{"id":90040,"date":"2017-07-10T08:54:07","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T13:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=90040"},"modified":"2017-07-10T08:54:07","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T13:54:07","slug":"van-werts-acme-season-ends-at-districts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/07\/10\/van-werts-acme-season-ends-at-districts\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Wert&#8217;s ACME season ends at districts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Van Wert independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n<p>ELIDA &#8212; Van Wert\u2019s ACME baseball season came to an end after two losses at Saturday\u2019s district competition.<\/p>\n<p>Elida used an eighth inning bases loaded walk to defeat the Cougars 7-6, then the Cougars lost to Shawnee 10-5.<\/p>\n<p>In the first game, it was 2-2 entering the eighth inning. Jalen McCracken\u2019s RBI double scored Gabe Steyer and Haden Maples, then McCracken scored on a double by Parker Conrad to make it 5-2. After an out, Jonathon Lee hit Van Wert\u2019s third two-bagger of the inning that scored pinch runner Keaton Brown for a 6-2 advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Elida responded with five runs in the bottom of the inning \u2013 including the game winning bases loaded walk \u2013 all with two outs.<\/p>\n<p>McCracken led the Cougars with three hits and three RBI.<\/p>\n<p>In the elimination game, Van Wert (15-4) pounded out 16 hits and five runs, but gave up three runs in the sixth and three more in the seventh and lost to Shawnee 10-5.<\/p>\n<p>Lawson Blackmore paced the Cougars with four hits, and Lee finished with three. Conrad, Darius Eddins and Nathan Temple each had a pair of hits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent sports ELIDA &#8212; Van Wert\u2019s ACME baseball season came to an end after two losses at Saturday\u2019s district competition. Elida used an eighth inning bases loaded walk to defeat the Cougars 7-6, then the Cougars lost to Shawnee 10-5. In the first game, it was 2-2 entering the eighth inning. Jalen McCracken\u2019s [&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-90040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 08:31:37","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\/90040","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=90040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}