The Pawnee Black Bears basketball team scored 34 points and limited the host Newkirk Tigers to 32 in the Black Bears non-league triumph on Tuesday.

The Black Bears now have a 5-4 record. They play next when they travel to Frontier for a non-league game on Thursday, January 9. Pawnee will confront a Mustangs team coming off a 60-22 non-league win over Yale (Yale, OK). The Mustangs record now stands at 7-4.

With the loss, Newkirk falls to 5-4 on the campaign. The Tigers travel to Seiling (Seiling, OK) to confront the Wildcats in a non-league game on Thursday, January 9. The Wildcats go into the game with a record of 6-2. Seiling won 55-49 in their recent non-league game against Fairview (Fairview, OK)