Great Bend Post
With wins over two quality Class 4A teams last Tuesday, and a sweep at Garden City on Friday, the Panther baseball team has been on cruise control in the last half of April. The train kept rolling Monday at the Great Bend Sports Complex with wins of 14-1 and 4-2 against TMP. The sweep included a combined no-hitter in game two. The Panthers move to 10-4 overall on the season.
The Panthers needed just five innings to get through game one. The offense scored in each of its four at-bats with nine runs through the first three frames and capped by a five-run fourth.
Edwin Chavez kept the Monarch bats down for the win. He threw allowed just one earned run on three hits with five strikeouts in three innings of work. Carson Poe allowed one hit and struck out two in the final two innings.
The Panthers scored the 14 runs on just six hits, taking advantage of six TMP errors, three walks, and three hit batters. Owen Kaiser singled twice to drive in three runs and score once. Ian Premer singled and walked to finish with a team-high four RBIs. Chavez helped himself out with a single and two RBIs.
Game two was much closer with the team even at 1-1 until Kaiser reached on an error in the fourth, then came around to score on a sac fly from Trenton Kern. The Panthers took advantage of an error and passed ball for two more runs in the fifth to lead 4-1. TMP scored its final run in the seventh.
Kaiser struck out eight and walked three in his 4.1 hitless innings on the mound. Koehn Ribordy struck out one and walk three in his two hitless innings, and Hunter Herrman pitched the final two outs, including a strikeout.
Carson Umphres singled and doubled for two of the three Panther hits in the win. Tyler Stuhlsatz provided the other single.
Games against Dodge City originally scheduled for Friday at the Sports Complex have been moved to Thursday.