As the article from the Sun Herald below indicates, many great games across the Mississippi Gulf Coast are taking place this evening, including two county rival contests. I haven't seen Ocean Springs play yet this year and they had been #1 in the Sun Herald poll before falling to D'Iberville 36-35 last week. The Biloxi Indians are not regarded as highly, but they definitely appear to be a program on the rise under Coach John Shannon, so it could be a pretty good matchup.
And while I have seen the Saint Stanislaus Rock-a-Chaws play many times in my two years of living on the Coast, especially during their 2009 State Championship season when they were led by record setting Quarterback Dylan Favre, I have yet to see them play their biggest rival the Bay High Tigers. The schools are located less than two miles from each other and it is definitely appropriate that the prize between the Bay St. Louis rivals is a crab trap. I'm not sure whether the crab trap is real or figurative, but I will find out soon enough, and if it is real, does it come with crabs already in it? Both teams enter the game with identical 3-3 records, so it should be a pretty good contest even with St. Stanislaus winning the last 8 in a row.
The Rock-a-Chaws of St. Stanislaus have two college prospects on their offensive line in Taylor Borne and Craig Frigo. Frigo's father is the Rock-a-Chaws offensive line coach, Dr. Chris Frigo, who is an orthodontist in Gulfport and was a defensive lineman on LSU's 1986 SEC Championship Team. His intense old school on field demeanor is definitely fun to watch. Borne and Frigo carry on St. Stanislaus's strong tradition of producing top rated offensive linemen, as current Detroit Lions offensive guard and former LSU great Stephen Peterman is also a Rock-a-Chaw Alumnus. Admittedly, I have not seen the Bay High Tigers in action yet and do not know as much about their tradition, but look forward to learning more about them tonight. They did have that good player from a few years back who went to Stanford where he excelled at defensive back, but my internet search can't produce his name.
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