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 12-3; 3—Topeka Seaman 15-5; 3—Great Bend 12-4; 4—Maize South 12-5; 5—Salina South 12-6; 6—Goddard Eisenhower 10-6; 7—Emporia 9-6; 8—Hays High 8-6; 9—Salina Central 9-7; 10—Hutchinson High 9-8; 11—Valley Center 10-10; 12—Andover 8-9; 13—Andover Central 7-9; 14—Wichita Kapaun Mt. Carmel 6-8; 15—Topeka West 3-10; 16—Goddard 3-12; 17—Arkansas City 3-13; 18—Newton 2-10
KABC STATE BASEBALL RANKINGS
6A—1—Olathe East 15-2; 2—Lawrence Free State 13-2; 3—Olathe West 12-1; 4—Blue Valley West 14-5; 5—Mill Valley 12-4; 6—BV Northwest 11-2; 7—Maize High 10-5; 8—Campus 11-3; 9—SM East 10-5; 10—Blue Valley 9-6
5A— 1—St. Thomas Aquinas 14-3; 2—Shawnee Heights 13-1; 3—Wichita Carroll 12-3; 4—Great Bend 12-4; 5—Topeka Seaman 15-5; 6—Blue Valley Southwest 10-3; 7—Goddard Eisenhower 10-6; 8—Spring Hill 8-4; 9—Salina South 12-6; 10—Maize South 12-5
4A—1—McPherson 15-3; 2—Topeka Hayden 12-0; 3—Paola 16-1; 4—Fort Scott 14-3; 5—Mulvane 12-3; 6—Louisburg 11-3; 7—St. George Rock Creek 14-5; 8—Independence 9-2; 9—Clay Center 11-4; 10—Buhler 12-4
3A— 1—Cheney 13-3; 2—Jefferson West 15-0; 3—Silver Lake 12-6; 4—Iola 12-2; 5—Haven 14-4; 6—KC Ward 9-10; 7—Riverside 13-3; 8—Council Grove 12-4; 9—Hesston 12-2; 10—Columbus 11-5
2-1A— 1—Hays Thomas More Prep 12-2; 2—Sedgwick 16-0; 3—Central Heights 14-2; 4—Mission Valley 13-5; 5—Elkhart 13-2; 6—Little River 14-0; 7—Valley Falls 15-2; 8—Frankfort 11-3 ; 9—Colony Crest 14-6; 10—Pittsburg Colgan 6-6
