The crowd at Tuesday's non-league challenge between the Greater Latrobe Wildcats (Latrobe, PA) and the host Mars Fightin' Planets (Mars, PA), observed Greater Latrobe's basketball team edge Mars by a score of 83-77.

The Wildcats (3-0) will now prepare for their challenge against Gateway (Monroeville, PA). The Gators come into the WPIAL 5A 1 challenge with a 1-1 record. In their last challenge, Gateway edged Obama Academy of International Studies (Pittsburgh, PA), 57-45, in a non-league challenge.

In their next game, the Fightin' Planets encounter the Perry Traditional Academy Commodores (Pittsburgh, PA) in a non-league challenge, on Wednesday, December 11. Mars will attempt to improve on its 1-3 season record. The Commodores come into the challenge with a 0-4 record after their 70-61 non-league loss to Springdale (Springdale, PA).