High School Sports
News Staff
By: RHETT MANUEL
Sports Editor
HAMMOND – One of the hallmarks of a competitive program is that your players are getting recognized in a positive light.
Tuesday, June 13, 2023
Kordish named to All-State squad
News Staff
By: RHETT MANUEL
Sports Editor
PINE PRAIRIE – Pine Prairie soon-to-be senior pitcher Ava Kordish got everything she achieved in her junior season the hard way.
Tuesday, June 13, 2023
Experience, stability goals for new PPHS football coach Hazard
News Staff
By: RHETT MANUEL
Sports Editor
PINE PRAIRIE – Coaches can’t help themselves. No matter what, it always seems as though they will always want one more run at the highest level.
Thursday, June 8, 2023
Sacred Heart Trojan coaching staff takes shape
News Staff
BY: TONY MARKS
Editor
Upon taking the head football coaching job at Sacred Heart, Jacob Aguillard was tasked with putting a coaching staff in place. The task proved challenging because of slotting coaches into faculty positions.
Thursday, June 1, 2023
Wilmouth, Ardoin named to LBCA All-Region squad
News Staff
BY: RHETT MANUEL
Sports Editor
There is no athlete worth his or her salt that doesn’t dream of being seen as the best.
Every player wants the accolades. Every player wants to be among the bright lights.
That doesn’t make them a poor teammate, it makes them driven to be as good as possible.
Thursday, June 1, 2023
From left are: standing- Pine Prairie Assistant Coach Dylan Manuel, Pine Prairie Head Coach Colton Chaddrick, LSU-A Head Coach Kody Gautreaux, and Pine Prairie Coach Andy Carson; sitting- Crystal Ardoin, Colin Ardoin, and Mitch Ardoin. (Photo courtesy of Pine Prairie High School)
PPHS’s Ardoin continues family tradition, commits to LSU-A
News Staff
By: RHETT MANUEL
Sports Editor
PINE PRAIRIE – It’s a family affair in Alexandria.
A few years after older brother Jordan Ardoin put his name on the dotted line to continue his baseball playing career at LSU-Alexandria, his little brother is doing the same.
Thursday, May 25, 2023
Hard-working Ardoin rides grit to Parish MVP
News Staff
By: RHETT MANUEL
Sports Editor
VILLE PLATTE – Sacred Heart pitcher and Parish MVP Briggs Ardoin’s entire personality on a baseball field is very simple …
You’re going to have to outwork him to beat him.
Monday, May 22, 2023
Ashworth remains constant for SHS baseball program
News Staff
By: RHETT MANUEL
Sports Editor
VILLE PLATTE – The truth with any mentoring-based profession is that the person who occupies the job is never in it for themselves.
That holds especially true with Sacred Heart head baseball coach and Evangeline Parish baseball Coach of the Year Gary Ashworth.
Monday, May 22, 2023
While flanked by members of the Sacred Heart baseball team, Briggs Ardoin (seated) is pictured after signing to continue his playing career at Baton Rouge Community College. Among those also pictured are Ellis Fusilier, Parker Feucht, Hayden Droddy, Sam Veillon, Nick Fontenot, Everett Johnson, John Michael Duplechin, Jackson Bruney, Boyce Schexnider, Brad Fusilier, Wade Pitre, and Sam Richardson.
Playing baseball with a red stick
News Staff
By: TONY MARKS
Editor
A baseball career that began at the age of four while playing Dixie Youth T-Ball is continuing 14 years later as Briggs Ardoin, of Sacred Heart, has signed to play at the next level at Baton Rouge Community College.
Thursday, May 18, 2023
Evangeline Parish lands 26 on all-district baseball squads
News Staff
By: RHETT MANUEL
Sports Editor
Evangeline Parish baseball players recently got their flowers in the recent all-district voting, with 26 players in all receiving All-District accolades.
Thursday, May 18, 2023