by Tracy McCue, Sumner Newscow — The Wellington girls tennis team finish fifth in the Ark Valley Chisholm Trail League Division III and IV tournament held at Wichita’s Riverside Tennis Center.

Wellington scored 30 points as a team and garnered a couple of fourths and a couple of sixths individually.

Now Wellington will prepare for a Class 4A Regional to be held at Sellers Park in Wellington on Friday and Saturday. Teams participating in the tournament include: Andover Central, Buhler, Larned, Nickerson, Pratt, Circle, Ulysses, Wichita Trinity and Winfield.

Both Winfield and Buhler were at the league meet today and finished higher than Wellington. The team scores were:

Wichita Collegiate 63, Winfield 56, McPherson 52, Buhler 44, Wellington 30, Circle 25, El Dorado 7, Augusta 3.

The individual scores were:

No. 1 singles: Dietra Sober – sixth place.

No. 2 singles: Auni Williams – sixth place.

No. 1 doubles: Kelsey Whaley and Peyton Adams – fourth place.

No. 2 doubles: Madison Adams and Maggie Fink – fourth place.