Great Bend Post Sports
The Panther tennis team was back in action Friday at Garden City. Scott City scored 122 points to win the 11-team invitational. Great Bend finished with 72 points to finish in the middle of the pack at sixth.
Kaden Deines and Jacob Parks finished seventh in a joint doubles bracket. The pair made it through round one with a bye, then knocked off Dodge City 8-6. That pitted the Panthers against the eventual champions from Dodge City, who won 8-0. After an 8-2 loss to the fifth-place finishers from Garden City, Deines and Parks closed out their day with an 8-5 win against Scott City's other team.
In a joint singles bracket, Aiden Stacey defeated his first Liberal opponent 8-1 before falling to the eighth-place finisher from Cimarron 8-3. Stacey won his next two matches 8-2 over Garden City and 8-5 against another Garden City player to advance to the ninth-place match. He came up just short against Dodge City 8-7 (2) to finish 10th.
Aaron Ramirez placed 13th in the singles bracket. He opened with an 8-2 win against Larned before falling 8-1 to the eventual third-place finisher from Scott City. With an 8-4 loss to Garden City, Ramirez avoided a head-to-head matchup with Stacey, instead beating another Garden City player 8-5. Ramirez defeated Larned's Troy Hemken 8-2 in the 13th-place match.
Chason Ramsey and Kaden Pounds finished 19th in the doubles bracket. The pair opened with an 8-6 loss to the 15th-place finishers from Garden City, then defeated Liberal 8-5. An 8-4 loss to Colby dropped the Panthers to the 19th-place match where they defeated Ulysses 8-1.