High School Sports

A Sacred Heart lineman makes a play against a Pine Prairie player in the jamboree. The Trojans take the field for the first time this season tomorrow night against Marksville at Soileau-Landry Field. (Gazette photo by Rhett Manuel)

A Sacred Heart lineman makes a play against a Pine Prairie player in the jamboree. The Trojans take the field for the first time this season tomorrow night against Marksville at Soileau-Landry Field. (Gazette photo by Rhett Manuel)

Homecoming of sorts

News Staff
Thursday, September 9, 2021
It is not the ideal way Sacred Heart wanted to kick off its 2021 seasons. But, it’s still pretty special. Sacred Heart will play a personal game for head coach Josh Harper this Friday when it hosts Marksville. The Trojans were scheduled to play last week in the Tee Cotton Bowl.
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Pine Prairie, Mamou ready to roll in Week 2

News Staff
Thursday, September 9, 2021
One looks to keep it rolling, and one just wants to get rolling after barely playing over last year. Regardless of their circumstances, both Pine Prairie and Mamou are champing at the bit to get on the field Week 2.
Breaking News

Breaking News

VPHS game is cancelled

News Staff
Wednesday, September 8, 2021
The Ville Platte football game scheduled for Friday, September 10, has been cancelled. The Bulldogs forfeited as a result of COVID-19. All other Evangeline Parish football games (Sacred Heart vs Marksville, Pine Prairie vs Elton, Mamou vs Grant, and Basile vs St. Ed's) are still set to take place.
Pine Prairie defender Dylan Bordelon (22) collects a hit on the Merryville quarterback Remington Coody. (Gazette photo by Rhett Manuel)

Pine Prairie defender Dylan Bordelon (22) collects a hit on the Merryville quarterback Remington Coody. (Gazette photo by Rhett Manuel)

0-21 is done

News Staff
Tuesday, September 7, 2021
PINE PRAIRIE — The streak of 21 is done. Pine Prairie head coach Richard Clark has been confident throughout preseason in his team’s ability to be successful in the 2021 football season. That confidence proved to be accurate Friday night in the Panthers’ 49-16 blowout of Merryville.
Rhett Manuel

Rhett Manuel

Big impact with small gestures

News Staff
Tuesday, September 7, 2021
It is often believed that simple gestures go a long way. Whether it’s doing a neighbor a small favor, helping someone grab an item off of a tall shelf in a grocery store or just telling someone “hello” randomly. People remember the small, nice things that people do.
The Sacred Heart defense converges to make a stop against Pine Prairie in the Evangeline Parish Jamboree. The Trojans begin the season 1-0 after earning a win over Ville Platte High because of a forfeit. (Gazette photo by Rhett Manuel)

The Sacred Heart defense converges to make a stop against Pine Prairie in the Evangeline Parish Jamboree. The Trojans begin the season 1-0 after earning a win over Ville Platte High because of a forfeit. (Gazette photo by Rhett Manuel)

Bowled over

News Staff
Thursday, September 2, 2021
After last season’s cancellation of the Tee Cotton Bowl due to Covid-19 concerns, all systems appeared to be go for the game’s return to open the 2021 high school football season in Evangeline Parish. Apparently, it will have to wait another year.
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Parish football games are up in the air for Week 1

News Staff
Thursday, September 2, 2021
Outside of one game, Week 1 is completely up in the air for Evangeline Parish’s football schedule. With two cancellations confirmed and another game currently in flux, Pine Prairie’s home contest against Merryville is the only confirmed game on the Week 1 slate.
Rhett Manuel

Rhett Manuel

Ranking the parish football uniforms

News Staff
Thursday, September 2, 2021
It’s time I accept my crown and wear it with pride. I’m a uniform guy. Always have been, always will be. To me, the fabric a team wears is as important to the fabric of sports as the game themselves. It’s famously said, almost to the point of cliche, “Look good, feel good, play good.
A Mamou receiver, Jerez Edwards, leaps up to grab a pass against the Panthers. (Gazette photo by Rhett Manuel)

A Mamou receiver, Jerez Edwards, leaps up to grab a pass against the Panthers. (Gazette photo by Rhett Manuel)

All out effort

News Staff
Monday, August 30, 2021
MAMOU — It was missing two teams in Ville Platte and Basile. It may have even been missing that preview of the Tee Cotton Bowl that fans may have been anticipating heading into Week 1. But, Friday’s Evangeline Parish Jamboree held at Mamou high didn’t lack for effort.
A Pine Prairie defensive player wraps up a Lake Arthur offensive player during the team’s scrimmage played last week in Pine Prairie. (Gazette photo by Rhett Manuel)

A Pine Prairie defensive player wraps up a Lake Arthur offensive player during the team’s scrimmage played last week in Pine Prairie. (Gazette photo by Rhett Manuel)

The jamboree goes on

News Staff
Thursday, August 26, 2021
Things aren’t going to plan with the Evangeline Parish Jamboree, but the show must go on. Originally scheduled to be five teams -- Basile, Mamou, Pine Prairie, Sacred Heart and Ville Platte -- the jamboree will be played with three of the five teams.
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