The Corner Blitz

On this week's Corner Blitz Podcast, Benji and Adam run through the paces with the North Pike Jaguars baseball team and their fast 5-1 start to the 2025 season. We get into it with head coach Dustin Lott and a trio of play-everywhere seniors in Bo Barnes, Dominic Smith and Ty Jones. Benji and Adam also say farewell to retiring Ole Brook football coach Tucker Peavey, offer condolences to the late c...

The South Pike Eagles boys basketball team is going on a business trip, to the MHSAA 3A Quarterfinals, to take on nearby Crystal Springs. Coach Reggie Chambers joins The Corner Blitz along with senior ballers Cam Magee, Jovon Leavy and Darin Pounds to talk about the team, the program and the tantalizing prospects of being one game away from The Big House. Benji and Adam also discuss the SEC and th...

On a special noon edition of The Corner Blitz, we catch up with Dean Clower, Fit Life's tennis pro and the new coach of the tennis program at Southwest Mississippi Community College. He talks about the state of the program and the long enrollment journeys taken by Martina Troncoso, from Chile; and Mansu Khadjimuradov, from Kazakhstan... and the not-so-long journey of Thomas Simpson, a North Pike g...

On tonight's Corner Blitz, Bradley and Adam get to meet the Yellowjackets — first-year Enterprise basketball coach Blaine Roberts, along with senior Jackets Natalie Williams, Kailee Nuckles, Tre Vining and Landon McNickles. These are four athletes who make EVERYTHING go at Enterprise: football, basketball, baseball, softball, tennis, golf, even girls' powerlifting. Both teams are playing for a reg...

On the last Wednesday night in January, The Corner Blitz crew talks to the 18-4 Parklane Lady Pioneers basketball team, who have already secured the No. 1 seed in their district and host the MAIS 5A South State Tournament next week. Head coach Vicki Rutland joins us, with assistant coach Tammy Gillihan and Lady Pioneers Sydney Brewer (SR), Zoe Alford (JR) and Carlyle Carruth (FR). Brad and Adam al...

On this week's Corner Blitz, we hang out with the turnaround Jaguars from North Pike and talk to the girls and boys programs: head coaches Ron Kessler and Terrell Anderson, along with Jags Q Thompson and Devin Smith, and Lady Jags DeAsia Hudson and Kadence Thompson. Benjie, Brad and Adam also whine and complain about college football no longer being palatable to fussy, old men. Due to a (somewhat)...

The Corner Blitz returns to the air after a hiatus for Christmas, and New Year's, and Adam's vacation... with Bogue Chitto basketball coach Marc Howard and the Bobcats' sibling starters — Noah and Neeli Magee, and Devonta and Destinee Thompson. The Bogue Chittians tell us all about fast-break basketball, camaraderie, communication, and the roadmap to the Big House. Benji Embry, Bradley Creel and A...

On the final show of 2024, we're joined by Southwest Mississippi Community College women's basketball coach Brent Harris, who has his Lady Bears at 10-1 at the break and recently coached his 200th career victory. He breaks down the first half of the season, talks about what it takes to keep a program competing at the 20-win level and dives deep (actually not too deep) into the coach's collection o...

After 21 years as head coach of the Co-lin Wolfpack football team, Glenn Davis will turn in the keys to the fieldhouse on Dec. 31. We catch up with the local legend and ask him about the timing of his retirement, his plans of watching the sunset, and we soak up some of his wisdom about the future of JUCO football and the sport's place in the pecking order with major college football. Benji, Brad a...

We love having state champions on The Corner Blitz, and this time it's the MAIS 5A state football champs - the Parklane Pioneers, who beat Leake Academy 70-42 back on Nov. 22 to claim the trophy for the first time since 1994. Head coach Ron Rushing hangs out with us all the time on K106, and tonight we got to talk to OL coach Grayson Hewitt and Pioneers Eli Davis, Hayden McCurley and Braxton Hughe...

This week on The Corner Blitz, we're all about state champions. We host Ole Brook cross-country coach Shannon Knott and four of his Lady Panthers, who just won their first-ever team state title in girls cross-country: Ariyanna Graham (SR), Natalie McKinney (SR), Isabella Iles (SO) and Abby Slay (SO). This was Ariyanna's second appearance on the Blitz! We also talk to three local football coaches g...

This week on The Corner Blitz, we have our first sit-down with the new coach of the McComb Lady Tigers basketball team, Alisha Rayborn-Chambers, and two of her senior leaders, ShiNiece Bell and Haley Sibley. We also get acquiainted with the brand new coach of the Southwest Mississippi Community College Bears football team, Les George. Benjie, Bradley and Adam also discuss the absurdity of the Coll...

This week on The Corner Blitz, MOAR STATE CHAMPIONS. Loyd Star golf coach Jonathan Breakfield and a handful of the MHSAA Class I Boys State Champion golf team — Brody Thibodeaux, Riley Case and Phillip Ross Spencer, as well as the No. 2 Class I female golfer in Mississippi, Kaylin Hester. Benji, Brad and Adam also discuss major movement in MHSAA reclassifcation for athletics, the departure of SMCC...

On this week's Corner Blitz, we spend an evening with the champions - Brookhaven Academy softball coach Lisa Covington and state-champion Lady Cougars Kensy Covington, Ann Elise Duncan, Alayna Daigle and Miriam Wallace. The MAIS 5A state softball champions just picked up their third state title in four years. We also sit down for an informative talk with Brookhaven Academy Athletic Director Drake...

With high school basketball season less than three weeks away (giggity), we bring in last year's 4A boys state title runners up, the McComb Tigers. Head coach Karshae Peterson talks about winning one more game than last year's 21-9 team: the final game. He's joined by sophomores Timothy Green (the shooter) and Fred Wells (the muscle). Maybe Raymond's time is done? Quesiton mark? Benji, Adam and gu...

On this week's Corner Blitz Podcast, we catch up with one of only two undefeated football teams remaining in the coverage area - the South Pike Eagles. Head coach Tyrone Varnado is a frequent guest of Southwest Broadcasting, and with him are seniors Michael Christian, Terryon Huff, Jayvon Jackson and junior TJ Varnado. We're also joined by SMCC's Blake Brewer and Pure Car Wash's Anne Crawford. Bla...

On this week's Corner Blitz Podcast, we catch up with Salem Attendance Center volleyball/softball coach Bird Martin and Lady Wildcat senior Addison Hawn, as they get ready to make a 200-mile trip to the edge of Mississippi for Round One of the volleyball playoffs. We also goof around with Larry McDaniel and Karl Ott from Keith White Ford Lincoln and let them hold a therapy session on the pains of...

On this week's Corner Blitz Podcast, we hang out with Jeremy Loy, head coach of the 4-0 Wesson Cobras, and Mr. Wesson Attendance Center, senior lineman Trevor McRree. Blake Brewer from SMCC comes back as guest host, and Enterprise-Journal Sports Editor Parker Gillam is our guest picker. Benjie, Brad, Blake and Adam also discuss banning the general public from high school football games, our fondne...

On this edition of the Corner Blitz, first-year Parklane Lady Pioneers softball coach Daniel Simmons and senior pitcher A.R. Sharp join us on the show to talk about the weight of expectations and the power of the Lady Pioneers. Benji, Brad and Adam are joined by guest host Steven Porter of Williamson Nursery to pick some winners, urge Tua to retire and try to find John Denver in Tennessee (hint: h...

Tonight on the Corner Blitz, we kill off the last few hours before the arrival of Hurricane Francine in Southwest Mississippi by talking about the Invictus Football Club with its founder, Jeremy Johnson, lovingly called Coach Werm. Brad, Benji and Adam also run through the list of high school football games postponed or moved due to weather, continue piling on the MAIS for its monumentally bad ide...

This week, The Corner Blitz hands the microphone to a deserving Gareth Sartin, recently named principal at Bogue Chitto Attendance Center after 22 years of coaching the Bobcats football team. Sartin talks at length about his time at Bogue Chitto, coaching kids and coaching the kids' kids, hollering at baseball players, not really knowing what to do in the stands at a football game and swapping his...

On a special episode of The Corner Blitz, we're joined by Lawrence County High School senior cheerleader Addie Carver. She also has this whole thing where she's Miss Teen USA. And a dance teacher. And a social media mogul. And a model. The sports crew dives into the pageant life and Addi tells us how awesome the Lawrence County Cougars are going to be in 2024 (pretty awesome). Benji Embry, Brad Wo...

On a special bro-bro episode of The Corner Blitz, we're joined by Daily Leader Sports Editor Cliff Furr for a deep, DEEP dive on the MAIS Super 16 Conference proposal, and we talk for more than an hour about how it would work (and why it won't work), what it would accomplish (or fail to accomplish) and exactly whom in the Mississippi Asociation of Independent Schools would be happy with a Super 16...

The Corner Blitz returns to the airwaves after a summer hiatus, and we're bustin' into high school football season with Parklane Academy Football Coach Ron Rushing and the prince of the Pioneers, senior quarterback JD Dumas. Benji, Adam and the Brads also discuss some talking points for local high school football teams; which of the preseason AP Top 10 football teams will suck by Christmas (it's F...