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HHS baseball opens season with sweep of Colby

COLBY, Kan. – The Hays High baseball team used some solid pitching Monday to start their season 2-0. Trey Riggs threw a complete game one-hitter, striking out 16 without a walk in a 4-0 win in game one of their doubleheader. Palmer Hutchison and Dom Bainter combined on a one-hitter in 9-1 six inning run rule victory in the second game.

Riggs doubled to drive in Palmer Hutchison in the top of the first inning in the opener. It would stay that way until the sixth when the Indians scored twice off a Colby error. They added another run in the seventh off an error.

Hutchison allowed one run on no hits with four strikeouts and a walk in 3 2/3 innings in the second game. Bainter gave up a hit with two strikeouts and a walk over the final 2 1/3 innings.

Dylan Dreiling singled home two runs in the first. Cody Peterson knocked in a run with a single in the second. Riggs and Brock Lummus both walked with the bases loaded to put Hays up 5-0 in the second. Lummus’ sac fly in the fourth drove in another run. The Indians then put the game away with a three-run sixth.

Dreiling and Lummus both drove in three while Riggs knocked in two.

The Indians play their home opener Monday against Washburn Rural.

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