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High School Girls Basketball: Harrison Central vs. Petal

After making a Final Four run in last year’s 6A playoffs, the Harrison Central girls basketball team is once again a major threat to make a deep splash in the second season. Red Rebelettes playing host to Northeast Jones in…

Biloxi Shuckers release 2021 schedule

From Schooner’s Landing Golf Experience to live batting practice, MGM Park has been home to a lot of different things in the almost 600 days in between games for the Biloxi Shuckers. After losing their entire 2020 season due to…

Southern Miss Opening Day moved to Saturday

After losing the final 39 games of the 2020 Southern Miss baseball season due to COVID-19, what’s waiting just one more day for Opening Day of the 2021 campaign. Originally slated for 4 p.m. Friday, first pitch against Northwestern State…

Student Athlete of the Week: St. Patrick’s Nick Krass

This week’s WXXV Student Athlete of the Week is St. Patrick boys basketball star Nick Krass. Playoffs haven’t even started and Krass has already had a junior season to be proud of, including his first college basketball scholarship offer. Nick…

Lady Admirals Soccer recognized by City of Gulfport

The Gulfport High School girls soccer team was recognized by the City of Gulfport and Mayor Billy Hewes at today’s city council meeting. Head Coach Chris Pryor, his staff, and the senior captains were on hand to receive the honor…

Southern Miss baseball leadership in good hands

The 2021 Southern Miss baseball season is less than 72 hours away and the team’s leadership appears to be in good hands as we approach Opening Day. Hunter Stanley and Will McGillis are the co-captains of this…

Gautier football’s Bryson Hurst offered by Oregon

Over at Gautier High School, football star Bryson Hurst has another Power 5 offer to add to his bag. Oregon is the latest division I FBS school to come calling for the four-star offensive lineman, joining the following teams: Kentucky,…

Play of the Day: Gulf Coast reunion in Athens

WXXV Play of the Day goes to a pair of former high school softball standouts from right here on the Coast. On Saturday, Virginia took on South Alabama as a part of Georgia’s 14th annual Red and Black Showcase which…

High School Girls Basketball: Harrison Central vs. Gulfport

Same game in the Region 8 girls championship, except flip the one and two seeds, Lady Admirals on the winning side of the first two match-ups, how about the third? Gulfport-64 Harrison Central-57 Gulfport Head Girls Basketball Coach Brooke Glass…

Shuckers staying in Biloxi for next ten years

The Biloxi Shuckers might have been robbed of their entire 2020 season due to COVID-19, but as of today, their future on the Mississippi Gulf Coast is more secure than ever before. Major League Baseball has officially announced that 120…

Basketball: PRCC vs. MGCCC

To find the last time the Pearl River Community College men’s basketball team lost a home game, you’d have to go all the way back to Valentine’s Day 2019 against Mississippi Gulf Coast. Since then, the Wildcats have an overall…

Southern Miss baseball picked to win Conference USA

There is no reigning Conference USA Baseball champion from the COVID-shortened 2020 season, but Southern Miss is still getting plenty of respect as the last team to win the league crown in 2019. Today, the Golden Eagles were picked to…

WXXV Student Athlete of the Week: Alex Raybourn

Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, News 25 featured a student athlete of the week segment during high school football season. But now, News 25’s Grace Boyles is bringing that concept back to the entire school year each Wednesday. Starting at…