{"id":93117,"date":"2017-09-18T05:25:40","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T10:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=93117"},"modified":"2017-09-18T05:25:40","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T10:25:40","slug":"van-wert-cc-teams-compete-at-galion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/09\/18\/van-wert-cc-teams-compete-at-galion\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Wert CC teams compete at Galion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>GALION &#8212; The Van Wert High School boys and girls cross country teams competed at the Galion Invitational on Saturday. In a highly competitive field featuring seven of the top 19 Division II teams (and missing a couple key varsity contributors) the boys took 11th place out of 27 teams. The varsity girls placed 16th in their race.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_93121\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93121\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-93121\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/KeatonBrownII.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"306\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-93121\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Keaton Brown (right) ran at the Galion Invite.<\/strong> <em>(photo submitted)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Junior Cal Wolfrum ran the strongest race of his season, returning from sickness to lead the Cougars. Wolfrum finished 19th overall, crossing the line in 16:52. Junior Gage Chiles was Van Wert\u2019s second finisher, also running a solid race, finishing in 49th place with a 17:35. Sophomore Keaton Brown battled as the team\u2019s third runner, having another outstanding race by placing 55th and running 17:45.<\/p>\n<p>Sophomore Charlie Paquette (100th, 18:40), and junior Anthony Borack (116th, 19:01) were Van Wert\u2019s fourth and fifth runners, while freshman Noah Miller (19:06) and junior Noah Carter (19:25) rounded out the team\u2019s top seven.<\/p>\n<p>Sophomore Caylee Phillips was the first finisher for the girls squad. Phillips placed 34th overall and ran a 21:19. Sophomore Ali Gemmer continued her run of strong performances by placing 79th and running 22:59.<\/p>\n<p>Sophomore Jerica Huebner (80th, 23:04), freshman Rachel Spath (106th, 23:58), and sophomore Kaylee Okuly (107th, 23:59) rounded out the scoring for the Lady Cougars. Junior Caton Williamson (24:37) and sophomore Bri Bebout (25:01) were the team\u2019s sixth and and runners.<\/p>\n<p>The teams will compete next Saturday at the Van Wert County Invitational on the grounds of the Van Wert County Hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information GALION &#8212; The Van Wert High School boys and girls cross country teams competed at the Galion Invitational on Saturday. In a highly competitive field featuring seven of the top 19 Division II teams (and missing a couple key varsity contributors) the boys took 11th place out of 27 teams. The varsity girls [&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-93117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 09:38:07","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\/93117","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=93117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}