DODGE CITY — Great Bend's Kya Behr tripled and homered and pitcher Chayla Prendergast earned the victory for a 4-2 softball victory over Maize South Friday.

Behr blasted a third-inning homer and scored the Panthers' fourth run on a Alyssa McCauley sacrifice fly after a fifth-inning triple.

"Kya added a spark offensively with a bomb to center, and a triple off the wall," said Panther coach Shawn Behr. "She did a great job defensively with a couple nice plays."

Prendergast (7-0, .081 ERA) yielded no earned runs and struck out seven batters. Prendergast has 57 strikeouts in 43 innings.

The Panther bats came out firing against pitcher Grace Hargrove (3-2). Katherine Mazouch tripled home Camdyn Post after a leadoff double. Mazouch scored on a Callie Umphres single.

"Our girls surprised Maize with our pop," Behr said. "We burned their outfield a couple of times for extra base hits."

The Mavericks scored a pair of unearned runs. Prendergast nearly escaped two on, no out third-inning threat when she threw out Zoey Gaskill at third base. Kinley Davis scored on a throwing error by catcher Kamryn Koelsch. Taylor Hansen scored on Kiley Thornquist's sixth-inning single.

"Chayla continues to control the zone," said Panther coach Shawn Behr. "She has a pitch that wasn't called, but went to plan B and made the adjustment. It was a great team effort, The girls made it a point to have fun."

PANTHERS 10, WICHITA NW 0 (G2) The Panthers roared to a 9-0 lead against Wichita Northwest behind the pitching of Braelyn Turner.

Maize South 001 001 0 — 2 5 1

Great Bend 300 010 x — 4 10 1

Hargrove, Gaskin (6) and Popp. Prendergast and Koelsch. W—Prendergast, 7-0. L—Hargrove, 3-2. 2B—GB—Post, Hogan; MS—Davis. 3B—GB—Mazouch, Behr. HR—GB—Behr.

Wichita NW 000 00 — 0 3 3

Great Bend 270 01 — 10 13 1

Hoffman and Thomas. Turner and Koelsch. 2B—GB—Post, Koelsch, Mazouch. 3B—McCauley.