GREAT BEND - In their first trip to the state tournament since the 2022 season the TMP-Marian Monarchs earned the second fourth place finish in school history Friday at the 2-1A state baseball tournament in Great Bend.
SEMIFINALS: Medicine Lodge 7, TMP 6
The Monarchs, the seven-seed matched up with the six-seed Medicine
Lodge in the first semifinal of the day on Friday and the Indians earned a 7-6
victory with a walk-off walk to advance to the state championship game and sending
TMP to the third-place game.
Ty Schmeidler gave the Monarchs an early lead, driving in two runs with a two-out single to left, making it 2-0 TMP in the top of the first.
Schmeidler settled in on the mound and held the Indians hitless for four straight innings all while allowing eight walks with seven strikeouts over those four innings of work.
TMP scored two more runs on an error in the top of the fifth inning making it 4-0 TMP.
The Indians finally broke through with a leadoff triple in the bottom of the fifth inning.
They followed that with four walks and a TMP error that led to six runs as the Indians took a 6-4 lead into the sixth inning.
In the sixth, TMP quickly loaded the bases and Logan Baalmann drove a single to right scoring two and tying the game at six.
After TMP was retired, in order in the top of the seventh Medicine Lodge loaded the bases and the third walk of the inning delivered the Indians a walk-off walk in a 7-6 victory.
Baalmann matched his career-high with four hits and Carson Liles and Schmeidler each collected a pair of hits. Baalmann and Schmeidler each drove in two.
Baalmann suffered the loss on the mound. He allowed five runs, three earned in 2 1/3 innings of relief. Schmeidler and Baalmann combined to walk 15 in the game.
3rd PLACE: St. Marys-Colgan 10, TMP 0
With the loss the Monarchs dropped to the third-place game
against St. Marys-Colgan and it was all Panthers in a 10-0 win in six innings.
St. Marys-Colgan wasted little time scoring six runs in the bottom of the first inning.
The Panthers took advantage of two errors, five hits, two extra base hits building a 6-0 lead.
TMP’s Caden Dinkel settled in after the rough first, allowed just four more runs for a total of 10 runs, six earned in 5 2/3 innings.
TMP’s offense held without a hit, and recorded just a single baserunner, a Ty Schmeidler walk.
TMP finished the season 21-11.