The crowd at Monday's league challenge between the Mahanoy Area Golden Bears (Mahanoy City, PA) and the visiting Minersville Battlin' Miners (Minersville, PA), observed Mahanoy Area's basketball team knock off Minersville by a score of 47-30.

The Golden Bears (7-0) will now prepare for their challenge against Tamaqua (Tamaqua, PA). The Blue Raiders come into the Schuylkill County 1 challenge with a 1-5 record.

In their next game, the Battlin' Miners encounter the Panther Valley Panthers (Lansford, PA) in a Schuylkill County 1 challenge, on Thursday, December 19. Minersville will attempt to improve on its 4-2 season record.