How George County has become the most dominant flag football team on the Coast
George County second-year coach Lane Scott went from learning Mississippi’s newest sport one step ahead of his own players last season to fielding the Coast’s most dominant team in 2026.
The Rebels are 3-0 after a 39-0 win over Vancleave on Thursday, and have outscored their opponents by a staggering 112 points.
“We’re more of a true flag football program and team this year,” Scott, an assistant on the tackle football staff, told the Sun Herald. “Last year I was trying to use my football coaching knowledge with flag football. I feel I’m more of a complete flag football coach now.”
Scott spent the offseason studying some of the top programs from around the Southeast to the benefit of returning stars like Lani McDoniel and Delanie McNair and the athletes playing the sport for the first time in the sport’s second MHSAA-sponsored season.
The results have been immediate. George County opened the season by dispatching Gautier, 33-0. It followed that up by blasting Perry Central, 43-0.
It then spoiled the Bulldogs’ Senior Day game and did so with 32 points scored in just the first half.
“We put in the work during the week,” McDoniel said. “The game is already decided, win or lose, from our work practicing that week.”
McDoniel was responsible for five touchdowns in the win. Three of them came through the air to Mallory Evans, Cambry Passeau and Jaslyn Conyers.
She also returned a punt 30 yards for a touchdown and broke off a 60-yard touchdown run in the second half.
The torrent downpour of points can be attributed to George County’s multiple-look offense of RPOs, speed option reads and hook-and-ladders and to a defense that has produced its own scoring such as when Olivia Tanner picked off a Bulldogs pass and returned it to 20 yards to the end zone.
“We focus on the process of getting better each week,” Scott said. “We don’t focus on our results, we just try to find something to get better at each week and try to become a better team for each game.”
The Rebels are the lone undefeated team in a region that has otherwise been cannibalized. East Central had previously defeated Pascagoula, but the Hornets were victim to a Week 3 upset when Gautier forced three turnovers, including two interceptions by Lillie Domingues, in a 13-7 overtime win.
That game was followed by the Panthers returning to the W column with a 25-12 win against Perry Central that featured long touchdown runs by Abby Mosley and Asante Dawson.
George County has two regular season games remaining, against Pascagoula and East Central. While the Panthers and Hornets serve as the two toughest tasks on the Rebels’ regular season schedule, George County allows itself a level of confidence as it looks to build on a state runner-up finish in the pilot campaign.
“We’ve got Pascagoula next week, and we plan on doing them just like we did Vancleave, tonight,” McNair said. “We’ve got East Central the next week. They might put up a little competition, but I still think we’re going to win. This year we plan on taking that championship home.”
