{"id":54928,"date":"2014-08-26T08:36:59","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T13:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=54928"},"modified":"2014-08-26T08:36:59","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T13:36:59","slug":"van-wert-v-ball-team-edges-blue-jays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2014\/08\/26\/van-wert-v-ball-team-edges-blue-jays\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Wert v-ball team edges Blue Jays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Van Wert volleyball information<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The Van Wert Cougars traveled to Delphos to take on the St. John\u2019s\u00a0Blue Jays. The temperature in the gym was extremely hot and the match was all that you could ask for. The Blue Jays pulled out the first two sets by scores of 25-22 and 25-23. The Cougars weren\u2019t going to let go of the match that easy, though. They pushed really hard and showed which team had the drive to get the job done.<\/p>\n<p>Van Wert took the next set 25-21, and no one questioned after that point that the Cougars were going to take this game back.\u00a0Van Wert won the next game and never looked back, winning the fourth game 25-15 and the finale 15-11.<\/p>\n<p>The Cougars will be back in action tonight at home when they take on Kalida.The match features the freshman, junior varsity and varsity teams. Game time is 4:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The Cougars are now 3-0 on the season.<\/p>\n<p>The JV team also defeated Delphos St. John\u2019s, in three games.<\/p>\n<p><b>Varsity Stats:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Serving<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Peyton Fleming \u2013 20\/20 with 3 aces<\/li>\n<li>Amanda Coplin\u2013 21\/23 with 1 ace<\/li>\n<li>Riley Jones \u2013 17\/19 with 4 aces<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Hitting<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alexis Dowdy \u2013 12 kills<\/li>\n<li>McKenzie Collins \u2013 9 kills<\/li>\n<li>Landrie Koontz &amp; Alexa Dunlap \u2013 8 kills each<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Defensive Digs<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Riley Jones \u2013 33 digs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Setting<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Amanda Coplin \u2013 34 assists<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Blocks<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alexis Dowdy \u2013 6 blocks<\/li>\n<li>McKenzie Collins \u2013 5 blocks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert volleyball information The Van Wert Cougars traveled to Delphos to take on the St. John\u2019s\u00a0Blue Jays. The temperature in the gym was extremely hot and the match was all that you could ask for. The Blue Jays pulled out the first two sets by scores of 25-22 and 25-23. The Cougars weren\u2019t going [&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-54928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-04 06:46:55","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\/54928","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=54928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}