{"id":79620,"date":"2016-09-06T07:27:26","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T12:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=79620"},"modified":"2016-09-06T07:27:26","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T12:27:26","slug":"lancer-boys-2nd-girls-4th-at-cg-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2016\/09\/06\/lancer-boys-2nd-girls-4th-at-cg-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"Lancer boys 2nd, girls 4th at CG meet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Van Wert independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n<p>COLUMBUS GROVE &#8212; The Lancer cross country teams competed in the Columbus Grove Invitational on Saturday.\u00a0 Both teams ran very well, with the boys\u2019 team taking home the runner-up trophy, losing by only one point to Carey, 89-90.\u00a0 The girls team also ran well and placed fourth overall.\u00a0There were over 20 schools in each of the races for the Lancers.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_79621\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-79621\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-79621\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Lincolnview-CC-girls-9-3-16.jpg\" alt=\"The Lincolnview varsity girls' cross country team at Columbus Grove (photos submitted)\" width=\"330\" height=\"390\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-79621\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>The Lincolnview varsity girls&#8217; cross country team at Columbus Grove.<\/strong> <em>(photos submitted)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The boys were led by two strong races from Karter Tow and Austin Elick.\u00a0Tow placed seventh overall (17:04), and with a nearly identical time Elick placed eighth (17:04).\u00a0Tracey West was 16th (17:27), Alek Bowersock was 29th (17:49), and Jacob Keysor placed 32nd (17:55).<\/p>\n<p>Rounding out the varsity spots were two freshmen: Devon Bill in 49th place (18:20) and Joe Sadowski placing fourth in the JV race in a time of 18:54.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe boys ran well today; we had great conditions on a fast course, so we expected to run some quick times,\u201d said Lincolnview Head Coach Matt Langdon. \u201cThey put the work into the course, ran a smart race, and finished strong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s always tough to lose by one, but it just reminds us how good the competition can be and that we still need to keep working hard to reach our season goals,\u201d Coach Langdon added.\u00a0\u201cWe have to guard against becoming satisfied; there is a long way to go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The girls were led by Rylee Byrne, who placed 19th overall in a time of 21:22.\u00a0 She was followed by freshman Tori Snyder, who placed 26th (21:59); Alena Looser, who was 27th (22:03); Abbie Enyart, 51st (23:21); and Madeline Snyder, 56th (23:33).\u00a0Rounding out the varsity were Miah Katalenas, 98th (25:25), and Ryanne Ducheney (26:26).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe girls took another step forward today; we were able to get one of our top five girls back from injury, which made a significant difference in our team score,\u201d Coach Langdon noted.\u00a0\u201cWe still have a lot of work to do, but I think the girls realize that they can be successful as a team if everyone races with urgency.\u00a0We still need to get healthy, but this was a positive day for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_79622\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-79622\" style=\"width: 545px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-79622\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Lincolnview-CC-boys-at-CG-9-3-16.jpg\" alt=\"The Lincolnview boys' varsity cross country team at Columbus Grove.\" width=\"545\" height=\"313\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-79622\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>The Lincolnview boys&#8217; varsity cross country team at Columbus Grove.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent sports COLUMBUS GROVE &#8212; The Lancer cross country teams competed in the Columbus Grove Invitational on Saturday.\u00a0 Both teams ran very well, with the boys\u2019 team taking home the runner-up trophy, losing by only one point to Carey, 89-90.\u00a0 The girls team also ran well and placed fourth overall.\u00a0There were over 20 [&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-79620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 06:36:10","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\/79620","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=79620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}