Basketball Recap: Prairie Wins High-Profile Contest Against Wahlert

On Tuesday, Prairie faced Wahlert in a battle between two of the state's top teams. The Prairie Hawks strolled past the Wahlert Golden Eagles with points to spare, taking the game 66-51. That's more bragging rights for the Hawks, who also won the pair's last head-to-head.

Prairie is also on a roll lately: they've won ten of their last 11 matches, which provided a nice bump to their 18-2 record this season. As for Wahlert, with the loss, they broke their three-game winning streak and moved their record to 12-4.

Prairie will head out to take on Linn-Mar at 6:00 p.m. on Friday. Prairie is facing Linn-Mar at the right time seeing as Linn-Mar is stuck on an eight-game losing streak. Wahlert has already played their next contest (against Waterloo West), but no score has been uploaded at the time of writing.