By CURTIS ROCKWELL/Sports Director

BROOKLYN —There is one prep football squad not in the “Southern Six”, that will play twice as many opponents in that footprint this coming season than several “Southern Six” squads will.

Forrest County AHS moves back “South” this season, if you will, and will join Region 8-4A after spending much of the past 12 seasons in Region 7-4AA.

With that comes four new league foes obviously, including a trio from the “Southern Six”, and the Aggies will also face four other “Southern Six” squads in the non-region portion of their slate giving them seven opponents in just nine games from the six southernmost counties in the state.

Forrest County begins the season on the road in Bay St. Louis against St. Stanislaus before returning home to — to host both Long Beach and Vancleave in consecutive weeks.

In week four, the Aggies head to Hurley to take on East Central.

In Region 7-4A play, FCAHS will host Moss Point to open league action the first Friday in October before traveling to both Bay High and Pass Christian.

This isn’t the first time FCAHS has faced seven “Southern Six” squads in a single regular season, but it will be the first time in 14 years. In the 2011 season, one of the last campaigns that the Aggies competed in Region 8-4A, the league consisted of six teams including Vancleave, Bay High, Poplarville and St. Stanislaus.

That season, FCAHS also started the season off by facing Stone, Hattison Central and Picayune.

That season, in an 11-game slate, the Aggies faced three non-“Southern Six” squads in pre-region play in Purvis, Columbia and Bassfield and Greene County in league play.

The only two non-“Southern Six” foes the Aggies will face in the regular season this year are Purvis to end non-region action and then Greene County to end league play.

That regular season finale, the day before Halloween in Leakesville, will pit former FCAHS head coach Larry Dolan against new Wildcat mentor Bo Russum.

Dolan left the newest Region 8-4A member FCAHS and took over for Mikey King in Leakesville, after King departed for the same post at Hancock High.

Dolan, who celebrates his 25th anniversary as a head football coach in South Mississippi this year, has plenty of ties to the “Southern Six” as he also served as the head coach at both D’Iberville and Pearl River Central. He just finished his second stint as the head coach at his alma mater in charge of the Aggies.

Russum, meanwhile, was an assistant some years back at Hancock High. he comes to Brooklyn after serving the past four seasons as the defensive coordinator at Columbia High.

In contrast to the upcoming football season for Russum and his Aggies, Resurrection faces just one other “Southern Six” squad while St. Patrick meets two.