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PPHS, Sacred Heart readying for scrimmages

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Thursday, August 10, 2023
By: RHETT MANUEL Sports Editor (Editor’s Note: Basile, Ville Platte and Mamou scrimmages will be previewed in Sunday’s edition of The Gazette.) With the school year right here with us finally, for sports fans it can only mean one thing: the Boys of Fall are prepping themselves for another season.
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Crews hits first grand slam as a professional ball player

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Thursday, August 10, 2023
By: TONY MARKS Editor Former LSU slugger and centerfielder Dylan Crews hit his first grand slam of his professional career on Tuesday, August 8, in his fourth game with the Fredericksburg Nationals.
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Arm race is real in AL West

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Monday, August 7, 2023
In an MLB trade deadline where most teams seemed content to do just enough to improve their rosters, leave it to the Lone Star state to go all-in to improve their rosters. By the time the dust settled on Tuesday’s trade deadline, the stars were indeed bigger and brighter deep in the heart of Texas.
Former Ole Miss and New York Giant quarterback Eli Manning addresses the media during a press conference on the day before being inducted into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame in Natchitoches. (Photo by Chris Reich/ LSHOF)

Former Ole Miss and New York Giant quarterback Eli Manning addresses the media during a press conference on the day before being inducted into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame in Natchitoches. (Photo by Chris Reich/ LSHOF)

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“Manning” the ship

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Thursday, August 3, 2023
By: TONY MARKS Editor NATCHITOCHES - In 1993, Isidore Newman School played in the state baseball championship game against Sacred Heart. Playing shortstop for Newman was Peyton Manning who committed an error which caused the Trojans to score the game winning run.
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Suspension of LSUE men’s hoops could hurt long-term

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Thursday, August 3, 2023
Talk about a bummer … In an era where scholarship opportunities are even more difficult to come by for high school student-athletes, it recently got harder for male basketball athletes in the state of Louisiana.
This picture of Devin Fontenot (28) cheering on the LSU Tigers from the dugout during a game against Southern Miss in the 2022 Hattiesburg Regional earned Ville Platte Gazette editor Tony Marks an honorable mention award for College-Pro Photography in the Louisiana Sports Writers Association Annual Contest. (LSN photo by Tony Marks)

This picture of Devin Fontenot (28) cheering on the LSU Tigers from the dugout during a game against Southern Miss in the 2022 Hattiesburg Regional earned Ville Platte Gazette editor Tony Marks an honorable mention award for College-Pro Photography in the Louisiana Sports Writers Association Annual Contest. (LSN photo by Tony Marks)

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Partsch, Marks take home LSWA Award honors

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Thursday, August 3, 2023
Staff Report The Kinder Courier News took home Class II sweepstakes honors while Louisiana State Newspapers reporters Raymond Partsch III and Tony Marks took home multiple honors at the Louisiana Sports Writers Association’s Award Luncheon held Sunday in Natchitoches.
Sacred Heart holds basketball camp

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Sacred Heart holds basketball camp

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Thursday, August 3, 2023
By: TONY MARKS Editor New head basketball coach of the Sacred Heart Lady Trojans Craig Whittington, with the assistance of area coaches, held a basketball camp last week for approximately 140 kids.
JONES DISCUSSES SHS BASKETBALL - New Sacred Heart High School basketball coach Cody Jones (center) visited the July 25, meeting of the Ville Platte Rotary Club as the guest of Dr. Jeb Cormier (left). They are shown with Rotary President Brian Ardoin (right). (Gazette photo by Heather Bogard)

JONES DISCUSSES SHS BASKETBALL - New Sacred Heart High School basketball coach Cody Jones (center) visited the July 25, meeting of the Ville Platte Rotary Club as the guest of Dr. Jeb Cormier (left). They are shown with Rotary President Brian Ardoin (right). (Gazette photo by Heather Bogard)

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Ville Platte Rotary: Jones makes move as coach at Sacred Heart

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Monday, July 31, 2023
By: HEATHER BOGARD Associate Editor Rotarian Dr. Jeb Cormier welcomed Cody Jones, new basketball coach at Sacred Heart High School, as the guest speaker for the July 25, meeting of the Ville Platte Rotary Club.
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