The crowd at Tuesday's league challenge between the Nueces Canyon Panthers (Barksdale, TX) and the visiting Leakey Eagles (Leakey, TX), observed Nueces Canyon's basketball team edge Leakey by a score of 37-36.

The Panthers now possess a 3-24 record. They play next when they travel to Knippa for a 1A Region IV District 31 bout on Friday, February 7. Nueces Canyon will play a Crushers team coming off a 54-51 league loss to Comstock (Comstock, TX). The Crushers record now stands at 15-15.

With the loss, Leakey falls to 0-21 on the campaign. The Eagles travel to D'Hanis (D'Hanis, TX) to play the Cowboys in a 1A Region IV District 31 bout on Thursday, February 6. The Cowboys go into the bout with a record of 20-6. D'Hanis lost 64-62 in their recent league bout against Rocksprings (Rocksprings, TX)