The crowd at Saturday's non-league challenge between the Evergreen Valley Cougars (San Jose, CA) and the host Independence 76ers (San Jose, CA), observed Evergreen Valley's basketball team edge Independence by a score of 62-57.

The Cougars (4-2) will now prepare for their challenge against Mountain View (Mountain View, CA). The Spartans come into the non-league challenge with a 3-1 record. In their last challenge, Mountain View edged Burlingame (Burlingame, CA), 61-57, in a non-league challenge.

In their next game, the 76ers battle the Soquel Knights (Soquel, CA) in a non-league challenge, on Thursday, December 12. Independence will attempt to improve on its 1-2 season record. The Knights come into the challenge with a 2-2 record after their 51-50 non-league loss to Monterey (Monterey, CA).