In Wednesday's league outing, the Garfield Boilermakers (Garfield, NJ) basketball squad nipped the visiting Hawthorne Bears (Hawthorne, NJ), by a margin of 39-36.

The Boilermakers (9-9) will now prepare for their outing against Emerson (Emerson, NJ). The Cavaliers go into the non-league outing with a 6-12 record. In their last outing, Emerson got by Secaucus (Secaucus, NJ), 54-33, in a non-league outing.

The Bears now own a 9-7 record. They play next when they travel to Lodi for a Bergen/Passaic - King outing on Friday, February 2. Hawthorne will encounter a Rams squad coming off a 63-54 non-league win over Becton (East Rutherford, NJ). The Rams record now stands at 12-5.