{"id":70396,"date":"2015-11-30T08:50:53","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T13:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=70396"},"modified":"2015-11-30T08:51:33","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T13:51:33","slug":"cougar-rally-not-enough-to-beat-lancers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2015\/11\/30\/cougar-rally-not-enough-to-beat-lancers\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougar rally not enough to beat Lancers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>DAVE MOSIER\/<\/b><i>independent sports<\/i><\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t a good week for the Van Wert Cougars.<\/p>\n<p>After losing to the Crestview Knights on Friday, the Van Wert boys were edged by the Lincolnview Lancers 56-54 on Saturday in a second non-conference match-up between county rivals.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_70400\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70400\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-70400 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"Van Wert's Jacoby Kelly (5) puts in a layup over the outstretched arms of Lancer Hayden Ludwig (34) during Saturday's game won by the Lancers 56-54. (Bob Barnes\/Van Wert independent)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/VW-boys-vs.-Lincolnview-11-28-15-Ludwig-Kelly.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"479\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70400\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Van Wert&#8217;s Jacoby Kelly (5) puts in a layup over the outstretched arms of Lancer Hayden Ludwig (34) during Saturday&#8217;s game won by the Lancers 56-54.<\/strong> <em>(Bob Barnes\/Van Wert independent)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Saturday, the Cougars rallied after a slow start, but couldn\u2019t quite climb out of the 13-point hole they dug for themselves in the first quarter.<\/p>\n<p>The Lancers outscored Van Wert 22-9 in the first quarter, but the Cougars came back in the second period, scoring 17 points to 10 for Lincolnview and cut the Lancer lead to six points, 32-26. Van Wert also outscored the Lancers 28-24 in the second half, but it just wasn\u2019t enough as Lincolnview won by a basket.<\/p>\n<p>Lancer Hayden Ludwig was the game\u2019s top scorer with 18 points, while Chandler Adams added 14 points and Austin Leeth scored 9 points for Lincolnview. The Cougars had three players in double figures, led by Jacoby Kelly\u2019s 14 points. Colin Smith and Josh Braun each scored 12 points, while Ryan McCracken added 9 points for Van Wert.<\/p>\n<p>The Cougars were 20 of 47 from the field (42.6 percent), but hit only 6 of 18 three-point attempts (33.3 percent). Van Wert made 8 of 11 free throws (72.7 percent). The Lancers shot a sizzling 60 percent from the field, including 5 of 12 three-point attempts (41.6 percent). Lincolnview was less successful at the charity stripe, knocking down 9 of 14 free throws (64.3 percent).<\/p>\n<p>The Lancers had the edge in rebounds, 17-16, while Van Wert had fewer turnovers (15-18).<\/p>\n<p>The Cougars start the season 0-2, with a Western Buckeye League contest against St. Marys on December 11 the next game for Van Wert.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-70399\" alt=\"VW boys vs Lincolnview boxscore 11-2015\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/VW-boys-vs-Lincolnview-boxscore-11-2015.jpg\" width=\"545\" height=\"159\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAVE MOSIER\/independent sports It wasn\u2019t a good week for the Van Wert Cougars. After losing to the Crestview Knights on Friday, the Van Wert boys were edged by the Lincolnview Lancers 56-54 on Saturday in a second non-conference match-up between county rivals. On Saturday, the Cougars rallied after a slow start, but couldn\u2019t quite climb [&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-70396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 14:41:29","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\/70396","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=70396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}