Jayla Mason isn’t one to let her mouth do the talking, rather, Mason makes her statements on the track. Her voice was loud and proud at the LHSAA track and field state tournament earlier this month, as she took home three gold medals— the most in Southwest Louisiana.
Top-seeded McNeese continued its unbeaten run in the league’s postseason, claiming its ninth-straight Southland Conference Tournament victory by a 12-6 margin over No. 8 UIW on Thursday evening at Joe Miller Ballpark.
McNeese track and field has officially qualified 10 athletes in eight events for the 2022 NCAA East Preliminary Men’s and Women’s Outdoor Track and Field Championships to be held MCwoay 25-28 in Bloomington, Indiana and hosted by Indiana University.
For McNeese, making it to the NCAA tournament is nothing new. The Cowgirls are in regional play for the fifth time since 2016 and the eighth time overall. Cowgirl coach James Landreneau is ready to move back the goal post for his program.
The Cowgirls have received their regional designation as the three seed in the Evanston Regional. McNeese is joined by three other schools from the midwest, which is what surprised McNeese coach James Landreneau about the draw.
McNeese softball, the 2022 Southland Conference Tournament Champions are headed to Evanston, Illinois for the first round of the 2022 NCAA Softball Tournament.
The McNeese Cowboys (30-21, 15-9 SLC) clinched the fifth outright Southland Conference regular-season championship in program history—its first since 2017—after coming back from a 7-0 first-inning deficit to sweep Houston Baptist (18-33, 11-12 SLC) 14-9, at Husky Field, Saturday Afternoon.
The Grand Lake Hornets have been so close to a state championship. Despite the Hornets making their third title game appearance since 2017, Grand Lake is still in search of its first-ever title. No. 3 Oak Grove edged the top-seeded Hornets, 2-1 in the eighth inning of the Class 1A Championship Friday at McMurry Park in Sulphur.
The Ole Miss signee and the Lady Saints have done nothing but win since coach Johnny’s arrival to the program. Freeman won her third discus state title and placed second in Javelin. She credits her success to the work she’s put in.
The Rosepine Eagles capped off the best season in program history with back-to-back Class 2A State Titles on Friday. No. 1 Rosepine blanked 11th-seeded Doyle in the championship game re-match, 11-0 at McMurry Park in Sulphur.
Lake Charles College Prep’s Terence Cahee is headed to Monroe to further his coaching career. The Westlake native is set to become the next head football coach at Wossman High School.
Kade Hunter’s career day led the McNeese offensive push as he hit two home runs (including a grand slam) and six RBI, as McNeese (29-21, 14-9 SLC) took down Houston Baptist (18-33, 11-12 SLC) in seven innings, Friday afternoon at Husky Field.
McNeese softball defended its Southland Conference Tournament title here Friday with a 10-4 win over Southeastern to earn the league’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament that begins next week. The tournament title is the seventh overall for McNeese and fourth under sixth-year head coach James Landreneau.
No. 4 Sulphur jumped out to a 6-0 lead before the eight-seed, St. Amant, eventually answered with an eight-run sixth inning to rally past Sulphur 10-7 Thursday at McMurry Park in Sulphur.
Highlighted by Payton Harden’s career-high five hits and six RBI, along with his first homer of the year, McNeese (28-21, 13-9 SLC) needed just five innings to put up 23 runs en route to a 23-5 run-rule victory over Houston Baptist (18-32, 11-11 SLC) in seven innings, Thursday afternoon at Husky Field.
For the second straight day McNeese softball picked up an extra-inning win and for the second straight day, Freshman Crislyne Moreno picks up the game-winning hit to advance the Cowgirls to Friday’s Southland Conference Tournament Championship game scheduled at 12 p.m. Friday.
The Iota Bulldogs had little answer for Lutcher pitcher Marshall Louque on Thursday. The former Little League World Series Champion blanked the opposing Bulldogs over five innings to help his third-seeded Bulldogs upset No. 2 Iota, 8-1 at McMurry Park.
The re-match of the 2021 Division II semifinal lived up to the billing as three-seed Vandebilt Catholic plated two runs in the seventh inning to break a 1-1 tie and upset No. 2 St. Louis, 3-1 at Joe Miller Ballpark Wednesday night.
The Rosepine Eagles’ title defense season can’t be much more dominant than what they’ve done this year. The top-seeded Eagles continued their run through the Class 2A playoffs Wednesday by blanking fifth-seeded Many, 14-0 in six innings at McMurry Park in Sulphur. Rosepine’s win streak extends to 29 games as the team now has a school-record 33 win-season.
The Grand Lake Hornets are headed back to the LHSAA Class 1A Baseball Championship for the third time in five years and for the second straight season.
Freshman Crislyne Moreno came up with the biggest hit of her young career here Wednesday with a walk-off single to right field in the bottom of the eighth inning to lift McNeese over Northwestern State 6-5 in the Cowgirls opening game of the Southland Conference Tournament.
The LHSAA baseball state Tournament is set to begin Wednesday in Sulphur at McMurry Park as four teams from Southwest Louisiana are among the 28 total teams from the seven non-select classes that will play for the right for a state championship Friday and Saturday. The select schools, meanwhile, will play their semifinals and championships at separate sites this season on the same days. The Lake Area has one select school in the hunt for a title.
Southwest Louisiana racked up over the weekend at the 2022 LHSAA Outdoor Track & Field State Meet in Baton Rouge. The area brought home 35 individual state championships from 19 different schools and one team title.
Three months after hoisting the Southland Conference Indoor Track and Field championship trophy for the first time ever, history repeated itself for the McNeese Cowgirls on Sunday when they recorded a school record 189 points to win the outdoor championship, also the first in school history.
Despite dropping a home series against Northwestern State, the Cowboys are still in good shape heading into the last weekend of the regular season. McNeese is still tied for first in the Southland with Southeastern and now travels to HBU looking for redemption and a top seed in the tournament.
The Division I Board of Directors issued guidance to schools related to boosters setting up “collectives” for NIL deals with recruits on Monday, May 9, the NCAA reported.
