Throughout the early part of the high school basketball season, the St. Martin boys have been one of the pleasant surprises on the Gulf Coast. The Yellowjackets came into tonight’s game at West Harrison at 5-0 despite losing their top…
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…
Mississippi State is home to one of the best defenses in all of college football thanks in large part to Jeffrey Simmons. Tonight, MSU’s anchor on the defensive line validated his place as the best player on that defense and…
Back in 2009, LSU lost a game at Ole Miss due to poor clock management, coming up one second short at the Rebels’ five yard line. Which brings us to Saturday when the officials put one second back on the…
USM’s bowl chances took a big hit following a heartbreaking overtime loss at UAB, but not to be denied, Southern Miss responded with two straight wins to close out the regular season. That puts the Golden Eagles at 6-5 following…
After piling on their 10th consecutive win on Thursday, it appears that the only team capable of stopping the New Orleans Saints is the Saints and their way of preventing that is being cliché. One game at a time, albeit…
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…
Today, St. Martin alum Kalem Reddix finally found a home in the division I ranks. The University of Louisiana has accepted his commitment to the program after finishing second in receptions during his lone season at East Mississippi Community College.…
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…
Gulfport took on another team from the Mobile area in McGill-Toolen. McGill-Toolen: 50 Gulfport: 47 Moss Point: 63 Laurel: 54
Now football isn’t the only high school sport in session over the holidays with a half-dozen boys basketball teams and half of those being local, taking part in St. Martin’s fourth annual Joe Barlow Thanksgiving Invitational this week. This is…
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…
Sania Wells has a lot to be thankful for this year, having just signed her National Letter of Intent with Auburn last week. With that big day now behind her, the East Central basketball star can go back to being…
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…
There’s domination and then there’s whatever the Saints are doing. Yesterday, they ran laps around the Philadelphia Eagles en route to their ninth straight and made some history in the process as well. That 48-7 triumph is the largest margin…
Despite not going to a bowl game in each of the past two seasons, the Ole Miss nominee for the Conerly Trophy has gone on to win the award anyway. That could happen again this year with the 2017 recipient…
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.…
As one of the perennial powers in Mississippi high school softball, Harrison Central is known to produce quite a few next level players. This morning, one of the Red Rebelettes joined those collegiate ranks. Following her senior year, Jhericka Strickland…
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…
During his freshman year at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, Brandon Parker took the junior college baseball world by storm. The West Harrison alum is now capitalizing on that momentum as a sophomore by signing with a perennial power in…
Long Beach track standout Destini Pickens put pen to paper with Mississippi State this morning. Also a runner for the Youth Express Track Club, the senior Bearcat does a lot of sprinting, starring in the 100, 200, and 400 meter…
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…