In Friday's non-league outing, the Win-E-Mac Patriots (Erskine, MN) basketball squad nipped the visiting Thief River Falls Prowlers (Thief River Falls, MN), by a margin of 45-43.

The Patriots (3-1) will now prepare for their outing against Ada-Borup (Ada, MN). The Cougars go into the A Section 8 outing with a 2-1 record. In their last outing, Ada-Borup was tipped by Hawley (Hawley, MN), 74-46, in a non-league outing.

The Prowlers now own a 1-2 record. They play next when they host Crookston for a AA Section 8 outing on Tuesday, January 26. Thief River Falls will clash with a Pirates squad coming off a 68-39 non-league win over Polk County West [Climax/Fisher] (Climax, MN). The Pirates record now stands at 1-2.