Grace Baptist Academy brings home national title
Grace Baptist Academy brings home national title By Blake Brannon | February 28, 2021 at 6:14 PM CST - Updated February 28 at 6:15 PM
OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. (WLOX) -A local basketball program came home with some hardware over the weekend.
Grace Baptist Academy came home with a national title in NACA Division 2 boys basketball.
The team traveled up to Tennessee and took down Marshall Christian out of Texas 81-58.
GBA is mainly made up of kids from overseas who may not have as many opportunities to get noticed by scouts here in the states.
Now with a national championship to their names head coach Brad Shauf hopes that momentum and notoriety will carry over into next year.
Coast private school takes to the court against local team to showcase global talent
Coast private school takes to the court against local team to showcase global talent By Tristan Ruppert | December 23, 2020 at 7:15 AM CST - Updated December 23 at 7:18 AM
OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. (WLOX) - A private school known across the Southeast for attracting top talent from around the globe actually resides right here in South Mississippi.
Grace Baptist Academy is a small private school in Ocean Springs that was established in 1968.
”Not many people know about us,” said Brad Shauf, the school’s head basketball coach. “We are really small. We have about 45 students in K through 12.”