Scenes from Friday night’s Miss Mississippi pageant preliminaries

Check out this gallery of pictures from Friday night’s final prelimary rounds of the Miss Mississippi Pageant held in Vicksburg.

The final night of competition airs locally at 8 tonight on WLOX and a new Miss Mississippi will be crowned at the 10 p.m. close of the program.

Among winners Friday night was Miss Riverland Michaela Moore of Biloxi, who won the talent competition.