Three Harrison Central Girls Basketball players put pen to paper

The only high school basketball team from the six Coastal counties to play in a state championship game more recently than Moss Point is Harrison Central.

The Red Rebelettes taking the program back to the promise land for the first time since 2005 on the back of a star-studded senior class for the ages.

This afternoon, three of them signing National Letters of Intent, Hayleigh Breland and Laila Walker with Jackson State and Khyla Ragins with Pearl River Community College.

Breland made an immediate impact upon her arrival from Stone High School, leading the team with more than 16 points per game as a senior.

Mix that into a program that had already been to the Final Four twice in a row, alongside Walker, the team’s leading rebounder, and Ragins, the glue that holds it all together, and the end result is a season, and a senior class, that will never be forgotten. Ragins said, “It feels really good signing today with two seniors that have been with me for a little minute past basketball. It’s just a great feeling.”

Breland said, “It’s great that the hard work paid off. I mean we all worked so hard together, and we bonded together so quick, so it’s just good to see the hard work pay off.”

Walker said, “When they bring up Harrison Central, the first thing they think about is the girl’s basketball team. I want people to talk about those girls were dominant, everything that they can say about us because anything that you name about basketball, we did it. The hustle, we did it. The grind, we did it. So, it’s a lot that y’all can say – anybody can say – about Harrison Central. And I feel like we left our mark, a really big one.”

The Red Rebelettes finished this season with an overall mark of 29-3.