HAYS – The TMP-Marian Monarchs baseball team earned a split doubleheader Friday night in the first two games of the season. The Monarchs won the first game 18-3 but dropped the second game 10-3 at TMP Field in Hays.
GAME 1: TMP 18. Larned 3
The Monarchs used timely hitting and took advantage of Larned mistakes in the first game of the day as they go on to win 18-3.
Larned scored the first three runs of the game, in the top of the first inning, taking advantage of four walks from TMP starter Ty Schmeidler and an error.
The Monarchs though wasted no time getting two runs back in the bottom of the inning, scoring on an error and an RBI groundout by Kendall Walker.
TMP continued to pile it on in the second inning, sending 15 men to the plate while scoring nine runs in the inning for an 11-3 lead. TMP benefitted from six walks and two hit-by-pitches, scoring on five of them. They also scored on a pair of errors and Walker drove in two more runs with a single.
TMP led 11-3 through two innings.
Walked added another RBI single in the third and a second two-run second in the fourth as TMP went on to the 18-3 win in four innings.
The six RBI’s is a new career-high for Kendall Walker, he was three-for-four in game one. Schmeidler collected a pair of hits and RBI’s in the game as well.
Schmeidler got the win, allowing three runs, two earned with five walks and three strikeouts in two innings.
GAME 2: Larned 10,
TMP 3
In the second game of the doubleheader an old teammates for
some of the Monarchs, La Crosse’s Caden Morgan, limited TMP to just three
unearned runs in three and two-thirds innings in a 10-3 Larned win.
The Monarchs were held off the scoreboard until the they plated three runs in the bottom of the fourth.
By that time TMP was already trailing 5-3. TMP scored single runs on a pair errors and added a third on a wild pitch.
Larned scored in all but the fourth inning.
TMP threatened in the final three innings of the game but were able to put any runs across as they come up short, falling 10-3.
Carson Liles struggled with him command and was the tough-luck loser. He allowed five unearned in two innings. He recorded three walks and three strikeouts.
TMP drops to 1-1 on the season and will travel to Ellinwood on Tuesday.