The North Vermilion Lady Patriots have a challenge Friday in the semifinals of the Non-Select Division II LHSAA softball playoffs. They battle the No. 1 seed, North DeSoto Griffins, on Friday at noon. The game will be played on Field 15 at North Frach Park in Sulphur. The Griffins are the three-time Division II defending state champions. Last year, they beat No. 2 Albany 7-4 in the Division II finals. They also won in 2022 and 2021. Since 2014, North DeSoto has been to the semifinals and has...
KAPLAN - The Kaplan Lady Pirates quest to repeat as Division III Non-Select State Champions came to a halt Saturday as they fell to the Jena Lady Giants 4-3. Kaplan (27-6) had the tying run on second base with nobody out in the bottom of the seventh inning, but Jena’s pitching and defense held, ending the Lady Pirates’ season. “Things just didn’t go our way,” said head coach Brittany LeBeouf. “We had runners in scoring position the first three innings and we couldn’t scratch a run across. That’s...
Joe Heintz stepped down after only one year Joe Heintz is leaving North Vermilion for a possible job at Teurlings High School. Joe Heintz was named as the head coach of the North Vermilion High football team in April 2023. However, he resigned from his position a year later in April 2024. Reportedly, he will go back to Teurlings High School in Lafayette, where he had previously been coaching for over 15 years. Heintz turned in his resignation last week to North Vermilion Principal Denise...
LEROY – The North Vermilion Lady Patriots advanced to the semifinals of the Division II Non-Select playoffs with a thrilling 1-0 victory over the Iowa Lady Yellow Jackets. The Lady Pats won the game in walk-off fashion, scoring the game’s only run in the bottom of the seventh. With one out in the inning, Reese Charpentier stepped to the plate with the bases loaded. She sent a 2-1 pitch to the wall in left centerfield that scored Amelia Dupre, advancing the Lady Pats to the semifinals to face the...
Three parish baseball teams have moved on to the second round of the LHSAA baseball playoffs. All three teams will be playing at home starting Friday. Vermilion Catholic, Erath, and North Vermilion all received first-round byes. Their second-round games are all at home. The second round of games will be a three-game series for North Vermilion and Erath. VC is only one game. Lakeshore at Erath The No. 4 Erath Bobcats (23-7) entertain No. 20 Lakeshore (14-17). The first game is Friday at 6 p.m....
From January 2001 til June 30, 2022, the Philippines did not have a first lady, that is a woman legally married to a male president of the republic.
Stevens used where butterfly landed as a mark to sank 20-foot putt Playing in his first ever regional golf tournament, Kaine Stevens of NVHS won it. Kaine Stevens needed help to win the regional golf tournament, and he found help when a butterfly landed on the green of the final hole. Stevens needed to make a 20-foot putt to win the regional tournament. As the tension mounted, Stevens was grappling with the best approach to read the putt. Suddenly, a butterfly materialized on the putting...
Hamilton is moving onto the second round of 2A baseball playoffs.
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'The mindset has to change. It's a group that likes to set up plays and we've got to break that pattern. Attack the net.' —Tocchet on power-play outages