In Friday's league outing, the Elmwood Park Crusaders (Elmwood Park, NJ) basketball squad beat the visiting Manchester Regional Falcons (Haledon, NJ), by a margin of 40-21.

The Crusaders (8-1) will now prepare for their outing against Lodi (Lodi, NJ). The Rams go into the Northwest Jersey - Colonial outing with a 6-2 record. In their last outing, Lodi defeated Paterson Charter School for Science and Technology (Paterson, NJ), 58-21, in a non-league outing.

The Falcons now own a 1-8 record. They play next when they host Hackensack for a non-league outing on Saturday, January 6. Manchester Regional will clash with a Comets squad coming off a 47-27 non-league loss to Ridgewood (Ridgewood, NJ). The Comets record now stands at 2-6.