In Monday's league outing, the Garden Spot Spartans (New Holland, PA) basketball squad felled the host Ephrata Mountaineers (Ephrata, PA), by a margin of 59-48.

The Spartans (7-7) will now prepare for their outing against Elizabethtown (Elizabethtown, PA). The Bears go into the non-league outing with a 1-11 record. In their last outing, Elizabethtown was beaten by Manheim Central (Manheim, PA), 56-50, in a league outing.

The Mountaineers now own a 11-5 record. They play next when they host Solanco for a Lancaster-Lebanon 2 outing on Thursday, January 25. Ephrata will encounter a Golden Mules squad coming off a 59-53 league loss to Warwick (Lititz, PA). The Golden Mules record now stands at 0-12.