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By Stan Caldwell stanmansportsfan.com PURVIS – Call Pass Christian baseball anything you like – upstarts and underdogs chief among them – but you can also call the Pirates potential giant killers in the Class 4A playoffs. Friday night at Tony Farlow Field, Pass stunned Purvis with a five-run rally in the top of …
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By Stan Caldwell stanmansportsfan.com HATTIESBURG – Bobby Halford probably summed up the weekend best for William Carey University. “That was like pulling teeth,” the veteran Crusader coach said after Carey escaped a Southern States Athletic Conference weekend series against Blue Mountain Christian with a 10-7 victory in the series finale, the second game …
Read More “Crusaders salvage 10-7 win in third game of SSAC series vs. Blue Mountain”
By Stan Caldwell stanmansportsfan.com Over the course of a 40-year professional career as a sportswriter, and a dedicated sports fan long before that, there aren’t many sports I haven’t had at least one personal acquaintance with. Big-time football? I’ve been to multiple Sugar Bowls, plus several other bowl games, numerous New Orleans Saints …
Read More “A Day at the Races: There’s a first time for everything in visit to Oaklawn”
By Stan Caldwell stanmansportsfan.com HATTIESBURG – A team that wins at the level Resurrection Catholic has become accustomed to playing does not fold in clutch situations. And the Eagles didn’t fold this time either, holding off a furious Sacred Heart comeback for a 6-5 decision in a key clash in Region 8-1A Tuesday …
Read More “Resurrection holds off Sacred Heart 6-5 to clinch another title in 8-1A”
By Stan Caldwell stanmansportsfan.com HATTIESBURG – Presbyterian Christian got part of what it wanted Friday night, but wasn’t able to claim the prize it really wanted. The Bobcats held off Madison-Ridgeland 8-6 in the opening game of a District 1-6A doubleheader at Bobcat Field to clinch the best-of-three game series, but came up …
Read More “PCS rides 8-6 win in DH opener to take series; MRA gains split in nightcap 6-5”
By Stan Caldwell stanmansportsfan.com LAUREL – Let the record show that there is no one named Murphy on the Pearl River Central baseball roster. But there might as well have been the way things went for the Blue Devils in the second game of their Region 3-6A showdown series with West Jones, because …
Read More “West Jones drops mistake-prone Blue Devils 8-2 in 3-6A showdown series”
By Stan Caldwell stanmansportsfan.com HATTIESBURG – After a couple of sub-par seasons, at least by its high standards, Oak Grove appears ready to reassert itself as a championship contender in baseball. The Warriors used the longball and some clutch pitching to earn a hard-fought 7-4 victory over Northwest Rankin Wednesday night at Harry …
Read More “Oak Grove outlasts Northwest Rankin 7-4 in Region 3-7A showdown”
By Stan Caldwell stanmansportsfan.com PURVIS – Forrest County AHS gave Purvis all it wanted Tuesday night, but it wasn’t quite enough. The defending Class 4A state champions did just enough at the plate, just enough on the mound and just enough in the field to hold off the Aggies 4-3 in the first …
Read More “Purvis holds off Forrest County AHS 4-3 in Region 7-4A rivalry”
By Stan Caldwell stanmansportsfan.com PETAL – It is an ironclad rule of baseball that the team that commits the fewest errors is the team that usually wins. And that was certainly the case for Petal in the Panthers’ Region 3-7A opener against Northwest Rankin. Petal committed four errors, along with a number of …
Read More “Errors costly for Petal in 4-0 loss to NW Rankin in Region 3-7A opener”
By Stan Caldwell stanmansportsfan.com HATTIESBURG – For almost six innings, Sacred Heart did almost nothing good in its Region 8-1A opener against Salem. But high school baseball is a seven-inning contest, and pitchers are limited to 120 pitches in a game. As a result, the Crusaders were able to mount a successful …
Read More “Sacred Heart rides 7th-inning rally to 6-5 win over Salem in region opener”
