High School Sports

Bruney

Bruney

Bruney shines in All-Star game

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.
Kordish

Kordish

Kordish named to All-State squad

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.
Sports Headline

Sports Headline

Sacred Heart Trojan coaching staff takes shape

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.
Sports Headline

Sports Headline

Wilmouth, Ardoin named to LBCA All-Region squad

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.
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)

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

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.
Baseball All-Parish Most Valuable Player Briggs Ardoin - Sacred Heart

Baseball All-Parish Most Valuable Player Briggs Ardoin - Sacred Heart

Hard-working Ardoin rides grit to Parish MVP

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.
Baseball All-Parish Coach of the Year Gary Ashworth - Sacred Heart

Baseball All-Parish Coach of the Year Gary Ashworth - Sacred Heart

Ashworth remains constant for SHS baseball program

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.
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.

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

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.