\/01\/22\/cougars-edge-kalida-to-reach-500\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougars edge Kalida to reach .500"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Van Wert independent<\/i><\/p>\n<p>KALIDA &#8212; The Van Wert Cougars had to battle cold shooting, as well as the fired-up Kalida Wildcats, but still managed to edge the Wildcats 41-38 in a non-conference game played Tuesday evening at Kalida.<\/p>\n<p>Van Wert had eight players score in the game, led by Connor Holliday\u2019s 13-point performance. Matt Bidlack had 8 points for the Cougars.<\/p>\n<p>Kalida had two players in double figures \u2013 Joe Gerdeman with 17 points and Evan Kortokrax with 10, but only four players scored overall for the Wildcats.<\/p>\n<p>Kalida took the early lead, thanks to the Cougars\u2019 inability to put the ball into the hoop, and led 16-4 at the end of one quarter of play. Van Wert cut the Wildcat lead to 4 points with a 10-2 run in the second period and trailed 18-14 heading into the locker room at halftime.<\/p>\n<p>The Cougars tied the game at 23-all by the end of the third quarter, and then hit some crucial free throws, including two big put-ins by Nathan Stoller to put Van Wert up by three late in the game, to close out the game.<\/p>\n<p>The Cougars were 13 of 37 from the field (35.1 percent), including 2 of 11 from three-point range (18.2 percent). Van Wert did better at the line, making 13 of 16 free-throw attempts in the contest (81.3 percent). The Wildcats were 14 of 36 from the field (38.9 percent), including 1 of 4 from beyond the arc (25 percent), and made 9 of 16 free throw attempts (56.3 percent).<\/p>\n<p>The taller Kalida team led in rebounds, 23-16, but the Cougars had fewer turnovers (6-11) in the game.<\/p>\n<p>With the win, Van Wert is now 6-6 overall, while the Wildcats fall to 9-5 on the season.<\/p>\n<p>The Kalida junior varsity team won, 51-36, over the Cougar JVs. Gavin Gardner had 9 points on the night, while Trent Gerding scored 20 for the Wildcat JVs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/VW-boys-vs-Kalida-boxscore-1-2014.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47676\" alt=\"VW boys vs Kalida boxscore 1-2014\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/VW-boys-vs-Kalida-boxscore-1-2014.jpg\" width=\"545\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent KALIDA &#8212; The Van Wert Cougars had to battle cold shooting, as well as the fired-up Kalida Wildcats, but still managed to edge the Wildcats 41-38 in a non-conference game played Tuesday evening at Kalida. Van Wert had eight players score in the game, led by Connor Holliday\u2019s 13-point performance. Matt Bidlack [&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-47675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 22:21:19","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\/47675","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=47675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}