Over the weekend, the Crusader Baseball Team hosted a group of WHS baseball alums Saturday afternoon. We are sharing pics with you now as I speak. It was a beautiful day at Hibbs-Hooten field and it was fantastic to see the Crusaders out on the field, the first time in almost 2 years because of COVID.
GAME 1
MHS 0 0 0 5 0 2 0 7 9 2
WHS 0 1 0 0 2 1 0 4 7 3
BATTING
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
Bats were a crackin' Monday around Sellers Park...Varsity vs Augusta @ Hibbs-Hooten and JV vs Augusta @ 9th St. Quite a few runners left stranded, nightcap was a battle, so close! Season is young, many more games to come!
Baseball @ Hibbs-Hooten
GAME 1 vs AUGUSTA
AHS 0 5 2 2 1 4 0 14 11 0
WHS 0 0 1 2 3 0 2 8 10 2
It was Home Run Derby and WHS Alumni Baseball Game time Saturday afternoon at Hibbs-Hooten Field. If you like sunshine, and windless air, and 60ish temps, and baseball - you would have liked today's annual fundraiser, pitting our Varsity Boys against former Varsity Boys, i.e. ALUMS - great bunch on hand today - everyone had a great time.
In the end, it was the YOUNGIN's 19 ALUMS 11.
The Crusaders jumped out on the Rose Hill Rockets early Thursday down at Hibbs-Hooten Field, and never looked back. In the opener, Wellington won 6-1. Cade Phelps got the win on the mound and helped his cause with 2 HR's to boot! Almost error free action - just 1 error on the Crusaders. Arlis Troutman & Trey Cary came in to finish what Phelps had started. It was SENIOR NIGHT too - 7 seniors and their parents were honored before the nightcap began!
RHHS - 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 - 1 4 4
WHS - 2 2 1 1 0 0 x - 6 8 1
Great baseball action at Hibbs-Hooten Monday with the visiting "Crusaders" in town from Buhler. Weather? PERFECT! Low 70's, sunshine, light breeze, PERFECT!
GAME 1
WIN 1 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 - 4 6 4
WEL 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 - 5 4 5
HITTING
Grey Hatfield 0/4 2SO
Matthew Rinehart 1/3 2R 1BB
Cade Phelps 0/3 1BB 1SO
Jack Nuss 1/3 3R 2RBI 1BB HR
Julian Jimenez 0/4 2SO
Arlis Troutman 0/3 1SO
Michael Ledbetter 0/0
DeAndre Washington 0/3
Gage Cunningham 2/2 DBL
Austin Sears 0/0
Trey Cary 0/3 2SO
Logan Jones 0/0
The Varsity Crusader Baseball Team begin the season with a win and a loss. The Andale Indians were visiting on Thursday afternoon, under cloudy skies (most of the time), cool and windy conditions, but no rain!
Some fun baseball action on July 28th at Hibbs-Hooten...some recent grads (mostly 2015) and present Crusader varsity players squared off in a pick-up game if you will - 9 innings of Crusader brotherhood and family...these pics speak to that. It was great to see everyone even though they just graduated 2 years ago! (They're always in a hurry to get out of high school and then they can't wait to get back) - that is called "normal" and I love it!! CRUSADERS FOR LIFE!
The 2017 Sr. Babe Ruth Tournament at Hibbs-Hooten wraps up today with single elimination bracket play, beginning at 10AM. Unfortunately, both the Wellington Host Team and also Walnut Ark Valley Team (primarily Wellington boys) didn't make it out of pool play with enough wins to advance to this final day of action. Both squads came up short on Saturday to seal their fates. Our Host team ended up 1-2 in pool play action, WAV ended at 0-3.
More smiles than frowns Friday on the Babe Ruth and Cal Ripken Tournament Trails. "3" of "4" Wellington baseball teams in State Tournament action at "3" different locales came away with VICTORIES and remain in the hunt for State Titles and more! Here's what went down:
It was hot, at least until shortly before the totally unforecast rain hit down at Hibbs-Hooten in the 4th and final game of Day 1 Pool Play at the 16-18 yo Sr. Babe Ruth State Tournament. Wellington has “2” teams in the “8” team event that runs through Sunday and after the first day of Pool Play, the records look like this:
Wellington Host Team 0-1
Walnut Ark Valley (Wgtn) 0-1
Parsons 0-1
Independence 0-1
Liberal 1-0
Wellington has "5" baseball teams active in post-season State level play and "4" of those "5" will be taking to the field beginning today and tomorrow. Wellington's 9 yo's have one more week to wait but they'll see action in Garden City next weekend! The 10 yo's, the 15 yo's and "2" teams of 16-18 yo's start the TOURNAMENT TRAIL today and tomorrow. Good luck to all - their schedules and the complete online brackets for each are listed below. Action begins HERE this afternoon for our Sr.
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2nd Team - Trace Witham Outfield
Honorable Mention - Korbin Jones Pitching
Honorable Mention - Berkeley Wright Utility
