Having just played yesterday, the Northeast Jones Tigers will get right back to it and host the Jefferson County Tigers at 12:15 p.m. on January 13th. Northeast Jones has now lost 12 straight, and the team is hunting for their first win since November 28.
On Friday, Northeast Jones lost to Morton at home by a decisive 58-44 margin. While losing is never fun, Northeast Jones can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Mississippi basketball rankings (they are ranked 242nd, while Morton is ranked 35th).
Meanwhile, the matchup between Jefferson County and South Pike on Tuesday hardly resembled the 2-0 effort from their previous meeting. Jefferson County took a 77-73 hit to the loss column at the hands of South Pike. That's two games in a row now that Jefferson County has lost by exactly four points.
Northeast Jones bumped their record down to 3-16 with that defeat, which was their sixth straight at home. As for Jefferson County, this is the second loss in a row for them and nudges their season record down to 6-9.
