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Hays High Hosts Maroon And Gold Scrimmage

Posted on August 28, 2015

By Dustin Armbruster

Hays High held their Maroon and Gold scrimmage on Friday night at Lewis Field Stadium. The fall sports teams were introduced as were the cheer and dance teams. The soccer team held a scrimmage and the evening was capped with the football scrimmage.

Coach Randall Rath had his varsity run 16 live plays on offense and 12 of defense. Eight different players carried the ball for the varsity squad with touchdown runs by Kohlton Meyers, Keith Dryden and Maddux Winter. Meyers also hooked up with tight end Shane Berens for a 22 yard touchdown pass.

The varsity continued to work on offensive plays while the freshmen and junior varsity scrimmage on the opposite end of the field.

Coach Rath liked what he saw out of his team on Friday night and felt that the combination of cooler weather, lights and crowd helped to raise the level of excitement in the team.

Coach Rath

The Indians now will turn their attention to the first game of the season September 4th. Hays will host Olathe Northwest to open the season. Game time is set for 7:00.

HHS, TMP-Marian volleyball crack KVA preseason poll

Posted on August 26, 2015August 26, 2015

The Kansas Volleyball Association is out with their preseason poll and Hays High cracks the top-10 in 4A Division I at No. 9. TMP-Marian is ranked third in 4A Division II. La Crosse sits fourth in 1A Division I.

Complete poll below…

Class 6A
1. Olathe Northwest
2. Blue Valley
3. Olathe East
4. Blue Valley North
5. Blue Valley Northwest
6. Washburn Rural
7. Derby
8. Shawnee Mission East
9. Manhattan
10. Maize

Class 5A
1. St. James Academy
2. Shawnee Heights
3. St. Thomas Aquinas
4. Blue Valley West
5. Bishop Carroll
6. Lansing
7. Topeka-Seaman
8. Newton
9. Andover Central
10. Valley Center Class

4A – Division 1
1. Bishop Miege
2. Topeka-Hayden
3. Abilene
4. McPherson
5. Louisburg
6. Rose Hill
7. Andale
8. Wamego
9. Hays
10. Basehor-Linwood

Class 4A – Division 2
1. Royal Valley
2. Holton
3. Thomas More Prep-Marian
4. Girard
5. Rock Creek
6. Atchison
7. Baldwin
8. Clay Center
9. Holcomb
10. Iola

Class 3A
1. Hillsboro
2. Silver Lake
3. Wellsville
4. Hesston
5. Douglass
6. Garden Plain
7. Southeast of Saline
8. Cheney
9. Nemaha Central
10. Sterling

Class 2A
1. Washington County
2. Central Plains
3. Wabaunsee
4. Spearville
5. South Central
6. St. Mary’s Colgan
7. Ness City
8. Ellinwood
9. Chase County
10. Lyndon

Class 1A – Division 1
1. Goessel
2. Centralia
3. Waverly
4. LaCrosse
5. Hoxie
6. Flinthills
7. Thunder Ridge
8. Immaculata
9. Pratt-Skyline
10. Valley Heights

Class 1A – Division 2
1. Axtell
2. Beloit-St. John’s/Tipton
3. Northern Valley
4. Argonia
5. Wheatland-Grinnell
6. Cunningham
7. South Barber
8. Wallace County
9. Logan
10. Linn

Hays High opens practice under new coach

Posted on August 18, 2015August 18, 2015

By DUSTIN ARMBRUSTER
Hays Post

Following a coaching change for a second consecutive year, the Hays High Indians got their first day of football practice completed on Monday. Long time Oakley coach Randall Rath, took the Hays job after one year in Cimarron. Rath opened his tenure with two practices on Monday with 60 kids reporting for practice.

Coach Randall Rath on his first practice

Rath has plenty to replace after most of last year’s starters were seniors or didn’t return this season. But first and foremost he has to get kids acclimated to the way a new coach wants his practices to run, along with installing his offensive and defensive strategies. To some extent the first week of practice is feeling out what the athletes need from the coach. “You can see it in their eyes when I came this summer. ‘Are you going to be here?’ You can tell that is the question their asking. They’ve bought in and I couldn’t be any happier than what they’ve done.”

Rath’s expectations are simple through this first week of practice. Be better today than you were yesterday.

Rath and the Indians will take the field for the first time this season on September 4th. They will open the season at home versus Olathe Northwest.

Youthful Monarchs hoping to turn gridiron fortunes around in 2015

Posted on August 18, 2015August 18, 2015

Right at 45 players greeted head coach John Montgomery Monday morning as TMP-Marian held their first of two workouts to begin the 2015 football season. Of the 45 players who reported, over 30 are underclassman.

“It really puts our seniors in a unique position and our juniors for leadership to try to mentor and help our young guys to grow” Montgomery said. “But you have to look at our situation and you can’t help but be excited for the next several seasons of Monarch football.”

TMP-Marian head football coach John Montgomery on the upcoming 2015 Monarch football season

The Monarchs finished 0-9 in their first season in the Mid-Continent League and have just two wins over the last two seasons. With four of last year’s losses were by eight points or less, Montgomery says winning the close ones is key to turning the program around.

“We’ve got to start making those games, finding a way to get wins in the win column. As soon as that starts happening I think it’s going to snowball for us. Guys are going to start to have quite a bit more confidence, their going to play faster, more physically. I think you’re going to see a new level of Monarch football”.

TMP-Marian opens their season September 4th at Phillipsburg.

HHS soccer announces practice schedule

Posted on August 15, 2015August 13, 2015

Here is the official practice schedule for Hays High boys soccer team this season:

Aug 17th, 18th and 19th: 6:00 a.m. to 7:15 a.m. at HHS track (running shoes only). 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. south of baseball field and they will need cleats, shin guards, socks, shirt, shorts & water bottles.

Aug 20th: 6:45 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. in multi-purpose room to watch “Concussion Video”. 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. south of baseball field with regular practice equipment.

Aug 21st: 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. regular practice

Aug 22nd 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. **Practice & Alumni Scrimmage** Location is at Pratt-Optimist Park on 5th street for scrimmage.

After Aug. 22nd we will go to regular practice time of 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. starting Aug. 24th, 2015.

Former HHS coach named new head soccer coach at DCHS

Posted on July 30, 2015

A former Hays High soccer coach has been named the sami position at Dodge City High School. Saul Hernandez has been named the Red Demons news boys and girls soccer coach pending school board approval.

Hernandez spent the last season as an assistant coach in Liberal. Prior to that he was the head boys and girls coach at Hays High School where he was named the Western Athletic Conference Girls Coach of the Year in 2014.

Hernandez is a former Dodge City soccer player (1998-2001) and 2002 graduate of Dodge City HS. He played two years at Dodge City Community College before receiving his Bachelor’s degree from Fort Hays State University.

Three Monarchs named to 4A all-state girls’ soccer team

Posted on June 24, 2015June 25, 2015

TMP-Marian’s Bailey Hageman has been named to the First Team of the coaches 4A all state girls soccer team. The Monarchs Rachel Hamel and Tyra Youni have been named Second Team. All three helped lead the Monarchs to a 12-4-1 record and a second straight appearance in the 4-1A state quarterfinals.

Complete 4A All-State team below…

Class 4A

First Team

Offensive: Abbey Hair, Miege; Margot Dunshee, Hayden; Jackie Martinek, Hayden; Cathy Rometti, Miege; Jordan Lenherr, Hayden; Miyah Hightower, Bonner Springs; Mikayla Smith, Spring Hill; Tanith Beal, De Soto; Ally Henderson, Trinity; Bailey Hageman, TMP; Tarah Phongsavath, De Soto

Defensive: Kirah Lohse, Hayden; Maggie Mannebauch, Miege; Hannah Belfield, Miege; Maya Rattan, Miege; Breckon Kaufman, McPherson

Goalkeepers: Raven Lawlor, Hayden; Zoey Slettenbaugh, Miege

Offensive Player of the Year: Abbey Hair and Margot Dunshee

Defensive Player of the Year: Kirah Lohse, Hayden

Goalkeeper of the Year: Raven Lawlor, Hayden

Second Team

Offensive: Paige Schmidt, McPherson; Alayna Wallace, McPherson; Aislinn Hughes, McPherson; Berkley Sharp, Basehor-Linwood; Bailey Billings, De Soto; Elise Alexander, Trinity; Madison Plake, De Soto; Sydney Shoemaker, Spring Hill; Dominque Milsap, Rose Hill; Rachel Hamel, TMP; Shelby Taylor, Bonner Springs

Defensive: Kennedy Bacon, Bonner Springs; Heide Meyers, McPherson; Tyra Youni, TMP; Hannah Knaak, Rose Hill; Aly Hargrove, De Soto

Goalkeepers: Abbey Mikesell, Spring Hill; Taylor Peterson, De Soto

Maska steps down as Hays High softball coach

Posted on June 11, 2015June 12, 2015

By DUSTIN ARMBRUSTER
Hays Post

After seven seasons at the helm of the Hays High softball program, coach Abby Maska has resigned her coaching position. Maska coached the Indians to the 5A state tournament on three occassions. The Indians went to state in back to back seasons in 2011 and 2012, finishing fourth in ’11. During those two seasons, Maska’s team compiled a 42-6 record. The Indians also went to state in 2014 and finished the season 18-5. Over her seven seasons the Indians went 101-54.

Abby Maska said for her “it was just the right time” to step down as head coach and take on some other responsibilities within the school.

Abby Maska

A former collegiate player herself (Fort Hays State University) Maska sent a number of players on to compete in the college ranks. Among some of the them, Katelyn Schumacher is currently at the University of Kansas and most recently this season Kaylie Schoendaller signed with Dodge City Community College and Hannah Herald signed to play for FHSU.

Maska will remain in the school district as a teacher, while also being involved in other aspects of education.

Maska who currently teaches AP Government and Sociology, which are both concurrent classes through Barton County Community college, as well as World Geography and Government was also an assistant girls basketball coach and resigned that position as well. Maska is also on the NEA Negotiating Team and pending board approval will be the department chair for Social Studies.

Maska said more than wins and losses, her best memories stem from the relationships she built with the teams and how softball has helped so many girls in different ways and “feels really blessed to have the opportunity to be a part of their lives.”

Athletic Director Chris Michaelis said that a search for a replacement will begin immediately.

Four Indians named to All-WAC softball team

Posted on June 1, 2015June 1, 2015

Hays High has two players named to the first team and two honorable mention picks on the All-Western Athletic Conference softball team.

Senior Kaylie Schondaller and junior Tessa Stickel were named to the first team while juniors Albany Schaffer and Nicole Dinkel were honorable mention selections.

First -Team All-League Selections

	NAME	Year	Position	High School
*1	Hunter Middleton	12	P	Great Bend
2	Abby Dart	10	P	Garden City
3	Dusti Befort	12	P	Garden City
4	Dakota Sanders	12	C	Great Bend
5	Kaylie Schoendaller	12	C	Hays
6	Hannah Mauler	12	IF	Great Bend
7	Regan Unruh	12	IF	Great Bend
8	Tessa Stickel	11	IF	Hays
9	Haley Saldana	11	IF	Garden City
10	Jordan Terrones	11	OF	Garden City
11	Riley Lopp	12	OF	Dodge City
12	Kacee Kasselman	12	OF	Great Bend
	*Indicates Player of the Year
	Coach of the Year
	Carrie Minton			Great Bend

Honorable Mention

	NAME	Year		High School
1	Morgan Kottes	11	IF	Great Bend
2	Emily Castaneda	12	IF	Liberal
3	Alyssa Long	10	IF	Garden City
4	Shai Cartmill	11	IF	Garden City
5	Hannah Honomichl	11	IF	Great Bend
6	Lauren Welsch	11	OF	Great Bend
7	Albany Schaffer	11	OF	Hays
8	Alize Tatum	10	OF	LIberal
9	Mattisyn Tieben	11	P	Dodge City
10	Alex Stecklein	11	C	Dodge City
11	Nicole Dinkel	11	IF	Hays
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HHS has four named to All-WAC girls’ soccer team

Posted on June 1, 2015

Hays High had two players named to the first team of the All-Western Athletic Conference soccer team and two more named honorable mention. senior Brooke Russell and sophomore Talyn Kleweno were named to the first team while junior Lieacha Cook and sophomore Courtney Molleker are honorable mention selections.

All-Western Athletic Conference Soccer Team

WAC TEAM CHAMPIONS: Garden City (7-1

First -Team All-League Selections

	NAME	Year	High School
1	Carolina Limon	11	Liberal
2	Brooke Russell	12	Hays
3	Amber Miller	11	Garden City
4	Tiffany Butler	11	Garden City
5	Jaque Gonzalez	12	Dodge City
6	Cynthia Rodela	12	Dodge City
7	Keely Ireland	10	Great Bend
8	Jessica Loera	12	Great Bend
9	Dominique Arzaga	12	Dodge City
10	Talyn Kleweno	10	Hays
*11	Megan Martinez	12	Garden City
	*Indicates Player of the Year
	Coach of the Year
	Joaquin Padilla		Garden City

Honorable Mention

	NAME	Year	High School
1	Kelly Ramirez	12	Liberal
2	Lieacha Cook	11	Hays
3	Courtney Molleker	10	Hays
4	Alma Garay	10	Great Bend
5	Gretti Mendez	10	Garden City
6	Koraima Mota	11	Dodge City
7	Ariana Temblador	9	Dodge City
8	Sofia Tran	10	Garden City
9	Sofia Mattson	11	Garden City
10	Ruth Nunez	9	Liberal
11	Reyna Gonzalez	10	Liberal

HHS fifth, TMP 12th at 4A state golf

Posted on May 28, 2015May 28, 2015

Maybe the extra day off wasn’t a good thing for the Hays High and TMP-Marian golf teams. The Indians finish fifth and the Monarchs 12th at the 4A state tournament at Turkey Creek in McPherson. The tournament, which was scheduled for Tuesday, was pushed back to Wednesday due to heavy rains over the weekend.

The Indians shoot a 324, 31 back of first place Buhler. The Monarchs fired a 347.

Payton Ruder was the only medalist for either Hays or TMP, finishing sixth after a 2-over par 72. Buhler’s Mac McNish wins the individual title with a 3-under 67.

Max Megaffin was the highest Monarch finisher with a 78.

Team Results
1. Buhler 293
2. Rose Hill 310
3. Wamego 310
4. Iola 314
5. Hays 324
6. Topeka-Hayden 325
7. DeSoto 326
8. Wichita-Trinity Academy 328
9. Labette County 332
10. Chanute 332
11. Ottawa 339
12. TMP-Marian 347

Top-20 Medalists
1. Mac McNish-Buhler 67
2. Eric Pahls-Kansas City Piper 70
3. Logan Vacca-Coffeyville-Field Kinley 71
4. Gabe Julo-Atchison 71
5. Kaden Macha-Iola 71
6. Payton Ruder-Hays 72
7. Conner Antonetti-Fort Scott 73
8. Pete Carney-Andale 74
9. Ryan Elder-Wamego 74
10. Parker Water-Wamego 75
Med. Dylan Schmitt-Buhler 75
Med. Connor Ridder-Buhler 75
Med. Jacob Mogison-Perry-Locompton 75
Med. Jordon Anderson-Andale 76
Med. Joe Schoech-Columbus 76
Med. Marcus Willey-Abilene 76
Med. Parker Olmsted-Ottawa 76
Med. Ryan Anderson-Buhler 76
Med. Daniel Lee-DeSoto 76
Med. Ales Carro-Wichita-Trinity 76

Hays High Results
6. Payton Ruder-72
37. Nathan Romme-79
49. Cash Hobson-82
82. Adam Zollinger-91
88. Justin McCullick-95
99. Peyton Kieffer-100

TMP-Marian Results
27. Max Megaffin–78
58. Hayden Rohr-58
80. Collin Werth-91
87. Lane Fisher-94
94. Dan O’Connor-96
102. Joe Heimann-113

TMP-Marian girls soccer falls in state quarterfinals

Posted on May 27, 2015May 27, 2015

For a second straight year, the TMP-Marian girls soccer team sees their season end in the state quarterfinals. Tuesday they fell behind 2-0 early and lose 2-0 to Topeka Hayden at the Bickle/Schmidt Sports Complex.

It’s just the fourth time the Monarchs have been scored on this season and they lose all four. The Monarchs finish at 12-4-1.

Hayden advances to the state semifinals where they will play Bishop Miege.

La Crosse 5th at state sand green golf tournament; Plainville 6th, Trego 8th at 2A

Posted on May 27, 2015

The La Crosse boys golf team finished fifth at the Sand Green state tournament yesterday in La Crosse. The Leopards shoot a 389, 69 back of first place St. John’s-Beloit. Nobody from La Crosse finished in the top-10.

Sand Greens State Golf Results

Plainville finished sixth and Trego eighth at the 2A state tournament in Emporia. Trego’s Emmit Owens finished 10th with a 6-over 77. Colton Bobeck was 13th with a 79 and Dion Reetz of Trego finished 16th also with a 79.

2A State Golf Results