The Ballinger Bearcats basketball team scored 48 points and limited the visiting Merkel Badgers to 30 in the Bearcats non-league triumph on Tuesday.

The Bearcats now possess a 1-0 record. They play next when they travel to Clyde for a non-league game on Friday, November 22. Ballinger will confront a Bulldogs team coming off a 79-45 non-league loss to Perrin-Whitt (Perrin, TX). The Bulldogs record now stands at 1-2.

With the loss, Merkel falls to 0-2 on the campaign. The Badgers host Big Spring (Big Spring, TX) to confront the Steers in a non-league game on Friday, November 22. The Steers go into the game with a record of 0-1. Big Spring lost 44-30 in their recent non-league game against Wall (Wall, TX)