{"id":68096,"date":"2015-09-19T07:54:06","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T12:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=68096"},"modified":"2015-09-19T07:54:32","modified_gmt":"2015-09-19T12:54:32","slug":"cougars-get-first-wbl-win-over-shawnee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2015\/09\/19\/cougars-get-first-wbl-win-over-shawnee\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougars get first WBL win, beat Shawnee"},"content":{"rendered":"

DAVE MOSIER\/<\/b>independent sports<\/i><\/p>\n

SHAWNEE TOWNSHIP — The Van Wert Cougar football team finally got a Western Buckeye League win, running over Shawnee 35-8 on Friday at Shawnee.<\/p>\n

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Van Wert’s Nick Gutierrez (12) finds some running room during Friday night’s game with Shawnee. The Cougars won the WBL contest 35-8.<\/strong> (Jan Dunlap\/Van Wert independent)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Cougar quarterback Colin Smith did much of the damage, running for three touchdowns and passing for a fourth TD in the win. The Van Wert defense also got in on the scoring with an interception for a touchdown in the first quarter, and the Cougars scored 35 unanswered points before the Indians got a 93-yard run early in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n

Van Wert scored its first touchdown on an 8-yard run by Smith, while Gavin Gardner kicked the first of his five extra points to make it 7-0, Cougars.<\/p>\n

Just shy of four minutes later, Kris Hart grabbed a Shawnee pass for a \u201cpick six\u201d with 4:20 remaining in the first quarter. Gardner kicked the PAT and it was 14-0, Cougars.<\/p>\n

Van Wert scored at the 9:50 mark of the second quarter when Smith ran 36 yards for a score. Gardner kicked the point-after to make it 21-0, Cougars.<\/p>\n

Smith passed for the next Van Wert score, hitting favorite target Ryan Stoller for a 44-yard touchdown pass with 4:44 remaining in the first half. Gardner again kicked the PAT to make it 28-0, Cougars.<\/p>\n

Van Wert\u2019s last TD came on an 86-yard scamper by Smith with 6:37 remaining in the third quarter. Gardner put one through the uprights to give the Cougars a 35-point lead.<\/p>\n

Shawnee\u2019s only score came with 11:40 remaining in the game when Jalen Bagley ran for 93 yards for the TD. Drew Askin ran for the two-point conversion to make the final score 35-8.<\/p>\n

The Cougars had 488 yards of total offense, with 367 yards coming on the ground, via 40 rushes. Shawnee had 391 yards, 357 of that on the ground.<\/p>\n

Smith was the leading rusher with 170 yards on 10 rushes, a 17-yard average, and three touchdowns. Justice Tussing rushed 12 times for 93 yards, while Hart had 12 rushes for 69 yards for Van Wert.<\/p>\n

Bagley was Shawnee\u2019s top rusher with 11 carries for 144 yards and a TD.<\/p>\n

Stoller was the game\u2019s leading receiver with two catches for 60 yards and one touchdown.<\/p>\n

With the win, the Cougars are now 2-2 overall and 1-2 in the WBL. Shawnee is 0-4 overall and 0-3 in league play.<\/p>\n

Van Wert will host Lima Bath next Friday in a match-up of middle-ranked WBL teams. Like the Cougars, Bath is 2-2 overall and 1-2 in the WBL.<\/p>\n

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DAVE MOSIER\/independent sports SHAWNEE TOWNSHIP — The Van Wert Cougar football team finally got a Western Buckeye League win, running over Shawnee 35-8 on Friday at Shawnee. Cougar quarterback Colin Smith did much of the damage, running for three touchdowns and passing for a fourth TD in the win. The Van Wert defense also got […]<\/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-68096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 13:31:23","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\/68096","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=68096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}