October 2020

Varsity Football Season Ends @ 3-6/Bulldogs 27 Crusaders 6

The 2020 WHS Varsity Football season came to an end Friday evening here at HOME vs historical rival Ark City, final score 27-6. Of course, due to Covid and Health Dept. restrictions, the 25% capacity crowd would have been much larger, but not for, those aforementioned conditions. Even with the fans absence, there's still a lot of "awesomeness" to be in the stadium or along the sideline. Just soaking in the atmosphere, and enjoying a challenging sport,  played out by the hearts and souls of our community, our kids.

WHS Volleyball Girls Season Ends @ 4A Sub-State Saturday HERE

An exciting run by the Lady Crusaders, at Saturday's 4A Sub-State tournament held here at WHS. In the semi-final rounds, it was Clearwater over Winfield and Wellington over Mulvane, both matches, 2 set matches. The "2" advanced to the Championship Final and what a first set in the final, it was. Back and forth, and unfortunately a 26-28 victory for the visiting Lady Indians. The "mo" slipped a bit and Clearwater wrapped it all up in 2 sets, with a 25-12 victory in the latter.

WHS JR CAMDEN PARKEY Runs @ 4A State / UPDATED 10.31.20

UPDATE 10.31.20
WHS Jr. Camden Parkey finished 70th Saturday, in a field of 95 runners at the 4A Boys 5K event that took place at 9:30 Saturday. His time, 19:12.57. Winning the gold was Tanner Newkirk, Topeka Hayden, with a time of 15:53.32. Camden qualified for the State Meet last weekend at the 4A Regional in Chanute, where he ran his personal best of 18:18. It's been a great season for Camden and a great Senior Year coming up! Way to represent Crusader and congratulations making it all the way to STATE!!

Crusaders Down Mulvane 20-13! Ark City HERE Friday!

The now (3-5) IRONDUKES pulled in their 2nd win in as many weeks, downing the Mulvane Wildcats Friday evening at Sellers Park, 20-13! It was a close contest, knotted at 7 at halftime. The Crusaders were able to put points on the board and the defense kept the Wildcats out of the endzone the last 13+ minutes of the game. Strong showing by QB Berkeley Wright who passed for 177 yds, including a 57 yarder to Cope Henry. Dustyn Schettler shined, 218 yds of offense from this young man, including a 64 yd romp to paydirt!

"Special Adventure" for TEAM JAREK!

Football alums always talk about all the great things that surround being a Crusader football player...and it's not always about football either. It's about community, it's about caring, it's about making two young boy's in this case, a morning they'll never forget.

Jace Conrad and his younger brother Jarek, sons of Jake and Megan Conrad, were guests of the Crusader coaches and players Thursday morning at their last practice before Friday evening's action with Mulvane HERE. It was a very special time indeed.

GINTER Brings Home the GOLD - State 4A Girls Golf Tournament 2020!!

WHS Senior Payton Ginter is the 2020 4A State Girls Golf Champion! Her and WHS Sophomore teammate Kasiah Richmond qualified for the State Tourney, this time last week in Wellington, at the 4A Regional. Richmond had two strong days of competition and finished in the middle of the field at 34th. There were 63 participants at this year's State 4A Golf Championship!

Late Game TD's give Campus JV the Win

A close and competitive game at Sellers Monday evening between the Crusader JV and the Colt JV from Campus. Late game TD's by the latter sealed the deal for the visitors, final score CHS JV 28 WHS JV 22. Finding paydirt for WHS was Freshman Riley Nichols (twice) and Sophomore Caiden Hamilton (once). 

Good game and effort Crusaders - the JV's final 2020 game will be next Monday @ Mulvane.

Varsity IRONDUKES Move to 2-5 with WIN OVER Buhler!

Down 13-7 after 3 qtrs, the "WELLINGTON" Crusaders lit it up in the 4th. "3" 1 yd rushing TD's by Sr. QB Berk Wright, complimented with 2 PAT's by brother Jack. Dustyn Schettler racked up 167 yds on 28 carries. The "O" and "D" Lines did their jobs as well. The "D" held Buhler scoreless from the 2:19 mark in the 2nd qtr. on. Berk also connected with Montel Tate in the 2nd qtr for a 23 yd score, PAT good. Cope Henry and Mekhi Haskin-Ybarra, 3 Interceptions/Fumble Recoveries between them.