The crowd at Friday's non-league challenge between the Hays-Lodge Pole Thunder Birds (Hays, MT) and the visiting Turner Tornadoes (Turner, MT), observed Hays-Lodge Pole's basketball team overcome Turner by a score of 44-35.

In their next game, the Tornadoes battle the North Star Knights (Rudyard, MT) in a C District 9 challenge, on Saturday, February 15. Turner will attempt to improve on its 5-10 season record. The Knights come into the challenge with a 8-6 record after their 69-59 league loss to Big Sandy (Big Sandy, MT).