{"id":571298,"date":"2026-03-29T03:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T03:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/571298\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T03:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T03:52:08","slug":"mt-vernon-boys-basketball-wins-programs-first-state-title-indianapolis-news-indiana-weather-indiana-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/571298\/","title":{"rendered":"Mt. Vernon boys basketball wins program&#8217;s first state title &#8211; Indianapolis News | Indiana Weather | Indiana Traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) \u2014 The Mt. Vernon High School boys basketball team has accomplished something it hasn\u2019t done before \u2013 win a state championship. <\/p>\n<p>The Marauders beat Crown Point 52-50 on Saturday night in the IHSAA 4A State Championship Game inside Gainbridge Fieldhouse. It\u2019s the program\u2019s first-ever state title.<\/p>\n<p>Mt. Vernon senior guard Luke Ertel, the favorite to win Indiana Mr. Basketball, finished with a game-high 26 points. He also finished with 10 rebounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) \u2014 The Mt. Vernon High School boys basketball team has accomplished something it hasn\u2019t done before&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-571298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}