The Sumner County Spelling Bee was held Wednesday at Wellington Middle School. Nearly 3 dozen contestants vied for the Champion title and when it was all over, Wellington Middle School's Jax Cornejo, son of Jesse and Airily Cornejo was on top!
Jill Wiley * Abby Lowe * Jenna Rausch * Mekenna Adams * Lexi Saffell
WHS DAILY THEMES - Themes may vary at other schools!
Oct. 16 Monday - TEAM or JERSEY DAY
WHS's pioneering Girls Golf team headed to Hays on Monday for Regional 4A action. The weather wasn't very golf-like for sure, cloudy, winds gusting to 35mph and cool temps in the low 50's - not good golfing weather at all. Wellington Freshman Payton Ginter buckled down though and shot a 109, a score that would place her in 12th out of about 50 participants and would advance her on to the State 4A Girls Golf Tournament in Topeka coming up on Monday, Oct. 16th.
The WMS runners had a good showing Tuesday, coming in 2nd place, missing the League Title by just 1 point! Winfield ran both Div. IV (us) and Div. III (other teams) together in each race and it was Hard to determine where we were in the race with another division on the field.
7th Grader Jax Cornejo placed 7th on the ALL Time Best Top 10 list. We came home with 8 Personal Records, 5 individual medals and second place team medals for the 7th grade boys.
The 7th grade basketball team is selling WELLINGTON BASKETBALL gear to help fund a trip in January. The KNIGHTS will be traveling to watch a college game and learn about basketball at the next level.
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Coach Brian Aufdengarten's Regional perspective:
"Day 1 was very exciting qualifying 5 of our players and all guaranteed a state trip on the first day.
Mekenna Adams & Kylie Aufdengarten received the #2 seed and won over Trinity and Andover Central putting them in the semifinals.
The WMS 7/8 Volleyball Girls hosted their counterparts from Winfield on Thursday at WMS. Wellington pulled in 3 wins out of 4 matches (7A, 7B, 8A, 8B) as the season winds down towards PIONEER LEAGUE action Saturday, Oct. 14th. Prior to that though, one more match-up on Thursday, Oct. 12th HERE, the Lady Knights will host Mulvane MS.
