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Sacred Heart’s Kali Shiver (right) has been named as the 2022 Ville Platte Gazette’s Most Valuable Player for girls’ basketball in Evangeline Parish and was a crucial part to her team’s turnaround. (Gazette photo by Tony Marks)

Sacred Heart’s Kali Shiver (right) has been named as the 2022 Ville Platte Gazette’s Most Valuable Player for girls’ basketball in Evangeline Parish and was a crucial part to her team’s turnaround. (Gazette photo by Tony Marks)

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Determination pays off for girls’ MVP Shiver

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Monday, March 28, 2022
By: RHETT MANUEL Sports Editor Determining value is a tricky proposition. As humans, what we value tends to differ from person-to-person. Even within individual people, values tend to differ on a daily basis. Market values fluctuate. Home values go up and down. Value is hard to pinpoint.
Sacred Heart High head coach Josh Harper (left) has been named the 2022 Ville Platte Gazette’s Coach of the Year for girls’ basketball in Evangeline Parish after leading his team to a postseason run after a three-win season a year ago.

Sacred Heart High head coach Josh Harper (left) has been named the 2022 Ville Platte Gazette’s Coach of the Year for girls’ basketball in Evangeline Parish after leading his team to a postseason run after a three-win season a year ago.

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Culture, confidence helped COY Harper win big

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Monday, March 28, 2022
By: RHETT MANUEL Sports Editor VILLE PLATTE – It’s always darkest before dawn, and it couldn’t have gotten darker for the Sacred Heart girls’ basketball program than it did during the 2020-2021 season. The Lady Trojans struggled mightily through that campaign, finishing with only three wins overall.
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Trojans break deadlock for win over Breaux Bridge

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Monday, March 28, 2022
By: RHETT MANUEL Sports Editor Sacred Heart 5, Breaux Bridge 3 A two-run Zeph Arnold triple broke a late-game deadlock between the Trojans and the Tigers on Thursday night.
Bulldog slugger Bastian Veillon (9) stands ready at the plate. He went 1-for-2 in Ville Platte’s 11-9 win against Mamou. He walked three times and scored two runs. (Gazette photo by Rhett Manuel)

Bulldog slugger Bastian Veillon (9) stands ready at the plate. He went 1-for-2 in Ville Platte’s 11-9 win against Mamou. He walked three times and scored two runs. (Gazette photo by Rhett Manuel)

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Unpolished win

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Thursday, March 24, 2022
By: RHETT MANUEL Sports Editor VILLE PLATTE – It’s not always the prettiest. It’s not necessarily what you’d define as polished baseball. But lately, the Ville Platte Bulldogs are finding a way to win games. And at the end of the day, that’s the main goal.
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Trojans get walk-off win against Northwood

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Thursday, March 24, 2022
By: RHETT MANUEL Sports Editor The Trojans walked it off last Friday against Northwood. Tied at 5 in the bottom of the eighth following a five-run Northwood fifth inning where they took the lead briefly, Gabe Wilmouth was hit by a pitch and drove in a run to win the game for Sacred Heart.
Maddie Fontenot (13) rips a base hit to left field in the Mamou Lady Demons’ 9-1 win over Church Point to improve to 11-5 on the season. (Gazette photo by Rhett Manuel)

Maddie Fontenot (13) rips a base hit to left field in the Mamou Lady Demons’ 9-1 win over Church Point to improve to 11-5 on the season. (Gazette photo by Rhett Manuel)

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Lady Demons collect 9-1 win over Church Point

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Thursday, March 24, 2022
By: RHETT MANUEL Sports Editor MAMOU – The Mamou Lady Demons are finding their stride, and it can’t come at a better time with District 5-3A ramping up.
Former Pine Prairie stand out Isaiah Payne takes the basketball down the court for the LSUE Bengal basketball team in a game played earlier this season. (Photo courtesy of Travis Webb/ LSU Eunice)

Former Pine Prairie stand out Isaiah Payne takes the basketball down the court for the LSUE Bengal basketball team in a game played earlier this season. (Photo courtesy of Travis Webb/ LSU Eunice)

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Panther strong, Panther proud

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Monday, March 21, 2022
By: RHETT MANUEL Sports Editor EUNICE – Pine Prairie native Isaiah Payne entered the LSU-Eunice program as an unfinished product. Gifted with athleticism, head coach Byron Starks saw Payne as a blank slate he could turn into a complete basketball player.
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Loomis, Saints taking all-in approach for 2022

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Monday, March 21, 2022
As of the time of this writing, the New Orleans Saints have yet to do anything crazy in the current free agency period. By the time this is published on Sunday, that may very well have changed. As of Thursday morning, the Saints are being mentioned as heavy players in the Deshaun Watson sweepstakes.
Ville Platte High senior pitcher Leslie Foreman is pictured in a game in which he threw the school’s first no-hitter at home since 1995 and scored the winning run. (Photo courtesy of VPHS)

Ville Platte High senior pitcher Leslie Foreman is pictured in a game in which he threw the school’s first no-hitter at home since 1995 and scored the winning run. (Photo courtesy of VPHS)

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Foreman throws first home no-hitter since 1995

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Monday, March 21, 2022
By: TONY MARKS Editor RHETT MANUEL Sports Editor Senior hurler Leslie Foreman, in a 2-1 win over the Reeves Raiders, etched his name in the Ville Platte High School record books as he threw the school’s first no-hitter at home since 1995.
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Lady Pios blast five home runs in win over SH

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Monday, March 21, 2022
By: RHETT MANUEL Sports Editor TONY MARKS Editor The Lady Trojans had nothing to hang their heads about in their defeat against one of the state’s best softball teams regardless of classification.
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