Sports

Lady Trojans earn big win; Trojans fall to Crusaders

VILLE PLATTE -- The District 5-1A season continued for the Sacred Heart Trojans and Lady Trojans, as they hosted Westminster Friday night. The games can only be described as bitter-sweet as the Lady Trojans defeated Westminster by 20 points, 55-35, while the boys were defeated by 26 points, 74-48.

Mamou, Pine Prairie split league contests on the road

As the 2017-18 basketball season continues to heat up, the Mamou and Pine Prairie boys and girls basketball teams took the road for some key district contests Friday night.

Raiding the cache

MAMOU -- When the Mamou Demons and Lady Demons took to the floor Tuesday night, they were looking to hold off the Northwest Raiders and Lady Raiders from stealing the treasure of the night, district victories.

Ville Platte sweeps Welsh; picks up big district victories

Tuesday night the Ville Platte Bulldogs hosted a District 6-2A game against the Welsh Greyhounds. Both the boys’ and the girls’ teams took the court to hoping to gain some ground as they work towards their spot in the playoffs.

Pine Prairie splits contests; Sacred Heart goes down

Tuesday night saw plenty of district action for the Sacred Heart Lady Trojans and both Pine Prairie basketball teams, as all three teams looked for some momentum heading toward the last one-third of the year. Sacred Heart hosted Catholic of Pointe Coupee in the hopes of evening their league record.

Twice bitten

PINE PRAIRIE -- Coming into Friday night’s games against Iota, the Pine Prairie Panthers and Lady Panthers were looking to gain any traction they could muster in the District 5-3A race. The Lady Panthers entered the night 2-5 in league play, but had picked up two wins in their last four contests.

Sacred Heart unable to pick up home wins against False River

VILLE PLATTE -- In District 5-1A action here Friday night, the Sacred Heart Trojans and Lady Trojans hosted False River with the hopes of gaining momentum in the young district season.

Mamou picks up two big wins; Ville Platte falls in OT

The Mamou Demons and Lady Demons took to the road Friday night to take on the Church Point Bears and Lady Bears in District 5-3A action. The Lady Demons utilized a strong second quarter and held off the Lady Bears down the stretch to take a 48-42 win.

Pine Prairie loses both district contests at Northwest

PRAIRIE RHONDE -- With all of the weather conditions that invaded Acadiana over the past two days, all of the teams in the parish were forced to cancel their normal Tuesday night contests.

Down the stretch

It has been a tough, arduous season for all of the Evangeline Parish hard court teams. As of today, only three of the ten teams have overall records above .500 and only one team has a winning district record (Mamou Demons, 3-1).