VARSITY GIRLS
MHS 37 WHS 56
B Zeka 16
Frame 11
Reichenberger 8
A Zeka 8
Norwood 5
Nance 4
Gerten 2
Cornejo 2
JV GIRLS
MHS 14 WHS 36
K Kessler 9
P Metcalf 8
E Goodrum 7
K Westmoreland 4
S Parkey 3
L Cornejo 3
K. Aufdengarten 2
No "C" TEAM played due to Mulvane shortage of girls.
The Lady Crusaders, not only ranked 3rd overall in 4A basketball state-wide by the Kansas Basketball Coach Association, they are also undefeated 7-0! They are composed and take challenges head on, they are fun to watch. The Lady Vikings came to town 3-1, and left with an “L”, actually not surprising to the home fans, but everyone knows anything can happen, last night, it was the expected, not the surprise in the end. The Lady Vikings road back to Winfield, 3-2, but certainly a team with potential.
The Varsity Lady Crusaders SHINED this week at the CHENEY EARLY SEASON BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT. Still undefeated on the season, the usual champion, CHENEY themselves, were relegated to the 3rd place game after Wellington downed them, 45-39 earlier in the week. In the championship game on Saturday, it was the Varsity Lady Crusaders and Pratt HS, a team the ladies dominated the entire contest on Saturday. Up 40-17 at half and eventual final score of 66-47, the ladies in red clinched the title away from Cheney (and Pratt of course) - smiles all the way around.
Boys basketball camps wrapped up last week - this week, the girls are in summer camp action at WHS, both HS and MS groups.
The Lady Crusaders were in sub-state basketball action Saturday afternoon at Clearwater HS. WHS started off strong but as the game progressed, the Lady Indians fought their way back. Airalyn Frame sustained an ankle injury (bad sprain) just before the 1st half ended and didn't return to action. A last second shot by the host, gave Clearwater the 2 pt win (34-32) and the sub-state championship. The season ends at 13-7 for our Ladies.. Tough loss today.
Rylee Rusk 11
Ali Zeka 10
Congratulations to the Lady Crusaders who took care of business in first round sub-state action here at HOME vs Rose Hill. Love the throwback uni's (I think from 2011-2012 maybe, someone help me out!)...The Lady Crusaders played tough and took control and kept control most of the game. Final score 60-42! Great Job Coaches & Ladies!
Scoring was as follows:
Ali Zeka 16
Airalyn Frame 15
Ashley Gerten 8
Rylee Rusk 7
Shiney Hughes 7
Lexi Clift 6
Kami Reichenberger 1
The Varsity Lady Crusaders defeated the Collegiate Lady Spartans this evening, @ Collegiate, in OT! Down 6 at halftime, the Lady Crusaders stayed within range in the 3rd and riveted it up in the 4th, with "5" Lady Crusaders scoring, to knot it @ 39. Great job Ladies!!
Ali Zeka 12
Myriland French 8
Rylee Rusk 8
Shiney Hughes 6
Mykiland French 5
Airalyn Frame 3
Maddie Nance 3
In a "substitute" make-up game Monday evening at Conway Springs, the Varsity Lady Crusader basketball squad downed their host Conway Springs 65-28!
Wellington jumped out early on the Lady Cardinals, up 7 after 1, up 25 at halftime. Scoring for the Lady Crusaders were:
VARSITY GIRLS (8-5)
EHS 22 WHS 41
Ali Zeka 13
Rylee Rusk 11
Ashlyn Gerten 7
Shiney Hughes 5
Kami Reichenberger 3
Mykiland French 2
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JR. VARSITY GIRLS (5-4)
EHS 18 WHS 21
Maddie Nance 7
Lyric Cornejo 5
Rylee Rusk 11
Shiney Hughes 8
Ali Zeka 8
Ashlyn Gerten 8
Airalyn Frame 2
Mykiland French 1
WHS 39 MHS 58
Ali Zeka 16
Ashlyn Gerten 8
Myriland French 6
Rylee Rusk 5
Airalyn Frame 3
Shiney Hughes 1
What a great start for our Lady Crusader basketball squad. In opening action Thursday evening at the Mid America Classic at McPherson HS, our girls battled hard and downed Valley Center in OT, 71-67! Ali Zeka and Airalyn Frame lit it up (21 and 17 pts respectively), high scorers for both teams, with 1 exception. Valley Center's Halle Brittain pumped in "7" 3 pointers on 8 attempts, Valley Center as a team made "15" 3 pointers, to set a new MAC record, breaking the old record of "12" 9 years ago.
With the WHS Boys Basketball program on hiatus (due to health guidelines), the WHS Girls program hosted the Lady Vikings of Winfield Tuesday evening at WHS, winning 1 of 3, the win though was an overtime win, a very exciting culminating event for the evening.
VARSITY GIRLS (4-1)
WHS 57 MHS 33
Shiney Hughes 13
Airalyn Frame 12
Rylee Rusk 9
Ali Zeka 9
Myriland French 7
Ashlyn Gerten 3
Kami Reichenberger 2
Mykiland French 2
JV GIRLS (3-2)
WHS 42 MHS 22
It was a SPLIT at Winfield Tuesday evening, the WELLINGTON CRUSADERS won 3, WINFIELD the same. The Lady Crusaders were back in action following a 3 game hiatus due to health restrictions. Both Varsity squads leave 2020 and enter 2021 with more "W's" than not. Tanner Meyer lit it up for 29, Airalyn Frame for 19. The JV Boys have won 3 of their last 4. Deitrek Gill 21 pts!The "C" Team boys took the Vikings to OT. Landyn Glenn 22 pts! Some good basketball was played, I'm excited for post-break action! Check out the scoring:
VARSITY GIRLS (2-1)
CHS 58 WHS 43
pending
JV GIRLS (2-0)
CHS xx WHS xx
pending
"C" TEAM GIRLS (2-0)
2 Quarters
CHS xx WHS xx
pending
VARSITY BOYS (1-2)
CHS 54 WHS 51
pending
VARSITY GIRLS (1-0)
WHS 62 MHS 18
Ali Zeka 15
Myriland French 15
Rylee Rusk 7
Mykiland French 7
Airalyn Frame 6
Shiney Hughes 6
Ashlyn Gerten 4
Maddie Nance 3
JV GIRLS (1-0)
WHS 47 MHS 41
individual scoring pending
"C" TEAM GIRLS (1-0)
WHS xx MHS xx
(2 quarters)
individual scoring pending
WHS GIRLS BASKETBALL
vs ANDALE
FRIDAY, FEB. 10, 2012
Down after 1, knotted at 15 after 2, the Lady Crusaders were on fire after the break, outscoring the Lady Indians 22-13 in the 3rd. The Lady Indians fought back strongly in the 4th but came up short...great job Lady Crusaders!!! Way to battle and hang on!
VARSITY GIRLS
ANDALE - 42
WELLINGTON - 47
SCORE BY QUARTERS
AHS 13 02 06 22 - 42
WHS 08 07 19 13 - 47
It was an exciting finish for the Varsity Lady Crusaders Friday vs Rose Hill. Wellington relinquished their lead down the stretch and the Lady Rockets knotted it and went ahead by 1 in the waning seconds of the contest. Clutch FT's by Sophomore Ali Zeka, who with 2 late in the game appearances at the charity stripe, sunk 3 of 4 and with 5.5 seconds on the clock, Wellington had a 2 pt margin and hung onto it for the win!
VARSITY GIRLS (8-8)
RHHS 50 WHS 52
Myriland French 11
Ali Zeka 11
Mid-season tournaments are over and all the squads are back together again...well, almost. The WHS Girls program whose numbers were down a bit this year, resulting in no "C" Team, those numbers were down even more Tuesday when about 1/3 of the squad was home ill. Consequently, on the girls side, only the Varsity game was played.
The Lady Crusaders got off to an awesome start Thursday evening in opening action at the 3 day, 2020 All-America Classic Girls Basketball Tournament @ McPherson HS. Wellington tipped off at 6PM vs Wichita Northwest in a close battle through 3 qtrs. Wellington was up 3 after 3 and sustained the lead and then some, final score Wichita NW 52 Lady Crusaders 58. The win advances Wellington to the 7:30pm slot Friday evening vs tournament host and undefeated on the season McPherson, who won easily over Ulysses 92-38.
The Lady Crusaders SWEPT for the 5th time this season, taking care of business with the visiting Lady Spartans of Collegiate on Tuesday at WHS. Traditionally, the Lady Crusaders have done well against the Lady Spartans, that tradition continues. We don't have a lot of height but compensate for that with good ball handling and speed. The JV continues with the EGG in the loss column, moving to 8-0 after a battle with the visiting Spartans.
The visiting Clearwater Indians found success Friday evening at WHS, winning 4 of the 5 basketball games on slate. A mirror image from Tuesday's action with the visiting Vikings from Winfield. The Crusaders on Tuesday won 4 of 5.
For the 3rd consecutive set of games (@ Rose Hill 12/17 & HERE vs Mulvane 12/20), our Lady Crusaders SWEPT their opponent...the latest, Winfield HERE on 01/07. The Varsity win moves their season record to 4-2, the JV continue to forget the letter "L" exists in the English vernacular and are now 6-0! After the game, Head Coach Eric Adams shared these thoughts:
For the second consecutive set of games in a row, the Lady Crusaders SWEEP their opponent...Tuesday it was Rose Hill @ Rose Hill, Friday evening, it was Mulvane here at HOME! The Varsity win moves them to 3-2 on the season, the Jr Varsity win, their 5th and no losses! Scoring is spread out amongst several girls, truly a group effort by a relatively small group (height-wise and shear numbers-wise). Congratulations to the Lady Crusaders and coaches as they head into the Christmas and New Years break.
Congratulations to both the Varsity and Jr. Varsity Girls basketball squads, both grabbing "W's" on the road Tuesday evening at Rose Hill. The win moves the Varsity to 2-2 on the season, JV remains undefeated at 4-0! Great Job Ladies! Next action - here at HOME Friday vs Mulvane. Action will begin with JV Girls and "C" Team Boys at 4:15PM, followed by JV Boys @ 5:45PM, Varsity Girls @ 6:00Pm and Varsity Boys @ 7:30PM.
VARSITY (2-2)
4A Sub-State play was on stage Thursday evening at WHS! The 13-6 WHS Lady Crusaders hosted 10-8 Wamego - the winner would advance to the SUB-STATE Championship Game Saturday evening at Ulysses HS, the Lady Tigers downed the Buhler Lady Crusaders Thursday 43-31 at Ulysses to earn their home slot in Saturday's Championship Game. Wamego will be their opponent, after a CLOSE victory over our ladies, final score Wamego 42 Wellington 40.
The Varsity and JV Lady Crusaders hosted Augusta Friday at WHS - it was HOMECOMING and our ladies each chalked up W's for the occasion! The Varsity Lady Orioles came in at 8-6 and both teams battled it out until the very end...final score AHS 47 WHS 48!! In the 4A West Sub-State Division, our Ladies are presently in 7th out of 18 teams...that weekly updated bracket can be found at this link.
GIRLS VARSITY (10-5)
AHS 47 WHS 48
Rylee Rusk 17
It's Mid America Classic time at McPherson Roundhouse and our Lady Crusaders took to the courts Thursday afternoon against the Lady Indians from Manhattan.
The Lady Crusader Basketball Team took care of business Tuesday evening vs the 3rd ranked Circle HS Lady Thunderbirds. The girls in red jumped out early on the visitors, leading 14-8 after 1. The Lady Thunderbirds battled back and by halftime, the score was nearly knotted, CHS 24 WHS 26.
The Lady Crusaders came up short Tuesday vs their Varsity and JV counterparts from Rose Hill HS. The Rockets held both WHS squads to under 40 pts. More action this coming Friday at Mulvane. The 2018 part of the season will conclude next Tuesday @ Winfield, just before the Holiday Break that begins Wednesday next week.
PICS (courtesy of WHS Yearbook)
It was Round #2 Thursday evening of this week's CHENEY TOURNAMENT which will culminate in Cheney this Saturday. The (2-0) JV Girls continued their winning ways from Tuesday's action in Chaparral, downing the JV Lady Greenbacks 57-44. The (1-1) Varsity Lady Crusaders ran into a hot shooting, fast moving group of girls who eventually pulled away from the home-town team for a 58-39 victory.
After a 30 minute intrasquad practice, the Lady Crusaders had a couple dozen or so younger WRC basketball girls join them at their Saturday morning session at Wellington High School. The combined group conducted dribbling and shooting drills, fun for both groups, and the coaches. Check out a few pics below that were taken at the event. The basketball season at WHS gets underway in December! Exciting!
The WHS & WMS Girls Basketball Camps wrapped up on Friday after "4" days of basketball drills, scrimmaging and team bonding. Coach Eric Adams is impressed with a lot of the girls skill levels and their quickness - DEFENSE is going to be key this coming season and that quickness will definitely come in handy! Not a lot of height to go around, but some quick and talented ball players that will make up for some of that.
GO LADIES GO!!
courtesy www.sutv.com
The WHS Lady Crusader's 2017-2018 season came to a close Wednesday evening - 4 young ladies that Lady Knight and Lady Crusader fans have followed since the 2012-2013 school year, saw their last action on the court as WHS basketball players. Thanks for the adventures Avery Rusk, Shayland French, Mekenna Adams and Gracie Fink! These "4" have to have as many or more "career victories" on the hard court than Lady Crusaders who have preceded. If not, gotta be close!
