Bearcat baseball finishes regular season strong

On May 8, the Bearcat baseball team hosted their last home game of the season. The Cats had an amazing night against the Buffs of Republic County, taking the first game win, 15-1.

The Cats secured the victory during the first inning with 10 runs. Hot bats in the inning were led by junior Cole Webber with a triple and a home run, a single by sophomore Gavin Moyer and a single by senior Cade Gwinner.

Junior Lane Rolfs pitched for the Bearcats. The lefty allowed four hits and one run over five innings, while striking out seven.

Webber led the team in hits, going 3-for-3 at the plate.

The second game was even more of a shutout. The Cats won easily with a score of 20-0.

During the second game, Gwinner led the team with most hits, going 4-for-4 at the plate.

Webber pitched 3 innings and surrendered one hit and no runs.

Several players contributed to the score. Gwinner, Webber, Rolfs, Moyer, juniors Layton Leiker, Ben Hipp and Wyatt Bohnen and sophomore Dax Leiker all had RBIs during the second game.

Baseball regionals at Hesston were postponed Monday and moved to Thursday due to rain.

Bourbon, Anderson place sixth at state tennis

On May 12 and 13, doubles partners, senior Chase Bourbon and junior Brendan Anderson, competed in the state tennis tournament at Riverside Park, Wichita, taking sixth place.

During the first day of matches, the pair went 2-1 for the day.

In their first match they won 6-0, 6-2 over Central Plains No. 2.

Continuing the momentum, they won their second match 6-3, 6-3 over Wichita Collegiate.

In their last game of the day, the two lost 1-6, 1-6 to Kansas City Christian.

On May 13, the doubles partners played another three matches for the day, going 2-1.

The first match of the day was 9-4 over Marysville.

During the second match, Bourbon and Anderson won 9-5 over Scott City.

They lost their last match of their day 5-9 to Wichita Collegiate.

“Making it to state was expected — that’s something I’ve done each year I’ve played for coach Anderson,” Bourbon said. “However, getting to the second day and placing sixth feels like the perfect cap to my senior season. Me and Brendan have worked our tails off to get here, and it feels great to cap off my senior season with a medal.”