Tayland French was the leading scorer for Wellington as Lady Dukes cruised to victory.

by Tracy McCue, Summer Newscow — The Wellington girls are starting to get themselves on a roll as they destroyed Clearwater 59-17 Friday.

Using a tenacious press, Clearwater was no match for the stifling Wellington defense. Clearwater opened the game scoring eight points, and trailing by three at the four minute mark of the first quarter.

But after a Wellington coach Eric Adams timeout, the Crusaders implemented a 2-3 full-court blitz and Clearwater never had a chance thereafter.

“We are starting to play Lady Crusader defense,” Eric Adams, Wellington head girls basketball coach. “We saw a little of it against Rose Hill and have used it against Mulvane and Clearwater. 

Leading 11-8, the Crusaders would blank Clearwater 7-0 the rest of the quarter. Then then went on to drub Clearwater in the second quarter with an 18-3 output to take a 36-11 lead into half time. The Crusaders would then outscore the Indians 18-4 in the third period before before Adams called off the starters in the fourth and went to a running clock.

If you are keeping track, Wellington outscored Clearwater 43-7 in 2o minutes. The Indians had just one field goal in that span — a 3-pointer by Lexi Gotham in the third.

Offensively, Wellington had seven scorers with senior Tayland French leading the way with 16 points. Lauryn Snipes had 15 and Shayland French scored 14.

The Crusaders are now 4-3 overall and 2-2 in the Ark Valley Chisholm Trail League Division IV. Clearwater is 0-6 overall and 0-4 in the AV-CTL IV.

Wellington will complete the first half of the AV-CTL DIV rotation by traveling to Wichita Collegiate Tuesday night.

Clearwater 8 3 4 2 — 17

Wellington 18 18 18 5 — 59

Clearwater: Klausmeyer 8, Gotham 5, Lukert 2, DePriest 1. Total: 4 (1) 5-14 17.

Wellington: T. French 16, Snipes 15, S. French 14, Rusk 6, Adams 2, Buck 3, Fink 2.

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