By CURTIS ROCKWELL/Sports Director

After five years at the helm of the D’Iberville Warriors, Robin Sikes is heading west a bit down the Gulf Coast.
Last week, according to sources in prep basketball circles across South Mississippi close to the SouthMiss6 Sports staff, Sikes was offered and accepted the head boys basketball job at Pass Christian High School. The move is pending school board approval, and the next scheduled meeting is next week on Tuesday, April 9th.
Sikes is coming off a 10-18 campaign with the Warriors, and DHS missed the Class 7A South State playoffs.
Prior to that however, Sikes guided the Warriors to winning records and state playoff appearances in back to back seasons in 20223 and 2022 as well as a solid 17-8 mark in 2021.
One of the biggest highlights for Sikes during his tenure at D’Iberville was guiding the Warriors to back-to-back tournament championships in the prestigious Admiral Hardwood Club Holiday Classic in Gulfport in 2021 and 2022.
Sikes came to D’Iberville after spending two seasons as the head coach at Moss Point where he led the Tigers to back to back Class 4A South State playoff appearances. He also previously served as an assistant coach at his alma mater St. Martin before going to MPHS.

He was a standout player for the Yellow Jackets and then signed a basketball scholarship with the University of North Carolina-Wilmington.
He is set to replace one of the living legends at the helm of the Pirates in Buddy Kennedy, who stepped down after nearly 30 years as PCHS head coach at the end of last season.
Big baseball encounters

There are several big region baseball series slated for this week across a variety of classifications in South Mississippi, but there might not be any in the state as big as the one in Region 3-6A between perennial state powers Pearl River Central and West Jones.
The Blue Devils and Mustangs both sit at 6-0 in the region race heading into the big match-up, which will see the teams face off three times in five days in the battle for league supremacy. In all likelihood, the top seed in the region will be decided this week.

Veteran head coach Neil Walthers has his PRC squad sitting at an impressive 19-2 overall after a three game sweep of Terry in league play last week. West Jones sits at 16-3 overall. The Blue Devils host the Mustangs Tuesday night, then travel to Soso Thursday night before heading bak to Carriere to wrap things up Friday night.
The Blue Devis won the Class 5A state championship in 2017 and the Mustangs followed suit in the same class two years later in taking the title in 2019. Both schools moved up a level upon a first-ever expansion to seven classifications by the Mississippi High School Activities Association before the current school year began.