By CURTIS ROCKWELL/Sports Director

The next “Southern Six” Senior Spotlight sponsored by Reese’s of the school year is Sean Stiglets of St. Martin.

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

Stiglets, a versatile senior standout for the Yellow Jackets who sees time mostly at second base, produced one of the biggest weeks of his career this week at just the right time as he helped St. Martin sweep arch-rival D’Iberville in three straight games to clinch its first-ever trip to the Class 7A state playoffs.

Thursday night, in a 9-4 home win over the Warriors that secured the playoff spot, Stiglets collected a game-high three hits including a double and he drove in two runs.

He began the series also with a game-high three hits in a close 8-7 road win over DHS on Tuesday.

Then, in the regular season finale on Friday afternoon, St. Martin thumped the Warriors 12-3 and Stiglets had two hits and two RBIs.

Stiglets and SMHS will face Brandon in the opening round of the upcoming Class 7A South State playoffs next week.

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 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.