GREAT BEND, Kan. – The Hays High softball team committed eight errors and were swept in a doubleheader in Great Bend Friday, 3-2 and 7-6. The Indians drop to 5-7 overall and 0-4 in the Western Athletic Conference. The continue conference play Tuesday in Garden City.

Great Bend scored single runs in each of the first three innings and made it hold up in the first game. The Indians took advantage of a hit batter and walk to score two in the sixth on a Mackenzie Fagan two-out double. Kaitlyn Brown went the distance in the circle allowing all three runs, one earned, on six hits with six strikeouts and two walks.

The Indians grabbed the early lead in the second game on Reanna Harman’s two-run single. Jaysa Wichers hit a three-run homer in the fifth to put the Indians up 6-4 but the Panthers answered with two in the bottom of the inning to tie then took advantage of three errors to take the lead in the sixth.

Wichers took the loss in the circle allowing seven runs, six earned, on ten hits with seven strikeouts and one walk.