Archive By Author - Mack McClure
PANTHERS RETURN NUCLEUS
Losing only four seniors to graduation, the Great Bend High School Panthers baseball team entertains some high expectations entering the 2011 campaign.
Chris Burley named first-team all-conference
Unlike the other All-Western Athletic Conference selections, the wrestling portion was cut-and-dried.
GBHS: ALL-WAC TRIO
Great Bend High School was well-represented on the All-Western Athletic Conference girls basketball team, with seniors Lexie Brack, Cassidy Tutak and Kalie LeShore garnering first-team honors.
WAC’S BEST
Great Bend High School landed two players on the All-Western Athletic Conference basketball first team - Greg Hildebrand and Dakota Ellis - and two others on the second team in Will Gray and Jace Bowman.
LIONS SHARE
HAYS - One win from playing for a Class 1A-Division II state basketball championship, Otis-Bison High School had its title hopes dashed by Hope in Friday's semifinal round.
O-B PREVAILS IN OT
HAYS - The first state basketball tournament win in Otis-Bison High School history had to be put on hold before it went into the record books.
Parity is catch-phrase for Class 1A-Division II
There's no clear-cut favorite in the boys eight-team field for the Class 1A-Division II state basketball tournament in Hays.
MAC DELIVERS KNOCKOUT
SALINA - Entertaining the hopes of an upset special, Great Bend High School trimmed a nine-point halftime deficit to six points and had the basketball midway through the third quarter.
Unlucky 13: Indy torches Cougars with 13 3s
WICHITA - The No. 23-ranked Independence Community College basketball team can hurt you inside and out.
GREAT BEND ADVANCES
HAYS - In a tale of two halves on Thursday evening in an opening-round Class 5A sub-state basketball tournament game, the Great Bend High School Panthers picked the second half to hit their stride.
HAYS — AGAIN
Here we go again. The storyline is familiar: Great Bend High School vs. Hays. Yet this time the stakes are much higher. This is the Class 5A sub-state basketball tournament, mind you. Winning 2 of 3 in the season series extends your season. Great Bend and Hays - Western Athletic Conference foes alike - enter tonight's game in Hays with tipoff set for 7. Great Bend is 11-9 overall and Hays is 10-9. The winner ...
MAC TOO MUCH
McPHERSON - Two things couldn't happen, providing Great Bend High School wanted to upset No. 2-ranked McPherson on Tuesday night in a Class 5A sub-state tournament game.
OT TERMINATES COUGARS
ARKANSAS CITY - It figures. It seemed only fitting that the Barton Community College men's basketball team's opening-round game of the National Junior College Athletics Association Region VI basketball tournament with No. 2 seed Cowley on Tuesday night went into overtime. After all, Barton had already played in six previous overtime games this season, so it didn't come as any surprise when OT came calling again. And, for the sixth time in seven extra sessions, ...
Great Bend girls to meet No. 2-ranked Bullpups tonight
You remember the game, don't you? That trip to Manhattan High School on Saturday evening earlier in the season, where the Lady Panthers played their best game of the season, exploding for 20 first-quarter points and playing four-plus quarters of intense basketball before falling 56-51 in overtime? It's going to take that type of effort for the Lady Panthers (9-11) to make an impact in the Class 5A sub-state tournament - and it all starts ...
Great Bend makes it three in a row against Hays
HAYS - With second place in the Western Athletic Conference at stake, you knew it was going to be a Hays barn-burner on a cold, wintry Friday night out west.
Articles By Author - Mack McClure
Panthers headed to Emporia for Class 5A state tennis tourney
Nick Moyers and his Great Bend High School teammates are embarking on the Class 5A state tennis tournament today and Saturday at Emporia High School.
BASHFUL PERFORMANCE
It turned out to be their best power display of the high school softball season - thus far.
GBHS softball doubleheader still on, baseball postponed
Today's scheduled softball doubleheader between Great Bend High School and Hutchinson is still on, starting at 4, at the Great Bend Sports Complex.
