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John Tommasini (left) holds up the trophy he won for winning the Southern Oaks Country Club Members Championship tournament over the weekend. Cade Hebert also presents Tommasini a flag with the word “Champion.”

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John Tommasini reads the green on No. 17 before putting.

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Here the flight winners of the tournament (left to right): Christopher Cain (Junior Flight), Weston Reed (Super Senior Flight), Brent Eckert (Senior Flight), Titus Pillette (Third Flight), Garrett Becker (Second Flight), Les Bradley (First Flight), John Tommasini (Championship Flight) and Scott Hollier (Legends Flight).

2023 Champion: Oregon native adds golf title to his very impressive resumé

Mon, 08/07/2023 - 11:42am

John Tommasini has an impressive resumé at the age of 34.
He is married with a child, a college graduate (Oregon State, predentist), a former D-I college baseball player (played infield for Oregon State), and a successful business owner (he owns four Jet Coffee establishments in Lafayette). Now, he can put on his resumé — a championship golfer.
On Sunday, July 30, Tommansini won his first-ever golf title by winning the Southern Oaks Country Club Members Championship Tournament.

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Ty Detraz, front left, works out with teammates on Wednesday morning as the Abbeville High Wildcats prepare for the upcoming football season. Detraz will start at center for the third straight year, and also will start at inside linebacker this year.

‘The Iron Man’

Tue, 08/01/2023 - 4:19pm

Ty Detraz displays the kind of work ethic that Abbeville High head football coach Roderick Moy would love to see out of every player on his team.
Detraz, who will be starting at center for the third straight year for the Wildcats this fall, will also fill another role for Abbeville this season as a starting linebacker.
“The work ethic speaks for itself,” Moy said. “As far as attendance goes, you’re talking about a kid who’s missed one workout in four years, and that speaks to who he is and his level of commitment to the program and a guy we can get behind.

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Erath High quarterback Lynkon Romero has attended several camps this summer to improve on his game and to work with college coaches in the process.

Offseason prep: Time spent at QB camps helping Erath’s Romero prepare for senior season, college

Tue, 08/01/2023 - 4:12pm

ERATH — Starting quarterback Lynkon Romero looks forward to an even better senior season with the Erath High Bobcats after an offseason spent at numerous camps and working with star receiver Christian Pillette.
Romero passed for 1,653 yards and 16 touchdowns and ran for 477 yards and 12 TDs as a junior. He said that his work at off-season camps the past two years in an effort to improve and get him exposure to college coaches.

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Ty Williams, left, and Tyjh Williams, right, will be seniors for the Vermilion Catholic Eagles this year and hope to help VC return to the state championship game for the second straight year this fall. Ty and Tyjh and sister Tajjuana, a manager for the football team, are triplets.

Dynamic Duo

Tue, 08/01/2023 - 9:55am

Ty and Tyjh Williams bring different personalities and skills to the Vermilion Catholic High School football team.
The twin brothers are two-thirds of a set of triplets, along with sister Tajjuana, a manager for the football team.
Tyjh describes himself as more serious but also considers himself to be funnier.
“We definitely don’t have the same personality,” he said. “I’d say I’m serious. I can be funny. I can joke around, too. But I can be serious when it comes to that time.
When pressed to say which one is funnier, he deferred — sort of.

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Evan Broussard (right) holds the queen bee on his finger, along with the plastic honey comb. On left is Leyton Jones who has kept the bee in his baseball bag for the last three years.

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Leyton Jones’ grandmother took a picture of the bee sitting in the dugout on a cell phone during a game. It was the first time she saw it in the dugout.

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This is close up of the Bee

QSA bringing ‘Queen Bee’ to World Series

Thu, 07/27/2023 - 10:00am

It is not surprising to learn that some teams have a good luck charm. The QSA 12-year-and under All-Star Team has its good luck charm, and it’s heading to Loredo, Texas, with them.
The QSA 12s recently qualified for the Bronco World Series, which features eight teams from around the World. QSA’s first game is against Japan on Friday.
Joining the team in the dugout will be “Queen Bee.”
Queen Bee is a plastic bee that stays in a plastic honeycomb. When the all-stars are not playing, that bee stays in the honeycomb inside the bat bag of player Layton Jones.

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