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Hard-nosed Lady Demons split pair of games

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Thursday, January 11, 2024

By: RHETT MANUEL Sports Editor MAMOU – The Mamou Lady Demons basketball team continued its culture shift under head coach Andrew Dwyer this past week. No one has questioned the competition the Lady Demons have faced all season. Nor has their effort has been questioned.

Sacred Heart’s Rose Ardoin (40) looks to make a basket in the Lady Trojans’ narrow two-point loss to the Oberlin Lady Tigers in the Kendall and Brad Memorial Holiday Shootout. (Gazette photo by Rhett Manuel)

Local girls’ basketball teams compete in tournament at St. Ed’s

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Thursday, January 4, 2024

By: RHETT MANUEL Sports Editor EUNICE – The Oberlin Lady Tigers flexed their muscle in a big way over the weekend at the Kendall & Brad Fontenot Memorial Holiday Shootout held last Thursday through Saturday at St. Edmund High School in Eunice.

Tucker LeBlanc produced in a big way for the Basile Bearcats and ended up the Evangeline Parish offensive MVP. He was coach Kevin Bertrand’s most reliable goalline weapon this year. (Gazette photo by Rhett Manuel)

Patience pays off for Offensive MVP Leblanc

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Tuesday, January 2, 2024

By: RHETT MANUEL Sports Editor BASILE – The old saying is that “patience is a virtue.” It’s true. Patience isn’t an easy thing to acquire or keep. However, it is rewarding. Patience breeds resilience, which breed toughness and all of those things breed success in the long run.

Trojan head coach raved about Ike Perry all season long, and it wasn’t hard to see why. Evangeline Parish’s Defensive MVP had a love for physicality and an ability to diagnose plays ahead of time. (Gazette photo by Rhett Manuel)

Defensive MVP Perry set tone with work ethic

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Tuesday, January 2, 2024

By: RHETT MANUEL Sports Editor VILLE PLATTE – There wasn’t a time of the 2023 football season where Sacred Heart and head coach Jacob Aguillard didn’t have their full faith in Parish Defensive MVP Ike Perry.

Basile Bearcat head coach Kevin Bertrand was named the parish’s coach of the year. (Gazette photo by Rhett Manuel)

Quiet integrity the recipe for COY Bertrand

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Tuesday, January 2, 2024

By: RHETT MANUEL Sports Editor BASILE – Anyone who knows Basile High head football coach and Evangeline Parish Football Coach of the Year Kevin Bertrand knows a couple things about him. First, he’s a man of few words. Even on gameday, Bertrand is rarely vocal.

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Parish lands several on all-district 1st and 2nd team lists

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Tuesday, December 26, 2023

By: RHETT MANUEL Sports Editor Another year has come and gone for football in Evangeline Parish. Team success was harder to come by than it has been in past years, with no team advancing past the first round of the playoffs and no team ending the season with a .500 or better record.

Maddie Fontenot (22) joined the 1 thousand point club during her team’s 55-51 loss against Kaplan. (Gazette photo by Rhett Manuel)

Welcome to the club

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Thursday, December 21, 2023

By: RHETT MANUEL Sports Editor MAMOU – Mamou senior Maddie Fontenot has always been the quiet type in her high school athletic career. Be it in basketball or softball, no matter the circumstance, she’s never been one to raise her voice or get emotionally involved.

Kagien Richard (1) looks for a basket against Pine Prairie in the first game of this year’s parish tournament in Basile. (Gazette photo by Tony Marks)

MHS, SHS boys drop recent games against Cenla teams

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Monday, December 18, 2023

By: RHETT MANUEL Sports Editor A tooth-and-nail, push-and-pull, knockdown drag out contest between the Tioga Indians and the Mamou Green Demons ended with the Indians outlasting them and escaping with a 58-55 win Tuesday night on Mamou's home floor.

Janiah Leday (4) led her Ville Platte Lady Bulldogs with 9 points in a 56-26 loss to the Oakdale Lady Warriors at home on Tuesday, December 12. (Gazette photo by Tony Marks)

Bulldogs, Warriors earn split decision

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Thursday, December 14, 2023

By: TONY MARKS Editor VILLE PLATTE – Seventeen unanswered points in the third quarter allowed the Ville Platte High Bulldogs to secure a 66-49 win over the Oakdale Warriors at home on Tuesday, December 12. The Bulldogs, with the win, improved to 6-7 on the season.

Mamou’s Madison Fontenot (22) attempts a basket against Sacred Heart. (Gazette photo by Rhett Manuel)

MHS, SHS continue tooth-and-nail series

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Thursday, December 14, 2023

By: RHETT MANUEL Sports Editor MAMOU – If there’s one thing that the Mamou girls’ basketball team is proving this season, it is that quitting before the whistle blows isn’t an option. The Lady Demons proved that again Friday night.

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