STRINGER – The Enterprise Yellow Jackets dropped a pair of varsity basketball games to the home-standing Stringer Red Devils Thursday night.

In girls’ action, the Lady Devils cruised to a 49-38 victory over the Lady Jackets.

In the boys’ game, Stringer handed Enterprise its first loss of the season claiming a 60-54 victory.

Stringer 49, Enterprise 38 

The Stringer girls came out strong to start and never looked back in a 49-38 win over the Enterprise Lady Jackets (2-4).

The Lady Devils were able to use their size and strength in the paint to score easy baskets and carry a 29-18 lead into halftime. The Lady Devils increased their lead to 15 points after three quarters of play in the 49-38 victory.

Enterprise was led by Markie Case’s game high 15 points. The Lady Jackets struggled at the charity stripe, missing fourteen free throws.

Teshia Jones led Stringer in scoring with 11 points.

Stringer 60, Enterprise 54 

Stringer football may still be in the Class 1A state playoffs, but that didn’t keep fans from coming out to support their varsity basketball teams on Thursday night.

A rowdy environment proved to be too much for Enterprise to overcome in a 60-54 loss to the Red Devils. Stringer jumped out to a 9-5 lead at the end of the first quarter.

The Red Devils maintained a 24-19 lead going into the halftime break. “We didn’t play up to our capabilities tonight.

“They killed us on the offensive glass and we gave up too many second chance points,” said Enterprise head coach John Knight.

Enterprise (5-1), was led by John Gray’s 18 points and 3 rebounds. Forrest Scott fired in 13 points for the Yellow Jackets.

Stringer was led by Sedric Wheaton’s 15 points.