{"id":60312,"date":"2015-01-30T09:47:12","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T14:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=60312"},"modified":"2015-01-30T09:47:12","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T14:47:12","slug":"bath-dominates-in-win-over-lady-cougars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2015\/01\/30\/bath-dominates-in-win-over-lady-cougars\/","title":{"rendered":"Bath dominates in win over Lady Cougars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Van Wert independent sports<\/i><\/p>\n

LIMA — The Van Wert Lady Cougars came up against a defensive buzz saw when they visited the Bath Wildkittens on Thursday.<\/p>\n

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Van Wert’s Emma Kohn (23) attempts to drive around a Bath defender in Thursday’s WBL contest won by the Wildkittens, 55-24. (Jan Dunlap\/Van Wert independent)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Bath, who used a stifling press, held the Cougars to just 24 points in downing Van Wert 55-24 in two teams\u2019 Western Buckeye League girls\u2019 basketball match-up. Van Wert had an uncharacteristic 21 turnovers in the game.<\/p>\n

No Van Wert player was in double figures, while the Cougars\u2019 leading scorer, Erin Morrow, was held to just one three-point basket in the game. Meghan Moonshower was Van Wert\u2019s lead scorer with just 6 points.<\/p>\n

Bath sank 11 three-pointers and outrebounded the Lady Cougars 32-21, including an amazing 22 offensive rebounds.<\/p>\n

The state-ranked Wildkittens had two players in double figures, led by Maddie Dackin\u2019s 16 points. Alyssa Manley added 11 points for Bath, while Haylee Brenek scored 9 points for Bath.<\/p>\n

The Wildkittens led by 11 points, 14-3, after the first eight minutes of play and was up by 12 points, 22-10, at the half. The score was 40-17 heading into the fourth quarter after Bath outscored Van Wert 18-7 in the third stanza.<\/p>\n

With the win, the Wildkittens are now 15-1 overall and 6-0 in the WBL, while the struggling Cougars are 4-13 and 0-6 in league play.<\/p>\n

The Van Wert junior varsity team also lost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Van Wert independent sports LIMA — The Van Wert Lady Cougars came up against a defensive buzz saw when they visited the Bath Wildkittens on Thursday. Bath, who used a stifling press, held the Cougars to just 24 points in downing Van Wert 55-24 in two teams\u2019 Western Buckeye League girls\u2019 basketball match-up. Van Wert […]<\/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-60312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-07 07:01:46","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\/60312","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=60312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}