Rain chased away any hopes of playing a baseball game on Panther Drive last night as the Knoxville and PCM meeting was called off. That ends the Mustangs regular season at 9-12 and will face Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont Saturday in the class 2A district. Knoxville still has a few more regular season games left including tonight’s unusual double header at home against Wayne and South Tama. The Panthers will play Wayne at 5:00 and then South Tama at 7:15, the scheduled game at Creston has now been cancelled. Meanwhile, the Knoxville Softball Squad will look to move one step closer to a South Central Conference title as the Panthers travel to Chariton tonight. The Panthers with a win would still control their own destiny for at least a share of the conference title. Coach Chris Peden tells KNIA/KRLS Sports the team is in this position because of their willingness to get better at practice.

Peden: “It’s so hard to find the want to, to get better at this point of the season. That practice on that Wednesday night, I was so proud of them for coming and having that want to fix things mentality, and when you get this at this point of the season it’s awesome.”

Listen for the action on 95.3 KNIA with the pregame at 6:45 and the first pitch at 7:00.