CHADRON, Neb. -- Both Chadron State College basketball teams will be playing an away game this weekend prior to opening their RMAC schedules by hosting Regis on Saturday, Dec. 5.

The Chadron State women will visit Montana State-Billings on Friday night for a 5:15 tip off.  The men's team will play at Northern State at Aberdeen, South Dakota, at 5 p.m. (MST) Saturday.

The Billings Yellowjackets are 1-3 after playing four California teams, two at home and two in the Golden State.  Their victory was by a 68-51 score over Cal Poly Pomona last Friday night behind 37 points by Alisha Breen, a 5-10 junior.

Breen scored 19 points a year ago in Chadron, when the Montana team took a 78-52 verdict enroute to its 14-14 season.

In other games this season, Cal Baptist defeated the Jackets 72-52 and the Academy of Art squeezed out a 69-67 decision, both in Billings.  CSU San Bernadino won 76-53 in Billings' second game in California last weekend.

Breen's 37-point splurge in the victory helps her have an 18.8 scoring average, even though she's shooting just 33 percent from the field.  She's taken up some slack by going 27 of 31 at the free throw line.

No one else is averaging more than 8.8 points for Billings.

The Northern State Wolves, a perennial power, are 1-3, all on the road and all close games.

During a trip to Arkansas, the Wolves lost 81-80 to Arkansas Tech and won over Harding 73-67.  Last Thursday, Southwest Minnesota won 111-105 in overtime on its home court.

The Wolves also fell to Minnesota State-Moorhead 73-65 on Tuesday night in Moorhead. 

Northern's top gun has been Skye Warwick, a 6-foot senior from St. Thomas More in Rapid City.  He has scored 79 points in the four games after averaging 10.9 points a year ago.  He got 50 of his points in Arkansas.

Spencer Pankonin, a 6-7 senior, tallied 26 points in the overtime loss to Southwest Minnesota. Four teammates also scored in double digits in that game.

The Wolves will play their first game at home this season against Presentation College, also located in Aberdeen, on Friday night, then host the Eagles on Saturday night.

The Wolves starters have been ironmen so far.  Most of them have played more than 30 minutes a game.  Since the Eagles appear to have plenty of depth and have used 10 players about equally, perhaps that will be an advantage Saturday night.

The Wolves were 23-9 a year ago and were pegged for fifth in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference's preseason poll this season.  Chadron State and Northern State last played one another early in the 1997-98 season.