{"id":94486,"date":"2017-10-21T07:14:53","date_gmt":"2017-10-21T12:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=94486"},"modified":"2017-10-21T07:15:25","modified_gmt":"2017-10-21T12:15:25","slug":"cougars-fall-to-celina-in-home-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/10\/21\/cougars-fall-to-celina-in-home-finale\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougars fall to Celina in home finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong><em>independent sports editor<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Brett Schwieterman threw six touchdown passes and led the Celina Bulldogs to a 63-21 Western Buckeye League victory over Van Wert on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The loss dropped the Cougars to 4-5 (3-5 WBL) and ended Van Wert\u2019s slim playoff hopes. Celina improved to 6-3 (6-2 WBL).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_94485\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94485\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-94485\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/TannerBarnhart10-21-17.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"599\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-94485\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Tanner Barnhart returns a kickoff for Van Wert.<\/strong> <em>Jerry Mason for the Van Wert independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Schwieterman\u2019s touchdowns passes spanned 43, 37, 90, 12, 61 and 20 yards. He finished the game 13 of 15 for 340 yards, and he rushed 18 times for 141 yards.<\/p>\n<p>Celina put the game away early by racing to a 28-7 first quarter lead. The Bulldogs found paydirt 90 seconds into the first quarter, when Schweiterman hit Dillon Hoying for a 43 yard touchdown, then the senior quarterback connected with Kole Murlin for a 37 yard touchdown with 8:05 left in the quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Kyle Zizleman ran 16 yards for a touchdown with 5:59 left, then Schwieterman threw his third touchdown pass of the quarter, a 90 yarder to Hoying with 2:40 showing on the first quarter clock.<\/p>\n<p>The Cougars answered with a 72-yard touchdown pass from Jake Hilleary to Jacoby Kelly with 2:22 left in the quarter. Hilleary got the start, because Nate Place was unable to play due to an illness.<\/p>\n<p>Celina scored just 23 seconds into the second quarter, when Schwieterman found Murlin from 12 yards out to put the Bulldogs up 35-7.<\/p>\n<p>Van Wert answered with a two yard touchdown run by Hilleary, but Schwieterman connected with Murlin again for a 61 yard touchdown with 1:50 left until halftime.<\/p>\n<p>Murlin opened the scoring in the third quarter with a 10 yard run, but the Cougars responded with a 21-yard touchdown pass from Owen Treece to Kelly to make it 49-21.<\/p>\n<p>Celina scored twice more in the fourth quarter. Schwieterman hit Murlin early on for 20 yards, then Branson Miller scored from seven yards out with less than two minutes left.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->\u201cWe had a couple of good drives on offense and some stops defensively, but we got in a hole and could never change the momentum back in our favor,\u201d head coach Keith Recker said. \u201cThey outplayed us in all three phases of the game tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Murlin finished the game with eight receptions for 175 yards and four touchdowns, and he ran three times for 27 yards and a score. Holying had four catches for 147 yards and two touchdowns. Zizleman finished with 16 carries for 62 yards and a touchdown.<\/p>\n<p>For the Cougars, Hilleary was 8 of 18 passing for 121 yards and a touchdown, while Treece was 5 of 8 for 45 yards and a score. Hilleary was Van Wert\u2019s leading rusher with 14 carries for 30 yards and a touchdown. Jacoby Kelly had six receptions for 116 yards, and Drew Bagley finished with six catches for 44 yards.<\/p>\n<p>Celina will play at Shawnee on Friday, while the Cougars will travel to Defiance.<\/p>\n<p>Scoring summary:<\/p>\n<p>10:30 1 qtr CHS: Brett Schwieterman 43 yard pass to Dillon Hoying (Kole Murlin kick)<br \/>\n8:05 1 qtr CHS: Brett Schwieterman 37 yard pass to Kole Murlin (Kole Murlin kick)<br \/>\n5:59 1 qtr CHS: Kyle Zizleman 14 yard run (Kole Murlin kick)<br \/>\n2:40 1 qtr CHS: Brett Schwieterman 90 yard pass to Dillon Hoying (Kole Murlin kick)<br \/>\n2:22 1 qtr VW: Jake Hilleary 72 yard pass to Jacoby Kelly (Jake Lautzenheiser kick)<br \/>\n11:37 2 qtr CHS: Brett Schwieterman 12 yard pass to Kole Murlin (Kole Murlin kick)<br \/>\n7:26 2 qtr VW: Jake Hilleary 2 yard run (Jake Lautzenheiser kick)<br \/>\n1:50 2 qtr CHS: Brett Schwieterman 61 yard pass to Kole Murlin (Kole Murlin kick)<br \/>\n7:55 3 qtr CHS: Kole Murlin 10 yard run (Kole Murlin kick)<br \/>\n1:29 3 qtr VW: Owen Treece 21 yard pass to Jacoby Kelly (Jake Lautzenheiser kick)<br \/>\n11:15 4 qtr CHS: Brett Schwieterman 20 yard pass to Kole Murlin (Kole Murlin kick)<br \/>\n1:50 4 qtr CHS: Bransen Miller 7 yard run (Kole Murlin kick)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent sports editor Brett Schwieterman threw six touchdown passes and led the Celina Bulldogs to a 63-21 Western Buckeye League victory over Van Wert on Friday. The loss dropped the Cougars to 4-5 (3-5 WBL) and ended Van Wert\u2019s slim playoff hopes. Celina improved to 6-3 (6-2 WBL). Schwieterman\u2019s touchdowns passes spanned 43, 37, [&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-94486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-09 18:09:48","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\/94486","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=94486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}