On Wednesday, December 25th, the girls on the Jonesboro-Hodge Lady Tigers basketball team celebrated Christmas by exchanging gifts with their families. The next day, the JH girls gave their head coach, Shan Jackson a gift as well. 

Now in her second year at the helm, Jackson has been working diligently to get that “complete game” from her girls. The effort has shown progress but it was at the Airline Tournament on Thursday that if finally all come together. 

By thrashing Green Oaks of Shreveport 65-12, on offense JHHS scored the most points the most points they have since the 2020-21 season while on defense set a new season best of holding an opponent to the fewest points in a game. 

The Lady Tigers had another game on Friday, December 27th against tournament host Airline (11-1), falling 54-21 to the 11th ranked team in Division I to close out the 2024 portion of the schedule with a 5-10 record, just one game short of the total number of wins in all of last season. 

JHHS 65 Green Oaks 12: Every players on the roster scored and the Lady Tigers never allowed more than five points in a quarter in their best win of the season. Tyya Davis paced JH by scoring a season best 22 points with Nesha Johnson also reaching “double digits” with 11 points. LaRonda and Lakayla McGuire finished with 9 and 7 points respectively while Morgan McGee scored 6 points. Angel Moss and Jakhorielle Lard finished with four points each and Jalenya Jackson scored a basket to round out the scoring.