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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 […]

The first and only regular-season meeting of the year between perennial Class 6A prep boys basketball powers Biloxi and Pascagoula didn’t come until the current campaign was almost three months old, But the showdown was well worth the wait. Pascagoula’s Dorrian McMillian banked in a buzzer-beating 3-point shot from just shy of the mid-court stripe […]

The Biloxi Indians wrapped up the top seed in Region 8-6A Thursday night with a resounding 76-47 win over home-standing Harrison Central. The win leaves veteran head coach Seber Windham’s squad at a perfect 6-0 in league play and Biloxi moves to 19-2 overall and the Indians were set to host Pascagoula in the final […]

The top-ranked Hancock Lady Hawks regained sole possession of first place in Region 8-6A Friday night. For now. Hancock moved to a stellar 25-1 overall and finished regular season region play at 5-1 with a thrilling 45-43 win over home-standing Gulfport at Bert Jenkins Gym. The victory also enabled the Lady Hawks to avenge their […]

St. Stanislaus has a new head football coach, but he is a familiar face to the Rock-a-chaw program. Former SSC assistant coach Tim Lala becomes the seventh head football coach at SSC since the 2000 season. He comes to Bay St. Louis from Pascagoula High, where he served as the strength coach, special teams coordinator, […]

The “Southern Six” will be well represented this weekend as 21 teams compete to advance to next Tuesday’s South State championship matches. There are seven head-to-head matchups involving teams from the 228 Sports coverage in the six most southern counties of South Mississippi with five of the matches involving squads from the same division. Boys’ […]

The George County boys remained on pace to secure the top seed in the upcoming Region 8-5A tournament with a 69-52 win over visiting Vanleave Tuesday night. The Lady Rebels made it a clean sweep on the evening with a commanding 49-21 win over the Lady Bulldogs to open the night. The 17-point win by […]

There have been numerous postponements in both prep basketball ad prep soccer for Tuesday’s action as well as some cancellations of other hoops games in the “Southern Six”. We will try and keep you updated on our social media site on both our Facebook page as well as our Twitter account of all of that […]

The “Southern Six” had an impressive showing over the weekend in the opening round of the MHSAA soccer playoffs.  19 teams joined the 13 division winners in the second round.  Round two was scheduled to be played Tuesday but similar to the weekend, several teams moved up their games to Monday night to get ahead […]