It is a busier than normal sports Friday for the Knoxville Panthers squads today. The bowlers will host Newton at Statesmen Lanes in Oskaloosa today. The Panthers are coming off a 5th place finish at Newton last Saturday. Basketball takes the longest trip of the South Central Conference to Bloomfield to play Davis County. The girls are coming off their first loss of the season and Junior Player Brittany Bacorn tells KNIA/KRLS Sports they will use Tuesday’s setback as a learning experience moving forward.

Bacorn: “I think rebounding is going to be really big for us and we just lost some of their girls, so that will be something we’ll concentrate on. They’re a good team and it’ll be a real test for us.”

The boys have been impressive in their last two games with a 40 point win over Cardinal last Friday and a dominating performance over Clarke on Tuesday. Knoxville has put an emphasis on defense and it has turned into offense causing turnovers and getting easy baskets and open looks from three point range. You can hear the basketball games live on kniakrls.com KNIA3 tonight with the pregame starting at 6:15.