WHS Senior Kaitlyn Hain, with her parents and coaches by her side, signed to attend and participate in Wrestling next school year at Indian Hills CC in Ottumwa, Iowa. The Warriors are part of the Iowa Community College Athletic Conference. With her parents Ryan and Kelly Hain, and Coaches Mitch McComb and Zane Aguilar, let the ink flow and will be a Warrior next school year in Iowa.
The USA Wrestling rankings are out and WHS Sophomore Anna Cullens has moved up to 22nd in the nation! A phenomenal student-athlete and young lady.
Congratulations Anna - so many of us are soooo proud!!
Newton 175.5
Mulvane 166.0
Goddard 143.0
Bishop Carroll 142.0
Buhler 129.0
WELLINGTON 111.5
Clearwater 104.0
Eisenhower 99.0
Circle 71.0
Nickerson 71.0
Andover Central 66.0
Douglass 64.0
Winfield 61.0
Kingman 58.0
Chaparral 57.0
Ark City 51.0
G101-109 lbs
Health concerns fuel the changes...
KSHSAA WRESTLING POSTSEASON FORMAT
KSHSAA WRESTLING POSTSEASON ASSIGNMENTS
(Still waiting on a HOST for 4A Dist. #3)
Notable results from WHS Wrestling Invite!
Boys
120 C. Hamilton 2-2 3rd
152 J. Lira 3-2 5th
285 H. Wright 4-1 2nd
Girls
109 A. Cullens 3-0 1st
138 K. Hain 4-0 1st
170 M. Rodriguez 1-1 2nd
Anna Cullens was named Female Outstanding Wrestler!
Awesome Anna! Way to go Crusaders / Lady Crusaders!
COURTESY PICS / WHS YEARBOOK
Here are DAY 1 "WHS" results from 4A Regional being held at WHS Friday and Saturday!
KSHSAA 4A Regional @ Wellington Results for Wellington (FRIDAY)
Brennan Cantrell (13-8) place is unknown and scored 4.0 team points.
The WHS Varsity/JV Wrestlers road-tripped to Mulvane Thursday evening (with many open weights) and in the end, it was Brennan Cantrell (13-8) @ 113 lbs., Kanden Young (33-1) @ 195 lbs., and Kenny Fehrman (32-2) @ 220 lbs. that pulled out "W's" for the boys in red. Cantrell and Fehrman pinned their opponents, Young nearly did but won by decision in the end. Final Team Score WHS 15 MHS 58. In JV action preceding, Kaitlyn Hain, now 22-2 on the season, pinned her opponent.
Here's the wrap-up on the Rose Hill Invite from Friday & Saturday...
AT ROSE HILL:
113 lb Brennan Cantrell (SR), went 2-2 during the 2 day event, pinning Flower of Winfield (4:32 mark), lost by pin to Pavlacka of Andale. On Saturday, and on the backside, Cantrell came out on fire, pinned Fernandez of Hutchinson (2;19 mark), but lost to Egan of Derby by pin.
Varsity Wrestling results from Caney Valley HS Invitational action Saturday:
BOYS
113 lbs - Hunter Norris 0-2
138 lbs - Michael Cullens 0-2
145 lbs - Quinton Redford 1-3 (8th)
152 lbs - Montana Heacock 2-2 (5th)
195 lbs - Kanden Young 5-0 (1st)
220 lbs - Kenny Fehrman 3-0 (1st)
GIRLS
101 lbs - Mackenzie Heacock 1-1 (2nd)
116 lbs - Anna Cullens 4-0 (1st)
130 lbs - Kaitlyn Hain 3-0 (1st)
High School Winter Sports are underway across the State of Kansas. Official practice began this past Monday, the 18th - regular season action gets underway in early December! (See Below) Pics link below as well, from Boys Basketball practice, Girls Basketball practice , and Wrestling (Boys & Girls) on Thursday, 11.21.19.
Congratulations to our WHS Varsity Wrestlers - they shined at this weekend's 4A Regional Tournament held at Pratt HS!
Junior Quinton Redford (126 lbs), Junior Kanden Young (182 lbs), & Sophomore Kenny Fehrman (220 lbs) all "3" qualified for STATE 4A Tournament!
Fehrman didn't just qualify, he is now the 2019 "220 lb." REGIONAL 4A CHAMPION!! Redford came in 4th in his wt class, Young, Regional 4A Champion Runner-Up!
The WHS Wrestlers were in action Saturday at 2 different venues. We had "2" Lady Crusaders at the State Girls Wrestling Tournament in McPherson, Mackenzie Heacock and Alexis Patee. Heacock finished at 2-2 on the day, finishing 4th and Patee went 1-4, finishing 5th. There were 79 teams and 220 girls this year at the State Tournament. Up 107 girls from last year. KSHSAA will vote sometime in April, as to whether the Girls State Tournament should be "sanctioned".
The Varsity Crusaders were in action this weekend at the Rose Hill Wrestling Invitational. 24 teams represented, Wellington's Kenny Fehrman (220 lbs) finished 3rd and Kanden Young (182 lbs) finished 6th. Congrats to both on their medal finishes!!
Brennan Cantrell and Quinton Redford also saw mat action. Individual and team results follow.
Brennan Cantrell (7-8) place is unknown and scored 0.0 team points.
Congratulations to Brennan Cantrell, Kanden Young, and Kenny Fehrman - all "3" brought home GOLD Saturday!
The WHS Varsity Crusaders dualed Pratt HS Tuesday at WHS - Pratt is ranked high in 4A, Wellington struggled with almost 50% of their weights, open.
Final Team Score: Pratt 58 WHS 14.
106 - WHS Open
113 - WHS Open
120 - WHS Open
126 - Austin Harriger - L (fall)
132 - Quentin Redford - W (7-5)
138 - Montana Heacock - W (fall)
145 - Trystan Johnson - L (1-7)
152 - Devontr'e Parker - L (fall)
160 - WHS Open
170 - WHS Open
2018-2019 Wrestling Season got underway on Saturday for our Crusader Wrestlers, both Varsity and JV. The former competed with 18 other teams at Caney Valley, the latter headed east to Winfield for JV action there.
Here are the results we were able to obtain:
from CANEY: (Varsity)
126 lbs - Quinton Redford 2-2 / 4th
182 lbs - Kanden Young 4-0 / 1st
220 lbs - Kenny Fehrman 3-0 / 1st
Jax Cornejo, son of Jesse and Airily Cornejo, a 7th grader at WMS and winner of this past Fall's Sumner County Spelling Bee, carried that title with him to Hays, Kansas today for the Regional Spelling Bee and made it to the 8th round and finished 8th out of 95 participants and medaled to boot!!!
The word Jax went out on..."efficacy"... but spelled some tough ones up to that point! Wellington is very proud of you Jax!! Way to represent KNIGHT!! That is awesome!
and.......
The WHS Varsity and JV Wrestlers headed west Thursday for dual action vs Pratt HS. In the end, the Crusaders won about as many matches but 2 open weights and most of their losses by pins, was the team score difference in the end. Big Varsity Invitational this weekend at WHS - that gets underway @ 9AM in the main gym!
106 - Open
113 - Open
120 - Colin Green (Lost by fall)
126 - Blake Bales (Won by fall)
About two dozen Crusaders are out this season for Wrestling! These are the pics we have thus far...
CRUSADER WRESTLING 2017-18 TEAM PICS
Tuesday evening was the Wrestling Seniors last opportunity to wrestle on their home mat. The Seniors and their parents were recognized and honored before the dual with Newkirk began. Seniors included Blake Bales, Ian Groom, Jaylen Harris, Kadin Heacock, Logan Jones, Matt McComb, Austin Sears, Andrew Wolf and Manager Zoey Maxwell.
The WHS Varsity and JV Wrestlers were on the road Tuesday at Andale HS in double dual action with Clearwater and Mulvane. Here are the outcomes from the Varsity matches.
ANDALE 36 WELLINGTON 33
courtesy of sutv.com
(Another great source for CRUSADER / KNIGHT sports is SCORE STORE here on wellington.cc...hold your cursor over SPORTS at top of any page, the first tab underneath will get you to where you need to go! Lots of archival info too, clear back to the Fall of 2004. It's not 100% complete but still LOTS of great info and memories!)
The WHS Varsity (and some JV) wrestlers hosted both Mulvane and Rose Hill Thursday evening out at WHS in double-dual action from the home of the Crusaders. The fans were in for an exciting night of wrestling. In the end, it was a split for the Crusaders, falling to Rose Hill 33-38 and then downing Mulvane, via tie-breaker criteria (36-36). Here are the individual outcomes vs the opener with Rose Hill:
106 - Wellington OPEN
113 - Matt Sanders - loss by pin
120 - Montana Heacock - loss by pin
The WHS Varsity Wrestlers hosted their annual invitational Saturday at WHS. 15 teams total and in the end the Wellington BOYS IN RED had fared quite well! As a team, finished 6th!!
Congrats to Senior IAN GROOM (195 lbs) - Ian went 5-0 today, finishing FIRST!!! (pictured above)
Congrats to Sophomore KANDEN YOUNG (170 lbs) - Kanden went 3-1 today, finishing SECOND!!
Overall results for Wellington:
Both the WHS Varsity and JV Wrestlers opened their 2017-2018 seasons on the road Saturday. (Dec. 2nd) The JV were in action at Winfield HS and the Varsity trekked a little further, about 100 miles to be exact, to Caney Valley HS, just this side of Coffeyville in SE Kansas.
