{"id":73257,"date":"2016-02-09T09:22:39","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T14:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=73257"},"modified":"2016-02-09T09:22:39","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T14:22:39","slug":"vw-loses-to-lcc-knights-down-raiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2016\/02\/09\/vw-loses-to-lcc-knights-down-raiders\/","title":{"rendered":"VW loses to LCC, Knights down Raiders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Van Wert independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Van Wert Lady Cougars had another rough outing, losing to Lima Central Catholic 60-44 in a non-conference game played Monday in the Cougars\u2019 Den.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_73258\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-73258\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-73258\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/VW-girls-vs.-LCC-2-8-16-Abby-Jackson.jpg\" alt=\"Lady Cougar Abby Jackson (12) puts in a layup during Monday's game against LCC. The Lady T-Birds won the contest, 60-44. (Bob Barnes\/Van Wert independent)\" width=\"300\" height=\"494\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-73258\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Lady Cougar Abby Jackson (12) puts in a layup during Monday&#8217;s game against LCC. The Lady T-Birds won the contest, 60-44.<\/strong> <em>(Bob Barnes\/Van Wert independent)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Van Wert stayed close in the first quarter, trailing by five points, 14-9, but a 22-4 second-quarter run by the Lady Thunderbirds put them up by 23, 36-13, at the half.<\/p>\n<p>The Cougars did better in the second half, outscoring LCC 31-24 in the half, but couldn\u2019t overcome their disastrous second quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Abby Jackson led Van Wert with 12 points, while Ally Jackson scored 7 for the Cougars. Cassidy Meyers was held to 4 points on the night. LCC had three players in double figures, led by Natalie Snider\u2019s 23 points. Samantha Koenig added 12 points, while Madison Stolly scored 11 for the Lady T-Birds.<\/p>\n<p>The young Cougars are now 0-21 for the year.<\/p>\n<p>The Van Wert junior varsity squad almost pulled off an upset, losing by just a basket, 35-33, to the LCC JVs. The Cougar JVs are now 2-18 on the year.<\/p>\n<p>Crestview\u2019s Lady Knights used a balanced offensive effort to defeat non-conference opponent Wayne Trace 59-49 on Monday and improve their record to 15-4 on the year.<\/p>\n<p>Emily Bauer led the Knights with 15 points, while Paige Motycka, Claire Zaleski, and Brady Guest each scored 11 for Crestview. Lyvia Black had 9 points for the Knights, with all of her scoring coming on three-pointers.<\/p>\n<p>Erin Mohr led the Raiders &#8212; and all scorers &#8212; with 17 points, while Danae Myers added 12 points for Wayne Trace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent sports The Van Wert Lady Cougars had another rough outing, losing to Lima Central Catholic 60-44 in a non-conference game played Monday in the Cougars\u2019 Den. Van Wert stayed close in the first quarter, trailing by five points, 14-9, but a 22-4 second-quarter run by the Lady Thunderbirds put them up by [&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-73257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 06:21:47","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\/73257","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=73257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}