MIDDLE SCHOOL OPENER A Medicine Lodge Middle School defender closes in on Great Bends Calan Haberman after Haberman made an interception for the Panthers last Thursday afternoon during a season-opening seventh-grade game at Medicine Lodge, which fielded a seventh-and-eighth grade team. Medicine Lodge won the A game, 12-0, and also won the one-quarter B game, 6-0. - photo by VERONICA COONS Great Bend Tribune Local Sports Halstead softball sweeps Indians Larned baseball win streak stretches to 7 in row St. Thomas Aquinas shuts out Panther baseball Cardinal softball sweeps Trojans