HAYS – The Hays High baseball team split their two games on day two the Western Plains Diamond Classic at Hays High School. The Indians lost a marathon 15 inning affair with Manhattan 4-2 but bounced back with a 3-2 win over Trinity Academy out of Wichita in the final game of the day.
The Indians (10-7) close out play at the Diamond Classic Saturday against Life Prep of Wichita at 3:45 p.m. The Fire defeated Manhattan by run-rule and Great Bend in their two games Friday.
Game 1: Manhattan 4, Hays 2 (15 innings)
After 11 scoreless innings, Manhattan broke through with two runs in the top of
the 12th only to see Hays High answer with two in the bottom of the inning on Dylan
Dreiling’s two-out, two-run homer. It was Dreiling’s ninth of the season which is a new single-season record, breaking the old mark of eight held by Jeremy Schmeidler.
Manhattan took the lead for good with two in the 15th on a solo homer from Kyler Horsman and an error. The Indians were retired in order in the bottom of the inning to end the game.
Hays had their chances to take the lead early, leaving the bases loaded in the first then stranding runners at the corners in the second. The Indians only base runner over the next five innings came in the fifth after a double from Dreiling which was the Indians first hit of the game.
Hays got two on to start the eighth and had two on in the 10th. They also had a runner thrown out at the plate trying to score from second on a single to end the 11th.
Dalton Dale took the loss in relief allowing three earned runs on five hits with two strikeouts and five walks over 5 1/3 innings.
Starter Dylan Dreiling allowed only one hit over 9 1/3 innings with 11 strikeouts and two walks.
Dreiling had three hits and Noah Weimer added two.
Manhattan starter Coy Cavender also allowed only one hit over 7 innings with 13 strikeouts and three walks.
Game 2: Hays 3, Trinity Academy 2
Garrett Wellbrock’s sacrifice fly in the bottom of the fifth scored Gage
Porter with the go-ahead run as the Indians ended their three-game losing streak.
The Knights grabbed the lead with a run in the top of the first, but the Indians answered in the bottom of the inning on Dalton Dale’s single to right which scored Dylan Dreiling.
Trinity grabbed a 2-1 lead in the fourth on a fielders choice but the Indians again had an answer when Bradyn Dreher scored on a Carson Spray groundout.
Blake Schmidt pitched five innings and picked up the win. He allowed two runs on three hits with eight strikeouts and five walks. Keatyn Barnett pitched two hitless innings of relief for the save.
Bradyn Dreher had two of the Indians six hits.
Friday's Western Plains Diamond Classic scores
Manhattan 4, Hays 2 (15 innings)
Life Prep 1o, Manhattan 0 (6 innings)
Life Prep 5, Great Bend 1
Great Bend 4, Wichita Trinity 1
Hays 3, Wichita Trinity 2