Co-Lin advanced to state football title game

WESSON – Tonight’s Mississippi Association of Community and Junior College state semifinal game pitted the state’s No. 1 ranked offense of the East Mississippi Lions, against the state’s No. 1 ranked defense of the Co-Lin Wolfpack. The defense prevailed as the Wolfpack took a 48-21 win to gain a berth in the state championship game. The No. 10 Wolfpack (9-1, 5-1) will host No. 12 Mississippi Gulf Coast in the MACJC State Championship game on Saturday, Nov. 13. Kickoff for the game has been set for 5 p.m.

Gulf Coast, the South Division’s No. 2 seed, defeated previously unbeaten and No. 4 ranked Northwest Rangers 52-24 in the other semifinal match-up. The Bulldogs are the only blemish on Co-Lin’s record defeating the Wolfpack 23-3 on Oct. 16 in Perkinston.  (Courtesy of colinathletics.com.)

Read more in Wednesday’s Copiah County Courier.