HAYS, Kan.-Silas Hibbs and his Hays High Lady Indian soccer team are becoming very accustomed to draws. For the second time this week HHS played to a draw with a Western Athletic Conference opponent. This time it was a 1-1 draw with Dodge City, a team they beat on 1-0 in double overtime back on April 2nd in Dodge City.
The two teams played a scoreless first half and the game remained scoreless deep into the second half. In the 72nd minute the Lady Demons took the lead after Hays High goalie Isabel Robben appeared to have the ball kicked out of her hand. No call was made and the Lady Indians trailed for the first time since a 2-1 loss to Maize South on March 28th.
Hays High would have the answer when Sierra Bryant stepped up to take a free kick in the 77th minute. The sailed just past the defenders and through the goalie and tied the game 1-1. The Lady Indians had opportunities in both overtimes but the Dodge City goalie turned back several nice shots by Hays High. The Lady Demons had a golden opportunity to win the match in the second overtime with a penalty shot that Robben denied to preserve the victory.
Hays picks up their fourth draw of the season and go into the final week of the regular season with an overall record of 9-1-4 and 4-0-4 in the WAC. They currently sit in second place in the league and need Garden City to lose on the road in Liberal next Tuesday in order to claim the league crown. The Lady Indians will host Nickerson on Tuesday and travel to Wichita Trinity Academy next Thursday.
HAYS, Kan. – The Hays High baseball team opened the Western Plains Diamond Classic with a couple of wins Thursday at the Hays High Field. The Indians defeated Manhattan 1-0 in the first game of the day then knocked off Great Bend 6-3.
Trey Riggs (5-1) pitched a complete game three-hitter, striking out four and walking three against Manhattan. Brock Lummus hit a fourth-inning solo homer for the game’s only run.
Lummus had a double and triple and drove in three against the Panthers. His double in the third put the Indians up 4-1.
Palmer Hutchison (5-0) allowed three runs on 10 hits with five strikeouts and a walk for the complete game win.
The Indians have won four straight and improve to 15-1. They play Salina Central at approximately 7:15pm Friday.
The Mustangs lost 5-3 to Manhattan in the second game Thursday.
Friday’s schedule…
Great Bend vs. Goddard-Eisenhower, 1pm
Salina Central vs. Goddard Eisenhower, 3pm
Great Bend vs. Manhattan, 5:15pm
Hays vs. Salina Central, 7:15pm
GOODLAND, Kan. – The Thomas More Prep-Marian baseball team scored 30 runs on 22 hits and took advantage of 11 Goodland errors as they cruised to a doubleheader sweep of the Cowboys Thursday. The Monarchs won game one 13-1 before taking the second game 17-0. They have won five straight and improve to 13-3 on the season.
Colby Dreiling (7-1) allowed one run on three hits with four strikeouts and one walk for the win in game one which was called after five innings by run rule. Carson Jacobs struck out five of the six batters he faced.
Brady Kreutzer and Eston Brown both had three hits and three RBIs. Kreutzer doubled twice. Dreiling doubled and Jace Wentling had a triple to highlight the Monarchs 11 hit attack.
Brady Kreutzer and Mason Robbins combined on a one-hitter in the second game which was called after four innings by run rule. Kreutzer (1-1) struck out five and allowed a hit in three innings and picked up the win. Robbins worked a scoreless inning in relief.
Kreutzer, Ethan Atherton and Noah Gibson all had two hits. Etherton, Gibson and Jace Wentling both drove in two runs.
Hays High has announced the hiring of Kyle Porter as the next girls basketball coach. Porter has been the head coach of Royal Valley High School the past two seasons. The Panthers won the 3A state crown this past season and finished with a 21-5 record. The team was 3A runner-up in 2018 and finished 17-8. Porter was a four year assistant before taking over the program.
A Holton native, Porter played baseball at Kansas City Kansas Community College and a year at Washburn University where he earned his degree. He will teach both Physical Education and Social Studies at Hays High.
In the below interview Porter talks about the “Gold Habits” his program will establish, returning Hays High players that already have caught his attention, and the style of play he would like to operate.
Coach Kyle Porter
The position at Hays High School opened when first year coach Alex Hutchins was announced as the new boys coach for the Indians.
Porter will move to Hays with his wife Crista (Bechard) who played basketball for two seasons at Fort Hays State University and a daughter.
LIBERAL, Kan. – The Hays High softball team scored two runs in the top of the seventh inning then held off a Liberal rally in the bottom of the inning for a 5-3 win in game two of their doubleheader in Liberal Tuesday. The Indians won the opener 11-4.
Jaysa Wichers struck out the final three batters looking after giving up a run off a double and an error in the bottom of the seventh. Wichers struck out eight and didn’t allow a walk and picked up the win.
Kaitlyn Brown and Mckenszie Fagan both had three hits while Macee Altman drove in two runs.
The Indians scored five in the first and led 9-2 after three innings in the first game. Madelyn Waddell had three hits and Altman drove in four. Wichers went the distance in the circle with nine strikeouts and four walks.
The Indians improve to 8-6 on the season. They are in Maize for a triangular on Friday.
HAYS, Kan.-When two quality soccer teams face off against each other the tiniest mistake can make a difference in the final outcome. For the second time this season there were very few mistakes made by the Hays High Lady Indians and the visitors from Garden City as the two teams played to a 0-0, double overtime draw on Monday afternoon at the Hays High Field. This draw came on the heals of a 1-1 draw back on April 15th in Garden City.
Both teams had shots on goal throughout the game but could not capitalize. Two shots from the Lady Indians hit the frame of the goal, one in the first half and one in the second half. Hays was playing short handed with three starters out of the match-up for the top of the Western Athletic Conference. Savannah Schneider and Kamree Leiker saw limited action due to injury and Kallie Leiker missed due to the National DECA Conference in Orlando.
With the tie Garden City moves to 8-1-3 overall and 5-0-2 in the WAC. They will host TMP on Thursday and will travel to Liberal next Tuesday where they can clinch a league championship with a win in that matchup. Hays moves to 9-1-3 and 4-0-3 in the WAC. The Lady Indians host Dodge City on Thursday where they will need a win to keep their league championship hopes alive.
HAYS, Kan. – The TMP-Marian baseball team used some solid pitching to pick up a sweep of Sacred Heart yesterday at the TMP Field. The Monarchs allowed only one hit on the day as they won 11-2 and 5-0.
Brady Kreutzer, Carson Jacobs and Mark Rack combine on a one-hitter in game one. Colby Dreiling and Mason Robbins combine to throw a no-hitter in the second game. Jacobs went the first three innings and gets the win in game one while Dreiling went five innings for the game two victory.
Kreutzer and Jacobs combined for five hits and seven runs drivin in in the first contest. Kreutzer’s two-run single keyed a four-run fourth inning which broke a scoreless tie in the second game.
The Monarchs have now won three straight and 11 of their last 12 and improve to 11-3 on the season.
HAYS, Kan. – The TMP-Marian golfers won their own invitational Monday at the Smoky Hill County Club. The Monarchs shot a 352, eight shots ahead of Goodland and 19 better than third place Plainville.
Cameron Rozean shot an 11-over-par 82 and finished second, two back of Ryan Lalicker of Goodland. Ryan Stoeklein fired an 85 and came third while Ethan Brummer was ninth with an 88.
GREAT BEND, Kan. – Tradgon McCrae shot a 3-over-par 74 to lead the Hays High boys golf team to a first place finish at the Great Bend Invitational Monday at the Stoneridge County Club. Jason Krannawitter fired a 77 to finish fourth and Josh Norris was sixth with an 81.
The Indians shot a 316 and finished two shots ahead of Garden City.
Team Finish
1. Hays High – 316
2. Garden City – 318
3. Great Bend – 343
4. Dodge City – 354
5. Liberal – 414
Top 10 Medalists
1. Sion Audrain – Garden City, 71
2. Tradgon McCrae – Hays High, 74
3. Cole Streck – Great Bend, 77
4. Jason Krannawitter – Hays High, 77
5. Davan Smith – Dodge City, 79
6. Josh Norris – Hays High, 81
7. Cayden Cundiff – Garden City, 81
8. Noah Ortiz – Garden City, 83
9. Theo Juhl – Garden City, 83
10. Reid Richmeier – Garden City, 83
Hays High hosted Liberal on Friday in a wind blown double header. The evening was also an opportunity for the Indians to honor seniors Willie Sennett, Trey Riggs, Palmer Hutchison, Cody Petersen, Chance Murphy and Brandon Hoffman.
Game 1
Hays 1 – Liberal 0
The first game of the double header featured two of the best pitchers in the Western Athletic Conference. Trey Riggs started for Hays High while Braxton Hyde got the nod for Liberal. The two threw up zeroes on the scoreboard through the first three innings with neither pitcher facing much of a threat.
The Indians were able to finally scratch across a run in the bottom of the fourth. Following three straight singles from Trey Riggs, Brock Lummus, and Dylan Dreiling to load the bases with no outs, Dominque Bainter came to the plate. He was hit by the next Hyde pitch to send a run home. That is all the Indians would get though as Hyde got a strike out and a double play to work out of trouble.
Game 1 Highlights
That was all Trey Riggs needed. The senior stranded a runner at third in the fifth following an error and two wild pitches, stranded a runner at second in the sixth following a one out double, and runners at first and second with two outs in the seventh.
The 1-0 victory pushes Riggs’ record to 4-1 and marks the sixth time he has gone seven innings in a game during his career. He struck out eight and walked just one. Liberal’s Hyde struck out six, walked three and hit one batter. His record drops to 5-1 but will improve on his 0.85 ERA to 0.71.
Game 2
Hays 13 – Liberal 3 (5 Innings)
Game two seemed to have the same makings of the first game. A scoreless first inning gave way to a three run third by the Indians off the bat of Cody Petersen who drove in two runs on a single. The Indians led 3-1 after the second inning. Liberal scored off of two Hays errors and a wild pitch in the top of the third inning for a 3-1 score.
The Indians put little doubt into the outcome of the game in the bottom of the third. Hays sent 14 to the plate against three different pitchers resulting in 10 runs. Every batter in the lineup scored a run in the inning, Justus Dotts scored two as a courtesy runner for Brock Lummus who reached on a pair of hits.
Game 2 Highlights
Liberal scored two in the top of the fourth but would get no closer. Hays closed the game out by run rule 13-3 in the fifth.
Palmer Hutchison takes the win and moves to 4-0 on the year.
Coach Frank Leo
With the double header sweep Hays wins their 18th Western Athletic Conference title under coach Frank Leo. The Indians are now 13-1 on the season and Liberal drops to 10-6.
Hays will host the Diamond Classic tournament next Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
HAYS, Kan.-When Kallie Leiker showed up to the Bickle-Schmidt Sports Complex on Thursday afternoon to face her cross town rivals she wanted to win. Little did she know how instrumental she would be in helping the Hays High Lady Indian soccer team in their 5-0 win over TMP. Leiker finished the match with a hat trick, the first of the season for Hays.
It took a little while for the Lady Indians to get things going in the first half. Leiker found the back of the net in the 20th minute to give Hays the 1-0 lead. A little over eight minutes later Leiker struck again with a goal in the 28th minute and a 2-0 lead. Maggie Robben tallied the final goal of the first half with just 22 seconds remaining to give the Lady Indians a commanding 3-0 lead at the halftime break.
The TMP defense was tough to break in the second half but Leiker finally broke through in the 72nd minute to complete the hat trick and to give her team a 4-0 lead. Isabel Robben didn’t waste any time with the Lady Indians’ fifth and final goal of the match as she scored 46 seconds later for the 5-0 Hays High victory. Hays continues an impressive season on both offense and defense as they have outscored their opponents 39-5 on the season.
TMP drops to 0-9 and will travel to Great Bend on Monday. Hays High improves to 9-1-2 and await a visit from Garden City on Monday in Hays.
HAYS – The TMP-Marian baseball team split a doubleheader with Russell/Victoria Tuesday in Hays.
Aaron Breit postgame interview
Game 1: Russell/Victoria 9, TMP 7
TMP committed eight errors and Monarchs pitchers combined to walk eight and the Russell/Victoria Broncos rallied for a four-run deficit as they earned a 9-7 win in game one.
The Broncos jumped out to an early lead scoring two runs in the top of the first inning but the Monarchs answered back with two of their own in the bottom of the first.
Brady Kreutzer’s RBI triple got the Monarchs on the board and then Kreutzer stole home after Carson Jacobs was picked off first to tie the game at two.
In the third inning TMP pushed across two more runs on a wild pitch and a sacrifice fly by Eston Brown to take a 4-2 lead.
The Broncos tied the game with two runs in the top of the fourth before the Monarchs plated three runs in their half of the inning.
TMP recorded three straight singles to load the bases and then Jace Wentling singled to give the Monarchs a 5-4 lead. Two batters later Carson Jacobs singled home the second run of the inning for TMP and Eston Brown added his second sacrifice fly of the game to put TMP up 7-4. But the lead wouldn’t last.
Russell/Victoria scored two runs in the fifth to cut the lead to 7-6 and the took the lead with two more in the sixth inning.
TMP outfielders committed back-to-back errors to open the frame and then Kirk Huser drove a double to center field that scored two runs to give the Broncos the 8-7 lead. They added one more in the seventh to pick up the 9-7 win.
Brendon Burhle earned the win in relief for Russell/Victoria. He allowed three runs over five innings while striking out two.
TMP’s Mason Robbins suffered the loss in relief. He allowed three runs, just one earned on four hits in two and a third innings.
The win for Russell/Victoria snapped a seven-game win streak by the Monarchs over the Broncos.
Game one highlights
Game 2: TMP 11, Russell/Victoria 1
In game two the Monarchs used a six-run inning and Colby Dreiling allowed just one unearned run as the Monarchs earned an 11-1 win in five innings.
Russell scored the game’s first run on an error by center fielder Carson Jacobs and threatened to put up a big number in the first quarter, recording three of their five hits in the first frame but Dreiling was able to work around traffic and limit the Broncos to just one run.
After a slow start TMP’s offense really got going in the second inning scoring two runs in the frame, taking advantage of three straight singles to open the inning and two straight Broncos errors that resulted in TMP runs.
TMP added two more in the third inning when Jace Wentling scored on an error by the center fielder Walker Braun and then three pitches Brady Kreutzer score the second run of the inning on a wild pitch.
The Monarchs blew the game wide open in the fourth inning, scoring six runs to take a 10-1 lead.
Ethan Atherton got the inning started with a leadoff single, after a balk and a wild pitch he would come in to scored on a throwing error by the left fielder Caden Oberle.
TMP would follow that up with three straight walks to load the bases for Kreutzer who singled in a pair of runs. An error by the third baseman Kaden Rome allowed Wentling, who walked to score and then two batters later Rome committed his second error of the inning that allowed Kreutzer to come in from third to put the Monarchs up 10-1.
In the fifth inning the Monarchs got the first two runners on and following a fielder’s choice Tyson Dinkel drop in the game ending run on a bloop single to center that gave the Monarchs the 11-1 win in five innings.
Dreiling allowed just one unearned run on five hits, while striking out one in five innings for the win.
Cooper Windholz allowed seven total runs, four earned, on five hits in three and a third innings of work and suffered the loss.
TMP is 9-3 on the season and will host Salina Sacred Heart on Monday.
Russll/Victoria is 6-6 and will travel to Ellinwood on Friday.
ABILENE, Kan. – Jaysa Wichers picked up a couple of wins in the circle and helped the Hays High softball team to a sweep of Abilene, 4-3 and 8-0 in a makeup doubleheader Monday.
Wichers gave up three runs on seven hits with seven strikeouts and two walks in game one. She then threw a complete-game four-hit shutout in game two with five strikeouts and a walk to move to 6-3 on the season.
Macee Altman knocked in two runs in the opener and had one of the Indians four doubles.
Kaitlyn Brown and Mackenzie Fagan both had three hits with Fagan and Wichers both driving in three runs in game two.
The Indians have won three of their last four and are 6-4 on the season. They will be part of a triangular hosted by TMP-Marian on Thursday where they will face Sacred Heart and TMP.
