By JONATHAN ZWEYGARDT
Hays Post
HAYS – The TMP-Marian Monarchs honored a pair of seniors and sent them out on Tuesday with two big wins over the Plainville Cardinals.
GAME 1: TMP 16, Plainville 1
In the first game, the Monarchs took advantage of 13 walks,
and TMP’s Brynn Rebel allowed just one run in a 16-1 TMP victory.
After a scoreless top of the first inning for Rebel, TMP scored seven runs in the bottom of the first inning.
The Monarchs took advantage of seven walks, two errors, three passed balls, and a wild pitch. Hannah Rose and Addison Watson each drove in a run with an RBI single, the only two hits the Monarchs tallied in the inning.
Plainville got a run back in the second, making it 7-1 TMP.
Watson started the scoring in the second with an RBI single. She stole home three batters later in a 9-1 TMP lead.
Rebel earned a bases-loaded walk, making it 10-1 TMP.
The Monarchs added two more runs on passed balls, and Bridget Feldt drove in a run with an RBI groundout as TMP led 13-1 through two innings.
Back-to-back triples by TMP’s Watson and Molly Helget put TMP up 14-1 to open the bottom of the third inning.
The Monarchs closed the game, scoring on back-to-back wild pitches on a 16-1 victory.
TMP scored four runs on passed balls and one on a wild pitch.
Addison Watson was three-for-three with three RBIs and three runs scored.
GAME 2: TMP 18, Plainville 0
The TMP offensive onslaught continued into the second game,
but this time, the bats came alive; 11 of the Monarchs' 14 hits were extra base
hits in an 18-0 victory.
Plainville threatened with a couple of runners in the first inning, but TMP starter Bria Windholz worked out of a jam and didn’t allow another baserunner the rest of the way with three hitless innings. She walked two and struck out four.
TMP senior Brooke Koenigsman put the Monarchs on the scoreboard in the bottom of the first inning with a two-run triple.
Paige Koenigsman and Molly Helget followed with RBI doubles for a 4-0 TMP lead.
A Raegan Allen triple made it 5-0 TMP.
TMP took an 8-0 lead after back-to-back passed balls allowed a run to score, and then a Plainville error allowed a third run to cross home.
The next hitter in the lineup, Brynn Rebel, drove a two-run home run to center, putting TMP up 10-0.
Brooke Koenigsman’s second extra-base hit of the inning, an RBI double, made it 11-0 TMP.
TMP added two more runs on a wild pitch, and then Brynn Schoepf doubled for a 14-0 TMP lead.
Paige Simpson added a RBI double of her own, and then Addi Gottschalk and Katie Herrman each collected RBI singles, putting TMP up 17-0.
Emma Wasinger added her first career hit, a RBI double to put TMP up 18-0 and close out the bottom of the first.
Brooke Koenigsman finished two-for-two with three RBIs and two runs scored. Brynn Rebel and Addi Gottschalk both added two RBIs.
In between games, the Monarchs honor seniors Brooke Koenigsman and Teagan Gottschalk.
TMP (23-1 & 6-0 MCL) will close out the regular season Monday at Hoisington.