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Panthers swim team returns five state qualifiers
The Great Bend High School boys' swimming team is returning to the pool after finishing in ninth place at the Class 5-1A state meet.
GBHS opens season today
HAYS - Great Bend High School opens the 2010-11 basketball campaign today at the annual Hays City Shoot-Out.
Four Cougars named to first team all-league
The Otis-Bison High School football team concluded its most productive season since the 1980s with a second place finish in the Eight-Man Division-II state tournament.
State Football Title Games
TOPEKA - Wichita Heights High School finished with perfection, drubbing Olathe North 48-14 Saturday afternoon to win the Class 6A state football championship at Yager Stadium.
Trio of Panthers named to first team
Most people might not view a 4-5 high school football season as a successful one, yet when you consider it entailed the toughest all-class schedule in the state, then the naysayers might want to think it over.
Morrison plans future with Fort Hays State
As of Monday at 8:15 a.m., Abby Morrison's future was set in stone. Well, at least set on paper. Great Bend High School held a formal signing of Morrison's letter of intent to play softball for head coach Julie LaMaire at NCAA Division-II Fort Hays State University. Abby is the second Morrison softball player to attend Fort Hays State. Her older sister, Carla Morrison, played second base for the Tigers. "Honestly, it was just the ...
Torres leads All-WAC selections at Great Bend
Rubi Torres, a senior standout at Great Bend High School, highlighted All-Western Athletic Conference selections for the Panthers in the respective fall sports: cross country, tennis, volleyball and soccer.
Title-game tribulations
NEWTON - Every time the Otis-Bison High School football team scored a touchdown, the B&B Baileyville Falcons were there to answer with a score of their own.
Hutchinson’s dynasty comes to halt
HUTCHINSON - For the first time in seven years, there will be a new Class 5A state champion in high school football.
Small linemen means big advantage for Cougars
The Otis-Bison High School line is made up of seniors and juniors while B&B Baileyville has sophomores to line up against them.
Cougars prepare for tough fight with B&B
There is only one thing that Otis-Bison head coach Travis Starr and B&B Baileyville head coach Steve Tiernan agree on for sure: Saturday's Eight-Man Division-II state championship game will be a tough, hard-fought game.
Legacy
OTIS - Kevin Wissman led the Otis-Bison High School football team with 66 tackles on defense.
Cougars: Going to state
OTIS - The future holds only one thing for certain for the Otis-Bison High School football team: a trip to the Eight-Man Division-II state championship.
Cougars: One win away
OTIS - When the Otis-Bison High School football team steps on the field tonight at 7 to clash with Ashland, it will be with best defense among the final four in the Eight-Man Division-II state playoffs.
Community Support
OTIS - For the past two years, the Otis-Bison High School football team has found itself in the Eight-Man Division-II state playoffs.
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GBHS golf team heads to Liberal
There's always howling winds in southwest Kansas, and a Class 5A boys golf regional on Monday in Liberal will be no exception.
Lady Panthers to play Hays
The Great Bend High School girls' soccer team travels to Hays on Tuesday to play an opening-round game of a Class 5A regional tournament
Oilers capture third place at state tourney
HILLSBORO - Central Plains High School brought a young team, but the Oilers came through for a third-place finish at the Class 3-1A state tennis tournament on Saturday to take home some hardware.
Eagles lead area teams at Mid-Central Activities Association meet
HAYS - It was Thomas More Prep Marian that ruled Thursday's Mid-Central Activities Association track and field meet.
Lady Oilers win league title
ST. JOHN - The Central Plains High School girls' track and field team won a Central Prairie League title on Thursday.
GREAT BEND SWEEPS LARNED
While the doubleheader didn't have postseason implications for Larned High School, the pair of non-conference baseball games meant a lot to the Great Bend Panthers.
MEMORABLE SEASON
EMPORIA - Shannon Schartz is setting out on a new adventure next spring - taking over the Great Bend Middle School tennis program.
Great Bend vs. Great Bend; Moyers ousted
EMPORIA - In a twist of events, where the upstart Great Bend High School's doubles teams became the talk of the Class 5A state tennis tournament's opening round, the record-setting Panthers knocked down more barriers in a season already full of milestones.
Panthers to host Larned today at 4
After officials deemed the baseball field at the Great Bend Sports Complex was too soggy to play Larned High School on Thursday in a doubleheader, the Great Bend Panthers and the Indians will try again today at 4.
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.
Great Bend falters at conference track meet
DODGE CITY - The Western Athletic Conference track and field meet was not kind to Great Bend High School on Thursday evening.
BASHFUL PERFORMANCE
It turned out to be their best power display of the high school softball season - thus far.
Lady Panthers drop game 4-0 at Junction City
JUNCTION CITY - The Great Bend High School girls' soccer team finished their regular season with a 4-0 loss against Junction City on Thursday evening.
Oilers lead area in state tournament entries
Central Plains High School will be sending its entire boys' tennis team to the Class 3-1A state tournament, which starts today at Hillsboro Sports Complex.
Lady Panthers capture WAC title
Heading into Thursday evening's Western Athletic Conference swim meet at Kirkman Activity Center, Great Bend High School head coach Steve Beaumont said he expected it would be tough.
