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Seven-run inning pushes GBHS past Andover
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A Great Bend High School softball baserunner Emma Cape safely makes it to third base in a matchup against Andover Tuesday afternoon. - photo by DALE HOGG Great Bend Tribune

Great Bend’s seven-run third inning paved the way for a 7-5 opening victory. Pitcher Hannah Honomichl overcame three errors and retired the Trojans in the final two innings.
The Panthers strung together five hits with two errors in a seven-run inning. Emma Cape singled, Brooklyn Burkhart walked and Kendal Sell bunted to load the bases. Cape and Sell scored on passed balls. Burkhart scored on an error. Carly Dreiling’s single drove in Morgan Kottas and Baylee Beck for a 5-2 lead. Honomichl’s double scored Dreiling and Mikayla Bownes’ single drove in Honomichl for a 7-2 lead.
Andover’s Whitney Way doubled and scored on an error in the first inning. Cassandra Conley’s single drove in Lexi Lesperance after she singled.
Andover’s Samantha Richards and Alexis Way scored in the fifth inning on an error. Catcher Morgan Kottas threw two runners out to key the Panther defense.

GREAT BEND 7, ANDOVER 5
Andover 200 030 0 — 5 7 4
Great Bend 007 000 x — 7 5 3
Cassandra Conley and Alyssa Wilmoth. Hannah Honomichl and Morgan Kottas. W—Honomichl. L—Conley. 1B—GB, Carly Dreiling, Kendal Sell, Kaley Mounds, Kate; A, Alexis Way 2, Samantha Richards 2, Lexi Lesperance, Conley. 2B—A, Whitney Way; GB, Honomichl.

GAME 2
GREAT BEND 11,
ANDOVER 2
When the north wind kicked in, Great Bend’s Morgan Kottas and Lauren Welsch ripped two-run homers to spark an 11-2 victory over Andover High that completed a sweep. The Panthers (4-0) won the opener 7-5.
Kottas drilled a two-run homer after Kendal Sell reached on an fifth-inning error. Welsch homered in the sixth to bring home two more runs. Welsch drove in three runs.
Carly Dreiling and Honomichl scored first-inning runs when Andover made two errors. Dreiling tripled, Hannah Honomichl doubled and Emma Cape bunted for two third-inning runs.
Sell and Dreiing scored in the fourth inning when Honomichl doubled and Welsch singled for a 8-2 lead. The Panthers added three insurance runs in the sixth inning.
Hunter Marcum earned the pitching victory.

GAME 2
GREAT BEND 11, ANDOVER 2
Andover 010 100 0 — 2 6 4
Great Bend 202 223 x — 11 9 1
Lexi Lesperance and Wilmoth. Hunter Marcum and Kottas. W--Marcum. L—Lesperance. 1B—GB, Dreiling 2, Welsch, Cape; A, Richards, W. Way, Helmer 2, Casady. 2B–GB, A, Honomichl 2; Casady. 3B—GB, Dreiling. HR—GB, Kottas, Welsch.