In Thursday's non-league outing, the Bloomfield Bengals (Bloomfield, NJ) basketball squad beat the visiting Livingston Lancers (Livingston, NJ), by a count of 27-18.

The Bengals (3-6) will now prepare for their outing against East Orange Campus (East Orange, NJ). The Jaguars go into the Super Essex - Liberty outing with a 0-6 record. In their last outing, East Orange Campus was topped by Columbia (Maplewood, NJ), 38-16, in a non-league outing.

The Lancers now hold a 1-8 record. They play next when they host Caldwell for a Super Essex - Colonial outing on Saturday, January 14. Livingston will clash with a Chiefs squad coming off a 53-46 non-league loss to Mount St. Dominic Academy (Caldwell, NJ). The Chiefs record now stands at 0-4.