In Thursday's league outing, the Lathrop Spartans (Lathrop, CA) basketball squad edged the visiting Los Banos Tigers (Los Banos, CA), by a count of 37-30.

The Spartans (14-6) will now prepare for their outing against Ceres (Ceres, CA). The Bulldogs go into the Western Athletic Conference outing with a 4-15 record. In their last outing, Ceres was tipped by Mountain House (Mountain House, CA), 47-32, in a league outing.

The Tigers now hold a 10-10 record. They play next when they travel to Beyer for a Western Athletic Conference outing on Monday, January 23. Los Banos will clash with a Patriots squad coming off a 45-27 league loss to Pacheco (Los Banos, CA). The Patriots record now stands at 4-14.