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The Region 8-4A basketball tournament begins at The Tigerdome in Bay St. Louis Monday night. This tourney may be the most unique of the five postseason affairs taking place in the “Southern Six” this week, thanks to both the implementation as well as the logistics. Unlike most leagues across the state of Mississippi, Region 8-4A […]

By Anthony VanCourt The Gazebo Gazette For the third consecutive season, the Long Beach Bearcats are the boys Class 5A State Champions after defeating the Lafayette Commodores 1-0 Saturday night in Brandon. Lafayette (19-5) was in its first-ever trip to the championship game while Long Beach (15-2-3) has played in the last six championship games […]

The two Class 5A region basketball tournaments taking place in the “Southern Six” this week won’t follow the same scripts as those are doing in Class 6A. The Region 7-5A Tournament takes place in Long Beach and will tip off Monday with pair of girls’ games on Monday night and then be followed by a […]

It’s time to get down to the nitty-gritty in prep basketball action in the “Southern Six” as well the rest of Mississippi. Region tournaments take place all across the state beginning Monday night, and there will be five tourneys heating up the hardwood in the “Southern Six”. Some league tourneys won’t start until Tuesday afternoon. […]

Jackson County was a hotbed of prep basketball action Friday night as the regular season came to an end for many of the teams across the state. Both the Gulfport girls and boys stormed into Gautier and swept a pair of games with the home-standing Moss Point Tigers picking up a big upset win over […]

Now in its 38th year of honoring the nation’s best high school athletes, Gatorade recently announced Addison Rainey of Ocean Springs High School as the 2022-23 Gatorade Mississippi Girls Cross Country Player of the Year. Rainey is the first Gatorade Mississippi Girls Cross Country Player of the Year to be chosen from Ocean Springs High […]

By Bruce Thornton 228Sports Contributing Writer The Mississippi High School Activities Association will be handing out State Championship hardware this weekend and six teams from the “Southern Six” will be looking to bring home the gold. One team, the Gulfport Lady Admirals, will have to wait until Monday to compete for the 6A state title. […]

Longtime arch-rivals Biloxi and Gulfport picked up big wins in boys’ prep basketball action earlier this week. The Admirals of head coach Owen Miller wrapped up Region 8-6A regular season action with a 60-41 win on Senior Night over visiting Harrison Central Tuesday, moving to 22-5 overall on the season and solidly securing the second […]

In a battle between two teams that finished unbeaten in their respective regions, the D’Iberville girls nipped home-standing Pass Christian Tuesday night 47-46, The Lady Warriors went 6-0 in Region 7-6A action and will be the top seed in the league tourney starting next week at St. Martin and the Lady Pirates will do the […]

(Editors note: Anthony VanCourt of the Gazebo Gazette contributed to this report) Six prep soccer squads from the “Southern Six” will be playing for state championships in four different classifications this weekend. The “Southern Six” will be represented in all four girls’ state title match-ups as well a pair of teams in the boys’ brackets […]

It didn’t take new St. Stanialus head coach Tim Lala long to set the schedule for his first season guiding the Rock-a-Chaws. Lala took the job about a week ago but already has his sights set on the 2023 campaign. St. Stanislaus will open the season at home against Forrest County AHS on Friday, Aug. […]

By Bruce Thornton  (228Sports contributing writer) Powerhouse matchups and backyard brawls represent matchups across the coast. On Tuesday night, South State Titles are on the line as 13 of the remaining 16 teams reside in the Southern Six. The southern six counties are guaranteed to claim South State title in 6A, 4A, and Class I […]

The Region 7-6A race wrapped up last week with the Pascagoula Panthers and D’Iberville Lady Warriors taking the top seeds for the upcoming league tournament that will take place in St. Martin. The D’Iberville girls were the only team to rip through region play unbeaten, finishing at 6-0 after a win over visiting St. Martin […]

The top four seeds for the upcoming region tournaments in Class 5A in the “Southern Six” have all been decided after a quartet of local teams all finished a perfect 6-0 in league play this season. The George County Rebels and Picayune Maroon Tide as well as the Gauier and West Harrison girls all completed […]

The Pass Christian boys and girls both will be the top seeds in the upcoming Region 8-4A Tournament. The Lady Pirates finished region play with a perfect 8-0 mark, after beating visiting Greene County 53-50 Friday night to complete league play. The PCHS girls are 18-7 overall on the season. The Lady Pirates will finish […]

Although the two match-ups between home-standing Biloxi and Pascagoula were the featured contests of the six-game Hoopsfest 2023 on Saturday, four other boys teams in the “Southern Six” saw action as well. But Gulfport was the only team of that quartet to come away from the Biloxi Sports arena with any success. The Admirals of […]