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Celebrating 50 years as your hometown newspaper 1964 - 2014

The

Basile Weekly

By: Michael BordelonLSN writer

The Evangeline Par-ish School Board agreed to consider a lease agree-ment with the Town of Basile during its meet-ing Wednesday, April 2. Basile Mayor Berline Sonnier requested that the school board allow the town to lease the vacant property across

from the old W.W. Stew-art Elementary School sitre to be used for a town playground. The board agreed to have a lease agreement creat-ed, the details of which will be presented to the board at a later date for final approval.

The board also learned it has netted ap-proximately $650,000 in

a timber sale initiated last year, with another $238,000 still left to be cut.

Chief Financial Of-ficer Amy Lafleur, who presented this informa-tion at the request of the board, said the cut-ting was halted during the winter months and this additional $238,000 worth of timber should

be cut between now and October.

In other business, the school board recognized the Ville Platte High School girls’ basketball team for finishing as District 3A runners up at the state champion-ship game.

They also recognized the Bayou Chicot El-ementary Junior High

softball team, who also finished as state run-ners up.

Finally, the board learned of Isac Calder-on, a sophomore at Ville Platte High School, who earned third place in word processing at the Louisiana Future Busi-ness Leaders of America state conference and will be competing at the

national level in Nash-ville, Tennessee. As per parish policy, Superin-tendent Toni Hamlin informed the board that the parish will contrib-ute $200 to help with the cost of Calderon at-tending this function.

School board considers lease to town of Basile

WIZARD OF OZ CAST- Parents and faculty members at W. W. Stew-art Elementary School joined forces last week for a Wizard of Oz skit during the school’s Pre-LEAP testing pep rally. Pictured are Michelle LaFleur as the lion, Shanna Chaumont as the tin man, Sadie Sadie Guillory as the scarecrow, Christine Bacon as Glenda, Rachel Manuel as the wicked witch, Rachel West Ashford, Kelly Prejean Fontenot, Haley Dubroc Ortego, and Rachelle Miller Berzas as the munchkins, and Jill Daggett Deshotel as Dorothy.

JR. HIGH BEARCATS PARISH TRACK AND FIELD RUNNERSUP-The Basile Bearcat Junior High Track and Field team recently won

second place honors at the parish meet. Team members are Landon James, Cade Smith, Stormy Comeaux, Luke Duplechin, , Jakob Mc-Gee, Jerome Thomas, Brice Marcantel, Cameron Berzas, Michael Que-flander, Bret Ledoux, Devon Fontenot, Gage Johnson, Gavin Christ, Lane Marcantel, and Daniel Fuselier. Coach Todd Crowe is not pictured.

JR. HIGH LADY BEARCATS TRACK AND FIELD- Catherine Giles, Arys Rozas, Carly Bazinet, Alexis Huval, Gracie Fournet, Madison Miller, Catelyn Deshotel, Megan Johnson, Angel Clavier, Quiona Belle, Harlie Denette, Tisha Thomas, Regan Johnson, Nedasia Adams, Coach Matt Fontenot. Not pictured - Regan Ledoux.

A normal Sunday af-ternoon at 2626 McGee-Johnson Street was int-erupted with smoke and fire.

The Acadia-Evange-line Fire Department responded with fifteen firefighters on Sunday, April 6 following the 2:49 p.m. alarm. By 4:01 p.m., the fire was exstinguished.

Two units from the main station (one pumper and one ser-vice unit) along with a pumper from Tepetate

were used with two more on standby.

The blaze originated in the laundry room ex-tending into the kitchen area. There was heavy damage to the utility room and kitchen area with smoke damage to rest of house. The sus-pected cause is electri-cal due to fire patterns observed.

The residents were home at the time of the fire and everyone was able to evacuate the structure without harm.

The names of those in the dwelling were not released to the press.

The Fire Department would like to thank neighborhood residents for their assistance in the initial set up.

Sunday afternoon fire exstinguished on McGee-Johnson Street

This home at 2626 McGee-Johnson was ablaze Sunday afternoon.

Elizabeth Ortego Cameron BerzasBasile High School’s twelfth grade and eighth

grade Students of the Year were awarded anoth-er honor recently when the two were also named Evangeline Parish Students of the Year.

The two are Elizabeth Ortego, grade 12, and Cameron Berzas, grade 8.

Elizabeth is the daughter of Eddie and Lisa Ortego.

Cameron is the son of and Rachelle Berzas.

Two BHS students named Parish

Students of the Year

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Stewart students win math awardsThe third graders at Stewart Elementary com-

peted in a math contest with other schools from around the state. There was a total of 299 students in the SlumDog.com math contest. The winners from Stewart are pictured above. Landon answered 888 problems correctly, Alli answered 882 prob-lems correctly, and Isabella answered 874 problems correctly. Stewart had 60 students in the contest whoo answered 19,585 problems correctly. Stewart third grade students also received a "Daily Winner" award. Congratulations to all of the students who competed in Mrs. Pitre, Mrs. H. Francois, and Mrs. L. Howze's class.

MATH AWARDS- Landon Metrejean - 7th Place; Alli Chaumont- 8 th Place; Isabella De-shotel - 10th place

W. W. Stewart El-ementary School recent-ly released the names of students on the Banner Roll, Honor Roll, and Merit Roll for the fourth six week period. They are as follows:

Banner Roll -Grade 1 - Kannon Espree, Jo-

seph Bertrand, Claire Brown, Alyssa Denette, Lucinda Pickett, Ko-hen Comeaux, Jackson Courville, Brady Dupl-echin, Abbie Fontenot.

Grade 2 -Hannah Aguillard,

Daisy Berzas, Hudson Conner, Riley Dar-bonne, Lexi Fruge

Honor Roll -Grade 1 -Scott Berzas, Ka-

leigh Deaville, Kennedy Dubroc, Maxel Howell, Gabrielle Leckelt, Gra-cie Martel, Da'Shawn Randell, Paisley Wil-son, Zane Zaunbrecher, Hunter Cachin, Bryan Hardy, Preston Miller, Hunter Sonnier, Mars-hailyn Belton, Sy Boe-nig, Isaiah Charles, Kadence Fontenot, Lil-lian Fontenot, Jacob Francois, Kayden Givs, Devon Guillory, Grace-lyn Langley, Blake Myers, Drew Soileau, Bricelyn Thomas, Olivia Vidrine, Kiera Belton,

Jacob Cormier, Lazoria Johnson, Malori Person, Delanate Pitre, Zeke Trahan, Alijah Hardy, Sayg Smith.

Grade 2 -Devonte Deville,

Jorden Finney, Aydan Istre, Tucker LeBlanc, Gerrick Leckelt, Pablo Lopez, Jaden Menard, Abigail Roy, Clifton Ceasar, Landon Dar-bonne, Ayden Deaville, Madison Jackson, Jeslyn Langley, Jada Lavergne, Alisa Scully

Grade 4 - Ethan Bergeron,

Ethan Clavier, Sara Courville, Alexandra Duplechin, Matthew

FrancoisMerit Roll -Grade 1 - Hayden

Clavier, Pierson Co-meaux, Hunter Duple-chain, Eden James, Na-talya Stewart.

Grade 2 - Blake Cormier, Evan Gas-pard, Cameron Miller, Katherine Rodriguez, Drake Whalen, Piper Bushnell, Thomas Pous-son

Grade 4 - Christo-pher Aguillard, Jynlee Conner, Ayden Cour-ville, Olivia Denette, Jack Sonnier

No list was submit-ted for Grade 3.

Basile High School recently named the following students to the fourth six weeks Honor Roll and Banner Roll:

Honor Roll -Grade 5 -Shelbie Bergeaux,

Andrew Fontenot, Payton Lyons, Cole Manuel,Hayden Rozas, Lainey Soileau,

Grade 6-Camryn Aguillard,

Chloe Berzas, Isa-iah Ceasar, Isabella Chaumont, Logan Da-

vid, Jude Guillory, Alyssa Johnson, Hunt-er Langley, Rigoberto Menchaca, Justin Son-nier, Katelyn Zaunbre-cher.

Grade 7 -Harlie Denette, Cait-

lynn Deshotels,Preslea Laird,Reagan Ledoux, Cade Maglalang, Arys Rozas, Shelby Sonnier,Jaylen Thomas.

Grade 8 -Jessie Johnson.Grade 9 -Kyle Bergeaux, Em-

ily Fuselier,Brenan

Langley,Josey Manuel, Jennifer Smith, Mat-thew Sonnier.

Grade 10 -Devin Bazinet, Lau-

ren Bertrand,Kaelan Fontenot, Sarah Guidry, Laiton Langley,Jakob Richard.

Grade 11 -Savanna Bergeaux,

Courtney Bergeron, Jude Johnson, Morgan Lavergne, Margaret Mc-Gehee, Emily Ortego.

Grade 12 -Randall Bellon, Brit-

tany LeBleu, Trent

LeJeune, Ruby Luna, Elizabeth Ortego, Paige Rozas, Jacoby Soileau.

Banner Roll -Grade 5 - Tyler Arnaud.Grade 6 - Ian Fontenot.Grade 8 - Cameron Berzas,

Luke Duplechin.Grade 9 -Jeremy Bustarde,

Rheagan Ortego.Grade 12 -Mason Deshotel, Em-

ily Fontenot.

Stewart Elementary names banner, honor, and merit roll students for fourth six weeks

Basile High School lists honor and banner roll for fourth six weeks

Basile Junior High Boys edged out by Ville Platte in Evangeline Parish MeetThe Basile Bearcat

Junior High Boys’ Track and Field team came close to taking a rare track and field title away from Ville Platte in the annual Evange-line Parish Junior High Meet held at Basile High’s Hanson Field on Tuesday, April 1.

Ville Platte finished the meet with 151 points with Basile right behind with 147 points, leaving the remainder of the

field in smoke. Mamou scored 68 points for a distant third place fol-lowed by Bayou Chicot with 51, Vidrine with 42, Chataignier with 31, and Sacred Heart with 29.

Basile High’s Michael Queflander scored 20 points for the Bearcats to claim the title of Outstanding Track Per-former. Ville Platte’s Vontravious Joseph scored 18 for the Out-

standing Field title.In the girls’ division,

Bayou Chicot scored 139 team points for first place with Sacred Heart in second place with 124. Ville Platte was third with 104 points followed by Basile in fourth with 77.5 points. Chataignier had 36 fol-lowed by Mamou with 30.5, and Vidrine with four points. Michael Queflander

BHS Eighth GraderOutstanding Track

The Evangeline Par-ish Sheriff’s Office re-ports the arrest and booking of a Basile woman.

Eva Jane Belton, 48,

2209 Dr. Bobby Desho-tel Ave., Basile, was charged March 24, with distribution of mari-juana, expired license plate and driving left of

center. Belton was being

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Looking back through the pages of

The Basile Weekly

May 17, 1967- The Bearkittens performers at the annual Band Banquet and received awards from their sponsor Mrs. Donnie Smith. The are Georgiana Bacon, Norma Fon-tenot, Candy Fournerat, Cindy Fuselier, Jade LaFleur, Mary Jane Miller, Vicky McGee, Pa-tricia Sanders, Denise Smith, Jennifer Smith, and Celeste Fournerat.

April 19, 1967- Outstanding Cheerleaders awarded at the Athletic Banquet were Char-lotte Courville, Nina Toups, and Elaine LaF-leur. Toups also won girls’ scholastic award.

April 19, 1967- BHS Basketball Awards: Nina Toups, Jimmy Reed, Brenda Veronie, and Danny Ashford.

May 31, 1967- Mrs. Alice LeJeune (center) led her girls’ elementary volleyball team to a second place finish at the Annual Parish Play Day held Saturday, May 13. The girls are Berna Dean Boone, Donette Miller, Betty Fontenot, Theresa Bourgeois, Sandy Bazi-net, Cynthia Lafleur, Sheryl Young, and Kay Richard.

May 31, 1967- The Basile High Girls’ Soft-ball Team with Coach Carmen Miller won third place honors at Playn Day in Pine Prairie. The girls are Cathy Manuel, Elaine Bourgeois, Elaine Manuel, Jan Reed, Darlene Langley, Roberta Balfa, Norma LeJeune, Blandina Leonards, Brenda Richard.

May 24, 1967- Thirty-three graduates are preparing for graduation at BHS on May 26. They are pictured above (not named in order) Nel-da Balfa, Gloria Bergeron, Judi Burr, Nelwine Cassard, Carol Christ, Gilda Corkin, Charlotte Courville, Laura Deshotel, Virginia Desho-tel, Dolores Doga, Elaine LaFleur, Sharlyn LaFleur, Barbara Langley, Geraldine Murray, Nina Toups, Brenda Veronie, Jesse James Austin, Jr., Hosea Deshotel, Ronald Douget, Edwin Fruge, Nathan Johnson, Timothy LeDoux, Carl LeJeune, Sylvester Leonards, Mackel Miller, Larry Primeaux, Jimmy Reed, Mike Sanders, Stanley Savant, Harold Vidrine, Harry Young, and Ray Young.

The Basile WeeklyCelebrating 50 Years

as your hometown newspaper

Nov. 9, 1966- Swine Festival President Os-car Reed crowns La. Swine Festival Queen Darla Gayle Smith of Prairieville, who will reign over the first Swine Festival.

The recent Supreme Court decision over-ruling some Federal Election Commission restrictions on political campaign con-tributions has provoked angry reactions on the left. That is what often happens whenever the High Court rules that the First Amendment means what it says -- free speech for everybody.

When the Supreme Court de-clared in 2010 that both unions and corporations had a right to buy political ads, that was con-sidered outrageous by the left. President Obama called the de-cision “devastating” and said it “will open the floodgates for spe-cial interests.”

Those unfamiliar with politi-cal rhetoric may not know that “special interests” mean people who support your opponents. One’s own organized supporters -- such as labor unions support-ing President Obama -- are never called “special interests.”

All politicians are against “special interests,” by definition. They all want their own sup-porters to have the right to free speech, but not those individu-als and groups so benighted as to support their opponents.

Even in an age of polariza-tion and gridlock, the one area in which it is easy to get bipar-tisan support in Congress is in passing campaign finance laws, restricting how much money can be spent publicizing political candidates. What Congressional Democrats and Republicans have in common is that they are all in-cumbents, and they all want to keep their jobs.

Publicity is necessary to win elections, and incumbents get millions of dollars’ worth of free publicity from the media. In-cumbents can all pontificate in Congress and be covered by C-SPAN. They can get interviewed on network television, have their pictures in the newspapers, and send out mail to their constitu-ents back home -- and none of this costs them a dime.

Congressional staffs, paid by the taxpayers, are supposed to help members of Congress with the burdens of their office, but a major part of their staff’s work is to help get them re-elected.

That’s not just during cam-paign years. Everything mem-bers of Congress do is done with an eye toward re-election.

Any outsider who wants to challenge an incumbent at the next Congressional election has to pay hard cash to buy ads and arrange other forms of publicity, in order just to get some compa-rable amount of name-recogni-tion, so as to have any serious chance of winning an election against an incumbent.

Few people have the kind of money it takes for such a cam-

paign, so they have to raise mon-ey -- in the millions of dollars -- to pay for what incumbents get free of charge.

Campaign finance laws that restrict who can contribute how much money, who can run politi-cal ads, etc., are all restrictions on political challengers who have to buy their own publicity.

If truth-in-packaging laws ap-plied to Congress, a campaign finance law would have to be la-beled an “Incumbents Protection Act.”

The very high rate of incum-bent re-elections, even while polls show the public disgusted with Congress in general, shows how well incumbents are protect-ed.

The media are accessories to this scam. So long as the infor-mation and opinions that reach the public are selected by main-stream media people, whom polls show to be overwhelmingly on the left, the left’s view of the world prevails.

Hence the great alarm in the media, and in equally one-sided academia, over the emergence of conservative talk radio programs and the Fox News Channel on television.

No longer can the three big broadcast television networks determine what the public will and will not see, nor two or three leading newspapers determine what is and is not news. Nobody wants to give up that kind of power.

When businesses that are de-monized in the mainstream me-dia, and in academia, can buy ads to present their side of the story, that is regarded in both the me-dia and academia as distortion. At the very least, it can cost the left their self-awarded halo.

It is fascinating to see how some people -- in both politics and the media -- can depict their own narrow self-interest as a holy crusade for the greater good of society. The ability of the hu-man mind to rationalize is one of the wonders of the world.

Thomas Sowell is a senior fel-low at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. His website is www.tsowell.com. To find out more about Thomas Sowell and read features by other Creators Syndi-cate columnists and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.

Baton Rouge, La. - Louisiana is a unique state, and that is exactly the way we like it.

Let’s face it; we pride ourselves in being just a little bit different from every other state. We don’t have counties; we have par-ishes. Our political election primaries are “open” rather than “closed.” Our legal sys-tem is based largely upon the Napoleonic Code, as compared to the English Common Law that guided the original legal structure of other states. All of these things, along with our special people, food and culture, make us unique compared to other states. While many will debate the merits of some of these items, for the most part, we wear our uniqueness on our sleeves as a badge of honor.

However, not everything that makes Lou-isiana unique is a tradition worth keeping. For instance, our culture of excessive law-suits has not helped our national reputation when it comes to encouraging people and companies to invest in our state. Our rank-ings on numerous studies show the same re-sult time and time again – the reputation of our legal climate is not good, and that is in large part due to the policies we have passed in this state over the years.

A good example is “legacy lawsuits.” This type of lawsuit is all too common in Louisi-ana and is typically filed against an oil and gas operator for impact caused by previous operations years ago. In Louisiana, we have hundreds of these cases filed. In Texas, Mis-sissippi, and other neighboring states, the term “legacy lawsuit” is virtually unknown. This unique brand of lawsuit found in Loui-siana has slowed down cleanup and dam-aged the national reputation of our legal system.

Thankfully, Sen. Robert Adley has filed a compromise bill this session to address this unnecessary stain on our legal reputa-tion. The two bills, SB 581 and SB 667, set up a rational process to develop, follow, and implement a feasible cleanup plan that is fair to both operators and landowners. This common sense approach is the product of a compromise by operators and landowners, and once signed into law, will finally put responsible remediation of property ahead of lucrative lawsuits, similar to the process followed in other states. Our unique brand of “legacy lawsuits” does nothing to benefit our national reputation or local culture, and replacing this outlier with a more typical ap-proach will serve us well.

Louisiana has another outlier: the limita-tion we put on citizens’ right to a jury trial because of a unique law in Louisiana which dictates that civil claims under $50,000 must be decided by a judge. No other state is even close to that type of limitation and our threshold is 28 times higher than the national average. In other states, if you are sued you are most likely able to request a jury of your peers if you so choose.

We support legislation by Rep. Ray Ga-rofalo and Sen. Elbert Guillory, HB 917 and

SB 273, to finally reverse this flawed policy decision and give our citizens the right they deserve.

While this may seem like a no-brainer to everyone, there are some in our judicial sys-tem who say we are not able to allow for this even though 49 other states can do so. Their argument says we cannot accommodate that much citizen involvement in Louisiana courts without clogging them up.

To address these concerns, it may be helpful to compare Louisiana to a state that is similar to our size, population and de-mographics. In fact, how about we look at a state that we often compete with for jobs, investments and BCS National Champion-ships – Alabama. In 2012, we played those guys in the national championship game and the result was not a uniquely memo-rable moment for the purple and gold. As a double whammy, the 2012 scoreboard com-paring our judiciary to their judiciary was just as forgettable.

That year, the Alabama court system handled almost 600 more combined civil and criminal jury trials in that state with 92 less judges. No clogging, no backlog. Alabama has a $3,000 threshold for its residents to request a civil jury trial, which in effect, is practically a limitless right to a jury, should a person request it. The Alabama court sys-tem had no problems allowing for that fun-damental right to a jury with far less refer-ees on the field.

We have a full roster of judges in Loui-siana, which makes us more prepared than most to accommodate giving our people this fundamental right. Louisiana has 5.2 judg-es for every 100,000 people. That is almost double the national average of 2.8. It is higher than Arkansas, Florida, Tennessee, Georgia, Virginia, Texas, Mississippi, Ken-tucky, South Carolina and, yes, even Ala-bama. We are well prepared in our judiciary to accommodate jury trials and our people deserve this same right given to fans of all the other SEC schools.

Our uniqueness is what makes us great. It is what makes us who we are. It is why I love calling Louisiana home. But, in a few instances, it is also what holds us back. As we continue to improve our efforts to com-pete aggressively in the global economy, let’s take the time to do an inventory check. Let’s keep what makes us uniquely great and start taking the steps to do away with what makes us uniquely out of touch.

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LEGAL NOTICEEVANGELINE PARISH POLICE JURY

NOTICE OF INTENT and PUBLIC HEARING

On March 10, 2014 the Evangeline Parish Police Jury (EPPJ) adopted a resolution declaring the Police Jury’s intention to aban-don the following property to wit:

A Parish Road Identified as Kip Lane on the Parish E-911 Maps. The road to be abandoned is located in Sections 11,13 Township 5 South, Range 2 East and Section 1, Township 5 South, Range 3 East of Evangeline Parish, Louisiana.

A Parish Road identified as Tones Road on the Parish E-911 maps. The road to be abandoned is located in Section 29, Township 6 South, Range 1 West of Evangeline Parish, Louisiana.

A Parish Road identified as Nicoe Road on the Parish E-911 maps. The road to be abandoned is located in Sections 40, 22, 23, 10, 11, Township 6 South, Range 2 West of Evangeline Parish, Louisiana.

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LEGALS

The Basile Weekly

A Parish Road identified as Rob Mac Road on the Parish E-911 maps. The road to be abandoned is located in Section 14, Township 3 South, Range 1 West of Evangeline Parish, Louisiana.

A Parish Road identified as Mitchell Lane on the E-911 maps. The road to be abandoned is located in Section 33, Township 1 South, Range 1 West of Evangeline Parish, Louisiana.

A Parish Road identified as Troy Lane on the E-911 maps. The road to be abandoned is located in Section 7, Township 1 South, Range 1 East of Evangeline Parish, Louisiana.

A Parish Road identified as Joshua Lane on the E-911 maps. The road to be abandoned is located in Section 32, Township 2 South, Range 2 East of Evangeline Parish, Louisiana.

A Parish Road identified as Falcon Road on the E-911 maps. The road to be abandoned is located in Section 18, Township 1 South, Range 1 West of Evangeline Parish, Louisiana.

A Parish Road identified as Mertil Lane on the Parish E-911 maps. The road to be abandoned is located in Section 18, Township 6 South, Range 2 West of Evangeline Parish, Louisiana.

The Evangeline Parish Police Jury would like the public to make any opposition of these proposed abandonments, if any they have, in writing by April 11, 2014 or in person at a public hearing

on April 14, 2014 at 5:30 p.m. Written opposition should be sent to the Evangeline Parish Police Jury, 1008 West LaSalle Street, Ville Platte, LA 70586.

032714040314

041014

LEGAL NOTICEEVANGELINE PARISH SCHOOL BOARD

PUBLIC HEARING

Notice is hereby given pursuant to R.S. 42:19.1, that a pub-lic hearing of the Evangeline Parish School Board be held on Wednesday, June 4, 2014 at its regular meeting place at Evangeline Parish Media Center located at 607 Harvey Le-Bas Drive in Ville Platte, Louisiana 70586 at 6:00 p.m. to con-sider levying millage rates for ad valorem property taxes.

The Evangeline Parish School Board does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, handicapping condition, or veteran status.041014041714

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The Ville Platte Lady Bulldogs once again took an easy win at the Parish Track and Field Meet held April 4 at Basile High. The Mamou and Basile girls each garnered 72 points to tie for the runnerup spot. Pine Prairie was next with 51 points followed by Sa-cred Heart with 45 points.

Results from individual events were as follows:

Event s1st, 2nd, 3rdLong Jump Ty Doucet

Ville Platte 16’.11’’; Court-ney Cloud Sacred Heart 14’.3”; Moira Parks Sacred Heart 13’.11”.

Discus Courtney Bergeron Basile 86’.5”; Kaitlen Bradley Pine Prai-rie 73’.3’’; Lamie Lopis Ville Platte 70’.9’’.

Javelin Olivia Fon-tenot Pine Prairie 91.9’’;

Tia Gallow Mamou 85.3”; NaKayla Williams Ville Platte 79.10.

Pole Vault Triple Jump Ty Doucet Ville Platte 33.2; Rylie James Basile 32.10’’; Kierra Grif-fin Mamou 31.8’’.

Shot Put Lauren Veil-lon Basile 30’.2”; Mary Gil Sacred Heart 29’.5”; Court-ney Bergeron Basile 28’.8 ¼”’.

High Jump Antionette Joseph Ville Platte 4.10”; Deja McKenny Ville Platte 4.8”:Jenny Smith Basile 4.4”.

800 M. Relay Johnson, Arvie, Fontenot, McKin-ney Ville Platte 1:53.44; Ortego, Bell, James, Adams Basile 1:54.16; Wilson, Wilson, O’Neal, Thomas Mamou 1:55.06.

1600 M. Run Katiee Bertrand Mamou 6:25.16;

Tia Gallow Mamou 6:46.81; Bailey Maricle Pine Prairie 6:56.10.

100 M. Dash Rhea-gan Ortego Basile 13.09; Taylor Deville Pine Prai-rie 13.45; Deja McKinney Ville Platte 13.53.

100/110 M. Hurdles Antoinette Joseph Ville Platte 16.63; Emanee Fon-tenot Ville Platte 17.81; Latoria Thomas Basile 18.19.

800 M. Run Cath-erine Poche Sacred Heart 2:44.40; Dezzy Bellard Ma-mou 2:48.49; McKayla Ad-ams Basile 2:51.45.

400 M. Relay Ander-son, Fontenot, Fontenot, Earles Sacred Heart 53.66; Johnson, Fontenot, Jo-seph, Arvie Ville Platte 54.09; Ortego, Martel, James, Sam Basile 54.63.

400 M. Run Kiajah

Wilson Mamou 1:03.47; Kamaneisha Wilson Ma-mou 1:09.81; Sara Vidrine Pine Prairie 1:09.81.

300 M. Hurdles Court-ney Cloud Sacred Heart 51.88; Antoinette Joseph Ville Platte 54.03; Emanne Fontenot Ville Platte 54.06.

200 M. Dash Taylor DeVille Pine Prairie 28.03;

Ki Wilson Mamou 28.26; Zaria Fontenot Ville Platte 28.37.

3200 M. Run Tia Gal-low Mamou 14:47; Bai-ley Marick Pine Prairie 15:00.9; Tatiyona Fergu-son Ville Platte 15:27.

1600 M. Relay John-son, Fontenot, Stevens, McKinney Ville Platte 4:49.44; James, Ad-

ams, Sam, Adams Basile 4:50.00; Bellard, Vidrine, Arvie, Maricle Pine Prairie 4:51.76.

Outstanding Field: Ty Doucet Ville Platte 16pts

Outstanding Track: Kiaiah Wilson Mamou 14.5pts

The Ville Platte Bull-dogs easily outdistanced the Mamou Demons and the Basile Bearcats at the annual Evangeline Parish Varsity Track and Field Meet held April 4 at Basile High’s Hanson Field.

Ville Platte finished fin-ished first with 117 points followed by Mamou’s 92 and Basile’s 86 for the top finishings. Pine Prairie was next in fourth place with 67 points and Sacred Heart in fifth place with 7 points.

Basile’s Kendrick Ceas-er totalled 22 points to be named the Outstand-ing Track Performer with Basile’s Logan Cormier finishing in a tie for Out-standing Field Performer with Jonathan Chretien of Mamou. Both had 16 field points.

Results from individual events were as follows:

Events 1st, 2nd, 3rd.Long Jump Jonathan

Chrietien Mamou 20’2”; Kendrick Ceaser Basile 19’6 ½”; Nathaniel Hol-land Mamou 18’ 11”.

Discus Logan Corm-ier Basile 102’9”; Keilan Simien Ville Platte 94’4.5”; Kendrick Williams Mamou 89’7”.

Javelin Dylan Doucet Pine Prairie 160’2”; Seth Cortina Mamou 147’; Colton Chaddrick Pine Prairie 138’8”.

Pole Vault Mason De-shotel Basile 11’6”; Ray-mond Bushnell Basile 10’6”; Ricky Woodruff Pine Prairie 8’0”.

Triple Jump Jonathan Chrietien Mamou 41’4”; Dayton Jackson Ville Platte 38’5”; Kendall Jack Mamou 35’8”.

Shot Put Logan Cormier Basile 42’4 ¼; “

Chazz Swift Basile 39’ 2 ½”; Kylan Anderson Ville Platte 39’ 1 ½.

High Jump Darren Poullard Ville Platte 5’10”; Ernest Ardoin Ville Platte 5’4”; Allen Myles Pine Prairie 5’4”.

800 M. Relay Poullard, Jones, Williams, Anderson Ville Platte 1:33.16; Pine Prairie 1:35.97; Mamou 1:38.13.

1600 M. Run Terrance Mahan Mamou 4:56.69; Daylon Jones Ville Platte 5:12.28; Raymond Bush-nell Basile 5:35.64.

100 M. Dash Kendrick Ceaser Basile 10.81; Je-marcus Jones Ville Platte 10.94; Vontreis Thomas Pine Prairie 11.32.

100/110 M. Hurdles Blaine Williams Mamou 16.44; Joshua Freeman Pine Prairie 18.09; Lane Johnson Pine Prairie 18.23.

800 M. Run Seth Corti-na Mamou 2:09.55; Daylon Jones Ville Platte 2:10.37; Rodney Daigle Pine Prai-rie 2:10.42.

400 M. Relay Jackson, Jones, Ardoin, Anderson Ville Platte 44.48; Sacred Heart 45.27; Pine Prairie 45.81.

400 M. Run Kendrick Ceasar Basile 52.59; Devin

Williams Ville Platte 55.81; Ahmad Fontenot Pine Prairie 55.88.

300 M. Hurdles Seth Cortina Mamou 42.81; Dayton Jackson Ville Platte 44.09; Blaine Wil-liams Mamou 45.44.

200 M. Dash Jaquine Anderson Ville Platte 22.59; Kendrick Ceaser Basile 22.81; Douglas Fon-

tenot Pine Prairie 23.13.3200 M. Run Ter-

rance Mahan Mamou 11.29.34; Javonte Ander-son Ville Platte 12.01.92; Alex Gooden Ville Platte 12.43.27.

1600 M. Relay Jones, Poullard, Willams, Ben Ville Platte 3:40.50; Pine Prairie 3:40.53; Mamou 3:50.62.

Bearcats finish third in Evangeline Varsity Meet

Mason DeshotelParish Champ

Pole Vault

Logan CormierParish Champ

Shot Put, DiscusOutstanding Field

Kendrick CeaserParish Champ

100, 400Outstanding Track

Lady Cats tie for second in Parish Varsity Meet

Rheagan OrtegoParish Champ

100

Lauren VeillonParish Champ

Shot Put

Courtney BergeronParish Champ

Discus