BY ANDY TAYLOR

Caney Valley High School’s baseball team put itself in the state records book on Monday night.

Caney Valley’s 42-26 victory over Eureka — that’s not a misprint — established several state records and also tied an existing record in the annals of Kansas high school baseball.

Ted Hayes of the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame said the 42 runs scored by Caney Valley in the second game of Monday’s doubleheader ties a state record for most runs by one team in a game. Blue Valley Stillwell set that record in a 1999 game.

Hayes said the game’s results also established several new records, including most runs by a losing team (26) and most runs by two teams in one game (68).

Caney Valley won the first round of Monday’s twinbill by a 17-1 score in three innings. That means the Bullpups scored a total of 59 runs in a doubleheader, which, Hays, said, establishes a new state record.

Les Zoch, Caney Valley head baseball coach, said a high volume of errors by both teams led to the marathon scoring match in a bone-chilling Eureka stadium on Monday night.

“It wasn’t pretty for either team,” said Zoch.

The game lasted more than three hours, and the doubleheader took almost six hours to complete.