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VAN WERT — The Van Wert Lady Cougar basketball team hosted Spencerville Tuesday in a non-conference showdown in which each team entered hungry for its second win of the season - and it showed, as the teams battled down to the wire.
In the end, it was Van Wert who came away with a 71-65 shootout victory.

“It’s a win and we needed one,” explained Van Wert coach Lance Moonshower. “We had a tough (game) last week that we thought we could have stolen. It wasn’t the prettiest but we don’t really care at this point. Right now we need something to build on and this was something to build on.”

Though the Lady Bearcats scored 65 points of their own, Coach Warren Pughsley explained that 71 was too many points to give up defensively: “It was definitely a hard-fought game but there was too much scoring. We don’t have the basketball IQ yet to be able to match a team that wants to score that many points. Our goal was to hold our opponent to 45 to 50. If we would have done that, we would have been victorious.”