No matter what you’re in the mood for, the 35th annual Gulfport Hardwood Holiday Classic has plenty of home cooking. Although the Admirals didn’t make the cut for tonight’s championship game, both sidelines featured head coaches that used to play…
Thirty five years running and the Gulfport Hardwood Holiday Classic is still going strong with tonight’s title game featuring two of the top teams on the Gulf Coast. Unlike last year, the 2017 tournament is guaranteed to produce a local…
One of the staples of high school basketball on the Mississippi Gulf Coast is Gulfport’s Hardwood Holiday Classic. This year will be the 35th annual showing of the tournament with a field as strong as ever. Today, Gulfport High School…
Tonight’s slate of games featured another rematch from earlier this month, that being Harrison Central versus Pascagoula. Last time, the Red Rebels took care of business at home, but that’s not how things played out on this day. Pascagoula wins…
The last time Gulfport played host to Meridian that didn’t go so well. Two weeks ago today, the Admirals lost to the Wildcats by 24 in Bert Jenkins Gymnasium. As fate would have it, those same two teams got together…
The Gulfport basketball program is built on the history of nine state championships, more than any other public school in the state of Mississippi. Another part of that tradition is the Hardwood Holiday Classic. This year marks the 34th annual…
For more than three decades, a staple of high school basketball on the Gulf Coast has been the Gulfport Hardwood Holiday Classic. It’s a three-day, eight-team tournament featuring the best of the best from South Mississippi. News 25’s Jeff Haeger…
In the second game of the day at the Gulfport Hardwood Holiday Classic, West Harrison and Long Beach got together. Both teams looking for their first win of the tournament. The Bearcats hang on to win this one 71-67.
In the three years Ron Norman was the head boys basketball coach at Pascagoula he led the Panthers to the state tournament in Jackson all three years. Now, he’s the first year head coach of arguably the best team in…
A cross county rivalry between Harrison Central and West Harrison took place in game four of the holiday classic. Red Rebels go on to take this one by the final of 59-47.
In his five years as head coach of the Gulfport boys basketball team, Owen Miller has only won the Hardwood Holiday Classic one time. Even though the Admirals host it every year, that’s hardly an advantage when the eight team…
The premier high school basketball tournament in Mississippi is going on in Gulfport. It features eight of the best teams in the state, south of Jackson. News 25’s sports anchor Jeff Haeger is at the Gulfport Hardwood Holiday Classic.
With Gulfport’s Hardwood Holiday Classic having been around for more than three decades, there are a lot of connections and ties back to the tournament for players and coaches. Just look at Pascagoula High School. For starters, first year Head…