One week after launching Little Hawkeye Conference play against each other, the Tulip City basketball teams continue league play tonight.

Pella travels to Indianola, while the Eagles will welcome Norwalk’s girls and boys for doubleheaders.

Both girls teams are trying to erase tough early-week losses, and both against opponents with key experienced players returning. Pella Christian welcomes the combination of Bren Mortiz and Jocelyn Bice, a duo averaging 28 points per game, for more than half of the teams total points. Those Warriors lost to the Indianola team the Lady Dutch will look to bounce back against, who at 2-1, has a lot of talent at the top of their roster, according to Pella Head Coach Jerod Garland.

“They’re a team with some really, really good players,” Garland says. “They’ve got some nice individual talent and a girl averaging close to 20 points per game and shooting about 60 percent from three. They’ve got a lot of really nice offensive weapons and they’ll run a lot of set plays and do a little three-quarter press.”

In the boys matchups, the marquee event this evening will be when Norwalk — a preseason favorite in Class 3A and to win the Little Hawkeye crown, has Bowen Born and a deep Warriors team come to Eagle Lane against the 4-0 Eagles boys. Head Coach Larry Hessing says Norwalk will likely be among the most challenging opponents they’ll see all season.

“Norwalk has had two very good sub-varsity years the last couple of seasons, and then they’ve got their two best players coming back in Bowen Born and [Tyler] Johnson, so they can really score the ball, they’re a really solid team, so we’ll have our hands full and we’ll try to come up with a good plan,” Hessing says.

Pella’s boys will compete against a different looking Indians team that in the early going, as made up the difference in scoring lost from the 2019 graduating class. Pella, at 2-1, will look to keep their high octane offense rolling, who after three games, are averaging the 2nd most points in the entire state at 90.3 per game.

Both boys-girls doubleheaders tip off at 6:15, with pregame coverage starting at 6 p.m. Hear Pella at Indianola on 92.1 KRLS and the Eagles hosting Norwalk on KRLS2.