To coach high school football in the year 2020 was to not only implement a game plan for Friday but also to implement a game plan for how to even get to Friday. In this COVID-shortened season,…
Saturday’s 4A state championship game between Poplarville and Louisville is the very same movie we saw back in 2018, however with a lot of new actors on each supporting cast. The Hornets were certainly looking for a different ending in…
The early signing period is lining up to be more and more hectic by the day with Biloxi’s Elijah Sabbatini announcing earlier today that he’ll be putting pen to paper on December 16th, joining George County’s M.J. Daniels. This one…
The Poplarville Hornets have no problem living up to expectations, but what happens when those expectations are met with such regularity that they’re no longer expectations. Exhibit A being the program’s fourth South State championship in the last five years…
George County football star M.J. Daniels will be taking advantage of the early signing period, announcing yesterday he would be putting pen to paper on December 16th. The 4-star recruit is currently committed to Mississippi State, but Ole Miss, where…
Football on Thanksgiving is a tradition for many Americans, whether it’s watching the NFL matchups on TV or playing a pick-up game in the yard. This Thanksgiving, two Coast football teams are trading their couches and front yard games for…
Biloxi’s Marcus Dickey committed to Army tonight and will be spending his collegiate football career with the Black Knights. This season, the senior defensive lineman was third on the Indians with 61 total tackles, first with 11 tackles for loss,…
Football on Thanksgiving has always been a long-standing American pastime but for most people that simply means watching it on TV. For Poplarville, it means having the local TV station run a South State preview for the fifth year in…
Over the past three weeks, the Pascagoula football team has seen just about everything. From winning the region 4 class 5A district championship by virtue of a four-way tiebreaker to winning a first round playoff game by virtue of a…
Poplarville vying for its fifth consecutive trip to the South State title game on the road at North Pike. Poplarville-62 North Pike-6
Pascagoula received the equivalent to a first round bye last week due to COVID-19, putting the Panthers in that situation by winning a four-way tie breaker for the region 4 class 5A district championship. Part of that tie breaker was…
Four local schools are still thankful to be playing football into late November with a trip to South State finals on the line. D’Iberville Warriors being put to the test in the second round of the playoffs against Northwest Rankin.…
Only two perfect teams remaining in South Mississippi coming into the second round of the 6A playoffs and one of them is right here on the Gulf Coast. The D’Iberville Warriors are just one win away from hosting the South…
The Pascagoula football program is going to the second round of the playoffs for the first time since 2015 just not the way the Panthers had in mind. Last week, Brookhaven had to forfeit due to COVID-19 issues, giving Pascagoula…
Two seed Harrison Central hosting three seed Pearl. Red Rebels looking for their first-ever playoff win as a 6A school. Harrison Central-49 Pearl-21
Ocean Springs Greyhounds on the road because of last week’s loss to Harrison Central. Greyhounds paying a visit to two seed Northwest Rankin. Ocean Springs-14 Northwest Rankin-17
Nine Coast teams still alive to start the night, four teams from 6A, three from 5A, and one from 4A and one from 1A. All that matters though, is how many teams are still alive at the end of the…
How is it that something seemingly so rare is almost becoming an annual tradition at George County High School? For the fourth time in the football program’s history and the second year in a row, Lucedale is home to an…
Sandwiched around Gulfport’s three year run of dominance in region 4 class 6a are two district crowns that belong to D’Iberville. The program’s reward for climbing all the way back to the top of the standings is a date with…
Two-way players in high school football are hardly uncommon, but then again most of those two-way players aren’t Justin Walley. Perhaps no one does more for his team in the entire state and after today no one does it better.…
The Pascagoula Panthers are one of the hottest football teams on the Gulf Coast heading into the class 5A playoffs and they’re going to stay hot for at least another week, just in a different way. The Panthers are moving…
With a lot still to be decided in the 6A, 5A, and 1A classifications, the big game that jumps to mind is another one featuring Harrison Central with the chance to claim a first round home game after an emotional…
The other number one seed from the Gulf Coast coming out of region 7 Class 4A, reigning South State champion Poplarville hosting Florence in the first round of playoffs. Poplarville-62 Florence-17
It’s the first week of November and seven Coast teams are starting their run at a gold ball tonight and one of them is hosting the News 25 Game of the Week. Moss Point living up to the hype once…