By CURTIS ROCKWELL/Sports Director

OCEAN SPRINGS — Not again.
Visiting Brandon continued its recent string of success at Greyhound Stadium Friday night, dispatching Ocean Springs for the third time in four years in the South State playoffs this time with a 13-10 decision.
The loss ends a once very promising season for the Greyhounds at 9-2, while the Bulldogs move to 7-4 and move on to play at Oak Grove next week.

Brandon is on its third head coach in 10 months, and is now 3-0 since making a mid-season coaching change a month ago.
Bulldog four star standout running back Tyson Robinson raced 45-yards out of the Wildcat formation lined up as a quarterback for the final score with just under five minutes to play to erase a 10-6 OSHS lead and return the lead to the visitors.
“Not the way we wanted to end it but you can’t make mistakes in the playoffs and expect to win and we made way too many mistakes tonight,” OSHS third-year head coach Jake Bramlett said. “Brandon is a good football team, you have to give them credit. They made the plays when they had to have them.”
On the ensuing Greyhound possession after Brandon took the lead, versatile OSHS senior standout Sharroid Whitehead fumbled the ball just inside the Bulldog 40-yeard line and Brandon’s Lahare Bolls recovered wth 3:34 to go.

It would prove to be the last OSHS offensive play of the season, as on a third and nine situation Robinson scrambled for 18 yards and a first down and the Bulldogs ended the game in victory formation.
“Our kids played well,” interim BHS head coach Eugene Clinton said. “I really appreciate their effort. He (Robinson) is our guy. We just had to feed the beast and he took over for us.”
Whitehead registered the only OSHS touchdown of the night late in the third period when he dashed 22-yards to put the Greyhounds up 10-6 and set the stage for the climactic fourth frame.
The teams traded field goals in the first half, with two boots by Brandon’s Jace Eldridge sandwiched around a 22-yarder from Greyhound Evan Ta.
Brandon had an interception return for a touchdown in the waning moments of the first half called back due to an unsportsmanlike penalty. It was one of four such infractions on the Bulldogs who were flagged for over 100 yards of penalties in the contest and suffered one player ejection as well.

Ta did miss a 52-yarder in the third period that would have tied the game.

But in the end it wouldn’t matter, as the stout Bulldog defense limited a Greyhound offensive unit that came into the contest averaging 38 points per game to just one touchdown and one field goal.
In 2022, Brandon ended the season and Greyhound great Bray Hubbard’s career with a field goal on the last play of the game to take a 34-31 win in the Class 6A South State championship game.
Last year, the Bulldogs dumped OSHS 31-13 in the Class 7A South State title tilt also at Greyhound Stadium.
The latest win extended Brandon’s win streak over OSHS to seven straight dating back to the 2011 season. The Bulldogs are 7-1 all-time in the series, with the only Greyhound win coming 20 years ago in the second round of the state playoffs in 2005.