Ville Platte High head coach Launey Coward has been named the 2022 Ville Platte Gazette’s Coach of the Year for boys’ basketball in Evangeline Parish after leading Bulldogs to an overall record of 19-8 and a district championship with a 9-1 record. (Gazette photo by Rhett Manuel)
By: RHETT MANUEL
Sports Editor
VILLE PLATTE – Ville Platte boys basketball coach Launey Coward warned his fellow District 5-3A coaches prior to this season.
He told them simply, his team would be young and undersized. And if you wanted to get the Bulldogs, this would be the year to do it.
Not even he could see what was coming for his Bulldogs. Coward’s underdog Bulldogs got better as the yea…
