With the season now over for the Knoxville Baseball Squad, the Panthers are taking inventory on the season. While it was not the ending they desired, the Panthers have a vision of what they want to see happen next summer. Coach Turner Devore says it starts with beating for non-conference opponents so they can get a higher seed in the substate.

Devore: “We made a jump offensively, we made a jump defensively and we made a jump in pitching. What we need to make a jump in is beating Pella in the regular season, beating Bondurant-Farrar, Grinnell, Oskaloosa so we aren’t a 7 seed. I don’t think we’re a 7 seed, and Pella is really good,”

While the Panthers went 15-3 in the South Central Conference and shared the title with Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont, Knoxville went just 5-9 in the non-conference games during the regular season. Devore adds they definitely need to be above 500 in non-conference games next season.