Walker’s Lainee Bailey is the All-Parish softball Most Valuable Player for the second year in a row.

The Walker girls soccer team competed in the East Central Community College's 7v7 tournament in Newton County, Miss., going 1-2-1 overall.

WATSON – Live Oak football coach Blane Westmoreland and Denham Springs football coach Brett Beard are liking the progress they’ve seen from their teams thus far during 7-on-7 league play, and they got a little more Wednesday at Live Oak.

SPRINGFIELD – The goals for French Settlement baseball coach Kade Scivicque and Springfield counterpart Chris Blanchard are the same this summer, and for those keeping score, the Lions got the upper hand Tuesday.

A number of Livingston Parish baseball players earned all-state honors from the Louisiana Baseball Coaches Association, which released its teams Tuesday.

It’s been quite the journey, but Walker’s Robert Jackson Jr. will be playing college baseball next spring.

The idea of a Springfield High School Athletic Hall of Fame was mulled around by Springfield football coach and athletic director Ryan Serpas, former principal Spencer Harris and former assistant principal John Chewning and now it’s coming to life.

Admittedly, Holden’s Chase Hymel and French Settlement’s Kade Scivicque weren’t expecting to be in the discussion for the All-Parish baseball team’s Coach of the Year honor.

HAMMOND – Southeastern Louisiana University baseball student-athlete Preston Faulkner earned ABCA/Rawlings All-Region honors, the American Baseball Coaches Association announced Wednesday.

BATON ROUGE – LSU players Dylan Crews, Jacob Berry and Cade Doughty have earned baseball All-America recognition from Perfect Game and from the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association.

WATSON – If nothing else, the second week of the Robert Graves Metro Baton Rouge High School 7-on-7 League gave Live Oak and Springfield a chance to look at their young quarterbacks.

Springfield’s Blake Lobell is the All-Parish baseball team’s Most Valuable Player this season, and it’s something he said caught him by surprise.

A trio of Livingston Parish softball players were selected to the Louisiana Sportswriters Association’s Class 5A all-state softball team, which was released Tuesday.

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The Live Oak cross country and track and field teams will have different leadership this season.

Albany football coach John Legoria couldn’t find much to complain about in the Hornets’ 7-on-7 session Thursday morning against Independence at Tiger Stadium.

Tyler Dixon didn’t want focus on his age but more on his knowledge of the game after being named the new volleyball coach at Walker High.

The Doyle and Springfield baseball teams and the Doyle softball team made deep runs in the postseason.

WALKER – For the Walker and Springfield football teams, the opening week of play in the Robert Graves Metro Baton Rouge High School 7-on-7 Summer League wasn’t so much about winning and losing as much as it was about getting some work against other teams.

There’s still plenty to mull over when it comes to the LHSAA’s executive committee re-vamping the term ‘select’ school, and LHSAA executive director Eddie Bonine realizes the fallout will be multi-layered. He also said it was done not with just one group of schools in mind.

RUSTON – Louisiana Tech sophomore Emma Hutchinson is one of 14 student-athletes – one from each respective institution – to earn the 2022 Conference USA Spring Spirit of Service Award.

The Louisiana High School Athletic Association released its first list of select and non-select schools Monday evening after the organization’s executive committee voted to change the definition of ‘select’ schools during its summer meeting last week.

HATTIESBURG, Miss. – Third baseman Danny Lynch’s sacrifice fly in the top of the ninth inning Monday scored the go-ahead run for Southern Miss, and the Eagles held on to post an 8-7 win over LSU in the championship game of the NCAA Hattiesburg Regional at Pete Taylor Park.

Former Denham Springs High standout Travis Swaggerty was called up from Triple-A Indianapolis by the Pittsburgh Pirates on Sunday.

HATTIESBURG, Miss. – Southern Miss left-hander Justin Storm blanked LSU over the final five innings Sunday night to lead the Eagles to an 8-4 victory in the NCAA Hattiesburg Regional at Pete Taylor Park.

The Holden softball team captured its fifth straight Class B state championship this past season, and it showed in the Louisiana Sports Writers Association’s all-state team selections.

AUBURN, Ala. – The No. 4 seed Southeastern Louisiana University baseball team dropped a 16-2 decision to second-seeded UCLA in an elimination game in the NCAA Auburn Regional Saturday afternoon at Plainsman Park.

AUBURN, Ala. – An 11-run first inning propelled top-seeded Auburn to a 19-7 victory over No. 4 seed Southeastern Louisiana University on the opening day of the NCAA Baseball Auburn Regional Friday night at Plainsman Park.

WALKER – Walker and St. Amant will be in the same district when the new school year begins in August, and the teams got a preview of each other in Wednesday’s Metro League baseball action at Walker.

Coaches Chris Soileau and Burke Broussard will be hosting session two of the Skills & Drills Baseball Club.

Walker boys basketball coach Anthony Schiro couldn’t and wouldn’t take all the credit for being selected the All-Parish basketball Coach of the Year.

Walker’s Warren Young Jr. got straight to the point when summing up his feelings after being selected the Most Valuable Player on the All-Parish boys basketball team for the second straight season.

HAMMOND – The Southeastern Louisiana University baseball team earned an NCAA regional bid as the Southland Conference Tournament champion and will continue the 2022 season this coming weekend at Plainsman Park in Auburn, Ala.

LAKE CHARLES – The No. 2 seed Southeastern Louisiana University baseball team jumped out to an early lead and never looked back on the way to an 11-7 victory over top-seeded McNeese in the deciding game of the best-of-three Southland Conference Baseball Championship Series Saturday night at …

There’s only one way Denham Springs High powerlifter Lawson Navarre was able to describe his effort at the United States Powerlifting Association National Championships on Friday.

It took Albany girls basketball coach Stacy Darouse a minute to reflect on being selected the Coach of the Year as part of the All-Parish girls basketball team.