Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College capped off another outstanding regular season in dominating fashion.

Former Warren Central star Trey Hall rushed for 95 yards and three touchdowns on only six carries, and Landon Varnes threw for three TDs as the Bulldogs blitzed Hinds Community College 56-14 on Thursday.

Gulf Coast (8-1, 5-1 MACCC South) earned a share of the South Division championship for the sixth consecutive season. East Central and Gulf Coast tied with a 5-1 division record, but East Central won their head-to-head meeting and the tiebreaker that goes with it.

Hinds finished its season with a 2-7 overall record, and 2-5 in the South Division.

Hinds held the ball for 41 minutes Thursday, but Gulf Coast used a steady stream of big plays to turn the game into a blowout.

Gulf Coast had scoring plays of 76, 63, 44 and 21 yards, with six scoring drives taking less than three minutes.

The Bulldogs also got a 64-yard kickoff return by Brandon Hines to set up Hall’s 21-yard touchdown, which was the start of a run of 49 unanswered points. Shadrick Toodle had a 34-yard fumble return touchdown on the ensuing kickoff to put Gulf Coast ahead 20-14.

“The one thing that stands out were the big plays in the first half,” Gulf Coast coach Jack Wright said. “There were some long passes, long runs, some chunk plays that wound up in the end zone. That was the difference in the score.”

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Hall scored on runs of 21, 3 and 63 yards.

Vicksburg High alum Tyler Henderson caught three passes for 57 yards for Gulf Coast, and Warren Central’s Zack Evans had one catch for 14 yards.

Varnes completed 13 of 14 passes for 259 yards in the first half, and finished 17-of-25 for 303 yards.
Hinds quarterback Jabari Watson was 9-of-16 passing for 130 yards and two touchdowns, and ran for a team-high 58 yards. Tyrell Pollard caught three passes for 59 yards and two touchdowns.

Kearris Gilliam, a former Vicksburg High standout, had three total tackles and one pass breakup for Hinds.

East Mississippi 51, Holmes 15
Ty Keyes threw three touchdown passes, and two players rushed for more than 100 yards as East Mississippi (5-4, 4-2 MACCC North) thrashed No. 8 Holmes Community College (7-2, 4-2).

Gavin Griffin ran for 136 yards and two TDs for East Misssissippi, and Jaylen Jennings had 121 yards and one score.
Holmes lost its last two games after starting 7-0, and fell into a three-way tie for second place in the MACCC’s North Division with East Mississippi and Itawamba.

Itawamba plays Northwest Mississippi on Friday night, and that game will determine both the division winner and the its No. 2 seed for the playoffs that begin next week.

East Central 49, Southwest Mississippi 13
No. 12 East Central Community College (7-2, 5-1 MACCC South) ripped off 42 straight points after falling behind 7-0 in the first quarter, and blew out Southwest Mississippi (1-8, 1-5) to clinch its first MACCC South Division championship since 2016.

Marcellus Jackson caught a 42-yard touchdown pass on Southwest’s opening drive, and finished with 10 receptions for 99 yards and two TDs. The rest of the game belonged to East Central.

The Warriors got two rushing touchdowns from Chris Tucker, two defensive TDs on a 40-yard fumble return by Donnie Smith and an 18-yard interception return by Amarien Jefferson, and won going away.

Kerion Jones led East Central’s offense with 13 carries for 83 yards. Keshawn Henley had 12 carries for 67 yards and a touchdown.

Smith had 2 1/2 sacks in addition to his fumble return touchdown.

Jones College 16, Pearl River 10
Cobey Craft rushed for 100 yards and a touchdown, and Cannon Crowder threw a 13-yard touchdown pass to Marlon Lindsey that ended up being the difference in Jones College’s (5-4, 3-3 MACCC South) rivalry victory over Pearl River Community College (4-6, 2-4).

Crowder’s touchdown pass to Lindsey put Jones ahead 16-7 midway through the third quarter. Pearl River cut it to 16-10 on Morgan Craft’s 26-yard field goal with 3:55 left in the fourth, but never got the ball back. Craft carried the ball six consecutive times for 55 yards on Jones’ final clock-killing drive.

Jones won its eighth consecutive game in the “Catfight” rivalry series.

Copiah-Lincoln 44, Northeast Mississippi 14
Deantre Jackson had 164 of Copiah-Lincoln’s 299 rushing yards, and scored three touchdowns as the Wolves (5-4) crushed Northeast Mississippi (3-6) in the season finale for both teams.

Tray Minor added 89 rushing yards and a touchdown for Co-Lin. Jackson scored on runs of 5, 11 and 46 yards in the first half to push the Wolves to a 38-0 lead.

Northeast Mississippi quarterbacks Caden Greer and Jeremiah Harrell were a combined 1-of-11 passing for eight yards.

Mississippi Delta 30, Coahoma 15
Troy Griffin threw two touchdown passes and ran for two more scores to lead Mississippi Delta (2-7, 1-5 MACCC North) past Coahoma Community College (0-9, 0-6).

Both of Griffin’s touchdown passes went to Daniel Hall in the first quarter as the Trojans jumped to a 23-0 lead. Griffin finished 8-of-14 passing for 98 yards, and ran for 95 yards.

Coahoma quarterback Edwin Merriweather threw two touchdown passes, including a 96-yarder to Deshaun Catron in the fourth quarter. Merriweather finished 7-of-26 passing for 142 yards, with one interception.

Former Warren Central standout Logan Myles had two solo tackles and one tackle for loss for Coahoma.