Hays Post
PARKVILLE, Mo. – The seventh-ranked Hays High baseball team lost their first two games at the Butch Foster Memorial Baseball Tournament hosted by Bonner Springs High School. The Indians lost 13-1 to Tonganoxie in their first game then lost 7-2 to Paola in game two at the Creekside Baseball Park.
HHS has lost five straight and dropped to 7-6. They will play St. Mary’s Academy in the seventh place game at 10:00 a.m. Friday at Legends Field in Kansas City. Kan. The Crusaders lost 15-3 to Bonner Springs then 15-2 to Basehor-Linwood in their two games Thursday.
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Game 1:
Tonganoxie 13, (#7, 5A) Hays 1
The Chieftains (10-5) scored three runs in the third and four in the fourth to
break open a one-run game. They then put the game away with two in the sixth
and three in the seventh.
Jack Wiemer scored the Indians lone run on a passed ball in the third inning. Cooper Sanders had two of Hays High’s three hits.
Nolan Dreher allowed four runs (three earned) on seven hits with one strikeout and two walks over three innings and suffered the loss.
Game 2: (#8,
4A) Paola 7, (#7, 5A) Hays 2
Hays struck first with a run in the top of the first on a Greg Hughes single
which scored Cooper Sanders. They scored their second run in the seventh thanks
to two errors.
The Panthers took the lead with three runs in the bottom of the fourth then added two in the fifth and sixth.
HHS was held to three singles and struck out 15 times.
Carson Spray allowed
five runs on six hits with seven strikeouts and six walks and suffered the
loss.