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MARIA STEIN — The Van Wert Cougars found out why Marion Local is ranked No. 7 in Division IV as the tall Flyers (four starters 6-4 and over, including 6-10 Luke Knapke) dominated offensively to win, 60-42, over the visiting Cougars.<\/p>\n
Van Wert kept it close in the first quarter, trailing by just six points, 18-12, at the end of the first eight minutes of play. The Flyers were just getting started, though, and went on a 14-8 run in the second stanza that put them up by 12, 32-20, at the half. A 13-9 third quarter run for Marion Local gave them a 16-point lead, 45-29, and, while Van Wert stayed within a basket of the Flyers in the final period of play (15-13), poor shooting by the Cougars doomed any chance of a comeback.<\/p>\n
Van Wert was an ice-cold 15 of 57 from the field (26.3 percent), including 7 of 23 from three-point range (30.4 percent). The Cougars made 5 of 10 free-throw attempts (50 percent).<\/p>\n
The Flyers were 19 of 41 from the field (46.3 percent), including 4 of 12 three-point attempts (25 percent). Marion Local made 17 of 23 free-throw attempts (73.9 percent).<\/p>\n
The Flyers dominated the boards, bringing down 45 rebounds to 22 for Van Wert. The Cougars did a better job of ball control, though, with just six turnovers, compared to 13 for Marion Local.<\/p>\n
With the loss, Van Wert is now 3-7 overall, while the Flyers run their record to 9-1.<\/p>\n
The Cougar junior varsity team did better, beating Marion Local 53-42 in the opening game of the night. Ryan McCracken had 24 points in the game, while Davis Munroe added 11 points. Kyle Koenig had 12 points for Marion Local\u2019s JV team.<\/p>\n
Van Wert will next play at Lima Shawnee this coming Friday, and then host Bryan on Saturday in the Cougars\u2019 Den.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
DAVE MOSIER\/independent sports MARIA STEIN — The Van Wert Cougars found out why Marion Local is ranked No. 7 in Division IV as the tall Flyers (four starters 6-4 and over, including 6-10 Luke Knapke) dominated offensively to win, 60-42, over the visiting Cougars. Van Wert kept it close in the first quarter, trailing by […]<\/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-59788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-07 04:07:18","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\/59788","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=59788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}