The Hays Eagles Senior American Legion picked up two more wins Wednesday, sweeping the Pratt 89ers 10-1 and 7-6 at Smokey Ford Field in Pratt. The Eagles improve to 22-16 on the season They are scheduled to play again Friday and Saturday against the Colorado Baseball Academy 17s.

Game 1: Hays 10, Pratt 1 (6 innings)
The Eagles scored three in the third on a John Griffith bases loaded walk and Kade Parker two-run double to go up 4-0. Layne Downing’s RBI double and Marcus Altman’s run-scoring single in the fifth pushed the lead to 6-0.

After Pratt scored in the bottom of the fifth, the Eagles broke it all the way open by scoring four in the sixth. John Griffith’s single drove in two.

Chandler Rule had three hits helping Brady Bieker (3-6) to the win. He allowed one run on four hits over five innings.

Game 2: Hays 7, Pratt 6
Casey Sedbrook’s sacrifice fly in the fifth inning scored Layne Downing to break a 6-6 tie.

Hays scored four in the third to take a 6-2 lead. Pratt battled back with two in the bottom of the third and two in the bottom of the fourth to tie the game.

Dan Bittel and Kade Parker each had three of the Eagles 13 hits.

Chandler Rule allowed two runs on three hits over two innings for the win. Layne Downing pitched the final two innings of scoreless relief for the save.

The Hays Monarchs split their doubleheader with the Great Bend Chiefs Wednesday night at Larks Park. Jordan Gottschalk’s base hit in the 12th lifted the Monarchs to an 8-7 win in the first game. Great Bend raced out to an early lead and wins the second game 10-3 in five innings. The Monarchs are now 14-12 on the season. They begin zone play Sunday in Lincoln.

Game 1: Monarchs 8, Great Bend 7 (12 innings)
Jordan Gottschalk’s single score Ryan Schippers with the game winner in the 12th inning. Gottschalk and Schippers both had three hits in the game.

The Chiefs scored three in the first but the Monarchs answered with two in the second, two in the third and three in the fourth to take a 7-5 lead. Great Bend came back with two more in the fifth to tie the game 7-7 and it would stay that way until the 12th.

Cameron Brin gets the win, not allowing a run on four hits over the final five innings.

Game 2: Great Bend 10, Monarchs 3 (5 innings)
The Chiefs score six in the first and led 9-0 after three innings.

Shane Zimmerman had one of the Monarchs three hits and had their lone RBI.

Kameron Schmidt takes the loss, allowing nine runs on eight hits while walking five and striking out two over three innings.

The Hays Junior Legion is headed to the class A state tournament in Burlington after a 15-3 win over Dodge City in their zone tournament title game Tuesday at Larks Park. Trenton Henningson threw a no-hitter in a game that saw 10 errors.

Monday the Junior Eagles beat  Garden City 6-1 then knocked off Dodge City 16-6 in four innings.

The Hays Monarchs American Legion dropped a couple of heartbreakers to Dodge City Monday night. Dodge City scored on a two-out base hit in the bottom of the seventh to win the opener 2-1. They then rally for two with one out in the bottom of the seventh to take the second game 7-6. The Monarchs are now 13-11 on the year. They host Great Bend tomorrow.

Game 1: Dodge City 2, Hays 1
Both teams scored a run in the third. The Monarchs getting their’s on a Jordan Gottschalk single.

Dodge City scored the go-head run on a two-out single off off Pierce Schippers who takes the loss, allowing two runs on eight hits, walking one and striking none.

Game 2: Dodge City 7, Hays 6
The Monarchs rallied from a 5-1 deficit, scoring two in the fifth, two in the sixth and one in the seventh to take a 6-5 lead. Dodge City would answer with two in the bottom of the seventh for the win.

Shane Zimmerman went the distance allowing seven runs, three earned, on six hits, striking out three and walking five.

Cameron Brin, Jordan Gottschalk and Ryan Schippers all had two hits. Kameron Schmidt drove in two.

The Lee’s Summit Pirates scored nine runs with two outs in the sixth inning to rally past the Hays Eagles Senior American Legion 13-12 Saturday at the Lee’s Summit (Mo.) Wood Bat Tournament. The Eagles (20-16) had scored 10 runs in the top of the fifth to grab an 11-5 lead.

The Eagles finish 1-4 in the 40-team tournament.

Brady Bieker, the fourth Eagles pitcher of the game, takes the loss allowing two unearned runs without recording an out in the sixth.

Kade Parker had three hits and Hayden Hutchison drove in three runs for Hays.

Steve Gotsche tried and tried but could just never get that birdie that would turn his round, and his U.S. Open around.  The Great Bend native shot 7-over 77 Friday at the U.S. Senior Open at the Omaha Country Club.  He was +12 for the tournament missing the cut by 6-strokes.

Gotsche, who shot a 5 over par 75 in Thursday’s round, needed to shoot par or better on Friday to have a chance at making the cut and getting back in the tournament.  But he bogied the first hole Friday morning and made the turn 3-over for the round and 8-over for the tournament.  His round fell apart on the final four holes as he was a combined 4-over on 15,16,17, and 18.

Michael Allen shot a course record 63 to go to 10-under for the tournament and leads the event with two days left by 5 shots over Rocco Mediate.

The Hays Eagles Senior American Legion split their two games Thursday at the Blue Springs, Missouri Wood Bat Tournament. The Eagles beat the Hawthorn Bank Outlaws from Lee’s Summit, Missouri 3-0 then lose a controversial 4-3 contest to SMCI out of DeSoto. They drop to 1-2 in pool play and are 19-14 overall. The Eagles close out pool play Friday against the Post 642 Travelers from Sedalia, Mo.

Game 1: Hays 3, Hawthorn Bank Outlaws 0
Layne Downing (4-2) pitched a complete game three-hit shutout, striking out eight and walking just one.

Hays scored a run in the third on a error then added two in the fourth on a Kyler Niernberger groundout and a wild pitch.

Both teams had three hits.

Game 2: HMCI 4, Hays 3
The Eagles had a 3-0 lead after three innings and thought they had a 3-1 lead heading into the sixth after turning what appeared to be a triple play to end the fifth, but as the Eagles were running off the field, the umpire ruled that third baseman Layne Downing didn’t catch a line drive on the fly which resulted in only two outs and allowed runners to score from first and third to tie the game.

SMCI then scored the game-winner bottom of the seventh after a one-out double and single.

Cade Parker takes the loss despite striking out seven and walking just one in 6 1/3 innings.

Hays scored a run in the first on a Chandler Rule single then plated two in the third on a John Griffith grounder.

There’s a seven-way tie atop the leaderboard at the U.S. Senior Open in Omaha. Tom Lehman, Mark O’Meara, Fred Funk and Kenny Perry among those at three-under following Thursday’s first round. Tom Watson is three shots back at even-par.

Great Bend’s Steve Gotsche shot a five-over-par 75 and is tied for 97th. Topeka’s Mark Elliott shot a nine-over-par 79 and is tied for 131st.

Second round action begins Friday morning at the Omaha Country Club.