GREAT BEND – The Hays High baseball team split a road doubleheader Tuesday at Great Bend. The Indians had the lead in game one but couldn’t hold it in a 5-4 loss. In the second game, Hays scored a run in the top of the seventh for the 5-4 victory.
GAME 1: Great Bend 5, Hays 4
The Indians jumped out to an early 2-0 lead, scoring single
runs in the first and third innings.
Hays loaded the bases in the top of the first inning with three straight singles before Bradyn Dreher scored the games first run on a passed ball.
After back-to-back singles to open the third, Hays’ Carson Spray gave the Indians a 2-0 lead with an RBI single.
Leading 2-1, Hays plated two runs in the top of the sixth inning building a 4-1 lead. Their first run came on an error and then Jack Weimer added a sacrifice fly putting Hays up by three, but it was a lead they couldn’t hold onto.
Great Bend scored three runs in the bottom of the sixth and then earned the walk-off victory on an RBI triple in the bottom of the seventh inning for the 5-4 win.
Dreher collected three hits and Spray and Weimer each drove in a run. Tanner Boxberger allowed a run on four hits in the seventh and suffered the loss.
GAME 2: Hays 5, Great Bend 4
In the final game of the day the Indians got a run in the
top of the seventh, breaking at 4-4 tie, in a 5-4 victory.
Just like in the first game, Hays (5-1) jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the third inning. Derrik Riggs drove in the games first run, in the top of the first inning, on an RBI groundout putting Hays up 1-0.
The Indians added a second run in the top of the third inning on a Riggs RBI single giving Hays a 2-0 lead.
Great Bend got a run in the bottom of the third but Hays answered with two in the fourth.
Toby May doubled in the first run and then scored on an RBI groundout by Cooper Sanders giving Hays a 4-1 lead.
Great Bend scored two runs in the bottom of the fourth and tied the game at four with a run in the fifth inning.
With the game still tied in the top of the seventh, Sanders led off the inning with a single and Bradyn Dreher doubled him in putting Hays up 5-4.
Sanders collected three hits in the Indians victory.
Cooper Johnson earned the win for Hays High with three innings of relief. He allowed just one run on four hits with three strikeouts.
The Hays High Indians host Dodge City for two next Tuesday.