On Monday, January 11th, the Monticello Ponies hosted the Belleville Wildcats. The Ponies held a slim 2-point lead at halftime, and outscored the Wildcats in the second half to win the evenly matched game. The final score was Monticello 65, Belleville 54.

Neither team had more than a 5-point lead throughout the first half, making for a very close match up. With 14 minutes left in the second half, Monticello was down by 6, however the Ponies went on a 13-3 run to go up by 4 with less than 9 minutes left in the game. With less than 4 minutes left the game was tied at 50 and Monticello was...