Sports

VILLE PLATTE - Matt Fontenot started the night off with a bang for Sacred Heart.

PINE PRAIRIE - With District 5-3A play starting up, Pine Prairie head coach Richard Clark was optimistic that his team would be competitive in district play this year.

ELTON - As the sun began to set on the western bank of Bayou Nezpique, football teams from two communities separated by five miles met on the field of battle for the right to take home coveted hard

Come to find out, LSU may have been fishing in the wrong hole all along and it may be time for a new captain to man the ship at Tiger Stadium.

If there was ever a time for the rubber to meet the road for head coach Roy Serie and his Ville Platte Bulldogs, it is this Friday.

With non-district play behind teams now and the majority getting into district play, it’s obvious that this is the time of the year that just means more.

It wasn’t a win on its record books for Pine Prairie when it played Northwest last season.

There is nothing like small-town football. It’s been dramatized on TV, most famously on the NBC series Friday Night Lights, and the theme is ever-present.

MAMOU - Some nights you’ve just got it.
And some nights, you’ve just got it on a level where it seems they put something in the water bottles.

PINE PRAIRIE - With 1:43 on the clock, Pine Prairie, trailing 43-36, forced a punt from Grant and regained possession on its 45-yard line.