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OLA Women’s Soccer: Olivia Gelpi signs with Louisiana

Over in Bay St. Louis, it’s Our Lady Academy soccer standout Olivia Gelpi putting down ink with the University of Louisiana. A prolific goal-scorer for the Crescents during her junior season, Gelpi put 27 balls in the back of the…

St. Martin’s Leo Harris signs with UAB

This afternoon at a ceremony in St. Martin, Leo Harris signed to play division I baseball at UAB. The senior pitches and plays shortstop for the Yellowjackets, but really excels on the mound where he posted a sub 2 ERA…

Ocean Springs Fall Signing Day Class of 2019

With Ocean Springs being the second-largest high school in the state of Mississippi, it would make sense for the Greyhounds to have the biggest fall Signing Day class on the entire Gulf Coast. This morning, ten student athletes put pen…

USM football not adding 12th game

If there’s anything encouraging about USM’s 26-23 overtime loss at UAB on Saturday, it’s the hope that Southern Miss can now win its final two regular season games and become bowl eligible for the fourth straight year. That’s the only…

Biloxi basketball player JaRonn Wilkens commits to PRCC

Biloxi forward JaRonn Wilkens made his commitment to Pearl River Community College. He’ll be joining up with his twin brother, Jariyon Wilkens, as well as fellow teammate Dontavius Proby as a member of the Wildcats. The two brothers came over…

Long Beach basketball player Calvin Johnson commits to MGCCC

On Friday, Long Beach boys basketball standout Calvin Johnson gave his verbal pledge to Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College. Through his first three games this season, the senior swingman is averaging 14 points and five rebounds per game. Johnson says…

A.J. Brown breaks career receiving mark at Ole Miss

Ole Miss wide receiver A.J. Brown is the school’s new leader for career receiving yards. On Saturday against Texas A&M, the junior broke the previous mark set by Shay Hodge which was 2,646. Brown needed just 32 games to surpass…

Saints embarrass Bengals in blowout win

Even without Dez, the Saints posted a season-high for points in a game in Sunday’s 51-14 victory over the Bengals. New Orleans moved the ball at will against Cincinnati becoming only the second team this season to put up 50…

Saints sign wide receiver Brandon Marshall

Even with the Saints riding an eight-game winning streak for the second consecutive season, they aren’t backing down in their hunt for another big play threat on the outside. Today, New Orleans signed veteran wide receiver Brandon Marshall to a…

West Harrison cheerleaders sign with MGCCC

Three cheerleaders at West Harrison High School will no longer be yelling ‘Go Canes’ on the sidelines. This morning, seniors Hannah Sexton, Jaden Dedeaux, and Jathan Watson all made the commitment to continue their cheerleading careers at the next level.…

News 25 Game of the Week: Petal at Gulfport

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…

Dez Bryant injured in practice

After practicing with the New Orleans Saints for the first time yesterday, wide receiver Dez Bryant’s season might already be over. The Saints reported today that Bryant suffered what they fear is a torn Achilles. Bryan is going for an…

High School Boys Basketball: Long Beach vs. Biloxi

When it comes to an early season test, the test doesn’t get much harder than the Biloxi boys basketball program coming off last year’s incredible two loss regular season. Tonight, the Indians were taking on Long Beach led by first-year…

Dez Bryant makes Saints practice debut

The Dez Bryant era has officially begun for the New Orleans Saints who have yet another tool in the toolbox for their second-ranked offense. Today, he signed with the team and took part in his first practice. Still rocking number…

Benji Foreman resigns as Bay High coach

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…

Saints riding league-high seven game winning streak

At the start of the season, the Saints were dealt the league’s second hardest schedule which has so far panned out to the opposition going 31-27-1 outside of games against the Saints. Ready or not, it gets even worse in…

Dez Bryant to sign with Saints

Despite ranking second in the league in points per game, the New Orleans Saints are thin at wide receiver. Likewise, Dez Bryant has been unemployed for more than six months, but that’s all about to change. The former Dallas Cowboys…

Southern Miss still alive in the west

As a byproduct of 18 straight winning seasons in USM’s recent history, getting to bowl games is something Southern Miss does pretty routinely. That post-season journey gets a little more difficult this week against UAB. The Golden Eagles have some…