Great Bend catcher Koy Brack earned first-team All-Western Athleic Conference baseball honors. The Panthers upset Salina Central 3-0 and Liberal 2-0 to qualify for the 5A state baseball tournament. Shawnee Heights defeated the Panthers 10-2 at the 5a state tournament.
Great Bend OF Chance Perry, P-IF Colin Hall and IF Joey Soupiset earned second-team All-WAC honors.
Liberal catcher Pancho Terrazas was WAC Player of the Year. Liberal’s Eric Olmstead was Coach of the Year.

WESTERN ATHLETIC BASEBALL
FIRST TEAM
P—Braxton Hyde, Liberal, 10
OF—Trey Riggs, Hays High, 11; Hunter Brown, Hays, 12; Noah Sowers, Dodge City, 11
C—Pancho Terrazas, Liberal, 11; Koy Brack, Great Bend, 11
IF—Cooper Thayer, Garden City, 11; Cesar Burciaga, Liberal, 11; David Arteaga, Garden City, 12; Palmer Hutchison, Hays, 11; Kaden Riekenberg, Dodge City, 12; Auston Waetzig, Garden City, 11
PLAYER OF YEAR—Pancho Terrazas, Liberal
COACH OF YEAR—Eric Olmstead, Liberal
SECOND TEAM
OF— Chance Perry, Great Bend, 11; Willie Sennett, Hays, 11: Syris Dunlap, Liberal, 10; Lance Allred, Garden City, 12
P-IF—Colin Hall, Great Bend, 10; Cody Petersen, Hays, 11; Cole Murphy, Hays, 12
C—Andrew Kreutzer, Garden City, 12; Alden Knedler, Dodge CIty, 9
IF—Joey Soupiset, Great Bend, 10; Elijah McCarter, Liberal, 10;
P—Adrian Mendoza, Dodge City, 11
WESTERN ATHLETIC BASEBALL
Liberal 7-1 15-6
Hays High 6-2 11-8
Dodge City 3-5 9-12
Great Bend 2-6 9-14
Garden City 2-6 5-16