{"id":87277,"date":"2017-05-03T07:46:07","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T12:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=87277"},"modified":"2017-05-03T07:46:07","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T12:46:07","slug":"lady-cougars-defeat-the-lady-bulldogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/05\/03\/lady-cougars-defeat-the-lady-bulldogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Cougars defeat the Lady Bulldogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong><em>independent sports editor<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It was the final regular season home game for Van Wert\u2019s seniors, and they went out in style.<\/p>\n<p>The Lady Cougars raced out to a 4-0 advantage in the first inning, and never relinquished the lead in Tuesday\u2019s 11-3 win over Celina.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_87282\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87282\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/SBV5-2-17-1-e1493815428906.jpg\" alt=\"Van Wert's Allison Kennedy is ready to advance to third base. Scott Truxell\/Van Wert independent\" width=\"300\" height=\"241\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-87282\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Van Wert&#8217;s Allison Kennedy is ready to advance to third base.<\/strong> <em>Scott Truxell\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One of the seniors, Kateri Steinecker got things rolling in the first inning, with a two-run home run to left field. Later in the inning, senior Allie Hall was hit by a pitch and forced in a run with the bases loaded, then senior Allison Kennedy accounted for the fourth run, when she crossed home plate on Katlyn Coplin\u2019s RBI single.<\/p>\n<p>Van Wert (8-9, 4-5 WBL) added a run in the second inning, when a bases loaded wild pitch allowed Steinecker to score from third to make it 5-0.<\/p>\n<p>Celina (5-12, 2-5 WBL) scored two runs in the third inning, but the Lady Cougars scored four more in the bottom of the fourth.<\/p>\n<p>With the bases loaded, Dickson scored on an error, then Kennedy scored her second run on a bunt by Jaden Wagner. Senior Olivia Profit and Coplin also scored to increase Van Wert\u2019s lead to 9-2.<\/p>\n<p>The Lady Cougars used back to back bases loaded walks in the sixth to make it 11-2, and Celina scored one run in the top of the seventh.<\/p>\n<p>Steinecker finished with three hits, including the opening inning home run and a double, and she earned the win on the mound, allowing Celina\u2019s three runs on eight hits, while fanning three and walking three.<\/p>\n<p>Dickson finished with three hits, while Kennedy, Profit and Coplin each had two.<\/p>\n<p>Van Wert will visit Crestview today, with the game scheduled to start at 4:30.<\/p>\n<p>Box score<\/p>\n<p>Celina \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0002 000 1\u20133<br \/>\nVan Wert \u00a0410 402 x-11<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent sports editor It was the final regular season home game for Van Wert\u2019s seniors, and they went out in style. The Lady Cougars raced out to a 4-0 advantage in the first inning, and never relinquished the lead in Tuesday\u2019s 11-3 win over Celina. One of the seniors, Kateri Steinecker got things rolling [&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-87277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 11:01:25","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\/87277","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=87277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}