PARKVILLE, Mo. – The Hays High Indian baseball team went 2-0 on the first day of the Butch Foster Memorial Baseball Tournament hosted by Bonner Springs High School at the Creekside Baseball Park. Dylan Dreiling homered twice and drove in eight in the Indians 12-2 win over the host Braves in the quarterfinals. Garrett Wellbrock struck out four with no walks to help Hays to a 4-2 victory over Basehor Linwood in the semifinals.
The Indians (9-4) will play the No. 1 team in 6A, Blue Valley West (16-1) in Friday’s title game scheduled for 4:00 p.m. at Legends Field in Kansas City. The Jaguars defeated Kansas City Piper 14-0 and Shawnee Mission Northwest 10-2 Thursday.
Game 1: Hays 12, Bonner Springs 2 (5 innings)
Dylan Dreiling went 3-for-3 with two home runs, a double and eight RBIs. He
put the Indians on the board in the bottom of the first with a sacrifice fly.
He gave them the lead for good with a two-run homer in the third which made the
score 3-2. Dreiling hit a towering three-run blast to right in the fourth to
push the lead to 8-2. The Tennessee commit ended the game with a two-run double
to right.
Dreiling has now hit eight home runs this season which ties the HHS single-season record held by Jeremy Schmeidler in 1998.
Garrett Wellbrock sent 4-for-4 with a triple, a double, an RBI and four runs scored.
Gage Porter added two hits including a double, two RBIs and a pair of runs scored.
Carson Spray scattered three hits and picked up the complete game victory. The junior allowed one earned run on three hits with five strikeouts and four walks.
Game 2: Hays 4, Basehor Linwood 2
Garrett Wellbrock (4-0) allowed two runs on eight hits (all singles) with four
strikeouts and no walks and picked up the complete game victory in the semifinals.
The senior pitched five scoreless innings to open the game before the Bobcats
scored two in the sixth.
The Indians answered with a run in the seventh on a Derek Riggs single to push the lead to 4-2. Wellbrock then worked around a couple of singles with a pop up and ground out to end the game.
Hays grabbed a 2-0 lead in the third on Wellbrock’s two-run single to left. They pushed the lead to 3-0 when Noah Weimer scored on an error later in the inning.
The Indian won despite being out hit 8-5.