The high school Varsity basketball season tipped off Wednesday night around the Foothills.

In Okotoks, the Holy Trinity Academy Knights dumped the Highwood Mustangs in both the girls and boys games.

The Mustangs girls fell 43-34, while the boys were dropped 74-37.

And in Strathmore the Spartans took both games from the Strathcona-Tweedsmuir Spartans, 61-33 for the girls and 98-66 for the boys.

There's on game on tap Thursday night as the HTA Knights Junior Varsity girls head to Strathmore to face Holy Cross Collegiate.