{"id":86024,"date":"2017-04-05T06:57:24","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T11:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=86024"},"modified":"2017-04-05T06:57:24","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T11:57:24","slug":"van-wert-opens-tennis-season-with-a-w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/04\/05\/van-wert-opens-tennis-season-with-a-w\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Wert opens tennis season with a &#8216;W&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong><em>independent sports editor<\/em><\/p>\n<p>DEFIANCE \u2013\u2013 The defending Western Buckeye League champion Van Wert Cougars began the 2017 tennis season in fine fashion by sweeping the Defiance Bulldogs 5-0 in Tuesday&#8217;s\u00a0league opener. It was also the first match of the season for the Cougars, after Monday\u2019s match against Elida was postponed due to inclement weather.<\/p>\n<p>At first singles, junior Michael Etter defeated Reece Cape 6-0, 6-0, while at second singles, senior Gabe Rollins downed Thomas Schlichting 6-0, 6-2. Senior Ryan Keber swept Defiance\u2019s Will Hancock 6-0, 6-0 at third singles.<\/p>\n<p>Van Wert\u2019s first doubles team of senior Spencer Teman and sophomore Kannen Wannemacher prevailed over Drew Klausing and Zachary Tettenhorst 6-3, 5-7, 7-5, and at second doubles, the tandem of senior Carter Eikenbary and sophomore Zach Stevens defeated Jamal Cesar and Luciano Garcia 6-0, 6-2.<\/p>\n<p>Van Wert (1-0, 1-0 WBL) will host Wapakoneta on Friday. Defiance (0-3, 0-1 WBL) is scheduled to host Ayersville today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent sports editor DEFIANCE \u2013\u2013 The defending Western Buckeye League champion Van Wert Cougars began the 2017 tennis season in fine fashion by sweeping the Defiance Bulldogs 5-0 in Tuesday&#8217;s\u00a0league opener. It was also the first match of the season for the Cougars, after Monday\u2019s match against Elida was postponed due to inclement weather. [&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-86024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 22:40:28","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\/86024","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=86024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}