{"id":97699,"date":"2018-01-19T06:16:55","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T11:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=97699"},"modified":"2018-01-19T06:20:50","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T11:20:50","slug":"langes-pin-lifts-van-wert-past-shawnee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/01\/19\/langes-pin-lifts-van-wert-past-shawnee\/","title":{"rendered":"Lange&#8217;s pin lifts Van Wert past Shawnee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Van Wert independent sports\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It went down to the final match of the night, and sophomore Ben Lange was the hero in Van Wert&#8217;s\u00a0 exciting come from behind 31-30 wrestling win over Western Buckeye League foe Shawnee on Thursday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_97694\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97694\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-97694\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/BenLange1-19-18-e1516358946278.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"148\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-97694\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Ben Lange won the final match of the night to give Van Wert a team win over Shawnee.<\/strong> <em>Photo by Jerry Mason for the Van Wert independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The match started with the 126 pound weight class, where Van Wert senior Josh Dorsch scored a bonus point with a major decision (12-1) over Dylan Kohlhorst.<\/p>\n<p>After a double forfeit at 132, Van Wert picked up 12 team points when sophomore Gabe Steyer (138) pinned Owen Burgess in 1:10 and Isaiah Bretz (145) pinned Trent Fairburn in 4:15.<\/p>\n<p>Shawnee captured the next three matches to pull within one, 16-15. Cain Bentz defeated Ryan Pratt (152) 9-4, Ethan Anderson pinned Malachi Battle (160) in 4:22 and Clay Adlesh pinned Dale Hammons in 2:19.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Trevor Spridgeon (182) used a last second reversal to beat Howie Perkins, then a double forfeit occurred in the 195 pound weight class, followed by junior Lloyd Eutsler\u2019s (220) pin of Adam Lewis in 2:19 to increase Van Wert\u2019s team lead to 25-15.<\/p>\n<p>The Indians won the next two matches by forfeit (285 and 106) before Cory Beach defeated Killian Suddith 10-4 to stretch Shawnee\u2019s advantage to 30-25.<\/p>\n<p>That set the stage for Lange. In the final match of the night, the 120 pound sophomore pinned Chris Paysen in 1:19 to secure the win for the Cougars. It was the second straight time Van Wert rallied to defeat a Western Buckeye League opponent.<\/p>\n<p>The Cougars will travel to Kenton next Thursday before participating in the Wapakoneta Invitational two days later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent sports\/submitted information It went down to the final match of the night, and sophomore Ben Lange was the hero in Van Wert&#8217;s\u00a0 exciting come from behind 31-30 wrestling win over Western Buckeye League foe Shawnee on Thursday. The match started with the 126 pound weight class, where Van Wert senior Josh Dorsch [&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-97699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 22:33:06","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\/97699","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=97699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}