{"id":86278,"date":"2017-04-11T09:03:56","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T14:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=86278"},"modified":"2017-04-11T09:06:37","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T14:06:37","slug":"van-wert-baseball-team-is-attracting-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/04\/11\/van-wert-baseball-team-is-attracting-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Wert baseball team is turning heads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong><em>independent sports editor<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Van Wert\u2019s 9-0 start to the baseball season has led to a top honor in at least one poll.<\/p>\n<p>The Cougars are ranked #1 in Ohio in Division II, according to this week\u2019s <em>Baseball Prep Report<\/em> (PBR).<\/p>\n<p>PBR holds various baseball events around the Midwest, and ranks teams and high school baseball players according to their college &amp; pro potential.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of my players had to tell me about the rankings,\u201d Van Wert head coach Charlie Whitten said. \u201cI knew they had us ranked sixth last week, but I hadn&#8217;t seen this week\u2019s rankings until one of my players told me today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have downplayed that to my kids, but I think that is a tremendous show of respect to our program, especially since we do not have any Division I kids on our roster (yet).\u201d Witten added.<\/p>\n<p>The Cougars will host St. Marys Memorial today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent sports editor Van Wert\u2019s 9-0 start to the baseball season has led to a top honor in at least one poll. The Cougars are ranked #1 in Ohio in Division II, according to this week\u2019s Baseball Prep Report (PBR). PBR holds various baseball events around the Midwest, and ranks teams and high school [&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-86278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 11:34:22","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\/86278","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=86278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}