{"id":98314,"date":"2018-02-03T07:30:16","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T12:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=98314"},"modified":"2018-02-03T07:30:45","modified_gmt":"2018-02-03T12:30:45","slug":"vw-cougars-upset-state-ranked-elida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/02\/03\/vw-cougars-upset-state-ranked-elida\/","title":{"rendered":"VW Cougars upset state ranked Elida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong><em>independent sports editor<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In case there was any doubt, the Van Wert Cougars are on a roll.<\/p>\n<p>After honoring former coach and Hall of Fame inductee Dave Froelich, the Cougars upset state-ranked Elida (No. 6 in Division II) 59-51 on Friday night. It was the sixth consecutive win for Van Wert (9-7, 3-3 Western Buckeye<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_98313\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-98313\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-98313\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/JacobyKelly2-2-18-e1517660565824.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"375\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-98313\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Jacoby Kelly splits two Elida defenders for a basket. Kelly finished the night with 15 points.<\/strong> <em>Jerry Mason for the Van Wert independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>League) and just the second loss for the Bulldogs (15-2, 4-2 WBL).<\/p>\n<p>Owen Treece and Blake Henry each hit a trey and a bucket in the opening quarter and after leading 10-4, the hosts enjoyed a 15-10 advantage at the end of the first quarter.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulldogs came on strong in the second period, with Skyler Smith hitting two triples and Donte Johnson and Skyler Smith each connecting on a pair of buckets. Henry added two baskets for Van Wert and the Cougars trailed 27-26 at halftime.<\/p>\n<p>The third quarter was big for Van Wert. The Cougars put up 19 points in the period while holding Elida to just nine. Treece led the way with two triples, a bucket and three foul shots, while Jacoby Kelly scored four of his 15 points in the quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Armed with a 45-36 lead entering the fourth quarter, the Cougars recieved five points from Drew Bagley and went five of eight from the foul line to secure the victory.<\/p>\n<p>Treece led Van Wert with 16 points, followed by Kelly (15) and Henry and Bagley (10 each).<\/p>\n<p>Elida\u2019s Daniel Unruh led all scorers with 18, including nine in the fourth quarter. Johnson chipped in with 16, with eight of those points scored in the opening period.<\/p>\n<p>Van Wert will travel to Bath on Friday and Elida will host Shawnee the same night.<\/p>\n<p>Scoring summary:<\/p>\n<p>Van Wert 15 11 19 14 \u2013 59<br \/>\nElida\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 10 17 9 15 \u2013 51<\/p>\n<p>Van Wert: Nate Place 2-2-6; Jacoby Kelly 6-2-15; Owen Treece 5-3-16; Jonathan Lee 1-0-2; Blake Henry 4-1-10; Drew Bagley 4-0-10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent sports editor In case there was any doubt, the Van Wert Cougars are on a roll. After honoring former coach and Hall of Fame inductee Dave Froelich, the Cougars upset state-ranked Elida (No. 6 in Division II) 59-51 on Friday night. It was the sixth consecutive win for Van Wert (9-7, 3-3 Western [&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-98314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 17:29:53","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\/98314","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=98314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}