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In the midst of the craziness that surrounds prep basketball in South Mississippi in early-to-mid February every year as region tourneys and subsequently, state playoffs commence in gyms across the “Southern Six” outdoors on diamonds and fields prep baseball comes alive as well. And this season is no different. While almost 40 prep basketball squads […]

Ocean Springs has a new head football coach in place. Greyhound administration announced earlier this week that OSHS offensive coordinator Jake Bramlett has been elevated to the top spot of the gridiron program. Bramlett replaces Blake Pennock, who left OSHS after three very successful seasons for a similar post at Gulfport High. Bramlett expressed his […]

On Monday night in girls’ Class 5A state playoff action on Monday night, the four teams in the “Southern Six” all came up short and saw their respective seasons come to an end.  On Tuesday night, as the boys’ joined the fray, things were only a bit better for the quartet of area teams on […]

By Curtis Rockwell/228Sports and Hunter Dawkins/The Gazebo Gazette Results varied for the six “Southern Six” squads in the opening round of the Class 4A state playoffs Monday and Tuesday night. Both Bay High teams picked up wins at home to advance to the second round of action as the Lady Tigers beat Jackson Lanier 54-30 […]

The Resurrection Eagles stood strong in the opening round of the boys’ Class 1A state basketball playoffs Tuesday night in Pascagoula. But in the end, visiting Sebastopol pulled out a 63-58 win in overtime to eliminate RCS from the postseason in the process. The Bobcats led throughout most of the first three quarters, including 37-25 […]

It was a mixed bag of results for Class 6A squads in the “Southern Sox” Tuesday night in the opening round of the state playoffs. Five area teams were in action, but only two survived as the other three saw their respective seasons come o. sudden halt. The Gulfport girls traveled along with their male […]

OCEAN SPRINGS — Ocean Springs started slowly against visiting Oak Grove in its opening round Class 6A girls’ state playoff game Monday night. But fortunately for the Lady Greyhounds, they saved their best play for the second half. After falling behind by double digits early in the game, Ocean Springs stormed back and dominated the second […]

By Hunter Dawkins The Gazebo Gazette LONG BEACH — Despite outscoring the Natchez Lady Bulldogs 20-14 in the second half and holding them to only three points in the final period, the Long Beach Lady Bearcats still came up short and fell 38-34 in the first round of the Class 5A Girls Basketball state playoffs […]

The state playoffs on the boys’ side of the ledger tip-off Monday night across the state of Mississippi and there are 17 teams representing the “Southern Six” in action this week. First-round action begins with the second seeds from various respective regions hosting the third seeds from various respective regions on Tuesday night. The winners […]

GULFPORT — Both the Gulfports boys and girls basketball teams have each won at least 20 games this season on the hardwood. And that’s not the only set of two’s that the Admirals and Lady Admirals have in common in the current campaign either. In a bit of an oddity, both Gulfport varsity teams include […]

“The Starting 5 in the Southern 6” It’s Week seven of our “Starting 5 in the Southern 6” presented by 228 Sports.com in which each week throughout the rest of the prep basketball season we will highlight five individual performances from the following week as well as five upcoming games that week in our area […]

The state playoffs on the girls’ side of the ledger tip-off Monday night across the state of Mississippi and there are 16 teams representing the “Southern Six” in action this week. First-round action begins with the second seeds from various respective regions hosting the third seeds from various respective regions on Monday night for the […]

By Dwayne Bremer 228Sports Contributing Writer BAY ST. LOUIS — The Bay High boys and Pass Christian girls on Friday won their respective brackets at the Region 8-4A Tournament at the Tiger Dome here at Bay High. The boys’ game was a thriller with Bay High’s Da Jontae Lee nailing a 3-pointer with four seconds […]

By Bruce Thornton 228Sports Contributing Writer LUCEDALE — The Gautier Lady Gators and the George County Rebels went undefeated through the regular season in Division 8-5A play and that dominance carried over into tournament play as both brought home division titles Friday night.  The Lady Gators knocked off the home-standing George County Lady Rebels 54-31 […]

By Hunter Dawkins The Gazebo Gazette LONG BEACH — The West Harrison Lady Hurricanes played without their star against their cross-town, Exit 28 rival Thursday night but neither really mattered as Lady Canes beat Long Beach 48-23 for the Region 7-5A Championship. After West Harrison Senior Taylor Hopgood went down with an injury on Tuesday, the Lady […]

Both the Biloxi boys and girls teams as well as The Pascagoula Panthers and the D’Iberville Lady Warriors all clinched regions championships in Class 6A play Friday night. In Lyman, the Indians and Lady Indians swept the titles in Region 8-6A each with wins over home-standing Harrison Central as the Biloxi boys held off the […]