The Hays High girls’ soccer team will take a two-match win streak into the postseason after a 1-0 win over Salina Central Thursday at the Hays High Field. The Indians finish the regular season 12-2-1 and find out Saturday who they play in regionals.
TMP-Marian tied Wichita North 2-2. Bailey Hageman and Annaka Applequist scored the Monarchs goals. TMP finishes the regular season a program best 6-2-2. The also find out Saturday who they meet in regionals.
The TMP-Marian boys finish second and the girls’ fourth at the Mid-Continent League meet in Phillipsburg. The Monarchs had three first place finishes, Sam Dreiling in the pole vault, Cameron Fouts the javelin and Andrew Hess the 3200.
Ellis’ Alexcia Duetcher won the long jump, triple jump and 200 and finished second in the 100 hurdles.
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Fort Hays State’s Cooper Langley earned his second all-region honor as a designated hitter on Thursday, named to the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association All-Central Region Second Team.
Langley adds the honor to his All-MIAA Honorable Mention selection and Daktronics All-Central Regional Second Team selection at designated hitter.
Langley started 44 games for the Tigers in 2014 with 75 percent of the starts coming at designated hitter, the rest at first base. He batted .335 and led the team in extra-base hits with 24, pounding out 19 doubles and five home runs.
Below is a link to the entire 2014 NCBWA All-Central Region Team…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Chiefs have signed third-round draft pick Phillip Gaines.
The cornerback out of Rice became the third of the Chiefs’ six draft picks to sign their contracts when he agreed to a deal Thursday. Sixth-round picks Zach Fulton and Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, both offensive lineman, had already signed their contracts.
Terms of the contracts have not been disclosed.
That leaves only defensive end Dee Ford, the No. 23 overall pick, fourth-rounder De’Anthony Thomas and fifth-round pick Aaron Murray to sign their contracts.
Gaines played in 52 games for Rice, intercepting four passes and piling up a school-record 38 passes defensed. He served as a captain for the Owls his final two seasons.
By JEREMY McGUIRE
Hays Post
Game 1: Colby 8, TMP 6
It was a back and fourth affair between TMP and Colby in game one of the day at TMP Field. Colby scored the first two runs of the day before TMP countered with the next four. Then it was Colby’s turn to score the next four and take a 6-4 lead. The Monarchs tied the game up 6-6 going into the seventh inning and Colby had four straight hits to lead off the inning and took an 8-6 lead going into the bottom of the inning.
TMP would get a leadoff single which was quickly erased by a double play and the threat was over. The loss was the fifth on the season for TMP. Cameron Brin took the loss on the mound for the Monarchs, He is now 3-3 on the season.
Game 2: TMP 6, Colby 5
TMP used a furious two out, fifth inning rally to secure a win in their final game of the regular season. Leading 3-2 going into the bottom of the fifth, it looked as though it would be an easy defensive inning for Colby as the first two Monarchs were retired with just four pitches thrown. TMP had a different idea. The Monarchs ended up scoring three runs in the frame highlighted by a Taylor Wasinger two RBI triple. TMP would tack on one more run to make it a 6-2 game.
Colby would score one more in the sixth and two in the top of the seventh to make things interesting. Braiden Werth picked up the win for TMP who is now 15-5 on the season. They will be in Holcomb on Tuesday afternoon for 3A Regional play. They are the number one seed and will take on either Holcomb or Haven at 2pm.
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Highlights
The Hays High girls’ swim team finishes fourth the WAC meet they hosted yesterday.
Ana Goodlett finished third in the 100 backstroke to lead the Indians.
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Fort Hays State junior Cooper Langley was named to the Daktronics All-Central Region Team for the 2014 season, released on Thursday. Langley earned second team honors as a designated hitter.
Langley adds the honor to his All-MIAA Honorable Mention selection at designated hitter. It’s the second straight year the Tigers have had a designated hitter selected to the team after Horace Johnson earned first-team honors last year.
Langley started 44 games for the Tigers in 2014 with 75 percent of the starts coming at designated hitter, the rest at first base. He batted .335 and led the team in extra-base hits with 24, pounding out 19 doubles and five home runs.
Below is a link to the entire 2014 Daktronics All-Central Region Team
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Fort Hays State will be represented by three athletes at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Allendale, Mich., May 22-24. Earning the right to compete at nationals are Brady Tien, Madison Wolf and Samantha Woodburn.
Tien, a junior, enters nationals with the seventh-best effort in the pole vault this year at 16′ 8.75″. That is also a personal best for him, just 1.25″ short of the school record at FHSU. He earned All-America honors during the indoor season with a sixth-place finish and a height of 16′ 4.75″. He will compete on Saturday (May 24) at 2:30 pm ET/1:30 pm CT.
Wolf, a freshman, enters nationals with the ninth-best effort in the javelin this year at 155′ 1″. She was the MIAA Champion in the event and was an automatic qualifier in the event with her mark. She is set to compete at 2 pm ET/1 pm CT on Saturday (May 24).
Woodburn, a junior, will compete in both the 100 and 200 meters. She had the 12th-best time nationally in the 200 meters at 23.95 seconds, and the 14th-best time in the 100 meters at 11.71 seconds. She was third at the MIAA Championships in both events. Prelims for the 100 meters are Thursday (May 22) at 6:25 pm ET/5:25 pm CT and the prelims for the 200 meters are Friday (May 23) at 5:45 pm ET/4:45 pm CT. Finals for both events are Saturday evening.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Much-maligned Mike Moustakas hit a three-run double in the second inning, and Jason Vargas and the Kansas City bullpen made the meager offense work in a 3-2 victory Wednesday over the Colorado Rockies for a two-game sweep.
Vargas (4-1) did not allow a hit until the fourth inning and did not allow a run until Drew Stubbs belted a two-run homer to left in the seventh that made things interesting.
Louis Coleman got the Royals out of the inning without any more damage, and Kelvin Herrera worked a perfect eighth before Greg Holland survived a shaky ninth for his 10th save.
Jhoulys Chacin (1-1) allowed the three runs that Moustakas drove in but otherwise pitched well for Colorado. He allowed seven hits and two walks over six gritty innings.
The TMP-Marian baseball team will be the No. 1 seed and receive a first-round bye in their 3A Regional baseball tournament hosted by Holcomb High School.
The 14-4 Monarchs will play at 2pm on Tuesday, May 20th against either Holcomb or Haven who play on Monday. Lyons receives a bye on the other half of the bracket and will play either Lakin or Anthony/Harper-Chaparral in the other semifinal game. The two winners play for the right to advance to the 3A state tournament at 6pm on the 20th.
First Round (5/19) at Holcomb
No. 1 TMP-Marian (14-4) – bye
No. 2 Lyons/Chase (13-5) – bye
No. 3 Lakin (13-7) vs. No. 6 Anthony/Harper-Chaparral (1-19), 3pm
No. 4 Holcomb (9-0) vs. No. 5 Haven (3-13), 5pm
Semifinals (5/20) at Holcomb
No. 1 TMP-Marian vs. Holcomb/Haven winner, 2pm
No. 2 Lyons/Chase vs. Lakin/Anthony/Harper-Chaparral winner, 4pm
Finals (5/20) at Holcomb
Semifinal winners, 6pm
Monarchs softball No. 5 seed in Ellsworth Regional
The Monarch softball team will be the No. 5 seed in the Ellsworth regional which begins Monday (May 19). The 7-13 Monarchs open with No. 4 seed Plainville, a team they swept a couple of weeks ago.
If TMP-Marian wins, they will take on top-seed Beloit at 3pm Tuesday (May 20).
First Round (5/19) at Ellsworth
No.1 Beloit (16-4) – bye
No. 2 Ellsworth (13-5) – bye
No. 4 Plainville/Natoma (10-9) vs. TMP-Marian (7-13), 4pm
No. 3 Minneapolis (14-6) vs. Republic County/Pike Valley, 5:45pm
Semifinals (5/20) at Ellsworth
No. 1 Beloit vs. Plainville/TMP-Marian winner, 3pm
No. 2 Ellsworth vs. Minneapolis/Republic County winner, 4:45pm
Finals (5/20) at Ellsworth
Semifinal winners, 6:30pm
Hays High School held their annual athletic recognition night Monday.
Jack Roberts Female Athlete of the Year: Wendy Zimmerman
Swim Carpenter Smith Male Athlete of the Year: Preston Weigel, Lane Clark
Debbie Brungardt Fan of the Year: Mark and Eva Junk, Wes and Deena Clark, Brett Hertel and Donnie Seib
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – James Shields cooled down hot-hitting Colorado over seven sharp innings, Lorenzo Cain and Salvador Perez both homered and the Kansas City Royals beat the Rockies 5-1 on Tuesday night.
The only run Shields allowed came on an RBI single by Justin Morneau in the fourth inning. Shields (5-3) followed it up by retiring the final 10 batters he faced, striking out the side in the sixth inning and fanning Troy Tulowitzki for the 1,500th strikeout of his career.
Alcides Escobar added a pair of RBIs, and relievers Wade Davis and Aaron Crow wrapped up the win for the Royals, who were opening a nine-game homestand – their longest so far this season.
Franklin Morales (3-3) gave up four of the five runs for the Rockies. He allowed eight hits and four walks without a strikeout in five innings, needing 99 pitches just to get that far.
The Hays High baseball team split their regular ending doubleheader in Liberal Tuesday to claim their third straight Western Athletic Conference title. The Indians score three in the top of the sixth to rally for a 4-3 win in game one to clinch the league title. They drop the second game 3-2.
Trenton Henningson, Lane Downing and Jared Haynes all drove in runs in the sixth inning of game one. Lane Downing allowed one earned runs on three hits, striking out eight and walking three for the win. Cole Schumacher pitched a perfect seventh for the save.
Liberal scored the game winning run in the second game on a sac fly in the seventh. It came after a leadoff triple to start the inning. Kade Parker takes the complete game loss, allowing the three runs, two earned, on seven hits.
The Indians end the regular season 13-7 and 6-2 in the Western Athletic Conference.
