Fans at Thursday's league challenge between the Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop Thunderbirds (Winthrop, MN) and the host Sleepy Eye Indians (Sleepy Eye, MN), saw Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop's basketball squad hold off Sleepy Eye by a count of 65-62.

With the victory, Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop upgrades its record to 20-10 on the campaign. The Thunderbirds travel to Lester Prairie (Lester Prairie, MN) to play the Bulldogs in a A Section 2 challenge on Monday, March 11. The Bulldogs come into the challenge with a record of 18-14. Lester Prairie won 82-74 in their recent non-league challenge against St. Mary's (Sleepy Eye, MN)