The Hays High baseball team was swept in a doubleheader for the first time this season, falling to Great Bend at home.

Great Bend 8, Hays 5
In the first game the Panthers scored four runs in the first inning and scored in each of the first four innings to earn the 8-5 win.

The first four hitters of the game reached base and came around to score for the Panthers as they jumped out to a 4-0 lead. The Indians got on the board with an RBI groundout by Connor Rule scoring Marcus Altman who reached on a fielder’s choice.

Great Bend scored single runs in the second and third innings and added two more in the fourth to go up 8-2. Hays got one back in the fifth and scored two in the seventh as they fall 8-5.

Altman was 3-for-4 with an RBI and two runs scored.

He also suffered the loss on the mound; he allowed eight runs over three innings.

Great Bend 15, Hays 6
In game number two the first six batters of the game for Great Bend reached base against Cole Schumacher with four of them coming home to score. After giving up a lead-off single Schumacher walked three and hit two batters before being replaced by Dalton Stout. Schumacher allowed four runs and got the loss.

With Great Bend leading 5-0 Hays answered with four runs in their half of the third inning cutting the score to 5-4. With one out in the inning Cole Schumacher drove an RBI triple to left scoring Jace Armstrong who reached on a single. Marcus Altman and Dalton Stout followed with RBI singles and Braydon Delzeit drive in the fourth run on a sacrifice fly.

Each team scored two more in the fifth inning highlighted by a Connor Rule two-run homerun.

Leading 8-6 Great Bend put together their big inning, scoring seven runs in the seventh securing the 15-6 win.

Rule was 1-for-3 with that two-run homerun and scored twice. Altman was 2-for-3, scored twice and drove in a run.

The Indians at 8-4 on the season and will host the Western Diamond Classic May 5-7.