A big night in high school basketball as the season kicks off for three Foothills schools.

The Highwood Mustangs varisty boys and girls teams travel to Okotoks to face the Holy Trinity Academy Knights.

The Oilfields Drillers host High River's other team, the Notre Dame Collegiate Timberwolves boys and girls.

And in Strathmore the Spartans host the Strathcona-Tweedsmuir Spartans.

The girls all take the floor at 5:30 P.M., while the boys get going at 7:15.

Tuesday night in Junior Varsity action, the H.T.A. Knights won both the boys and girls games over Tweedsmuir.

The boys were 84-33 winners, while the girls kept it closer with the Knight's ladies taking it 48-40.