Sports Roundup: WHS golf, tennis, baseball, softball, WMS golf, Oxford baseball
by Tracy McCue, Sumner Newscow — A roundup of recent Sumner County sports events involving Wellington High School golf, tennis, baseball, softball, WMS golf, and Oxford baseball:
WHS GOLF
The Wellington boys golf team won its first golf tournament of the season, edging out Wichita Trinity by four strokes in the Circle Invitational held Monday.
Sophomore Derek Rausch won the event with a 77. Sophomore Owen Farley placed second with a 79. Ethan Brungardt shot a 85 for sixth place. All three players received a medal. The three players also shot a personal best.
Other Wellington individual scores were:
Colten Clift, 100 – 20th; Easton Newberry 119, Marcus Provost 127.
The team scores are as follows: 1. Wellington 341, 2. W. Trinity 345, 3. Augusta 359, 4. Circle 371, 5. Emporia 384, 6. Andale 426, 7. Clearwater 451, 8. Mulvane 467.
The full scores can be found here.
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WHS TENNIS
The Wellington boys tennis team went to Circle and finished fourth Tuesday afternoon. The team scores are as follows:
- Independence 55,
- Parsons 51,
- Wichita Classical 49,
- Wellington 37,
- Collegiate 35,
- Circle 17
- 7. Augusta 15,
- El Dorado,
In No. 1 singles, Jax Cornejo finished fifth. He went 2-1, losing to N. Doom of Wichita Classical 8-7 (1) in the first round, beating Todd El Dorado 8-1 and Leep of Circle 8-3 on the consolation side.
In No. 2 singles, Nate Farmer placed fifth, also going 2-1. Farmer lost to Issa of Collegiate 8-2 in the first round before defeating Wright of Circle 8-3 and Wade of El Dorado 8-1 on the consolation side.
In No. 1 doubles, Jack Wright and Hunter Worley placed fourth, going 1-2. The duo defeated Augusta 8-3, lost to Classical 8-5, and then fell to Parson 8-7 (4) in the third-place match.
In No. 2 doubles, Banks Hinshaw and Maverick Peterson played third. They opened with an 8-4 win over Augusta, lost to Parsons 8-7 (4), before winning over Circle 8-2 for third place.
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WHS BASEBALL
Milo Elder pitching against Winfield.
Game #1: Winfield 5 Wellington 1
Game #2 Wellington 11 Winfield 2
Recap: Wellington earned a split against Winfield and broke a five-game losing streak in game two. But it will be game one that could haunt the Crusaders.
Wellington expected a sweep against Winfield but lost 5-1 in game one. This marks the first win for Winfield in over two years. The Crusaders are 3-7 and are currently No. 16 in the 19-team Class 4A-West. The KSHSAA postseason has two 16-team regionals in Class 4A. The three teams at the bottom will have no postseason. Wellington still needs a few more wins to keep a team like Larned/LaCrosse leap-frogging it (see standings here ‘click on 4A’ on the page).
On Monday, Winfield broke up a scoreless game in the third inning using a Justyce Tate single and then taking advantage of an error to lead 2-0.
In the third, Winfield added a run; then in the fourth, the Vikings scored two more.
The Crusaders’ lone run came in the bottom of the fifth when Dusty Bannister singled James Redford home. Wellington would get no closer thereafter.
Grady Norris at shortstop in game one.
Winfield’s Austin Bryant pitched all seven innings, allowing just five hits, four walks, and striking out 10. Wellington had three pitchers who combined for six hits, five walks, and striking out seven. Milo Elder took the loss on the mound.
In game two, Wellington broke open a tight ball game in the bottom of the fifth with an eight-run inning to capture the split.
The Crusaders were leading 3-2 going into the bottom half of the fifth when Bannister ripped open an RBI double. Then Nick Giefer got a 2RBI single. Banks Hinshaw added a 2RBI double. James Redford finished things off with a 2RBI double.
The Crusader had 14 hits in the second contest to Winfield’s seven. Hinshaw was the winning pitcher allowing seven hits, allowing no walks, and striking out three.
The stats can be found here:
Winfield vs. Wellington, Game #1, 4-17-23
Winfield vs. Wellington, Game #2, 4-17-23
Wellington travels to Clearwater on Monday.
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Kyndal Rusk had a big, big game against Winfield Monday afternoon including scoring this game-winning run.
WELLINGTON SOFTBALL
Game #1 Wellington 5 Winfield 4
Game #2 Winfield 12 Wellington 9
The Crusader girls split with Winfield and are now 4-6 for the season, which puts them at No. 13 in the Class 4A-west (see standings here)
In the first game, Wellington won in dramatic fashion with a walk-off victory. Claire Ginter hit a ball to center field that was dropped in the bottom of the seventh with the game knotted at 4.
Kyndal Rusk, sitting at third, took off for home to secure the win.
Winfield opened the game with a run in the top of the first, but Wellington scored three in the bottom of the third on a 3-run homer by Rusk out of the left-field fence. Winfield came back with two runs in the top of the fourth.
Wellington responded with a run in the bottom of the fifth with another Rusk run. The Lady Dukes gave up a run in the top of the sixth, setting up the final inning.
This game was pretty evenly played. Wellington had nine hits to Winfield’s eight. Rusk was the star with three hits, three RBIs at four at bats.
Heidi Gulick was the winning pitcher. In seven innings, she allowed eight hits, walked four, and struck out nine.
Game #1: Wellington 5 Winfield 4
Winfield — 100 201 0 — 4 8 2
Wellington – 003 010 1 — 5 9 2
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Catcher Shiney Hughes with the critical catch in game #1.
In the second contest, Wellington fell, despite Rusk collecting four hits in defeat. Rusk homered in the first, singled in the second, singled in the fourth and doubled in the sixth.
Winfield scored three runs in the top of the sixth to take a 12-6 lead. Wellington answered when Haley Gulick singled on a 1-0 count, scoring two runs and Heidi Gulick doubling on a 3-2 count scoring two runs.
Wellington racked up 16 hits in the losing cause to Winfield’s 12. The big problem was errors. Wellington committed six of them.
Gulick was the losing pitcher despite only pitching for 1 1/3 innings. She allowed four hits and six runs.
Wellington now travels to Clearwater on Monday, which is 8-4.
Game #2: Wellington 5 Winfield 4
Winfield — 150 303 0 — 12 12 o
Wellington – 113 103 0 — 9 16 6
Click to enlarge.
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WMS GOLF
Wellington Middle School boys golfers finished first in the Winfield golf tournament on Tuesday.
The individual scoring were: Luke Zeka 86, Cameron Rosenberg 87, Boston Lawrence 92, Klyer Glazier 99, Paxton Downing 104 and Tanner Beard 114.
On Monday, the WMS team traveled to Carey Park in Hutchinson. Here are the scores:
Boys
Cameron Rosenberg 44-9th
Boston Lawrence 48
Luke Zeka 47
Cole Zeka 53
Tanner Beard 54
Gabe Westmoreland 68
Brantley Blunk 68
Brett Haines 56
Kyler Glazier 46
Paxton Downing 51
Jace Conrad. 57
Girls
Ava Bales 55 -8th
Kenna Maxwell 63
Bella Angleton 62
Harper Seeliger 70
Audrey Conwell 62
Lorelei Stafford 71.
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OXFORD BASEBALL
Game #1 – Oxford 13 Cedar Vale Dexter 1
G#2 – Oxford 13 CVD 3.
Comments by Oxford head baseball coach Kyle Green are as follows:
“I felt like both games we came out mentally dialed in tonight. CVD is a much improved ball club from the last time we played them. They compete and do a nice job. Our kids did a great job of putting in play and didn’t commit any errors in game 1, which is a huge thing for us. Hayden Ruyle got the win in Game 1 to move to 4-1 on the year.
Connor Commerford got the win in Game 2 to move to 3-1 on the year. Johnny Elliott had a great double heard, going 1-2 in game 1, with a HR and 2RBI’s. He followed that up in game 2 by going 2-2 with a double, and a 3 run HR to go with 4 RBI’s. We move to 9-3 on the season and 6-3 in league play. Huge double header on Thursday as we travel to Sedan.”
Stats for the two games are as follows:
