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Evangeline Downs Entries For Thursday 07/16/20

Evangeline Downs Entries For Thursday 07/16/20 Post Time: 5:50PM RACE 1 $15,000, 3 yo's & up, 5 1/2F, CLM $12,500 1 Macho Rocco (Murray) 118 4/1 1a Leo Del Reo (Kennedy) 123 4/1 2 Castleman (Melancon) 115 12/1 3 King's Prayer (Saenz) 115 6/1 4 Annualized (Thornton) 123 9/2 5 Seeley...

Evangeline Downs Results For Wednesday 07/15/20

Evangeline Downs Results For Wednesday 07/15/20 POST TIME: 05:50 PM RACE 1 $17,000 - 3 yo's & up, About 5F (Turf), MCL $20,000-$15,000 1 Bourbon Blues (Thornton, T.) $7.80 $5.20 $3.60 5 Accustomed to Hope (Broussard, A.) $5.40 $3.60 10 Prioritizing (Quiles, A.) $5.80 Exacta (1-5), $19.

Menard heads to Vandebilt Catholic

Chad Menard graduated from Eunice High in 1995, but he will always remember his Bobcat days as they helped shape his baseball career. Menard, 43, has been hired as the head baseball coach at Vandebilt Catholic in Houma. “I always wanted to be around the game,” Menard said.

New fishing piers, docks open at Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge

(July 8) — Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge has long been a fishing hotbed for the public in southwest Louisiana and Cameron Parish.

A look back at President Nixon’s All-Stars

During a normal Major League Baseball season, by mid-July fans would be anticipating the annual All-Star Game. But in 2020, COVID-19, the great killjoy, has forced the game’s cancellation, the first time since 1945 when World War II travel restrictions interfered and no players were selected.

A dream becomes reality

His dream all started when Paul DeRousselle was watching the O.J. Simpson trial on TV when he was in elementary school. “It all began for me watching the O.J. trial going on in 1994,” he said. “I was enamored with watching Johnnie Cochran, Robert Shapiro, Christopher Darden and Marcia Clark.

Evangeline Downs Results For Thursday 07/9/20

Evangeline Downs Results For Thursday 07/9/20 POST TIME: 05:50 PM RACE 1 $13,000 - 3 yo's & up, 7F, MCL $5,000 1 Blue Ridge Heat (Magnon, D.) $4.80 $3.00 $2.60 6 Cajun Shots (Quiles, A.) $3.60 $2.80 7 Toshita Forever (Rodriguez, W.) $9.60 Exacta (1-6), $7.40; Superfecta (1-6-7-2), $21.

Questions swirl around fall sports

To play or not to play, that is the question.

From a Bobcat to a Cougar

The road to a Division I baseball program has been filled with twists and turns for former Eunice High All-State catcher Joshua Youngblood. Youngblood originally signed with Nicholls State University but never joined the Colonels baseball team.

2020 top prep athletes named

Their high school careers will be remembered for their accomplishments as stellar athletes and quality individuals. The Eunice News 2020 Athletes of the Year are Eunice High’s Leah Walker and Jordan Oglesby along with St. Edmund’s Kinsley Marcantel and Alex Dupre.