By CURTIS ROCKWELL/Sports Director

MOSS POINT — The Moss Point baseball team couldn’t manage to sneak into the Class 4A South State playoffs for the first time in four years.
However, the Tigers did enjoy their most wins in a single season this year since 2012.
Moss Point finished the season at 8-16 overall and 2-10 in Region 8-4A, after getting swept by Forrest County AHS last week. The Tigers finished fifth in the region race, and will miss the postseason for the fourth straight season.

But the eight wins are the most in a campaign for MPHS in 14 years, and when considering the team has been without a home field to play on for three years now, the season could be looked upon with some degree of success.
Moss Point started the season off at 6-3 overall, including a five game win streak which was the longest for the Tigers in four years also. In fact, MPHS more than doubled its win total over the past three years, when the Tigers won just three games in each of thed 2023, 2024 and 2025 seasons.
After that 6-3 start, Moss Point also got off to one of its best region starts in a decade as well, with wins over both Pass Christian and Bay High to kick league play off at 2-2 and move to 8-7 overall at that point.
However, eight straight losses in league play followed, including getting swept the past couple of weeks by top seed Greene County and second seed FCAHS.

That allowed PCHS to finish as the third seed and Bay High earned the fourth seed.
Moss Point actually led Greene County 11-1 on the road in Leakesville 11-1 going to the bottom of the fifth a little over two weeks ago, but the Wildcats rallied for 13 runs in that at bat to complete the three game sweep with a 14-11 win.
In that game, Jonovan Thompson led MPHS with a game-high three hits while Orlando Esmurria and Willie Hurd chipped in two hits apiece for the Tigers.
Looking ahead, the majority of the top performers for Moss Point this season, including the trio just mentioned as well as Aiden Evans among others, will be returning next season.

Moss Point went 10-20 in 2012 under former head coach Marc Turner. Next year’s Tigers look to become the first Tiger team since then to register double digit wins in a season.