{"id":86470,"date":"2017-04-14T06:35:28","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T11:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=86470"},"modified":"2017-04-14T06:35:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T11:35:28","slug":"softball-roundup-vw-county-teams-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/04\/14\/softball-roundup-vw-county-teams-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Softball roundup: VW County teams win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Van Wert independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Van Wert 6 Ottawa-Glandorf 4<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Van Wert\u2019s softball team is on a bit of a roll. The Lady Cougars earned their second consecutive victory by topping Ottawa-Glandorf 6-4, in yesterday\u2019s Western Buckeye League action at Jubilee Park.<\/p>\n<p>Five of Van Wert\u2019s runs were scored in the fifth inning.<\/p>\n<p>Allie Hall and Lauren Moore each had two hits for the Lady Cougars, and Katlyn Dickson had a home run.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe played an all around, solid game,\u201d head coach Greg Steinecker said. \u201cLaine Spoor did well in the circle, Peyton Okuly played a great outfield and the team played great defense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With the win, the Lady Cougars improved to 3-4 (2-2 WBL).<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Lincolnview 13 Delphos Jefferson 3 (5 innings)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Lady Lancers earned their first victory of the season, with Thursday\u2019s run-shortened 13-3 five inning win over the Lady Cats. The game also marked the first career varsity win for Lincolnview head coach Kylie Owens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought the girls really stepped up their hitting game,\u201d Owens said. \u201cThey went up to the plate with confidence and the results showed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alana Looser, Morgan Miller and Lana Carey each had three hits for the Lady Lancers. Macala Ashbaugh had two hits, and Lakin Brant cracked a double and scored three runs.<\/p>\n<p>Lincolnview (1-3, 1-1 Northwest Conference) scored two runs in the first inning, three in the third, five in the fourth and three more in the fifth.<\/p>\n<p>On the mound, Ashbaugh struck out seven batters.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Crestview 14 Paulding 11<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>PAULDING \u2013 Offensive fireworks were on display, during yesterday\u2019s Northwest Conference softball game between the host Lady Panthers and the Crestview Lady Knights.<\/p>\n<p>In a game that featured 31 hits and 25 runs, Crestview came out on top 14-11.<\/p>\n<p>The Lady Knights (2-7, 1-0 NWC) finished with two home runs\u2013-a second inning grand slam by Sydney Bowen, and a two-run homer by Codi Miller, who went four for five at the plate.<\/p>\n<p>Avery McCoy, Hannah Binnion and Lexi Gregory also had multi-hit games for Crestview, and Victoria Lichtensteiger picked up the win on the mound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent sports Van Wert 6 Ottawa-Glandorf 4 Van Wert\u2019s softball team is on a bit of a roll. The Lady Cougars earned their second consecutive victory by topping Ottawa-Glandorf 6-4, in yesterday\u2019s Western Buckeye League action at Jubilee Park. Five of Van Wert\u2019s runs were scored in the fifth inning. Allie Hall and [&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-86470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 02:16:31","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\/86470","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=86470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}