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Middleton focuses on improving from circle

The high school softball season is over, but pitcher Hunter Middleton is keeping busy.

Summer swimmers

Chiefs idle this week

The Class AAA American Legion Great Bend Chiefs are idle this week. The Chiefs, who opened their season last weekend in the Tournament of Champions at Manhattan's Wayne Norvell Field, have a number of baseball players taking part in Bo Black's Great Bend High School football team camp. The Chiefs, 0-4, get back on the diamond on Tuesday, traveling to Hays for a doubleheader, starting at 6 p.m. Great Bend has its home opener at ...

GBRC hosts Hap Dumont baseball tournaments

The Great Bend Recreation Commission hosted an NBC Hap Dumont Points Tournament on Saturday and Sunday at the Great Bend Sports Complex and Brit Spaugh Park.

Chiefs have rough start to season

MANHATTAN - It was not the start to the 2013 season that Great Bend Chiefs head coach Mike Stettinger was hoping for.

Golden Belt Swim Squad places first at home meet

Things went swimmingly for the Golden Belt Swim Squad in their first meet of the season.

Quicksilver dishes out scholarships

For the first time in the organization's history, the Quicksilver Softball Club handed out scholarships to longtime members.

Tournament postponed due to weather

MANHATTAN - The Class AAA American Legion baseball team's season-opening Tournament of Champions game was postponed due to inclement weather.

Golden Belt Swim Squad to open season on Saturday

The Golden Belt Swim Squad opens their season on Saturday with a meet at Kirkman Activity Center on the Barton Community College campus.

Chiefs to start season tonight

The Great Bend Chiefs, a Class AAA American Legion baseball team, start their summer season tonight at a tournament in Manhattan.

Chiefs come up shy as Hays wins zone crown

HAYS - Running short on pitchers and definitely on fumes, the Great Bend Chiefs were playing their fourth game in two days at the Class AAA American Legion zone baseball tournament on Tuesday night at Larks Park.

Great Bend gets Dodge City again today in elimination game

HAYS - The Great Bend Chiefs and Dodge City Rangers find themselves in the same exact situation entering today's final round of the Class AAA American Legion zone baseball tournament at Larks Park as Monday.

NINE Ks FOR NEY

HAYS - The Great Bend Chiefs parlayed a stellar pitching effort from Nick Ney, a momentum-shifting double play and two runs in the fourth inning en route to a 5-3 victory over Dodge City in Monday's opener.

IN THE ZONE

It comes down to a two-day season for the Great Bend Chiefs. The Chiefs (10-14) open Class AAA American Legion Zone Tournament action at 4 against Dodge City on Monday afternoon in Hays. Larks Park is the site of the two-day zone, where Hays is the top seed. The Great Bend/Dodge City winner meets Hays at 6:30. The losing teams from the opening games meet in elimination play on Tuesday, with the championship game following. ...

In Class A zone, Hays qualifies for state tourney

Hays defeated Dodge City on Friday morning 8-2 in a Class A American Legion zone championship game for the right to advance to the state tournament.