{"id":84918,"date":"2017-03-01T08:59:46","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T13:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=84918"},"modified":"2017-03-01T09:13:13","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T14:13:13","slug":"cougars-get-sectional-win-over-st-marys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/03\/01\/cougars-get-sectional-win-over-st-marys\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougars get sectional win over St. Marys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DAVE MOSIER<em>\/<\/em><\/strong><em>independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n<p>PAULDING &#8212; The Van Wert Cougars got off to a rocky start, but overcame their shaky beginning to beat St. Marys 68-59 in a Division II sectional tournament game played at Paulding on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Van Wert (13-10) used a balanced offense to counter individual performances by the Roughriders\u2019 Derek Jay and Braden Dunlap, who scored 20 and 19 points, respectively, for St. Marys (8-15). Jacoby Kelly led the Cougars with 18 points, while Nate Place scored 17 points, Drew Bagley had 13 points, and Dylan Lautzenheiser added 10 points, including 7 of 9 from the free throw line, for Van Wert.<\/p>\n<p>The Roughriders got out to a quick start and led 14-7 at the end of a quarter. The Cougars recovered, though, and outscored St. Marys 22-17 in the second quarter to trial by a basket, 31-29, at the half. Both teams pumped in 17 points in the third quarter to set up an intense final stanza that saw the Cougars shoot &#8212; and make &#8212; enough free throws to ice the win.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11411\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Cougar-head-logo.jpg\" alt=\"Cougar head logo\" width=\"168\" height=\"147\" \/>Van Wert was 15 of 20 at the line in the second half, with nearly all of those coming in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the Cougars were 21 of 48 from the field (43.75 percent), including just 5 of 18 from three-point range (27.8 percent). St. Marys made 23 of 42 field goal attempts (54.8 percent), including 5 of 15 three-point attempts (33.3 percent).<\/p>\n<p>The free throw line was where Van Wert won the game, making 21 of 26 (80.8 percent) free throws, while the \u2018Riders were 8 of 13 at the charity stripe (61.5 percent).<\/p>\n<p>The Cougars also outrebounded St. Marys 28-19, but had one more turnover, 11-10, than the Roughriders.<\/p>\n<p>Van Wert will now play Elida (13-9) for a sectional title at 8 p.m. Friday, March 3. Tickets are on sale today and Thursday at Mengerink&#8217;s Source for Sports and in the athletic director&#8217;s office during regular hours.<\/p>\n<p>Bryan defeated Celina 50-41 in the first game of the night at Paulding on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Box score:<\/p>\n<p>St. Marys 14 17 17 11\u201459<\/p>\n<p>Van Wert\u00a0\u00a0 7 22 17 22\u201468<\/p>\n<p>St. Marys (59) &#8212; Braden Dunlap 19, Austin Wilker 6, Drew Jacobs 2, Colin Clements 5, Derek Jay 20, Jacob Grannan 4, Ethan Mielke 3. Totals: 23 8-13 59.<\/p>\n<p>Van Wert (68) &#8212; Jacoby Kelly 18, Nate Place 17, Nick Gutierrez 6, Dylan Lautzenheiser 10, Drew Bagley 13, Blake Henry 2. Totals: 21 21-26 68.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAVE MOSIER\/independent sports PAULDING &#8212; The Van Wert Cougars got off to a rocky start, but overcame their shaky beginning to beat St. Marys 68-59 in a Division II sectional tournament game played at Paulding on Tuesday. Van Wert (13-10) used a balanced offense to counter individual performances by the Roughriders\u2019 Derek Jay and Braden [&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-84918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 07:33:03","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\/84918","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=84918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}