By CURTIS ROCKWELL/Sports Director

D’IBERVILLE — Picayune head basketball coach Eric Vianney is set to replace Robin Sikes at D’Iberville High, sources close to the situation have told SouthMiss6 Sports.

Vianney is leaving his alma mater after a successful six season run at the helm of the Maroon Tide. He heads to D’Iberville to replace Robin Skies, who left the Warrior program to take over at Pass Christian High School last month.

Vianney led Picayune to two straight trips to Jackson for the overall Class 5A state Final Four before just coming up short on a return trip to The Big House this season. The Maroon Tide are coming off of four straight 20 win seasons, and played for the 2023 state title falling to Hattiesburg.Picayune finished 23-9 last season.

The top spot with the Warriors came open when Sikes left to replace Buddy Kennedy at Pass Christian after five years at the helm of the D’Iberville.

As first reported exclusively by SouthMiss6 Sports in March, Sikes was offered and accepted the head boys basketball job at Pass Christian High School.

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.

A search is already underway to fill the vacant head coaching opening in Picayune. Vianney’s replacement will be the fourth Maroon Tide head hoops coach in the past decade.