{"id":86180,"date":"2017-04-08T05:37:03","date_gmt":"2017-04-08T10:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=86180"},"modified":"2017-04-08T05:37:03","modified_gmt":"2017-04-08T10:37:03","slug":"cougar-tennis-team-wins-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/04\/08\/cougar-tennis-team-wins-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougar tennis team wins again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong><em>independent sports editor<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Van Wert Cougars made it two-for-two on the young tennis season, with Friday\u2019s 4-1 home victory over Western Buckeye League foe Wapakoneta.<\/p>\n<p>The defending WBL champion Cougars convincingly won all three singles matches. Michael Etter defeated Jeffery Atkins in two sets, 6-3, 6-3. At second singles, Van Wert\u2019s Gabe Rollins topped Bryce Schlenker 6-0, 6-3, and at third singles, Ryan Keber was victorious over Paul Fohrman 6-3, 6-0.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday\u2019s first doubles match proved to be more challenging. Wapakoneta\u2019s David Hoer and Jordan Moening won the first set 7-6, but the Van Wert tandem of Spencer Teman and Kannen Wannemacher rebounded with hard fought sets of 6-3 and 6-4 to win the match.<\/p>\n<p>The second doubles match was won by the Redskins, as Austin Birkmeier and John Doll defeated Van Wert\u2019s Carter Eikenbary and Zach Stevens 6-3, 6-4.<\/p>\n<p>Van Wert (2-0, 2-0 WBL) will host traditional state power Lexington at 11 this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent sports editor The Van Wert Cougars made it two-for-two on the young tennis season, with Friday\u2019s 4-1 home victory over Western Buckeye League foe Wapakoneta. The defending WBL champion Cougars convincingly won all three singles matches. Michael Etter defeated Jeffery Atkins in two sets, 6-3, 6-3. At second singles, Van Wert\u2019s Gabe Rollins [&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-86180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 17:24:10","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\/86180","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=86180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}