By CURTIS ROCKWELL/Sports Director

KILN — The third time wasn’t the charm for George County Monday night.

In fact, it was just more of the same for home-standing Hancock.

The Lady Hawks knocked off the Lady Rebels for the third time this season, sweeping past the visitors 3-0 in the Class 6A South State championship match. Hancock also beat George County twice during Region 6-4A action during the regular season, also winning 3-0 at home and 3-1 in Lucedale.

The Lady Hawks now move on to face Lake Cormorant Thursday afternoon  at 4 p.m.,at A.E. Wood Coliseum in Clinton on the campus of Mississippi College with the Class 6A state championship on the line.

Also in Hancock County Monday night, Our Lady Academy maintained a course on a journey that it’s very familiar with as the home-standing Crescents punched their ticket back to the title round once again with a 3-0 sweep of visiting West Marion in the Class 3A South State championship match. The back-to-back two time defending Class 3A state champions will now face North State champ Belmont Thursday afternoon at 2 p.m.,also in Clinton with its third straight state championship trophy on the line.

Meanwhile, there were five other “Southern Six” squads in action Monday night as well.

In Class 1A, Resurrection fell to visiting Stringer3-1 in the Class 1A South State finals and Poplarville dropped a 3-2 match to visiting Purvis in the Class 4A South State championship match.

In Class 7A, Ocean Springs swept visiting Brandon 3-0 in the Class 7A South State finals to advance to the state finals against Lewisburg Thursday night at 6 p.m., also in Clinton.

In addition to the match at Hancock High, yet another all “Southern Six” encounter took place in Jackson County that saw East Central earn some revenge against fellow Region 4-5A foe Vancleave as the visiting Lady Hornets pulled out an exciting 3-2 win over league champ Vancleave after the Lady Bulldogs swept ECHS in regular season play.