In Friday's league outing, the North Star Knights (Rudyard, MT) basketball squad edged the visiting Hays-Lodge Pole Thunder Birds (Hays, MT), by a count of 40-35.

The Knights (4-2) will now prepare for their outing against Box Elder (Box Elder, MT). The Bears go into the C District 9 outing with a 4-7 record. In their last outing, Box Elder held off Fort Benton/Highwood (Fort Benton, MT), 47-42, in a league outing.

The Thunder Birds now hold a 0-5 record. They play next when they host Chester-Joplin-Inverness for a C District 9 outing on Saturday, January 20. Hays-Lodge Pole will clash with a Hawks squad coming off a 51-30 league win over Turner (Turner, MT). The Hawks record now stands at 8-1.