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Bear defense forces three turnovers against Jones

| By: By Cody Junkin
Kaleb Perry Interception
Southwest Mississippi Football hosted Jones on Thursday, October 15th for their final home game of the season in Summit.

Jones won the coin toss and deferred giving Southwest the ball first.

The Bears came out of the gate swinging with a 73-yard touchdown pass from Jakhari Williams to Tahj Williby on the first play of the game to go up 7-0 only 17 seconds into the game.

Southwest's defense forced a 3 and out on Jones first possession that led to another Bear scoring drive on back to back possessions.

This drive ended in a Simon Naylor 24-yard field goal to put the Bears up 10-0 over the Bobcats.

Jones answered back with a field goal of their own to make the score 10-3 in favor of Southwest.

After a Bear punt, the Southwest defense came up big again as Henry Funches intercepted Jones in his first defensive start of the season after switching positions from wide receiver.

The interception set the Bears up at the Jones 16-yard line in prime scoring position.

Two plays later, Ronde Baker punched it in to score and go up 16-3 over Jones after a missed PAT.

Southwest's special teams joined in on the fun on the very next drive when Myles Payne scored on a blocked punt by Jace Jackson for the Bears first special teams score of the season putting Southwest up 23-3 over Jones.

A Demarcus Johnson sack led to another Jones punt with 12:02 left in the second quarter.

Big plays from Ronde Baker and Tahj Williby set up a Jace Jackson 3-yard rushing touchdown to move the score to 30-3.

Each team made one more field goal before half time to make the score 33-6 going into the half.

Jones opened up the third quarter with a long touchdown drive to cut the lead to 33-13 with Southwest still leading.

On Jones next drive, Demarcus Johnson forced a fumble that was recovered and returned 78 yards by Bernard Lackey for a Bear defensive touchdown to move the score to 40-13 with 5:28 left in the third quarter.

The next 13 minutes went scoreless until Jones scored another touchdown with 8:20 remaining in the fourth quarter to make the score 40-20 favoring Southwest.

On the kickoff, Jones recovered an onside kick and quickly scored the very next play to move the score to 40-27.

After forcing a Southwest punt, Jones marched down the field and scored again with 3:20 left on the clock to make it a one possession game at 40-34.

Jones stopped the Bears one more time and got the ball back with 1:53 left in the game.

A couple of Southwest penalties later and Jones found the endzone again to take a 41-40 lead over the Bears, their first lead of the game.

With 0:13 on the clock the Bears had no other options but a hail mary.

Finding no success, Southwest fell 40-41 to Jones.

Jakhari Williams led the team with 213 passing yards and 1 passing touchdown.

Ronde Baker led the team with 71 rushing yards and 1 rushing touchdown on 14 carries.

Jace Jackson had 23 rushing yards and 1 rushing touchdown on 4 carries.

Tahj Williby led the team with 109 receiving yards and 1 receiving touchdown on 3 receptions. Zay Martin had 63 receiving yards on 3 receptions.

Myles Payne had a return touchdown on a blocked punt.

Bernard Lackey had a 78-yard fumble recovery touchdown.

Henry Funches and Kaleb Perry each had an interception.

Demarcus Johnson had a sack and a forced fumble. Antwon Thomas also had a sack.

The Bears (1-7, 0-5*conference) will travel to Senatobia to face Northwest on Thursday, October 22nd.
 
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