{"id":85010,"date":"2017-03-04T07:03:14","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T12:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=85010"},"modified":"2017-03-04T07:04:08","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T12:04:08","slug":"cougars-end-season-with-sectional-loss-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/03\/04\/cougars-end-season-with-sectional-loss-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougars end season with sectional loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DAVE MOSIER\/<\/strong><em>independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n<p>PAULDING &#8212; The Van Wert Cougars again gave Elida a good game, but, also again, fell short to lose 64-58 in a Division II sectional semifinals game played Friday at Paulding High School.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_85011\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85011\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85011\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/VW-boys-vs.-Elida-sectional-finals-3-3-17-Gutierrez.jpg\" alt=\"Van Wert's Nick Gutierrez (12) goes up for a shot in traffic during Friday's Division II sectional finals game with Elida at Paulding High School. The Bulldogs won the game, 64-58. Bob Barnes\/Van Wert independent\" width=\"350\" height=\"474\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-85011\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Van Wert&#8217;s Nick Gutierrez (12) goes up for a shot in traffic during Friday&#8217;s Division II sectional finals game with Elida at Paulding High School. The Bulldogs won the game, 64-58.<\/strong> <em>Bob Barnes\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The main fly in the ointment on Friday was Elida\u2019s Dan Unruh, who was virtually unstoppable as he scored 32 points in the Bulldogs\u2019 win.<\/p>\n<p>The Cougars had three players in double figures, led by Nate Place\u2019s 15 points. Drew Bagley had 14 points for Van Wert, while Jacoby Kelly added 13 points.<\/p>\n<p>With the loss, the Cougars end their season at 13-11, while Elida (14-9) will play Ottawa-Glandorf in the Division II district semifinal tournament at Ohio Northern University.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulldogs led 18-13 at the end of a quarter, but the Cougars outscored Elida 16-11 to tie the game at 29-all at the half. Van Wert had a one-point lead, 45-44, at the three-quarter mark, but Elida outscored the Cougs 20-13 in the final quarter to earn the victory.<\/p>\n<p>Van Wert was 20 of 41 from the field (48.8 percent), while the Cougars made 3 of 10 three-point attempts (30 percent), and were 15 of 18 at the line (83.3 percent). Elida made 25 of 38 from the field (65.8 percent), including 4 of 10 from three-point range (40 percent). The Bulldogs made 10 of 14 free throws (71.4 percent).<\/p>\n<p>Elida won the rebounding game, 21-13, but also had more turnovers, 13-4.<\/p>\n<p>Box score<\/p>\n<p>Van Wert \u00a013 16 16 13\u201458<\/p>\n<p>Elida\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 18 11 15 20\u201464<\/p>\n<p>Van Wert (58) &#8211; Jacoby Kelly 13, Nate Place, 15, Nick Gutierrez 5, Dylan Lautzenheiser 5, Drew Bagley 14, Blake Henry 6. Totals: 30 15-18. 58.<\/p>\n<p>Elida (64) &#8212; Drew Sarno 5, Dante Johnson 8, Baylen Stinson 9, Skyler Smith 5, Dan Unruh 32, and Isaac McAdams 5. Totals: 25 10-14 64.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAVE MOSIER\/independent sports PAULDING &#8212; The Van Wert Cougars again gave Elida a good game, but, also again, fell short to lose 64-58 in a Division II sectional semifinals game played Friday at Paulding High School. The main fly in the ointment on Friday was Elida\u2019s Dan Unruh, who was virtually unstoppable as he scored [&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-85010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 23:40:20","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\/85010","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=85010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}