The class 3A #3 Knoxville Baseball Squad was stung with its first loss of the season on Tuesday night as Gilbert largely dominated the game 11-2 as heard live on 95.3 KNIA. The Panthers jumped on top in the 1st inning with two runs but could get nothing after as Gilbert’s pitching staff silenced the Panther bats. Senior players Beau Leisure and Luke Spaur told KNIA/KRLS Sports it was not their night but they will learn from their first loss of the season.

Beau: “We hit it in the right places, they caught it. The weather caused us some problems, not saining it caused us to lose this game, but we just didn’t have it tonight.”
Luke: “Missed some plays that we should have gotten in the game, and we were not mentally in it, and we pieced some balls up and they made the plays.”

Niko Lacona took the loss going three innings with four strikeouts. Knoxville is now 13-1 and will host Albia in a double header tonight. The Knoxville Softball Squad was supposed to have played Bondurant-Farrar on Tuesday, but rain chased everyone away north of Des Moines before the varsity game got underway. The Panthers are also back on Panther Drive tonight against Albia. You can hear that game live on 95.3 KNIA beginning at 7:15.