HAYS, Kan. – The Hays High softball team opened their 2018 campaign with a couple of wins over Goodland at the Glassman Ballpark. The Indians scored 11 runs in the first two innings and rolled to a 14-0 win in game one. They scored scored two in the fifth to break a 1-1 tie then added five in the sixth and won the second contest 8-1.
The Indians travel to Andover Tuesday for games with McPherson and Andover.
Game 1: Hays 14, Goodland 0 (5 innings)
Kaitlyn Brown, Mackenzie Fagan and Calista Isbell all had two hits with Isbell driving in three runs. Fagan, Cassidy Prough, Shyann Schmumacher and Reanna Harman all drove in two runs.
Brown struck out ten and walked two without allowing a hit in 4 1/3 innings and picked up the win.
Game 2: Hays 8, Goodland 1
Macee Altman’s fifth inning RBI single broke a 1-1 tie. Jaysa Wichers singled home Altman to give HHS a 3-1 lead. The Indians would blow the game open with a five-run sixth. Kaitlyn Brown had three hits and scored two runs. Altman had two hits and drove in three. Kaitlyn Brown had two RBIs.
Jaysa Wichers allowed one run on four hits with 14 strikeouts and four walks in the complete game win.