📊 COAST RECORD BOOK — BALL HAWKS 🏈
The Coast Record Book is OPEN, and this chapter belongs to the Ball Hawks — the defenders who lived in the secondary, trusted their instincts, and made quarterbacks pay.
Interceptions don’t happen by accident. They come from film study, anticipation, leverage, and the confidence to break on the football when everything is on the line. Across decades of Coast football, these defenders didn’t just end drives — they flipped games, shifted momentum, and changed seasons.
The standard was set in 1987, when Pascagoula’s Terrell Buckley delivered one of the most dominant ball-hawking seasons the Coast has ever seen. His 13 interceptions remain the benchmark — a number that still defines elite secondary play nearly four decades later.
Through the 2000s, D’Iberville emerged as a defensive pipeline. Kevin Norwood etched his name into Coast history not once, but twice, including an 11-interception season in 2007, followed by another double-digit year in 2008. That era proved the Coast wasn’t producing flukes — it was producing systems that trusted defensive backs to attack.
Other programs followed. Resurrection, Pearl River Central, Poplarville, and Moss Point all produced defenders who turned coverage into offense. From Alex Travis and Irving Spikes Jr. reaching double digits, to multiple eight-interception seasons out of Resurrection’s secondary, the Coast continued to show that elite ball production wasn’t tied to one school or one era.
In the modern spread era — when quarterbacks throw more than ever — the skill hasn’t disappeared. Players like Princenton Cottenham, Will Clemens, Jalen Hall, and Isaac Gowdy proved that instincts and preparation still win. Even as offenses evolved, Coast defensive backs continued to read concepts, jump routes, and finish plays.
Most recently, the tradition carried into 2025, where multiple defenders finished tied atop the interception leaderboard. Different jerseys, same result — quarterbacks on the Coast still have to account for ball hawks on every snap.
Below is the official Coast Record Book listing for Interceptions in a Season, updated after the 2025 season.
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Interceptions in a Season
(Updated after 2025)
1987 · Pascagoula — Terrell Buckley — 13 INT
2007 · D’Iberville — Kevin Norwood — 11 INT*
T-3 2014 · Pearl River Central — Alex Travis — 10 INT
T-3 2010 · Resurrection — Irving Spikes Jr. — 10 INT*
T-3 2008 · D’Iberville — Kevin Norwood — 10 INT
T-4 2016 · Poplarville — Aritaeus Johnson — 9 INT
T-4 2007 · Moss Point — Jonathan Berryman — 9 INT
T-5 2022 · Gulfport — Princenton Cottenham — 8 INT
T-5 2019 · Resurrection — Will Clemens — 8 INT
T-5 2017 · St. Patrick — Jarrett Herron — 8 INT
T-5 2017 · Resurrection — Norman Douglas — 8 INT
T-5 2011 · Resurrection — Troy Cobb — 8 INT
T-5 2006 · Poplarville — Joel Bilbo — 8 INT*
T-6 2019 · Picayune — Jalen Hall — 7 INT
T-6 2018 · Ocean Springs — Isaac Gowdy — 7 INT
T-6 2012 · Harrison Central — Lashard Durr — 7 INT
T-6 2012 · Picayune — Ken Breland — 7 INT
T-6 2010 · Vancleave — Colin Bray — 7 INT
T-7 2024 · Pascagoula — Tylan Wilson — 6 INT
T-7 2023 · Harrison Central — Trevon Dean — 6 INT
T-7 2023 · George County — Jamarion Odom — 6 INT
T-7 2021 · Resurrection — Daniel Pickens — 6 INT
T-7 2020 · Pascagoula — Antonio Sanford — 6 INT
T-7 2019 · St. Stanislaus — Grant Sides — 6 INT
T-7 2018 · Ocean Springs — Jason Brooks — 6 INT
T-7 2017 · Stone County — Enrique Whaley — 6 INT
T-7 2017 · East Central — Trenton Baldock — 6 INT
T-7 2015 · Resurrection — Michael Gatchet — 6 INT
T-7 2014 · Long Beach — Brock Byrd — 6 INT
T-7 2014 · Gautier — Marquis Spears — 6 INT
T-7 2011 · Long Beach — Marcus Betts — 6 INT
T-7 2009 · St. Stanislaus — Dylan Favre — 6 INT
* Led the state that season
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2025 Interception Leaders
West Harrison — Dean Hunter — 5 INT
Pass Christian — Brandon Laneaux — 5 INT
George County — Jamari Hathorne — 5 INT
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