The crowd at Friday's league challenge between the Merrimack Valley The Pride (Penacook, NH) and the visiting Manchester West Blue Knights (Manchester, NH), observed Merrimack Valley's basketball team edge Manchester West by a margin of 65-62.

The The Pride (9-5) will now prepare for their challenge against Hanover (Hanover, NH). The Bears come into the Division II challenge with a 14-2 record. In their last challenge, Hanover edged Lebanon (Lebanon, NH), 42-23, in a league challenge.

In their next game, the Blue Knights battle the Milford Spartans (Milford, NH) in a Division II challenge, on Tuesday, February 18. Manchester West will attempt to better on its 11-5 season record. The Spartans come into the challenge with a 5-10 record after their 56-25 league loss to ConVal (Peterborough, NH).