By CURTIS ROCKWELL/Sports Director

As the calendar flipped to October for the first time, it’s time for our sixth installment of “Friday Night Rewind” here at SouthMiss6 Sports.

“Friday Night Rewind” has been a part of the journalistic fabric of prep football across the “Southern Six” for most of the past three decades. Each week of the season we’ll take a look back at the action that took place all across this region the previous week before we move on to the next week.

Here are 7 things (or 8) we noticed in the “Southern 6” Friday night:

1. Cooper Rules — All good things must come to an end, and so it was with the 25 game region win streak for Ocean Springs. Gulfport grounded the Greyhounds 41-28 in Region 4-7A play, as Admiral senior standout running back Cooper Crosby accounted for just over 200 yards of total offense and five touchdowns. It marked the first league loss for OSHS in five years, and the first Gulfport win over the Greyhounds in six years.
2. Captain Crockett — Speaking of the region wars in that same league, St. Martin ended a 22-game league losing streak with an exciting 28-24 win over home-standing Biloxi. Yellow Jacket standout sophomore signal-caller Seth Crockett accounted for all four St. Martin scores, three on the ground as well one through the air to Kevin Marshall. An inexplicable coaching decision by the BHS staff to kick an extra point down by five and not go for two wiped out any chance of a game-tying field goal even though Biloxi recovered the ensuing on-sides kickoff and ended the game at the SMHS 6-yard line.
3. Tomahawk Chop — D’Iberville took over sole possession of first place in that aforementioned Region 4-7A race with a convincing 25-7 road win over previously unbeaten West Harrison. Warrior running back Chan Harvey ran for 107 yards and a touchdown in the win, while DHS QB1 Jordan Walley, D’Iberville: Walley scored two touchdowns and completed 12 of 13 passes for 146 yards.
4. Hawks Win — In a face off of two teams in the same county still searching for their first wins of the season as the calendar flipped over to October, Hancock quarterback Kaison Koenenn accounted for four touchdowns as the Hawks thumped home-standing Bay High 48-6. Koenenn rang up 153 rushing yards on ten carries and two touchdowns and he also completed 8-of-10 passes for 150 yards and two more scores. Hancock moved to 1-4 with the win and the Tigers topple to 0-5.
5. Pirate Points — Pass Christian took a big step towards winning its first-ever region title on the football field Friday night. The visiting Pirates went on the road to Leakesville and pulled out a key 28-14 win in Region 8-4A play over Greene County at Johnny Ainsworth Stadium. Ryland Shoulders and Ceicil Lizana each had short scoring runs for PCHS in the second half after the teams were knotted up at 14-14 at halftime. Pirate quarterback Paris Trivillion ran for 185 yards and threw for 100 yards more as well as accounting for both first half touchdowns for PCHS as he ran for one and threw a scoring pass to Dwight Thomas for the other. Pass Christian is now 5-1 overall and the Wildcats, who are without five-star wide out Jace Matthews because of an injury, drop to 4-2.
6. Hornets Stung — Defending Class 4A state champ Poplarville opened the regular season with a loss and repeated that result in its Region 7-4A opener Friday night as well. Poplarville fell to McComb on the road 35-34 in the final minute of play in the region opener for both teams. The Hornets drop to 3-3 overall on the year. The win for the Tigers earned them a measure of revenge as this was a rematch from the Class 4A South State playoffs last season in which Poplarville thumped McComb 42-21. Poplarville junior running back Ty Keys ran for 285 yards and three touchdowns in the loss.
7. Ouch! — Prep football has been played in the state of Mississippi for about 120 years. Yet, on Friday night, one of the strangest and most bizarre contests on the girdiron perhaps ever took place here just outside of Hattiesburg. In the Region 8-4A opener for both teams, home-standing Forrest County AHS slipped past Moss Point 6-0 in five overtimes. Yes, you read that correctly. Six points total were scored in four full quarters and five extra sessions. Aggie quarterback Shawn Walker kept from 5-yards out on fourth and goal in the bottom of the fifth overtime for the game-winning and only score of any kind in the contest.The two teams combined for 13 turnovers in the game. For MPHS defensively, linebacker Landon Cato made a season-high 15 tackles.