WATSON – Under fifth-year coach Brett Beard, Live Oak has adopted a certain personality.

WALKER – No, Walker wasn’t in midseason form in its scrimmage with Slidell, but first-year Wildcats coach Chad Mahaffey saw some flashes of what his team is capable of and now has a body of work against outside competition he and his coaching staff can build on heading into next week’s jamboree.

DENHAM SPRINGS – For the past two years Denham Springs coach Bill Conides had a pretty feeling about the prospects of Catholic High’s football team after their preseason scrimmage.

SPRINGFIELD – Springfield football coach Ryan Serpas doesn’t have many complaints when it comes to his team’s progress thus far during preseason camp.

HAMMOND – With five-time defending Ohio Valley Conference champion and FCS preseason No. 6 Jacksonville State visiting Strawberry Stadium next Thursday at 7 p.m., the Southeastern Louisiana football team will have to be at its best in all three phases, including special teams.

Sometimes it’s OK to play the waiting game.

It made for a compelling Week 3 matchup last season when Walker, which led at halftime, needed a fourth-quarter rally and an interception return for a touchdown in a pulsating 40-38 victory over Slidell.

There’s plenty for Albany football coach Mike Janis to be optimistic about at this point in the preseason, but the Hornets will get their first true test of outside competition in Thursday’s 6 p.m. scrimmage at Pine.

WATSON – With Live Oak prepared to take the climb up to the Division I volleyball ranks this season, the schedule will undoubtedly get tougher, but the end goal will remain the same.

DENHAM SPRINGS -- It took a while for it to happen, but LSU play-by-play commentator and Director of Radio Broadcasting Chris Blair finally got his chance to speak at the monthly meeting of the Denham Springs Athletic Association at Big Mike’s Sports Bar & Grill.

Brooke Morris, a former standout at Live Oak High School, has been promoted a volunteer coaching position at Louisiana Tech where she was a graduate manager for the program a year ago.

HAMMOND – Inside Southeastern Football With Frank Scelfo will debut on Tuesday, Sept. 3 at 7 p.m. at Tope La Catering in downtown Hammond.

Five all-state athletes representing a variety of sports, along with one well known supporter who was himself a fine Denham Springs High School athlete, comprise the Class of 2019 that will be inducted into the school’s athletic Hall of Fame on Sept. 19 at Forrest Grove Plantation in Denham …

HAMMOND – Southeastern Louisiana second-year linebackers coach Chris Lachney does not have the wealth of experience in his meeting room that some other Lion football position groups feature.

Chris Blair, the Director of Radio Broadcasting and play-by-play announcer for the LSU football, men’s basketball, and baseball teams, will be the guest speaker Aug. 19 at the next Denham Springs Athletic Association meeting at 6:30 p.m. at Big Mike’s Sports Bar & Grill in Denham Springs.

WALKER – What a difference a year can make.

HAMMOND – Armed with a veteran receiving corps, Southeastern Louisiana will have no shortage of pass catching options in the 2019 season.

When there were no more bass to pull out of the weigh-in bag Sunday afternoon on the biggest stage of Dakota Ebare’s life as a professional bass angler, the Watson native smiled broadly and held his arms out in a gesture that said c’est tout – that is all, it’s over.

HAMMOND – Southeastern Louisiana Director of Athletics Jay Artigues announced Friday the creation of the new digital Southeastern Sports Network (SSN) through a partnership with BlueFrame Technology.

The 2018 calendar had turned to December when a still fragile Lane Thomas ventured up I-55 to Ellisville, Miss., with the slender hopes of continuing of his baseball career.

After a series of medical setbacks in the fall of 2018 that resulted in his transfer from Southeastern Louisiana, Thomas flourished in his first season at Jones County (Miss.) Community College in 2019.

HAMMOND – Of all the Southeastern Louisiana football team’s position groups, perhaps none is more experienced across the board than the Lion defensive line.

What Madison Knight said was not her best day on the softball field turned out to be anything but in the end.

DENHAM SPRINGS - After nearly two years of waiting, Denham Springs native James Lopez III finally got the opportunity he was hoping for – a chance to spar with the best at the USKA World Karate Championship in Phoenix, AZ.

HAMMOND – Southeastern Louisiana first-year running backs/passing game coordinator Kerry Joseph is no stranger to what it takes to be successful in the Southland Conference.

It’s not often, if ever, that a young basketball prodigy such as Walker High’s Jalen Cook gets to occupy the same space as one the greatest basketball stars currently gracing the planet.

HAMMOND – Three of Southeastern Louisiana’s first four football games are listed on the broadcast schedule for the first four weeks of Southland Conference football, the league office announced Tuesday.

DENHAM SPRINGS – To what lengths was Tori Odom willing to go in order to continue his basketball career once he graduated from Denham Springs two years ago?

HAMMOND – Following the 11th practice of fall camp, the Southeastern Louisiana football program hosted members of the Touchdown and S Clubs in a post-practice ceremony Saturday morning in the Victory Club.

Natalie Kelly saw a number of changes in her first season at Auburn University in 2018-19 following a standout career at Albany High School, including the tempo and physicality of the college game and the level of competition.

WATSON - The big three sports at Live Oak High School – football, basketball and baseball – have been a part of the state’s top classification in 5A for quite some time.

HAMMOND – Southeastern Louisiana football coach Frank Scelfo has been looking for effort, execution and consistency from his team during fall camp. As the Lions finished up their ninth practice on Thursday morning at Strawberry Stadium, SLU is closer to matching its second-year head coach’s …

As a boy, Dakota Ebare drove a three-wheeler towing a utility trailer and small, two-man boat with the intent to go after bass living in every pit, gravel pond or lake in Livingston Parish.

DENHAM SPRINGS - After Denham Springs’ exit in the first round of the Division I state volleyball playoffs, Kailey Dunham knows that the expectations are a bit higher this year.

HAMMOND – Southeastern Louisiana offensive coordinator Greg Stevens has been encouraged what he’s seen from his Lion offense as the second week of fall camp continues.

WATSON – For Live Oak High first baseman Brant Smith there wasn’t any belaboring the point.

HAMMOND – As Southeastern Louisiana football camp moves into week two, the Lions put on full pads for the first time on Sunday and Monday at Strawberry Stadium.

To say the past few months have been a whirlwind of sorts for the former Miranda Lobell might be an understatement.

SPRINGFIELD – The start of preseason camp can’t come soon enough for Springfield football coach Ryan Serpas.

HAMMOND – The Southeastern Louisiana football team closed out the split-squad portion of fall camp Saturday morning at Strawberry Stadium.