Merlin

Disrespect nej all you want. They bring it on themselves. Did you see their preseason dance video?

Wayne County and Petal games. WJ was down 2 o linemen, the backup to one of them was hurt 2bd half against Wayne, the starting rb, backup rb who is also starting d end, and Lindsey was not supposed to play against Wayne but came in when the backup got hurt the first drive. The starting rb played some against Terry but got injured again and did not play 2nd half. He had only a handful of carries against Forrest hill. Defense was down the de, a lb, and a corner that was moved to offense as rb against petal. It’s been a rough stretch. They moved up 2 jr high rb’s, a jr high lb and a corner. It became apparent that west has quiet s few seniors, very few juniors ( like 4 get any playing time), and a bunch of 10th graders getting playing time. With about 6 freshmen lumped in the last 3-4 weeks. West will be very young next year.

WJ’s offense has played 2 bad half’s this season. 2nd half vs Laurel, and 1st half vs George County (without about 5 starters btw). I don’t look for them to have a bad half this week. They will score. WJ’s defense however, I don’t know if they played more than 2 quarters of good defense against any opponent they will end the season with a .500 or better record. I would be a liar if I said I had confidence they would keep Hattiesburg from scoring 30. I simply do not at all trust the defense.

Doesn’t seem like enough reason to keep the doors open at one of them does it?

5A region 3 is in for a bad time. They lost 2 teams in Sumrall and purvis. Now looking at maybe adding Vicksburg? Or maybe provine and or Murrah. Or Neshoba central. I would assume Laurel or South jones moves to region 4 to fill spot left by northeast jones. The other gets stuck with horrible travel that will have them crossing i20.

Georgraphically, pearl is just a tad farther north than Jim hill. And not all that far from neshoba central, maybe an hour. No sense to blow up region 3 like that for pearl dropping.

I would expect pearl to just fill in for Neshoba central.

They already 6A last 2 years

I thought they 3A. or is that Choctaw county? why they got to be named so similar

Northeast jones, purvis, sumrall all from 5A to 4A. Choctaw central from 3A to 2nd largest 4A

I see Pearl dropped from 7A to 6A. But I’m not readily noticing who moved from 6A to 7A in their place. In 6A I see Pearl came down from 7A. Neshoba central dropped to 5A. Cleveland Central moved up from 5A. Did canton also move up? I admit I’m not entirely sure who in north 6A are there outside of like 5 teams. looks like lots of 5A to 4A changes.

Cleveland central enters 6A in the north, moving up from 5A, as well.

Im looking at the entire list of every class. Not sure if I can post it.

WJ just beat Forrest hill. Finish with Jim hill. But yes spot on with everything else.

We don’t play boys basketball.

WJ 42 FH 12 final

Forrest hill takes 2nd half kick and scores against west jr high. 42-12 8:14 3rd Then they kick and recover onsides kick.

I was feeling that too. They got about 30 fans at a home game. Looks like maybe 50 players. Some good looking athletes though. And a band that is absolutely getting down over there. They certainly got that going.