SENATOBIA – No. 3 Jones split its MACCC-opening doubleheader at Northwest on Friday, rolling 9-1 in the opener before being walked-off 2-1 in the nightcap.

The Bobcats are now 22-5 overall and the Rangers are 9-8.

Jones has won 23 of the previous 26 meetings, with all three losses in Senatobia.

Jones hosts East Central on Tuesday, March 10 at 4 p.m. in a doubleheader.

Tickets are $8 online at jcbobcats.com/tickets or $10 cash at the gate. The games will stream on jcbobcats.com/watch.

Jones 9, Northwest 1

The Bobcats out-hit the Rangers 17-2, with Mabry Eason going 4-for-4 and Makynlee Dickerson 3-for-4 in a runaway game one win. 

Dickerson's two-run single put the Bobcats on the board in the second before Handley McAtee's solo homer cut the lead in half.

But that's all Madison Sawyer (9-1) would allow besides a leadoff double to Mary Madison Kelley in the bottom of the fourth inning. 

Chloe Jenkins belted her first collegiate home run in the top of the fourth, a three-run shot, to extend the JC lead to 6-1.

Annaston Tate added an RBI-single in the sixth and the Cats plated two more in the seventh on a Jenkins RBI-groundout and Eason RBI-single.

Northwest 2, Jones 1

Eason's team-high ninth homer tied the game at 1-1 in the top of the sixth but Northwest got a one-out, RBI-single to right-center from Sela Mancini in the bottom of the seventh to earn the split.

Breelyn Cain (5-2) was the hard-luck loser, tossing a strong 6.1 innings and allowing just four hits, two of them in the seventh.

Meredith Dearman was equally impressive in the circle for the host Rangers, scattering one run on five hits in a complete game performance.

Tate had two of Jones' four hits.