HAYS – The Hays Eagles Junior American Legion baseball team finished 1-2 on Saturday at the Wild West Fest baseball tournament in Hays.
Game 1: Buhler 12, Hays Eagles 5
In their first game of the day Buhler scored in four of the games’s five innings on their way to a 13-5 win over Hays.
Buhler opened the game with a three-run first inning, added two more in the second and the big inning came in the third when they scored six runs.
Trailing 11-0 the Eagles pushed across two runs in the top four the fourth inning. They scored on a Mason Robbins groundout and a Garrett Wellbrock RBI single.
The Eagles scored three more runs in the top of the fifth inning cutting the deficit to 11-5.
Robbins drove in his second run of the game on an RBI single and then Wellbrock plated two more with his second RBI single.
Buhler was able to push across two in the bottom of the fifth to take the 13-5 win.
Wellbrock was two-for-three with 3 RBI’s and Robbins was 1-for-3 with two RBI’s.
Dalton Dale suffered the loss on the mound. He allowed eight runs on three hits and six walks over two and two-thirds innings.
Game 2: Hays Eagles 7, Kansas Senators 5
The Eagles rallied from a 1-0 deficit in their second game of the day to beat the Kansas Senators 7-5.
Down 1-0 through two innings the Eagles scored their first run on an error and then Dalton Dale broke the tie with a sacrifice fly to left field. Mason Robbins followed up with another sacrifice fly to right field this time to put Hays up 3-1.
After the Senators got a run back in the bottom of the third Hays scored two runs in the fourth inning, scoring a run on a wild pitch and another run on an error, to take a 5-2 lead.
The Eagles got single runs in the fifth and sixth inning on their way to the 7-5 win.
Mason Robbins drove in two runs and Keatyn Barnett and Dalton Dale each drove in a run.
Garrett Wellbrock earned the win on the mound. He allowed five runs, four earned, in five and two-thirds innings. He struck out three and walked three.
Dawson Vonfeldt came in and got the final out of the game and earned the save.
Game 3: Dodge City 10, Hays Eagles 7
The Hays Eagles jumped out to a 5-0 lead through the first inning and a half but couldn’t hold on as the Dodge City Seniors rallied for a 10-7 win.
Garrett Wellbrock and Mason Robbins drove in the game’s first two runs on back-to-back RBI singles. Jack Fields drove in the third run of the inning on a ground out.
In the second inning Remington Cox singled in two more runs to give Hays a 5-0 lead.
Dodge City scored four runs in the second inning to cut the Hays lead to 5-4.
Hays got a single run in the third when Jack Fields scored on a wild pitch and then Fields singled in the Eagles seventh run in the fourth inning to put Hays up 7-4.
But unfortunately for the Eagles Dodge City scored six runs in the bottom of the fourth on their way to the 10-7 win.
Dawson Vonfeldt suffered the loss for the Eagles. He allowed eight runs, five earned in three and a third innings pitched. He struck out four and walked four.
The Eagles finished 1-4 at the Wild West Fest tournament and are now 12-15-1 on the season.
The will travel to Beloit on Wednesday.