by Tracy McCue, Sumner Newscow — We will restart the “sports today” feature — updating people of the various local sports news of the day. If you have sports news send it to sumnernewscow@gmail.com.

Wellington youth wrestlers qualify six:

Wrestling may be over on the high school level, but the Wellington Youth Wrestling program is involved with its biggest time of the year. 

Six local youth wrestlers are going to the Kansas Kids State Championship at the Expocentre in Topeka on March 28 to March 30.

The boys qualified after placing in the top four at the district tournament held in Winfield this past weekend.

Those Wellington winners are:

•True DeJarnett, who finished third;

•Kyler Henry, third;

•Seth Brown, fourth;

•Dylan Ferguson, fourth;

•Andrew Pelkey, second;

•Tyson Hodson, second.

There were 11 wrestlers competing Saturday in Winfield.

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On tap for today and tomorrow:

As mentioned before, the varsity baseball and softball games have been postponed in Rose Hill for today and will be played tomorrow at the same time.

Don’t forget the Wellington High School tennis season starts Tuesday with the only time the Crusaders will be competing at home at 3 p.m. at the tennis court complex at Sellers Park.

Those competing include: Augusta, El Dorado, Goddard Eisenhower, Kingman and Wellington. Sumner Newscow will have a preview of the tennis team tomorrow.

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Wellington Middle School tennis

The WMS boys tennis team will start its season today at 3:30 p.m. with El Dorado at home.

The full schedule is as follows:

Middle School tennis:

Monday, March 25 — El Dorado, home, 3:30 p.m.

Tues.. April 2 —Winfield away, 3:30 p.m.

Wed., April 3 — Ark City Invitational, 9 a.m.

Thur., April 4 — Prairie Hills, home, 3:30 p.m.

Mon., April 8 — Andover Central, away, 3:30 p.m.

Mon., April 15 — Eisenhower, away, 3:30 p.m.

Mon., April 22 — Goddard Invitational, 9 a.m.

Thurs., April 25 — Goddard, home, 3:30 p.m.

Mon., May 6 — Pioneer League in Winfield, 1 p.m.

The full schedule for the Wellington Middle School track team is as follows:

Middle School track: 

Thurs., April 4 — Arkansas City, Mulvane, Wellington at Winfield, 3:30 p.m.

Tues., April 9 — Goddard, Wellington at Ark City, 3:30 p.m.

Thurs., April 11— Richard Lawrence Relay at Wellington, 3 p.m.

Tues., April 15 — Andover, Wellington at Haysville, 3:30 p.m.

Thurs., April 25 — Caldwell Middle School track (sixth grade) at Wellington, 1 p.m.

Tues., April 30 — Bob Hoover Invitational at Andover, 3:15 p.m.

Thurs., May 2 — Maize Middle Invitational at Maize Middle, 3:30 p.m.

Tues., May 7 — Pioneer League Div. IV at Wellington, 3 p.m.