The Hays High softball team made quick work of Liberal Tuesday, defeating the Redskins 15-0 and 22-0 at the Bickle/Schmidt Sports Complex.
Hannah Hearld pitched three hitless innings, striking out seven in the first game. Hearld and Kaylie Schoendaller hit back-to-back homers in the second inning.
In the second game, the Indians scored 10 in the first and 12 in the second. Madison Prough allowed just one hit while striking out four. Julie Balzer and Kylie Brown both drove in three as the Indians improve to 13-3 and 4-2 in the Western Athletic Confernece.
Hays returns to action Thursday at home against Salina Central.
SAN DIEGO (AP) – Will Venable hit a two-run single in the 12th inning to give the San Diego Padres a 6-5 win over the Kansas City Royals on Monday night.
Venable singled off Tim Collins (0-2) and over the head of right fielder Lorenzo Cain to score Chris Denorfia with the tying run and Yonder Alonso with the winning run from second base.
Denorfia led off the inning with a single off Louis Coleman before Collins came on. After a sacrifice, Alonso reached a bloop double to left to bring up Venable.
Mike Moustakas hit an RBI single in the 12th off Tim Stauffer (1-0) to give the Royals a brief lead.
Jedd Gyorko’s solo homer with one out in the ninth inning off Royals closer Greg Holland tied the game at 4. It was Holland’s first blown save in eight chances.
The Royals scored a run in the second and two in the third to race out to an early 3-0 lead. San Diego tied the game with three in the sixth. Eric Hosmer’s homer in the seventh put Kansas City back on top 4-3.
Royals starter Yordano Ventura allowed three runs on five hits while striking out 10 and walking none over six innings.
The TMP-Marian girls’ soccer team improved to 5-2-1 with a 3-0 shutout of winless Great Bend Monday at the Bickle/Schmidt Sports Complex.
Sophomore Bailey Hageman scored two of the Monarchs goals, all in the first half. Her first goal came at the 35:02 mark. The second goal came halfway through the first half on a pass from sophomore Annaka Applequist. The Monarchs final goal took place with 45 seconds left in the half when Tyra Younie found Alyssa Keil in front of the net.
The Monarchs are off until Monday when they travel to Wichita Word of Life.
Hays High’s No. 1 doubles team of Andrew McGinnis and Austin Berry went 3-1 to finish third at the Western Athletic Conference tournament in Garden City. They were the only Indians to win a match.
No. 1 singles- Mikey Ploutz
L 8-1 vs. Buddy Buchanan (Liberal)
L 8-1 vs. Grant Harris (Great Bend)
L 8-1 vs. Dillon Burkhard (Dodge City)
L 8-4 vs. Sebastain Kyaw (Garden City)
No. 2 singles- Logan VanDerWege
L 8-0 vs. Mitchell Irby (Liberal)
L 8-4 vs. JunRuiChen (Great Bend)
L 8-2 vs. Jacob Waldman (Dodge City)
L 8-0 vs. Dozie Ekweariri (Garden City)
No. 1 doubles- Andrew McGinnis/Austin Berry
W 8-5 vs. Hernendez/Grant (Liberal)
W 8-1 vs. Kuhlman/Marshall (Great Bend)
L 8-3 vs. Schwara/Johansen (Dodge City)
W 8-7 (7-3) vs. Neave/Victor (Garden City) 3rd Place
No. 2 doubles- Trenton Flora/Jacob Alexander
L 8-0 vs. Borjas/Ho Ho (Liberal)
L 8-2 vs. Lopez/Telemontes (Great Bend)
L 8-0 vs. Rankin/Finley (Dodge City)
L 8-0 vs. Basillo/Depaz (Garden City)
The Hays High girls’ soccer team has gone nine straight matches without a loss. The Indians scored three goals in the first 10 minutes Monday to defeat Garden City 4-0 at the Hays High Field.
Alexa Brull got the Indians on the board followed by two goals from freshman Courtney Molleker for a 3-0 lead at the half. Lacey Pfannenstiel scored the lone second half.
The Indians improve to 10-2-1 and 7-0 in the Western Athletic Conference. They play at McPherson Tuesday at 6pm.
The Hays High boys golf team brought home both the team and individual title at the Great Bend Invitational Monday at the par-71 Stone Ridge Country Club.
The Indians shot a 318 and finished 12 shots ahead of second place Dodge City.
Payton Ruder fired a 6-over-par 77 to win the individual title on a second hole playoff. Ruder and Garden City’s Taylor Larson both parred the par-3 18th in the first playoff hole. When they played the same hole the second time, Ruder made a par and Larson a bogey.
Kaden Bielman shot a 78 and finished third. Chase Lynd was seventh with an 81. Cash Hobson eight after an 82 and Lane Clark 10th with an 84.
The Indians are in Junction City Thursday.
HHS Varsity
Payton Ruder-77 1st place – won on second hole of playoff Kaden Beilman-78 3rd place Chase Lynd-81 7th place Cash Hobson-82 8th place 1st place
Lane Clark-84 10th place Nathan Romme-85 T-12th place
Team Finish: 1. Hays High 318 2. Dodge City 330
3. Garden City 333
4. Great Bend 358
5. Liberal 359
6. Salina South 421
Top 10 Medalists: 1. Payton Ruder-Hays 77 2. Taylor Larson-Garden City 77 3. Kaden Beilman-Hays 78 4. Levi Bone-Dodge City 79
5. Kameron Miller-Dodge City 80
6. Jace Larson-Dodge City 81 7. Chase Lynd-Hays 81 8. Cash Hobson-Hays 82 9. Logan Durst-Garden City 84 10. Lane Clark-Hays 84
Fort Hays State junior Trey Herman completed his first round at the NCAA Division II Midwest/Central Regional in Eureka, Mo. on Monday (May 5). Herman finished Monday with a 2-over par round of 74, currently in a tie for 24th. The tournament is being held at the Fox Run Golf Club, a par-72 layout.
Herman had a solid start to the day, shooting 1-under par on the front nine. After a bogey at par-4 2nd hole, Herman responded with back-to-back birdies at the par-4 3rd and the par-3 4th to move to 1-under. He slipped back to even with a bogey at the par-3 8th, but then birdied the par-5 9th to go out with a 35.
Holding steady through the first two holes of the back nine, Herman went further into red numbers by making a birdie at the par-4 12th. That pushed him into a tie for fourth at the time, just a stroke back of the lead. However, he ran into trouble on his next two holes with a bogey at the par-5 13th and a double-bogey at the par-4 14th. After three straight pars, he carded one more bogey at the par-4 18th, leaving his round at 2-over par.
Even at 2-over, Herman is just six strokes back of the lead (4-under) held by Marcos Sevilla of Southeastern Oklahoma State. Eleven players had under-par rounds on the first day and four players shot even par. Of the eight individuals selected to play in the regional, Herman is tied as the second-best after day one. Ross Miller of Minnesota State-Mankato is the top individual in the tournament so far at 1-over, while Herman and Ryan Buerk of Missouri Southern are just one stroke behind. The top 15 golfers in the field so far are affiliated with teams that qualified for the tournament.
A 1-2 showing at the MIAA tournament coupled with Southern Arkansas winning the Great America Conference tournament to secure an automatic bid has kept the Fort Hays State softball team out of the NCAA national tournament.
The Tigers found out Monday morning they are not one of the eight teams selected to participate in the Central Regional which begins Friday in Winona and Mankato, Minnesota.
Emporia State is the No. 3 seed and they will take on six-seed and defending champion Central Oklahoma in the first round. Missouri Western is the five seed and they take on No. 4 seed Augustana (SD).
The Tigers, who hosted the regional last year, finish the season 29-20.
The Fort Hays State women’s track and field team had a solid performance at the MIAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, finishing eighth as a team. The Tigers were in fifth with one event remaining, but dropped to eighth. They finished just four points back of fifth. The FHSU women set three new school records and Madison Wolf won the javelin, giving FHSU the champion in that event for the third straight year.
Fort Hays State finished with 55 points as a team. Lincoln ran away with the team title at 182 points, Central Missouri was second at 104.5 points, and Pittsburg State was third at 93 points.
Madison Wolf won the javelin on Saturday with a throw of 155′ 1″. That gave Fort Hays State the MIAA women’s javelin champion for the third straight year after Makayla McPhail won the last two before graduating. Wolf was the only individual champion for FHSU, women or men on the weekend. It improved on Wolf’s NCAA automatic qualifying mark in the event. Wolf generated 10 points toward the team total with her win.
Courtesy FHSU Athletics
The 4×100-meter relay team of Lexi Riedel, Whitney Taylor, Mindy Wilson and Samantha Woodburn took second behind Lincoln. Lincoln turned in the fourth-fastest time in the nation to win (45.74), but the Tigers upped their provisional qualifying mark with the 20th-fastest time of 46.60 seconds. They churned out eight team points with their finish.
Woodburn set two FHSU records in the 100 and 200-meter prelims on Saturday with times of 11.71 seconds and 23.95 seconds respectively. She finished third in each of the finals on Sunday with times of 11.86 seconds and 24.16 seconds. She broke the records of 11.77 seconds and 23.97 seconds set by Sabrina Jensen in 2003. She generated the most points of any Tiger individually at the championships with 12, gaining six points for the team in each event.
Kykie Gaughan and Janessa Kobza each turned in fourth-place finishes. Gaughan had a time of 11:31.93 in the 3000-meter steeplechase and Kobza threw 148′ 3″ in the discus. Each scored five points for the team.
Danielle Berry finished fifth in the high jump with a height of 5′ 6″, giving the Tigers four team points. She earned a provisional qualifying mark in the event with the 28th-best effort nationally.
FHSU had four seventh-place finishes. The most notable was Sam Szczublewski in the 800 meters. On Saturday in the prelims, she broke the longest-standing women’s outdoor record at Fort Hays State with a time of 2:14.71, edging Martha Martin’s 2:14.74 from 1977. She bettered that time by two-tenths of a second to set a new record on Sunday at 2:14.51. Also finishing seventh were Megan Honas in the javelin at 132′ 2″, Anna Eigruber in the long jump at 18′ 6″, and the 4×400 team of Hanna Pfannenstiel, Whitney Taylor, Sam Szczublewski and Mindy Wilson with a time of 3:54.28. Each result generated two team points.
Eigruber also generated a point in the triple jump finishing eighth at 37′ 7.75″. Sydney Lower was eighth in the 3000-meter steeplechase in 12:07.67 and Ramsey McCarter was eighth in the 10,000 meters in 38:18.14.
Fort Hays State had four All-MIAA performances at the championship. Two were from Samantha Woodburn in the 100 and 200 meters, finishing third in each. Wolf won the javelin and the 4×100 team finished second. Top three performers in each event earn All-MIAA honors.
Tiger men finish 10th
Fort Hays State men’s track and field finished 10th at the MIAA Championships in Jefferson City, Mo., hosted by Lincoln University. The Tigers had two All-MIAA performers with Brady Tien in the pole vault and Nelson Vazquez in the 100 meters.
Fort Hays State generated 25 points as a team at the championships. Pittsburg State won the team title with 145 points, followed by Nebraska-Kearney with 118.25 and Central Missouri with 108.
Tien set a new personal best in the pole vault with a height of 16′ 8″, which tied the second-best height at the meet but he cleared it on his second attempt compared to the second-place finisher clearing it on his first attempt. The effort moved him up to ninth on the national performance list.
Courtesy FHSU Athletics
Vazquez stepped up his performance over the last couple of weeks and finished third in the 100 meters with a time of 10.73 seconds. He was fifth in the prelims on Saturday with a slightly better time of 10.68 seconds, but the former FHSU football player turned in a good enough time on Sunday for All-MIAA honors. His best effort of the season, 10.57 seconds, ranks 28th in the nation. Both Vazquez and Tien were the top individual point performers for FHSU, each with six points for the team.
Vazquez joined Nathan Simpson, Ed Williams and DeAndre James in the 4×100 meters to finish fourth with a time of 41.59 seconds. The all-football player lineup generated five team points.
Jonny Bernnasky finished fifth in the 10,000 meters with a time of 31:45.63 to grab four team points. Nathan Purdue was seventh in the 1500 meters with a time of 3:57.74 and Bryan Bombardier was seventh in the high jump with a height of 6′ 6″, each generating two team points. Jameson Klein finished eighth in the shot put with a throw of 49′ 2.5″ to give FHSU one team point.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Justin Verlander took a no-hit bid into the sixth inning and won his fourth straight decision, leading Detroit over the Kansas City Royals 9-4 Sunday and extending the Tigers’ winning streak to a season-high five games.
Billy Butler singled to right on a 1-2 pitch with two outs in the sixth, leaving him with a .432 career average in 74 at-bats against the Detroit ace,
Verlander (4-1) allowed three runs, four hits and four walks in seven innings with seven strikeouts. Jarrod Dyson hit a two-run triple in the seventh and scored on a sacrifice fly by Nori Aoki, who walked his first three times up.
Verlander pitched no-hitters against Milwaukee in June 2007 and versus Toronto in May 2011. He improved to 17-5 against the Royals, the best winning percentage (.773) among active pitchers with 10 decisions or more.
Fort Hays State saw its MIAA Softball Championships run come to an end in a 5-4 loss to Lindenwood in the second round of the consolation bracket on Friday (May 2).
FHSU (29-20) will now wait for the NCAA Division II Softball Selection Show, set for March 5 at 10 a.m. ET, to determine if it advances to postseason play. The eight teams selected will compete in the NCAA Regional, set for May 9-11.
Erin Kinberger Postgame Interview
Game Highlights
Paxton Duran (17-9) started the game, tossing 4.1 innings with five strikeouts, but was tagged for five runs in the fifth. Kelsey Kimminau threw the final 2.2 innings in shutout fashion, not allowing a hit with two strikeouts.
Offensively, Biance Adame was 2-for-4 with two runs scored while Kellsi Olsen was 1-for-3 with a double.
The Tigers jumped ahead early, taking a 1-0 lead in the first on Danie Brinkmann’s RBI single. Adame led off the game with a single to right before stealing second during Courtney Dobson’s at-bat. Dobson reached on an error on a fly ball to right field, pushing Adame to third, and Brinkmann took a 1-1 pitch through the left side to give FHSU a lead by plating Adame.
Fort Hays State pushed that lead to three in the second, starting with Olsen’s one-out double down the left field line. Adame’s bunt single pushed Olsen to third before Adame stole second. Later in the inning, with two down, Brinkmann reached on an error by LWU’s Courtney Kitson, allowing Olsen and Adame to dash home.
A five-run fifth inning proved fatal for the Tigers, however, as LWU strung together four hits and took advantage of an FHSU error to take the lead, 5-3.
In the seventh, Fort Hays State loaded the bases with no outs and looked for its second walk-off win of the tournament, but fell just short of the comeback victory.
Dobson led off the inning with a single to right, and after Brinkmann reached on an error by Kitson, Tori Beltz ripped a pinch hit single up the middle to load the bases. Later in the inning, Kylei Strand hit a sacrifice fly to right field deep enough to score Dobson, but that was it for the Tigers as LWU advanced to the consolation semifinals.
