We are closing in on the end of the regular season in high school basketball, and this is the final week for you to see both Panorama varsity hoops teams at home. The Panthers host back-to-back West Central Activities Conference contests including tonight when the Woodward-Granger Hawks come to Panora for a league doubleheader. The schools split the season’s first doubleheader on December 19; the Panorama girls basketball team upended Woodward-Granger, 61-20 while the Hawks boys basketball team edged the Panthers, 71-66.

The Panorama girls basketball team (18-1 overall) brings a 17 game overall winning streak into tonight’s contest against Woodward-Granger. The Panthers latest victory came last Friday in Dallas County, running by the Van Meter Bulldogs, 44-26. Junior Baliey Beckman poured in 13 points and became the fourth player in Panorama girls basketball’s 5-on-5 team history to record 1,000 career varsity points. On Monday’s Karl Chevrolet of Stuart Guthrie County PM Sports Page, Panorama girls basketball coach Dan Druivenga said Beckman scored her milestone basket during a night where she was under the weather. “She played Friday night even though I know she wasn’t up to her peak physically,” Druivenga said, “She’s a gym rat, which, to a coach, that’s probably the highest degree of compliment you can give a high school player.”

The Panorama boys basketball team (5-13 overall) is coming off back-to-back conference losses to Madrid (60-49) and Van Meter (57-37) last week on the road. Senior Jacob Merschman and junior Gracen Welberg each scored 13 points and combined for 10 total rebounds in the loss to Woodward-Granger in December. The varsity doubleheader between Panorama and Woodward-Granger tips off at 6 p.m. with the varsity girls game, and the boys will follow from Panora.