The crowd at Saturday's league challenge between the North Pole Patriots (North Pole, AK) and the host Tri-Valley Warriors (Healy, AK), witnessed North Pole's ice hockey team defeat Tri-Valley by a final score of 6-1.

The Patriots (9-2) will now prepare for their challenge against West Valley (Fairbanks, AK). The Wolf Pack come into the non-league challenge with a 6-0 record. In their last challenge, West Valley got by Colony (Palmer, AK), 6-2, in a league challenge.

In their next game, the Warriors battle the Houston Hawks (Big Lake, AK) in a Aurora challenge, on Friday, January 10. Tri-Valley will attempt to upgrade on its 4-4 season record. The Hawks come into the challenge with a 5-2 record after their 1-0 non-league win over West Anchorage (Anchorage, AK).