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![Senior sprinter and anchor leg Will Knowlton crosses the finish line at the end of the boys 4x400 meter relay. The track team competed last Saturday in the Sectional B meet, which consisted of regions 2, 3, 6, and 7, sending 21 entrants from Starr’s Mill to state. One of those entries was the boys 4x400 relay team, who won their event with a time of 3 minutes and 21.29 seconds. “A lot of momentum going in [to sectionals], so today we wanted to keep up that mentality,” Knowlton said. “Just continue to do what we’ve been practicing. [Sectionals] is just a show of how we’ve practiced. We do practice perfectly, at high standards, so we knew it was going to replicate out on the field so we just wanted to do it how we practice.”](https://www.theprowlernews.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/FEATURE-2.jpg)
![Panthers crowd King’s Ridge senior midfielder and attacker Brennan Brown during the second round of the A-AAAAA GHSA state playoffs. Despite a slow start, Starr’s Mill erupted to dominate the Tigers in a 17-8 victory. Eight players scored for the Panthers and nine players collected ground balls. “Nobody thought that we could win without those [seniors] that left last year,” Schmidlkofer said. “These guys have proven that they can. I’m super, super proud of all the guys that are contributing.”](https://www.theprowlernews.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/FEATURE.jpg)
![Junior first baseman Ben Moseley watches an upcoming pitching during the Panthers’ region game against the Whitewater Wildcats yesterday. Despite a sluggish first six innings, the team came together at the bottom of the seventh to propel themselves to a 7-6 win in extra innings. Moseley went 3-4 at the plate, including the game-winning RBI. “Feel’s great [to clinch that win],” Moseley said. “It’s our field, we’re defending it.”](https://www.theprowlernews.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/FEATURE-4.jpg)
![Senior pitcher Daniel Courtney stands on the mound during the Panthers’ region opener against the Harris County Tigers. Courtney provided the jolt Starr’s Mill needed to take down the Tigers 5-1. Courtney only allowed four hits and threw five strikeouts against Harris County. “We just got to build off of this [win] and continue to play like we can,” Courtney said. “Continue to play in the region, just keep it up, and keep winning.”](https://www.theprowlernews.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/FEATURE.jpg)
![Senior offensive lineman Vee Holcomb awaits a snap during the Panthers’ final region home game against the Whitewater Wildcats this past Friday. On top of the Panther defense pulling off their third consecutive shutout, the Panther offense had one of their best games yet to pull out a convincing 42-0 win against a county rival. “We knew we needed to win this game to be sitting good in the region,” Holcomb said. “So we all knew as seniors [that] tonight was our last regular season home game, so it meant something to us.”](https://www.theprowlernews.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/FEATURE.jpg)
