A pre-dress rehearsal

By News Staff on Monday, August 25, 2025
Bearcats host Panthers in scrimmage ahead of jamboree
  • Landon Istre (11) looks to find some running room for his Basile Bearcats in the scrimmage against Pine Prairie. (Gazette photo by Tony Marks)
    Landon Istre (11) looks to find some running room for his Basile Bearcats in the scrimmage against Pine Prairie. (Gazette photo by Tony Marks)
  • Ashton Deville (9) looks to get rid of the football as his Pine Prairie Panthers face Basile in a scrimmage. (Gazette photo by Tony Marks)
    Ashton Deville (9) looks to get rid of the football as his Pine Prairie Panthers face Basile in a scrimmage. (Gazette photo by Tony Marks)
  • Jacob Carroll (5) looks to make a tackle against a Basile runner in the scrimmage on Thursday night. (Gazette photo by Tony Marks)
    Jacob Carroll (5) looks to make a tackle against a Basile runner in the scrimmage on Thursday night. (Gazette photo by Tony Marks)
    By: TONY MARKS Editor BASILE - A week before facing each other in the Evangeline Parish Jamboree, the Basile Bearcats hosted the Pine Prairie Panthers in a scrimmage on Thursday, August 21. The Bearcats were ungracious hosts and kept the Panthers out of the endzone while finding their own endzone on several occasions throughout the night. “I think we’re further ahead (now) than we were ...

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