Baseball Game Preview: Great Bend Panthers vs. Blue Valley Southwest Timberwolves

The Great Bend Panthers will challenge the Blue Valley Southwest Timberwolves at 1:15 p.m. on Friday. Both teams are coming into the matchup red-hot, with Great Bend sitting on five straight wins and Blue Valley Southwest on three.

Great Bend is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Thursday. Their pitcher stepped up to hand Piper a 3-0 shutout.

Carson Umphres

Batters Struck Out

05/29/25 vs Piper	5
05/14/25 vs Manhattan	6
05/09/25 @ McPherson	5
05/02/25 vs Dodge City	7
04/26/25 @ Gardner-Edgerton	5
+ 5 more games

Not much got past Carson Umphres, who gave up just six hits to keep Piper off the board. Umphres has been consistent for a while: he hasn't tossed less than five strikeouts in ten consecutive appearances.

At the plate, Great Bend saw three different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Daxton Minton, who went 1-for-3 with one double and one RBI.

Meanwhile, Blue Valley Southwest earned a 5-2 victory over Eisenhower on Thursday.

Great Bend's win bumped their record up to 21-6. As for Blue Valley Southwest, their victory bumped their record up to 16-6-1.