{"id":79279,"date":"2016-08-26T05:07:10","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T10:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=79279"},"modified":"2016-08-26T05:07:10","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T10:07:10","slug":"vw-boys-2nd-girls-11th-at-cc-tourney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2016\/08\/26\/vw-boys-2nd-girls-11th-at-cc-tourney\/","title":{"rendered":"VW boys 2nd, girls 11th at CC tourney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>VW independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n<p>HEBRON &#8212; The Van Wert High School boys\u2019 and girls\u2019 cross country teams competed in the first invitational of their respective seasons this past Saturday at the OHSAA Early Season Invitational. Held at National Trail Raceway in Hebron, site of the OHSAA State Cross Country Championship races, the invitational featured many of the top teams from around Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>The varsity boys\u2019 team brought home hardware by placing second in a field of 23 teams. The varsity girls finished in 11th place out of 21 teams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday was an opportunity to get our first race under our belts and see where we are at,\u201d said Coach Ryan Holliday. \u201cWe\u2019ve put a lot of work in over the summer and it was great to finally get out there and race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite humid and windy conditions that slowed times down, we had some great performances,\u201d Moody added. \u201cWe learned a lot about ourselves today and plan on using these races to get better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The teams will compete again this Saturday at the Delphos St. John\u2019s Blue Jay Invitational in Delphos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent sports HEBRON &#8212; The Van Wert High School boys\u2019 and girls\u2019 cross country teams competed in the first invitational of their respective seasons this past Saturday at the OHSAA Early Season Invitational. Held at National Trail Raceway in Hebron, site of the OHSAA State Cross Country Championship races, the invitational featured many of [&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-79279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-16 17:27:40","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\/79279","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=79279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}