December 2018

KNIGHT Basketball Concludes Until After Break

The WMS 7/8 Girls & Boys Basketball squads saw their last action for "2018" Monday evening, the boys hosted Ark City, the girls played away. Here are the outcomes and present "overall season" records:

BOYS - HERE

8A Ark City 33 WMS 45 (2-0)
Jack Wright 14, Cope Henry 12, Montel Tate 9, Makhi Haskins-Ybarra 4, Jax Cornejo 3, Banks  Hinshaw 3
8B Ark City 52 WMS 21 (2-0)
Carson Nugen 10, Caleb Sanders 3, Colten Henning 3, Jaxson Irey 3, Hunter Lough 2

Sr. Ironduke DeAndre Washington Selected to Shrine Bowl!

Congratulations to WHS SR IRONDUKE DeAndre Washington for his selection to the 2019 Kansas Shrine Bowl! He joins a pretty elite group of individuals, including the following WELLINGTON CRUSADERS & COACHES (since 1974)

PLAYERS

2003 - Tim Lira

2002 - Justin Wagoner & Taylor Zeka

2001 - Eric Wiedower

1997 - Jason Burnett

1996 - Jacob Zeka

1994 - David Heath

1993 - Lance Russell

1992 - Chad Fuller

1983 - Damon Jones & Scott Weber

1982 - Linn Hibbs

Lady Knights Win 3 of 4 @ Home Opener Thursday!

The season opened on Thursday for the Lady Knight and Knight basketball squads, the former hosted Winfield, the latter traveled. Here at HOME, the Lady Knights put up "W's" in 3 of their 4 contests - here are those results:

7A Winfield 24 Wellington 8
Lyric Cornejo 6
Kate Haines 2

7B Winfield 14 Wellington 16
Jade Pearson 4
Madison Baker 4
Shaelynn Dorsey 4
Isebelle Cullens 2
Deighlynn Lea 2

WHS Boys Basketball Win 1 of 3 Tuesday

The evening started out well, the WHS Boy's "C" Team downed their ROCKET counterparts by the final score of 45-43. Korbin Jones lit it up for 16 points. Congrats to the "C" Team boys...here are the outcomes and scoring from all "3" boys contests, PICS (courtesy of WHS Yearbook).

VARSITY BOYS (2-2)
RHHS 67 WHS 35

DeAndre Washington 9
Tanner Meyer 8
Brayden Higginbotham 8
Tyler Brown 3
Austin Soles 3
Cade Fairbanks 2
Toby Henning 2

Knight Wrestlers Split @ Last Regular Season Meet

The WMS 7/8 Wrestling Knights split at HOME Tuesday evening, their only HOME EVENT and their last "regular season" event as the end of season, Patriot League Championships are on slate for this Saturday in Mulvane.

At WMS Tuesday, the Knights went up against a buzz-saw team, Augusta who are now 12-0 on the season...a fine group of wrestlers. The Knights came up short 71-12 but found redemption vs Haysville West in the nightcap, winning 66-18. 

WHS Scholars Bowl Team REPRESENTS!!

The WHS Scholar's Bowl Team - participated in an 18 team tournament Monday @ Chaparral HS and did better than 17 of the other teams! (i.e. GOT FIRST PLACE!!!) Awesome bunch...!!

Left to Right: Caleb Starnes, Karsten Gill, Hunter Bryant, Devin Dickinson, Julia Starnes, and Jason Jeffery!

Bishop Carroll HS finished 2nd, Douglass HS 3rd

The squad is coached by Sarah House.