The crowd at Thursday's non-league challenge between the Ripon Christian Knights (Ripon, CA) and the visiting Ceres Bulldogs (Ceres, CA), observed Ripon Christian's basketball team edge Ceres by a margin of 59-53.

The Knights (3-0) will now prepare for their challenge against River Islands (Lathrop, CA). The Riptide come into the non-league challenge with a 3-1 record. In their last challenge, River Islands edged Riverbank (Riverbank, CA), 74-55, in a non-league challenge.

In their next game, the Bulldogs battle the Riverbank Bruins (Riverbank, CA) in a non-league challenge, on Friday, December 6. Ceres will attempt to better on its 3-3 season record. The Bruins come into the challenge with a 1-3 record after their 78-37 non-league loss to Sonora (Sonora, CA).