#3 Hays High (2-0, 1-0 WAC) at No. 3 Manhattan (2-0, 1-0 CL)
Friday, September 15 - 7 p.m.
Manhattan, Kan. ā Bishop Stadium
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The Hays High Indians travel to Manhattan Friday night for a battle of ranked teams.
The Manhattan Indians are ranked third this week in class 6A while the Hays High Indians are third in class 5A.
Kickoff is set for 7 p.m. at Bishop Stadium in Manhattan. Live coverage includes The Hays High Sports Network and radio.
Both teams are coming off wins in the first two weeks of the season and are 2-0 to start the season.
Hays and Manhattan have played five prior times. The Indians from Hays High have been on the short end of the scoreboard each time. The two played from 1973 through 1976 before picking the series back up last season.
The closest game between the two was the first in 1973, which Manhattan won 7-0. There are nine teams that Hays has played but never beat. For five of those, there was more than one game played. Hays is 0-5 versus Manhattan, 0-3 versus Hutchinson and 0-2 against Blue Valley (2006-2007), Wamego (2016-2017), andā¦Smith Centerā¦two games played in 1933 and 1934.
The sixth game in this series between Hays and Manhattan puts it into a tie with games played against Ellsworth. The Indians last played the Bearcats in 1936.
Ellsworth pretty much owned the series. Hays won the first game in 1921ā¦we could not locate a score for the 1922 gameā¦the Ellsworth team won the next four games 10-0 in 1923, 13-6, in 1924ā¦7-6 in 1935 and 12-6 in 1936.