Hays Post
HAYS - Hays High bounced back from Thursday night's loss in the opener of the Western Plains Diamond Classic with a pair of wins Friday at Leo-Harper Field.
Hays 4, Manhattan 3
Corbin Werth scored the walk-off win for the hometown Indians after Brett Schumacher put the ball in play with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth.
Carter Graham started the inning with a lead-off double. Werth entered the game as a pinch runner. Dylan Haselhorst was hit by a pitch. Cooper Sanders was then intentionally walked to load the bases.
Hays scored the first run of the game in the bottom of the second when Haselhorst drove in Jack Weimer on a single.
Manhattan was held scoreless until the fourth when they tied the game on a bases loaded hit by pitch. Starting pitcher Nolan Dreher got out of the bases loaded jam thanks to a double play turned by Sanders, Weimer and Lex Lummus.
Manhattan added two runs in the top of the fifth inning for a 3-1 advantage. Hays tied the game with a pair of runs in the bottom of the sixth.
The game would need two extra innings before Hays took the victory. Dreher pitched a career high eight innings. He allowed three runs (two earned) on six hits. He struck out two and walked four. Johnny Cano earned the win in relief by pitching the ninth. He needed just seven pitches to retire the side.
Hays 7, Brush (Colo.) 0
Hays scored runs in five of six innings on their way to a 7-0 win over the Brush Beetdiggers from Colorado.
Brenden Stults threw all seven innings
Johnny Cano got the offense going for the Indians in the bottom of the first. Ian McGuire scored on an error and Cooper Sanders crossed the plate on a wild pitch in the bottom of the second for a 3-0 advantage. Later in the inning Cao drove in Brett Schumacher on a single.
Dylan Haselhorst had two of the Indians five hits. He doubled with two outs in the third. Courtesy Runner Ian McGuire scored on an error for a 5-0 score.
The Indians struck for another run in the bottom of the fifth. Brett Rhoades led off the inning with a single. He later scored on a bases loaded balk to give Hays the lead at 6-0.
Jalen Smith stole home in the bottom of the sixth for the final run of the game.
Stults allowed just three hits, walked none and struck out eight. It was a career high in strike outs and innings pitched.
The Beetdiggers had five errors in the game.
Hays improves to 14-8 with the wins. They will finish the Diamond Classic on Saturday against Life Prep.
TMP and Hays High are each 2-1 so far. Manhattan and Life Prep each have a 1-1 record. Brush, CO is 0-2.
Saturday
9:30 - Manhattan v TMP
11:30 - Manhattan v Brush, CO
1:45 - Life Prep v Brush, CO
3:45 - Hays Hays v Life Prep
Friday
Hays High 4 - Manhattan 3 (9 innings)
Manhattan 4 - Life Prep 3
Life Prep 5 - TMP 0
TMP 7 - Brush, CO 0
Hays High 7 - Brush, CO 0
Thursday
TMP 8, Hays High 2