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McNeese’s Wells picks up multiple weekly honors

By: RAYMOND PARTSCH III LSN Sports Writer LAKE CHARLES --  McNeese men’s basketball star Shahada Wells collected multiple honors on Tuesday.
Blair Lafleur, of Ville Platte, is preparing to begin her senior year as a track and field athlete at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. (Submitted photo)

Blair Lafleur, of Ville Platte, is preparing to begin her senior year as a track and field athlete at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. (Submitted photo)

Tracking her course

By: TONY MARKS Editor Christmas is a time for giving and receiving presents and being surrounded by those near and dear.
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Going bowling with LSN

By: RHETT MANUEL and TONY MARKS LSN Sports Editors College football bowl season is upon us, and it is time to feast our eyes on 43 matchups played from coast to coast.
Ava Kordish (center) signs the paperwork to officially join the LSUE softball team during a ceremony held inside the Pine Prairie gym on Tuesday, November 14. Also pictured are her mother, Shelly Kordish; and her father, Skylar Kordish. (Gazette photo by Tony Marks)

Ava Kordish (center) signs the paperwork to officially join the LSUE softball team during a ceremony held inside the Pine Prairie gym on Tuesday, November 14. Also pictured are her mother, Shelly Kordish; and her father, Skylar Kordish. (Gazette photo by Tony Marks)

To Eunice we go

By: TONY MARKS Editor Reining District 4-3A and Evangeline Parish Softball Most Valuable Player Ava Kordish, of Pine Prairie High School, is taking her game to down La . Hwy 13 as she signed to play at LSU Eunice. Last season, in which her Lady Panthers went 25-9, Kordish went 19-9 with a 1.
Sacred Heart’s Kali Shiver (second from left) puts pen to paper as she signs to play college basketball at LSU Eunice. Also pictured (from left) are her mother, Ashley Veillon; her father, James Shiver; and her head basketball coach, Craig Whittington. (Gazette photo by Tony Marks)

Sacred Heart’s Kali Shiver (second from left) puts pen to paper as she signs to play college basketball at LSU Eunice. Also pictured (from left) are her mother, Ashley Veillon; her father, James Shiver; and her head basketball coach, Craig Whittington. (Gazette photo by Tony Marks)

Earning her stripes

By: TONY MARKS Editor Kali Shiver is no stranger to being in the center of the basketball spotlight. As a sophomore, two years ago, she was named Evangeline Parish Most Valuable Player. Then, last year, she shared the same honor with Ville Platte’s Vandryua Wilson.
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LSU women riding sky-high, men building on tough year one

By: RHETT MANUEL Sports Editor BATON ROUGE – The differences between LSU’s men’s and women’s basketball programs couldn’t have been more stark last season.
Kerry Joseph, former quarterback at McNeese State University, will enter the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame during next year’s induction ceremony. (Photo courtesy of LSHOF)

Kerry Joseph, former quarterback at McNeese State University, will enter the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame during next year’s induction ceremony. (Photo courtesy of LSHOF)

McNeese QB legend selected for induction into LSHOF

By: MATTHEW BONNETTE Senior Associate AD for Athletic Communications McNeese State University LAKE CHARLES – Kerry Joseph, a McNeese quarterback legend and arguably the greatest play-caller to take snaps in the history of the Cowboy football program, has been selected as part of the Class of 2024...
Breaking News

Breaking News

Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame announces 2024 induction class

NATCHITOCHES – NFL record-setting passer and Super Bowl XLIV MVP Drew Brees of the New Orleans Saints joins LSU women’s basketball great and eight-time WNBA All-Star Seimone Augustus along with mixed martial arts icon Daniel Cormier of Lafayette in a star-studded nine-member group of 2024...
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Manuel

A writer’s pipedream of another 2007 in CFB

We’re two weeks into the 2023 college football season and one thing seems obvious. As of now, it looks like one of those years where the landscape of the sport will do everything it can to turn itself on its head.