Wellington Junior High basketball teams will play 8th grade Memphis Cyclones at 5:00 pm then play a fifth quarter for the 7th grade teams tonight at both sites.
Here is this week in athletics 🚀⛹🏽♀️⛹🏽♂️🚀
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The memorial service for Coach Mike Burkhalter is tomorrow (Monday, January 9th) at 2pm at the Wellington First Methodist Church. Come show your support for the all time greatest Skyrocket fan. Rest in peace Coach Mike! 🚀🏈
Lady Rockets open district with a big 61 to 10 win over the Shamrock Lady Irish. Varsity boys fell to a tough Childress team by a final score of 40 to 66. Lady Skyrockets continue district play at home Tuesday against Memphis while the boys continue non-district play on the road in Amarillo against Holy Cross. 🚀⛹🏽♀️⛹🏽♂️🚀
In the first two games of the night, Wellington takes two wins over Shamrock in the girls game and against Childress in overtime of the JV boys game. 🚀🏀🚀
JV Lady Rockets 39
JV Lady Irish 17
JV Rockets 54
JV Bobcats 52
Lady Rockets open district against Shamrock and boys continue non-district play hosting Childress in the boys first home games of the year. Games start at 4! Go Lady Rockets and Rockets! 🚀⛹🏽♀️⛹🏽♂️🚀
Boys win two on the road tonight in Amarillo. All four teams will be in action Friday at home as the girls open district play against Shamrock while the boys play Childress in non-district play. 🚀⛹🏽♂️🏀🚀
JV Skyrockets 34
JV Wildcats 31
Varsity Rockets 44
Varsity River Road Wildcats 30
It’s game day for our JV and Varsity Rockets as we travel to Amarillo to take on the River Road Wildcats. JV boys play at 5pm followed by varsity. Go Rockets! 🚀⛹🏽♂️🏀🚀
Despite trailing by 9 at halftime, our Lady Rockets put together a big comeback before falling by 2 in a nail biter. JV girls also fell tonight.
JV Lady Rockets 21
JV Canadian Lady Wildcats 36
Lady Rockets 48
Canadian Lady Wildcats 50
Both teams begin district play at home Friday against Shamrock. Boys teams will be in action tomorrow at River Road.
Lady Rockets have our final tune up before district play begins this afternoon at Canadian. JV girls will kick things off at 5pm. Go Lady Rockets! 🚀⛹🏽♀️🏀
One week of Christmas break left, but basketball is at full speed! Check out WJHS and WHS home games on Thursday and Friday! 🚀🏀🚀
Rockets fall in the championship game to Goldthwaite by a final score of 56 to 64 to finish 2nd in the Texas Bank Holiday Classic in Brownwood. Rockets end a successful tournament season earning one championship and two second place finishes. Rockets play two 3A schools as we are at River Road on Tuesday and have the home opener Friday against Childress. Good job! 🚀⛹🏽♂️🏀🚀
With the varsity boys looking on, our Lady Rockets made a big comeback to defeat Little River Academy by a final score of 25 to 20. Lady Rockets finish the Brownwood tournament with a 3-2 record. Nice job Lady Rockets! 🚀⛹🏽♀️🏀🚀
Skyrockets win a tough semifinal game over Albany by a final score of 47 to 41 to advance to the championship game in Brownwood at 5:20pm today against Goldthwaite. This is the third straight tourney the Skyrockets have made it to the championship game. Go Rockets go! 🚀⛹🏽♂️🏀🚀
Lady Rockets drop a close one to 5A Abilene Cooper by a final score of 41 to 44. Varsity boys blast past Sidney by a final score of 61 to 33. Both teams will be in action again tomorrow in Brownwood. 🚀⛹🏽♀️⛹🏽♂️🏀🚀
Lady Rockets defeat 4A Jarrell this morning by a final score of 47 to 25 and will now play 5A Abilene Cooper later today. Lady Rockets finish 2-1 in pool play. Go Lady Rockets! 🚀⛹🏽♀️🏀🚀
Lady Rockets bounce back in our second game of the tournament defeating Coleman by a final score of 38 to 21. Both the Lady Rockets and Rockets will be in action again tomorrow. Lady Rockets will play Jarrell at 10:40am while the Rockets will play at 8pm against Sidney. 🚀⛹🏽♀️⛹🏽♂️🏀🚀
In a rematch of last year’s championship game in Brownwood, our Lady Rockets put up a fight against state ranked TAPPS team, Nolan Catholic, but fall to open the Holiday Classic by a final score of 48 to 55. Lady Rockets will be in action again tonight at 6:40pm against Coleman. 🚀⛹🏽♀️🏀🚀
Rockets open tournament play at the Holiday Classic in Brownwood with a big win over Santo! 🚀⛹🏽♂️🏀🚀
Merry Christmas from WHS! We just got word yesterday we are a 2A finalist for Dave Campbell's Team of the Year. While you are sitting around the Christmas tree with family, please vote for WHS as many times as you would like. Share this post. Full instructions are below.
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