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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 […]

The annual “HoopsFest”, for many years one of the most acclaimed prep basketball events on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, returns this weekend but in a bit of a different form and in a new arena as well. The “2023 South Mississippi Hoopsfest” features six contests, five boys and one girl’s game,  beginning at 11 a.m., […]

The boys’ teams from both George County and Picayune as well as the girls’ squads from both Gautier and West Harrison each maintained their unbeaten and top-spot status atop their respective Class 5A regions Friday night. In Hurley, the visiting Rebels stopped home-standing East Central 59-34 as GCHS moved to 4-0 in the Region 8-5A. […]

The boys’ teams from both George County and Picayune as well as the girls’ squads from both Gautier and West…

Ocean Springs swept home-standing St. Martin Friday night in Region 7-6A play, while visiting Pascagoula split a pair of games…

Ocean Springs swept home-standing St. Martin Friday night in Region 7-6A play, while visiting Pascagoula split a pair of games at D’Iberville. It marked the second sweep of the week in league play for the OSHS squads, after accomplishing the same feat at home Tuesday night against Pascagoula. The Greyhounds knocked off the Yellow Jackets […]

Visiting Gulfport went to Lyman and swept Harrison Central in a pair of games Friday night, while the Moss Point…

Visiting Gulfport went to Lyman and swept Harrison Central in a pair of games Friday night, while the Moss Point boys got a big road win as well. In Region 8-6A play, the Admirals moved to 2-1 in league play and stand solidly in second place behind Biloxi after an impressive 63-36 over the Red […]

The road to a State Championship begins for 36 high school soccer teams across…

There are some big region match-ups on the hardwood tonight, but none perhaps any bigger than a boys’ match-up in…

There are some big region match-ups on the hardwood tonight, but none perhaps any bigger than a boys’ match-up in Pass Christian. The Moss Point Tigers head to Pass Christian in a battle for the top spot in Region 8-4A. The Pirates bring an impressive 5-0 mark in league play into tonight’s action, while the […]