By CURTIS ROCKWELL/Sports Director

The next “Southern Six” Senior Spotlight sponsored by Reese’s of the school year is Biloxi’s Wyatt Pyron.

Each week throughout the school year, we here at SouthMiss6 Sports will highlight a senior student/athlete in the “Southern Six” to honor.

Despite being saddled with a tough 1-0 loss on the road in Petal Tuesday night, the senior right hander Pyron sparkled on the mound as he threw six shutout innings allowing just one hit and striking out 16 batters. But the Indians didn’t give him much help at the plate.

And once Pyron moved to third base in the bottom of the seventh inning, the Panthers managed to scrape together enough offense to get the only run of the game in a walk-off 1-0 victory at Panther Field.

Biloxi dropped to 1-3 against a ferocious non-region schedule, while Petal improved to 5-1.

“He was outstanding tonight,” said Biloxi coach Hawtin Buchanan of Pyron. “From the jump, he commanded the strike zone; he attacked the zone. We tell our pitchers all the time that, especially in high school baseball, when you go out and smother the strike zone, you give yourself a chance.”

And the multi-sport standout Pyron did just that. He struck out the first four batters he faced, and had at least two strikeouts in each inning that he pitched. The 16 strikeouts tied a school record according to some observers.

In addition, he also paced the Indians at the plate collecting two of Biloxi’s total of three hits and he drew a walk as well. Pyron was also the starting quarterback for the Indian football team last season.

For over a decade now, Reese’s® Peanut Butter Cups has been the title sponsor of The Senior Bowl played annually in Mobile, Ala.

In addition to its new partnership with the Senior Bowl, the Reese’s® brand is also the official candy partner of the NCAA® and the title sponsor of the National Association of Basketball Coaches’ Reese’s® College All-Star Game, which features the top Division I senior basketball student-athletes from around the country and is played the weekend of the NCAA Men’s Final Four®.

“The Reese’s brand is excited to continue our partnership with the Senior Bowl,” said Drew Iddings, Director, Promotions and Planning, The Hershey Company.  “We are confident that this partnership will continue to solidify the Reese’s brand’s leadership in collegiate athletics as well as honor senior student-athletes who achieved success on and off the field during their athletic careers.”

The 2025 Reese’s Senior Bowl will take place on Saturday, February 1, 2025 at 1:30 PM CT at Hancock Whitney Stadium in Mobile, Alabama. The game and practices will be televised on the NFL Network. 

The Reese’s Senior Bowl is widely regarded as the preeminent college football all-star game and the first stage in the NFL Draft process. The longest continual-running all-star game has taken place in Mobile, Alabama the past 75 years.  More than 900 NFL personnel, including key decision-makers from all 32 teams, and over 1100 media members from around the country were credentialed this year. This past April, the game produced 110 total picks, representing 43 percent of the entire NFL draft.