{"id":99888,"date":"2018-03-16T06:27:45","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T11:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=99888"},"modified":"2018-03-16T06:29:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T11:29:01","slug":"ottoville-2-mac-teams-to-play-for-state-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/03\/16\/ottoville-2-mac-teams-to-play-for-state-titles\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottoville, 2 MAC teams to play for titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Van Wert independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n<p>COLUMBUS &#8212; Two area girls&#8217; basketball teams will square off for the second time this season, with a state championship in the balance.<\/p>\n<p>Ottoville (27-2, No. 2 Associated Press poll) and Minster (25-3, No. 4 A.P. poll) will play for the Division IV state championship at 10:45 a.m. Saturday at the Jerome Schottenstein Center in Columbus.<\/p>\n<p>Ottoville advanced to the title game with a 44-25 state semifinal win over Buckeye Central, while Minster defeated A.P. poll champion Waterford 46-31.<\/p>\n<p>The Big Green and Minster played January 20, with the Lady Wildcats winning 55-54.<\/p>\n<p>MAC champion Versailles (28-1, No. 1 A.P. poll) will play for the Division III state championship, after defeating Elyria Catholic 63-47 on Thursday. The Lady Tigers will face Columbus Africentric (26-3, No. 6 A.P. poll) at 2 p.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Africentric captured a spot in the title game by beating Ottawa-Glandorf 50-37.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent sports COLUMBUS &#8212; Two area girls&#8217; basketball teams will square off for the second time this season, with a state championship in the balance. Ottoville (27-2, No. 2 Associated Press poll) and Minster (25-3, No. 4 A.P. poll) will play for the Division IV state championship at 10:45 a.m. Saturday at the [&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-99888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 13:39:32","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\/99888","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=99888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}