The Jonesboro-Hodge Lady Tigers beat Union Parish on Thursday and Haynesville on Friday to continue their impressive surge that has seen J-H win 6 of their last 8 games since the calendar switched to 2025. With the back-to-back victories, JHHS neared the .500 mark at 11-12 in head coach Shan Jackson’s second year, who has now led the Lady Tigers to more victories this season than in the last two years combined. 

JHHS 39 Union Parish 37: led by Tyya Davis scoring 8 of her team high 12 points in the first half, the Lady Tigers opened up a 23-14 lead at the break that held up to give JHHS their first win of the season over a team with a winning record. Sanaa Tatum scored 8 and both Jaylena Jackson and Morgan McGee chipped in with five points each. Nesha Johnson finished with four, Angel Moss added three and LaKayla McGuire tallied two to round out the scoring. 

JHHS 42 Haynesville 16: The Lady Tigers held Haynesville to just 2 points in both the first and third quarters to improve to 2-1 in 1-1A competition and stay just one game behind the district 1-1A leaders. Tyya Davis continued her impressive scoring outburst with 16 points to lead the JHHS offense for a second straight game. Morgan McGee and Nesha Johnson also reached double figures with 12 and 10 points respectively while Jaylena Jackson and LaKayla McGuire chipped in with two points apiece. 

JHHS boys drop 4th straight

After winning three out of four, the Tigers have now dropped their last four, three coming to the district leaders to saddle JHHS with a 5-16 overall record and an 0-3 mark in 1-1A play.

Union Parish 52 JHHS 43: Pierce Ulloa scored a career best 11 points on the strength of three 3-pointers, which also set a new career mark and JHHS had three reach double figures in scoring but it still wasn’t enough to upset 16-9 Union Parish. Ariy’un Bradford led the Tigers with 14 points and Dylan Hayes added ten. Samuel Combs scored three, Derrime Malone and D.J. Palmer tallied two each and Tyson Burks added a free throw. 

Haynesville 71 JHHS 50:  The Tigers continued to struggle against the district 1-1A gauntlet of games that has seen JHHS fall against the #5 and #8 teams in Division IV among “non-select” teams and the #3 ranked “select school” Division IV team. No individual game totals were available

NEXT UP: The road doesn’t get any easier for the JHHS boys on Tuesday, February 4th, as they travel to district leader Ringgold, who despite an 8-15 overall record is 3-0 in 1-1A play. In regard to the Lady Tigers, optimism is high to reach the .500 mark for the first time in over two years as they will take on the Lady Redskins who have a 4-14 mark and are 1-2 in district 1-1A play.

Girls District 1-1A Standings

Boys District 1-1A Standings