{"id":93606,"date":"2017-09-28T06:37:22","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T11:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=93606"},"modified":"2017-09-28T06:37:22","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T11:37:22","slug":"van-wert-runs-at-centerville-invitational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/09\/28\/van-wert-runs-at-centerville-invitational\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Wert runs at Centerville Invitational"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>VW independent sports\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Van Wert High School boys varsity cross country team competed last Saturday at one of Ohio\u2019s top meets as they raced at Centerville\u2019s Saturday Night Lights.<\/p>\n<p>The squad placed a respectable 11th out of 32 teams in the \u201cVarsity A\u201d race which featured not just many strong Division II teams from around the state, but also the \u201cB\u201d squads of some of the best Division I schools in Ohio.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_93604\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93604\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-93604\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/VWCC9-28-17.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-93604\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Van Wert competed at the Centerville Invite.<\/strong> <em>Photo submitted<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Junior Cal Wolfrum once again led the charge for the Cougars, placing 11th out of 283 runners. Wolfrum also passed 39 other competitors from mile one to the finish, including 20 in the last mile.<\/p>\n<p>Van Wert\u2019s next three finishers came across the line within five seconds of one another. Sophomore Keaton Brown, junior Gage Chiles, and junior Anthony Borack placed 63rd, 72nd, and 74th, respectively. The trio passed 62, 22, and 49 other racers, respectively, from mile one to the finish. They also passed 27, 17, and 14 competitors each in the last mile.<\/p>\n<p>Sophomore Charlie Pauquette was the team\u2019s final scorer, placing 126th and catching 68 runners from mile one to finish, including nine in the last mile.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was really proud of how we raced,\u201d said Coach Ryan Holliday. \u201cThis year we\u2019ve been trying to improve our racing strategy of running together and finishing strong in the last half of the race, and this was the best we\u2019ve done all season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Van Wert\u2019s varsity boys and girls cross country squads will compete October 7 at another highly competitive meet in Worthington. The junior varsity teams will race October 5 at the Coldwater Invitational.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent sports\/submitted information The Van Wert High School boys varsity cross country team competed last Saturday at one of Ohio\u2019s top meets as they raced at Centerville\u2019s Saturday Night Lights. The squad placed a respectable 11th out of 32 teams in the \u201cVarsity A\u201d race which featured not just many strong Division II teams [&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-93606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-21 21:26:57","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\/93606","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=93606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}