ELLISVILLE –
Carly Lewis homered and doubled,
Lauren Lindsey homered and
Nia Luckett tossed a complete game with six strikeouts as No. 5 Jones outlasted No. 15 LSU Eunice, 4-2, in Saturday's Region 23 quarterfinal game.
It's the Bobcats' 25th straight win and they improved to 25-0 at home.
Jones advances to play Co-Lin on Sunday morning with the winner advancing to Monday's championship and punching one of two automatic bids to the NJCAA Division II World Series in Spartanburg, S.C.
Lindsey homered in the first, her 17th of the year, to give Jones a 1-0 lead after one.
Lewis extended the lead to 3-0 in the fifth with a two-run homer and she added an RBI-double in the seventh.
Luckett kept LSUE off the board until the Bengals' last at-bat.
Gracie Bailey reached on a leadoff error and Gabrielle Huetter followed a batter later with a two-run shot to cut the lead in half.
Luckett would settle in and get a pair of fly outs and a strikeout to cap the win.
Meg Gatlin and
Kathryn Smith also added hits for Jones.