By JEREMY McGUIRE
Hays Post

Thomas More Prep-Marian’s Tate Garcia signed a national letter of intent Tuesday afternoon to play baseball for Benedictine College in Atchison. Along with playing baseball, Garcia plans on pursuing an engineering degree while in school. He has been a three sport athlete at TMP all four years participating in football, basketball and baseball.

He has helped the Monarch baseball team this season to a 9-1 start. Garcia is 5-0 on the mound with a 2.10 earned run average. He has also been solid as a second baseman being error free through the first 10 games. At the plate Tate is hitting at a .289 average with 11 hits and 11 runs batted in.

The Benedictine Ravens are 22-23 this season playing in the Heart of America Athletic Conference. The conference features 14 schools, three of which are in Kansas (Benedictine, Baker, Mid America Nazarene)

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