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A Eunice High defender makes a move to defend a pass during Eunice High’s 7-on-7 scrimmage with Sacred Heart on Wednesday. The 7-on-7 format typically involves 20-minute games where teams only are allowed to pass but aren’t allowed to pass rush. It’s meant to give wide receivers, quarterbacks and defensive backs more extensive reps. (Photos by Dwight Jodon)

A Eunice High defender makes a move to defend a pass during Eunice High’s 7-on-7 scrimmage with Sacred Heart on Wednesday. The 7-on-7 format typically involves 20-minute games where teams only are allowed to pass but aren’t allowed to pass rush. It’s meant to give wide receivers, quarterbacks and defensive backs more extensive reps. (Photos by Dwight Jodon)

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Eunice High 7 on 7 scrimmage

Harlan Kirgan
Friday, July 11, 2025
A Eunice High defender makes a move to defend a pass during Eunice High’s 7-on-7 scrimmage with Sacred Heart on Wednesday. The 7-on-7 format typically involves 20-minute games where teams only are allowed to pass but aren’t allowed to pass rush.
Charlie Mahfouz

Charlie Mahfouz

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Remembering coaching legend Charlie Mahfouz

Harlan Kirgan
Thursday, July 10, 2025
The old saying is that “legends never die.” In a way, it’s a false pretense. Everyone does eventually pass away. However, the saying does give credence to the idea of leaving a legacy.
Tommy Black

Tommy Black

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Bobcat football looks for a reset

Harlan Kirgan
Thursday, July 3, 2025
Once in every 20 years, a phenomenon occurs in our small town. Hailey’s Comet it isn’t. But nonetheless, it’s a rare occurrence that serves as a reset for Eunice Bobcat football. It’s the rare losing season. The type of gut check that can only happen when a program is used to consistent success.

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Blue Jays defeat Iota

Harlan Kirgan
Friday, June 27, 2025
Every coach will tell you that wins and losses don’t matter during summer leagues. It’s about the process and the improvement. For St. Ed’s and head coach Casey Charlie, it’s about the familiarization and the chance to implement everything he wants to do during the spring.
Paxon Myers

Paxon Myers

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Blue Jays look to youth

Harlan Kirgan
Friday, June 27, 2025
The future for St. Ed’s baseball was already in the process of change as head coach Casey Charlie took the reins during the summer season. He’s had the Blue Jays scrapping and playing a brand of baseball that he hopes will payoff in the spring.

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Bobcat basketball team is young with a new coach

Harlan Kirgan
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
He hasn’t been here long, but it’s already easy to see that new Eunice boys basketball coach Craig Green gets the ethos of the town and the program he’s inheriting.
Eva Sattler

Eva Sattler

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Lady Cat freshman Sattler named to All-State

Harlan Kirgan
Friday, June 13, 2025
Every once in a while, an athletic program runs across a special talent. The kind that can help create the foundation of the program for the next several seasons. A building block. They’re sturdy, reliable and in most cases they’re game changers.

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Jays continue building baseball under Charlie

Harlan Kirgan
Friday, June 13, 2025
St. Ed’s continued its building of the new look of its baseball program under head coach Casey Charlie as they continued in the Metro Summer League play. St. Ed’s colected a 16-5 win over Westminster, lost 3-2 to Sacred Heart before bouncing back with a 12-2 win over Acadia.

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Blue Jays drop summer opener to Louisiana Kings

Harlan Kirgan
Friday, June 6, 2025
High school athletics have become a year-round endeavor. Whether it is the actual seasons where wins and losses are recorded or off-season preparation, the reality has become that if your team is not working on its craft in some way, shape or form year-round they’re falling behind.
Casey Charlie

Casey Charlie

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Charlie to lead Blue Jay baseball

Harlan Kirgan
Friday, May 23, 2025
There are few, if any, coaches in the state of Louisiana that are wired like new St. Edmund head baseball coach Casey Charlie. The Eunice native, a 2007 graduate of Eunice High, hasn’t changed his stripes in 11 years of teaching and coaching. He’s loyal. He’s standard-driven.