Looking back at top sports stories of the year

Suzy Fontenot (right) presents new Ville Platte High School head football coach Chris Bland (center) with a copy of Sharpened Iron: The Tee Cotton Bowl Story. Pictured on the left is Tee Cotton Bowl co-founder Tim Fontenot. (Gazette photo by Tony Marks)

Staff Report As another year draws to a close, the Ville Platte Gazette begins taking a look back at some of the top sports stories of the past year. February 29 Helen of Troy was the face that launched a thousand ships and rallied her troops against the fierce Spartan army. Similarly, Kali Shiver went down in the history books as scoring a thousand points and rallying her troops to the sch...

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