MACJC
All-Star Classic set for December
Northeast
Sports Information
Northeast
Mississippi Community College’s Keenum Stadium will host the
thirty-sixth annual Mississippi Association of Community/Junior
Colleges (MACJC) All-Star Classic football game on Saturday, December
5.
The Magnolia
State’s 14 MACJC schools are slated to participate in the
event, which is set for a 1 p.m. kickoff.
Last year,
the South all-stars snapped a two-game win streak by the North and
were led by Copiah-Lincoln Community College quarterback Micah Davis,
who plunged his way in from two yards out in the first quarter before
hitting Hinds Community College’s Vernor Wolfe on a 5-yard
pass in the third as the South took a 16-14 decision.
With the win,
the South snapped the North’s streak in the all-star contest
and captured its second decision in the last six at Keenum Stadium.
The North still holds a 17-16-2 record in the series.
Thirty-three
players will make up the North and South sides of the ball with
each institution contributing three players and the remainder of
the squad selected by the All-Star Classic coaches but no more than
eight players from one school will be on a team.
All-Star coaches
will come from their respective division’s third place teams
– unless they coached the previous year’s all-star contest.
With only limited
time to get athletes ready, defenses are basic with tricks and stunting
prohibited.
Athletes will
report to the MACJC All-Star Classic headquarters at noon on Thursday,
December 3 and immediately hit the field following.
Each squad
– North and South – will have three practices before
Saturday’s game. Thursday players will only practice once
while teams double up on Friday.
The MACJC All-Star
Classic has been a springboard from community college to the next
level of football. Numerous athletes from past all-star classics
have gone on to sign scholarships to Football Bowl Subdivision (former
the NCAA’s Division I) schools.
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