Tonight is Homecoming for the Pella Christian girls basketball team, but the Eagles will have to tune out some of the outside distractions and instead focus on the task at hand if they hope to pick up a victory over Knoxville. The Eagles lost by 16 to the Panthers back in mid-December, and Pella Christian Head Coach Kevin Van Maanen says the it’s going to take strong play at both ends of the floor if they hope to hand the 8th ranked undefeated Panthers their first defeat. Knoxville Coach Jim Utiermarkt says Pella Christian is a team that does not make many mistakes…and he feels his team will have to bring their best effort to get the win. Pella Christian comes into the game with an overall record of 8-7, and a 5-4 mark in the Little Hawkeye Conference while Knoxville is 12-0 overall and undefeated in LHC play as well.

The Pella Christian boys basketball team are gunning for their third consecutive victory tonight, when they host cross-county rival Knoxville for Homecoming. Eagles’ Head Coach Larry Hessing says he likes the fact that the team is still finding ways to improve, and says the Eagles are looking forward to another player returning to the line-up as Cole Warner will play tonight. Knoxville Coach Brad McWilliams says Pella Christian will be a huge test to see just how much his team has improved. The Eagles are 9-2 overall and 6-2 in conference play going into tonight’s contest while Knoxville is on a hot streak winning three games in a row coming into tonight. You can hear live coverage of both games tonight on both KNIA/KRLS. For the Knoxville prospective join Derek Cardwell on AM 1320 KNIA and for the Pella Christian prospective join Eric Gotschall and Wynne Veenstra on 92.1 FM KRLS. Both broadcasts start with pre game coverage at 6pm and both will also be streamed live on kniakrls.com. The girls tip off at 6:15pm followed by the boys