The crowd at Tuesday's non-league challenge between the Prairie Central Hawks (Fairbury, IL) and the host Urbana Tigers (Urbana, IL), observed Prairie Central's basketball team knock off Urbana by a score of 48-35.

The Hawks (6-11) will now prepare for their challenge against Rantoul (Rantoul, IL). The Eagles come into the Illini Prairie challenge with a 3-15 record. In their last challenge, Rantoul was knocked off by Heritage (Broadlands, IL), 52-36, in a non-league challenge.

In their next game, the Tigers encounter the Centennial Chargers (Champaign, IL) in a Big Twelve challenge, on Thursday, January 9. Urbana will attempt to upgrade on its 3-6 season record. The Chargers come into the outing with a 2-10 record after their 47-42 non-league win over Tri-County [Kansas/Shiloh/Oakland] (Kansas, IL).