The Denton/Stanford/Geyser/Geraldine (Denton, MT) basketball nipped the visiting Big Sandy Pioneers (Big Sandy, MT), 70-64 in Saturday's non-league test.

The (6-4) will now prepare for their test against Centerville (Sand Coulee, MT). The Miners go into the C District 8 test with a 6-7 record. In their last test, Centerville got by Great Falls Central Catholic (Great Falls, MT), 89-49, in a league test.

The Pioneers now own a 5-11 record. They play next when they travel to Stanford/Geyser/Denton for a non-league test on Saturday, January 27. Big Sandy will encounter a Bearcats squad coming off a 60-31 league win over Tri-City co-op [Hobson/Moore/Judith Gap] (Hobson, MT). The Bearcats record now stands at 4-4.