The Town Talk’s Lamar Gafford joins SportsNite to break down what teams are making final pushes toward the playoffs in Cenla prep baseball and softball.
After sweeping their first double header against Our Lady of the Lake on Friday, the LSUA Generals were handed two losses in their second double header on Saturday.
At the beginning of practice, Kamryn Johnson is just like any softball player but once she laces up her shoes, she’s one of the best hitters in Central Louisiana.
Quarterback LaDarius Skelton and running back Jerrod Sims help lead Southern University to a dominant 51-23 win over Texas Southern on Saturday, March 20 as the Jaguars got back in the win column.
Northwestern State flashed its aerial attack as the Demons offense moved up and down the field in the first half, but missed scoring opportunities and a strong McNeese second half factored into a 21-7 loss.
LC freshman running back Devin Briscoe rushed for 202 yards against Mary Hardin-Baylor, but his efforts were for not as the Wildcats would fall to the Crusaders, 65-20.
The No. 8 seed LSU Tigers dominated the Bonnies of St. Bonaventure in the first round of the 2021 NCAA Tournament 76-61. Freshman Cam Thomas led the way with 27 points.
The Louisiana College Wildcat men’s basketball team found themselves on the short end of a last-second shot attempt as they lost to the Ozark Eagles in the American Southwest Conference championship game, 74-72.
After coming up 90 seconds short of upsetting one of the top teams in NCAA Division III during the regular season, the Louisiana College men’s basketball team left no doubt in the rematch with #10 Mary Hardin-Baylor, jumping out to a 16-point lead and then closed the game out late to advance to the ASC Championship Game for the first time since 2016 with an 89-72 win over the Crusaders in the semifinals of the 2021 American Southwest Conference Men’s Basketball Championship Tournament Sunday afternoon at Mabee Gymnasium on the campus of the University of the Ozarks.
Down by one entering the ninth inning, Northwestern State put together its lone multi-run inning of the game, scoring twice to rally past Incarnate Word for a 6-5 victory.
The Lions blocked their third field goal of the game and turned it into a game-winning field goal of their own in a heart-breaking 27-24 NSU loss to the Lions.
The Grambling Tigers offense struggled to click early allowing Prarie View A&M to hand them their second straight loss this season at Globe Life Park in Arlington, TX for the State Fair Classic.
The saying it isn’t over until it’s over rang true for the Louisiana College Wildcat football as they would score 21 fourth-quarter points to beat Southwestern, 34-31.
After erasing a 13-point, first-half deficit and turning it into a five-point, second-half lead, Northwestern State could not hold off the fast-closing, top-seeded Colonels, falling 88-76
The Colonels (3-0, 1-0 Southland Conference) ate up the rest of the clock, and NSU (0-1, 0-1 SLC) fell just short of an in-state upset in a 31-24 loss in the Demons’ first action in 471 days.
The Louisiana College men’s basketball team wanted to give its three seniors at least one postseason home game and accomplished that feat by using an 11-0 run to pull away from East Texas Baptist and clinch a home game in the American Southwest Conference Championship Tournament with a near wire-to-wire 76-65 win over the Tigers Saturday afternoon at H.O. West Fieldhouse.
After losing to East Texas Baptist for five consecutive seasons, the Louisiana College Wildcat football team beat ETBU, 23-17, to win the ‘Border Claw’ trophy.
The defense was the story early on for Southern at Alabama State and the offenses would eventually get things going but the game came down to special teams at the end.
Louisianahoops.com scout, Clifton Dixon, and prephoops.com scout, Preston Edwards, breaks down the seedings of the boys’ playoff brackets prior to release.
Timely late-game hitting and strong showings by the bulk pitchers led the LSUA baseball team to a double header sweep against Arizona Christian on Monday
“Don’t give up,” Nate Dardar said. “Whenever something goes wrong in your life, and you don’t think you can make it, keep trying and keep fighting, and it’ll pay off.”
The Peabody Warhorses honored the 1957 Louisiana Interscholastic Athletic and Literary Association (LIALO) girls’ basketball championship team on Friday, February 12.
