Scott City native Alex Hutchins has been named the new Hays High girls basketball coach with board approval this past Monday. A 2014 Kansas State University gruduate, Hutchins was the head coach of Elizabeth High School in Elizabeth, Colorado this past season. He was an assistant in his hometown of Scott City for two seasons and head coach at Minneapolis prior.
Hutchins will also be an assistant football coach and teach Adaptive Physical Education as well as Strength and Conditioning.
He hopes to meet with the Hays High girls basketball team next week.
LIBERAL,Kan. – The Hays High softball team ran their win streak to four and picked up their first Western Athletic Conference wins of the season with a doubleheader sweep of Liberal, 9-1 and 13-1 Tuesday.
Kaitlyn Brown pitched a complete game three-hitter in the first game, striking out 16 while walking only one. Jaysa Wichers and Macee Altman both drove in two runs and Reanna Harman had four of the Indians 15 hits.
Jaysa Wichers pitched five innings of two-hit ball in the second contest. Reanna Harman had three hits and Mackenzie Fagan had a double and triple and drove in three.
Hays High improves to 9-9 overall and 2-6 in the Western Athletic Conference.
Hays High needed a sweep on Monday night to claim at least a share of the Western Athletic Conference baseball crown. The Indians though split with the Great Bend Panthers and will have wait on the outcome of Liberal versus Garden City. Liberal currently sits at 5-1 in conference play and Hays is finished at 6-2.
Game 1
Great Bend pitching held Hays High scoreless in handing the Indians a 2-0 loss. Trey Riggs pitched a complete game four hitter throwing just 87 pitches.
The Panthers struck for two runs following an error in the fifth inning for deciding margin. Townsend Kurth and Calan Haberman each drove home a run for Great Bend in the inning.
Highlights
The Indians were turned back in the sixth inning with the bases loaded. Great Bend’s shortstop Alex Schremmer made a sliding stop on a ground ball deep up the middle that started an inning ending double play. Schremmer then grabbed the save on a perfect ninth inning on the mound.
Game 2
Great Bend struck for four runs in the first inning against starter Cole Murphy. The Panthers send nine to the plate gathering four hits while the Indians committed two errors.
Murphy settled into a groove after that and along with Cody Petersen, who pitched the final two innings, held Great Bend scoreless next six innings.
Hays left runners stranded in every inning until the fourth when freshman Dom Bainter singled in his first varsity at-bat to score Trey VanPelt closing the score down to 4-1.
Highlights
Hays once again left runners on the base path in the fifth and sixth.
The Indians finally found their offense in the seventh facing Schremmer who was in for the close for a second consecutive game. Trey Riggs led the inning off with a double followed by a Cole Murphy walk and Cody Petersen was hit by a pitch to load the bases. Trey VanPelt just missed a grand slam homerun to win the game but the did score two runs on the long single to close the Indian’s gap down to 4-3.
Willie Sennett then walked to load the bases once again in the inning. Bainter came through with his second RBI single of the game to tie the game at 4-4. Mason Prescott, running for VanPelt, scored the winning run on a ball put in play by Hunter Brown to win 5-4.
Cody Petersen took the win in relief. It is his first career varsity victory.
Coach Frank Leo
Hays is now 8-4 on the year with the game two victory snapping a four game skid. The Indians are currently on a 16 day stretch where they will play 14 of their 20 regular season games.
Hays High will host the Western Plains Diamond Classic this Thursday through Saturday.
GARDEN CITY, Kan.-Hays High was shut out for the fourth time this season on Monday afternoon in Garden City losing 1-0. The Lady Buffaloes scored the only goal of the match in the 56th minute against a Hays High squad that was again missing some key components due to injury. Hays High Head Coach Silas Hibbs is hoping to have his team back to full strength by next week.
The loss drops the Lady Indians to 8-4-1 on the season. They will travel to Dodge City on Thursday and Maize South on Friday.
GREAT BEND, Kan. – The Hays High boys golf team wins the Great Bend Invitational by 15 strokes over Garden City at the Stoneridge Country Club. Tradgon McCrae shot an 8-over-par 79 and finished second, five shots behind Liberal’s Cameron Riley. Josh Norris fired an 80 and placed fourth with Allen Zollinger ninth and Peyton Keiffer tenth.
Team Results
1. Hays High 330
2. Garden City 345
3. Great Bend 350
4. Liberal 356
5. Dodge City 362
Top 10 Medalists
Top-Ten Individual Results
1. Cameron Riley-Liberal, 74
2. Tradgon McCrae-Hays, 79
3. Brantley Baldwin-Great Bend, 80
4. Josh Norris-Hays, 80
5. Cole Streck-Great Bend, 83
6. Mason Shaddix-Garden City, 84
7. Aaron Schafer-Garden City, 84
8. Luke Gleason-Dodge City, 85
9. Allen Zollinger-Hays, 85
10. Peyton Kieffer-Hays, 86
SALINA, Kan. – The TMP-Marian baseball team only played six innings Monday and scored 35 runs on 26 hits as they cruise past Sacred Heart 19-0 and 16-1 in a pair of games called after three innings by run-rule.
The Monarchs struck for eight in the first inning in the opener. Tate Garcia, Gavin Schumacher and Luke Ruder all drove in three. Ruder homered. Cole Zimmerman allowed one hit with six strikeouts and a walk.
TMP scored seven in the first in the second game. Chase Werth homered and drove in two. He also struck out three without allowing a hit in two innings. Tate Garcia pitched the third and also struck out three.
The Monarchs have won five straight and improve to 13-1. They are in Goodland for a doubleheader Thursday.
HAYS, Kan.-Hays High held TMP scoreless in 80 minutes worth of action on the pitch Thursday afternoon, picking up a 2-0 victory over the visitors from across town. Both teams had to deal with a strong Northerly wind which caused both teams issues when they played with it at their back (HHS first half, TMP second half). The Lady Monarchs struggled to put shots on goal in the first half while the Lady Indians were able to get a few shots without any results as the game was scoreless after the first half of play.
The game remained scoreless through the first 12 minutes of the second half and that’s when Hays High struck for two quick goals. The first was a floater off the foot of Cori Isbell that just crawled just under the cross bar to give Hays the 1-0 lead in the 53rd minute on the assist from Savannah Schneider. Four minutes later Schneider struck again, after receiving a pass from Kallie Leiker, she pulled the goalie off the line and punched a shot past her that just crawled inside the right post to give the Lady Indians the final score of the game.
TMP drops to 7-3 on the season. They will travel to the Bishop Miege Tournament this weekend. Hays High improves to 8-3-1 on the season and will travel to Garden City on Monday to face the Lady Buffaloes.
GARDEN CITY, Kan. – The Hays High softball team was held to two runs yesterday and was swept by Garden City 8-1 and 5-1.
The Buffs scored five in the sixth to blow open the first game which was called after six by run-rule. Kaitlyn Brown allowed eight runs on 11 hits and suffered the loss in the opener. Jaysa Wichers drove in the Indians only run.
Garden City scored single runs in every inning but one in the second game. Hays scored their lone run on a wild pitch in the fourth. Jaysa Wichers took the loss allowing the five runs on five hits with six strikeouts and three walks.
The Indians drop to 5-9 and host Sacred Heart and TMP-Marian in a triangular tomorrow.
HAYS, Kan. – The TMP-Marian softball hasn’t allowed a run in 18 innings as they stretched their winning streak to ten games Tuesday with a sweep of Goodland. Bailey Lacy allowed one hit over seven innings as the Monarchs won 15-0 in three innings and 11-0 in four innings.
Lacy didn’t allow a hit while striking out six and walking two in the first game. She gave up one hit in the second game with ten strikeouts and five walks.
Emilee Augustine drove in four in the first game.
The Monarchs improve to 11-3. They play in the Hays High triangular tomorrow along with Sacred Heart.
GREAT BEND, Kan.-Hays High couldn’t get their offense in going in a 1-0 overtime loss to Great Bend on Monday evening in Great Bend. The Lady Indians, who were without three starters (Kallie Leiker-DECA Nationals, Karee Dinkel-Sickness, Hannah McGuire-Injury), were able to mount some offensive runs in both the first and second half but were not able to take advantage of them.
As the two teams entered overtime it was apparent that fatigue was becoming a factor. Great Bend made a run on the right side of the field and was able to sneak a shot in for the winning goal. With the loss Hays fall to 7-3-1 on the season. They will host TMP on Thursday afternoon.
SALNA, Kan. – Tradgon McCrae shot a 2-under-par 69 and won the Salina South Invitational by three strokes Friday helping the Hays High Indians to the team title. McCrae, who won the Dodge City Invitational the day before, has won two straight and four of the five tournaments this spring.
As a team, Hays shot a 296 and finished 30 shots ahead of Salina Central and Salina South at the Salina Municipal Golf Course.
The Indians had five golfers finish in the top-ten. Josh Norris finished fourth with 3-over-par 71. Erik Kreutzer was sixth with a 76, Allen Zollinger seventh with 77 and Peyton Keiffer ninth
with a 79.
Team Results
1. Hays High 296
2. Salina Central 326
3. Salina South 326
4. Emporia 328
5. Maize 330
6. Great Bend 345
7. McPherson 349
8. Junction City 358
9. Topeka-West 361
10. Newton 364
11. Derby 375
12. Haysville Campus 385
Top 10 Individual Results
1. Tradgon McCrae-Hays High, 69
2. Jake Huffaker-Southeast of Saline, 72
3. Addison Alonzo-Topeka West, 73
4. Josh Norris-Hays High, 74
5. Parker Renz-Salina South, 74
6. Erik Kreutzer-Hays High, 76
7. Allen Zollinger-Hays High, 77
8. Jared Murphy-Maize, 78
9. Peyton Kieffer-Hays High, 79
10. Collin Hopkins-Emporia, 79
Connor Hoyt-Emporia, 79
Tyler Gromlovits-Junction City, 80
Logan Roether-Junction City, 79
