The crowd at Monday's non-league challenge between the Negaunee Miners (Negaunee, MI) and the visiting Gladstone Braves (Gladstone, MI), observed Negaunee's basketball team crush Gladstone by a tally of 63-31.

The Miners now possess a 2-3 record. They play next when they travel to Manistique for a Mid-Peninsula bout on Tuesday, December 17. Negaunee will play a Emeralds team coming off a 64-17 league loss to Gwinn (Gwinn, MI). The Emeralds record now stands at 0-3.

With the loss, Gladstone falls to 1-3 on the campaign. The Braves host Escanaba (Escanaba, MI) to play the Eskymos in a Great Northern U.P. bout on Friday, December 20. The Eskymos go into the bout with a record of 5-2.