The Hays Eagles Senior American Legion finished 1-1 in pool play at the Blue Spring Missouri Wood Bat Tournament on Thursday, moving their record to 1-2 in Missouri.

Game one: Hays 7 Lee Summit Mo. 5

In their first game of the day the Eagles scored four runs in the fourth and held off a late rally by the Lee Summit Pirates in a 7-5 win.

The Eagles took advantage of three Pirate errors in the second inning, scoring two unearned runs on three hits to go up 2-0.

Leading 3-0 heading into the fourth Hays scored two unearned runs and got an RBI single by Jake Sedbrook and Connor Rule added a sacrifice fly putting Hays 7-0.

Lee Summit rallied for three runs in the fifth and two in the seventh but left the bases loaded as Hays’ Lane Downing struck out the final hitter of the game preserving the win.

Marcus Altman was two-for-three and scored two runs and Connor Rule finished one-for-two and drove in two runs.

Layne Downing picked up the win. He allowed five runs; none were earned in a complete game effort.

Game two: Bellevue Ne. 9 Hays 7

In their second game of the day Bellevue Nebraska jumped out to a big lead and held off a late rally by the Eagles to pick up the 9-7 win.

Leading 2-1 heading into their half of the four Bellevue exploded for five runs to go up 7-1.

Hays got two runs back in the top of the fifth one a Kade Parker RBI single and then Connor Rule scored on a wild pitch cutting the deficit to 7-3.

Trailing 9-3 entering the top of the seventh the Eagles tallied four runs on four hits but stranded two runners on base and came up short falling 9-7.

Zack Legleiter was two-for-three with an RBI and two runs scored and Connor Rule finished two-for-four with and RBI and scored twice.

Brady Bieker allowed nine runs; none earned on 10 hits in six innings and suffered the loss.

The loss drops Hays to 24-8 on the season and 1-2 in pool play.

The Eagles will wrap up pool play Friday afternoon against Overland Missouri.