Entering the second full week of the 2019 calendar year sees the Adel-Desoto-Minburn Tigers varsity basketball teams still in the top half of the Raccoon River Conference standings. ADM is idle from conference play tonight as they host Dallas Center-Grimes in a nonconference doubleheader this evening at Adel’s North Gym.

The ADM girls basketball team enters tonight’s game with the Fillies posting a 10-4 overall record, and the Tigers have won six of their first seven conference contests this winter. The Ballard Bombers post an identical 6-1 conference mark but their league loss came at ADM on November 30. Weather permitting, ADM and Ballard are set to play their second league contest in Huxley this Friday. The Bondurant-Farrar Bluejays and the Winterset Huskies are currently tied for third place in the conference hierarchy with 4-3 league records. Boone and Carlisle sit in a tie for fifth place with 3-4 league records.

The Raccoon River Conference boys standings have the Carroll Tigers with a two-game lead over the rest of the league, going undefeated in the first seven games. ADM has sole possession of second place, posting a 5-2 conference mark. Ballard and Winterset are tied for third place with 4-3 records against league foes. Bondurant-Farrar and Boone are united in fifth place in the league standings with identical 3-4 records. Hear tonight’s nonconference doubleheader between ADM and Dallas Center-Grimes on Raccoon Valley Radio’s True Country K 107.9. Pregame comments begin around 5:30 p.m., the varsity girls game tips off around 6 p.m. and the boys’ contest to follow.