Hi-Line Girls BB: Knights, T-Birds score big 9C wins

With January turning colder, things are only getting hotter inside gyms around the Hi-Line. And that's because the girls high school basketball season is in high gear.

The Fort Benton girls have been in high gear all season, though, and that continued last Thursday as they crushed Chester-Joplin-Inverness 63-4. Fort Benton held the young Hawks without a single point in both the second and fourth quarters, while McKenzie Clark led four Longhorns in double figures with 14 points. Averie Mattson scored three of CJI's four points in the outing.

In District 9C action Friday night, Turner throttled...