HAYS, Kan. – Both the Hays High and TMP-Marian girls’ golf teams shot a 217 Monday on a warm and windy day at the Hays High Invitational hosted by the Smoky Hill Country Club. The Indians finish second and the Monarchs third after a fifth score tie-breaker.
Garden City won the team title with a 205.
The Monarchs Shannen Chen shot a 39 and finished second, one stroke behind Garden City’s Alyssa McMillen. Hays High’s Brittini Park was fifth with a 52 while teammate Sophia Garrison finished seventh with a 53. Avin Inlow claimed 10th for the Monarchs after shooting a 56.
WICHITA, Kan. – The Thomas More Prep-Marian boys soccer team moved to 2-0 on the season with a 6-0 shutout of Wichita Independent Monday. The Monarchs scored five goals in the second half.
Senior Logan Shaw scored twice with junior Ethan Brummer scoring once and recording three assists. Seniors Bobby Cox and Dylan Brown combined in goal for the shutout.
The Monarchs are off until next Tuesday when they begin play in the Maize Invitational.
HAYS – With most teams beginning the season next week the TMP-Marian Monarchs fall sports team held their annual Back to School Night/Fall Sports Kick Off Friday night.
It was the first scrimmage for first-year football coach David Bowen. He talked with the media after Friday’s scrimmage.
Hays High athletics will open the Maroon and Gold Kickoff Classic on Friday at Lewis Field Stadium to preview the 2018 fall sports. The evening is sponsored by the Hays High Athletic Booster Clubs. The action will actually start at Hays High School as the volleyball team will scrimmage at 4:00.
Students and the public are invited to a meal from 6:00 to 8:30 on the west side of Lewis Field Stadium. Hays High students will be fed free of charge. A free will donation will allow everybody else to eat.
Soccer introductions will start at 6:40 and then scrimmage from 7:00 to 7:45 with the dance team performing midway through the scrimmage. The band along with the volleyball, cross country, football, tennis, cheerleader and golf teams will all be introduced during the soccer scrimmage.
Both the Hays High Indians and Thomas More Prep-Marian volleyball teams are ranked in the Kansas Volleyball Association Preseason Poll. The Indians sit at No. 9 in Class 5A while the defending state champion Monarchs are ranked seventh. Plainville is ranked 10th in 2A. Smith Center, who qualified for the 2A State Tournament a year ago, is ranked second.
Class 6A
1. Blue Valley North
2. Olathe Northwest
3. Washburn Rural
4. Lawrence-Free State
5. Gardner-Edgerton
6. Blue Valley West
7. Blue Valley
8. Manhattan
9. Lawrence
10. Garden City
Class 5A
1. St. James Academy
2. St. Thomas Aquinas
3. Lansing
4. De Soto
5. Bishop Carroll
6. Topeka-Seaman
7. Basehor-Linwood
8. Maize South
9. Hays
10. McPherson
Class 4A
1. Rose Hill
2. Topeka-Hayden
3. Louisburg
4. Andale
5. Nickerson
6. Wichita Trinity
7. Circle
8. Santa Fe Trail
9. Ulysses
10. Independence
Class 3A
1. Nemaha Central
2. Burlington
3. Royal Valley
4. Holton
5. Beloit
6. Hesston
7. Thomas More Prep-Marian
8. Silver Lake
9. Cheney
10. Riverton
Class 2A
1. Heritage Christian
2. Smith Center
3. St. Mary’s-Colgan
4. Meade
5. Valley Heights
6. Garden Plain
7. Bluestem
8. St. Marys
9. Sedgwick
10. Plainville
Class 1A
1. Centralia
2. Sylvan-Lucas
3. Goessel
4. Argonia
5. Hanover
6. Thunder Ridge
7. Beloit-St. John’s/Tipton
8. Kiowa County
9. South Central
10. Rural Vista
Coach Tony Crough had his team at Lewis Field Stadium on a picture perfect Saturday morning to wrap up the first week of practice. The Indians still have 70 plus players at practice each day are looking to have a separate group of players for each offense and defense.
Coach Tony Crough
The Indians will have practice next week which will included the Maroon and Gold Scrimmage on Friday night.
The first game of the season is August 31st in Junction City.
The 2018 football season got under way on Monday as the Hays High Indians worked through a rain soaked afternoon before being chased of the field by lightning late in practice. First year head coach Tony Crough had 74 in pads for the first practice. Crough begins his fourth year total as a head coach.
Coach Tony Crough
Crough says the goal in this first week is to figure out who will play where within the schemes he has brought to the program. The position the players are at over the first few days of practice may not be where they continue to play as the preseason moves along. Crough is also in charge of the offense. Former Fort Hays State football player Layton Hickel is the defensive coordinator. Overall the program features ten coaches to help the team.
Hays makes a return to 5A as the smallest school in the classification. The regular season has eight games on the schedule with the ninth week scheduled through the first round of the playoffs which each team qualifies for. The Indians’ first game is August 31st in Junction City.
ABILENE, Kan. – The TMP-Marian volleyball team went 1-2 in Abilene Thursday. The Monarchs beat Concordia 25-10, 25-18 then lost to Smoky Valley in three (25-19, 18-25, 18-25). They closed the night with a two-set loss to the host Cowgirls (24-26, 16-25).
Paris Wolf and Emilee Lane led the Monarchs with 17 kills each. Kassidi Yost recorded eight blocks and had 25 assists while Jillian Lowe recorded 28 digs.
“Always great competition in Abilene” said head coach Natausha Dreher. “While we walked away with two losses, we saw a lot of great things.”
“We need to get everyone healthy then we will be able to see even more (great things). Emilee Lane really showed her strength on the outside. Our defense battled hard and has show great tenacity.” said Dreher.
Hays High had five players named to the 4-1A All-State girls’ soccer team. Kallie Lieker and Savannah Schneider were both named to the second team while Cori Isbell, Hannah McGuire and Judith Isbell were honorable mention picks.
Leiker and Schneider were named to the Western Athletic Conference first team with Cori Isbell, Judith Isbell and Isabelle Robben named honorable mention.
The Kansas Golf Coaches Association has released their All-State teams. Hays High junior Tradgon McCrae is a first team pick in 4A with teammates Josh Norris and Allen Zollinger named honorable mention.
TMP-Marian junior Cameron Rozean is a first team pick in 3A with Michael Braun honorable mention. Ryan Birky from Russell was named to the second team.
Freshman Parker Krob and junior Tanner Copeland from Plainville are second team in 2A with Justin Plante honorable mention.
Brady Beougher from Stockton is a first team pick in 1A with teammates Aaron Hahn named to the second team and Quinn Coffey honorable mention.
TMP-Marian placed three players on the Kansas Association of Baseball Coaches 3A All-State team. Cole Zimmerman, who went 8-1 with a 1.46 ERA in 48 innings, was named to the first team as a pitcher while Chase Werth and Tate Garcia are on the second team. Werth as a closer and Garcia at second base. All three helped the Monarchs to a 24-2 record and runner-up finish at last weekend’s 3A State Tournament.
Zimmerman has also been selected to play in the KABC All-Star Game at Hogland Park on the Univeristy of Kansas campus next week in Lawrence.
Ellis designated hitter Junior Hernandez has also been picked to play in the All-Star game.
Hays High placed two players on the 4A Division I All-State team. Outfielder Trey Riggs and third baseman Palmer Hutchison were both named honorable mention.
MANHATTAN – The TMP-Marian baseball team could not overcome an early deficit as they fall to Sabetha 10-5 in the 3A State Baseball Championship game Friday at Toiton Family Stadium in Manhattan.
Championship game Sabetha 10, TMP 5
The Blue Jays, in only their second year of high school baseball jumped out early on the Monarchs scoring three runs on three hits in the first inning.
TMP got one run back in the bottom of the inning after Tate Garcia walked and came into score on an error by the Sabetha shortstop. But the Monarchs left the bases loaded. Runners left on base in the game would come back to haunt the Monarchs who stranded 12 runners on base in the game.
Leading 3-1 Sabetha added four more in the second and led 10-1 through four innings.
TMP’s bats came alive in the fifth and sixth innings scoring two runs in each inning but it wasn’t enough as the Blue Jays when their first ever state baseball championship.
Monarch starter Tate Garcia suffered the loss allowing seven runs – four earned – in an inning and a third.
Cole Zimmerman was 3-for-3 at the plate for the Monarchs with an RBI. Luke Ruder also drove in a run with a triple in the sixth.
TMP finished the season 23-2. Sabetha finished 23-3.
Semifinals: Riley Co. 0, TMP 2
The Monarchs got to the title game by defeating Riley County in the semifinal game earlier in the day Friday.
Starter Chase Werth allowed just three hits in seven shutout innings and Cole Zimmerman and Trenton Mayo each drove in a run in the win.
