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Panther baseball beats Bullpups, Rose Hill
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Panthers win two games

MCPHERSON – Great Bend’s baseball team surprised McPherson, last year’s 4A state champion, 6-4. The Panthers rallied from a 6-3 deficit to edge state-ranked Rose Hill 8-7. The Panthers (6-4, 2-2 WAC) play at Garden City Friday.

PANTHERS 6, MCPHERSON 4 (G1) – Great Bend’s Bradley Hopkins and Tyler Stuhlsatz scored valuable insurance runs on a McPherson error as the Panthers held off McPherson 6-4 in Tuesday’s first game.

Panther J.J. Grove scored a second-inning run on an error. Stuhlsatz scored on a Grove sacrifice fly for a 2-0 lead.

Ian Premer and Carson Umphres walked and Owen Kaiser reached safely on a fifth-inning bunt. Premer scored on Grove’s groundout. Umphres scored on Trenton Kern’s groundball for a 4-1 lead. Stuhlsatz (1-0) yielded one run in four innings.

McPherson’s Teegan Haines homered in the fourth inning Jaytin Gumm and Hunter Alvord scored on Dawson Feil’s fifth-inning single for a 4-3 score. McPherson’s Gumm homered in the seventh off Umphres, who recorded the final out for his first save. McPherson drops to 7-3.

PANTHERS 8, ROSE HILL 7 (G2) – Great Bend reliever Koehn Ribordy worked two shutout innings to preserve an 8-7 victory after starter Edwin Chavez yielded seven runs.

Stuhlsatz scored on Premer’s triple to start a 3-run first inning. Premer scored on a wild pitch. Pinch runner Daxton Minton scored on Grove’s groundout.

Rose Hill’s Rhett Briggs made Chavez pay for three walks and a hit batter with a bases-loaded triple for a 4-3 lead. Cameron Mock scored on Scotty Carr’s triple and Carr scored on a wild pitch for a 6-3 lead.

Ribordy scored on an error and Hunter Herrman, Ribordy and Premer delivered RBI singles in a 4-run fourth inning for a 7-6 lead. Grove scored on Herrman’s groundout for an 8-6 lead.

Connor McPhilomy singled home Cooper Nace for an 8-7 score. Rose Hill drops to 10-2.

Great Bend 011 022 0 – 6 7 0

McPherson 000 120 1 – 4 4 4

Stuhlsatz, Herrman, Umphres (7) and Kaiser. Gumm, Alvord (6) and Feil. W—Stuhlsatz, 1-0. L—Gumm. SV—Umphres. 2B—Umphres, Premer. HR—M—Gumm, Haines.

Great Bend 300 410 0 – 8 8 0

Rose Hill 042 010 0 – 7 8 4

Chavez, Ribordy (6) and Kaiser. Roberts, Nace (5) and Briggs. W—Chavez, 1-0. L—Roberts. SV—Ribordy. 2B—RH—Briggs, Nace. 3B—GB—Premer; RH—Carr, Mock.