Wellington baseball/softball teams win big in final regular season games
by Tracy McCue, Sumner Newscow — In a couple of makeup games, the Wellington baseball and softball teams finished the regular season with sweeps against El Dorado.
In other news, South Haven finished third in the South-Central Border League Tournament and Oxford placed fourth.
In Wellington if there ever were an irrelevant set of games during the season, this was it. The regional pairings had already been set, Senior Day ceremonies had already taken place, and this had no bearing on league standings. But it was good to get wins to head into the all-important regional tournaments starting Monday.
The Wellington girls defeated El Dorado 4-3 and 6-5 in two closely played games. Game one ended in a walk off single by McKenna Jones in the bottom of the seventh.
Wellington had 10 hits to El Dorado’s seven. Avery Rusk, Jones and Jacelyn Buck had multiple hits.
Brooke McCorkle, in the circle, allowed seven hits, walked one while striking out six.
In the nightcap, Wellington broke a 2-2 tie in the bottom of the fifth when Gracie Fink ripped off a home run with one runner on base. Earlier in the at bat, another had previously stole home. Leading 5-2 going into the sixth, Wellington sustained its lead the rest of the way.
Annika DeJarnett pitched Wellington to victory. In six innings, she allowed two runs on seven hits and didn’t have a walk. McCorkle threw one inning in relief out of the bullpen, retiring El Dorado for the inning to preserve the win after the Wildcats scored two runs to start the top of the seventh.
Both El Dorado and Wellington committed five errors in the game.
Wellington finishes the regular season 10-10.
Game #1: Wellington 4 El Dorado 3
EHS 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 3 7 3
WHS 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 4 10 2
WP B McCorkle 7I 7H 3R 1ER 6K 1BB
LP Ja McCaig
R Rusk 1/4 1R 1DBL 1SB
J Buck 2/4 1RBI 1DBL
B McCorkle 1/4 1ROE
A Rusk 2/4 1R 1DBL
G Fink 0/3 1R 1BB 1ROE
D Parkey 1/4
M Jones 2/3 2RBI 1DBL 1SF
A DeJarnett 0/2 1HBP
L Clift 1/3
Nuss 1R
Game #2 Wellington 6 El Dorado 4.
EHS 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 8 5
WHS 0 2 0 0 3 1 x 6 5 5
HR WHS G Fink
WP A DeJarnett 6I 7H 2R 2ER 0K 0BB
SV B McCorkle 1I 1H 2R 0ER 1K 0BB
LP Ji McCaig
R Rusk1/3 1R 1HBP
J Buck 0/3 1BB
B McCorkle 2/2 2RBI 2BB
D Warnock 1R
A Rusk 0/3 1R 1BB 1ROE 1SB
G Fink 1/3 1R 2RBI 1HR
D Parkey 1/3 1R 1ROE 1SB
M Jones 0/3 1R 1ROE
A DeJarnett 0/2 1ROE
E Templeton 0/1
L Clift 0/3.
WHS Baseball
The Wellington baseball team finished the year with two wins to guarantee a winning season at 12-8. The Crusaders defeated El Dorado 15-5 and 12-2.
In the first game, Wellington would run-rule its opponent. El Dorado opened the game with three runs but Wellignton responded with three runs of its own in the bottom half of the inning. The Crusaders then tallied two runs in the third, four runs in the fourth and five runs in the fifth to pull away.
Wellington had 10 hits and got runs from Grey Hatfield, Cade Phelps, Julian Jimenez and Jack Nuss.
Nuss earned the victory on the pitcher’s mound, allowing four hits, striking out three and walking one. Aaron Schoemann threw four innings out of the bullpen.
In game two, Wellington again won by run rule in six innings. The Crusaders scored four runs in the first, four runs in the second and two runs in the sixth.
Jimenez had four RBIs on three hits including a home run in the fourth. Nuss had another home run in the first.
DeAndre Washington was credited with the win on the mound. He allowed three hits, two runs, while striking out three and walking one.
For the game, Wellington had 12 hits in the game. Jimenez, Gage Cunningham and Nuss had multiple hits for Wellington. 
