Hays Post Sports
HAYS - TMP-Marian closed out their regular season with a pair of home wins Tuesday. The Monarchs swept Garden City 3-1 and 18-3.
They wrapped up the regular season with a 21-5 record and will host a 2-1A Regional beginning Friday. The Monarchs will play the second game of the day around 5 p.m. against the winner between Oberlin and Ell-Saline.
Garden City has lost eight of their last 10 and dropped to 6-14 on the season.
Game 1: TMP-Marian 3, Garden City 1
Adler Brown go the Monarchs on the board with an RBI single in the bottom of
the third. Connor Breit and Isaac Purinton both added RBI singles in the fifth
to push the lead to 3-0.
Garden City scored their lone run on a Jakobe Rathbun triple in the seventh.
Grant Nehls allowed no runs on three hits with four strikeouts and three walks over 6 2/3 innings and picked up the win. Isaac Purinton gave up a walk then the triple but got a groundout to shortstop to end the game and picked up the save.
Game 2: TMP-Marian 18, Garden City 3 (4 innings)
The Buffs scored two in the top of the first inning but TMP answered with six in
the first and second.
TMP’s tied the game on bases loaded walks to Carson Liles and Adler Brown. Connor Breit gave them the lead on a sacrifice fly. TMP scored two on an error then added their sixth run on a J Seib single.
After Garden City scored another run in the second to make it a 6-3 game, TMP responded with six more in the bottom of the inning. Ty Schmeidler singled home the first run and would later score on a wild pitch. Grant Nehls also scored on a wild pitch, Breit and Caden Dinkel added a bases loaded walks and Ian Nehls scored on an error.
The Monarchs added three runs in the third and fourth. Schmeidler and Breit both had RBI triples, Austin Gilbert drove in a run with a sac fly. In the fourth, the Monarchs scored on a Grant Nehls triple, a Carson Liles sac fly then ended the game when Schmeidler scored on a wild pitch.
Adler Brown allowed three runs (one earned) on six hits with two walks and two strikeouts and picked up the run-rule shortened complete game win.
Ian Nehls and Ty Schmeidler both had two of the Monarchs seven hits. Schmeidler and Carson Liles both drove in two runs.