If there’s anything Jase McDonald has learned over the past few years of his baseball career, it’s how to be a honker and a windbreaker and when to excel in each of those roles.
Ethan Renfrow’s run-scoring single capped a four-run sixth inning, helping Walker score an 8-7 win over Denham Springs in Metro League baseball action at Walker on Thursday.
Karson Jones, Maddox Newsom and Jackson McCreary combined to shut out French settlement 4-0 in Metro League baseball Wednesday.
DENHAM SPRINGS - - Trave Hopkins is officially Denham Springs High’s new baseball coach.
HAMMOND --Â Pitching took center stage when Hammond High Magnet hosted Springfield in Metro League action Wednesday, and the Bulldogs scratched just enough to get the win.
DENHAM SPRINGS -- Trave Hopkins is officially Denham Springs High’s new baseball coach.
Walker’s Randy Sandifer and Doyle’s Tim Beatty guided their teams to the state baseball tournament this season.
HAMMOND – Southeastern Louisiana head football coach Frank Scelfo announced several changes to his coaching staff on Tuesday.
Live Oak’s Blaise Priester and Walker’s Caleb Webb took different routes to get here, but they’re co-Most Valuable Players on All-Parish baseball team, which was selected by parish coaches.
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WATSON -- Former Live Oak basketball player Baylor Wells realizes he’s now in some elite company, and that’s just fine.
ALBANY – Albany basketball player BrookeLynn Saxon found exactly what she was looking for at Belhaven University, and she said that’s a good thing, academically and athletically.
HAMMOND – The Southland Conference Tournament champion Southeastern women’s soccer team had five players named to the Louisiana Sports Writers Association All-Louisiana team, including Megan Gordon, Dalton Fish, Mya Guillory, former Denham Springs High standout Makenzie Maher and Nadine Mah…
A total of five Livingston Parish athletes were selected to the Louisiana Sports Writers Class 5A All-State baseball and softball teams, which were released Thursday.
DENHAM SPRINGS -- Wednesday marked the start of a new set 7-on-7 league play, and it was new territory for some of the younger players on the Denham Springs High football team.
WALKER -- When she started pole vaulting, Walker’s Evyn Fitzgerald wasn’t sure where it would take her.
Walker’s Casen Carver, Logan Cusimano and Seth Terrell combined on a no-hitter, sparking a 6-0 win over St. Amant in summer baseball action Monday at St. Amant.
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Both the Doyle baseball and softball teams advanced to Class 2A championship games, and both squads have something to show for it on the Louisiana Sports Writers Association’s all-state teams.
The Louisiana Knights Bears Demouy team scored two runs in the fourth inning to pick up a 7-5 win over Walker on Thursday at M.L. ‘Tigue’ Moore Field in Lafayette.
WALKER -- After the voting concluded, the magnitude of the moment was still sinking in for French Settlement softball coach Blake West.
The Holden softball team left Sulphur with the Class B championship trophy, and it showed on the Louisiana Sports Writers Association’s All- State team.
French Settlement principal John Chewning was a little bit in awe of his hires for the school’s baseball program, and it’s understandable.
Mark Carroll won’t be returning as Denham Springs’ baseball coach.
It didn’t happen overnight, but things have come together pretty well for Walker softball player Lainee Bailey.
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The Louisiana Knights Bears Billings team got a two-hitter and scored five in the third and seventh in the fourth to spark an 12-3 win over Walker Gold in the varsity championship game of the 21st Annual Denham Springs Wood Bat Tournament on Sunday at North Park.
DENHAM SPRINGS -- The Denham Springs Purple team couldn’t have gotten off to a better start to begin play in the Denham Springs Wood Bat Tournament on Thursday.
WALKER -- Walker’s Anna Ferrand and Jaden Williams had to take a little time to soak up the situation.
Summer baseball is here again, with Denham Springs hosting its annual Wood Bat Tournament, beginning Thursday.
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Denham Springs' Hughes named Red River Athletic Conference Player of the Year
The Live Oak football team got a little something extra in its spring game with Bay, Miss., and the Eagles didn’t seem to mind.
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The Live Oak football team will wrap up spring drills traveling to face Bay, Miss., at 7 p.m. Friday, but for Eagles coach Blane Westmoreland, the biggest thing is that his team had spring drills in the first place this season after COVID-19 put the clamps on last spring’s sports seasons.
When it came down to it, it really wasn’t a difficult decision at all.
All things considered, Albany football coach David Knight didn’t have too much to complain about following the Hornets’ spring game with Sophie B. Wright.
Walker wrapped up its spring football drills, and Wildcats coach Chad Mahaffey came away with some things to build on this summer.
SULPHUR – There’s a lot to be said about silence.
DENHAM SPRINGS -- Just before his team was about to begin play in the second of two timed halves in its spring game with East Ascension, Denham Springs football coach Brett Bead implored his team to ‘finish’.
HAMMOND – The nation’s best offensive player resides in Hammond, America, as Southeastern Louisiana senior quarterback Cole Kelley was named the 2020-21 Stats Perform FCS Walter Payton Award winner in an announcement from Stats Perform on Saturday.
Brett Beard has one season under his belt as the Denham Springs High football coach, but it’s almost like the Yellow Jackets have hit the re-set button heading into Saturday’s spring scrimmage with East Ascension.
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