TOPEKA - The Great Bend swim team places in fourth at the Class 5A State Swimming and Diving Meet in Topeka on Saturday.
LIBERAL - With the ball in their hands and time running out in regulation, again in overtime and then once more in double overtime, the Great Bend High School boys' basketball team was unable to get a shot to fall to put Liberal away on Saturday night.
It all started a decade ago, when Brian Burley qualified for the Class 5A state championships in wrestling his senior campaign at Great Bend High School.
Chris Burley of Great Bend High School takes a 29-3 record and a top ranking at 112 pounds by the Kansas Wrestling Coaches Association in their latest poll to the Class 5A regional tournament on Saturday in Hays.
Today, the Great Bend High School swim team will be competing in the Kansas Class 5-1A Swimming and Diving State Tournament.
By MACK McCLURE mmcclure@gbtribune.com There will be Hall of Fame ceremonies tonight at Great Bend High School's Panther Fieldhouse, when the Panthers host Dodge City in Western Athletic Conference basketball action. Tipoff for the girls game is set for 6, with the boys following at around 7:45. Hall of Fame ceremonies, featuring Jenny Allford (music educator) and Glen Opie (community service), will be held between the two games. Dodge City, ...
The Hoisington High School wrestling team will be sending 11 wrestlers to the Class 3-2-1A regional tournament in Beloit, starting tonight and continuing through Saturday.
LIBERAL - The Great Bend bowling team left Liberal with a pair of wins on Tuesday night.
GIRLS St. John 36, Quivira Heights 34 BUSHTON - The No. 8 team in Class 1A Division-II in the latest Kansas Basketball Coaches Association poll, the Quivira Heights High School girls' basketball team, fell to the No. 3 team in Class 1A Division-I, St. John, on Tuesday night. The Lady Thunderbirds closed to within one point at the end of the third quarter, but was unable to overtake the Lady Tigers. St. John was led ...
Regional wrestling Great Bend High School travels to Hays on Saturday for Class 5A regional wrestling competition, starting at 10 a.m. ... The Hoisington wrestling team heads to Beloit on Saturday for a Class 3-2-1A regional. Hoisington-Larned games bumped up one day Hoisington High School's upcoming scheduled Mid-Central Activities Association and regula-season ames with Larned, which were originally scheduled for Friday, Feb. 25, have been moved up one day to Thursday, Feb. 24, ...
GIRLS St. John 55, Kinsley 42 ST. JOHN - The St. John High School girls' basketball team put together an 18-point fourth quarter to race ahead of Kinsley on Monday night. Jamie Waters led the Lady Tigers with 18 points, including two 3-pointers and 4 of 4 from the free-throw line. Teresa Wade added 15 points as the only other St. John player in double digits. The Lady Tigers are ranked No. 3 in Class ...
BY MACK McCLURE mmcclure@gbtribune The Great Bend High School Panthers basketball team hangs its hat on trying to beat an opponent different ways. Last Saturday in a 40-39 overtime road triumph over Manhattan High, the Panthers relentlessly attacked the rim, which was a determining factor in the outcome. Against Garden City on Homecoming Friday night at Panther Fieldhouse, the Panthers used a different method, a deliberate strategy of slowing things down to slow down ...
HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL Western Athletic Conference At Panther Fieldhouse BOYS Friday Great Bend 52, Garden City 46 GARDEN CITY (7-9, 1-4) Cody Bernbeck 3 2-2 8, Larry Gomez 0 0-0 0, Gerardo Holguin 1 0-0 2, Austin Terpstra 5 0-0 10, Jake Curran 6 0-0 16, Braden Taylor 3 2-2 8, Ivan Leal 0 0-0 0, Jeremy Ensz 1 0-0 2, Erick Ruiz 0 0-0 0. Totals 19 4-4 46. GREAT ...
HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL At The Stable GIRLS Friday No. 9 Quivira Heights 52, Macksville 47 QUIVIRA HEIGHTS (10-6) Kinsey Phelan 8 7-8 28, Rebecca Stewart 0 0-0 0, Miranda Burton 5 1-2 11, Brooke Burton 1 0-0 2, Lindsey Woodmansee 1 1-2 3, Autumn Mumford 4 0-1 8. Totals 19 9-13 52. MACKSVILLE (9-7) Jena Clowers 2 1-2 5, Keira Parr 7 0-1 17, Yasnaya Susoeff 4 0-0 11, Mindy Wood 1 0-0 ...
LARNED - Ulysses High School's boys' baseball team scored a run in the top of the first inning of a Class 4A regional baseball tournament quarterfinal game on Monday afternoon.
LIBERAL - The Great Bend High School had one boys' golfer qualify for the Class 5A state meet, which will be held on Monday, May 20, at Overland Park's Brookridge Golf & Fitness.
There's always howling winds in southwest Kansas, and a Class 5A boys golf regional on Monday in Liberal will be no exception.
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
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.
HAYS - It was Thomas More Prep Marian that ruled Thursday's Mid-Central Activities Association track and field meet.
ST. JOHN - The Central Plains High School girls' track and field team won a Central Prairie League title on Thursday.
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.
EMPORIA - Shannon Schartz is setting out on a new adventure next spring - taking over the Great Bend Middle School tennis program.
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.
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.
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.
DODGE CITY - The Western Athletic Conference track and field meet was not kind to Great Bend High School on Thursday evening.
It turned out to be their best power display of the high school softball season - thus far.