HATTIESBURG — Ocean Springs’s T.M. Jennings 11- and 12-year-old All-Stars got three home runs to defeat Natchez 17-6 Sunday afternoon.

Ocean Springs won the best-of-three series two games to one to win the state championship.

“Today we had a couple of errors. We hit the ball, but the pitching wasn’t there,” Natchez head coach Johnny Williams said. “They hit the ball well. They’ve got a good offense. They deserve it. They earned it today.”

After being shut out in the first inning, the Ocean Springs All-Stars scored at least two runs in each of the last five innings.

They had a 7-0 lead after two and a half innings before Natchez got on the board with three runs in the bottom of the third inning.

Bartoski hit a two-run home run in the top of the second inning when Ocean Springs ended up scoring five runs.

Ocean Springs’ Wes Windham hit his home run during a six-run barrage in the top of the fourth that gave the ‘visiting’ team at commanding 13-3 lead.

Natchez scored three more runs in the bottom of the fourth to cut into the lead, but it was not enough.

“I’m proud of my team and my coaching staff,” Williams said. “Even when they were down early, they kept their heads up.”

Jadarrius Williams went 3-for-3 with a double and Jordan White was 2-for-3 as Natchez ended up with 10 hits.

Ocean Springs had 12 hits.