The crowd at Thursday's league challenge between the Maroa-Forsyth Trojans (Maroa, IL) and the host Olympia Spartans (Stanford, IL), observed Maroa-Forsyth's basketball team overcome Olympia by a margin of 54-39.

The Trojans (16-2) will now prepare for their challenge against Monticello (Monticello, IL). The Sages come into the non-league challenge with a 11-7 record. In their last challenge, Monticello defeated Paxton-Buckley-Loda (Paxton, IL), 55-19, in a league challenge.

In their next game, the Spartans battle the Midwest Central/Delavan Raiders (Manito, IL) in a non-league challenge, on Monday, January 20. Olympia will attempt to better on its 2-17 season record. The Raiders come into the challenge with a 5-13 record after their 54-19 non-league loss to Havana (Havana, IL).