End of a 5-year streak tops the biggest news of Week 6 on the MS Coast
Friday’s slate represented the fewest games we’ll see in the regular season around the Mississippi Coast.
But it was by far the most consequential week, thus far. While the majority of 5A and 6A slept, Region 4-7A had its deck thoroughly reshuffled and R8-4A may have already played its de facto title game.
Here’s a breakdown of the biggest stories of week six before we officially begin heading down the hill on the 2025 regular season on Friday.
Greyhounds’ run comes to a hard stop
Nothing lasts forever, and Gulfport ensured as much. Blake Pennock proved to be the creator and destroyer of a winning streak that dated back to the 2020 season.
Gulfport pounded Ocean Springs, 41-28, in a game that was not nearly as tight as the score may suggest and snapped the Greyhounds’ 25-game winning streak within the Coast’s highest classification.
Cooper Crosby was veritably unstoppable with five touchdowns scored himself and helped build a Gulfport lead that hit 41-14 with three minutes remaining in the game and eventually deliver its rival its first region loss since Nov. 20, 2020 against Harrison Central.
You’ll have to go back another year for the last time the Greyhounds lost such a game by double digits. That one also courtesy of Gulfport in Nov. 2019.
Ocean Springs has won four consecutive district titles and it hasn’t been eliminated from chasing a fifth. But the road gets no easier with new clubhouse leader D’Iberville hosting the Greyhounds.
D’Iberville on top, for now
The reascention of D’Iberville football continued with an emphatic statement in the trenches of The Tropics. The Warriors defensive front dominated at West Harrison and was the driving force in the 25-7 win that put them at the top of R4-7A with a 2-0 region record.
D’Iberville is now the lone school on the Coast with an unblemished record. But that zero in loss column doesn’t tell the full story. It’s last five wins have come by an average margin of 25.6 points. Four of those games were on the road.
The Warriors have the No. 1 scoring defense on the Coast and will put that, along with its region lead, on the line when they host Ocean Springs Friday.
Pirates positioned for program first
If Vegas oddsmakers were to concern themselves with South Mississippi prep sports they’d peg The Pass as the overwhelming favorite to win the R8-4A district title after just one region game.
The Pirates took care of Greene County, 28-14, and have three games left on their region schedule against teams that are a combined 5-12 and all they have to do is win two.
Pass Christian has not won a district title in the classification era and last brought home a championship in 1975 when it won the Pascagoula River Conference with a still-standing school record 10 wins.
This is Jeff Stockstill’s third team at The Pass. The first two lost three region games all by one score. These Pirates are scoring 39 points per game, have the Coast’s leading passer in Paris Trivillion and the state’s leading touchdown catcher Dwight Sullivan.
