Sports

Marquee match-up

The 2020 high school football season could not have opened up with a better key marquee game in Evangeline Parish than the one that will take place tomorrow night in Basile.

Ville Platte travels to Eunice to battle talented Bobcats

No doubt the Ville Platte High Bulldogs will have a tough challenge tomorrow night when they travel to Eunice to take on a very talented Bobcat squad in their first game of the season.

Pine Prairie Panthers host Beau Chene in first contest

The Pine Prairie Panthers will open up the David Michael Carrell era with a home contest against the Beau Chene Gators tonight in a non-district match-up. Game time at Panther Stadium is set for 7 p.m. Pine Prairie is a young squad in terms of overall number of underclassmen.

Highly qualified

In a year where time needed to get a team ready to play almost instantaneously, having a number of returning players with a ton of game experience is a blessing. For Sacred Heart Trojan head coach Josh Harper, the blessings are bountiful this season.

Young pups

How do you lose one of the biggest senior classes in a number of years and rebound the following season? The Ville Platte High Bulldogs are about to find out.

A new era in the prairie

The Pine Prairie Panthers begin a new era in their gridiron history, as the program now has a new head coach and a brand new staff. Taking over the Panther program is David Michael Carrell, who claimed the reigns from long time head coach Yves Prince.

Re-focusing the talent

The one important task for the Mamou Demons coming into the 2020 season is the ability to re-focus the talent on hand. Last season, the Demons were led by a hard-nosed, very skilled group of seniors that took leadership very seriously.

Ahead of the game

When the LHSAA made the final decision to begin the regular season on October 2, many teams across the state were in a waiting pattern and had to scramble to get into season mode. However, one team in Evangeline Parish did not blink an eye because they were ahead of the game. That team?

Fan limitation may kill a number of LHSAA programs

What’s in a number? Well for a ton of LHSAA athletic programs around the state, numbers may destroy any hope of having certain sports. When the decision was made to allow only 25% stadium capacities to watch football games this season was released, I was left speechless.

Defending their title

BATON ROUGE – Step one in defending their National Championship begins in two days, as the LSU Tigers open up the 2020 season at home against the Mississippi State Bulldogs.