The Keota Eagle boys basketball team looks to get back into the win column tonight when they host the Highland Huskies for a non-conference battle on KCII.

Keota enters 9-4 on the campaign, 6-4 in the South Iowa Cedar League having dropped their most recent game 55-49 at English Valleys Friday. Jackson Vittetoe scored a team-high 16 points, while Ayden Galindo had a double-double of 10 points and 11 rebounds. This year, Keota scores 60 points per game and gives up 48, shooting 41% from the field, 29% from three and 52% at the line. The Eagles are top five as a team in Class 1A with 17-and-a-half assists per game. Individually, Vittetoe, Chase Haifley and Porter Cave score in double figures a night for Keota, with 15, 13 and 11 points, respectively.

Highland is 2-10 overall, 2-8 in the north division of the Southeast Iowa Superconference after a 66-53 loss on the road Friday at Columbus. Bryce Hazelett had a night for the Huskies, scoring a team-high 31. This season, Highland scores 47 points per game and gives up 68, shooting 38% from the field, 32% from deep and 61% at the line. The team owns the second most blocks per game in the north at three, with Jacob Schneider and Landon Roling denying over one shot a game. The individual leader is Roling, fifth in the north with 16 points per game and the division’s best free throw shooter percentage-wise at an 82% clip.

In the Varsity Bound era, the Eagles have never lost in eight matchups with the Huskies dating back to 2010. The latest matchup was a 80-46 Keota win last February.

You can hear all of the action live tonight on AM 1380, FM 102.5, the KCII2 App and online at KCIIRadio.com, beginning with the Area Game of the Week pregame show at 5:30, and tip at six between the Eagles and Huskies from Keota High School.