{"id":86931,"date":"2017-04-26T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=86931"},"modified":"2017-04-27T07:58:13","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T12:58:13","slug":"cougars-defeat-elida-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/04\/26\/cougars-defeat-elida-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Wert 9 defeat Bulldogs at home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong><em>independent sports editor<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_86929\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86929\" style=\"width: 211px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-86929\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/JL4-25-17-211x600.jpg\" alt=\"Jonathon Lee scores a run in the second inning for the Cougars. Scott Truxell\/Van Wert independent\" width=\"211\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/JL4-25-17-211x600.jpg 211w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/JL4-25-17.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-86929\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Jonathon Lee scores a run in the second inning for the Cougars.<\/strong> <em>Scott Truxell\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Caleb Fetzer tossed a three-hit shutout, and the Van Wert Cougars defeated the Elida Bulldogs 3-0 in Tuesday\u2019s Western Buckeye League baseball action at Russell Fisher Field.<\/p>\n<p>Fetzer earned the complete game victory by striking out seven, and walking just one, as the Cougars improved to 14-4 (3-3 WBL). Elida dropped to 5-14 (0-7 WBL).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe finally got himself right,\u201d Van Wert head coach Charlie Witten said of Fetzer. \u201cHe\u2019s been struggling with his control, but had a great outing for us today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Offensively, Van Wert scored single runs in the second, third and fifth innings. With two outs in the second inning, Jonathon Lee singled, stole second, then scored on a fly ball by Jake Lautzenheiser.<\/p>\n<p>In the third inning, the Cougars used two doubles to increase the lead to 2-0. Mason Carr opened the inning with a two-bagger to left field, then scored when Nathan Temple drove a two-out double to center field.<\/p>\n<p>In the fifth inning, Lautzenheiser\u2019s two-out single scored Lee for the final run of the contest. Lautzenheiser led the Cougars with two of Van Wert\u2019s six hits, and two RBI.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s one of the sophomores we brought up, and he\u2019s very capable of swinging the bat, and he had a couple of big hits for us today,\u201d Witten said.<\/p>\n<p>The Cougars will head to Convoy today, for a non-conference matchup against the Crestview Knights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a lot of respect for Jim (Wharton) and the Crestview kids, and we look forward to having a good ballgame with them,\u201d Witten said.<\/p>\n<p>Box score:<\/p>\n<p>Elida 000 000 0\u2013-0<br \/>\nVan Wert 011 010 x\u2013-3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent sports editor Caleb Fetzer tossed a three-hit shutout, and the Van Wert Cougars defeated the Elida Bulldogs 3-0 in Tuesday\u2019s Western Buckeye League baseball action at Russell Fisher Field. Fetzer earned the complete game victory by striking out seven, and walking just one, as the Cougars improved to 14-4 (3-3 WBL). Elida dropped [&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-86931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 09:35:04","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\/86931","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=86931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}