Jenkins shines in juco debut

Former Wesley Chapel quarterback Greg Jenkins has vowed to spend the next two seasons disproving the four-year schools that bypassed him during the 2008 recruiting season.

Through one junior college game, he is making good on that pledge.

Jenkins threw for three touchdowns and ran for another Thursday night to lead defending juco national champ Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College to a 39-14 road victory at Northwest.

Jenkins, who arrived at MGCCC as a walk-on but has since earned a scholarship, finished 10-for-15 for 141 yards in three quarters.

The downside: A couple of interceptions, and a five-hour team bus ride back to the MGCCC campus in Perkinston. Jenkins said the team arrived home at roughly 2 a.m., allowing him about a five-hour nap before his 8 a.m. college algebra class.

"I think I did pretty good," Jenkins said after class this morning. "I had a couple of up-and-down (moments)...but other than that, I think I did pretty good."

JOEY KNIGHT, Times Staff Writer