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Lady Jay Ava Smith in action. (Photo by Amy Myers)

Lady Jay Ava Smith in action. (Photo by Amy Myers)

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Lady Cats, Jays earn home game playoffs

Rhett Manuel / Sports Editor
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
The regular season has wrapped and the road to the Cajundome has begun for high school volleyball teams in Louisiana. For both the Eunice High School Lady Cats and St.
Bobcat runner Thaddeus Godfrey carries against Leesville. (Photo by Rhett Manuel)

Bobcat runner Thaddeus Godfrey carries against Leesville. (Photo by Rhett Manuel)

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Bobcats look for a playoff berth

Rhett Manuel / Sports Editor
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
It doesn’t make sense. It perhaps shouldn’t have happened this way. Yet, as we enter Week 10 of the high school football season the Eunice Bobcats are sitting in familiar territory.
Blue Jay defenders focus on a Bolton runner in a 61-0 win. (Photo by Amy Myers)

Blue Jay defenders focus on a Bolton runner in a 61-0 win. (Photo by Amy Myers)

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Blue Jays set records, face tough Crusader contest

Rhett Manuel / Sports Editor
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
The St. Ed’s Blue Jay offense has set all sort of records in 2024. Last Friday night in a 61-0 win over Bolton Academy, it was the single-season record for team points scored with 448 in the nine games it’s played so far. The previous record holding team needed an extra three games to score 443.
St. Edmund High School held a Senior Night for its volleyball team on Oct. 30. From left, Millie Miller, Jillian Devillier, Emma Myers, Londyn Berzas and Lauren Bearb were recognized. (Photo by Amy Myers)

St. Edmund High School held a Senior Night for its volleyball team on Oct. 30. From left, Millie Miller, Jillian Devillier, Emma Myers, Londyn Berzas and Lauren Bearb were recognized. (Photo by Amy Myers)

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Senior Night for Lady Jays

Harlan Kirgan
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
St. Edmund High School held a Senior Night for its volleyball team on Oct. 30. From left, Millie Miller, Jillian Devillier, Emma Myers, Londyn Berzas and Lauren Bearb were recognized. (Photo by Amy Myers)

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Bengals advance in postseason play

Harlan Kirgan
Friday, November 1, 2024
LSU Eunice Men’s Soccer continued its strong late season form with a 2-0 win over Blinn College in the Gulf South District Quarterfinals on Wednesday at the Bengal Soccer Complex.

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Team Pitre won in 8th week of play

Harlan Kirgan
Friday, November 1, 2024
The eighth week of Eunice Ladies Tennis League (ELTL) ended the evening with Team Pitre winning 22 points and Team R&B scoring 12 points. On Court 1, Team R&B members Sydney Augustine and Kacie West won in split sets 7-6, 4-6, 6-1 against Michelle Lafleur and Jamie Kirsch of Team Pitre.
Huddling during the Iota match, are Lady Cats, facing the camera, from left, Destiny Labbe, Ava Grace Brown and Brooklyn Darbonne. Backs to the camera, from left, are Jaylee Randall, Lainie Ortego and De’miyah Reed. (Photo by Rhett Manuel)

Huddling during the Iota match, are Lady Cats, facing the camera, from left, Destiny Labbe, Ava Grace Brown and Brooklyn Darbonne. Backs to the camera, from left, are Jaylee Randall, Lainie Ortego and De’miyah Reed. (Photo by Rhett Manuel)

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Lady Cats await state playoff pairing

Rhett Manuel / Sports Editor
Friday, November 1, 2024
This season has just been everything the Eunice High Lady Cats volleyball program could ask for as it closes out the regular season and moves into the postseason. However, the Lady Cats will need to recover from a pair of setbacks as they turn onto the road to the state tournament.
A fishing crew off the Louisiana coast reels in a large net full of menhaden. (Courtesy of Louisiana Sea Grant)

A fishing crew off the Louisiana coast reels in a large net full of menhaden. (Courtesy of Louisiana Sea Grant)

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Fewer fish spills reported after Louisiana pushes pogy boats from coast

Tristan Baurick / Verite
Friday, November 1, 2024
In 2022, a menhaden fishing ship and its net boats spilled about a million fish off the Louisiana coast, leaving the floating mass to rot in the summer sun. A few months later, another spill blanketed Louisiana beaches with an estimated 850,000 dead fish.
St. Edmund’s Marcus Gradney works to avoid a Catholic-Pointe Coupee pursuit in the 26-22 loss on Oct. 24. (Photo by Dwight Jodon)

St. Edmund’s Marcus Gradney works to avoid a Catholic-Pointe Coupee pursuit in the 26-22 loss on Oct. 24. (Photo by Dwight Jodon)

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Blue Jays looking foward to rematches

Rhett Manuel / Sports Editor
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
For the first time all season, things didn’t go according to plan for the St. Ed’s Blue Jays. For the first time all season, things weren’t perfect. After a strong first half where the Jays led Catholic-Pointe Coupee by a 22-19 margin, the Hornets did the unthinkable in the second half.
Bobcat quarterback Montana Brown leaps for yards against the Iowa Yellow Jackets in a 48-21 loss on Oct. 25. (Photo by Dwight Jodon)

Bobcat quarterback Montana Brown leaps for yards against the Iowa Yellow Jackets in a 48-21 loss on Oct. 25. (Photo by Dwight Jodon)

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Despite loss, Bobcats keep playoff hopes alive

Rhett Manuel / Sports Editor
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Looks can be deceiving. With that being a cliché that’s been expounded over-and-over through the years, it’s one for a reason. Things aren’t always what they seem, and that’s the case for the Eunice Bobcats after last Friday’s 48-21 loss to the Iowa Yellow Jackets in District 3-4A play.