By CURTIS ROCKWELL/Sports Director

With three games to go in the Region 4-7A girls’ race, a trio of teams have separated themselves from the pack as the race for the league tourney begins to wind down.
Biloxi, Harrison Central and St. Martin have all risen to the top of the region race through seven games as the battle for the top two seeds and an automatic playoff berth continues beginning Tuesday.
As it currently stands, those two byes would go to Biloxi and Harrison Central as both squads sit atop the loop with 6-1 marks. Also, the two teams split their pair of contests against one another, with the Lady Indians winning 47-26 in Lyman and Harrison Central returning the favor a month later taking a 41-36 decision at the Biloxi Sports Arena last week.
Biloxi holds the tie-breaker due to point differential in the head-to-head meetings.

The Lady Indians bounced back from a brief two game losing streak including that loss to HCHS by maintaining that co-league-leading status and registered their 20th win of the season with a dominating 58-34 road win Friday at D’Iberville that moved BHS to 20-4 overall.
Biloxi got yet another double-double from 6-foot-3 freshman center Zaniya Johnson in the win over the Lady Warriors, as she posted game-highs with 21 points and pulled down 11 rebounds. Aaliyah Davidson enjoyed an all-around impressive performance as well, with 17 points, six rebounds and five assists as she and Johnson combined to out-score D’Iberville by themselves. Amari Meredith added seven points to the winning effort.
“Hopefully we have figured out what type of team we want to be as we move towards this final stretch,” seveth-year Biloxi head coach Devin Hill said. “We have lost a couple games recently, and I believe that a loss can teach you a lot about yourself. We talked in depth about being knocked down, and while you are down there stay there for a minute and finlgure out why you got knocked down. if you do that, when you get up, you should be different. We always preach to the girls to control what you can control, and if we do that, we will be in good shape.”

The loss dropped the Lady Warriors to 3-4 overall and 10-11 overall and into fourth place in the loop, two games behind St. Martin.
The Lady Yellow Jackets thumped visiting Ocean Springs Friday night 57-10 to move to 5-2 in the region race and a game off the league-leading pace set by BHS and HCHS. St. Martin’s two losses and come to each of those top seeds. Kaleah Lowery scored a game-high 15 points to pace SMHS in the latest win and Jay Robinson added 12 points.
St. Martin moved to 18-5 overall with the win, and the Lady Yellow Jackets head to Biloxi for a rematch with the Lady Indians Tuesday night. In their first game, Biloxi took an exciting 31-29 road win over SMHS almost two weeks ago.
The Lady Greyhounds remained win-less in the loop at 0-7.
The Lady Yellow Jackets and arch-rival D’Iberville face off Friday with the number three seed in the upcoming league tourney on the line in all likelihood.
Meanwhile, after knocking off Biloxi earlier in the week Harrison Central went on the road again Friday night and hammered home-standing Gulfport 74-38.
Harrison Central travels to D’Iberville Tuesday night.