{"id":86193,"date":"2017-04-10T08:14:18","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T13:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=86193"},"modified":"2017-04-10T08:14:18","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T13:14:18","slug":"van-wert-tennis-team-falls-to-lexington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/04\/10\/van-wert-tennis-team-falls-to-lexington\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Wert tennis team falls to Lexington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong><em>independent sports editor<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Van Wert Cougars suffered their first loss of the season Saturday, falling to traditional state power Lexington 5-0 in the opening round of the Ohio Tennis Coaches Association tournament.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_86227\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86227\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-86227 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/VW-tennis-vs.-Lexington-4-8-17-Michael-Etter.jpg\" alt=\"VW tennis vs. Lexington 4-8-17-Michael Etter\" width=\"350\" height=\"316\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-86227\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Cougar No. 1 singles player Michael Etter gets ready to return a volley during Van Wert&#8217;s match against Lexington on Saturday.<\/strong> <em>Scott Truxell\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe got some great experience,\u201d co-head coach Chuck Rollins said. \u201cWe were able to battle against guys at every position that were a little bit better. It\u2019s the first test we&#8217;ve had in our young season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re really hoping they can learn from that experience, as we go into our WBL season,\u201d Rollins added.<\/p>\n<p>At first singles, Van Wert\u2019s Michael Etter fell to Luke Webster 6-1, 6-2, and at second singles, Lexington\u2019s defeated Gabe Rollins 6-2, 6-2. Ryan Keber lost to Benton Drake 6-0, 6-1 in third singles action.<\/p>\n<p>The Minutemen swept through doubles play as well, with Mike Saloamoff and Brent Webster beating the tandem of Spencer Teman and Kannen Wannemacher 6-1, 6-1, and Ajitt Venk and Budanek topping Van Wert\u2019s Carter Eikenbary and Zach Stevens 6-1, 6-2.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe games were close and competitive, even though the scores sound a little more lopsided than the play was,\u201d Rollins explained. \u201cThe singles kids really fought well and played some good tennis, but were a little bit outmatched.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur doubles teams played better as their matches went along, so that\u2019s something we can take out of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Van Wert (2-1) will host Bluffton today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent sports editor The Van Wert Cougars suffered their first loss of the season Saturday, falling to traditional state power Lexington 5-0 in the opening round of the Ohio Tennis Coaches Association tournament. \u201cWe got some great experience,\u201d co-head coach Chuck Rollins said. \u201cWe were able to battle against guys at every position that [&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-86193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 15:20:05","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\/86193","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=86193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}