By CURTIS ROCKWELL/Sports Director

LUCEDALE — The Pascagoula boys’ basketball team made school history Friday night.
The Panthers set a modern-era record winning their 20th consecutive game with a 81-34 thumping of home-standing George County in Region 4-6A play at Rudolph Sellers Gymnasium.
The win, which pushed Pascagoula to a perfect 7-0 in the region race and an impressive 20-1 overall, keeps the Panthers in complete control of the league standings with two games left to play.
It’s the longest winning streak ever for a PHS basketball team.
“Great energy to start the game from the starters and it was good seeing the guys come off the bench to contribute,” Pascagoula seventh-year head coach Lorenzo Wright said. “It’s a great feeling to make history and I’m sure we will celebrate more after the season, however we are strictly focused on the next game.”

The Panthers never trailed in the game and they wasted no time in taking a quick and commanding lead they would never relinquish.
Kelan Rich scored the first basket of the game and then Dorian McMillan tallied nine straight points including a four-point play and the Panthers were up 11-0 72 seconds into the game.
Pascagoula would extend that lead to 17-2 within the next four minutes before a brief run by George County cut the deficit to five points with two minutes to play in the opening frame.
That would be as close as the Rebels would get the rest of the contest, however. Ten different players scored for Pascagoula in the first half.

The Panthers went on to double up GCHS 28-14 early in the second stanza and go on to lead 54-21 at halftime.
Pascagoula got 14 points off the bench from Justin Roque in the win and McMillan finished with 12 points. No Panther starter played in the second half. The Panthers made 14 3-point shots in the win, including four by Roque. Markeuse Grady had five rebounds and Blake Nettles had five assists.
George County was led by Marlin Odom who scored nine points.

The loss leaves the Rebels at 1-5 in the region and 5-14 overall. George County has three games in league play coming up next week to complete the region portion of its schedule beginning with a home game against West Harrison Tuesday night.
Pascagoula will look to extend its school record to 21 straight games on Saturday afternoon in Clinton at the prestigious “Rumble in the South” in Clinton in A.E. Wood Coliseum on the campus of Mississippi College.
The next region action for the Panthers comes at Hancock on Tuesday night.
“Big time game tomorrow with Yazoo. It was important that we come in and get after it and get off our feet,” Wright concluded.