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Thanks again to First American National Bank for supporting our coverage of Mississippi Sports.
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Cee Dee Lamb snatching his phone back from his GF is highlight of draft so far.
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Welp, was just told that a Mississippi High school football coach got into a fight in the stands while scouting at another game. This is a wild development.
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Our prayers to Sadie Downs, a 16-year-old student athlete from Mooreville High School, who was diagnosed with an unusual form of stomach cancer known as gastric adenocarcinoma earlier this year. Her family made a post updating her condition recently and, put simply, they say…
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One one side: a high school football coach who previously was a coach at Mississippi State and LSU gets into a fight in the stands. On the other, a Noxapater freshman cleans the locker room after his game. But, it’s the kids today that are the problem, right?
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Fight broke out on opening night at the Quitman/Wayne County game. Football is officially back in Mississippi. Also, this is pathetic
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Ole Miss close to announcing that Lane Kiffin is going to be the highest paid coach in Mississippi college football history is the word that is on the street.
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East Union's Ethan Lamontagne beat cancer twice before he even finished his freshman year of high school. This February, he underwent surgery to remove a brain tumor, then had 6 weeks of radiation. He would leave treatment and head to the ball field a lot of times. Today he got…
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Please be in prayer for East Union baseball coach Chris Lucius who has been battling cancer. Family has stated he has been put into the ICU.
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Our heart is hurting for the Branch family this AM. Praying still for little Janie, who is 3 years old and in very critical condition. Coach Branch was also injured but left the hospital to rush to Memphis to be with Janie. If you’re so inclined, send up prayers.
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BREAKING: An airplane in Tupelo is threatening to crash in to Tupelo Walmart this morning. Avoid area. Here is video of the actual airplane, a fairly large one.
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Our prayers for the family of Marshall Academy baseball player Cutter Crass who lost his life in an accident this morning on the way to practice
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When the dust settled, Amory is the 3A state champs. Back to back. The Panthers played every single game on the road after a tornado destroyed their field on March 24th.
They battled.
Lost first game of the state title series?
Battled.
Down 2-0 in the first inning.…
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12 years ago, Kenny Paul Geno won a state championship as a Sophmore at Booneville under head coach Michael Smith. 3 year old Ava Kate Smith, Michaels daughter, would have KPG carry her into the gym on his shoulders. Yesterday, 12 years to the day later, Kenny Paul was on the…
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My pal Stan Horton, who passed away last month, loved baseball and the Bulldogs. He called it.
RIP Stan and Congrats Dawgs.
#hailstate
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Breaking: Morgan Wallen cancelled his Sunday night show in Oxford due to losing his voice minutes before he was supposed to perform
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Rest in Peace to East Union baseball coach Chris Lucius who passed away following a fight with cancer. His Urchin team just won a state title earlier this month with him on the field. Life comes at you fast. Prayers to his family, team and community.
Please be in prayer for East Union baseball coach Chris Lucius who has been battling cancer. Family has stated he has been put into the ICU.
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Our thoughts and prayers to Lewisburg boys and girls basketball coach Adam Tipton who is gravely ill in hospital.
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History made. Booneville head coach Michael Smith becomes the first coach in MHSAA history to win back to back state titles in boys AND girls. An AMAZING accomplishment.
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RIP to former MSU basketball coach Nikki McCray-Penson. She passed away today after battling health problems for several years.
Nikki Kesangane McCray-Penson (December 17, 1971 — July 7, 2023) was a Hall of Fame figure in women's basketball, serving as both a player and a…
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This female umpire was assaulted by a parent after a 12 year old softball game over the weekend in Laurel, MS. Gotta set better examples than this.
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Our thoughts and prayers to the family of Mississippi coaching legend Norris Ashley of Ingomar who passed away this morning.
Ashley coached 43 years and was the all-time winningest coach in the state of Mississippi after his retirement, collecting 1,697 wins, nine state…
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Lane Kiffin hiring Arnett to be a defensive analyst at Ole Miss while Mississippi State pays the bulk of his salary via the buyout this year is pretty funny no matter who you root for.
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Prayers to the family of Marshall Academy head baseball coach Bruce Branch. His family was in a very serious car accident yesterday and his little girl, Janie, is in very serious condition at LeBonheur
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Buzzer. Beating. Game. Winner. What every kid dreams of. Championship game winning pull up jumper for Zach Shugars. Ingomar defeats Baldwyn 47-45. Great game.
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Matt Luke was thrown into a DREADFUL situation and he took the HC job for the opportunity, of course, but also out of his love for Ole Miss. if you’re an Ole Miss fan doing anything but thanking him and wishing him the best, just get out.
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Man, the Mike Leach news is tough. Updates coming out of situation are very serious. Definite prayers for the Pirate and family.
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Your 2023 3A champs…Amory. Coaches got in on the dog pile, too.
This is probably the grittiest bunch we’ve covered all year. Zero quit in them.
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The home of Ripley assistant football coach Rob Allen was hit in the weekend tornado. A weather call from WTVA likely saved their family. His son, Tanner, still took to the mound for a schedule start later that day.
Ripley High School's junior LHP, Tanner Allen, is not just an…
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Tupelo defensive lineman and Ole Miss commit Jacarius Clayton with the sack on 4th down. He is a LOAD. He throws up the land shark after.
@Lane_Kiffin
and company poised to get a monster. Tupelo up 22-0 over Corinth at the half.
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TCPS assistant coach Shaune Holiday embracing his sons Khi and Layth after winning a state title, then the brothers smiling and hugging it out.
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It is with deep sadness that we share the passing of Janie Branch. Continue to pray for the Branch family.
Our Angel is healed. She is in the arms of Jesus.
Janie Sumrall Branch
October 10, 2017-September 6, 2021
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Kossuth baseball retired
#18
last night in honor of former coach Daniel Threadgill who lost his battle with cancer in the offseason.
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The Marshall Academy school, family, friends and the baseball team are asking for prayers and holding a vigil for little Janie Branch, young daughter of head baseball coach Bruce Branch.
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I think this is our favorite sign from the 2023 MHSAA baseball championship games, from an Amory fan.
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One bus trip to get two gold balls is efficiency for Coach Cliff Little. Congrats to him and his Biggersville squads.
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Most of the athletics facilities at Amory High School suffered catastrophic damage from the tornado last night. Pray for Amory!
Amory Baseball, softball, football stadium, concession stand and the National Guard Armory.
Picture from Jay Holman.
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Imagine 30-50 of these feral hogs running at you
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With high school football season in the books, we need to figure out a way to make sure that high school basketball gets to finish it out as well. Whatever it takes.
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Huge congrats to Ingomar standout and MS Gatorade Player of the Year Macie Phifer on committing to play college basketball at Middle Tennessee
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Something the world needs more of is winning with dignity and class. Enter East Union Coach Josh Blythe. His squad had just won North Half in a hard fought 3 game series against Myrtle. He took the time to console several opposing players before celebrating with his team.
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Sports can pull a community together after a disaster. Look no further than Amory for an example of that.
The Amory baseball team hasn’t played a home game since March 25th when a devastating tornado tore their field apart. On Wednesday night, the Panthers took a 1-0 series…
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@TimRunsHisMouth
I’ve also never seen a George Washington hat. Very suspect. Demand a recount.
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BRICE. DEATON. BOMB. He drills a 3 run shot to give Pontotoc a 4-3 lead over Corinth in the top of the 7th. Off the scoreboard.
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Ole Miss offering Lane Kiffin 9.5 million bucks per year and going to make him say no.
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Amory is headed to play for a state title. Coach Chris Pace said climbing to the top of the mountain isn’t the hard part. The hard part is staying on top of the mountain. So far, the Amory Panthers have done that despite dealing with tornado on March 24 that decimated the team’s…
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Going through some midseason baseball stats and this is a standout:
Ripley's Ty Long is 6-0 with a 0.33 ERA and 100 K's. He has allowed just 17 hits in 42.1 innings pitched.
The Southern Miss commit is DEALING it.
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In sports, some things are bigger than the game or the final outcome.
Amory softball could have canceled the rest of their season and no one would have blamed them. A devastating tornado tore through the town on March 25th, destroying their softball facility. Everyone on the team…
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I want to give a special shout out to the Marshall Academy Softball team. They won on the field today 12-1 over North Delta in a game swirling with emotions for everyone involved. But they also wore green (their normal colors are red, white and blue) and wore "Playing for Lindy"…
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A better angle of the walk off game winner to give Booneville a 4-3 win over a Kossuth. Kossuth fans are saying it’s clearly interference on the runner, but obviously wasn’t called that way. What do you say?
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Biggersville coach Stan Platt celebrating with his family after the Lions punched their ticket to the first state title game in school history. This is the emotion of this season and high school football in general rolled into one pic. (Credit: Rocky Higginbotham Photography)
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Last Friday night Levi Smith, a Myrtle senior, got into the end zone with an assist from his teammates. It was a moment years in the making.
Levi was in a traumatic ATV accident nearly 4 years ago that cut his football career short and it has taken years of rehab to get where…
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Congrats to Coach Pace and Amory. We spoke with him after several games this year and he was always quick to praise his players and coaches. We think he did a great job keeping his squad focused all year, too. This is what he said after todays state title win.
“We had all the…
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I can’t tell if there is a correlation here, but is seems worth noting: two of the absolute BEST coaches in the Sip, Ingomar’s Trent Adair and Pine Grove’s Katie Bates, Coach at their Alma Mater. They just win. Their teams would also run through a brick wall for either.
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In brighter football news, here is JyKavius Riddle, Noxapter freshman, showing how it’s done cleaning the away locker room After the game. This is his character.
📸: Caleb Kelly
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Our prayers up to the Lewisburg community and the family of student athlete Morgan Howell who tragically passed away from a vehicle accident yesterday. Howell was a member of the football and wrestling teams. Just a Sophmore.
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It is looking increasingly likely that Oklahoma offensive coordinator Jeff Lebby will be the next head coach at Mississippi State
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A super emotional Hallie Burns postgame interview. Worth the watch. Thanking God and her teammates and talks about playing through visible pain. Burns is so poised and is always giving her all. Hard not to want to see her succeed, Ole Miss softball is getting a good one.
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Huge breaking Mississippi coaching news: multi time state champion girls basketball coach Katie Walker Bates, who won 4 straight titles from 2017-2020, is leaving Pine Grove to take the girls head coaching job at Ripley, where she started her career with much success.
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It’s Stan Horton’s birthday today. He would definitely be saying not to panic and Mississippi State was going to come back and win
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The Marshall Academy state championship win on Saturday means more 8 months after tragedy.
“In the apple cider bubbles and the confetti and the noise and the wind and the swirling dirt, she was there. They did it, and they did it Janie Strong.”
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The Big 5 Sports in Mississippi are universally considered to be Football, Boys Basketball, Girls Basketball, Baseball and Softball. Over the last 3 years in the Big 5, Booneville has ripped off a stretch unlike any I have seen: 8 titles including todays softball 3-peat. Unreal.
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Macie Phifer was honored before the game as Miss Basketball in 1A.
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Pine Grove with a gritty OT win over West Lowndes 48-46. Cooper Pounders, playing through personal tragedy after losing his sister Olivia yesterday, comes through clutch with a game high 18 points, including a 3 to send the game to OT and FT to seal the win. Our continued prayers…
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With Pine Grove boys, Belmont girls and the boys and girls from Booneville AND Biggersville playing for the Gold Ball this week there is going to be a massive caravan coming from the hills of Northeast Mississippi to Jackson starting this evening.
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Tonight was the last game for Kinsley Gordon at Myrtle. One of the all time MS multi-sport greats: D1 signee and state champ in softball, 2500 points in basketball, volleyball all-star, multiple track gold medals. Been fun watching you out there, kid. Keep being great.
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Wow! This isn’t something you see every day. A bear was spotted today in Destin, Florida taking a swim in the Gulf near the Jade East Towers condominium!
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Germantown leading Tupelo 12-11 after 1 quarter. Mikayla Riley with an ankle breaker on this move though. This is set up to be a really good one.
@THSGoldenWave
@MacCorleone74
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Booneville’s Niyah Cook with her mother Brittany Davis, herself a state champion with Falkner in 2005. Niyah went 30-3 at Booneville while Brittany helped lead Falkner to a 34-2 mark. It runs in the family!
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Congrats to Coach Blythe and East Union. One of the good ones who runs a good program. Also: he tells me to go get whatever out of the concession stand, and EU has one of the best. Another thing: this East Union team is young. They could very well be back.
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Back to back: Biggersville wins again and they are your 1A champs
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Marshall Academy baseball lost Cutter Crass,
#8
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The Patriots, no strangers to playing through and overcoming adversity in the face of tragedy, went on the road to the Spring Break coast tournament and they returned as winners.
The whole week was…
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If Ole Miss wins 9 or more games, Matt Corral wins the Heisman.
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Biggersville coach Case Ingram details the final play call which clinched the 1A football championship.
High school sports. Not much better.
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In our opinion, the two GOAT’s of Mississippi High School girls basketball
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As if we, as Mississippians and lovers of baseball, needed another reason to pull for Southern Miss to win the whole thing this year, head coach Scott Berry announced he will be retiring at the end of this year.
Let's go, Golden Eagles. See you in Omaha?
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Booneville Junior High banked in a half court buzzer beater after in bounding the ball with under a second to play to beat Ripley 45-44. Wild.
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Our prayers up to Falkner Head Football coach Kevin Walton who is having open heart surgery next week. I know Falkner High is taking up a love offering for him and his family if you are so inclined you can contact them. Here is to a speedy recovery!
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Breaking: former North Panola and Columbus coach Randal Montgomery named new head football coach at Southaven
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This is one of the best Mississippi championship celebration pics we’ve seen so far this year, of Marshall Academy after winning an MAIS title.
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Love to see the Amory flags flying in downtown Tupelo. Amory is still rebuilding their field after the devastating tornado earlier this year. Tupelo is playing host to the Amory football teams home games, starting tonight against Saltillo. Class move from Tupelo!
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Amory’s Bryce Glenn walks it off. His solo shot in the bottom of the 7th gives Amory’s a 7-6 win over Kossuth.
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Prayers: Former Mississippi star Christian Saulsberry who currently playing in the CFL was shot and killed after someone fired into a crowd at a party late last night. Our thoughts and prayers to former Northpoint Christian, ICC, West Alabama and current CFL Edmonton Elks player.
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Ball game. Your 5A state Champion Saltillo Tigers. Dogpile!
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One of our Alcorn County insiders Mr. Larry Glidewell has been telling me Biggersville’s Drew Rowsey is the most underrated QB in the state and tonight he proved that: 21/25 passing for 373 yards and SIX TD. A gamer.
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Coach Bates post game talking about her squad, praising God and closing out with “there is no place like Pine Grove”
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No big deal, just Ripley kicker Freddy Lopez warming up from 50 yards and kicking it out of the field. Best kicker in Mississippi.
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Showing love. Biggersville coach Cliff Little, who played for a state title earlier in the day, embracing his former player Mitchell McCurry who just won a state title as a coach of Louisville. McCurry won a state title as a player with East Webster under Little.
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With the Mississippi HS sports season almost done, who are the best multi-sport athletes you’ve seen? A few for me:
Stone Blanton, MRA
Ty Keyes, Taylorsville
Khi Holiday, TCPS
Cayden Betts, Corinth
Chandler Pittman, Magee
Deandre Smith, Greeneville
Carson Rowland, Pine Grove
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What a comeback! Your 7A state champion Lewisburg Patriots!
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If
@KeithCarterOM
isn’t planning a golf ball giveaway for the next home game already then he should be. You’re welcome
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Sometimes we take a picture we love because it captures action perfectly...the game winning run, a big strikeout or whatever the case may be. But, more often, we capture a picture we love because it captures moments. File this pic of Amory Coach Chris Pace & family as a moment.
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Huge congrats to Ingomar multi-sport standout Macie Phifer who became the all time girls leading scorer at Ingomar, one of the most storied basketball schools in Mississippi history. Just a Junior, she has already put up 2,783 points (and counting)
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Huge congrats to Ingomar standout junior Macie Phifer on being named the Gatorade player of the year in Mississippi!
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This has been one of my favorite preseason football pictures I’ve seen, taken of the Falkner football team and new coach Kevin Walton.
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As the last seconds ticked away in the 3A boys state championship and it was clear that Booneville was going to win, I feel like this picture captured what Blue Devil Head Coach Michael Smith was feeling knowing he had just won 4 state titles in two years and his 7th state title…
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WALK IT OFF! Gracie Williams gets the walk off single to win the state title for Kosciusko 10-9 over North Pike. Amazing comeback.
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100 REASONS TO CELEBRATE: Regina Chills guides Lady Cougars to improbable 1A state title, captures 100th career win in GOLDEN fashion
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