In Saturday's non-league outing, the Loving Falcons (Loving, NM) basketball squad nipped the visiting Cloudcroft Bears (Cloudcroft, NM), by a margin of 50-49.

The Falcons (7-3) will now prepare for their outing against Jal (Jal, NM). The Panthers go into the non-league outing with a 3-11 record. In their last outing, Jal was tipped by Hagerman (Hagerman, NM), 73-57, in a non-league outing.

The Bears now own a 5-13 record. They take the field next when they travel to New Mexico Military Institute for a non-league outing on Tuesday, January 29. Cloudcroft will encounter a Colts squad coming off a 54-50 non-league win over Capitan (Capitan, NM). The Colts record now stands at 10-6.