WICHITA — No. 3 ranked WIchita Carroll powered past No. 6 ranked Great Bend 10-5 in a showdown between state-ranked baseball teams.
Wichita Carroll (12-2) downs the best record in 5A West while the Panthers (9-3) are the third-best 5A team. The Panthers play at McPherson Tuesday for two games.
Carroll roughed up Panther starter Daxton Minton for eight earned runs and eight hits in 22/3 innings.
Trenton Kern doubled home Koehn Ribordy and Owen Kaiser for a 2-0 lead. But the Golden Eagles scored eight runs in the next three innings.
Judd Blasi delivered an RBI single and Wyatt Fulfer's sacrifice fly led to a 2-2 tie after two walks and a hit by pitch. Drew Niedens scored on Jonah Mull's single. Aedyn Acosta scored on Isaac Lager's single. Harrison King scored on a Niedens' sacrifice fly for a 5-2 lead.
Panther Carson Umphreys scored on a third-inning error. Carroll's Acosta singled in Luke Roberts and Hunter Axline and Acosta scored on King's double for an 8-3 lead. Niedens scored on Fulfer's single.
Minton singled home Umphreys for the Panthers' fourth run. Carroll's Axline scored on a groundout. Kern's bases-loaded walk forced home Ribordy for a seventh-inning run.
Great Bend 201 010 1 — 5 7 2
Wichita Carroll 323 110 x — 10 11 2
Minton, Herrman (4) and Wondra, Allen, Fulfer (5), Cox (7) and Clupny. W—Allen. L—Minton. 2B—GB—Kern; WC—King.
WAC BASEBALL
Hays High 5-1 6-4
Great Bend 5-2 9-3
Dodge City 1-2 6-5
Liberal 1-3 4-10
Garden City 1-4 3-7
4-17—Clay Center 5-7, Hays 0-6; Woodward, Okla. at Liberal (2)
4-18—Wichita Carroll 10, Great Bend 5
4-19—Manhattan 9, Dodge City 0; Dodge City 6, Junction City 5; Olathe East 4, Liberal 1; Olathe West 11, Liberal 0; Manhattan 7, Garden City 0
4-22—Dodge City at Hays (2); Great Bend at McPherson Quad; Liberal at Garden City (1)
5A WEST SEEDING—1—Wichita Carroll 12-2; 2—Topeka Seaman 13-4; 3—Great Bend 9-3; 4—Emporia 9-4; 4—Maize South 9-4; 6—Salina South 9-5; 7—Hutchinson High 8-5; 8—Hays High 6-4; 9—Goddard Eisenhower 7-5; 9—Salina Central 7-5; 11—Valley Center 9-7; 12—Andover 7-8; 13—WIchita Kapaun Mt. Carmel 4-8; 13—Andover Central 4-8; 15—Topeka West 3-8; 16—Arkansas City 3-11; 17—Newton 2-8; 18—Goddard 2-10
KABC STATE BASEBALL RANKINGS
6A—1—Lawrence Free State 12-1; 2—Olathe East 13-1; 3—Blue Valley West 11-1; 4—Olathe West 12-1; 5—Mill Valley 10-4; 6—Campus 8-3; 7—Wichita Northwest 10-5; 8—Olathe South 8-5; 9—Blue Valley North 6-5; 10—Blue Valley 8-4
5A— 1—St. Thomas Aquinas 10-3; 2—Shawnee Heights 10-1; 3—Wichita Carroll 12-2; 4—Topeka Seaman 10-3; 5—Maize South 9-4; 6—Great Bend 9-3; 7—Salina South 9-4; 8—Emporia 9-4; 9—Spring Hill 7-3; 10—Blue Valley Southwest 9-3
4A—1—McPherson 13-1; 2—Topeka Hayden 10-0; 3—St. George Rock Creek 11-4; 4—Paola 13-1; 5—Fort Scott 11-2; 6—Mulvane 12-3; 7—Louisburg 11-2; 8—Concordia 9-3; 9—Clay Center 10-3; 10—Hoisington Central Plains 8-4
3A— 1—Wichita Trinity 10-4; 2—Cheney 11-3; 3—KC Ward 8-7; 4—Silver Lake 10-3; 5—Hesston 9-2; 6—Jefferson West 13-0; 7—Riverside 11-3; 8—Iola 10-2; 9—Haven 10-4; 10—Wichita Collegiate 9-6
2-1A— 1—Valley Falls 13-2; 2—Pittsburg Colgan 6-6; 3—Hays Thomas More Prep 12-0; 4—Mission Valley 12-2; 5—Sedgwick 12-0; 6—Mission Valley 10-2; 7—Elkhart 9-0; 8—Doniphan West 10-3; 9—Colony Crest 13-3; 10—Little River 10-0
