Deshaunte Jones, No. 18 Colerain have little trouble eliminating St. Xavier

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Before a big game, football coaches tend to skirt around the keys, or be very vague.

Don't turn the ball over. Control the clock. Stop the big play.

But St. Xavier (Cincinnati) coach Steve Specht got right to the point when discussing what the Bombers had to do to beat Colerain (Cincinnati), the nation's No. 18 team according to the MaxPreps Xcellent 25 National Football Rankings presented by the Army National Guard: Slow down quarterback Deshaunte Jones, a quick and nimble 6-foot, 175-pound senior.

"He's electrifying," Specht told MaxPreps Thursday. "He's very special."

St. Xavier (7-5) couldn't stop Jones on Saturday and now its season is over after, according to Mike Dyer of the Cincinnati Enquirer, he rushed for rushed 14 times for 227 yards and three touchdowns in a 42-14 OHSAA Division I Quadrant 3 second-round win.

Some 5,500 fans watched the fleet and nimble Jones put this one away with a 69-yard touchdown jaunt early in the fourth quarter to seal the game away. That put Colerain (11-1) up 35-7.

Zach Johnson tacked on a 44-yard touchdown scamper with 6:15 left before St. Xavier's Louie Raines returned the ensuing kickoff 72 yards for the game's final score.

When Jones wasn't rushing for touchdowns, he was making great reads and pitches. According to Dyer, Jones made a fantastic pitch to Gunnar Leyendecker, who scampered 62 yards for a touchdown to put Colerain up 28-7 midway through the third.

Specht told Dyer earlier in the week of Jones: "You are talking about quite possibly the best football player in the state of Ohio."

Jones had other TD runs of 21 and 2 yards. Monalo Caldwell added a 2-yard touchdown run to open the scoring for Colerain, which had faced St. Xavier 15 times in the last 15 years, eight times in the postseason.

St. Xavier had a 9-6 edge in those 15 games, including 5-2 in the playoffs. Colerain, which now faces Elder, beat St. X 13-10 in overtime in Week 2 of the season.