The Pro Football Hall of Fame is doing something new this year by hosting its first ever high school all-star game known as the World Bowl. Only 67 players from the Planet Earth got the invite and one of them…
St. Martin’s Ham McGee isn’t quite done with his high school football career following his addition to the Mississippi-Alabama All-Star Game roster on Monday. He also represented the south in Saturday’s Bernard Blackwell Classic, following his second straight 1,000 yard…
With a collection of all the best talent on one field comes a collection of all the best rivalries. Even though all-star games are a lot bigger than one team or one player, those grudges don’t just go away. Why…
It’s back to the grind for the 12 local high school football players selected for the 70th annual Bernard Blackwell All-Star Game. Today was the second day of practice ahead of Saturday’s north-south classic, with the south team holding up…
With the exception of one state champion in each classification, the unfortunate part of the high school football playoffs is every other team ending their seasons with a loss. But this week, it doesn’t have to be that way for…
High school football season isn’t quite over yet with the 70th annual Bernard Blackwell All-Star Game set for Saturday. The north-south affair will kick-off from Gulfport’s Milner Stadium at 11:30 a.m. with the first practices starting tomorrow at 7 p.m.…
Saturday, history repeated itself in the 4A State Title Game with the Poplarville Hornets coming up just short of a championship for the second time in three years. The greater the success sometimes the greater the heartbreak and that was…
Poplarville Hornet football team's last two runs to the 4A state championship game both started the same way, a season opening loss at St. Martin in 2016 and a season opening loss at Picayune in 2018. Thirty-eight wins later, Poplarville…
Resurrection Catholic looking to fill some big shoes with head football Coach Scott Sisson stepping down from the program this week. During his six seasons with the Eagles, Sisson led the team to an overall record of 51-24 including a…
Poplarville’s last two runs to the 4A state championship game both started the same way, a season opening loss at St. Martin in 2016 and a season opening loss at Picayune in 2018. Other than that, the Hornets have only…
The weekly stat lines of our News 25 Student Athlete of the Week are hard to comprehend. Poplarville running back Chase Shears has only 63 carries on the season, but 19 of those have gone for touchdowns. The standout junior…
Ocean Springs senior running back Micah Kelly is really starting to grab some attention, having pulled in yet another division I offer today. Like his cousin, Ham McGee over at St. Martin, Kelly is being recruited by Indiana State, in…
Thanksgiving and football just seem to go together, but for most people that experience is a tryptophan induced food coma before the end of the first quarter as opposed to actually playing football. East Central and Poplarville can’t afford to…
Picayune head football Coach Dodd Lee says he’d drive all the way to Arkansas just to play in this year’s state title game. Thankfully for him, that 5A clash is less than an hour up the road in Hattiesburg, but…
St. Martin running back Ham McGee is the recipient of his second division I offer courtesy of Indiana State. The graduating senior tells News 25 his other D1 look came from Southern Miss during his sophomore year to go along…
Tonight, Poplarville was looking for its 12th win in a row, rolling out the welcome mat for the South Pike Eagles at the Hornet’s Nest. Poplarville-49 South Pike-28. Picayune-41 Laurel-22
Both the East Central Hornets and Poplarville Hornets are coming into tonight’s action on a crash course for the Hornet Bowl part two. To get there, both of those teams had to win tonight in a pair of home playoff…
They say the sequel never tops the original, but try getting the East Central football team to believe that. Tonight, the Hornet’s head into the 4A quarterfinal match-up against West Lauderdale, still undefeated for the second year in a row.…
It’s hard to believe the East Central football team is still undefeated without the likes of Brown as well as Mississippi State tight end Brad Cumbest. In other ways, it’s exactly where the Hornets expected to be leading up to…
If district play is the second season then let’s call it the third season here on News 25 Friday Night Showcase. Playoffs are underway in every classification. An interesting situation played out for the Gulfport Admirals who already know their…
After being fired and then reinstated as the head football coach at Bay High in a period of less than two weeks back in March, Benji Foreman is stepping away from the program for good this time. First reported by…
On paper, tonight’s rivalry game between Gulfport and Biloxi doesn’t do anything to shake up the playoff picture. Gulfport is locked in as the one seed. Biloxi is out. Gulfport-34 Biloxi-20 Hancock-24 Pascagoula-21 George County-32 Meridian-6 Stone-55 Long Beach-3 Picayune-58…
Tonight, Ocean Springs took on the Harrison Central Red Rebels. Ocean Springs wins 24-21.
This week it is winner-take-all for D’Iberville and St. Martin who both came into tonight’s regular season finale with equal district marks of 3-3. St. Martin wins 48-28