One is left-handed, the other is right-handed.

One can jump through the roof, the other has sprinter's speed.

One wears No. 11, the other No. 22 ... maybe that's because they are trouble twice over.

One wears the others clothes.

One has been a four-year member of the varsity, the other three years (due to a broken leg). One is black, the other is white.

One lives on one side of town, the other, well, on the other side of 02035.

They are inseparable, these twin towers.

They are so much alike in stature, in personality, in performance as athletes.

For the past six years, they have been side by side, on and off the court - Rehema Strouble and Samantha Briggs.

They are sisters who know no color, only the blue and gold of Foxboro High School.

"She's my sister," chuckled Strouble the other day after a practice session for the Warrior girls' basketball team. "We've been the twin towers for a long time now."

"She goes through my closet all the time," chuckled Briggs of her relationship with Strouble, cultivated on the basketball court when they were in middle school. "Black, white, we don't pay any attention to that - she's my friend, she's like my sister."

With Strouble at center and Briggs at power forward for Sarah Behn's Foxboro High hoop team, the Warriors are off to a 4-1 start, 2-1 in the Hockomock League entering tonight's game with North Attleboro.

But more than that, coming off of last season's 12-win campaign, the 'Twin Towers' of Foxboro High are averaging some 16 points and 18 rebounds a game. Foxboro has won four straight games since a season-opening four-point loss to Oliver Ames. The Warriors have won games by margins of 17, 48, nine and 11 points - scoring at a healthy 58-point per game rate, allowing an average of just 39 points.

"We can go all the way, we are the most well-rounded team since I've been here," said Briggs, who has hit double scoring digits twice in the balanced Warrior attack.

"We can really go far, not because we're just good athletes or good basketball players, but because we're all good teammates," said Strouble, who has scored eight points or more in every outing thus far.

Strouble starts at center for Foxboro, Briggs starts at the power forward spot for the Warriors.

Strouble is left-handed, has long arms, can rebound and defend (and score) with the best of them.

Briggs is right-handed, has terrific foot speed, takes the defensive charges, gets to balls on the offensive backboard (and score) with the best of them.

"They complement each other so well," said Behn of the towering twosome, Strouble standing some six-feet tall, Briggs at about 5-10 ("but with my basketball shoes on I'm six-foot, too!").

"One plays high (Briggs), the other (Strouble) down low," added Behn. "Rehema gets a lot of blocks (blocked shots) and Sam is always (defending) on our opponent's best player, they are such a good combination."

They became a tandem back in the sixth and seventh grades, playing in town basketball leagues, on travel teams. Briggs became right at home with the Foxboro High varsity as a freshman, but Briggs missed that season, suffering a broken leg in a pre-season scrimmage.

Strouble has played off-season basketball with the Roxbury-based Lady Dolphin program. Briggs has been a member of the Bay State Magic, the Shamrocks and the Mass. Premier junior team. Both are members of the FHS spring track team too - Strouble putting the shot and throwing the discus; Briggs running the sprints and dabbling in the same weight events.

"She's more of a finesse player, she has better offensive moves," said Briggs of Strouble. "I might be more scrappy defensively, but we both have kind of the same build and drive."

"We've been teammates for so long, we know what each other does well," said Strouble of Briggs. In truth, the two are often playing one-on-one during off-season, at Behn's basketball camps, in driveways, at the Booth Playground.

And because Strouble is a lefty and Briggs a righty, both critique each other's games, working on ways to improve as players.

"It's probably even," beamed Briggs of who-beats-whom the most at the one-on-one sessions. "It's good to have someone like yourself around, so you can work on your strengths and weaknesses - it's taught me a lot," said Briggs.

Strouble's family moved to Foxboro a long time ago, when she was about to enter kindergarten at the Taylor School. And the significance of the name "Rehema" might be more because of her mom watching Boston newscaster Rehema Ellis on television. Strouble's elder sister Xaviera, now a professional model, is a Foxboro High graduate.

"I don't run, but I could always jump higher than others and I think that I have the longest arms in the (Hockomock) league," said Strouble of her front-court forte. She played softball, swam, was a gymnast, took karate lessons, partially explaining her athleticism and co-ordination.

Briggs has been in the forefront of the Foxboro High volleyball program too. "I like being the aggressive one, the bulldog, the physical stuff," she said of not being afraid to extend her elbows.

But most of all, Briggs and Strouble have lent each other a helping hand in their maturation process, such to the extent that they think alike.

"That's what makes our relationship, not just as teammates, so special," said Briggs. "She's not any different than me."

PETER GOBIS may be contacted at 508-236-0375 or via e-mail at pgobis@thesunchronicle.com