In Friday's league outing, the Lone Tree Lions (Lone Tree, IA) basketball squad felled the visiting Pekin Panthers (Packwood, IA), by a margin of 46-34.

The Lions (9-1) will now prepare for their outing against WACO (Wayland, IA). The Warriors go into the non-league outing with a 3-4 record. In their last outing, WACO thwarted Highland (Riverside, IA), 44-29, in a non-league outing.

The Panthers now own a 3-5 record. They play next when they host Louisa-Muscatine for a SEI - North outing on Tuesday, December 19. Pekin will encounter a Falcons squad coming off a 56-9 non-league loss to Danville (Danville, IA). The Falcons record now stands at 3-7.