After a season that saw Sacred Heart High School successful, the school’s administrations and staff honored the athletic community with their annual banquet.
The event took place in the SHHS gymna...
VPHS honors athletes for great year The Ville Platte High School faculty and administration showed its appreciation to its athletic community recently. The Bulldogs and Lady Bulldogs were treated to an annual banquet at the Northside...
Trojans earn respect on All-District units The Sacred Heart Trojans competed in one of the toughest districts in the state in Class 1A and overall the district sent a total of six out of eight teams to the playoffs. Four out of the six team...
Landreneau leads 5-2A baseball squad The Mamou Green Demon baseball team fought hard and won District 5-2A with a 9-1 record. They were 15-15 overall and earned a Class 2A playoff spot. The Demons fell to a very tough North Webster te...
Determination leads Johnson to title It’s not often that high school competitors in any sport have to worry about the goals and determination of an eighth grader. Usually, an athlete of that age is too young and inexperienced to have ...
Firmin tabbed for All-Star game “He is a great guy, a leader and one of the hardest workers out there.”
Those were the words that Sacred Heart Head Baseball Coach Cody Vidrine used to describe senior Nick Firmin. The hard working...
Parish athletes converge at LSU Several athletes from Evangeline Parish went to Baton Rouge last week to compete in the Class 1A and 2A State Outdoor Track and Field Meets. The event took place the Bernie Moore Stadium on the LSU...
Family affairs and events are usually for holidays, celebrations and other events that pop up from time to time. There are bad ones and good ones. For one Vidrine family that resides in the western...
The Ville Platte High Bulldogs made the trip to the Region I-2A Track and Field Meet and competed very well. The event took place in Monroe at ULM. They outperformed several competitors in an effor...
By: ANDREW LOPEZ
NOLA.COM
Sometimes when a player gets measured at a camp, it could be a letdown as coaches and teams constantly add an inch or two to a player’s height or inflate his weight.
Som...
After a one-year absence, the Sacred Heart Junior High Track Team has returned. The students even recruited their own coach. Coaches Pam and Dane Fontenot took the team to three track meets and pr...
Sacred Heart’s playoff run began with a 16-3 drilling of Logansport, but ended with a heartbreaking 9-8 defeat to Cedar Creek. The Trojans showed a lot of character and talent in both contests, bu...
The Sacred Heart girls track team qualified several athletes for the Class 1A State Track and Field Meet. To do that, they had to qualify at the Regional Meet which was held at ULL in Lafayette.
T...
The only way to describe Basile’s loss to Sacred Heart last Friday night is heart breaking. The Bearcats played their hearts out, only to come up short in the over-time period. When SHHS’ Nick Firm...
Mamou and St. Eds (1-1) meet in a battle of old district foes Friday night. The Green Demons (0-2) return home after an upsetting loss to Opelousas Catholic. The Demons felt as though they should h...
The Panthers of Pine Prairie (1-1) are going to be riding a wave of momentum this Friday night when they host 2-0 Hanson Memorial Tigers. The Panthers are coming off of a victory over the North Cen...
By Tom Dodge
tom.dodge@eunicetoday.com
There will be new head coaches next season for the Eunice High softball and St. Edmund baseball programs.
Scott Deshotel stepped down this month after 19 se...
The first round of the Class 2A playoffs was the goal of every team in Class 2A. However only 64 teams made the playoffs and one of them is the local Ville Platte High Bulldogs. The Bulldogs finish...
It’s the first round of the Class 1A state playoffs. Basile has earned the 22nd seed and that means they have to get on the road. Where are they going? They will head south down highway 90 to Morga...
College football followers who wondered why Ohio State didn’t act when its coach admitted covering up NCAA violations by some of his star players don’t have to wonder anymore. Jim Tressel resigned ...
LSU Alexandria hosted Texas College in its season-opening baseball game Tuesday (Feb. 1) with a 2 p.m. doubleheader at Generals Field, according to athletic director and baseball coach Dan Purvis. ...
Renotta Edwards, new Assistant Girl’s Basketball Coach at LSUE, is shown here with the LSUE Girl’s basketball team and some of the girls that attended the camp. The camp was held June 7-10, and a s...
Week four of the Pigskin Picks and the Football Contest has come and gone and is in the record books. Contestants in both contests were blown away by the Saints losing to the Falcons. The other NFL...