by Tracy McCue, Sumner Newscow — The Wellington basketball teams shot blanks in Andale… Conway Springs girls pulled off the upset of the night… and the Belle Plaine boys keep rolling.

Andale girls 55 Wellington 42

Throughout the years, the Wellington girls have found that getting to the state tournament was easier than winning the Ark Valley-Chisholm Trail League Div. IV.

The Crusaders are officially out of the race after losing to Andale on the road. Wellington, which lost to Andale and Rose Hill on the first rotation of the AV-CTL DIV schedule, was hoping a plethora of things would happen the second time around so they could at least share the title. But in order to do so they needed to sweep the second round of the AV-CTL DIV. But that is over now.

On Friday, Andale built a 13-4 first-quarter lead, and held a 25-21 advantage at the half. Andale would outscore Wellington 11-9 and 19-12 in the second half to win by 13.

Avery Rusk led the Crusaders with 19 points. Shayland French had 12, Rylee Rusk 5, Lexi Clift 4, and Dru Warnock 2. Andale was led by three players. Tyler Winter had 12, Morgan Geist 11 and Sophie Easter had 10.

Wellington, now 7-6, hosts Rose Hill Tuesday.

Andale boys 71 Wellington 26

Make no mistake. Wellington is missing A.J. Snipes. For the third consecutive game, Snipes was out of the lineup due to a concussion, and the Crusaders could not get to 40.

Andale made quick work of the Crusaders Friday. The Indians opened with a 21-9 first-quarter lead and held a 38-17 advantage at the half. Interesting anomaly if you are a box score watcher: Wellington scored 9 points in the first and 8 points in every quarter thereafter.

Ian King led Wellington with 14 points. Silas Popplewell had 7, Austin Soles 4, Jihad Mutazammil 3, Grey Hatfield 2, Jack Walton 2, De’Andre Washington 1.

Andale was led by Easton Hunter with 15 points and Parker Bruce had 11. Wellington is now 4-12 and will host Rose Hill Tuesday. Andale improves to 14-2.

Conway Springs girls 42 Garden Plain 38

The Conway Springs girls pulled off the upset of the night in the state of Kansas by toppling the No. 1 ranked team in the state. Garden Plain was undefeated going in but came up against a Cardinal team ready for the upset. Very little separated these two teams throughout the game. The Owls were grasping to a 1-point half time advantage and Conway Springs was up by 1 after three quarters.

Conway Springs would outscore Garden Plain 13-10 for the victory.

Sabrina Bellar led Conway Springs with 14 points. Lacey Pauly had 10, Kara Koester 9, Kayla Koester 8 and Shanon Drouhard 1. Garden Plain was led by Taylor Joplin with 10 points, the only Owl to make double figures.

The win puts Conway Springs at 13-5 after losing to Wichita Independent by nine points. Cardinals travel to Cheney on Tuesday for yet another tough game.

Belle Plaine boys 55 Chaparral 48

The Dragons improved to 13-3 against a Chaparral team that came into the game on a hot streak, winning 4 of it past 5 games.

Belle Plaine would take an 18-12 first quarter lead, but saw the lead cut to two at the half. The Dragons would up the lead back to six going into the fourth where it would eventually win by nine.

Bo Gooch led the Dragons with 15 points. Eli Wiseman had 11, and Tristan Warren 9.  Chaparral was led by Quinton Pfaff with 21 points and Jake Burke had 17.

Chaparral girls 40 Belle Plaine 35

The Roadrunners built an 11-3 first quarter lead, but the Belle Plaine girls stuck around and battled this game to a five-point loss at that end.

Morel was the leading scorer with 13 points, Harrison had 10, and Dawn Hammond 10.

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