The Hays Monarchs 18U American Legion baseball team moved to 3-1 in Garden City with a 7-5 win over Hooker, Oklahoma Saturday afternoon to move to 11-3 on the season.

The Monarchs scored two in the first and two more in the second for a 4-1 lead then scored single runs in the sixth and seventh.

Liam Stults got hits in each of his four at bats. He doubled in the fourth inning and singled in the first, second, and seventh innings.

Stults also got the win, despite allowing five runs over 5 1/3 innings. Stults struck out four, walked four and gave up eight hits.

Stults, Ryan Schippers and Jared Vitztum combined for seven of the Monarchs 12 hits and six RBIs.