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LongBeach starting pitcher Eli Hodges wasn’t necessarily overpowering against home-standing Vancleave Tuesday night, as the two teams open their Class 5A South State playoffs series. But he was certainly too powerful for the Bulldogs’ bats to handle. Hodges, a senior, tossed a complete game and got the win as the Bearcats took a 4-1 decision […]

The first round of the Mississippi High School Activities Association softball playoffs got underway last Thursday and heading into Monday night seven squads in the “Southern Six” have punched their tickets to this weekend’s second round. While the next best-of-three series is set to start this Friday, a trio of teams face win-or-go-home game three […]

The state baseball playoffs are getting off to a bit of an early start across the state of Mississippi as well as in “Southern Six”. Long Beach travels to “The Landing” in Vancleave to start that best-of-three series in that Class 5A opening round match-up with the Bulldogs. The Bearcats are the third seed out […]

A quartet of teams in the “Southern Six” headed into state playoff action in their respective classifications faced off to end the regular season on the diamond on Saturday. In Lucedale, George County knocked off visiting Harrison Central 3-0 Saturday afternoon. Both teams will be the number three seeds in their regions, the Rebels in […]

Ocean Springs and Stone wrapped up the regular season last week in much different fashion. The Greyhounds, who finished second in Region 7-6A action, seem to be in fine form heading into the state playoffs after beating St. Stanislaus on Tuesday 18-5 and then topping the Tomcats on Saturday 14-4 during “Senior Day”. Stone, after […]

Several teams in the “Southern Six” that have already secured playoff berths finished up the last week of the regular season with some tune-up games this week. Biloxi, which won the Region 8-6A title, traveled to Long Beach Thursday night and the Indians came away with a 12-7 win in 10 innings. The win was […]

PASCAGOULA — The city of Pascagoula was a hotbed of prep baseball action over the past three days with a trio of games featuring a quartet of “Southern Six” squads. Thursday night, the Richie Tilman era at Pascagoula High came to an end as visiting D’Iberville came in to complete Region 7-6A play with an […]

Stone shut out home-standing Pass Christian 8-0 Tuesday night to capture the Region 8-4A championship. The win resulted in a split of the two-game series between the Tomcats and Pirates, as PCHS won in Wiggins on Friday night 4-2 but SHS earned the tie-breaker due to run differential and as a result the number one […]

After 13 years at the helm, Pascagoula head coach Richie Tillman will guide his Panthers on to the baseball field for the final time Thursday night. And, fittingly enough, he’ll do so on a field that was recently named after him. Tillman and PHS take on visiting D’Iberville to end both the regular season as […]

Springtime in South Mississippi always creates havoc for baseball and softball playoffs and this year seems to be no exception.  Game one of the state softball playoffs involving 16 teams from the “Southern Six” was scheduled to begin on Friday, however, the threat of rain has pushed most series to a Thursday night start. Game […]

(228Sports Director Curtis Rockwell and Hunter Dawkins of the Gazebo Gazette combined to produce this report) The playoff positioning in Region 7-5A is complete after action on Monday night. Picayune had already secured the top spot in the league standings coming into this week, and West Harrison was already eliminated for postseason possibilities, so it […]

The playoffs began in Class 6A and Class 5A in the “Southern Six” Tuesday night. Well, sort of…. St. Martin wasted little time in wrapping up the third and final playoff berth in Region 7-6A Tuesday afternoon. The home-standing Yellow Jackets knocked off Pascgaouls 9-3 to secure the postseason spot, in the completion of a […]

Under cool spring skies on April 15, Pascagoula’s glorious baseball past was very much on display at historic Ingalls Field.…

Both D’Iberville and Biloxi captured region championships in Class 6A play in the “Southern Six” Monday night. The Warriors took the Region 7-6A title without even stepping on the field when home-standing St. Martin rallied late to beat Ocean Springs 4-3. A couple of hours later, the Indians produced their own kind of rally and […]

The champion in Region 8-6A will be decided Monday night. Long-time arch-rivals Biloxi and Gulfport are tied atop the league standings each at 6-2 going into their respective region finales. Both teams will be on the road Monday night, as the Indians head to Lyman to face home-standing Harrison Central while the Admirals head to […]

And the beat goes on. Or, if you’re part of the baseball team at Resurrection, the more appropriate phrase might actually be “and the streak goes on”. The Eagles won their sixth consecutive Region 8-1A championship Friday night, completing a two-game sweep of Richton with a 13-3 win Friday night at Lee Tingle Field. Coupled […]