By EARL WATT
• Leader & Times
For three innings, the Lady Redskins and Great Bend Lady Panthers played even, but Liberal struggled to get stop the Great Bend Panthers the rest of the way in a 15-4 loss.
The Lady Redskins trailed 2-1 after the first inning but took a 4-3 lead after the third inning.
But the Lady Panthers pushed five runs across the plate in the fourth inning and three more in the fifth to take an 11-4 lead.
The Lady Redskins struggled art the plate the rest of the way and could not keep pace.
Zoey Torres led the Lady Redskins with three of the team’s six hits.
In Game 2, the Lady Redskins never got on track in a 15-0 run rule loss. Taylor Harding and Miley Janko each had a hit.
Liberal faced Wichita North and South Saturday.