The Great Bend Panthers will venture away from home to take on the Hays Indians on Friday. One thing working in Great Bend's favor is that they have posted at least 31 points every time they've taken the field this season.
On Friday, everything came up roses for Great Bend against Liberal as the team secured a 55-6 victory. With the Panthers ahead 42-6 at the half, the game was all but over already.
Daxton Minton was his usual excellent self, throwing for 198 yards and four touchdowns while completing 77.8% of his passes, and also rushing for 88 yards and one TD on only six carries. He got the majority of those rushing yards when he took off on a run that went for an incredible 64 yards. Ian Premer was another key player, picking up 126 receiving yards and three scores.
Wins are hard to come by when you can't run the rock, something Great Bend proved: they limited Liberal to a paltry 3.5 yards per carry. The team can thank Trenton Kern for the heroic effort on defense: he. That's the most yards per carry they've posted since back in October of 2024.
Ian Premer
| 10/10/25 vs Liberal | 3 |
| 10/03/25 vs Dodge City | 2 |
| 09/26/25 @ North | 2 |
Great Bend didn't go easy on the quarterback and picked off three passes before the game was over. The picks came courtesy of Premer and Koehn Ribordy. Premer has been hot recently, having also posted two or more receiving touchdowns the last three times he's played. He got in on the action too, converting a pick into a touchdown.
Meanwhile, Hays had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 16.5 points) and they went ahead and made it three on Friday. They put the hurt on the Demons with a sharp 42-19 win. Given the Indians' advantage in MaxPreps' Kansas football rankings (they are ranked ninth, while the Demons are ranked 77th) , the win wasn't entirely unexpected.
Great Bend's record is now 6-0. As for Hays, their record now sits at 5-1.
Great Bend came up short against Hays in their previous matchup back in November of 2024, falling 19-14. Can the Panthers avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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