Hays Post Sports
HOISINGTON – The TMP-Marian Monarchs softball team split with Hoisington to close out their regular season Monday. The Cardinals scored five in the sixth and won the opener 9-5 but the Monarchs responded and took game two 10-3.
TMP-Marian closed out the regular season 24-2. The seedings and bracket for next week’s 2-1A regional hosted by Spearville will be released Wednesday.
Game 1: Hoisington 9. TMP-Marian 5 The Monarchs held a 5-4 lead after five but the Cardinals scored five in the bottom of the sixth to rally for the win.
Brooke Koeningsman hit a two-run homer in the top of the first to give TMP the early lead. After Hoisington scored three in the bottom of the inning, the Monarchs tied it with a run in the third on a Paige Koeningsman groundout.
The Monarchs scored two in the fifth to retake the lead. Bria Windholz tied the game with a single to center then scored the go-ahead run on an A Watson double to left.
Hoisington took advantage of three walks, two errors and a bases loaded triple in their five-run sixth. The triple was the only hit of the inning.
Brynn Rebel allowed all nine runs, only two of which were earned, on six hits with seven strikeouts and six walks over 5 1/3 innings and took the loss. Piper Simpson recorded the final two outs of the sixth.
TMP was held to only three hits and struck out seven times at the plate.
Game 2: TMP-Marian 10, Hoisington 3 Just like in game one, the Monarchs struck early with two runs in the first. They added three in the second, then single runs in the third, fourth and fifth. Then added two more in the seventh.
The Monarchs scored their first run on an error then a Bria Windholz single. Addison Watson scored on a passed ball then Brynn Rebel hit a two-run homer to put them up 5-1 in the second.
The Monarchs scored single runs over the next three innings on RBI singles from Watson, Paige Koeningsman and Nicole Schumacher.
An error and a Hannah Rose sacrifice fly accounted for the final two runs in the seventh.
Brynn Rebel, Paige Koeningsman and Addison Watson all had three of the Monarchs 11 hits.
Bria Windholz allowed three runs on eight hits with four walks and two strikeouts and picked up the complete game win.