TOPEKA – The Hays High baseball team won a 1-0 thriller over Maize in their regional opener Tuesday but came up on the short end of a 5-0 score to host Topeka Seaman in their 5A regional finals hosted by the Vikings.
Seaman advances to their 18th straight 5A State Tournament while the Indians season ends at 13-9.
Game 1: Hays 1, Maize 0
Garrett Wellbrock’s RBI single with one out in the top of the seventh scored Will
Cadoret with the game’s only run. It came after Dylan Dreiling was intentionally
walked.
Wellbrock (6-1) pitched a complete game shutout, scattering six hits and matching a season-high eight strikeouts.
Cooper Burke allowed one run on five hits with nine strikeouts and was the tough luck loser for the Eagles who ends their season at 13-8.
The Indians had plenty of chances early stranding six baserunners in the first three innings and had two runners on in four of the first six innings.
Game 2: Topeka-Seaman 5, Hays 0
Bryson Vawter and Maclane Finley
combined on a two-hitter in the rematch of last year's quarterfinal game at the 5A State Tournament. Vawter struck out seven with two walks for the win,
He only allowed a first inning single to Garrett Wellbrock and Dylan Dreiling
double in the third.
The Vikings (20-2) scored their first run in the bottom of the first on a double that was lost in the sun. They added another run in the third on a squeeze play. Cameron Selbach’s two-run triple in the sixth pushed the lead to 4-0. They would score the final run on a wild pitch.
Dreiling (0-3) suffered the loss. The senior allowed four earned runs on just three hits with nine strikeouts and three walks.