OXFORD, Ala. – It will be an all Mississippi final for the second time in three seasons at Choccolocco Park's Signature Field on Saturday for the NJCAA Division II Softball National Championship.

Jones and Copiah-Lincoln will meet in a rematch of the 2023 title game, one where the Lady Wolves forced the if-necessary game and won twice over the Bobcats. 

Jones will try and mimic Co-Lin's path to the championship with two wins on Saturday. First pitch is set for 1 p.m. and the if-game would follow 30 minutes after.

The Bobcats are in the national championship game for the seventh time in the last 11 NJCAA Division II Tournaments, an unbelievable feat. They won the 2018 championship and have finished runner-up five times.

Copiah-Lincoln 9, Jones 1

Co-Lin out-hit Jones 12-1 in the opening game of the day to move into the winner's bracket final, getting a complete game in the circle from Taylor Efferson and a three-run homer at the plate. 

A leadoff throwing error for Jones allowed the Lady Wolves to eventually plate two in the first.

A sac fly made it 3-0 after three.

Marlee Dampeer got JC on the board with a fielder's choice in the fourth but the Bobcats would leave the bases loaded.

Olivia Banes' RBI-single pushed the lead back to 4-1 in the sixth, Efferson followed with a three-run shot and Avery Williams hit an inside-the-park home run to push it out to 8-1.

Jones' lone hit was Meredith Fontenot's single in the fourth.

Breelyn Cain fell to 17-5, allowing seven runs on nine hits in 5.1 innings of work.

Jones 4, St. Johns River State 2

Jayden Sawyer tossed her third complete game of the national tournament, scattering seven hits, two runs, seven strikeouts and five walks, to eliminate the defending national champions.

Alyssa Vallad got SJR on the board with a solo shot in the first.

Dampeer's sac bunt tied the game at 1-1 in the second, with Jones taking advantage of two Viking errors in the frame.

Sawyer reached on a two-out error in the bottom of the third and Emily Mizelle would follow with a double and Kaleigh Steverson a two-out, two-run single to make it 3-1 Cats.

Claire Andersen's single made it 4-1 after four.

SJR loaded the bases in the top of the seventh with two outs, and scored one run, before a fly out to center stranded them on and ended it.

Andersen and Mizelle combined for four of Jones' seven hits.

Live stats will be available for Saturday's championship at NJCAAstats.prestosports.com and the game will air through NJCAA.org/network for a fee.