First and foremost, Great Bend High School head track and field coach Bo Black is quick to point out that he has a young team.
Needless to say, it was a record-setting spring in 2012. The Great Bend High School boys' tennis team established a school-record 119-22 overall mark last season. The Panthers also won an unprecedented 15 of 16 matches in running away with the Western Athletic Conference championship, where Grant Harris captured conference player of the year honors as a freshman with a 29-5 record. Moreover, senior returnees Nick Moyers and Chase Buntain captured 10th place in No. ...
WICHITA - The Great Bend High School girls' soccer team opened their season with a 6-1 loss to Haysville on Wednesday in the first round of the Wichita South Titan Classic.
McPHERSON - Great Bend High School finished tied for second place with Winfield, just behind host McPherson and ahead of Newton, Derby, Salina South and Hays on Tuesday during the season-opening McPherson Invitational.
The Great Bend High School girls' soccer team will look to improve on last season's 5-10-2 record, starting today.
The second annual Central Kansas High School All-Star Basketball Classic, which was hosted by Barton Community College on Sunday, showcased 53 of some of Kansas' best players.
There are postponements and rescheduled events because of the inclement weather. Great Bend's season-opening soccer matches at Wichita South have been moved to Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. The Panthers' tennis opener at McPherson has been moved to Tuesday at 3 p.m. Great Bend's softball opener at Larned today has also been postponed.
The second annual Central Kansas All-Star Basketball Classic will be held on Sunday at Kirkman Activity Center on the Barton Community College campus.
Morgan Harwood and Tarynn Stueder - two integral parts for the Great Bend High School Lady Panthers - have landed on the All-Western Athletic Conference basketball team.
The All-Mid-Central Activities Association basketball teams are topped by players from Hoisington High School.
Josh Lopez, Cody Helsel and Bryce Hofmeister are headed to the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference football ranks.
Three high school basketball teams from the Central Prairie League made it to a state basketball tournament.
SALINA - The Great Bend High School girls' swim team made a splash during their first meet of the season.
For the Great Bend High School girls' swim team, it is a quick jump into the spring sports season.
Ethan Henderson displays the menacing type with the shaved head and tattoos, a characteristic he took onto the basketball court for the Great Bend High School 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.
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.
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.
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.
Today's scheduled softball doubleheader between Great Bend High School and Hutchinson is still on, starting at 4, at the Great Bend Sports Complex.