CLINTON – Destiny Haymer poured in her second career triple-double and Jatyjia Jones and Chyna Allen added career highs to help propel Jones past LSU Eunice, 84-72, Thursday night in the NJCAA Region 23 Semifinals.

Jones (23-4) advances to play in its fourth straight region championship game Friday, March 6 at 5 p.m. against Northwest Mississippi (17-9). The Lady Rangers are in the title game for the first time in 15 years.

Jones defeated Northwest, 71-62, in the MACJC Quarterfinals last week in Scooba.

The Lady Bengals and the Bobcats battled it out for a full 40 minutes Thursday night, with some individual performances taking center stage.

Alona Washington scored 18 of her game-high 30 in the first half for LSUE, Haymer had a triple-double with 21 points, 10 assists and 10 rebounds and both J. Jones and Allen had new career highs with 23 and 17 points.

LSUE led by as many as eight in the second quarter and 47-45 at the break thanks to 50 percent shooting.

But the second half belonged to JC, as they lived in the paint for the final 20 minutes. The Bobcats outscored LSUE 30-2 in the paint, with Haymer and J. Jones going off in the third quarter.

Jones led 71-65 after three quarters and was able to salt it away at the line in the closing minutes of the fourth.

After allowing 50 percent shooting in the first, the JC defense buckled down and held LSUE to 30 percent on 9-of-30 aim.

LaMiracle Sims just missed a double-double with nine points and 11 rebounds and Keyara Jones added eight points and eight boards.