MCPHERSON — A pair of hard-fought late-inning victories provide Great Bend's baseball team (9-3) with midseason momentum heading to Gardner and DeSoto this weekend.

The Panthers rallied past pesky Rose Hill 10-7 and held off perennial 4A state power McPherson 5-4 thanks to relief work by Koehn Ribordy and Jaxon Wondra.

PANTHERS 5, MCPHERSON 4 (G2) — Trenton Kern's 2-run fifth-inning homer off Takoda Linn gave the Panthers a 5-1 lead after Daxton Minton scored on Jaxon Wondra's single.

Carter Bengtson and Cowen Huggard delivered RBIs in a 2-run fifth inning for McPherson (12-4). Bengtson's double off Jaxon Wondra scored Asher Allen in the seventh inning.

But Wondra closed out a 5-strikeout save by retiring Huggard and Cade Strathman to end the game.

Strathman's single scored Bengtson in the first. Trenton Kern scored on a fourth-inning wild pitch and Rafael Chavez scored on Carter Dreiling's double.

PANTHERS 10, ROSE HILL (G1) — Eli Contreras ripped a 2-run homer to break a 7-7 tie in a 4-run sixth inning.

Minton's triple scored Gavin Wondra for a valuable insurance run. Trenton Kern scored on Keito Richter's groundout to start the 4-run inning.

Ribordy and Contreras each drove in three runs. Ribordy (2-1) earned the victory with three innings of relief work.

Rose Hill tagged Panther starter Chavez for five earned runs in 31/3 innings.

Rose Hill 002 320 0 — 7 7 1

Great Bend 130 114 x — 10 14 1

Bantam, Frazier (5) and Merlau. Chavez, Gavin Wondra (4), Ribordy (5) and Jaxon Wondra. W—Ribordy, 1-1. L—Frazier. 2B—GB—Ribordy; RH—Kiser, Long. 3B—GB—Minton. HR—GB—Contreras.

Great Bend 000 230 0 — 5

McPherson 100 020 0 — 4

Minton, Ribordy (4), J. Wondra (6) and J. Wondra, Trenton Kern (6). Chapman, Linn (4), Unruh (6) and Huggard. W—Ribordy, 2-1. L—Linn. SV—J. Wondra. 2B—GB—T. Kern, Dreiling; Mc—Unruh. HR—GB—T. Kern.

WAC BASEBALL

Garden City 5-2 8-7

Great Bend 4-2 9-3

Hays High 4-4 4-8

Liberal 1-3 6-8

Dodge City 1-4 5-8

4-21—Great Bend 10, Rose Hill 7; Great Bend 5, McPherson 4; Liberal 2, Garden City 0; Hays 10-5, Dodge City 7-3

4-24—Great Bend vs. Blue Valley SW; Garden City at Scott City; Hays at DeSoto; Liberal at Cimarron

4-25—Great Bend vs. Spring Hill, Joplin, Mo.