by Tracy McCue, Sumner Newscow — The Kansas State High School Activities Association released the wrestling brackets for the Class 4A state tournament which has two Wellington wrestlers participating. The Wellington High School varsity basketball teams try to recover from Friday night’s losses, and Sumner County teams embark on their final regular season week while awaiting sub-state pairings….

Wellington wrestling

Jason Haydon at 160 and Taylon Lamkin at 195 have now gotten their brackets for the state tournament in Salina to be held Friday and Saturday at the Bicentennial Center.

Both boys are No. 4 seeds going in which means they will battle the top seeded wrestlers from another regional.

Haydon, a senior with a 20-5 record, will be battling Spencer Bird, a junior from Lindsborg-Smoky Valley with a 36-5 record. Tournament brackets can be found on the KSHSAA.org website.

Haydon, making his third appearance in the state tournament, will battle either the winner or loser of Tyler Harris (27-4) of Atchison or Zack Roark (17-7) of Columbus in the second round.

Taylon Lamkin, a junior, at 21-16 will be making his first performance in the state tournament. He will be wrestling Gavin Houser, a senior from Columbus who is 28-9 in the first round.

Lamkin will either wrestle the winner or loser of Tyler Peterson of Lindsborg-Smoky Valley (36-4) or Zak Carter of Baldwin (21-14) in the second round.

Both boys qualified after two grueling days at the Class 4A Regional in Augusta Friday and Saturday.

Haydon has been nursing a rib injury for much of the second half of the season. After wrestling in Augusta, the WHS coaching staff held him out for the rest of the regular season. Haydon then got the benefit of a bye in the first round before wrestling twice, going 2-0 for the weekend.

In a measure of precaution, Haydon injury defaulted on matches he didn’t have to wrestle including the consolation finals. He qualified for state with a 7-4 decision over Chase Miller of Mulvane.

Lamkin had a big tournament over the weekend. After getting off to a slow start, he was pinned by Derrick Gates of Andale. His chances looked slim of advancing with Colby Willis of Augusta looming. He was decisioned by Willis 3-1 in a league dual in Augusta in January.

However, Lamkin would pin Willis at the 3:58 mark. He then pinned Manny Martinez of El Dorado at the 1:35 mark to qualify.

Lamkin becomes the first Wellington non-Jason Haydon wrestler to get to state since Dray Meridith in 2011.

Wellington basketball

The Wellington basketball teams will be embarking on their final regular season week of the season. Both teams are in need of establishing momentum.

The Wellington boys lost to Clearwater 51-41 and are currently on a six-game losing streak. They will travel to Augusta Tuesday and finish the regular season on Senior Night at home on Thursday against Circle.

On Friday, Wellington was down 14-6 at the end of the first quarter and 26-13 at the half. After three quarters, Clearwater led 38-22.

Trevor Nance led the Crusaders with 11. R. VanDeest of Clearwater led all scorers with 16.

Clearwater: R. VanDeest 16, J. Becker 11, C. Frickey 9, H. Hall 5, C. Reibenspies 3, D. Roth 3, C. Neises 3, D. Rausch 1

Wellington: T. Nance 11, B. Miles 6, N. Wolff 5, L. Woodbridge 4, E. Carroll 4, A. Dunn 4, J. Albright 3, C. Reichenberger 2, B. Peck 2

On the girls side, Wellington fell to 11-7 with a frustrating 50-38 loss to Clearwater. The two teams had split earlier in the season.

Wellington never led in the game, falling behind 12-10 at the end of the first quarter and 23-15 at the half.

Kailey Jenkins led Wellington with 12 points.

Other scores from Wellington vs. Clearwater on Friday:

JV boys: Wellington 42 Clearwater 33

Scoring for Wellington: Phelps 2, Daugherty 8, Baker 5, Nance 4, Reichenberger 2, Dunn 14, Albright 4, Hunt 3.

C boys: Wellington 53 Clearwater 36

Phelps 14, Gilmore 6, Jones 4, Baker 5, Pettegrew 12, Hyde 6, Hunt 4, Lowe 2.

JV girls: Wellington 52 Clearwater 23

Holly Wright 11, Shelbie Wright 8, Avery Lewellen 6, Julia Peck 6, Tyanna Hughes 4, Carlie McComb 4, Maggie Fink 3, Kelsey Whaley 2, Jaedyn Ledesma 2, Shelby Hamel 2, Halynn Page 2, Dietra Sober 2.

C girls: Wellington 43 Clearwater 9

Kennedy Hackerott 7, Peyton Witham 7, Dietra Sober 6, Noelle Wright 6, Julia Pecke 6, Tyanna Hughes 4, Taylor Zimmerman 4, Shelby McNamara 2, Mariah Moore 1.

Sumner County: 

Boys:

Medicine Lodge 66 Belle Plaine 48

Wichita Independent 69 Conway Springs 58

South Haven 65 Cedar Vale Dexter 19

Oxford 55 Flinthills 31

Girls:

Medicine Lodge 62 Belle Plaine 46

Conway Springs 56 Independent 34

Oxford 55 Flinthills 25

Sedan 56 Argonia 43

CV-Dexter 37 South Haven 36

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Sub-state basketball brackets will come out Wednesday.