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 The Lady Crusaders, not only ranked 3rd overall in 4A basketball state-wide by the Kansas Basketball Coach Association, they are also undefeated 7-0! They are composed and take challenges head on, they are fun to watch. The Lady Vikings came to town 3-1, and left with an “L”, actually not surprising to the home fans, but everyone knows anything can happen, last night, it was the expected, not the surprise in the end. The Lady Vikings road back to Winfield, 3-2, but certainly a team with potential.

The Crusader squad has been on a roll the last two games, beating league opponent (Rose Hill) last Friday, there, by 1 point, I guess the 1 pt victories are as good of win as any, last night, in OT, the 0-4, now 0-5 Varsity Winfield Vikings, lost by 1, giving Wellington a 3-4 record going in to break. Kudos to Head Coach Joe Newman last Friday, kudos to Asst, move up to Head Coach, Chad Whaley last night. Head Coach Newman was ill and could not attend. Chad stepped up to help and snagged the 2nd victory in a row!

Congratulations to our Lady Crusader Tennis players, who won last weekend's 4A Regional in El Dorado and this weekend became the 2021 4A State Runners-Up at Winfield! Here are a few pics from today, more at wellington.cc very soon!

WHS VARSITY SOFTBALL
@ Winfield HS
Monday, May 3, 2021

GAME 1 (7-8)

WELL     0 0 0 0 0 4 0     4  6  0

WIN        0 0 1 4 0 0 x     5 10 1

LP H Gulick 6I 10H 5R 5ER 3K 3BB

L Clift 1/3 1HBP

R Rusk 1/4 1R 1TRIPLE 1ROE 1SB

K Hain 0/3 1R 1BB 2SB

A Frame 0/3

H Gulick 1/1 1BB 1HBP

S Hughes 1/3 1R 1SB

K French 1/3 

K Cornejo 0/3 1RBI

A Gerten 1/3 1DBL

A Zeka 1R

WHS VARSITY BASEBALL
@ Winfield HS
Monday, May 3, 2021

GAME #1 (1-14)

WEL - 0 0 1 0 3 0 5 - 9 12 0
WIN - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0  3  8

HITTING

Ybarra 1/4 2R 1H
Clift 1/3 1R 1H 1SO
B. Wright 1/4 1H
Jones 1/4 1R 1H
Swingle 2/4 TRIPLE
Hinshaw 1/4 1R 1H 1RBI 1SO
Hartman 2/3 2H 1RBI
Macias 1/3 1R 1H DOUBLE
Witham 2/2 2R 2H

PITCHING

WHS BOYS BASKETBALL
HERE vs Winfield HS
Friday, January 29, 2021

KaBam! The Varsity and JV Basketball Boys took care of business Friday evening here at home vs Winfield. Banks Hinshaw lit it up in the Varsity game, scoring 31 pts! (pretty sure this is his career high).

24 of Hinshaw's 31 pts came from "8" treys / a new record! The former record of "7", held by Bank's coach, Joe Newman. Awesome job Banks.

In JV game, Cope Henry pumped in 17 for the cause.

An exciting run by the Lady Crusaders, at Saturday's 4A Sub-State tournament held here at WHS. In the semi-final rounds, it was Clearwater over Winfield and Wellington over Mulvane, both matches, 2 set matches. The "2" advanced to the Championship Final and what a first set in the final, it was. Back and forth, and unfortunately a 26-28 victory for the visiting Lady Indians. The "mo" slipped a bit and Clearwater wrapped it all up in 2 sets, with a 25-12 victory in the latter.

Lots of GIRLS GOLF action with outstanding outcomes took place on Tuesday! (courtesy pics)

At Hesston, the WHS JV squad fared well – Aubrey Hunt finished FIRST, 1 stroke ahead of her nearest competitor in the 37 player field, firing a 50 for the event. Awesome job Aubrey – congratulations on your fantastic play! Also at Hesston:

Our Lady Crusader Varsity Volleyball squad went 2-1 Saturday at the Winfield HS, 8 team, early bird tournament, downing Ark City and Winfield, and losing to Mulvane in "3" sets with an exciting finish it appears. (I say appears, due to Covid related guidelines, Winfield officials did not allow fans or media to view Saturday's action). The Lady Crusaders will have a chance at quick redemption vs Mulvane, they'll be road-tripping there on Tuesday, Sep. 1st. Participants will have "3" tickets each for their family or fans to use. (to purchase admission tickets with).

For the 3rd consecutive set of games (@ Rose Hill 12/17 & HERE vs Mulvane 12/20), our Lady Crusaders SWEPT their opponent...the latest, Winfield HERE on 01/07. The Varsity win moves their season record to 4-2, the JV continue to forget the letter "L" exists in the English vernacular and are now 6-0! After the game, Head Coach Eric Adams shared these thoughts:

WHS Sr. Kylie Aufdengarten and Jr. Rylee Rusk went 2-0 Friday at the State 4A Girls Tennis tournament in Winfield. They are assured of a TOP 4 finish will play in semifinal action Saturday morning. The pair had a bye in the first round, defeated Yutzy and Birney of Buhler 6-1, 6-3 then Martin & Unruh of Hesston 6-1, 6-0. They will go up against Gentile & Yoakum of Collegiate in semifinal action Saturday! GO KYLIE GO RYLEE

The WHS Varsity and JV Volleyball squads hosted Collegiate and Winfield in Tri-Action Tuesday evening out at WHS. Some very exciting Volleyball action ensued, be sure to check out the nearly 300 pics from the Collegiate matches, both JV and V!

VARSITY

Wellington beat Collegiate (AWESOME!!!)

24-26

25-17

25-23

Collegiate beat Winfield

25-16

14-25

25-16

Winfield beat Wellington (SO CLOSE!)

25-16

UPDATE:

Our Varsity Tennis Boys are REGIONAL 4A Champions!

Congratulations to the following (and Karsten Gill / Carson Rademacher)

Singles players Tyler Brown and Hunter Bryant STATE BOUND!

Doubles players John Long and Kade Adams STATE BOUND!

It was a SWEEP Monday evening at Hibbs-Hooten Field for the Varsity Crusader Baseball boys who move to 4-4 on the season, after losing 3 of their first 4 games by just 1 run. Gage Cunningham went the distance in Game 1 (Winfield 4 WHS 7) and it was Brayden Higginbotham in the nightcap, wrapping up the evening 2 innings shy of normal, final Winfield 2 WHS 13. Congrats gentlemen - keep it rollin'!!

GAME 1

WIN  1 0 0 0 0 3 0  4 5 3
WEL 0 1 6 0 0 0 x  7 11 6

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

Week 7 brought another victory to the Wellington Crusader Varsity Football squad. The boys in red road tripped east to Viking Land and returned home a few hours later with a 22 -7 win. The Crusaders were up 14-0 at halftime and soon thereafter, up just by 7. However, a fumble in the red zone by Winfield resulted in a Wellington TD with 2:30 left in the game to go up by 15. Game over. Penalties hurt the Vikings, 95 yards worth...Crusaders ended game with just 20 yds, the fewest this season.

Wellington's "2" Doubles Team qualified for the State 4A Girls Tennis Tournament next Friday and Saturday in Topeka at the Topeka-Kossover Tennis Center located at 2501 SW Gage Blvd. Congrats to Kylie Aufdengarten/Rylee Rusk who finished 2nd and Jacelyn Buck/Calli Hatfield who finished 4th at the Regional 4A Tournament Friday in Winfield. The TOP 6 advance.

The Lady Crusaders were 2nd as a team for the second straight year at the AVCTL League Tournament!  "All the girls stepped it up Monday and helped with the team", Coach Aufdengarten reports. 

" #2 Doubles Natalie Henning and Olivia Brand got the 5 seed and upset Winfield in a third set super tiebreak 16-14.  The pair then lost their next two and finished 4th overall.  Very proud of these two, they have played singles most of the year and to finish in the top 4 in our league is awesome.

After an UNDEFEATED regular season, the WMS 7/8 Boys Tennis Team were in the "end of season" Pioneer League Tournament action at Winfield on Monday. The squad played well as they had all year but came up short, finishing in 2nd, just a few points out of 1st, behind Ark City.  Good job, gentlemen!! 

Individual results are as follows: 

Jax Cornejo #1 singles: 5th place

Carson Rademacher and Justin Norris, #1 doubles:

265 lb Hagan Wright, in a "MUST PIN" situation, was the last WMS Wrestler up vs El Dorado Tuesday afternoon, down 39-45. The picture above tells the tale. In 19.2 secs, the score was tied at 45. By virtue of tie-breaker criteria, WMS was declared the winner!

Their good fortune continued in their nightcap vs Winfield...final 51-40. The KNIGHTS now stand at 6-4 in dual action on the season.