Four schools brought their players to a football jamboree held at Memorial Stadium in Great Bend, Kansas on Friday, August 30th. For each school the jamboree gave them a chance to scrimmage against different offenses and defenses. The four squads that took part were the Great Bend Panthers, Hoisington Cardinals, Scott Community Beavers, and Salina…
The Goddard-Eisenhower Tiger baseball team visited Great Bend to face the Panthers in the regular season finale for both teams. They played a doubleheader that the Tigers swept. Eisenhower took game one 6 to 0 after a four-run seventh inning. The second game saw the Tiger’s Jason McCarty hit a pair of two-out, three-run home…
The Wichita Northwest Grizzlies traveled to Great Bend to take on the Panthers. Northwest had been known for putting up a ton of points in their first two games. Great Bend managed to hold them to 31 points. The defense of the Grizzlies held Great Bend to zero points on the night. Three times the…
The Andover Trojans traveled to Great Bend for an exciting start to the 2019 football season. Some games are decided long before they end. Some games take longer for one team to build up a lead over the other. Then there are games that change in a minute, the last minute to be more specific….
For the first time ever, Great Bend hosted a football jamboree with Hoisington and Scott Community High Schools. The jamboree is a preseason gathering of three or four schools to scrimmage against each other. In the past, most schools would hold a soap scrimmage. In a soap scrimmage, the varsity side would line up against…
For the second year, Great Bend High School hosted the Grapple on the Gridiron team dual wrestling camp. Wrestlers from 20 high schools came to Central Kansas to get in some mat time and learn how to be a better grappler. Unfortunately, the Kansas heat kept the wrestlers inside instead of wrestling under the lights…
Nine teams of swimmers went to the pool in the Kirkman Center on the campus of Barton Community College for the Great Bend Girls Swimming Invitational. Manhattan dominated the meet winning seven of the twelve events and taking first as a team. Newton took first in the other five events but finished third in the…
The Garden City Buffaloes made the familiar trip to Memorial Stadium to face the Great Bend Panthers. A win would hand the Western Athletic Conference title to the Panthers. A loss would mean just a share of the title along with two other fellow conference schools. Great Bend quickly let it be known that they…
