It was nearly a complete sweep for the Knoxville Boys and Girls of Summer in Eddyville on Thursday night as the softball squad beat the Rockets 5-2 while the baseball squad split with Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont, winning game one 7-1 and falling in game two heard live on 95.3 KNIA 7-6. Knxoville controlled things in the first game behind the pitching of Lincoln Norris going six innings to get the win. In game two, the Panthers committed several errors early on and got down in a hole 3-1, but came back to tie the game at four going into the 6th inning, when Knoxville had bases loaded and could not get runners home. That set the stage for EBF to plate three runs to take a 7-4 lead in the bottom of the sixth. Knxoville would again, load the bases in the 7th, getting two runs home but the 7th and tying run was left on. Coach Turner Devore was disappointed in the entire night and told KNIA/KRLS Sports his team did not do the little things to help them win.

Devore: “I think we got up early and we thought it would be easy and we were going to coast, you get into a tight game and you don’t make the little plays correctly, and when you get into a tight game you have to do the little things and that’s what beat us.”

Knoxville is now 4-4 and 4-1 in the South Central Conference.

On the other side of the high school athletic complex in Eddyville, the Panther softball squad scored a 5-2 win over EBF. Ciara Heffron was again her brilliant self, scattering five hits and striking out nine. Knoxville plated the first run on a Macy Cox solo homer in the 3rd inning, and not to be outdone, her twin sister Marlea homered to break the game open. Knoxville is now 2-2 on the season and 2-0 in the South Central Conference. Both Panther squads travel to Centerville tonight.