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The Pella Christian basketball teams resume competition tonight with a Little Hawkeye Conference doubleheader at Newton.

In the girls game, both the Eagles and Cardinals enter the contest searching for their first conference win in four tries this season. Overall, the Pella Christian girls have a 1-7 record while Newton sits at 2-5. Eagles head coach Jordan Dyk knows his team has a great opportunity to pick up that first conference win but says his team must execute in order to do so.

“As a coaching staff, we’re telling our team, hey, here’s an opportunity, we got a real opportunity to go out and play a team kind of like us. They got good players, but they’re catalyst by two really good guards in the backcourt. But I guarantee their coaching staff is saying the same thing here. We’re gonna go play Pella Christian or they’re coming here, and we’ve got a great opportunity to win. So, it’ll just comes down to whose gonna go out execute.”

Pella Christian’s boys face a much-improved Newton squad, as both teams are tied with Pella and Dallas Center-Grimes for second place in the league with a 2-1 record. The Eagles have a slightly edge in overall record at 4-2, compared to the Cardinals’ 3-2 mark.

Pella Christian’s girls-boys basketball conference doubleheader at Newton High School can be heard live on the KRLS2 stream at KNIAKRLS.com, beginning with pregame coverage at 6 p.m.