The La Monte Lady Vikings and Smithton Tigers know a lot about each other. The teams played their third game in two weeks on Friday night in the first round of the Kaysinger Conference girls basketball tournament at the Fred E. Davis Multipurpose Center.
The Lady Vikings won by one point two weeks ago at La Monte. On Jan. 23, Smithton had a double-digit win over the Lady Vikings in the third-place game of the Leeton girls basketball tournament.
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