JACKSON — They just kept coming.

Wave after wave of them, like zombies in a horror movie, only with the agonized cries of the undead replaced with the sweet swish of a basketball net.

Four in the first quarter. Four more in the second. A dozen 3-pointers in all was what Murrah put through the hoop Tuesday night. It was an impressive shooting display that carried the Mustangs to a 69-40 victory over Warren Central.

Kaylon Paige had three of Murrah’s 3s, and finished with 15 points. Joshua Carroll hit three more treys — all in the second quarter, when he scored 14 of his game-high 19 points. For the game, the Mustangs (16-10) were 12-for-26 from long range, and five different players hit at least one 3-pointer. By comparison, Warren Central was 17-for-49 overall from the field.

Kourey Davis scored 10 points to lead WC (10-14).

“We tried to get to their shooters and they’ve got a bunch of them making shots. We just see how it is when you’re playing against a good team. They don’t have just one weapon. They’ve got three, or four, or five weapons,” WC coach Chareck Cable said.

The loss brought a disappointing end to an otherwise successful season for Warren Central. The Vikings were banned from postseason play by the Mississippi High School Activities Association for conducting practices before the mandated start date in October, and thus will not participate in next week’s Division 3-6A tournament at Clinton.

The Vikings did, however, post their highest win total since the 2006-07 team went 12-15 and earned their first division victory since 2007 by beating Greenville-Weston last week. Leading scorer Kourey Davis will return next season, and the team only loses seniors RoShawn Smith and Eric Howard.

So, despite the rocky start to this season, Cable was optimistic that the future is bright for the program.

“To do as well as we did, considering all these guys have been through, they handled adversity extremely well. They could’ve folded and they stuck with it. We accomplished a lot this year,” Cable said. “This offseason, we’ve got to see which guys are going to be committed to it, because it’s going to be extremely challenging.”