Other than Jonesboro-Hodge High School varsity girls and boys basketball from the public high schools in Jackson Parish will be taking a break from competition next week as the Christmas holidays will be celebrated. 

All will see a full slate of games before then though as JHHS, Quitman and Weston High Schools have a busy schedule this Wednesday thru Friday, December 18-20. Unfortunately for local fans, all but one of the contests will be on the road.

For the JHHS girls, the Minden Tournament marks the beginning of the first of three tournaments Jonesboro-Hodge will be participating in over the next ten days. The Lady Tigers will open the action by taking on host Minden on Wednesday, December 18th with the tip scheduled at 6:40 pm. No matter if JHHS wins or loses the contest the next game will be played 6:40 pm on Friday. On December 23rd, the Lady Tigers will be in action once again this time in the Neville Tourney and on December 26-29 J-H will be playing in the Airline Tournament in Bossier City. 

The Tigers will also be competing in two tournaments beginning in the Minden Tourney and finishing up at the Airline Tourney. Times and opponents were not submitted as of press time. 

The varsity girls and boys team from Quitman High will host Summerfield on Thursday, December 19th, with the first game beginning at 6:00 pm. The next evening Quitman will travel to Cedar Creek for a three contests that included a junior varsity game with the contests starting at 5:00 pm. Weston High School will also be on the road for varsity girls and boys action at Calvin on Thursday, December 19th with tip off for the first game being at 4:30 pm.