LIBERAL — Let the Western Athletic Conference softball season begin.The Great Bend High School Lady Panthers swept their first WAC doubleheader at Liberal on Tuesday, winning 8-1 in the first game and 17-1 in five innings in the second.It took Great Bend a little time to get its bats started.“We had to adjust to their pitching,” GBHS head coach Carrie Minton said. “We were a little slow making the adjustments, but we eventually figured it out.”The Lady Panthers scored two runs each in the third and fourth innings. They added another run in the sixth and finished the game with three in the seventh.While Great Bend found ways to score, it didn’t utilize the eight walks from the Liberal pitchers as well as Minton would have liked.“We didn’t do that good in the first game,” Minton said.