A busy day for Knoxville sports teams on Tuesday.
Girls Golf Wins Home Triangular
Girls golf shot a 218 and won a home triangular over Centerville and Albia. The Panthers won the meet by virtue of the only team having a full team as the Redettes and Lady Dees only had three golfers, each. Caelie Smith was overall medallist for Knoxville shooting a 39. Iselynn Prevo had a 56 while Abbie Keitges shot a 60 Ayla Williams fired a 63, Brilynn McMillen had a 65 and Khloe French had a 68. Knoxville heads to the Oskaloosa Invitational on Thursday.
Boys Golf Rolls By Van Meter
The boys golf squad hosted Van Meter in a dual and the Panthers placed the entire varsity in the top six to win going away 148-166. Grant Gerdes was overall medallist with a 34 while Brady Roozeboom was runner-up with a 36. Other scores Tommy Buttell, Luke Roozeboom, Urban Ziller and Mikey Devos all shot 39s. Knoxville has nine days off until the Panthers head to Pella.
Boys Tennis Falls To Chariton
The Knoxville Boys Tennis Squad fell to Chariton 6-3 on Tuesday. The Panthers won two singles matches with #3 with Landyn Gibson and at #6 with McKale Clarke. Knoxville also won at #3 doubles. Coach Kevin Wadle told KNIA/KRLS Sports he saw progress from all of his players. Knoxville heads to Grinnell on Monday.
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Girls Track and Field Places 7th at EBF
The Knoxville Girls Track and Field Squad placed seventh at the EBF Invitational on Tuesday. Coach Michael Splavec told KNIA/KRLS Sports he saw a lot of good performances including Mary Visser 2nd in the 100, Siena Scott second in the 100 hurdles, Naomi Bacon third in the 800, and the shuttle hurdle team of Scott, Cally Landis, Riley Van Dorn, and Ameera Whitworth got 3rd place. The next event for the team is next Tuesday at Chariton. Saturday the 4×100 team will run at the Drake Relays.
Girls Soccer Ties Fairfield
For the third time this season, the Knoxville Girls Soccer Squad played to a 1-1 tie, this time it was Tuesday night against Fairfield. The Panthers struck early off a Natalie Irving goal nearly 3:00 in, but the Panthers allowed the Trojans a goal just over 5:00 left in the first half. Neither team scored in the 2nd half and Panther Goalie Addi Williams made several key stops. Players Halle Baker and Irving tell KNIA/KRLS Sports they are seeing key improvements this season.
Halle: We’ve made a lot of improvement, just getting the crosses and scoring, and I’ll take the ties and the wins.
Natalie: You can’t think negatively, and say just because we tied we lost, we scored and you take those improvements whether we tied or scored.”
Knoxville hosts Albia on Friday. Listen for a full interview with Baker and Irving on Today’s Lely Radio Sports Page on KNIA/KRLS.
