DODGE CITY — Great Bend pitcher Carson Umphres struck out 11 batters with a 3-hit shutout to spark an 8-0 Western Athletic Conference baseball victory over Dodge City. Umphres (2-0, 0.913 ERA) has struck out 22 batters in 151/3 innings.
Red-hot Koehn Ribordy led the Panthers' offense with three hits and four runs batted home. In the past three games, Ribordy has batted 8-for-12 with 11 runs batted in.
Trenton Kern and Daxton Minton scored second-inning runs on a Dodge City error. Ribordy's bases-loaded third-inning double scored Ian Premer, Kern and Minton after two walks and a hit batter.
In a 3-run seventh inning, Umphres scored on Premer's groundout. Minton's double scored Jace Schartz. Minton scored on Ribordy's single.
Great Bend 103 010 1 — 8 7 1
Dodge City 000 000 0 — 0 3 2
Umpheys and Kaiser. Torres, Gonzalez (4) and Gifford. W—Umphreys, 2-0. L—Torres. 2B—GB—Minton 2, Ribordy
WESTERN ATHLETIC BASEBALL
Hays High 2-0 3-1
Great Bend 2-1 6-1
Liberal 1-1 3-7
Dodge City 1-2 5-4
Garden City 1-3 2-4
4-7—Great Bend 8, Dodge City 0
4-8—Goddard Eisenhower 14-13, Liberal 5-2; Dodge City 12, Garden City 6
4-11—Great Bend at Liberal (2); Hays at Garden City (2)
HAYS HIGH (2-0, 3-1)—WL Rock Creek 8-1; 4-5; W Great Bend 5-4; W Dodge City 10-0; 4-11—at Garden City (2); 4-15—at Great Bend (2); 4-17—at Clay Center (2); 4-22—Dodge City (2); 4-25—KC Piper/Spring Hill; 5-1—Liberal (2); 5-2—Garden City (1); 5-9—Manhattan/Brush Colo.; 5-10—Wichita Life Prep; 5-15—at Liberal (1); 5-16—Junction City (2)
GREAT BEND (2-1, 6-1)—W Garden City 13-0; WW Hutchinson 15-1, 13-6; L Hays High 4-5; WW Pratt 6-0, 7-5; W Dodge City 8-0; 4-11—at Liberal (2); 4-15—Hays High (2); 4-18—at Wichita Carroll; 4-22—at McPherson quad; 4-25/26—at DeSoto (St. Thomas Aquinas/Gardner Edgerton); 4-29—Liberal (1); 5-2—Dodge City (2); 5-6—at Garden City (2); 5-9—at McPherson quad; 5-14—Manhattan (2)
LIBERAL (1-1, 3-7)—LL BV West 6-18, 5-20; LL Holcomb 6-13, 5-11; WW Hugoton 10-0, 23-8; WL Garden City 20-8, 3-7; LL Goddard Eisenhower 5-14, 2-13; 4-11—Great Bend (2); 4-17—Woodward, Okla.; 4-19—at Olathe East/Olathe West; 4-22—at Garden City (1); 4-25—at Cimarron (2); 4-29—at Great Bend (1); 4-24—Garden City (2); 5-1—at Hays High (2); 5-6—at Dodge City (2); 5-13—Dodge City (1); 5-15—Hays High (1)
DODGE CITY (1-2, 5-4)—WL Newton 3-1, 6-8; WW Ulysses 10-0, 14-6; WL Salina Central 7-3, 4-14; L Hays High 0-10; L Great Bend 0-8; W Garden City 12-6; 4-19—Manhattan; 4-22—at Hays High (2); 4-25—at Wichita Heights (1); 4-29—Garden City (2); 5-2—at Great Bend (2); 5-6—Liberal (2); 5-13—at Liberal (1); 5-15—Goddard Eisenhower
GARDEN CITY (1-3, 2-4)—L Great Bend 0-13; WL Holcomb 4-3; 0-7; WL Liberal 7-3, 8-20; 4-4—at Goodland; L Dodge City 6-12; 4-11—Hays High (2); 4-19—at Junction City/Manhattan; 4-22—Liberal (1); 4-29—at Dodge City (2); 5-2—at Hays High (1); 5-6—Great Bend (2); 5-9—Scott City; 5-13—at Hays TMP