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VPHS finds success heading into final weeks

Rhett Manuel

Thursday, February 10, 2022

VILLE PLATTE – With the playoffs fast approaching, Ville Platte basketball had work to do. The programs, both currently in position to host home basketball games in the Class 3A playoffs, were able to bring home winning weeks.

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The next step

Rhett Manuel

Monday, February 7, 2022

Ethan Karonika had to split time with Sacred Heart teammate Caleb Hood during his senior football season. The 6-1, 190-pound quarterback ultimately didn’t put up the sort of season that may have been expected before his senior year began.

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LHSAA to expand Division IV football playoffs

Rhett Manuel

Monday, February 7, 2022

BATON ROUGE – Things can always change on a yearly basis at the Louisiana High School Athletic Association annual convention. Perhaps the ones with the most lasting effects for Evangeline Parish schools both passed.

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Transitioning Tigers win big on recruiting trail

Rhett Manuel

Monday, February 7, 2022

The LSU Tigers, heading into their first year under new head coach Brian Kelly, are a program in transition. It’s to be expected in a regime change at the college level.

Kali Shiver (22) sets up a play for her Lady Trojans in Sacred Heart’s 47-46 road loss to Opelousas Catholic Tuesday night. (Gazette photo by Rhett Manuel)

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Blanked in Opelousas

Rhett Manuel

Thursday, February 3, 2022

By: RHETT MANUEL Sports Editor OPELOUSAS – For three quarters, all was well for the Sacred Heart Lady Trojans against Opelousas Catholic. Sacred Heart took a 37-25 lead into the fourth quarter and stretched it out to as many as 16 points to take a 41-25 lead.

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Wrestling tournament is hosted in Basile

Rhett Manuel

Thursday, February 3, 2022

BASILE – It was the first wrestling tournament the school had hosted since 1994, and sadly the Basile Bearcats wrestling program couldn’t put their own name on it.

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Parish roundball action nears the home stretch

Rhett Manuel

Thursday, February 3, 2022

By: RHETT MANUEL Sports Editor With two weeks remaining in the high school basketball regular season, every game means more than it has all year due to teams vying for playoff seeding.

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Safe spaces

Rhett Manuel

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

I’m sure by now, your kids have been working hard perfecting their version of The Griddy. If you don’t know what the heck I’m talking about, don’t worry. It’s just another one of those dadgum, newfangled dance trends the youths are all about these days. It’s a fad. It’ll pass. Don’t worry.

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LSUE Baseball is preseason number one

Rhett Manuel

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

EUNICE – It’s barely news anymore. LSU-Eunice baseball has sustained its place as the most dominant junior college baseball program in the United States. Year in and out, high school players and Division I transfers alike flock to the small-town college to play for head coach Jeff Willis.

Davontae Fontenot (0) tries to maintain possession of the basketball in Ville Platte’s home game against Iota last Friday night. (Gazette photo by Rhett Manuel)

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No charity from the stripe

Rhett Manuel

Thursday, January 27, 2022

VILLE PLATTE – Friday night, the Ville Platte Lady Bulldogs proved it could go tit-for-tat with the Iota Lady Bulldogs through three quarters when they hosted Iota in a District 5-3A affair. Ultimately, foul shooting proved crucial for Iota in pulling away for a 51-38 win.

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