{"id":50263,"date":"2026-02-09T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/?p=50263"},"modified":"2026-02-09T10:28:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T15:28:24","slug":"lady-panthers-earn-gmc-title-in-contested-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/lady-panthers-earn-gmc-title-in-contested-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Panthers Earn GMC Title IN Contested Match"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"666\" height=\"1265\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/PaulvsFVGB-Tori-Schlatter.jpg?fit=666%2C1265&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50264\" style=\"width:450px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Paulding Junior Tori Schlatter drives right through the defense to add two points to the Panther side of he score board. More pictures at engagingexposures.com<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"318\" height=\"1010\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/PaulvsFV-GB-Brianna-Moninger.jpg?fit=318%2C1010&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50265\" style=\"width:250px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Freshman Brianna Moninger scores from the line as she helps to guarantee a solid future for Apache girls basketball! More pictures at engagingexposures.com<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The Paulding Lady Panthers celebrated Senior Night in championship fashion Thursday night February 5th at The Jungle, defeating the Fairview Lady Apaches 72-65 to secure the GMC championship and complete an undefeated run through conference play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Paulding controlled the opening possession after winning the tip, but Fairview struck first, edging ahead 19-17 at the end of the first quarter. The Panthers responded with a strong second quarter, outscoring the Apaches 19-12 to take a 36-31 lead into halftime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The game remained tight after the break as both teams traded baskets in a physical third quarter. Paulding maintained its advantage by a single point in the frame, 18-17, pushing the lead to 54-48 heading into the final eight minutes. The Panthers closed the door in the fourth quarter, matching their third-quarter output with another 18 points while holding off Fairview\u2019s push to seal the seven-point victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">With the win, Paulding capped Senior Night with a GMC championship and finished conference play unbeaten, continuing a dominant season inside The Jungle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Paulding Lady Panthers celebrated Senior Night in championship fashion Thursday night February 5th at The Jungle, defeating the Fairview<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":50264,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,5],"tags":[28050,5217,14658,3346,11112,2910,16140],"class_list":["post-50263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-school","category-sports","tag-brianna-moninger","tag-fairview-apaches","tag-fairview-high-school","tag-paulding-high-school","tag-paulding-lady-panthers","tag-senior-night","tag-tori-schlatter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/PaulvsFVGB-Tori-Schlatter.jpg?fit=666%2C1265&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YQd9-d4H","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 02:38:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50266,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50263\/revisions\/50266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}