The Book: 2003 Louisiana's Recruiting

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another walk on that deserves to be on scholarship is Dwight Lindon, did he get one?

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Kemmie Lewis WR
6'0 180lbs
Collins High School (MS)
Jones County Junior College (MS)

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New Cajun DT Darryl Blappert from Slidell is kneeling bottom left, former Cajun and new Ole Miss WR Donovan Morgan is kneeling bottom right. Picture taken after at the annual MACJC All-Star Game played at Northeast Mississippi JC in Booneville this year.
Blappert (6-foot-7, 275 pounds) finished this past season with 59 total tackles sixth-best on the team including 16 solo stops and 43 assists. He also returned one of his two fumble recoveries for an 80-yard touchdown. He earned All-Region XXIII and All-State honors and was the recipient of his team's Defensive Lineman Award.

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Originally posted by snote
oh what the heck.. (sshh .. not wanting to scare away the red stick wr)
kimmy lewis juco wr

raginpagin.com ...take your self a bow (smiles)

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Awesome finds there SwampFox.

Here is Kimmie Lewis after deciding on Louisiana (jk)

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Originally posted by snote
raginpagin.com ...take your self a bow (smiles)

A bow in the snote direction of course. Hot on the trail since the middle of December.

Thanks to SwampFox who found the picture.

Originally posted by SwampFox


Kemmie Lewis WR
6'0 180lbs
Collins High School (MS)
Jones County Junior College (MS)

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JCJC 26, Southwest 0


Travis Johnson

Sports Co-Editor


JCJC proved to the outside world just how good they are, bringing down 17th nationally ranked Southwest Community College at home on September 22 by the score of 26-0.

The defense looked very impressive in shutting down standout player Demarcus Johnson of Southwest, eventually knocking him out of the game.

The Bobcats took charge right off the bat with Rashard Phillips darting through SWCC’s defense for a 20-yard touchdown run.

The extra point by Nickolas Terracina was up and through the uprights, making the score 7-0 with 9:16 to go in the first quarter.

Terracina did a remarkable job on punts, twice pinning the Bears deep in their own territory twice.

The defense withstood many threats, holding solid after Charles Hales was intercepted. Bobby Keyes picked off a pass with 9:55 to go in the half, getting the Bobcats the ball back and ending a scoring threat.

Five minutes later, Hales threw a 33-yard touchdown strike to freshman wide receiver Kimmie Lewis.

Terracina added the extra point to extend the lead to 14-0 with 4:40 to go in the half.

The defense guarded the lead into halftime, with the score 14-0 Bobcats.

Terracina kicked two field goals in the third quarter from 28 and 37 yards out, bringing the score to 20-0 going into the final period of play.

With 12:47 to go in the fourth quarter, Alonzo Nix snared in a Hales pass for a 32-yard touchdown. The point after attempt was blocked, and that made the final score 26-0.

Josh Tate had a huge game on defense, destroying anything in his path that wasn’t wearing maroon, collecting nine tackles and one interception. Demarcus Moody also stood out huge for the Bobcats, making eight quality tackles.
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BOBCATS WIN STATE CHAMPIONSHIP



By: Travis Johnson

Sports Co-Editor



What everybody knew before Saturday, November 19, is that the Mississippi Delta is packed full of mosquitoes.

What nobody could have guessed, however, is that the mosquitoes would offer more resistance to the JCJC Bobcat offense than the Mississippi Delta Community College Trojans en route to 475 total yards, 22 points, and the title as Mississippi Junior College Football State Champions.

The final score was 22-6. The Bobcats struggled with the kicking game, missing two field goals, one extra point and firing back a few bad long snaps.

However, the defense snuffed out the Trojan’s candle of hope after holding them to 258 total yards and sacking their quarterback, Berkedius Womack, seven times.

Jones started the game on a good note with a touchback on a kickoff by Nickolas Terracina. Delta then marched down the field on 10 plays only to miss a 32 yard field goal.

The Bobcats were forced to punt on their first possession after earning only one first down.

Terracina could not get a handle on the low snap and had to fall on the ball on the JC 21 yard line, handing the Trojans outstanding field position.

JCJC pushed the MDCC offense back on three consecutive plays, forcing a 49-yard field goal attempt by Jay Jones that split the uprights. The score was 3-0, Delta, with 5:46 to go in the first quarter.

Following the same trend they’ve used all season long, the Bobcats drove from their own 32 to the Delta 15 yard line in 10 plays, settling for a Terracina field goal that set the score dead-even at 3-3 with 2:12 left in the opening period.

Both teams traded three-and-outs. Jones, after a 60-yard punt by Trojan punter Jason Hunter that put them on their own 20, flew to Delta territory on the wings of Alonzo Nix and his 44-yard pass reception from Charles Hales.

A field goal attempt by Terracina from 33 yards out was no good.

The Bobcat “D” forced another three-and-out keyed by a big sack by linebacker Nate Hardage on the next Delta possession. Hunter’s punt wasn’t a great one this time, as it gave JCJC the ball on the Bobcat 48.

Finally, the Bobcats were able to cap off a drive with a touchdown.

Ralph Davis smashed his way into the end zone and capped off a beautiful possession from 2 yards out with 1:07 to go in the half.

A bad snap on the extra point kept holder Will Parker from getting the ball set in time, and he was tackled on the muffed play, keeping the score at 9-3.

The Trojans were determined to get more points on the board before the half ended. Womack completed three passes for a total of 34 yards, putting them on the JC 37.

On a fade pattern to Tavares Gideon with four seconds to go, Jones was whistled for defensive holding which moved the ball within field goal range. Jay Jones booted the 44 yarder, and made the score 9-6 with JCJC up at intermission.

Head coach Parker Dykes was very confident in his team as the only points MDCC had scored were off of Jones miscues.

“We just went in at half-time and I told the kids “You’ve got the game won. Just play as good as you can and score! The defense isn’t going to let them score any more so, offense, let’s get some points.’”

Jones’s offense wasn’t stellar at all on the first possession of the second half, attempting three plays then punting.

Delta took the ball on a fair catch off the punt on their own 34, and literally came out of the gates running, something they did not do much of in the first half.

They ran all the way down to the Bobcat 13 on 10 plays before having a false start penalty and a huge sack by Dermarcus Moody put them back on the visitors’ 28 yard line.

The Trojans lined up for the field goal, snapped the ball, and had it blocked from the side by a diving David Scott, erasing any threat what-so-ever of tying the game at nine apiece.

JCJC took over on its own 43 and drove for a 36 yard field goal which was no good again by Terracina.

Two possessions later, Trojan quarterback Womack dropped back to pass and tried to fire a pass on an out pattern to his receiver.

David Scott pounced on the route and picked the pass off, completely turning the game around in Jones’s favor again with 12:13 to go in the game.

Two plays later, Charles Hales hustled on a quarterback draw that took him in for the 20 yard touchdown run with 11:29 to play. Terracina kicked the extra point perfectly, and put the Bobcats up 16-6.

The Trojan offensive line had trouble blocking anything the entire game, allowing two more sacks by Kennie Covington and Josh Tate on the next possession, spoiling a good drive and forcing them to punt.

Appearing to be buried deep on their 10 yard line, coaching strategy paid off. After pounding with workhorse back Ralph Davis and the dominant Jones offensive line all game long, they brought in Rashard Phillips, more of a slashing and elusive runner.

After a three-yard keeper by Hales, Phillips darted around the left corner on a pitch, tight roped the sideline, and scorched everybody in a black jersey for the impressive 87-yard touchdown run with 6:53 to go in the game. Terracina missed the long extra point (due in part to an excessive celebration penalty), and it put the Bobcats comfortably in the lead 22-6.

In panic, the Delta offense took off to the air again, bringing the ball from their own 20 to the Jones eight on five big pass completions, only to have a pass into the end zone fall incomplete on fourth down.

The Bobcats then ran the ball behind the outstanding and very impressive offensive line from their own 8 to the Delta 3 yard line, killing the clock and securing the state championship.

Coach Eddie Pierce, who played on the JCJC state championship team in 1979, said, “This is the greatest feeling in the world. Nothing compares to this.”

EDITOR’S NOTE: And for a Bobcat fan, there isn’t anything sweeter.

Congratulations and thank you for an outstanding year, players and coaches of the 2001 Mississippi Junior College Athletic Association State Champions, the Jones County Junior College Bobcats!
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Bobcat football team receives Texas bowl bid
By: Travis Johnson Sports Editor

JCJC football fans should dust off their suitcases and get a road map. The Bobcats are going bowling!

On Monday, November 18, JCJC President Dr. Ronald Whitehead, Athletic Director George Harrison and Head Coach Parker Dykes accepted an invitation to the Heart of Texas Bowl in Copperus Cove, TX.

The game is set for December 8 at 3 p.m.

The press conference was held in the D. O. Thoms Physical Education Building and everybody was in a great, optimistic mood.

Handshakes were exchanged, laughter was bellowed. One would never be able to tell that the Bobcats had just lost the state championship game only two days earlier.

Whitehead and Harrison addressed the team as a whole. “I can’t think of any team in the past 40 years that has more heart and courage than this one,” Harrison remarked to the players.

Dykes issued his team a challenge to bring home a victory.

“I’m tired of learning lessons (from losing),” he said referring to the squad’s tough 7-0 loss in the state championship. “I want a ‘W!’”

Throughout the season, bowls had been contacting JCJC for invitations, but many backed off after the team’s first loss at East Central.

The bids began coming in again after the win against Hinds that snapped the Bobcats’ two-game skid.

The Bobcats will play Trinity Valley Community College Cardinals.

The Cardinals lost the Southwest Junior College Football Championship to Northeast Oklahoma Community College 14-7 JCJC and Trinity Valley were bothed ranked as high as Number Two in the nation earlier in the year.

With the loss to NEO, TVCC goes into the Heart of Texas Bowl with a 9-2 record. The Cardinals are ranked eighth , while the Bobcats are 15th in the nation.

“We’re looking for a great game from one of the two teams,” commented Dykes.

The players were obviously pumped up to be getting to go to a bowl game this year after last year’s 10-1 season.

Last year, the bowl games didn’t wait for the Bobcats to finish their season and passed up the Number Three ranked team in the nation.

“We’re excited to go to a bowl game this year,” said kicker Nick Terracina. “I think (the invite) had to do with our record in the past.”

Running back Greg Wash added, “I’m very excited to be going; it should be a good vacation for us.”

The game will be held at Copperus Cove High School football field which has a synthetic grass field, which is tougher than real grass (divots will not come up) but is more forgiving to the knees and ankles than turf.

The Heart of Texas Bowl will mark the ninth time JCJC has played in a post season Bowl game. The Bobcats’ bowl record is 3-4-1.

(pic: HEADED FOR HEART OF TEXAS BOWL -- Bobcat quarterback Aaron Leak dives into the endzone for a touchdown in JCJC’s 15-0 victory over Northeast in the first round of the state play-offs. The JCJC Bobcat team is headed for Copperas Cove, TX to play in the Heart of Texas Bowl game on December 8 at 3 p.m. Photo by Jody Hicks.)
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"JCJC's Kimmie Lewis hauls in this Charles Hales pass despite the best efforts of the Northwest defender in the first round of the state juco football playoffs held on the JC campus."

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Football squad fails to repeat
By: Travis Johnson Sports Editor

After dropping two straight games at mid-season, the Bobcat football team fought back to win its final two and, with a little help from Southwest, made it all the way to the state championship game for the second consecutive season.

JCJC 29 - MGCCC 14

ELLISVILLE - Riding the momentum of a huge win at Hinds, the JCJC Bobcat football team forced its way into the state playoffs with a victory against Gulf Coast Community College at home. Jones ended up on top with a score of 29-14. Not only did JCJC need the win to advance to the play-offs, Southwest had to beat East Central as well. And, that’s what happened.

The Bobcats drew first blood in the contest with a 32-yard field goal by Nickolas Terracina with 9:36 to go in the second quarter.

However, Gulf Coast struck right back on a 32-yard score of its own of the 6-point variety. Quarterback DaShun Carmichael hooked up on a fade pattern to WR Charles Estes for the TD with 5:47 to go in the half. MGCCC K Brett Walton booted the PAT through the goal and set the score at 7-3 in Gulf Coast’s favor.

Two 15-yard penalties (face-masking and personal foul) rocketed the Bobcats forward to inside the MGCCC 20 yard line.

RBs Greg Wash, Bobby Keyes, and QB Aaron Leak followed the motivated JCJC offensive line into the end zone, with Wash getting the 1-yard score for paydirt on an old-fashioned, smashmouth drive.

Terracina missed the extra point, and Jones took the 9-7 lead into halftime.

Terracina made up for the mistake in the third quarter, splitting the uprights from 23 yards out to bring the score to 12-7 with 7:00 to go in the third.

The Bobcat defense put the vise grips on the futile attempts of MGCCC’s offense.

DE/LB Kenny Covington scooped up a fumble forced off a sack by DE Chauncey Davis and took it all the way in from 47 yards out to paydirt. Terracina tallied on the extra point and JC took a commanding 19-7 lead.

Gulf Coast’s Carmichael tossed up a 70-yard TD bomb to WR Tremaine Moore with 4:36 to go in the third. Walton added the extra point and brought Gulf Coast within five points, 19-14.

The game was in doubt for both teams until the last two minutes of the game when Terracina split the uprights from 29 yards out to increase the Jones lead to two scores, 22-14.

Wash added his second score of the night from two yards out to put the game far out of reach with 54 seconds to go in the game. Terracina added another point and set the final score at 29-14.

Greg Wash had an astounding night, following his stalwart offensive line on his 25 carries for 153 yards and 2 TDs.

Chauncey Davis clocked out with another dominating performance, logging his second 5-sack game of the season.

State Play-offs First Round

JCJC 15 - NEMCC 0

BOONEVILLE - After two straight losses in the home stretch of the season, very few people expected the Bobcats to make it this far.

The first round of the State Playoffs saw the 7-2 Bobcats face a 7-2 North East Tigers team.

As advertised, the Jones defense would not bow to even the most powerful of forces and gave the offense fantastic field position to work with throughout the game.

On the first offensive play of the ball game, QB Aaron Leak connected on a skinny post to WR Kimmie Lewis. Lewis tried to shake a final defender at the five-yard line, fumbled, and lost the football.

The next two Bobcat possessions saw Leak throw an interception on two consecutive pass attempts. Jones would eventually overcome the horrible glut of turnovers in the second quarter.

Leak did not lose faith in Lewis after the failed almost certain TD catch earlier. Leak hooked up with Lewis on a 12-yard TD toss with 0:47 to go in the first half.

Terracina split the uprights on the extra point and took the 7-0 lead into intermission.

Like a constricting boa, the Bobcat defense tightened up after a wonderful Terracina punt that put the Tigers on the two-yard line. Two plays later, the defense swarmed over the Tiger offense and forced the safety, bringing the score to 9-0 with 11:51 to go in the game.

State Championship

HCC 7 - JCJC 0

ELLISVILLE - The State Championship football game just goes to show that although you can dominate for a whole game, shut down the opposing offense and move the ball almost at will doesn’t necessarily equal a “W”. Jones lost 7-0 to Holmes on November 17 at home and failed to repeat as State Champions.

“They scored, we didn’t,” simply put Coach Parker Dykes, as Jones led in every major statistical category except for the one that matters the most: the score.

WR Terrance Fleming broke a 69-yard TD run off left tackle with 4:44 to go in the third quarter, and K Matt Jones added the extra point for the solitary score of the game.

The Bobcats managed to turn the ball over a total of sixtimes throughout the game, stifling even the most beautiful of potential scoring drives.

Holmes threw the football a total of two times in the game, relying on a ground game led by Fleming and FB Sedric Clay.

Taking away the 69-yard run, Jones held the Bulldogs to only 78 yards on 42 carries. Adding in the long score, the Bulldogs still only gained 147 yards on 43 carries and 4 first downs.

The Bobcat offense amassed 165 yards on the ground and 296 yards through the air, for a total of 464 yards gained. JCJC also collected 21 first downs, but the six turnovers killed them.

(pic:RISING TO THE OCCASION -- JCJC Bobcat WR Kimmie Lewis leaps up into the North Mississippi sky to snag a pass from QB Aaron Leak. The Bobcats won, 15-0 at Booneville)
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Kimmie Lewis WR 6’ 175 Fresh. Collins (Miss?)