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By Herman [email protected]

Denise Harding has memo-ries of pralines made withsesame seeds and syrup, sweetdough pies with fig fillings.Such sweet delights go back100 years to Harding’s grand-mother, Anais Mouton Martin,a direct descendant of JeanMouton, founder of Vermilion-ville (now Lafayette).

But Harding didn’t let thoserecipes die with her grand-mother. Between her sharpmemory and interviews withrelatives and family friends,Harding collected those gemsfor future generations.

“I was super shy and wouldjust sit in my grandfather’schair and just watch her,” saidHarding, who lives in Carencro.“That’s really how I started. Iwas doing wedding cakes sinceI was 10 years old.

“Once I started doing thesecookbooks, she had died. I wentto talk to my uncles, my mom.My mom didn’t really measure,just like I don’t measure bak-ing. We’d go talk to her friendsand got recipes. They were thesame recipes.

“My grandmother hadscribbled down a few things,but most of it was orally told.”

Harding put those familyrecipes in two cookbooks, “Ca-jun and Creole Cooking” and“Memoire Doux” (Sweet Memo-ries), which she published inthe mid-1980s. The cookbooksare in their fifth printings andare sold at Vermilionville, theCajun and Creole folklife parkwhere Harding cooks in theopen hearth.

Harding’s family food his-tory has been a driving forcein her career as a pastry chef,which she’s done for more than30 years. Born of a Cajun moth-er and father from New York,

Harding grew up in Morocco,where her father was stationedin the Navy.

The family returned to La-fayette when Harding was 10.That’s when Harding startedspending time in the kitchenwith her grandmother.

Harding became a pastrychef at 19, working in Califor-nia and Colorado before return-ing to Louisiana. Back at home,Harding started shipping outpralines to friends.

As the requests increased,Harding began shipping themin tins bearing her grand-mother’s nickname, Nanette.Nanette’s Pralines became aninstant hit.

“I did a sugar festival inPort Allen and demonstratedthe sesame seed pralines,” said

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Every few weeks, my young-est two and I are on our ownfor dinner. With busy Mondayschedules and only simple pal-ates to please, we often resortto our favorite meal of the day,breakfast, for dinner!

Breakfast for dinner was al-ways a treat for me growing up.My mom is a wiz in the kitchenevery day, but, on Sundaynights, she became a goddesswith every heap of homemadepreserves on steaming biscuits.

I’m no wiz, but I have man-aged to find a pretty great pan-cake recipe. Pinches of severalingredients come together tomake the perfect mix. There isusually a “heated discussion”about whether or not to putsugar and vanilla (I like a less-sweet version), but the result isalways fluffy and delicious.

Treat yourselfto breakfastfor dinner

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Dishing with Anne FAlgout.Read her blog at blogs.theadver-tiser.com

Henrietta Hilbun offers this recipe forsugar chicken, a way of cooking chickenthat was taught to her mother manyyears ago. Hilbun says this recipe hasbeen adjusted by many family cooks,depending on the number of guestsand how much they were eating.

SugAR CHICkEnApproximately 2 boneless, skinless chicken partsper person, seasoned with your favorite seasoningmix or just salt and pepper

Approximately 1 teaspoon of sugar for eachchicken part

Cooking oil

Chopped onion (amount to your liking)

» rEADEr rECipEBusy baker scores slot inRouses Top Cookie finals

By Megan [email protected]

A busy schedule keeps first-timeRouses Top Cookie contestant GregStutes from baking as much as hewould like to.

Because he was on vacation fromwork during the Top Cookie entry

deadline, however,Stutes decided to bakeup a batch of his cher-ries jubilee cookies andenter them in his first-ever baking competition.

“I was extremelysurprised,” Stutes saidof landing a finalist slotin the Top Dozen. “I just

thought I’d give it a try, but since I’venever competed before, I didn’t know Ihad a chance.”

His mother-in-law passed downher cherries jubilee cookie recipe tohim, and Stutes tweaked it to createa chewier cookie. He first learned theropes of baking from his own mother,who was the only one in his familywho baked.

The Daily Advertiser andThe Daily World would loveto share your favorite reci-pes with our readers, and,

for those of you who share and whose recipes arechosen for publication, we’ll enter your names in amonthly drawing for a free copy of John Gravois’ “ACajun Family Cookbook.” Send your recipes to Her-man Fuselier, food and culture editor, at [email protected] or mail them to him at P.O. Box3268, Lafayette, LA 70502. In addition to the recipe,we’d love a photo of the cook. If you have any ques-tions, call Fuselier at 289-6318.

WIN!Greg Stutes

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OnLInEvisit www.theadvertiser.com/top-cookie to view recipes and photosfrom the Top Dozen of rouses TopCookie contest.

Denise Harding displays homemade pralines made from recipes from her cookbooks in her kitchen inLafayette on Dec. 3. PHOTOS By ALLyCe AnDreW/SPeCIAL TO THe DAILy ADverTISer

Family recipesmake life sweetfor DeniseHarding

Denise Harding holds her two cookbooks filled with recipes inspiredby her grandmother Anais Mouton Martin in front of her grandpar-ent’s former home in Lafayette Dec. 3.

InSIDECheck out page 2C for a fewrecipes from Denise Harding’sfamily cookbooks.

WHEAt pAnCAkESWItH BAnAnA nuttOppIng1 3/4 cups flour (all purposeor wheat, sifted)

1 1/4 cups milk

2 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon table salt

2 tablespoon unsalted but-ter

1 large egg

FOR tHE SWEEtERVERSIOn

1 teaspoon white sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

FOR tHE OptIOnALtOppIng

1 banana2 tablespoons unsaltedbutter

1/8 cup brown sugar

A sprinkle of cinnamon andnutmeg

Chopped nuts

» Heat an ungreased griddle ornonstick pan to medium heat

» Combine dry ingredientsand whisk wet ingredientsseparately, then incorporate thetwo until just combined — thebatter will be lumpy but don’tovermix (unless you want toughpancakes!)

» Pour into skillet, and cookuntil the entire surface bubbles.Flip and cook for another 2minutes or so

» For optional topping: Meltbutter in a small saute pan andadd sugar, cinnamon and nut-meg. Cook until sugar dissolves(it will take 5 or so minutesfor it to bubble and melt onmedium heat). Add in slicedbananas and nuts, coat and addto pancakes!

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By Claire [email protected]

Assistant District Attorney Greg Williamsand his secretary pleaded guilty Thursday infederal court in a widening bribery scandalinvolving under-the-table payments for specialhandling of drunken driving cases by the 15thJudicial District Attorney’s Office.

Williams, 44, of Lafayette and Denease Cur-ry, 46, of Broussard admitted as part of a pleaagreement that they accepted payments to helpcertain drunken drivers quickly clear their re-cords and get their driving privileges back.

It is the third guilty plea this week as partof an ongoing investigation into a pay-for-privi-leges scandal that has rocked the local DistrictAttorney’s Office and the legal community. Dis-trict Attorney Mike Harson’s longtime secre-tary and office administrator, Barna Haynes,has already pleaded guilty to accepting at least$55,000 in bribes and the investigation is con-tinuing, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office.

Harson is not a target of the investigation,the U.S. attorney said.

Williams, an assistant district attorney inthe 15th Judicial District, pleaded guilty to onecount of conspiracy to commit bribery. He ad-mitted to receiving $500 cash, an autographedNew Orleans Saints hat, bicycles, business suitsand shoes from an unnamed individual who al-

2 pleadguilty inDA OWIprobe

By Matthew [email protected]

A 2-year-old and a 33-year-old manare in critical condition after their carcollided late Wednesday with anothervehicle that police said was driven by aman under the influence of drugs.

Jamuse Broussard, 23, of Lafayette,was arrested after the accident about10:50 p.m. Wednesday at the intersec-tion of Moss Street and Van BurenDrive. He has been charged with twocounts of vehicular negligent injuryplus OWI, driving under a suspended

license and failure toyield while turning left.

The child was a pas-senger in a 2002 GMCSierra, whichwas drivenby the 33-year-old man,according to Lafayettepolice. The relationshipbetween the man andchild was not immedi-

ately known, but both were taken to anarea hospital. They remained in criti-cal condition late Thursday.

Broussard, who was driving agreen 2003 Chevrolet Tahoe, told po-

lice he tried to make a left turn fromMoss onto Van Buren when the vehi-cles collided.

According to an affidavit obtainedby The Daily Advertiser, police at thescene approachedBroussard and notedthat “a strong odor of marijuana wasdetected,” that “his eyes were glassyand bloodshot,” and that “his speechwas slightly slurred.”

Broussard told officers that “hesmoked a joint two hours prior to oper-ating his vehicle,” the affidavit stated.

The crash remains under investiga-tion.

Driver jailed in crash that injured toddler

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SCORES OF LEVEES ACROSSNATION NEED FIXING

More than seven years after Hurricane Katrina’scatastrophic levee failures, the first federal inven-tory of local flood control systems has found leveesin need of repair in 37 states.

Of the more than 1,400 levees for which the U.S.Corps of Engineers has published ratings, 326 wererated as “unacceptable.”

These levee systems in Louisiana were rated unac-ceptable:

» Caddo South» Bayou Nicholas-Coushatta» Larose-Golden Meadow Polder in Lafourche» Yazoo Backwater-Yazoo River, responsibility for

which is shared with MississippiAnother 27 flood control systems in Louisiana are

rated “minimally acceptable.” Among them:» The Melville Ring Area, Krotz Springs Ring Area

and Butte LaRose Floodway in St. Landry Parish.» The Wax Lake East Area and Morgan City Ring

Area in St. Mary Parish.Story and full list of south Louisiana leveesdeemed to be in danger of failing, page 5A

Assistant district attorneywas accused of conspiracy

By Amanda [email protected]

It was an emotional night filledwith appreciation and gratitude forLafayette Parish educators Thursday,when the Lafayette Education Founda-tion presented its 15th annual TeacherAwards.

After making grand entrances,complete with limousine rides, a redcarpet and cheering fans, the 16 final-ists wiped away tears as presentersread stories about their impact in theclassroom.

“You’ve not only shaped andmoldedour children, but you have touchedtheir hearts and enriched their souls,”said co-master of ceremonies ScottBrazda.

This year’s Top Finalists are Terry

Richard of Charles Burke Elementary,Jane Vidrine of L.J. Alleman Middle,Holly Grefe-Andrus of Lafayette Highand Melinda Perrodin of BroussardMiddle.

Each finalist was recognized for go-

ing above and beyond normal teachingduties.

In addition to teaching his fourth-grade class, Richard, the Top Finalist

One memorable evening

LEF TEACHER AWARDS

Top Finalists bask inrecognition, appreciation

Karen Lincoln Michel, executive editor of The Daily Advertiser, hands Holly Grefe-Andrus, a teacher at Lafayette High, theLEF High School Teacher Award at the Heymann Center on Thursday. PHOTOS BY ALLYCE ANDREW/SPECIAL TO THE DAILY ADVERTISER

LEF HighSchoolTeacherawardnomineeCecileMitchell, ateacher atthe CareerCenter,greets thecheeringcrowd offriends,studentsand rela-tives at theawardsThursday.

The Te’o hoax: Whathappened? SPORTS

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legedlyreceivedthousandsof dollars from accuseddrunk drivers to arrangespecial private hearingsbefore a judge, accordingto court records.

Curry pleaded guilty toone count of misprision ofa felony, which is havingknowledge of a felony andfailing to report it. Curryadmitted to receiving$1,600 in cash paymentsfrom the same individualas Williams, records indi-cate.

Both Williams andCurry resigned their posi-tions with the District At-torney’s Office “effectiveWednesday afternoon andare no longer associatedwith the office,” Harsonsaid in an email responseThursday to questions

from The Daily Adver-tiser. Haynes is likewiseno longer employed at theDA’s office.

Williams and Haynesface up to five years inprison and $250,000 infines. Curry faces up tothree years in prison and$250,000 in fines.

All three have agreedto cooperate with the in-vestigation by the FBI andU.S. Attorney’s Office, in-cluding testifying before agrand jury or at trial.

Williams could also losehis license to practice lawas a result of the guiltyplea.

Charles Plattsmier,chief disciplinary counselwith the Louisiana Attor-ney Disciplinary Board,told The Daily Advertiseron Thursday that he hasbeen kept apprised of thedevelopments in the 15thJudicial District Attor-ney’s office.

Plattsmier would notdiscuss the case specifical-ly, but said generally whena lawyer is convicted of aserious crime, the boardis obliged to notify theLouisiana Supreme Court,requesting an interim sus-pension to immediatelyprohibit the attorney frompracticing law. The lawyerthen is subject to formalcharges alleging violationof the Rules of Profession-al Conduct, he said.

“A lawyer who is con-victed of a felony maybe facing disbarment,”Plattsmier said.

The federal govern-ment’s case against Wil-liams, Haynes and Currycenters on the allegedabuse of Article 894, astate provision that allowspeople to have convictionswiped off their records ifthey plead guilty initiallyand meet certain require-ments, such as communityservice or substance abuse

treatment.Harson, with concur-

rence from an unnamed15th Judicial Districtjudge, established an “im-mediate 894” process,mostly for OWI arrests,that would allow individu-als to go before the judgefor immediate dismissaland reinstatement of driv-ing privileges.

According to federalcourt documents filed byAssistant U.S. AttorneyJohn Luke Walker, an un-named co-conspiratorstarted paying Haynes in2008 to help his “clients”obtain “immediate 894s.”

Williams and Curry be-came aware in 2010 thatHaynes was accepting thepayments, according to thecourt records.

Haynes would callCurry to schedule the “im-mediate 894” sessions withWilliams, who was theprosecuting attorney forall of those cases. Curry

would then contact thejudge’s staff and obtaina date and time for thepleading.

Williams would thenmeet with the unidentifiedman and his “clients” priorto the meeting with thejudges.

Curry told officials sheheard overheard OWI de-fendants on more than oneoccasion discuss paying asmuch as $5,000 for an “im-mediate 894,” according tocourt records.

Theunidentifiedco-con-spirator reportedly startedgiving Curry gifts in 2010after Haynes took a medi-cal leave of absence fromwork and Curry took onmore responsibility for the“immediate 894” schedul-ing. Curry told Haynes shewas concerned about ac-cepting the payments, butHaynes responded that shealso was receiving pay-ments, according to courtrecords.

Williams also receivedgifts in 2010 and 2011, ac-cording to court records.

The federal investi-gation became public inFebruary 2012, when theFBI confiscated files fromHaynes’ and Williams’ of-fices. Harson put Hayneson suspension without paytwo weeks after the FBIvisit, and she resigned inAugust.

No federal charges areexpected against Harson,federal prosecutors said.

“Haynes advised thatMike Harson was notaware, nor did he autho-rize any of the 894 casesfor which she receivedpayment,” U.S. AttorneyStephanie Finley wroteWednesday in an e-mail re-sponse to questions aboutHayne’s case.

Asked if any 15th Ju-dicial District judges arepart of the bribery con-spiracy, Finley responded,“No comment.”

in the Elementary catego-ry, has also helped createa school garden and man-aged the Cajun Comradesmath tutoring program,a project with Universityof Louisiana at Lafayettestudents. His impact is sostrong that many parentsand students have askedto be in his class, and onefamily even changed plansto move out of state whenthey learned their daugh-ter would have Richard asa teacher.

“Mr. Richard has in-spired me to attend classevery day, and becauseof this, I had perfect at-tendance last year,” onestudent wrote in a nomi-nation letter. “The biggestreason that I want to nomi-nate Mr. Richard is that hecares enough to make mebelieve in myself and thatI can do anything I put mymind to.”

Richard became emo-tional as he talked aboutthe support he has re-ceived from his family, fel-low teachers and adminis-trators.

“I stand alone, but I’mnot alone. It took a lot ofpeople to get me here,”Richard said. “I have somany reasons to be thank-ful. I count my blessing ev-ery time they walk in theroom. They are my bless-ings.”

Richard also said theaward might mean a spe-cial treat for his daughter,Hannah, and wife, Kay.

“We’re going to DisneyWorld now!” he exclaimed.

Vidrine, a lifelong mu-sician, started the guitarprogram several years agowithout funding or sup-plies, filled with a determi-nation to expose childrento Cajunmusic. Since then,the program has grown

to include more than 100students, who are learn-ing about discipline, coop-eration and commitmentwhile expanding theirmusical horizons. Vidrinewas named the Top Final-ist in the Middle Schoolcategory.

In one nomination letter,a student recalled beingbullied about singing andplaying Cajun music. WithVidrine’s encouragement,the student developed pridein his talents, rather thanfeeling ashamed or weird.

“Guitar has showed mehow to work and get alongwith others,” the studentwrote in his letter. “It isnot always about who canplay this and that -– it’s allabout working as a teamand that is what I likeabout Mrs. Vidrine.”

Vidrine said she felt asif the award didn’t belongto only to her, but to all ofher students as well.

“What we do togetherin the classroom becomessomething we couldn’teven imagine when westarted,” she said. “Everyday is a big experiment.”

Grefe-Andrus, anothermusically inclined teach-er, has expanded LafayetteHigh’s choral program toinclude more than 300 stu-dents in the past 13 years.She was the Top Finalist inthe High School category,in part because severalstudents said the programisn’t just about singing.

“While pouring out mu-sical skills in our brains,she also pours out lifeskills, quotes and storiesto help us in our walk inlife,” one student wrote ina nomination letter.

In another letter, a col-league wrote that Grefe-Andrus’ total commitmentto the program is whatmakes her stand out.

“While many of us arespending time on week-ends and vacations catch-ing up on our lives, Holly

is hosting performing artscamps for the youth ofLafayette Parish,” the co-worker wrote.

Grefe-Andrus wasoverwhelmed not only

by her award, but by theentire ceremony and thehuge turnout of teachers,parents, students and com-munity supporters.

“We are so very blessed

to live in a communitythat gives us credit for thework that we do,” she said,adding that she believesthe district’s elementaryand middle school teach-

ers deserve just as muchrecognition for giving stu-dents a strong foundationbefore they reach the highschool grades.

“We just get to comein as high school teachersand put the frosting on thecake,” she said.

For the past few years,the severe/profound spe-cial education sectionhad been closed at Brous-sard Middle, but Perrodinhelped start it again thisyear, fighting for the righttechnology and equipmentto help her five students,all non-verbal, to commu-nicate with others.

After only a fewmonths,Perrodin, the Top Finalistin the Inspirational catego-ry, has helped her studentslearn newwords. The threestudentswhocancommuni-cate through sign languagehave tripled their sign lan-guage vocabulary.

“Our child is eager to goto school now,” one parentwrote in a nomination let-ter. “He is able to incorpo-rate his strengths to buildhis skills. Although he isnon-verbal, he has madeus aware that he enjoys histeacher. He feels proud ofhimself and it shows.”

Perrodin said she couldnot have accomplishedwhat she has this yearwithout the support of herschool and her teaching as-sistants.

“I believe it takes avillage to educate andempower a child, and Ihave found that village atBroussard Middle School,”Perrodin said. “I would notbe here without my assis-tants. They have been myrock these last couple ofmonths.”

The Top Finalists werechosen after LEF receivedmore than 1,600 nomina-tions. Nearly 600 teachersreceived pins and ribbonsas nominees before the 16finalists were selected latelast year.

The LEF 2013 finalists gather at the Heymann Center in Lafayette on Thursday. Photos by Allyce Andrew//sPeciAl to the dAily Advertiser

LEF Elementary School Teacher Award winner Terry Richard from Charles Burke Elemen-tary hugs his daughter Hannah, 11, after receiving his award at the Heymann Center inLafayette on Thursday.

“We are so very blessed to live in a communitythat gives us credit for the work that we do.”

Holly Grefe-Andrus, leF top Finalist

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A 42-year-old man wasstabbed around 7 p.m. on Christ-mas after an altercation withanother driver, according to theLafayette Police Department.

Officers responded to the

victim at the intersection of In-terstate 49 and Pont des MoutonRoad. According to the victim,he was traveling on westboundI-10 when an older, white panelvan drove aggressively towardhis vehicle. The two drivers ex-changed “hand gestures,” ac-cording to a press release from

the LPD, and then became in-volved in a physical confronta-tion.

Cpl. Paul Mouton, a spokes-person with the Lafayette PoliceDepartment, said the victim wasstabbed with a pocket knife inthe torso and leg area .

The secondman, a white male

in his 40s, climbed back into hisvehicle and fled the area. Thevictim was driven to a local hos-pital with injuries that weren’tlife-threatening.

The incident remains underinvestigation.

“We get calls of people driv-ing aggressively throughout theyear,” Mouton said. “This is un-usual because both the suspectand victim are in their 40s and

engaged in an encounter.”Mouton said the LPD hasn’t

received an unusual number ofcalls about road rage becauseof the holiday season, but traffichas been heavy.

When experiencing an ag-gressive driver, Mouton said, thebest thing to do is call a local lawenforcement agency with a gooddescription of the driver, vehicleand license plate number.

Road rage leads to highway stabbingMan injured in Christmas Day incident

By Amanda [email protected]

When Julien Lecouer’s fourth-graders at Prairie Elemen-tary School open their notebooks for a lesson, that lessonlooks different from those in other Acadiana classrooms.

Taped inside are replicas of checks, and all the words arein French.

Over the next half-hour, Lecouer animatedly gives the les-son on checks in French. Students wave their hands, shoutinganswers in French and trying to get a turn at the board. They

are all fluent in the language, respondingeasily to Lecouer’s questions and saying“non” in a chorus of laughter if someonegives a wrong answer.

A board at the front of the classroomlists homework assignments, some ofwhich are also in French. They will havea “test sur le chapitre 8” in math soon,and they must “Lire S6,” or read, in theirscience books and “lire EC1” in their so-cial studies text.

Lecouer’s fourth-graders are amongnearly 1,200 students in Lafayette Parish enrolled in lan-guage immersion classes that allow students to study inFrench, Spanish or Chinese. Most of the classes are in el-ementary schools, although French and Spanish immersionclasses are offered at Paul Breaux Middle School, and stu-dents at Lafayette High School can take advanced languagecourses.

District officials prefer to call the classes “pathways”rather than “programs” because they believe immersion isnot a tactic that stands alone. Instead, it’s a different way ofintroducing students to subjects.

Students who participate in the classes perform betteron standardized tests and academic exams, and officials are

Prairie Elementary French Immersion teacher Julien Lecoeur lectures his fourth-grade class Tuesday. PhOtOs By Allyce Andrew/sPeciAl tO the

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Immersedin the language

1,200Lafayettestudentstravel new‘pathways’

Prairie Elementary fourth-grade student Kelsey Simpson, 9, participatesin her French Immersion class Tuesday.

By Nicholas [email protected]

Two men and a runawaygirl from New York were ar-rested in St. Mary Parish thispast week for illegally ridinga freight train in hopes oftraveling from New Orleansto Texas.

A deputy with the St. MaryParish Sheriff’s Office wentto Alice C. Road on Dec. 18in response to a call aboutstowaways hiding in one ofthe train’s cars, according toa news release from the St.Mary Parish Sheriff’s Office.

The officer found two mennear the stopped train andthe juvenile girl in the woodsnear the train.

Police charged Ian Tris-ton Jernigan, 32, of the 900block of Deslonde Avenue inNew Orleans, with contrib-uting to the delinquency of ajuvenile, simple obstructionof a highway of commerce(railroad) and possession ofdrug paraphernalia after of-ficers “located a syringe onJernigan’s person,” accord-ing to the release. He is beingheld in the St. Mary ParishLaw Enforcement Center on a$3,250 bond.

Timothy Elliot, 25, no ad-dress given, is charged withsimple obstruction of a high-way of commerce (railroad).His bond information was notavailable by press time.

The juvenile female,whoseidentityhasnot been released,initially identified herself asSavvas Trafton, 19, of the 400block of Deslonde Street inNew Orleans. But detectiveslater learned she was “a run-away from the state of NewYork who gave an alias and afalse birth date at the time ofher arrest.”

“The juvenile was bookedon the additional charge ofresisting an officer and isbeing held in detention pend-ing contact with New Yorkauthorities,” Traci Landry,a spokeswoman for the St.Mary Parish Sheriff’s Office,said in the news release.

The girl is also chargedwith simple obstruction of ahighway of commerce (rail-road).

Landry said the investiga-tion continues.

Associated Press

THIBODAUX — The state Eth-ics Board has scheduled a March7 hearing for Lafourche ParishPresident Charlotte Randolph.

Randolph is accused of break-ing state ethics lawby renting hercamp onGrand Isle to BP PLC af-ter the company paid the parish$1 million for expenses related tothe 2010 oil spill.

According to the state’s docu-ments, Randolph, her husband,

George, and their company, Ran-dolph Publications, got $50,000in rental fees from BP betweenJune and October 2011.

That constitutes a conflict ofinterest because Lafourche Par-ish government got $1 millionfrom BP to cover spill-related ex-penses, state officials said.

“She was prohibited from hav-ing any personal dealings withthem,” Ethics Board spokeswom-an Alainna Giacone has said.

Randolph met with Ethics

Board attorneysmultiple times in2012, according to Giacone. Gia-cone has said settlement negotia-tions were being discussed.

In May, an Ethics Board at-torney told Randolph the boardrejected a settlement proposalthat would have dismissed thecharges. The attorney said theboardwould be open to reviewingsubsequent proposals.

A settlement counter offerwasrejected by theBoard of Ethics inOctober, according to the confer-

ence report.Though Giacone said a hear-

ing is scheduled, it is unclearwhat other action was taken atlast week’s telephone conference.A conference report about themeeting will be available laterthis week.

Last week, Randolph declinedto comment on the conferenceaside from saying she is hopefulthe matter will be settled soon.

Any resulting penalty wouldbe decided by the Adjudicatory

Board.Reports provided by Giacone

indicate Randolph and her hus-band argued in a February con-ference they self-reported theinfraction and believe they acteddiligently.

Randolph will have an oppor-tunity to defend herself at thehearing, Giacone has said.

State law says the board is au-thorized to order Randolph to for-feit themoney fromBP and orderpayment of other penalties.

Two men,runawaynabbed asstowawayson train

Lafourche president’s ethics hearing set for March 7

Trio was headed fromNew Orleans to Texas,sheriff’s office says

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By nicholas [email protected]

U.S. Rep. Jeff Landry fell victim to redis-tricting Saturday night, as U.S. Rep. CharlesBoustany beat him in the runoff election torepresent Louisiana’s 3rd Congressional Dis-trict and secured his fifth term in the House ofRepresentatives.

“A lot of people called this race back inJuly,” Pearson Cross said during a phone in-terview after Boustany wrapped up his vic-tory. Cross is chairman of the Political ScienceDepartment at the University of Louisiana atLafayette. “Nothing happened to change thefundamentals of this race. All the issues, mud-slinging andmoney remained constant, and theresults came through as predicted.”

Boustany, R-Lafayette, and Landry, R-NewIberia, were forced into a runoff after neitherincumbent earned more than 50 percent of thevote during the Nov. 6 election. Redistrictingforced the two incumbents into the same dis-trict after Louisiana lost a congressional seatbecause of slow population growth.

On Saturday, about 19 percent of the 3rdDistrict’s 500,592 registered voters cast bal-lots to decide which incumbent will return to

Landry unable to overcomegeography of new district

insidEIt was a quiet day at the polls across Acadiana.Page 10a

Exactly one week after Thanksgiving, Cathy Sonnier’s

husband walked into their home with grocery-filled bags

in each hand. He looked to his wife and told her that their

daughter was in the truck. n Cathy Sonnier hurried outside and

returned to the kitchen with a cherry-wood box just bigger than

a music box. n “this is mydaughter, rachael,” she

said, breaking down in tears. “Wewanted her home withus.” n She looked at the box that held

the cremated remains of her 22-year-

olddaughter,RachaelSonnier,whowas

killed in a crash involving an alleged

drunken driver on Thanksgiving Eve.n “I wanted to bring her home,” she said. “We discussed possibly

burying her with her grandfather or in her own plot, but i can’tlet her go. i just can’t. n “I don’t plan to let her son

know yet that this is his mom, because how do you explain Mommy

in a box to a 3-year-old?”

Family’s grief and frustration follows deadly crash

WAITING FOR JUSTICE

Cathy Sonnier talks recently about her 22-year-old daughter, Rachael, who was killed in an accident involving an allegeddrunken driver on Thanksgiving eve. LESLIE WESTBROOK/[email protected]

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Rachael Sonnier was driving this 2005 Buick La-crosse on Nov. 21 when an alleged drunken driverhit her. PHOTO COuRTESy Of SONNIER fAMILy

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Hostess has closedits doors andthe impact is feltacutely by at least400 newly unem-ployed Louisianaresidents whonow are forced tojoin the ranks ofAmericans lookingfor work.Page 1B

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Cameron 115 3% 2119 59% 999 28% 336 9% 19 1% 3588 16 of 16 precincts reporting

Iberia 563 2% 7315 24% 15718 52% 6429 21% 214 1% 30239 70 of 70 precincts reporting

Jefferson Davis 325 3% 6515 51% 3390 26% 2506 19% 130 1% 12866 23 of 23 precincts reporting

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St. Landry 20 2% 664 53% 402 32% 156 12% 10 1% 1252 5 of 5 precincts reporting

St. Martin 429 2% 6956 29% 11286 47% 4998 21% 184 1% 23853 60 of 60 precincts reporting

St. Mary 795 4% 4140 19% 10194 47% 6134 29% 227 1% 21490 54 of 54 precincts reporting

Vermilion 458 2% 12960 56% 6915 30% 2638 11% 231 1% 23202 80 of 80 precincts reporting

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By nicholas [email protected]

U.S. Reps. CharlesBoustany and JeffLandry, the two incum-bent congressmen hopingto represent the new 3rdDistrict, are headed for aDec. 8 runoff.

The bulk of the re-drawn 3rd Congressio-nal District came fromBoustany’s old 7th Dis-trict, helping him garner133,876 votes, or 45 per-cent, of the vote in Tues-day’s primary, accordingto complete but unofficialreturns. Landry drew30 percent of the vote, or90,576 votes.

Democrat Ron Rich-ard, a Lake Charles attor-ney, earned 22 percent ofthe vote, including 19 per-cent in Lafayette Parish,where nearly 40 percentof registered voters areDemocrats compared toabout 27 percent who areRepublicans.

Dr. Bryan Barrilleaux,a Lake Charles Republi-can and physician, earned3 percent of the vote. JimStark, a Lake Charles Lib-ertarian who is a Navyveteran turned delivery-truck driver, garnered 1percent of the vote.

Boustany, R-Lafayette,is a GOP establishmentfavorite who is seekinghis fifth term in office.Landry, R-New Iberia,was elected as part of theRepublican takeover ofthe House in 2010.

“This has been anexceedingly nasty cam-

paign, and with a runoff,we’re going to have an-other four weeks of nas-tiness,” Pearson Cross,chairman of the PoliticalScience Department atthe University of Loui-siana at Lafayette, saidduring a phone interviewTuesday night.

In the days leading toTuesday’s primary elec-tion, Boustany expressedconfidence that he’d winthe election outright, andLandry told supporters heexpected the race to endin a general-election run-off. Boustany and Landrytraded harsh jabs inhopes of showing votersthe differences betweentwo candidates who sharemany similar stances onpolicy issues.

“It would have beena thrashing if [DemocratRon]Richardwasn’t in therace, and that’s what it’sgoing to be in a runoff,”Boustany said during aphone interview Tuesdaynight. “Landry won’t beable to hide behind RonRichard anymore.”

Landry, who many po-litical observers thoughtfaced an uphill battle, wasable to earn 30 percent ofthe votewith his firebrandpersona. Landry is a teaparty favorite seeking hissecond term in office.

“Let’s finish this job,”Landry told his support-ers at a campaign rallyTuesday night.

Boustany and Landryalso faced challengesfrom three political new-comers, but those can-

didates weren’t able togarner enough votes toqualify for the runoffelection.

The race betweenBoustany and Landryprobably will only inten-sify during the next 31days as both candidatesstill have cash to spend.Boustany raised $3 mil-lion for his re-election bid,and Landry built a warchest with $1.8 million,according to reports filedwith the Federal ElectionCommission detailingcampaign fundraising andspending through Oct. 17.

Combined, Boustanyand Landry spent $3.8million before Tuesday’sprimary election. Bousta-ny has about $918,000 re-maining in cash on hand,and Landry has at least$638,000 to bolster hisodds before the Dec. 8runoff.

While Richard raisedabout $53,000 and spent$49,000 for his late-startcampaign, neither Barril-leaux nor Stark reportedraising any money fortheir campaigns.

Cross said Boustanywas a “heavy favorite” towin the election outrightbefore Richard enteredthe race, but the Dem-ocrat’s inclusion on theballot probably stoppedBoustany from winningthe election without arunoff.

“Boustany could haveput together some out-reach that would have got-ten him over 50 percentin the first round,” Cross

said, but he didn’t, andnow he faces a tough run-off in December against avery tenacious opponent.He’s probably doing somesecond- guessing.”

In a speech from Pat’sDowntown on Tuesdaynight, Boustany said hewas excited to top Landryby 43,300 votes.

“The message is thesame – conservative lead-ership that you can trustand that gets results,”Boustany told his sup-porters. “I’m energized,and I’m ready, because[Landry] can’t hide.”

Landry hosted an elec-tion night party at theMadison Banquet and Re-ception Centre in Brous-sard. Though he gave aspeech when the resultswere in, he did not allowreporters to interviewhim about the comingrunoff.

“Today, voters havespoken loudly and saidthis is their seat,” Landrysaid during his speech.“It’s time to stand up fortheir jobs.”

Today is the last dayto register to vote to inthe Dec. 8 runoff election.Visit GeauxVote.com formore information abouthow to register to vote.

“This is going to be oneof the only overtly politi-cal things going on in thenation, so I would expectthis race to get quite a bitof press nationally,” Crosssaid. “This is going to beone of, if not the, most ex-pensive congressional rac-es in Louisiana’s history.”

Gannett Capital Bureau

BATON ROUGE — TheLouisiana DemocraticParty celebrated there-election of PresidentBarack Obama’s electionto a second term Tuesdaynight.

A release from theparty said “The sweepingvictory, called earlier thanmost pundits expected,confirmed the judgment ofthe American people thatPresident Obama, VicePresident Joe Biden andtheir administration haveput the country on the roadforward. Voters recog-nized the persistent effortthe President has made to,first, pull the country outof the worst economic cri-

sis in nearly a century, andthen to do the slow and dif-ficult task of putting oureconomy back on soundfooting that will grow themiddle class and open newavenues of opportunity forall Americans.”

“The President’s re-election is a victory forall of us who believe thatwe are all in this together,that we are our best whenwe advance together, andthat we have broader com-mitments to keep than ourown narrow interests,”said LDP ChairwomanKaren Carter Peterson.

“In the wake of thisvictory, we call on Re-publicans in the Congress— including those in theLouisiana delegation — to

end their obstructionistways and give PresidentObama the resourcesneeded for nation-build-ing here at home in thissecond term.

“We need to fully im-plement Obamacare, in-vest in our nation’s infra-structure, and continuethe work of building aneconomy that will last,”Peterson said.

“We also call on Gover-nor Jindal to end his oppo-sition to full participationin Obamacare,” she said.“Louisiana individuals,families and businessesneed access to the healthinsurance exchange andthe Medicaid expansioncomponents of that law.Our people need access to

that care” and “the Louisi-ana health care providercommunity — from pri-vate practices to commu-nity hospitals to our publichospital system—need ac-cess to the resources thatthis law provides and thatother states will receivethe benefit of, regardlessof whatever political gainsGov. Jindal believes hisobstruction gains him.”

Peterson said “Thepeople of this countryhave spoken and Loui-siana needs to join withthe rest of the country asPresident Obama leads usforward over the next fouryears.”

Obama got 39.08 of thevote in Louisiana to MittRomney’s 59.26 percent.

State Democrats celebrate Obama victory

Boustany, Landry tomeet in Dec. 8 runoffThree other challengers pose no real threat to incumbent congressmen

Rep. Jeff Landry, R-La., talks to supporters at his elec-tion night watch party in Broussard. ALLyCE ANDREW/SPE-

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Rep. Charles Boustany, R-La., speaks to supporters athis election night watch party at Pat’s Downtown. LESLIEWESTBROOk/[email protected]

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Maine is the first stateto approve same-sex mar-riage by popular vote.Washington state is thefirstto legalize recreational useof marijuana.

Voters a continent apart,making history on two divi-sive social issues.

The outcome in Mainebroke a 32-state streak,dating to 1998, with gaymarriage rebuffed by ev-ery state that voted on it.

Gay marriage is legal insix states and the Districtof Columbia— in each casethe result of legislation orcourt orders, not by a voteof the people.

Washington and Colora-do voters legalized pot use

Tuesday, setting up a clashwith federal drug policy.Voters in Oregon rejectedrecreational pot.

When state and federallaws conflict, federal lawtakes precedence. Fed-eral authorities could suein an attempt to block themeasures in Colorado andWashington from takingeffect. It remained unclearhow the federal govern-ment would respond.

Gambling in Marylandwill soon include tablegames like blackjack anda casino near the nation’scapital, after voters onTuesday approved an ex-pansion measure that gen-erated the most expensivepolitical advertising cam-paign in the state’s history.

Gay marriage, marijuana legalized

By Anastasia [email protected]

Wednesday was game timefor the the Hazardous MaterialsDivision of the Lafayette FireDepartment.

First responders wearingorange protective suits par-ticipated in a simulated terror-ist attack at Cajun Field. Theylearned what to do in the eventof a terrorist gas attack.

Theyweretrainedbythe62ndWeapons of Mass DestructionCivil Support Team, a 22-personLouisiana National Guard unitof soldiers and airmen speciallytrained and equipped to identifyunknown hazards, assess theconsequences and assist withobtaining further support.

Alton Trahan, spokesman forthe Lafayette Fire Department,said the exercise is vital for lo-cal responders.

“Our haz-mat squad gets agreat opportunity to train withthese guys, who are expertswith these types of scenarios,”he said. “We’re fortunate thatthis annual training is here inLafayette today.”

The training scenario in-volved a band competition atCajun Field, during which anunknown gas had been released.

The haz-mat crew had to workwith the support unit to iden-tify the gas and determine thesource.

They searched the stands ofCajun Field, while some mem-bers of the 62nd unit were in“the brain,” or the commandcenter.

Maj. Cameron Magee, com-mander of the unit, said thetraining exercises are conduct-ed all over Louisiana.

“We help first responders

across the state with unknownsubstances when they mighthave exposure to the popula-tion or they might not have theequipment to identify it.”

Magee said said the stadiumis the most logical place to trainin the city.

“It’s good training for us, andit’s good training for Lafayette,”he said.

Trahan agreed.“We share information,” he

said. “They educate us on what

to expect or what to do. It helpswith the whole communicationbecause obviously, if somethinghappens, they’re going to be theindividuals we call out here.”

According to the haz-matunit’s website, its purpose isto respond “to all hazardousmaterials incidents within thecity and parish of Lafayettewhich pose a threat to life andproperty and which cannot beextinguished by conventionalmeans.”

The simula-tion testedthe respond-ers’ abilityto assess athreat, takeaction andcall in theappropri-ate help.Members ofthe specialNationalGuard unittrain all overthe state.ALLYCE ANDREW/

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U.S. Reps. Charles Boustanyand Jeff Landry are taking fi-nal shots at one another as theybattle for last-minute supportbe-fore Saturday’s runoff electionto determine which incumbentwill represent Louisiana’s 3rdCongressional District.

“This is the end game. Every-body is pulling out the last stops,”said Pearson Cross, chairman ofthe University of Louisiana atLafayette’s Political Science De-partment. “If there’s anythingleft in the kitchen sink, let’sthrow it at the other candidate.For Boustany, he’s just going tocome out and counter everythingLandry throws out. For Landry,he’ll try to attack Boustany andfind something that sticks withvoters.”

Both Landry, R-New Ibe-ria, and Boustany, R-Lafay-ette, topped three challeng-ers in the Nov. 6 primary inorder to qualify for the runoff

election Saturday.According to records main-

tained by KATC, KLFY andKADN, Boustany’s campaignhas flooded local TV stationswith far more advertisementsthan Landry’s campaign.

Those records show Bousta-ny’s campaign has spent about$206,000 on television advertise-ments since the primary elec-tion. Landry’s campaign haspaid about $112,000 to air adver-tisements between the primaryand Saturday’s runoff.

“You give the voters a rest,and then you come back atthem,” Cross said. “These can-didates are desperately tryingto get people’s attention and getthem out to the polls.”

Federal Election Commis-sion records detailing cam-paign finances through Nov.18 show Boustany has raised atotal of $3.9 million comparedto Landry’s $2.1 million. In all,Boustany’s campaign had spentabout $3.7 million by Nov. 18while Landry’s campaign spent

about $1.9 million. On Nov. 18,the most recent date for whichfinancial reports are available,Boustany had about $732,000cash in his campaign coffers,and Landry had about $189,000in his war chest.

Boustany’s campaign, onits LaFactCheck.com website,

Boustany, Landry ramp up rhetoric

SAtuRDAY’S VOtEThe runoff election betweenU.S. Reps. Charles Boustanyand Jeff Landry will take placeSaturday, and polls will beopen from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.For more information aboutvoting, including how to findpolling locations and to see asample ballot, visit GeauxVote.com.

Rep. CharlesBoustany

Rep. JeffLandry

Candidates take their finals shots inlast few days before Saturday runoff

Louisiana National Guard members participate in a simulated terrorist attack while Steven Wisniewski, a member of the 62nd Weapons ofMass Destruction Civil Support Team, observes at Cajun Field on Wednesday. ALLYCE ANDREW/SPECIAL TO THE ADVERTISER

Simulated terrorist attackteaches local first responders

By Melinda DeslatteAssociated Press

BATONROUGE—A complaintfiled with federal elections of-ficials accuses Republican U.S.Rep. Charles Boustany of payinga Democratic political organiza-tion for its endorsement, but hid-ing the arrangement when filingcampaign finance reports.

Christian Gil, leader of theRepublican Party executivecommittee in St. Mary Parish,lodged the allegations with theFederal Election Commission.Gil is a supporter of Boustany’sopponent in Saturday’s runoffelection, Republican U.S. Rep.Jeff Landry.

ThecomplaintaccusesBousta-ny of not disclosing that he paid$35,000 to the United Ballot PACfor its support, a claim denied byBoustany’s campaign as anotherattack by Landry backers.

The political action com-mittee, which has traditionallysupported Democratic candi-

dates, announced its backing ofBoustany and President BarackObama on an endorsement carddistributed in the Lafayette areabefore the Nov. 6 election in the3rd District race.

Boustany and Landry ad-vanced to a December runoffout of a five-man field vying forthe seat representing southwestLouisiana and Acadiana. Thetwo Republican congressmenwere forced into the same dis-trict when the state lost a U.S.House seat after the latest fed-eral census.

Gil alleges that Boustanyshifted the money to the com-pany of his campaign manager,John Porter, who then paid it di-rectly to United Ballot leadersto cover the costs of distributionand printing of its endorsementslate card.

“He’s trying to cover himselfso he doesn’t get known for whathe’s done and what he is. I want

Campaign finance complaintlodged against Boustany


The Blue Moon Saloon wasbuzzing Wednesday night dur-ing its Freetown AppreciationParty.

Owner Mark Falgout madeWednesday night a special occa-sion after an anonymous letterwas sent last week to residentsof Freetown. The letter askedresidents to consider the cons ofthe venue, such as the noise fromgigs, its zoning, and the wayowner Mark Falgout is exploit-ing the area.

On Wednesday night, Free-town residents could sign up fora free neighborhood pass to BlueMoon Saloon with ID and a pieceof addressed mail. Among thecrowd were musicians, artistsand neighborhood residents voic-ing their support for the venueand Falgout.

Local artist Herb Roe paintsout of a studio five blocks fromthe venue. Depending on theweek, he said he visits as muchas three times a week.

“I’ve been coming here sincethey first opened,” Roe said. “It’slike a recreation of the old Cajundance halls and neighborhoodpub-type of thing all in one. Youcan’t see the music you see inthis place, anywhere else.”

Othermembersof thecommu-nity came to the part Wednesday

Blue Moonparty fetesthe venue’sFreetownneighbors

The Blue Moon hosted a Free-town Appreciation Night onWednesday.MATTHEW SIGUR/THEADVERTISER.COM

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Kenard Tanner Jr. and Tylin Lindon are introduced as buglers during theLafayette Mardi Gras Festival’s 55th annual Pageant and Ball at the HeymannPerforming Arts Center in Lafayette on Saturday. pAul Kieu/[email protected]

Danice Paul greets guests after being introduced as Queen Suzanne Simonné LV dur-ing the Lafayette Mardi Gras Festival’s 55th annual Pageant and Ball at the HeymannPerforming Arts Center on Saturday. pAul Kieu/[email protected]

Connor Domingue is showered with confetti as he walks along the stage as Sir Lancelotduring the Krewe of Camelot’s Mardi Gras Ball. pAul Kieu/[email protected]

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Revelers yell and reach for beads as the Youngsville Mardi Gras Parade rolls through Youngsville on Saturday. LesLie Westbrook/[email protected]

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YOURMARDI GRAS PRIMERMardi Gras traditions explained. Plus, meet the Krewe of Gabriel’s king and queen. ACCENTCOMING TUESDAY: Find a special Mardi Gras section in Tuesday’s Daily Advertiser.

By Herman [email protected]

Should the Grammy forzydeco and Cajun music return?The answer depends on who youask.

Local musicians who couldwin a Grammy today for BestRegional Roots Album are infavor of this two-year-old cat-

egory, which also includes Ha-waiian, Native American, polkaand New Orleans brass bands.

But Terrance Simien, winnerof the first Best Zydeco or CajunMusic Album Grammy in 2008,

believes specific categories forroots music is a matter of re-spect.

“I wish the Recording Acad-emy would care more about theroots music,” said Simien, anAcademy member for 20 years.“Native Americans made someof the firstmusic in this country.With zydeco music, the Creoleshave been in Louisiana over 300

years. Cajuns have been in al-most as long as that. Hawaiianshave been making music sincethe beginning of time as well.

“Traditional jazz and polkaare old styles of music that haveinfluenced a lot of the stuff thatyou hear today. For the Acade-my to not care enough about the

Musicians debate Grammy Regional Roots categoryLIVE CHATAccent editor and mu-sic expert Herman Fuse-lier will be live-chattingduring the non-tele-vised portion of theGrammys starting at 4p.m. today at www.theadvertiser.com.Get your questions answered aboutlocal nominees and Grammy news.

Above: The Krewe of Bonaparte Mardi Gras parade rolls through downtown Lafayette on Saturday night. LESLIE WESTBROOK/[email protected]

Below: John Anderson holds his daughter Abigail, 3, while she attempts to drown out the Peabody Magnet High School marching band at the Children’s Parade in Lafayette onSaturday. ALLYCE ANDREW/SPECIAL TO THE ADVERTISER

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The threat of rain nevermateri-alized Saturday, making it theperfect day for the Children’s

Parade and the Krewe of BonaparteParade to roll through Lafayette.

Thousands of revelers from nearand far enjoyed mild weather andglimpses of sun on the Saturdaybefore Mardi Gras, turning out inforce to line the streets for a chanceat the popular beads and trinketstossed from dozens of floats.

Kara St. Clair of Lafayette was

among them, lining up for theBonaparte Parade dressed in ablond wig, pill-box hat, a polka-dotdress and a gold-sequined major-ette jacket that she bought at a Citedes Arts Mardi Gras costume sale.

“I’ve been feeling really in theMardi Gras spirit,” St. Clair ex-plained. “I didn’t want to do myhair, so I just put on a wig and thenI decided to dress up. This is theonly time you can do that. It’s Mar-di Gras, you can wear whatever youwant.”

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They arrived sepa-rately, ready for battle andchanting loudly.

But instead of fighting,they danced.

Nearly a dozen MardiGras Indians marchedonto Clark Field on Tues-day night, bringing MardiGras Day to a close as hun-dreds of people watchedthe group compete to seewhich contender had thebest costume as part of theannual Mardi Gras Show.

“It’s all about the com-petition,” Darnell Joseph,33, said early in the eve-ning before later takinghome the first-place tro-phy. “We come out here

after the parade, show offour costumes and figureout who’s best.”

Joseph, who moved toAtlanta twoweeksago, saidhe returned to Lafayette tocontinue the tradition helearned from his step fa-ther. Joseph’s Mardi GrasIndian costume had a jest-er’s twist, with a glittery“Joker’sWild” catchphraseon his medieval cap andwhite feathers surround-ing purple, gold and greenembellishments.

“It’s very competitivehere — they put their heartand soul into it,” said AaronStaten, the program direc-tor for KIEE 88.3 F.M., oneof theevent’s sponsors. “It’sall about preserving ourheritage andMardi Gras.”

Allen Breaux, 28, of La-fayette, said he spent $500and two weeks decoratinghis Mardi Gras Indian cos-tume with jewels, feath-ers and fancy designs. Hesaid he’s been dressing asa Mardi Gras Indian for atleast five years, a traditionhe picked up from uncles,friends and other “oldpeople out of the neighbor-hood.”

“We’d rather do thisthan buy a new car,” saidBreaux, who participatedin this year’s Mardi GrasShow with three otherMardi Gras Indians in hisgroup. “We hope it keepsgoing on so our kids cansee it.”

“The Originals,” a re-shaped group of two cous-ins and a friend, said they“masked,” or dressed asMardi Gras Indians, to-gether this year to passtheir shared heritage to

a younger generation.Combined, the three men— Chris Washington, 37,Emmette Shelvin, 55, andAlton “Lil Tiger” Arm-strong, 55 — have maskedfor 100 years.

“When I’m in a wheel-chair, they’ll still have todress me up and wheel meout there,” Shelvin said.

Kathy Thibeaux, whoreturned to Lafayette “justfor the Mardi Gras” after

moving to Atlanta morethan 20 years ago, said shesaw the Mardi Gras Indi-ans for the first time thisyear.

“This is where it’s allhappening — right here,”her husband, Mark Thi-beaux, said while Kathyand their granddaughter,Keirra Barxton, 11, posedfor a picture with one ofthe Mardi Gras Indians.“This is great.”

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Natalea Clark dances with the Mardi Gras Indians at ClarkField. Photos by Allyce Andrew/sPeciAl to the Advertiser

A Mardi Gras indian dances during Cupid’s performanceat Clark Field.

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King Gabriel LXXIV,Stuart Gaither ClarkIV, waves to thecrowd at the Kreweof Gabriel ball in theHeymann Perform-ing Arts Center onTuesday.

Queen EvangelineLXXIV, Jasmine MarieAbdalla, waves to thecrowd at the Kreweof Gabriel ball in theHeymann Perform-ing Arts Center on

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Above: William Andrew Picard is introduced as KingLouis Roi de Soleil XXXVIII during the dress rehearsalfor the Children’s Carnival Krewe of Versaille’s 38thannual Mardi Gras Ball at Angelle Hall in Lafayette onThursday. Paul Kieu/[email protected]

Right: The Krewe of Xanadu royal court greets revel-ers Friday. allyce andrew/sPecial to the advertiser

Story Frantzen escorts Selia Abshire as they are introduced as members of the honorcourt during the dress rehearsal for the Children’s Carnival Krewe of Versaille’s 38th an-nual Mardi Gras Ball at Angelle Hall on Thursday. Paul Kieu/[email protected]

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7 Acadiana residentscomplete training

Seven Acadiana residentshave graduated from basiccombat training at Fort Jack-son in Columbia, S.C.

In nine weeks of train-ing, the soldiers receiveinstruction and practice inbasic combat skills, militaryweapons, chemical warfareand bayonet training, drilland ceremony, marching, riflemarksmanship, map reading

and tactics and basic first aid,among other things, accord-ing to a press release fromthe military. They also studythe Army mission, history,tradition and core values andphysical fitness.

The recent graduates are:» Army National Guard

Pfc. Britanie K. Perro, a 2010graduate of Acadiana HighSchool in Lafayette. She is thedaughter of Kerry Perro ofLafayette.

» Army National GuardSpec. Kioloni K. Readeux, a2005 graduate of Eunice HighSchool and the daughter ofDonna Stevens of Lafayette.Readeux received a bache-lor’s degree in 2009 from theUniversity of Louisiana atLafayette.

» Army Pvt. Tony Pho-thisane, a 2012 graduate ofWestgate High School in NewIberia. He is the brother ofVorasane Phothisane of Ches-ter, Va.

» Army Pvt. David S.Ahlers, the son of HaroldAhlers of Scott and TabathaBuck of Breaux Bridge.

» Army National GuardPvt. Zachary E. Taylor, theson of Terry Taylor of Lafay-ette and Kristin Knight ofRedfield, Ark.

» Army National GuardPfc. Craig J. Soileau, the sonof Craig Soileau and MichelleMiller, both of Ville Platte.

» Army Reserve Pfc.Sabrina E. Charatain, a 2012graduate from West St. MaryHigh School in Baldwin,and the daughter of Debraand Clarence Charatain ofBaldwin.

3 graduate fromAir Force training

Three local residents havegraduated from basic mili-tary training at Lackland AirForce Base in San Antonio.

They completed an in-tensive, eight-week course

included training in militarydiscipline and studies, AirForce core values, physicalfitness and basic warfareprinciples and skills.

Airmen who complete ba-sic training earn four creditstoward an associate in appliedscience degree through theCommunity College of the AirForce.

The graduates are:» Air Force Airman

Sterling J. Dupuis, the sonof Jill and Charlie Dupuis ofCarencro.

» Air Force Airman JarrodL. Gonzales, a 2011 gradu-ate of North Vermilion HighSchool in Maurice and theson Rose and Lloyd Rankinof Maurice and grandson ofJosephine Fontenot of Marks-ville.

» Air Force AirmanRoland Robicheaux, a 2011graduate of Cecilia HighSchool and the son of JanellaRobicheaux of Breaux Bridge.

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Thirteen-year-old BoyScout Grant Young systemati-cally planted dozens of acornsin the Atchafalaya Basin onSaturday, digging into the softgroundwith a stick and swiftlycovering the hole before mov-ing on to another section.

Young joined hundreds ofother Boy Scouts in the IndianBayou area of the Atchafa-laya Basin on Saturday morn-ing, braving the cold to plant15,000 seeds.

“It’s pretty fun and treesare important,” Young, 13,said. “It’s better than stayingcooped up inside all day.”

Boy Scouts of America’sEvangeline Area Councilhosted the annual AtchafalayaBasin tree planting event, andattracted 300 scouts and theirfamilies who planted five dif-ferent types of oak seedlings.In 2010, the council made a100-year commitment to re-forest the basin, said BenPierce, the council’s Atchafa-laya Swamp base coordinator.

Thecouncilusuallychoosesdifferent areas of the basin forplantings each year, but choseto revisit the Indian Bayouarea this year, where long ago,the area was stripped of treesand used as farm land.

“It was agricultural lands.We’re looking to establish newhabitats and food sources forvarious animals here,” Piercesaid. “These seeds are a goodfood source for them, too.”

Tanner Broussard, 13,has participated in the plant-ing since it began four yearsago, and estimated that he hasplanted about 100 trees. In to-tal, about 50,000 seeds havebeen planted in the last fouryears, Pierce said.

“I think it’s important tohelp nature re-grow from thedisasters it has faced, likehurricanes and floods,” Brous-sard said.

Broussardwasamongmanyof the Lafayette-based Troop10 scouts who participated inSaturday’s project. Each scoutcarried a bag of acorns, plant-ing in a pre-plowed area ofland that still showed signs ofagricultural roots.

The 28,000-acre public ac-cess area called Indian Bayou,about eight miles north of theButte LaRose exit on Inter-state 10, is owned by the U.S.Army Corps of Engineers,which has also aided it’s res-toration. The area is touted asa hunting paradise and a placewhere bird watchers flock insearch of vast species, includ-ing some that are endangeredand threatened.

That resonated with scouts,who learned about the area asthey made the trek to plantinggrounds.

“I think it’s going to help toforest the area, and it’s goingto be great for the animals andthe environment,” said Ben Si-mon, 13.

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Steven Poche, 11, and Luke Roger, 12, with Boy Scout Troop 85, plant tree cuttings during the Evan-geline Area Council’s 4th annual Atchafalaya Basin tree planting on Saturday. Each scout carried abag of acorns for planting. PHoToS By ALLycE ANDREW/SPEciAL To THE ADvERTiSER

Lauren Bankston, 11, plants seeds with her brother’s Cub ScoutPack 309 on Saturday in Indian Bayou, an area along the Atcha-fala Basin once used as farm land.

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Filé and Gumbo, siblinggolden Bengal tiger cubs,woke early Monday morn-ing to begin bottle feedingwith the Zoo of Acadianastaff.

Filé, a female weighingin at 45 pounds, slurpeddown her 9-ounce bottle offormula in only a minute.Gumbo, her brother, whoweighs 55 pounds, took a

slower approach, wrap-ping his huge paws arounda zookeeper’s arms whilenursing the bottle.

“Gumbo likes to hugwhoever is feeding him,”said Lea Loftin, Zoo ofAcadiana marketing di-rector. “And Filé’s person-ality is to hurry and finishso she can play.”

And playing is some-thing Filé does well.

At only 5 months oldand less than 1/10th the

weight of an average adultgolden Bengal tiger, sheseems small. Her power-ful legs launch her body atanything that moves, how-ever, and her jaw clampsdown on her brother andthe zoo’s staff.

“They’re getting stron-ger every day,” said FranDaigle, the zoo’s generalcurator. “Seventy-fivepounds is when you don’twant to come in here any-more.”

Beginning inearly2013,the cubs will likely be toostrong and dangerousfor zoo staff to enter thetigers’ temporary enclo-sure, according to Loftinand Daigle. At that point,the cubs will be moved toa larger exhibit with shadytrees and ponds.

“They’re not attackingto be aggressive,” Daiglesaid. “They’re attacking toplay. They like soft areas.”

Currently, each tigerdrinks a 9-ounce bottlethree times per day andeats a two-pound meatplate twice a day. The ti-gers each weighed about35 pounds in October whenthey were purchased from

a zoo in Alabama.Zoo visitors can watch

the cubs drink bottles be-tween 11:30 a.m. and noondaily and eat meat platesat 10:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.daily.

The zoo is now illumi-nated with colorful lightsevery evening for the Sa-fari of Lights, and the tigercubs had to adjust Fridayto the new sound of Christ-mas music playing on thezoo’s grounds.

“They just looked up atthe speaker, paced backand forth, and looked up atthe speaker again,” Loftinsaid.

The Golden Bengal ti-ger is a rare breed and amix between white andstandard Bengal tigers.According to Loftin, thereare only 30 to 50 in theworld, and Gumbo andFilé are the only two inLouisiana. The cubs haveattracted many visitors tothe privately owned zoo.

Thezoo is open tobreed-ing the pair with other ti-gers in the future.

“They’re a great newaddition,”Daigle said. “Notonly to the zoo but also toAcadiana and the state ofLouisiana.”

Baby Bengal tigers continue to grow upFilé and Gumbo are attractingmore visitors to Zoo of Acadiana

Congress are willing to getserious about asking thewealthiest to pay slightlyhigher tax rates, we won’tbe able to achieve a signifi-cant, balanced approach toreduce our deficit our na-tion needs,” White HouseCommunications Direc-tor Dan Pfeiffer said in astatement.

Boehner saw the situa-tion as just the reverse.

“After the election I of-fered to speed this up by

putting revenue on the ta-ble and unfortunately theWhite House respondedwith their la-la land of-fer that couldn’t pass theHouse, couldn’t pass theSenate and it was basical-ly the president’s budgetfrom last February,” hesaid Monday.

Tine is growing shorterbefore thedeadline toavertthe fiscal cliff, which is acombination of expiringBush-era tax cuts and au-tomatic, across-the-boardspending cuts that are theresult of prior failures ofCongress and Obama tomake a budget deal.

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If they’re going to cut theirjob, cut it. If not, let themdo their job.”

Reddoch has been out-spoken about the plannedUMC cuts. Earlier thisyear, the LSU system an-nounced cuts of about$22.4 million for the hos-pital. Some key serviceshave been eliminated.

Reddoch said cuts inICU and pediatrics, elimi-nating birth and deliveryservices, and closing twoof UMC’s three operatingrooms, would be devas-tating to many Lafayette-area residents, as well asemployees who stand tolose their jobs.

Since the cuts were firstannounced this spring,LSU officials have been

working with private hos-pitals across the state tosee if those facilities canpick up some of the servic-es eliminated at the publichospitals, ensuring thatpatients still have accessto care. In Lafayette, UMChas been in talks with La-fayette General MedicalCenter about such an ar-rangement, although nofinal decisions have beenannounced.

Lee Bairnsfather, aformer LSU hospitals em-ployee who worked in bothLafayette and Shreveport,said he suspects that thelayoff delays indicate somekind of hang-up with stateofficials’ negotiations withprivate hospitals.

“My guess is that theycan’t work out the dealwith the private facilities,”he said. “You still have thisproblem that the systemis going to be about $150

million short, and they’regoing to have to find themoney somewhere just topay the employees.”

Reddoch said she re-mains cautious about thesituation.

“I don’t want people toget their hopes up, think-ing their job is secure, andthen have the rug yankedout from underneaththem,” she said.

“The bigger questionbecomes, ‘When will therebe layoffs?’” asked stateRep. Robert Johnson, D-Marksville.

“I guess the ghostsof Christmas past andChristmas present visitedDr. Opelka,” resulting inshelving the intended lay-offs, Johnson said. “I don’tthink he’s been visited bythe ghost of Christmas fu-ture yet.”

With the talk of seri-ous cutbacks at all hospi-tals, “the public certainlyneeds to be alarmed,” hesaid. “We’re about to loseour hospitals with theJindal lie that the federalgovernment is forcing usto do this.”

The federal governmentdecreased the amount ofMedicaid funding avail-able to the state, he said,but the governor vetoeda provision approved bythe Legislature that wouldhave covered the loss.

Cpl. Paul Mouton, spokes-man for the Lafayette Po-lice Department.

The department did notrelease how far Dutton’sblood-alcohol content wasabove the legal limit.

Traffic investigatorsare still processing infor-mation from the Nov. 21crash that left RachaelSonnier dead,Mouton said.The incident occurred atabout 11:42 p.m. at the in-tersection of Kaliste Sa-loom Road and Rue LouisXIV. The results of theinvestigation will be sentto District Attorney Mike

Harson.Dutton was arrested

at the scene and chargedwith OWI, a lesser charge.News that he had beencharged with vehicular ho-micide came as a surpriseto Rachael Sonnier’s moth-er, Cathy Sonnier.

“I couldn’t have beenmore stunned yesterdaywhen they called to say the

blood work was back and awarrant had been issuedfor his arrest than if Pub-lisher’s Clearing Househad shown up at my doorwith a huge check. I hadexpected to wait and wait,”she said.

The mother hopes tosee justice not only for herdaughter’s memory butalso for the two other pas-sengers in her daughter’svehicle, Cathy Sonnier’sson and grandson. StevenSonnier, 25, suffered mod-erate injuries in the acci-dent, and Caiden Sonnier,3, suffered minor injuries.

Dutton’s attorney, Bar-ry Sallinger, said Duttonis innocent until provenguilty. He said prosecutorsmust prove not only thatthe driver was legally im-paired but that the driver’sactions in the operation ofa motor vehicle caused thedeath of another.

“No evidence of causa-tion has been made avail-able for review,” Sallingersaid. “Any competent evi-dencewhichmight supportthe theory that Mr. Duttoncaused the accident will beexamined with the highestdegree of scrutiny.”

Dutton pleaded no con-test in June 2011 to a first-time OWI offense after hisinitial arrest in 2010. Heposted a $750 bond andwas placed on one year’sprobation, did communityservice and took an alco-hol-abuse class.

Now that Dutton hasbeen charged with a sec-ond OWI and vehicularhomicide, he could face upto 30 years in prison and afine of up to $15,000, if con-victed.

DA Harson said Dut-ton is not likely to receivethe maximum on a firstcharge of vehicular homi-cide, if he is convicted.

“Most of them are notgiven that on a first offense(of vehicular homicide),”Harson said. “He shouldget the minimum five I’veseen about 10 years withthe last five on probation insimilar cases.”

Cathy Sonnier hadraised questions about whyDutton was not chargedinitially with the stiffercharge, and why the toxi-cology results were takingso long.

Harson said the state’soverworked police crime

lab can lag in providing re-sults, but he said he askedthat Dutton’s toxicologytests be expedited becauseit was considered a high-profile case.

Toxicology testing cantake up to 90 days beforethe results are released toinvestigators, he said.

“It’s kind of a mixedbag,” Harson said. “I didit this time because of allthe insecurity people haveabout the time.… I did it asa favor. I don’t want it to beset as a precedent.”

Cathy Sonnier was dis-appointed, however, thatDutton had posted bail onWednesday. She said the$25,000 bail amount wastoo small for someone whohas been arrested twicefor drunken driving. Bail,however, is typically basedon the likelihood that a per-son will appear for courtrather than the severity ofthe crime.

“Is this taken this light-ly?” Cathy Sonnier said.“Because that’s what it ap-pears to us and our family.I justwant to see him servethemaximum sentence un-der the law for this. I wantjustice.”

honor teachers who havegone above and beyondsimple lesson plans to havean impact on a particularstudent or multiple stu-dents, said LEF ExecutiveDirector Becky Credeur.Past recognitions or cer-tifications are not consid-ered.

“It’sbasedon the impactthey have made, whetherit’s helping students ortheir families academi-cally, emotionally or evenspiritually,” Credeur said.“Most of the principalssay these are the teach-ers who really care aboutwhat they are doing andreally love their students.It’s really about what mo-tivated the person to writethe letter to us and the sto-ries they have to tell aboutthese teachers’ impact.”

Woodvale Elementaryteacher Lynn McElroygreeted the news in trueteacher fashion, callingher second grade class upone table at a time to posefor a group picture andexplaining how studentswere using socks on theirdry erase boards.

“You don’t teach for ac-colades, but to have thisrecognition is unbeliev-able,” McElroy said. “It’svery meaningful to haveparents and students rec-ognize you for the workthat you are doing.”

At L.J. AllemanMiddle,guitar teacher Jane Vid-rine used the visit fromthe Pin Patrol as a teach-ing exercise. Vidrine in-structed some studentsto play the bass notes and

others to play the melody,then led them in an acous-tic performance of “Joy tothe World.”

Vidrine said she hopesthe recognition is a demon-stration to the communitythat there are teachers do-ing positive work in Lafay-ette Parish schools.

Tokeep this year’s final-ists in the dark, principalshad fun spinning storiesabout why their classeswould be interrupted. Ca-thedral-Carmel PrincipalKay Aillet told Lasseignethat theUniversity of Loui-siana at Lafayette studentswould arrive.

At Youngsville MiddleSchool, librarian SusanDeshotels was expectinga quiet day in the library,without any classes sched-

uled, until PrincipalDarrelComb told her that a classneeded to use the spacebecause of a maintenanceemergency. Deshotels washard at work on her laptopas the students smiled andchattered when the volun-teers burst in to give De-shotels her honor.

“I have to get a dressnow. I have to go shop-ping!” Deshotels said, witha laugh.

All nominees are in-vited to attend the LEFTeacher Awards on Jan. 17at the Heymann Perform-ing Arts Center. The eventgives teachers a chance todress up in their best for-mal wear, have a limou-sine ride to the center andwalk a red carpet into theawards ceremony.

Where’S The LIST?The Lafayette Education Foundation did not releasethe list of finalists on Wednesday for this year’s TeacherAwards because two finalists were absent from schooland did not receive their notice. The list is expected tobe released Thursday morning. Check theadvertiser.comon Thursday for the complete list.

Lafayette High Choir teacher Holly Grefe-Andrus smilesafter being surprised by for being an LEF Teacher Awardfinalist Wednesday. LEsLiE WEsTbrook/ThE AdvErTisEr

W.D. and Mary Baker Smith Career Center teacher Cecile Mitchell shows her emotionWednesday, after learning that she is a 2012 LEF Teacher Award finalist. ALLyCE AndrEW/spE-

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After watching his four quarterbackscomplete a combined 34-of-45 passes for421 yards, three touchdowns and – per-haps most importantly – no interceptionsin UL’s spring-ending scrimmage Satur-day at Cajun Field, Ragin’ Cajuns MarkHudspeth could breath easy.

His starting QB, Terrance Broadway,was not only sound but also safe.

His three No. 2-QB candidates –Brooks Haack, Jalen Nixon and D’ShaieLandor, all still freshmen with four sea-sonsofeligibilityremaining–weresharp.

And his crop of sure-handed receiverspulled in one pass after another, allowingHudspeth to exhale knowing that airing itout shouldn’t prove problematic in theseason ahead.

“It was evident that some of our youngreceivers are going to be pretty good,”Hudspeth said after the Broadway/Lan-dor Red team beat the Haack/NixonWhite 17-13 in front of an announced5,838. “JaredJohnson, JamalRobinson – Ithought they had some big-time games.

“The freshmen quarterbacks – Ithought they slung the ball around thepark pretty good. So I think the develop-mentofouryoungkids– it’sevidentwe’vemade some progress this spring.”

Another freshman, preferred walk-onLance Pace, led all receivers with ninecatchesoutof theslot for87yards, includ-ing a 6-yard touchdown toss from Haackon the scrimmage’s final play.

Johnson, who went into the spring as abackup on the depth chart behind JamesButler, had five grabs for 84 yards, andRobinson, expected to be Broadway’s go-

Brooks Haack delivers a solid performancein the spring game to help his case to be theCajuns’ backup quarterback behind TerranceBroadway. ALLYCE ANDREW/THE ADVERTISER

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BOCA RATON, Fla. —Due toinclement weather in the BocaRaton area, the UL Ragin’Cajuns softball team wasforced to cancel their double-header against FAU on Sat-urday.

The two teams will now tryto play an 11 a.m. doubleheadertoday before, returning toLafayette. The Cajuns entertoday 32-11 and 11-4, while FAUis 25-25 and 8-10.

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Knicks 85, Celtics 78NEWYORK—CarmeloAntho-

ny scored 36 points, and theNew York Knicks beat the Bos-ton Celtics 85-78 on Saturday intheir playoff opener.

After knocking the Celticsfrom the top of the Atlantic Di-vision, the Knicks took the firststep to knocking themout of theplayoffs by holding Boston tothree baskets and eight pointsin the final period.

Anthony, the NBA’s scoringleader, shot only 13 for 29 fromthe field but scored eight pointsin the fourth quarter, includingconsecutive baskets late in theperiod that finally gave theKnicks breathing room in atight game.

Game 2 is Tuesday night be-fore the Celtics host Game 3 onFriday inwhatwill be their firsthome game since the BostonMarathon bombings.

Jeff Green scored 26 pointsandPaul Pierce added 21for theCeltics, who badly missed in-jured point guard Rajon Rondo,committing 21 turnovers thatled to 20 points. The Knicks gottheir hands on the ball at will inthe fourthquarter,whenBostonshot 3 of 11.

—Associated Press

NBA PLAYOFFS

A two-run home run in theninth inning lifted Florida At-lantic into its first leadof the se-ries and a 5-4 victory over theUL Ragin’ Cajuns on Saturdayevening at M.L. “Tigue” MooreField.

The dramatic homer cameoff UL closer Matt Hicks, justone day after Hicks broke UL’scareer saves record.

The Cajuns (26-13, 9-8 SunBelt) hadbrokena3-all tie in theeighth inning when Ryan Leon-ards delivered a run-scoringsingle. In the ninth inning, ULwas two outs from taking a 2-0series lead.

A one-out single by Brendon

Sanger brought the go-aheadrun to the plate for FAU (26-13,11-6 Sun Belt). Ricky Santiagothen delivered a two-run homerun over the right field wall togive the Owls a 5-4 edge – thefirst time in18 innings of the se-ries FAU held a lead.

Hugh Adams pitched ascoreless ninth inning to collectthe save as the Owls evened theweekend series.

The rubbergame takesplaceat noon today with UL’s CodyBoutte (5-2, 5.44ERA)matchingup against FAU’s BrandonRhodes (3-1, 2.79 ERA) in battleof left-handers on the mound.

TheCajuns received anotherquality start from their startingpitcher as Ryan Wilson tossed

seven innings andheld theOwlsto two earned runs.

Dex Kjerstad and RyanLeonards each posted threehits. Kjerstad collected amulti-ple-hit game for the15th time inthe past 20 outings and Leon-ards picked up his sixth three-hit game.

UL picked up a lead in thefirst inning a second straightnight. Kjerstad laced a ground-rule double to right center andlater scored on Leonards’ firsthit of the game. Jace Conrad,who reachedonabunt single af-ter Kjerstad’s double, crossedhome plate on a Tyler Girouardgrounder.

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After pulling in ascrimmage-high ninepasses for 87 yards and afinal-play touchdown inUL’s spring game Satur-day, evenLancePace hadto admit some sense ofsurprise on what hecalled a “dream-come-true” day.

“We’ve good two goodslot receivers in front ofme – Darryl Surgent andBradley Brown – andthey’re really good,” saidPace, who praised Ragin’Cajun coaches and team-mates and expressedhow grateful he is to sim-ply be a part of the ULprogram.

“So,” he added, “I justcame in (this spring)playing the role of justlearning the offense, be-cause I’m still a fresh-man, and picking upschemes.”

Pace isn’t just a fresh-man, though.

He’s one who came tothe Ragin’ Cajuns as apreferred walk-on, notoffered a scholarship butrecruited by UL eventhough injuries ham-peredhisseniorseasonatLumberton High in Tex-as.

“He’s shown the abili-ty to do that,” Cajunscoach Mark Hudspethsaid of the nine-catchperformance. “He wasset backby some injurieslast year, and he’s justnow coming into his own.He’sonlygoingtogetbet-ter.”

It didn’t hurt Pace thatthe primary quarterbackthrowing to him Satur-day was Brooks Haack, afellow freshman and afellow Texan.

“We talked before thegame about, ‘We need toshowoff forTexas today.’And we did that,” saidHaack, who was 15-of-19for 204 yards and twoTDs.

“Showing off Texastalent,” Pace added, “isalways a good thing.”

Haack suggests thereindeed are good thingsahead forPace, even if hemust bide his time nextfall behind ex-wideoutSurgent, who had onecatch for 9 yards Satur-day, and Brown, who hadtwo for 23 yards.

“He’s one of the hard-est-workers on thisteam,” Haack said. “Hegoes in there every dayand grinds in the weightroomandonthefield,andhe’s coming along greatthis past spring.”

PARKER INJURED

Cajun players gath-ered in prayer Saturdayaround sophomore cor-nerback O’Neil Parkerafter the Carencro Highproduct broke his lowerleg.

UL officials said Park-er sustained a compoundfracture, similar to thatof Louisville basketballplayer KevinWare in therecent NCAA Tourna-ment.

Parker, who was cov-ering tight end JacobMaxwell on an incom-plete pass play, appearedto try to get up beforerealizing the severity ofthe injury.

Medical personnelrushed to the field,placed the leg in an aircast and quickly re-moved Parker on a cart.He left Cajun Field viaambulance.

“It didn’t look good,”Hudspeth said. “It hap-pened so quick, I don’teventhinkheknewhedidit. It was a shame, be-cause he had had a goodspring and was doing agood job.”

RUNNING STRONG

With starting runningbackAlonzoHarrismiss-ing the spring game asexpected due to a slightknee sprain sustained inpractice last Wednesday,backup Effrem Reedrushed 10 times for 30yards and last season’sNo. 3 Torrey Pierce hadeight carries for 33 yardsand a 2-yard touchdown.

Also out Saturday waslast season’s Game 1starter, Montrel Carter,who did take part in con-tactdrillsall springwhilerehabbing from recon-structive knee surgerythat cost him most of2012.

“(Pierce) made somenice runs on the perime-ter, was able to get northand south,” Hudspethsaid. “And I thought Ef-frem Reed ran the ballwell. I thought all thebacks did a nice job.”

AWARDS

Projected starting wi-deout James Butler (twocatches, 21 yards) wasnamed UL’s most-im-proved player after thespring and cornerbackJevante Watson its most-improved defensiveplayer during a halftimeceremony Saturday.

Awards also were giv-en to threeplayersforbe-ing most-improved dur-ing offseason condition-ing, taking into accountwork ethic, strength im-provement and attitude:receiver Jared Johnson,punter Daniel Cadonaand defensive linemanBlain Winston.

LAGNIAPPE

Cadona – a formerAussie rules footballplayer playing Ameri-can-style football for thefirst time in front of acrowd – had two puntsthat averaged 39 yards,including a long of 45. …Linebacker Nick Barn-field had the scrim-mage’s lone interception,picking off Pace on atrickplay.…KickersSte-phen Brauchle, HunterStover and Carlos Alva-rez each were 1-of-1 onPATs.

Stover was the onlyone of the three to at-tempt a field goal, and hemade his 20-yard at-tempt. … Linebacker An-drewHebert led all tack-lers with nine, includingsix solo stops. … Defen-sive lineman Jalen Fieldsdeflected three pass.

Pace makesquick namefor himselfReceiver grabsspotlight duringspring game


to guy in 2013, pulled inthree passes for 42 yards,including a 1-yarder tothe corner of the end zonefrom Broadway thathelpedput theRedup17-7in the so-called thirdquarter.

(The two sides playedthree10-minute quarters,and an impromptuchange reduced thefourth to eight running-clock minutes).

Haack led the threebackup candidates by go-ing 15-of-19 for 204 yardsand two TDs, including a2-yarder to CarencroHighproductRickyJohn-son, a transfer fromTulsawho had three receptionsfor 29 yards.

Landor finished 6-of-8for 59 yards, and Nixon –who also lined up at run-ning back – was 5-of-6 for51 yards passing.

Hudspeth, however,wasn’t willing to name aNo. 2 afterward – he hadsaidearlier in theweekhewouldn’t, to spur offsea-son competition – andwouldn’t even say if oneof the three had separat-ed himself.

“To be honest withyou,” he said, “all threemade some good plays.

“You have to go backandreally study thegamefilm with a fine-toothcomb, and really just seewho mechanically is do-ingagood job,who’smov-ing the chains, who madethe right checks.”

To the naked eye, how-

ever, it sure looked likeHaack had his act togeth-er.

He competed his firstattempt to Pace, thenthrew one away and wassacked early on.

But after TorreyPierceran infrom2yardsout for the Red, Haackcompleted three straightpasses on theWhite’s sec-ond drive, including anon-the-money 49-yarderover the middle to true-freshman tight end NickByrne.

“I think it helpedgreatly,” Haack said ofthe performance relativeto his bid for the backupjob. “They said our lastthree practices were go-ing to be a big factor inthem deciding, and I feellike in the last three prac-tices Ididprettywell.But

it’s up to the coaches.”Haack suggested that

practices prior to UL’sNew Orleans Bowl winover East Carolina lastDecember combinedwith his first spring atULhas himmuch-better pre-pared to step in, shouldneed be, than when hefirst arrived on campus.

“It helps being here inthe system for a yearnow,” he said, “and get-ting everythingundermybelt.

“I’m glad I wrapped(the spring) up with a sol-idgame. I’mready to takeour month off, and comeback in the summer totake another bowl-gameappearance.”

Nixon, meanwhile,also had three rushes for12 yards – foreshadowingpossible playing time at

creative positions nextseason for a team comingoff back-to-back 9-4 sea-sons and back-to-backNew Orleans Bowl wins.

“We even got JalenNixon a couple carries,and who knows wherethey might lead,” Hud-speth said of the Caren-cro product. “We maylook at him at runningbackalso, because thebigbacks have been produc-tive for us. … He can(play wildcat quarter-back), because he’s reallydeveloped into a betterthrower.”

Broadway,meanwhile,went 8-of-12 for107 yardsand the TD toss to Robin-son.

“He’s such a leader,and I thought he playedwell,” Hudspeth said.“You know, we (were)veryvanilla.Weprobablyonly ran about 25 percentof our offense, and justwanted to execute. Wedidn’tgotempo,andthat’swhat he does the best – di-rect traffic, get peoplelinedupandplayataverygood pace.”

“We didn’t want toshow too much on eitherside of the ball,” Broad-wayadded, “so itwassim-ple on both sides.”

Dual-threat Broadwaywas the only one of thequarterbacks to wear ablue non-contact jersey,whichcamewithprosandcons.

“It’s a disadvantage attimes,” he said, “becauseof my ability to run theball. But it’s good, not be-ing able to get hit allspring.”

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UL wide receiver Lance Pace communicates with ateammate prior to the start of a play during Saturday’sspring game at Cajun Field. ALLYCE ANDREW/THE ADVERTISER

Big expectations existfor the2013ULRagin’Ca-juns and a bulk of thoseexpectations are on thedefensive side of the ball.

First-year defensivecoordinator James Willishas used the spring to in-stall a new system and, inSaturday’s Spring Game,Willis said he finally sawsome progress.

“We have had hugeprogress,” Willis said.“Thebiggest thingwas in-stalling this new systemand evaluating a lot ofguys. Spring is a time toexperimenta littlebit.Wemoved some guys aroundto see if they could playanother position. It wasgood for us and good forthe kids and we are find-ingout ifwecanorcannotdo certain things.”

Willis said he had verylittle difficulty in gettingthe defense to buy into anew system.

He credited the coach-ing staff with developing“great kids.”

“It’s easyherebecauseof the kind of kids theyare,” Willis said. “Wehave kids that would doanything for you. A lot ofguys on this team arefrom this area. We haveguys here who want to be

here. When they want tobe here, they will playharder.”

UL head coach MarkHudspeth said he thoughtthe defense was as phys-ical as it had been allspring in the SpringGame. He said he waspleased with how the de-fense got off the line.

“The defense steppedup, especially on the goalline, and played well,”Hudspeth said. “Theyflew around today. I sawthem playing harder to-day than in the last scrim-mage. I saw them beingphysical and lining upbetter. We played withbetter pad level. It wasdefinitely a step in theright direction.”

A big concern for theCajuns defense this sea-son will be replacing sen-iorsMelvinWhite,Jemar-lous Moten and RodneyGillis from a stacked sec-

ondary. Gillis may re-ceive a medical redshirtand a sixth year of eligi-bility, but as of now,Willissaid the secondary is stillsearching for its leader.

“We have to find somedepth in the secondary,”Willis said. “We needplaymakers. In order forus to be successful, weknow we are going tohave to be pretty goodback there.”

“We lost a lot of start-ers last year,” Hudspethadded. “We think Rodneymay be returning, but un-til he is here, we are try-ing to develop kids. Ja-vanteWatson isaguywhoreally developed nicelythis spring. We have a lotof kids battling for play-ing time. We have an in-flux of junior college kidscoming in. This second-ary battle will go into thefall.”

Willis saidhe isbecom-

ing more comfortablewith the defense, not be-cause they are wherethey need to be, but be-cause he is figuring outthe unknown. He said heis addressing the weak-nesses and Saturday, hesaid it was starting to payoff.

“(Saturday), we werepretty simple, but weweremaking plays on theball,” Willis said. “Wehaven’t had that early incamp.That isalwaysabo-nus. Now, we have tomake those plays.”

Willis said he doesn’tconcern himself withplayers who are not cur-rently on the team.Though he said his focusis getting the playerswhoare on campus now bet-ter, Willis did not down-play the impact Gilliswouldmake should he re-turn.

“I kindof compare it tohow when daddy’s hometurning off the lights ev-ery night,” Willis said.“Youalmost get used to it.Then,whendaddy’soutoftown, someone else has toturn out those lights.Right now, no one wantsto turn the lights off atnight.

“None of these guyshave had to be leaders.We have to teach themhow to be leaders andkeep installing thoseleadership qualities. Rod-ney coming back wouldbe huge. There is nodoubt, he’d be the one toturn off those lights.”

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Lafayette firearm sales haverisen sharply since the New-town school shootings, local gundealers said Tuesday, mostly be-cause of concern that the federalgovernment will try to ban semi-automatic weapons.

Gun shops already were deal-ing with a surge in sales theyattribute to Christmas, huntingseason and worries that Presi-

dent Barack Obama’s re-elec-tion will mean tougher gun re-strictions. Last week’s massacrerenewed concerns that somefirearms could soon be banned,dealers said.

At Dave’s Gun Shop, manager

Jeremiah Deare said he couldnot keep “sporting rifles” — alsoknown as semi-automatic, as-sault, tactical or modern rifles— on the shelves.

“There’s been a run on every-thing with sporting rifles. It’s

been crazy,” Deare said. “Ev-ery sporting rifle that we had isgone.”

He said customers havebought an estimated 300 semi-automatic rifles, from AK-47s toAR-15s, since Friday.

“That’s as quick as we can getthem,” he said.

At Lafayette Shooters, severalsemi-automatic rifles were stillin stock, but every salesperson

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Kristin Fowler, 31, is beingheld without bail after beingarrested Tuesday by the IberiaParish Sheriff’s Office followinga seven-month investigation intothe baby’s death May 14.

Capt. Ryan Turner, a spokes-man for the Iberia Parish Sher-iff’s Office, said the baby diedfrom severe trauma and injuriesto the head. The death was ruleda homicide May 17.

The Iberia Parish investi-gation began when detectivesresponded to a local hospital,where the death of the baby wasreported, according to a state-ment from Iberia Parish SheriffLouis Ackal.

The case marked the thirdtime in a month that the death ofa child from apparent abuse hasmade news in Acadiana.

A 3-month-old Abbeville girldied from blunt force trauma tothe head Nov. 28, and sustainedhead injuries and fractures, ac-cording to Lt. David Hardy,chief of investigations for theAbbeville Police Department.The baby’s death has been ruleda homicide.

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Dozens of cheering fans turned out at Ca-jun Field on Tuesday to give a hearty send-off to the Ragin’ Cajuns as they headed tothe New Orleans Bowl with hopes of a re-peat victory.

As the University of Louisiana at Lafay-ette, team members headed to their buses,fans shook their hands and patted them on the back, sayingthings like, “Have fun down there,” “Good luck” and “Go get’em.”

One fan told a few of the larger players, “Make ’em hurt,big man.”

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BATON ROUGE — No. 8 LSUwill be without one of its bestweapons when it plays No. 14Clemson in the Chick-fil-A Bowlon Dec. 31 in Atlanta.

All-American punter BradWing has been suspended “fora violation of team rules,” LSUcoach Les Miles said in a releaseon Thursday.

Wing, a redshirt sophomorefrom Melbourne, Australia, whowas a first team All-American in2011 by four media outlets, wasnot at practiceWednesday.Whencollege coaches uses the term“violation of team rules,” it oftenmeans a failed drug test, but notalways. LSU officials would not

confirm what Wing’s violationwas.

Wing has displayed an un-canny leg throughout his two-year LSU career. He finishedfourth in the Southeastern Con-ference in the 2012 season with a44.8-yard average after finishingsecond in 2011 with a 44.4-yardaverage. He was also adept atpunt placement as he landed 21punts inside the 20-yard line thisseason and 27 last season. Hehas boomed punts for 50 yardsor more 19 times this season andhad 20 of those last season. Winghad a 73-yard punt at Alabama inthe 2011 season that was instru-mental in the Tigers’ 9-6 over-time victory. He had a 69-yardLSU’s Brad Wing, punting against Washington in September, has

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Phelps voted APmale athlete of year

Now that he’s away from thepool, Michael Phelps can reflect— really reflect — on what heaccomplished.

Pretty amazing stuff.“It’s kind of nuts to think

about everything I’ve gonethrough,” Phelps said. “I’vefinally had time to myself, tosit back and say, ‘... that reallyhappened?’ It’s kind of shockingat times.”

Not that his career neededa capper, but Phelps added onemore honor to his staggering listof accomplishments Thursday— The Associated Press maleathlete of the year.

Phelps edged out LeBronJames to win the award for thesecond time, not only a fittingpayoff for another brilliantOlympics (four gold medals andtwo silvers in swimming at theLondon Games) but recognitionfor one of the greatest careersin any sport.

Phelps finished with 40 votesin balloting by U.S. editors andbroadcasters, while James wasnext with 37. Track star UsainBolt, who won three gold medalsin London, was third with 23.

“Obviously, it’s a big ac-complishment,” Phelps said.“There’s so many amazing maleathletes all over the world andall over our country. To be ableto win this is something thatjust sort of tops off my career.”

Olympian Hamilton:I worked as escort

Three-time Olympian SuzyFavor Hamilton says she copedwith depression and a troubledmarriage by turning to a life ofprostitution.

In a series of posts to herTwitter account, Favor Ham-ilton acknowledged workingas an escort following a reportThursday on The Smoking Gunwebsite about her double life.

“I do not expect people tounderstand,” Favor Hamiltontweeted. “But the reasons fordoing this made sense to me atthe time and were very muchrelated to depression.”

The Smoking Gun said the44-year-old athlete has beenworking for the last year for aLas Vegas escort service thatbooked her for dates there, aswell as in Los Angeles, Houstonand Chicago. The website saidshe charged $600 an hour forher services.

One of the country’s best-ever middle-distance runners,Favor Hamilton competed forthe U.S. at the Olympics in 1992,1996 and 2000 but did not wina medal. She won seven U.S.national titles.

Top basketball prospectParker chooses Duke

CHICAGO — Prized prospectJabari Parker of Chicago’sSimeon Career Academy, one ofthe most highly touted recruitsin years, is headed to Duke.

With a national TV audiencewatching, he announced hisdecision at a news conferenceThursday at his high school.

Parker can’t sign his letterof intent until April 17, but hemade his intentions clear withone highly anticipated oral com-mitment.

—From wire reports.

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NEW ORLEANS — The Ragin’Cajuns football team was play-ing Tulane back in September,and a skirmish broke out amongplayers.

A large man with a gun anda bone-crushing handshake ranonto Cajun Field, and the feel-ing he experienced was famil-iar – yet different.

He had been on the field be-fore, plenty of times. Just neverwith a weapon, holstered as itwas.

But it has been LouisianaState Police senior trooperJeff Mitchell’s second job allthis season to shadow MarkHudspeth wherever he goes ongame weekends.

Mitchell, a former Loreau-ville High standout and two-time first-team All-Big Westdefensive end when he playedfor the Cajuns from 1992-95, ishere this week for Saturday’sNew Orleans Bowl meeting be-tween UL and East Carolina.

He was in Florida twice, atUL Monroe when things gota bit rowdy up there, at NorthTexas, at Oklahoma State and atTroy too.

And he was right behindHudspeth when the Cajunhead coach ran across the fieldagainst the Green Wave, keep-ing him within reach of hisbulky arms while using them tohelp separate players too.

“It was all reaction,” Mitch-ell said, laughing in hindsight

as he waited for the Cajuns tofinish a pre-New Orleans Bowlpractice. “I’m there to protecthim, and he ran on the field – soI ran with him.”

It was an odd sight, but gameofficials said nothing to Mitch-ell.

Stadium security officials,however, did.

“Theywere like, ‘Youweren’tsupposed to go on the field,’ ”Mitchell said. “I said, ‘Well, no-body told me not to.’ ”

As big around the barrel ashe is, pistol by his side, few folkstell the broad-chested Mitchellwhat not to do.

Seventeen years removedfrom his last days as a Cajun,Mitchell still holds UL recordsfor career sacks (21),most sacksin a season (11 in 1993, tied withteammate Conrad Lewis); mosttackles for loss in a career (45),a season (21 in ’93) and a game(five at Northern Illinois in ’93);and most yardage lost on tack-les in a career (-227), a season(-119 in ’93) and a game (-26 atNorthern Illinois in ’93).

“He’s not shy to let us knowhe still holds some of those,”Hudspeth joked.

The only one that’s gottenaway fromMitchell is sacks in agame, lost when Rodney Hard-eway topped his three with fourat Middle Tennessee in 2007.

“When Iwasgetting those re-cords,wewerewinning games,”said Mitchell, who played onNFL quarterback Jake Delhom-me-led teams that won eightgames and the BigWest Confer-

ence in ’93, six games and theBig West in ’94, and another sixgames in ’95.

“I have a feeling that if theprogram continues to do whatit’s doing now, those (other) re-cords are gonna come downsoon.”

The Cajuns, 9-4 with a NewOrleans Bowl win last year anda 8-4 heading into Saturday’sbowl, have been doing plenty ofwinning since Hudspeth tookover prior to last season.

That’s one reason Mitchelland also-in-New Orleans ChrisOwens, a Louisiana state troop-er who lettered for the Cajunsin 1986, agreed to help staffHudspeth’s security detail priorto the start of this season.

“We’re proud of where theprogram is now,” said Mitchell,assigned to the Louisiana StatePolice’s DUI Task Force.

“I’m a Ragin’ Cajun to theheart, and it’s just great thatthe program has turned aroundand a lot of good things are hap-pening.”

When he played, the Cajunswent a combined 20-13 in hislast three years. But they neverwent to a bowl.

Now, Mitchell said, Satur-day’s game against East Caro-lina “is my bowl game.”

He wasn’t standing guard toHudspeth last year, butMitchellwas at the Superdome to watchthe Cajuns beat San Diego Statein 2011.

“They overcame some obsta-

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Sunday, the Dallas Cow-boys and New Orleans Saintswill meet for the fourth timesince 2006, the year quarter-backs Drew Brees and TonyRomo took the reins for theirrespective teams.

Although the Cowboyshave a 15-9 lead in the all-timeseries, Sunday, the Saints willlook for their third win in theBrees-Romo era. Mathemati-cally, New Orleans (6-8) isstill alive for a postseasonberth, however, the probabil-ity stands at less than 1 per-cent.

“We are all but eliminated,but we still have a lot to playfor, too, because of the type ofguys we have and the way wewant to finish this season andour mind-set towards buildingthe foundation right now forwhat we’re going to able to ac-complish in the future,” Breessaid.

It’s a different case for Dal-las (8-6), a team involved in athree-way tie atop the NFCEast, but in control of its fate.

“You want to get to a pointwhere you are not really look-ing around to what other peo-ple are doing and that if youjust take care of your busi-ness, again, you can controlyour destiny,” Dallas headcoach Jason Garrett said. “Weare certainly at that point.”

No matter which teamemerges victorious Sunday,not surprisingly, it will likelybe due to big plays on offense.

In the past three meetings,the offenses have combinedfor 23 plays (Saints 12, Cow-boys 11) of 25 yards or more.Seven plays (Saints 4, Cow-boys 3) have traveled at least50 yards.

“They are a good footballteam, an explosive footballteam in all areas,” Dallas full-back Lawrence Vickers saidof New Orleans.

Brees is responsible for 10passes of more than 25 yardsagainst Dallas – the longesta 61-yard touchdown to Reg-gie Bush in a 42-17 rout of theCowboys at Texas Stadium in2006. Brees, the Super BowlXLIV MVP, has seven touch-downs to just two intercep-tions against Dallas.

“He’s a great player who’sconsistently played at a highlevel,” Romo said. “I don’tthink you need to go intomuchdiscussion about what he canor can’t do.”

Romo (collarbone) missedthe last matchup, a 30-27 vic-tory by the Saints in front of

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Indest leaves Carencro for Catholic-NI

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Aweek ago, KeithMenardwasstill the head football coach atCatholic High of New Iberia andBrent Indest was still the coach atCarencro High.

Boy, have things changed.On Thursday morning, Men-

ard accepted the position as thenewheadcoachatCentralLafour-che, but tried to keep it as secretas long as possible until he could

personally speak to his team onMonday after the state champion-ship weekend in New Orleans.

Over the weekend, the unoffi-cial search began to replaceMen-ard in the direction of Indest, whoofficially met with Catholic Highprincipal Ray Simon on Tuesdayand accepted the open position.

On Wednesday morning, Ind-est broke the news to his playersat CarencroHigh, beforemeetingwith his new players at Catholic

High onWednesday afternoon.As surprising as the moves

were to many and as seeminglyquick as it all transpired, bothcoaches are headed to positions

they’ve had theireyes on for a long,long time.

“I’ve alwaysdreamed of this po-sition,” Indest said.“It’s always beenmy goal to finishoutmy career here.I’ve talked about it

in the past, but it’s never seemedlike the right time. It just felt likethe right time this time. If I didn’ttake it now, who knows when itwould ever come open again?

I’m not getting anyyounger.”

For the 46-year-old Indest, it’s thelatest in a long lineof coaching moves,but one he fullyplans on being his

last.“I know it’s going to sound

like famous last words to a lot ofpeople, but this is my last stand,”

Indest said. “This ismy last job aslong as they’ll haveme here. I toldthe players today that I hope to becoaching their children here oneday. That’s the plan.”

Prior to his three years atCarencro, he coached at KaplanHigh for two years, LouisianaTech for one, Crowley High forthree years from 2004-06 and for13 at Abbeville High (eight as ahead coach) to start his coachingcareer.

“The job that was themost fun for me was CrowleyHigh, because I lived just twominutes from the school,” Indestsaid. “I’ve been driving for five

Menard takes over openspot at Central Lafourche

Tagliabue tosses outsuspensions of Saints

By Brett MartelAssociated Press

NEW ORLEANS — Findingfault with nearly everyone tied tothe New Orleans Saints’ bountycase, from the coaches to RogerGoodell, former NFL Commis-sioner Paul Tagliabue tossed outthe suspensions of four playersTuesday and condemned theteam for obstructing the inves-tigation.

In a surprising rejection ofhis successor’s overreachingpunishments, Tagliabue wrotethat he would “now vacate alldiscipline to be imposed upon”two current Saints, linebackerJonathan Vilma and defensiveend Will Smith, and two playersno longer with the club, Brownslinebacker Scott Fujita and free-agent defensive lineman Antho-ny Hargrove.

Tagliabue essentially ab-solved Fujita, but did agree withGoodell’s finding that the otherthree players “engaged in con-duct detrimental to the integrity

of, and public confidence in, thegame of professional football.”

It was a ruling that allowedboth sides to claim victory more

than nine monthsafter the leaguefirst made “Saintsbounties” a house-hold phrase: TheNFL pointed to thedetermination thatGoodell’s factswere right; theNFL Players As-sociation issued a

statement noting that Tagliabuesaid “previously issued disci-pline was inappropriate.”

Vilma, suspended by Goodellfor the entire season, and Smith,suspendedfourgames,havebeenplaying for the Saints while theirappeals were pending. Fujita ison injured reserve; Hargrove isnot with a team.

Tagliabue, appointed byGoodell to oversee a sec-ond round of player appeals,

The entire New OrleansSaints’ bounty scandal has beenone giant charade, filled withmore insinuations and sugges-tive terms and phrases thanfacts and reality.

And Paul Tagliabue’s rulingon Tuesday that overturnedthe suspensions of four playersaccused of taking part in a cal-culated “pay to injure” scheme

by Saintsplay-ers andcoachesonlyadded tothe year-long soapopera.

Justconsider

the portion of his ruling for asecond and let’s try to interpret.

“Unlike Saints’ broad orga-nizational misconduct playerappeals involve sharply focusedissues of alleged individual play-er misconduct in several differ-ent aspects,” Tagliabue wrote.“My affirmation of Commis-sioner Goodell’s findings couldcertainly justify the issuance offines. However, this entire casehas been contaminated by thecoaches and others in the Saints’

organization.”What? What exactly does that

mean?Did the NFL have the neces-

sary evidence that the Saintsplayers paid each other to inten-tionally injure opposing playersor not?

How exactly did the Saintsorganization contaminate thecase when owner Tom Bensonwillingly turned over all theteam’s files to the NFL?

Here’s what I’m hearingfrom Tagliabue with that state-ment:

“When I was commissioner,I knew this stuff was going on.As long as the coaches weren’tdirectly involved with it, weendorsed it. But now that Roger(Goodell) is facing a huge law-suit for a lack of player safetywhat was allowed to take placein the past can no longer be ac-cepted. So while my gut feelingis to let it go like I did when Iwas the commissioner, I can’tdo that because the defensivecoordinator was right in themiddle of it.”

If that sounds like a stretchto you, just YouTube the 1996ESPN video on the NFL-en-dorsed “Smash for Cash”

Cajuns rebound


With the exception of a fewturnovers here, a few too manytransition points allowed thereand not nearly enough second-half rebounding anywhere, allwent well for UL on Tuesdaynight.

The Ragin’ Cajuns got awhole lot of what they did not

in a loss last Saturday night atMcNeese State — bench points— and the result was a 77-60non-conference win over La-mar in front of 2,059 at the Ca-jundome.

CajunpointguardElfridPay-ton (17 points, 11 rebounds) andcenter Shawn Long (16 points,11 boards) both had double-dou-bles for a second-straight gameas coach Bob Marlin’s club im-

proved to 4-6.Small forward Bryant Mba-

malu added 10 points, markinghis fourth straight double-fig-ure scoring game.

And senior reserve shootingguard Alan-Michael Thompsonled the Cajuns with a career-high and team-high 18 points,helping UL’s bench — which

UL rolls past Lamar with balanced effort

Ruling convenient,not real significant

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MSU says OC leavingto be Saints’ RBs coach

METAIRIE — The New Or-leans Saints have hired Michi-gan State offensive coordinatorDan Roushar to coach runningbacks and reassigned Bret In-galls to overseeing the offensiveline.

In a move announced by theteam on Saturday, Ingalls takesover an offensive line that hadworked since 2008 under AaronKromer, who left after the 2012season to become Chicago’s of-fensive coordinator.

Ingalls has coached the of-fensive line at several collegestops, including his most recentat Northwestern from 2006-08before joining New Orleans.

Roushar, who spent six sea-sons at Michigan State, says in astatement released by the schoolthat moving to the Saints is anopportunity he can’t pass up, buthe also thinks Michigan State ispoised to have a “tremendous”2013 season.

Harvick gets winin Speedweeks opener

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.— Kevin Harvick won the firstrace of Speedweeks, dominat-ing the final two segments ofthe exhibition Sprint Unlimitedin the debut of NASCAR’s newGen-6 car.

“I’m glad we got Speedweeksstarted off the right way,” saidHarvick, who won Saturdaynight’s non-points race at Day-tona International Speedway forthe third time in five years.

But with only 19 cars in thefield at the start of the race— and that was whittled downto 12 after an early accident— there wasn’t a great feel forwhat the Feb. 24 season-openingDaytona 500 will look like with afull 43-car field.

“We’ll have to wait a weekand see what the weather islike,” Harvick said. “There’sstill a lot to learn with a fullpack of cars.”

Southern U downsAlabama State 58-49

BATON ROUGE — JameelGrace made 4 of 5 3-pointersand finished with 24 points asSouthern University pulledaway to beat Alabama State 58-49 Saturday.

Malcolm Miller added 13points and seven assists to helpSouthern (18-8, 12-2) stay unde-feated at home.

Ahead 39-38 with 10:54 leftto play, Southern scored sevenunanswered points, capped byGrace’s three-point play to makeit 46-38 with 6:43 remaining.

Denzell McDaniel’s 3-pointercut Alabama State’s deficit to53-49 with 3:13 to play, but thatwas the closest the Hornetswould get as they went scorelessthe rest of the way.

The Jaguars shot 47.4 percent(9 of 19), while holding the Hor-nets to 29.4 percent (10 of 34), inthe second half.

Southern made 14 freethrows, compared to just threefor Alabama State.

— From wire reports

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For the record, Megan Wa-terman is officially on fire.

Onedayaftergettingherfirstcollegiate base hit, the senioroutfielder smashed a three-runhomer on Saturday for her firstcareer round-tripper as part ofUL’s slugfest doubleheader thatproduced wins of 9-1 over TexasState and 16-4 over MississippiValley State in Louisiana Clas-sics action at Lamson Park.

Actually, thatNo. 2 spot in thebatting order proved to be quiteproductive on Saturday consid-ering Brianna Cherrywas 2-for-2 with a homer and three RBIsin game two and 1-for-3 withtwo RBIs in the opener.

It’s been that kind of week-end for the Cajuns.

On Friday, walks played a

big role in the 13-2 win, but ULpounded out 28 hits in Satur-day’s two wins.

The Cajuns wrap up the Lou-isiana Classics with a 1:30 meet-ing against Texas State today.

Shellie Landry continued toshine, going 2-for-3 with a dou-ble and four RBIs in game two,whileNatalie Fernandez had herbest day at the plate at 5-for-7 onthe day with an RBI.

Of all the stars so far, howev-er, the MVP at this point for the6-1 Cajuns is probably seniorcatcher Sarah Draheim.

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BATON ROUGE — Move-ment tends to be very impor-tant in the game of basket-ball.

For LSU guard CharlesCarmouche, though, he founda spot and stuck to it throughmuch of the Tigers’ 80-68 vic-tory over Mississippi StateSaturdayafternoonat thePeteMaravich Assembly Center.

Carmouche, a senior whohasmoved fromUNO toMem-phis and now to LSU, scoreda career-high 21 points with15 of those coming on 5-of-8 shooting from three-pointrange. Four of the threescame from his spot in the farcorner of the floor near theLSU bench.

“If there’s going to beshooting like that from there,I’ll stay there for the rest ofthe season,” Carmouche said.“I was just letting it go. Some-times you feel like the rimis small, and sometimes youfeel like the rim is as big asever. Tonight was one of thosenights where it was big.”

Carmouche hit 8 of 11shots in all, but he was notthe only one hitting the spot.Forward Johnny O’Bryanthit 5 of 7 shots for 10 points,and center Andrew Del Pierohit 5 of 6 for a career-high 13points as the Tigers shot 54percent for the game and putfive players in double figures.Guards Anthony Hickey andAndre Stringer each added 10points, and the Tigers shared24 assists in probably theirbest overall offensive game ofthe season.

O’Bryant added 11 re-bounds and a game-high eightassists.

“I thought they shared theball extremely well,” LSUcoach Johnny Jones said. “Itreally helps when we knockdown some shots early fromthe three-point line. I thoughtit became kind of contagiousin a sense.”

Hickey gave LSU a 3-0lead just 1:02 into the game,and guard Malik Morgan hita three for an 8-5 LSU lead atthe 16:20 mark. Then Stringerstruck with a trey for a 17-12lead with 12:19 to go in the

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They held the Sun Belt Con-ference’s leading scorer, Flori-da Atlantic guard Greg Gantt,to 0-for-14 shooting from thefield throughout the first halfand early into the second.

The effort took a toll, espe-cially on UL point guard ElfridPayton.

But Payton answered thecall late anyway, delivering thegame-winner on a spin and ascoop in the lane with 5.6 sec-onds to go as the Ragin’ Cajunscame fromfivepoints downwithjust more than three minutesleft to beat FAU 58-57 on Satur-day night at the Cajundome.

Gantt, FAU’s all-time leaderscorer, finished with a game-high 18 points for the 12-16Owls. But it took 6-for-10 fieldshooting in the final 16:04 to getthere.

“Elfrid did a wonderful jobon him,” said Cajuns coach BobMarlin, whose club improvedto 10-17 while winning for thethird time in its last five out-ings.

“It took a lot of energy forit to happen, and we knew his(Payton’s) legs would be ques-tionable at the end of the game.But they weren’t totally shot.”

Certainly not before ‘theshot.’

After Gantt used a hook inthe lane to put FAU up 57-52,Cajun swingman Bryant Mba-malu hit two free throws with3:15 to go.

Payton, whose 14 points in-cluded six of UL’s final eight,made two more freebies with33.5 seconds remaining to pullthe Cajuns to within one at 57-56.

FAU’s Pablo Bertone missedthe front end of a 1-and-1 with20 seconds left, and UL called atimeout with 13.7 on the clock toset up what Marlin said woundup being “exactly the play wewanted.”

Although he had 16-point

team-high scorer Shawn Longready and waiting underneath,Payton — an 18-year-old sopho-more — scooped around andover Kelvin Penn to put the Ca-juns ahead to stay.

“We needed a bucket. Gotone,” said Payton, who also hadeight rebounds and five assistsin the first outing of a three-game homestand. “I really justwanted to get to the rim, and Iwas able to get there and get ashot off the glass.

“I settled a lot this game. Ididn’t get to the rim as muchas I usually do,” he added. “So Iwas just trying to find out a wayto get around him, draw somecontact or something.”

Instead, Payton scoredcleanly, then forced Gantt intoa turnover to end things.

“We ran a play that was gon-na work vs. man or zone,” Mar-lin said.

“I’m just glad he (Payton)didn’t pass it at the end to Shawn(Long). I thought he might dropit off, but he had the presence ofmind … to get to the basket and

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Last-second rally

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Finally, a close one goes the Cajuns’ way

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UL track/2DMaking The Turn/5D

Wednesday, February 27, 2013



BEST BETS

SPORTS IN BRIEF

BEST OFTHE ‘70SThe Southland Conference namesits top players from the 1970s ,in-cluding Dwight “Bo” Lamar, above.

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Louisiana Classicsgolf to air live

For the first time, the Louisi-ana Classics Golf Tournamentwill be broadcast live from Oak-bourne Country Club on Ragin-Cajuns.com, head coach TheoSliman announced Tuesday.

“I think this is huge for anevent that has been going onfor 28 years,” head coach TheoSliman said. “To be pioneersin the collegiate golf world andbring live video to our eventis something that I couldn’t bemore proud of. I think aside fromthe major conferences and thenational championship, this willbe the first time you will see livevideo at a regular season tourna-ment.”

The free broadcast willfeature holes nine and 18 withcommentary provided by DanMcDonald and Gerald Brous-sard.

The live stream begins at 9:30a.m. on both Monday and Tues-day. The stream will concludewith the end of play Monday, andwill wrap up with the awardsceremony on Tuesday.

“This is going to add to theprestige of an already outstand-ing tournament and I thank thesports information staff for allof their hard work on making thestream happen,” Sliman added.“I can’t say how great this is forfans and family members whoaren’t able to make it out to thecourse.”

This year’s Louisiana Clas-sics features a strong 14-teamfield including host Louisiana,No. 12 LSU, No. 19 Illinois, No. 24Kent State, No. 36 Houston, No.38 Tulsa, No. 47 South Alabama,Kansas, Louisiana Tech, Mem-phis, Southeastern La., SouthernMiss, Texas State and UTSA.

Mississippi captures4-3 win over IceGators

BILOXI, Miss. —So close, butyet so far away.

The Louisiana IceGatorsalmost completed another late-game comeback, but theMissis-sippi Surge held on for the 4-3shootout victory. Mark Versteeg-Lytwyn scored the game-winnerin the third round of the shootout.

The IceGators host the SurgeSunday at 3:05 p.m. in the Cajun-dome.

Before that, Louisiana willentertain the Columbus Cotton-mouths Thursday and Friday at7:05 p.m.

“Well, it was a big comebackto get a huge point on the road,”IceGators coach Kevin Kamin-ski said. “We were very sloppyin the first period. We weren’tskating well, and we gave up anumber of turnovers. Our focusand intensity out of the gateneeds to get much better.”

That sloppy start put theIceGators at an early disadvan-tage. Kyle Kudroch scored at the9:38 mark to give the Surge a 1-0lead. The IceGators responded24 seconds later. ShawnMcNeilscored the first of his two goalsoff of a feed from Josh Duplan-tis. Mississippi made scoredtwice more in the first — once ona powerplay from Joe Harcharikand once from Adam Stuart — tomake it a 3-1 game heading intothe first intermission.

After a scoreless secondperiod, the IceGators made theirmove back into the game. McNeilscored a powerplay goal lessthan a minute into the third tocut the IceGators’ deficit to onegoal. Kirk Byczynski added apowerplay goal of his own sevenminutes later to tie the game atthree.

— Ian Auzenne

SEMIFINAL BOUNDBOYS BASKETBALL QUARTERFINALS


A packed house, the first sell-out at M.L. “Tigue” Moore Fieldsince a UL loss to Rice in May2011, made for quite a settingTuesday night.

Unfortunately for the Ragin’Cajuns, it was the visitors who

felt most athome in frontof announced3,790.

No.4LSUgotthree-hit pitch-ing throughseven scorelessinnings fromlefty starterCody Glenn

and collected 14 hits en route toan 11-2 win over the 7-2 Ragin’Cajuns, whose four-game winstreak came to a close.

The Tigers also got a three-run homer from freshmanshortstop Alex Bregman that

made it 5-0 in the third inning,and a run-scoring triple fromBregman that put LSU (7-1) up10-0 in the sixth.

“I was able to feed off (thecrowd), and it gave me a lot ofadreneline,” Glenn said. “Itworked well for me. It was a fun

crowd to play in front of.”The Cajuns, however, en-

joyed little of what they couldcall good times.

“Just too inexperienced,”UL coach Tony Robichaux said.“Didn’t make good-enough qual-ity pitches when we needed tomake them, and we got behindtoo big too early.”

In fact, Robichaux felt letdown in all phases of the gameas the Cajuns committed oneerror, walked five batters, man-aged just seven hits and trailed11-0 heading into the bottom ofthe ninth.

UL didn’t score until desig-nated hitter Dylan Butler deliv-ered a two-run single to right-center with two out in the ninth.

“That’s gonna happen alongthe way, and the worst thing isyou don’t want it on nights like(Tuesday),” Robichaux said.“But it’s a learning experience

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NORTHSIDE 49, EAST JEFFERSON 43 • ST. THOMAS MORE 70, ST. AUGUSTINE 68 • COMEAUX 55, RUMMEL 46

LSU bats dominate Cajuns, 11-2

Vikings earn comebackvictory to reach semis


There were so many dis-couraging moments for thehomestanding Cougars in St.Thomas More’s thrilling 70-68 overtime Class 4A state

quarterfinalwin over St.Augustine onTuesday thatcoach DannyB r o u s s a r dlooked morelike a zombiethan a trium-

phant coach when it was over.Almost entering the locker-

room area in a trance, Brous-sard could hardly believe whathe was pretty sure he just wit-nessed.

It certainly looked improb-able when his Cougars weretrailing 30-13 early in the thirdperiod still having trouble get-ting any kind of an offensegoing against St. Augustine’shalfcourt defense.

It looked even worse after

the Purple Knights respondedto STM’s first big run with a6-0 run of their own to get itback to 37-25 with 2:35 left inthe third.

Same scenario at 44-35 with6:46 left after STM had nar-rowed the gap to five and againat 52-43 with 2:58 left to playafter the Cougars had gotten asclose as four points three min-utes before.

“Special is the only word Ican think of right now,” saidBroussard, whose Cougars willplay Istrouma in the semifinalslikely either in Hammond orLake Charles. “This is a specialteam. That was a special win.There were so many times inthat game where just nothingwas going our way. We weren’tmaking any free throws. Theyweren’t supposed to be a goodoutside shooting team and theywere knocking down shotsand we were just having sucha hard time against their half-court defense.

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Northside High player Kendall Demouchet blocks East Jefferson Highplayer Akiel Hutson as Shannon James looks on Tuesday night atNorthside High. PHOTO BY ALLYCE ANDREW

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Cougars claim overtimethriller over St. Aug

By Eric [email protected]

Northside head coach De-van Clark has taught his Vi-kings basketball players plentyof lessons over the course ofhis seven years at the helm, butnone have been bigger than theone he taught them about notgiving up when things are look-ing to bleak.

Things couldn’t have lookedany more bleaker for the Vi-kings than when they trailedby 18 points with 3:40 left in thesecond quarter against EastJefferson, but a severe tongue-lashing fromClark, a rambunc-tious band and a raucous crowdproved to be the match neededto light a fire under Northsideas they stormed back to claima 49-43 win to advance to theClass 4A semifinals.

“That is unbelievable whatwe just did,” Clark said. “Tocome back like we did in thefashion that we did it, is an in-credible testament to the fightin our kids. I’m so proud of

these guys, because they nevergave up. They believed in meand they believed in each otherto fight their way back into thegame and win it.”

On a night in which starsenior post player KendallDemouchet struggled offen-sively as hefinished withsix points,the Vikingssaw playerssuch as Ge-rard Andrus,Paul McZeal,Deante Au-gust, Shannon James and Bran-don Ellis step up their play of-fensively.

“We know that teams are go-ing to take Kendall away fromus because they have scoutedus,” Clark said. “But I’ve toldKendall that in basketball thereare amillion and one things youcan do besides score to helpyour team win. He has boughtinto that and that’s because the

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Teurlings Catholic notonly lost several key sen-iors from last year’s Class4A state championshipteam, but they also losttheir coach Callie Gau-treaux, who made the de-cision to step down short-ly after the season ended.

Although a lot haschanged for the Lady Re-bels since last year, TCHShead coach Lauren Dela-houssayehashelped themnot miss a beat.

The Lady Rebels, whoare 18-10 on the year, fin-ished tiedfor firstplace inDistrict 5-4Awith rival St.Thomas More. Nowthey’re ready to make an-other run at a state cham-pionship –aquest thatwillbeginat4p.m. todaywhen

they play host to St. Mi-chael.

“This is a very excitingtime for all of us here,”Delahoussaye said. “Play-off time is what we allwork so hard for all sea-son. Right now is do or dietime.”

TheRebelsdidn’t enterthe seasonwith any grandexpectations, but theyknow history of the pro-gramhas set the bar quitehigh.

“Our expectationswere to live up to Teur-lings’ reputation,” Dela-houssaye said. “That rep-utation is to always makeit to the state tournament.I know they won the statechampionship last year,but this is a completelydifferent team. Theygraduated a lot of seniorsfromlastyear. I thinkthey

graduated like five or six,so we returned a lot of in-experienced players.”

The key for the LadyRebels this season hasbeen their willingness toplay as a team accordingto Delahoussaye, who be-lieves the players haveput team success beforeindividual success.

“Teamwork is the keytooursuccess,”Delahous-saye said. “Wedon’t reallyhave anyone on the teamwith these crazy stats. Wejust have a good group ofkidswhowork really hardto be successful.”

Offensively, the LadyRebels are led by the topthree hitters in their line-up, Summer Ellyson, Ca-mille Quebodeaux andMorgan Angelle.

But the Lady Rebelsknow that they are goingto go as far as Ellyson,who is the Lady Rebels’star pitcher, will takethem.

“Summer has done a

great job of settlingdown,” Delahoussayesaid. “She is doing amuchbetter job of controllingherself. She is very com-petitive. She hates foranyonetoevenfoulapitchoffofher.Whatmakesherso tough is that she ex-pects a lot from herself.”

Although the bracketsshow a softball game be-tween a No. 7 and No. 26seeds, Delahoussayeknows if the Lady Rebelsare going to take the nextstep in their quest – theymust show up ready toplay.

“We have to play everygame like it is the statechampionship,” Dela-houssaye said. “We haveto show up. We can’t ex-pect any team to just rollover for us because westepped onto the field. Wehave to go out there andplay like we want to win.”

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It probablywouldn’t beprudent to bet against theWestminster ChristianAcademy girls team win-ning an eighth straightdistrict championshipTuesdaynight.

On the boys side, that’swhere things get moreambiguous, said WCAtrack coach Tommy Ba-don.

“I think the competi-tionamongtheboysteamsis going to be extremelyclose and very balanced.Things there could getveryinteresting,”saidBa-don.

Just scheduling theDistrict 6-1AmeetnowsettobeginatEuniceHighforthe 2:30 p.m. field eventshas its own intriguing sto-ry.

Originally set for theEHS track, the meet wasmoved toNorthwestHighlate lastweek.

Thelackofapolevault-ingpitatNorthwestcreat-edaproblem, soonFridayEHS school officials de-cided to allow the 6-1Ameet to be run at their fa-cility,Badon said.

WCA has strength innearly every event in thegirls division, headed bythree-time state champi-on pole vaulter EmilyWa-guespack, who hascleared10 feet this year.

TheCrusadersalsofea-ture Cortlyn Ventress, aninth grader who threw aschool record35 feet, nineinches this year.

WCA’s speedwill comefrom Alexis Milton, whohas been timed at 12.51 inthe100metersand25.68inthe 200,Badon said.

The Crusaders’ girlswon’t be the only teamwith abundant talent,though.

Opelousas Catholicgirls coach Joyce Stellythinks she has some com-petitors who might cap-ture some first places inthemeet.

“Westminster is goingto be strong in just aboutevery event, but we aretrying to field a very goodgirls team. I think we aregoing to be competitive inmanyevents,” said Stelly.

In lastweek’sBearPawRelays in Church Pointlast week, the Vikings’girls performed well inmanyevents, Stelly said.

Peyton Hammond fin-ished first in the1,600me-ters (6:23),whileAliaStel-ly ran a 1:01.0 in the 400meters.

“In the (800 meters re-lay) we ran third (1:50.0).The exchange team in the800 is comprised of AliaStelly,AmyStelly, SydneyDean and Julia Larcade,”Stelly said.

Amy Stelly was timedat 2:34 in the 800, whileDean cleared five feet,two inches in the highjump.

North Central High’sgirls will feature ChelseaFontenot,whoplaced firstin the 800 (2:33.97) duringtheSt.LandryParishMeetnearly twoweeks ago.

Fontenot also placedsecond in the long jump(15-7) and third in the 400(1:08.10) at the parishmeet.

AshleyCloudofSacredHeart-Ville Platte mightbethepre-meetfavoriteinthe 300 hurdles (49.8).Cloud might be chal-lengedbyMartkell Thom-as (50.21).

TheWCAboyswill fea-ture HaydenMaze throw-ing the javelin (164-0).

WCA girls bigdistrict favorite

By Bobby ArdoinSpecial to the Advertiser

DISTRICT TRACKSCHEDULEListed below are district trackmeet schedules for schools inthe Acadiana area.

TODAY’S MEETSDistrict 6-1A – Host: St.Edmund of Eunice. F – 2:30p.m. R – 5:30.

WEDNESDAY’S MEETSDistrict 3-5A – Host: La-fayette High. Times TBA.District 5-4A – Host: North-side High. Times TBA.District 4-3A – Host: IowaHigh. F – 3:15 p.m. R – 5:15p.m.District 5-3A – Host: EuniceHigh.District 5-2A – Host: IotaHigh.. F – 4 p.m. R – 4:30 p.m.District 6-2A – Host: Del-cambre High. F - 3:30 p.m. R -5 p.m.District 8-A – Host: KaplanHigh.District 7-B – Host: Bell CityHigh.

THURSDAY’S MEETSDistrict 7-5A – Host: Thibo-daux High.District 9-3A – Host: BerwickHigh. F – 3 p.m. R – 6 p.m.

FRIDAY’S MEETDistrict 4-4A – Host: DeRid-der High.

OPELOUSAS — Westmin-ster Christian AcademythirdbasemanMorganDen-nis did nothing on Mondayafternoontodamagetherep-utation as her team’s clutchhitter.

Dennis delivered a two-outdoubleinthesixthinningthat scoredapair of runs, asWCAregistereda6-2victoryoverHoumaChristian inthefirst round of the Class 1Astatesoftballplayoffs.

“Morgan is a senior thathasplayedthatroleforusallyear and since she has beenhere. When she came up inthesixthwiththebasesload-ed and hit that ball into thegap,itwaslikewewerewait-ing for it and expecting it tohappen,” said WCA softballcoachJayArtall.

Dennis delivered one oftheCrusaders’10hitsagainstHouma Christian, whichendedtheseason17-10.

WCA (16-13) will meettop-ranked Cedar Creek ei-

ther Friday or Saturday in asemifinal matchup in Rus-ton.

The Crusaders also rodethe pitching arm of seniorlefthanderTaylorLeger,whopitchedallseveninningsandstruckoutsixWarriors.

Legeralsocollectedthreesingles and reached firstbaseinallfourtimesatbat.

Artall said Leger was ef-fectivemostoftheafternoonusing her drop pitch. NoHoumaChristianbatterven-tured into scoring positionuntil thefifth.

Then in the sixth, Legerhad topitchherwayoutof abases loaded situation aftershewalkedthreebattersandallowedoneofthemtoscore.

Legersurvivedtheinninggettingacalledthirdstriketoshut the door on the War-riors’majorscoringthreat.

“I thought Taylor wasreally effective today, espe-ciallygettingherdropballin-side. I thought she alsoshowed some toughnessthere in the sixth with thebases loaded when she

pitchedusoutofajambyget-ting that called third strike,”Artallsaid.

HoumaChristiansoftballcoach Christi Crowdus saidLegerat timeskept theWar-riorsoffbalance.

“I thought (Leger) did agood job mixing her speedsandherdrophadus chasingpitchesthatweresometimesoutthestrikezone.

“We got our chances offher in the fifth and the sixthandbythattimewewerebe-coming more patient at theplate and watching for thegood pitch to hit,” Crowdussaid.

WCAraced toa3-0 in thebottom of the first off fourhitsandoneerroroffHoumaChristian starter LindseyCrowdus.

Dennis, Leger, secondbaseman Jade Fontenot andcenter fielder Caeli Combgotsingles.Dennismovedtothirdbaseontheerrorwhenthe Warriors misplayed abunt by left fielder GabbyLewis.

“I think scoring those

threerunssetthetoneforus.We were hoping for thatearly lead and I thought ourteam really answered thatcall,”Artallsaid.

Artall saidLegerallowedCrowdus, the leadoff hitter,to reachbaseonlyonce, onafifthinningwalk.

“Our goal defensivelywas to keep the slap hitter(Crowdus) off the bases, be-cause she is really theirspark,”saidArtall.

Houma Christian’s firstscore came in the fourthwhen third baseman TaylorSons laced a single to rightfield and later scored onpassed ball and a throwingerror.

Artall said defeating Ce-dar Creek would enable theCrusaders to reach the statesoftball tournament in Sul-phur’sFraschParkforasec-ondstraightyear.

“It won’t be easy, travel-ing up to play the top seed,butifwecancomebackwithawin, thatwillshowwedefi-nitelybelonginthestatetour-nament,”Artallsaid.

Lady Crusaders advanceBy Bobby Ardoin

Special to the Daily Advertiser

tomofthefourthinningthatsecured the victory for theLadyCougars.

The Lady Gators just

couldn’t get anything goingagainst the Lady Cougars,although their one chancecame in the top of the thirdinning when the first twobatters of the inningreached base on bunt sin-gles. But the Lady Gatorscouldn’t get anything going

as the next four battersstruck out, grounded out onasacrificebunt,washitbyapitch and then struck out toend the inning.

“STM is a good team,”Lady Gators head coachThad Dickey said. “Wedidn’t pitch well and they

did agreat jobofhitting theball.Wehadouropportunityright there in the third in-ning by bunting, but I triedtokeepbuntingand it didn’twork.”

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State Softball Scores

CLASS 5A

Hahnville 7, Dominican 0

17-Byrd at 16-Destrehan

New Iberia 5, Mt. Carmel 3

25-Sulphur at 8-East Ascension

28-St. Scholastica at 5-Fontainebleau

21-Haughton at 12-Northshore

20-John Ehret at 13-Pineville

29-Covington at 4-Live Oak

West Monroe 5, Chapelle 3

19-Sam Houston at 14-Natchitoches Central

22-H.L. Bourgeois at 11-Ouachita Parish

27-Poncahtoula at 6-Dutchtown

26 Comeaux at 7Walker

Parkway 7, Central 1

18-Airline at 15-Denham Springs

31-Lafayette at 2-St. Amant

CLASS 4A

32-Bolton at 1-Vandebilt Catholic

17-Assumption at 16-Morgan City

24-Tioga at 9-Lutcher

St. ThomasMore 16, Beau Chene 0

28-Frankinton at 5-DeRidder

21-Ben Franklin at 12-Our Lady

Cabrini 1, Cecilia 0

Belle Chasse 10, Peal River 0

West Ouachita 16, Franklin Parish 0

19-Benton at 14-Bastrop

22-Northwood at 11-St. Louis

Neville 10, Lakeshore 0

26-St. Michael at 7-Teurlings

23-Ellender at 10-Ursuline

18-Grant at 15-Plaquemine

Alexandria 15, Riverdale 0

CLASS 3A

32-Avoyelles at 1-Brusly

17-South Beauregard at 16-Port Barre

24-Jewel Sumner at 9-Berwick

25-Livonia at 8-Crowley

28-Westlake at 5-Jena

Rayne 5, North DeSoto 4

E.D. White 12, Church Point 7

North Vermilion 12, DeLaSalle 0

Kaplan10, West Feliciana 0

Loyola Prep 9, St. Mary’s 2

Parkview Baptist 4, Vidalia 0

27-Erath at 6-Notre Dame

26-Farmerville at 7-St. Charles

23-Patterson at 10-Loranger

18-Caldwell Parish at 15-Albany

31-Rayville at 2-Buckeye

CLASS 2A

John Curtis 20, McGehee 0

17-Mamou at 16-Thomas Jefferson

Winnfield 4, Delcambre 3

Calvary Baptist 15, Runnels 3

28-Lakeside at 5-Rosepine

Pine Prairie 3, Sterlington 2

20-Fisher at 13-Haynes Academy

29 Pickering at 4 NorthWebster

30-Iota at 3-Evangel

Catholic-NI 12, Northlake Christian 2

22-Many at 11-Pope John Paul II

27-Welsh at 6-Menard

26-Vinton at 7-DeQuincy

Springfield 7, Doyle 6

18-Kinder at 15-North Caddo

Riverside 10, East Beauregard 0

CLASS1A

Cedar Creek12, Northwood-Lena1

Westminster 6, Houma Christian 2

24-Block at 9-Sacred Heart-VP

8-St. John 4, Christian Life 0

28-Vermilion Catholic at 5-Hannan

21-St. Mary at 12-Opelousas Catholic

13-Ouachita Christian 11, St. Martin’s 3

CCMC 2, St. Edmund1

Catholic-PC 17, Country Day 0

South Cameron15, Ascension Catholic 5

22-Oberlin at 11-Hanson

Oak Grove 6, Logansport 3

Ascension Catholic 8, Delhi Charter 3

Merryville 8, Gueydan 0

18-False River at 15-Montgomery

Mangham 3, LaSalle 0

CLASS B

Florien 19, Singer 0

17-Weston at 16-Castor 16

Converse 16, Simsboro 0

Oak Hill 11, Centerville 1

Zwolle 13, Summerfield 0

Negreet 4, Choudrant 1

20-Holden at 13-Glenmora

Grace Christian 7, Dodson 0

30-Hornbeck at 3-Grand Lake

Pitkin 1, Simpson 0

22-Avoyelles at 11-Quitman

27-Lafayette Christian at 6-Monterey

Fairview10, Evans 0

23-Bell City at 10-Anacoco

18-Downsville at-15 Forest

31-Doyline at 2-Stanley

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Caleb’s big dayReserve DH crushes three homers in 8-2 win


UL baseball coach TonyRobichaux is convinced thenew approach of his Ragin’Cajuns baseball team is theright one.

The foundation was laidduring an offseason filledwith 6 a.m. workouts andnumerous team-buildingdrills.

In thespring, thatmeanstrusting your teammatesmore, less reliance on thesame players and perhapsmore off days than usual.

As good as most of thatsounds, Robichaux willreadily admit how tough achore that can be for theCajun coaching staff. Withmore decisions to make,the chances of striking outgo up.

And then there’s thoseright choices, like playingCaleb Adams on Saturdayafternoon in the middlegame of theweekend seriesagainst Sacred Heart.

The sophomore fromTexarkanaJCblasted threehome runs to lead UL to an8-2 victory over the visitingPioneers at Tigue MooreField to improve to 10-2 onthe season.

“It is tough,” Robich-aux said. “A guy like Calebcan hit three home runslike he did today and hemay or may not play to-morrow. That’s when thefans scratch their headsand wonder what that bozocoach is doing.”

Robichaux is countingon that fall offseason ofteam-building paying offthrough the spring.

“When your numberis called, you just do thebest you can,” said Adams,who had 12 at-bats this sea-son coming into the game.“You just have to stay pre-pared every day.”

Adams said it was thefirst time he’d hit threehomers in a game sincehe was 12. He was the firstCajun to do so since KolinHatfield did it at FIU onMarch 31, 2007 and thefirst to do it at TigueMooreField since Papo Ramos didit on April 8, 1992.

“Coach (Matt) Deggstalked to us this morningafter facing the lefty,” saidAdams, who was 3-for-5with three homers and fiveRBIs on the day to increasehis RBI total to eight forthe season. “He told us tosuffocate the dish, becausehe would be trying to workus out.”

It worked early onagainstSacredHeartsouth-paw starter Nick Leinin-gen. Seth Harrison doubledand Mike Strentz followedwith a two-out RBI single.Adams then hit his first ofthree homers in the second

for a 3-0 lead.“Last year, I wasn’t very

disciplined at the plate,”said Strentz, who was 3-for-4 with two RBIs. “Thisyear, I’m going up the platewith the same approachwhether I strike out or geta hit.

“This year, we’re goingout every day and if some-body doesn’t get it goingright away, we just haveconfidence that somebody’sgoing to step up and get usrolling.”

Strentz later led off thefifth with a solo shot andAdams followedwith a two-run homer, before finish-ing his big day off againstright-hander Nick Mor-rissey with a solo homer inthe eighth.

“With the right-hander,we felt like he was goingto come inside more, so wetook a step off the plate,”Adams said.

“It helps (wind blowingout), but I try to keep myapproach the same. I justtry to hit low line drives ev-ery pitch.”

All of that offenseproved to be plenty enoughthanks to the start by ULleft-hander Cody Boutte,who improved to 3-0 aftergiving up one run on sevenhits with one walk and fivestrikeouts in five-plus in-nings.

“The big thing is thatCody got us off to a goodstart,” Robichaux said.“The hitters then did realgood job of not trying tospin off the ball too muchwith the wind blowing out.The coaches did a greatjob of preparing them inbatting practice. We wereable to stack the lineupwith right-handed hittersagainst their lefty and Ca-leb came through with abig day.

“We can go 12 or 13deep. It’s a great sign whenyou can score eight runswith guys like Jace (Con-rad), (Tyler) Girouard and(Chase) Compton on thebench.”

Nick Zaunbrecher al-lowed just one solo homerin three innings of relief.

“I like the fact that Codyhas command of all ofhis stuff,” Strentz said ofBoutte’s outing. “He can dowhat he has to in order toget the job done.”

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Cajuns snap10-game roadlosing streak

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MONROE — ShawnLong registered his 17thdouble-double of the yearandBryantMbamalu andAlan-Michael Thompsonadded 13 points as theULRagin’ Cajuns snappeda 10-game road losingstreak with a 71-63 winover ULM on Saturdayevening in Fant-EwingColiseum.

The win was the firston the road for UL sincedefeating North Texas,80-76, on Dec. 1 in Den-ton, Tex.

The win improves theCajuns to 12-19 on theyear and 8-12 in Sun BeltConference play. ULMcloses the year with a 4-22 overall mark and 3-17in Sun Belt play.

If Florida Atlanticdefeats FIU on Saturdaynight, the Cajuns willenter the tourney as theNo. 8 seed and face No.9 North Texas on Friday,March 8 at 6:30 p.m. inan opening round gameof the Sun Belt Confer-ence championship inHot Springs, Ark.

If FAU loses to FIU,the Cajuns grab the No. 7seed and will play No. 10Troy on Friday at 9 p.m.

“We showed some en-thusiasm and excitementtonight,” Marlin said.“They cut the lead to twopoints early in the secondhalf but we didn’t budgeand never let them getthe lead. That’s a greatsign, especially consider-ing the momentum that itgives us headed into thetournament next week.

“We hit our shots to-night,which is somethingthat we haven’t done onthe road this year, andour defense was prettygood.

“We missed a coupleof free throws and hadsome bad turnoversdown the stretch, other-

wise the game wouldn’thave been as close as itwas,” Marlin added.

Long scored 17 pointswith 10 rebounds andthree blocks to lead theCajuns while Thompsonconnected on four three-pointers to score 13points and Mbamalu hitfour two-point field goalsand five free throws toadd 13.

Elfrid Payton scoredeight points with sevenrebounds, eight assistsand three steals. Heraised his season stealtotal to 76, moving himinto third on the ULsingle-season assist list,and he has 168 assists,moving him from 10thto seventh on the assistchart.

Marlin noted thestrong play of freshmanCornell Barnett, whoscored a career-highfour points in 14 minutesof action.

“Cornell really camethrough early in thegame when we were in alittle foul trouble,” Mar-lin said. “He didn’t scorea lot of points, but theones he did score werereally important at thetime. The team was realexcited for him in thelocker room”

Foul trouble hurt theWarhawks as startingguards Trent Mackey(7:11) and Kyle Koszuto(6:27) each fouled out.

The Warhawks wouldwhittle the lead down to64-60 on a pair of freethrows by Amos Olafayoat the 3:19 mark but theCajuns wouldn’t let ULMany closer.

A tip-in by Long ofa missed jumper byThompson pushed thelead to 66-60 and Mbam-alu followed by making apair of free throws with42 seconds left to put thegame away.

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MONROE—ULMonreused a 16-1 run late inthe second half to openup a two-point gameand claim a 64-50 deci-sion over the UL Ragin’Cajuns on Saturday af-ternoon in Fant-EwingColiseum on the ULMcampus.

The loss drops UL to9-20 on the year and 3-17in Sun Belt play. ULMimproves to 9-20 and 7-13 in SBC action.

The loss means theCajuns will enter nextweek’s Sun Belt Con-ference championshipis the No. 11 seed andface 10th-seeded NorthTexas at 2 p.m. Friday infirst round action in HotSprings, Ark.

“We just didn’t doa good enough job ofguarding down thestretch,” first-year ULcoach Garry Brodheadsaid. “We made a run toput ourselves into a posi-tion to take the lead butthen we didn’t executeoffensively and took a

couple of poor shots andthen let ULM go to theother end and get someopen shots.

“This team has comea long way since the sea-son started in Novemberand I am proud of them.To play tough leaguegames like this with onlyseven scholarship play-ers available and thenbattle for the win untilthe final minutes, speaksvolumes about the de-sire that this team has,”Brodhead said.

Despite playing withan injured knee that al-most kept her out of thegame, Keke Veal wasthe only Ragin’ Cajunsplayer that scored indouble figures, scoring21 points, her second 20-point game of the week.Jasmin Mills scoredthree points adding a ca-reer-high 14 rebounds.

Ashleigh Simmons ledULM with 27 points and14 rebounds, going 10-for-11 from the field and7-for-8 from the stripe.Alexar Tugler added 14points.

UL women fallto UL Monroe

Sacred Heartat ULGame: 1 p.m., today,tigue moore Field.

record: sh 0-2; Ul10-2.

expected starters: sh,rhP Kody Kerski (0-0,0.00); Ul, austin robich-aux (1-0, 1.64).

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ORLANDO, Fla. — TheUL Ragin’ Cajuns softballteam split their two gamesat the DiamondNine CitrusClassic for the second dayin a row.

The Cajuns fell to No.5-ranked Texas in the firstgame of the day, 7-2, be-fore beating the Collegeof Charleston by a scoreof 16-0 in a combined five-inning no-hitter betweenKristin Martinez and Jor-danWallace on Saturday inOrlando.

“Every time out we arestill learning,” UL coachMichael Lotief said afterthe second game. “We havethings we have to work on,we’re still a work in prog-ress. Our kids are fightingand they are staying posi-tive. We played againstsome top teams and got ex-posed a little bit, but I see

the mindset in theses kids,they are staying positiveand learning from the ad-versity and failure and try-ing to make it better.”

Martinez got the startagainst College of Charles-ton, tossing the first fourinnings, allowing just threebase runners and strikingout three. Wallace pitchedthe fifth inning and struckout the side the finish thegame, and the no-hitter.

The Cajuns only scoredin two innings against theCollege of Charleston, butthat consisted of a six and10 run inning to propelthem to a 16-0 win. Thetwo big innings and 16 runsovershadowed the fact thatthe Cajuns held Charlestonto just three base runnersand zero hits.

Sarah Draheim startedthe scoring in the secondinning, with a two-run blastto left center field. The

home run was her secondof the day, she homered inthe seventh inning of gameone, and third in the tour-nament.

Louisianawould go on toscore fourmore that inningwith RBI singles from Nat-alie Fernandez, BriannaCherry and a two-RBI dou-ble from Shellie Landry.

Charleston threatenedin the third inning, loadingthe bases without getting ahit, getting runners onwithtwo walks and on a fielderschoice, including onewith abotched run down in whichno batters advanced.

The Cajuns went score-less in the third before a 10-run outburst in the fourthinning.

The fourth inning washighlighted by the first ca-reer home run by KelseyVincent, and a RBI tripleby Brianna Cherry. Fresh-man Taylor Meaux also

picked up her first careerRBI on a fielders choiceand Linzey Cifreo knockeda pitch into center field forher first career hit.

Both Landry and Dra-heim finished game twowith three RBIs, and Cher-ry, Vincent and SamanthaWalsh each picked up twoRBIs.

“We wanted to comeback strong,” senior MatteHaack said. “We wantedto prove that we can hitand that we’re going to befine. Scoring a lot of runshelps.”

The Cajuns split on theday pushed their record to15-4 on the season. Theywill finish off the CitrusClassic this morning at 8when they take on IllinoisState. The Cajuns haveseen the Red Birds onetime already this season,defeating them 8-5.

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2013 LHSAAConvention

ReSuLtSPRoPoSALS tHAtPASSeD

1. Seventh and eighth gradetransfers could play sub-varsitysports by a 162-139 vote;

2. An extra evaluation weekwas granted to baseball in the24th calendar week by a 173-140 vote (LHSAA officials statedthat softball may have to beadded for Title IX reasons);

3. The Girls and Boys Top28 basketball tournaments willreturn to separate sites andinclude both the semifinalsand finals like it was prior to2011-12;

4. Second-place finishers inbasketball won’t be qualifiersand wild-card teams wereincrease in each class;

5. The public and privateschools were split for the foot-ball playoffs starting this fall;

6. One interschool footballscrimmage shall be allowed atthe end of 10 days of practice;

7. The head golf coach canconverse with his/her golfers atany time;

8. A golfer can begin playafter receiving a two-strokepenalty if he/she arrives at thetee box within five minutes ofthe appointed time;

9. A state golf tournamentshall consist of two rounds of18 holes;

10 . A tie in team golf shallbe resolved by computing theaggregate scores of the fourgolfers beginning with the firsthole;

11. Powerlifting entry feereduced to $20;

12. Instead of a jamboree,soccer teams can now play 19contests with three tourna-ments or 18 with four tourna-ments;

13. Soccer is now dividedinto three equal or nearly equaldivisions;

14. In bi-district throughsemifinals, the travel is $1 permile;

15. Tennis calendar is movedup by one week;

16. Tennis criteria set onseeding singles and doublesestablished;

17. Tennis is divided intofour equally or nearly equallydivisions;

18. The number of wrestlingmeets increased to two dualmeets and one tri-meet perweek;

19. Just in 5A, baseball stateplayoffs will now consist ofsingle-elimination game in thefirst round, best-of-three seriesat the higher seed’s home fieldin the second and third roundwith single-elimination tourna-ment in the semifinal and finalsat a neutral site.

PRoPoSALS tHAtFAiLeD

20. Three-grade schoolsallowing students to participateas ninth-graders by a 149-136;

21. Student becomes ineli-gible if he/she turns 19 beforeAug. 1;

22. Students under the ninthgrade should not be allowedto participate in any sports andno students under the seventhgrade could participate in anyLHSAA sanctioned event;

23. School would not allownon-faculty to be head coachesin football, volleyball andbasketball, but would allow inbasketball in 1A-C;

24. Volleyball officials feeswould have been increased to$75 for best-of-five in regularseason and $110 in best-of-fivein playoffs;

25. Soccer teams would onlyautomatically qualify first-place teams and the rest of thebracket would go to a power-ranking system;

PRoPoSALS tABLeD1. Effective 2018-19, a stu-

dent is ineligible if he/she turns19 before Sept. 1.

2. Parish boundary linesshall serve as the athletic at-tendance zone for all memberschools;

3. Students who transfer toa school located within his/herattendance zone should beeligible for sub-varsity sports.

4. Motion that would havesplit up public and privateschools in the playoffs in allsports beginning in the 2015-16season didn’t even get thevote to get off the tabled list,167-113;

5. Motion to eliminate ClassC didn’t get the vote to get offthe tabled list;

Ken CoLe WReStLing invitAtionALReSuLtS

TEAM STANDINGS1. Jesuit 235.5; 2. Comeaux

215.5; 3. Teurlings Catholic 187;4. Brusly 144; 5. Sulphur 132.5; 6.Northside 131.5; 7. St. Louis 124;8. Parkway 113.5; 9. Lafayette High109.5; 10. Mandeville 106.5; 11.North Vermilion 105; 12. Rayne 95;13. Huntington 94.5; 14. Catholic-BR 93; 15. Bossier 84; 16. JohnCurtis 78.5;17.Airline 68;18.Basile65.5; 19. Sam Houston 63.5; 20.Byrd 63; 21. Calvary Baptist 54; 22.Calvary Baptist 54; 23. Acadiana51; 24. Benton 48; 25. Comeaux-JV 40, 26. De La Salle 38; 27. PearlRiver 35; 28. Grand Lake 34.5; 29.Haughton 31.5; 30. Central 29; 31.Redemptorist 29; 32. St. ThomasMore 28; 33. Jesuit-JV 25; 34.Northshore 23; 35. Baton Rouge22; 36. Northwood 20; (tie) SouthPlaquemines 30; 38. Dunham 18;39. Doyline 17.5; 40. Kaplan 16.5;41. Holy Rosary 15; 42. Calvary-JV 11; (tie) Northside JV 11; 44.Barbe 10; (tie) Woodlawn 10; 46.Comeaux Freshman 9; (tie) NorthVermilion JV 9; (tie) Pearl River JV;49. Church Point 7; 50. ParkviewBaptist 5.

OUTSTANDING WRESTLER(Lower Classes)

Anthony Taylor, HuntingtonOUTSTANDING WRESTLER

(Upper Classes)Billy Marcantel, Rayne

MOST PINS, LEAST TIMEWayne Broussard, Sulphur

INDIVIDUAL RESULTS106 – 1. Ben D’Antonio, Jesuit

dec. Brock Bonin, Teurlings, 7-4;3. Nick Charles, Jesuit def. NickdesBordes, Mandeville, 11-2; 5.Dylan Holiday, Haughton pinnedEvan Taylor, Bossier in 0:48.

113 - 1. Connor Stampley,Comeaux dec. Hunter Taylor,Lafayette High, 11-5; 3. RaymondBushnell, Basile def. AndrewAucoin, Sam Houston 8-5; 5.Decoryn Howard, Huntington forfeitAlex Simmaly, Parkway.

120 – 1. Jacob Dale, Comeauxdef. Wyatt LeJeune, Brusly, 14-7;3. Jason Pitts, Parkway dec. TristanLee, Teurlings, 2-1; 5. BrennnanTaylor, Sulphur pinned NicholasBordelon, Cathoilc-NI, 2:05.

126 – 1. Will Lafranca, Jesuit def.Austin Scalisi, North Vermilion, 9-6;3. Adrian Ducote, Lafayette Highpinned Xavier Chism, Bossier; 5.Zac Funderburk, Parkway pinnedLandyn Thibodeaux, Rayne, 2:53.

132 – 1. Trevor Schermer, Bruslydef. Jackie Robinson, Jesuit, 10-5; 3. Trey Duhon, Sulphur pinnedJacob Rees, Teurlings; 5. AndreWalther, STM def. Javorski Batiste,Northside, 6-4.

138 – 1. Abram Sellers, Comeauxdef. Raygan Suarez, Sulphur, 13-6; 3. Morgan Root, Catholic-BRpinned Josh Wicke, Grand Lake,4:20; 5. Pablo Marroquin, Airlinepinned Andrew Pousson, St. Louis,3:33.

145 – 1. Anthony Taylor,Huntington injury def. Grant Godso,Redemptorist; 3. Colin Laird, NorthVermilion def. Cody Thomas,Parkway, 4-3; 5. Cody Manuel,Rayne def. Quinton Berthelot,Brusly, 6-4.

152 – 1. Tyrek Malveaux,Comeaux dec. Alex Martin, DeLa Salle, 10-4; 3. Koby Mancuso,Brusly def. Stephen Martin, Byrd,5-0; 5. Ashton Queyrouze, Jesuitpinned Austin Bohne, Rayne, 0:48.

160 – 1. Louis Stutes, St. Louisdef. Frankie Arena, Mandeville; 3.Guy Patron, Jesuit dec. JoffrianGaines, Northside, 7-2; 5. JonRobinson, Comeaux pinnedJacque Girouard, Comeaux, 1:19.

170 – 1. Jack Ingalls, Mandevilledec. Jimmie McBride, Teurlings,9-5; 3. Conway LeBleu, St. Louisdec. Javian Adams, Northside, 4-1; 5. Robert Lobrano, Jesuit dec.Darrick Robinson, Byrd, 9-1.

182 – 1. Billy Marcantel, Raynedef. Nick Schneider, Teurlings 12-7; 3. Jalen Oliver, Bossier pinnedJared Smith, St. Louis, 0:53; 5.Michael Daiy, Lafayette High dec.Eric Duhon, Acadiana, 7-5.

195 – 1. Manny Armour,Jesuit pinned Orlando Calhoun,Northside, 3:35; 3. Tyler Sullivan,Calvary Baptist pinned MatthewPerez, Sulphur, 0:26; 5. AaronLanglinais, Comeaux forfeit QuinGilliam, Byrd.

220 – 1. Daniel Kincade,Northside pinned Dom Carmello,Jesuit, 3:29; 3. Wayne Broussard,Sulphur pinned Mason Pembo,John Curtis, 4:02; 5. Adam Garza,Teurlings dec. Matthew Tillman,Comeaux, 7-1.

285 – 1. Spencer Lemoine, JohnCurtis pinned Reginald MarKray,Huntington, 5:33; 3. Allen Kincade,Northside dec. Zac Creel, Jesuit, 2-0; 5. Greg Peltier, Carencro pinnedTravis Santiago, Teurlings, 0:40.


Six Acadiana wres-tlers won Ken Cole titleson Saturday at ComeauxHigh, and the champi-onship group’s storiesproduced very differentangles.

Three of them, howev-er, had one thing in com-mon in that they werecrowns earned in theirhome gym as top finishesby TyrekMalveaux, Con-nor Stampley and AbramSellers led Comeaux toa second-place finish inthe 37th Annual Ken ColeInvitational, behind long-time juggernaut Jesuit ofNew Orleans.

Jesuit finished with233.5 points, followed byComeaux at 215.5 andTeurlings Catholic inthird at 187.

As good a job as thehost Spartans trio did,though, it was Rayne’sBillyMarcantel that stolethe show on Saturday.

Wrestling againstreturning Ken Coleand reigning DivisionII champion Nick Sch-neider, the No. 2 seededMarcantel delivered animpressive 12-7 win overthe Rebels’ standout in atopsy-turvy showdown.

Making the win evenmore impressive is thefact that Marcantel com-pletely tore his ACL wayback in the football sea-son opener and has man-aged to continue his ath-letic success.

“The doctor said therecovery time was sixto nine months and theseasons for all my sportswould have been over, sowe just decided to wait,”Marcantel said.

As easy as he madethat decision sound, theWolves’ standout is con-stantly reminded of hiscondition.

“I can’t shoot and Ican’t really go to mylegs,” he said. “I can’t runeither for conditioning.”

Apparently, he canstill wrestle. He cameout like a ball of fire witha quick 4-0 lead over Sch-neider in the first 50 sec-onds. By themiddle of thesecond period, however,Marcantel found himselfalmost getting pinned bySchneider.

About 30 seconds lat-er, Marcantel ran off fivequick points of his own,including a near pin,

and grabbed the lead forgood at 9-7. He went on towin 12-7 and earned Out-standingWrestler honorsfor the upper weight divi-sions.

“He’s a very goodwrestler, very talented,”Marcantel said. “He’slanky and he got a couplecradles on me. I just keptworking hard.

“This one feels reallygood. I didn’t do as welllast week at LouisianaClassics. I lost to twogood wrestlers. But I justkept working hard.”

As happy as Marcan-tel was with Saturday’swin, right up there withhim on the elation meterhad to be Stampley.

Comeaux’s 113-pound-er was wrestling one ofhis best friends in La-fayette High’s HunterTaylor. The two had beenbattling each other sincethe youth ranks and thenwere partners as fresh-manat LHS, before Stam-pley transferred.

Last year, Stampleywas 3-2 head-to-head andso far this year, Taylorwas 2-0.

“He just wasn’t goingto beat me in my owntournament in front ofall my friends,” Stampleysaid. “I just went out withall I had today. I just fin-ished my shots today.”

Stampley is now 30-3on the season and is hop-ing that Saturday’s wincan catapult him to a No.2 seed at state.

“I know a lot of whathe’s going to do on bottomand I was able to countereverything he tried,”Stampley said.

Then there was thegut-check test of Kin-cade.

The week before, theNorthside senior shockedthe state with an unex-pected win at the Loui-siana Classics. Then hegot very sick a few dayslater and woke up Fridaymorning wondering if heshould even wrestle thisweekend.

“I was that close tonot wrestling,” saidKincade, as he held twoof fingers very close to-gether. “I felt really badwhen I woke up (Friday).I was trying to decide if Ishould take the chance ofgoing out there and em-barrassing myself. Thensomeone showed mewhat I said in the paper(about not letting the ill-ness beat him). I decidedI couldn’t do that to my-self, so I had to go.”

Kincadewas certainlyglad he did Saturday. Hejumped out to a quick 2-0lead and then upped it to

5-0 with a near pin with33 seconds left in the firstperiod. Then after man-handling Jesuit’s DomCormello for most of thesecond period, he finallydelivered a pin with 25seconds left.

“Endurance was defi-nitely a factor this week-end, but I was still stron-ger than him,” Kincadesaid. “I knew that I wouldbe able to control himtop-bottom.

“This definitely feelsgood. It’s not too oftenthat somebody fromNorthside wins Louisi-ana Classics and KenCole back-to-back.”

For Sellers, it was amatter of going out on topas a senior Spartan in hisfinal Ken Cole.

After leading just 2-1going into the second pe-riod, Sellers followed anescape with a quick take-down to take control at5-1. Despite a reversal bySulphur’s Raygan Suarezat 1:13, Sellers finishedthe period strong for acommanding 8-3 leadand cruised to the win inthe third period.

“It was the first time Ihad wrestled him,” Sell-ers said. “I don’t mindthat. Sometimes whenyou know the style ofwho you’re wrestling,you think about it thewhole match. When youdon’t know it, you canjust wrestle.

“This was my senioryear at my school, so Idefinitely wanted to winthis one. At the end, Iknew all I had to do washold on. I would havetaken the pin, but I justwanted to win.”

Spartan teammateJacob Dale, on the otherhand, was really hopingto finish off his secondKen Cole title with a pinafter pinning all otheropponents over the week-end. Dale led 6-1 earlyin the second period andcertainly tried to nail itdown, but had to settle fora convincing 14-7 win.

“I wanted the pin,”Dale said. “I wanted thatlast pin to go 5-for-5. I’vealways been an aggres-sive wrestler. But he wasstalling.”

There was also verylittledramainMalveaux’smatch as well. In nailingdown his third Ken Coletitle, Malveaux led 8-2 af-ter the second period andwaltzed to the 10-4 win.

Connor Stampley of Comeaux High wrestles Hunter Taylor of Lafayette High in the 113 weight class during theKen Cole Invitational on Saturday. ALLyCE AndrEw/[email protected]

Area claims six crowns

Jacob Dale of Comeaux High wrestles Wyatt Lejeune ofBrusly High in the 120 weight class. ALLyCE AndrEw/AAn-

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THE VERMILION2 THEVERMILION.COM November 7, 20123rd Dist. race results in runoff between Landry, Boustany

Just when it seemed the bruising race for Louisiana’s 3rd

Congressional District’s seat had fi nally ended, the two incumbents, U.S. Reps. Charles Boustany Jr., R-Lafayette, and Rep. Jeff Landry, R-New Iberia, have been thrown into a runoff on Dec. 8.

As of 11 p.m. Tuesday, with all 616 precincts in the nine-parish district reporting, Boustany held a plurality of 45 percent of the vote, shy of the majority needed to claim a victory. Landry had 30 percent. The other three candidates garnered a combined 25 percent, which forced the two incumbents into a runoff.

After the results were announced, Boustany spoke to his supporters gathered at his election-night party at Pat’s Downtown in Lafayette.

“This is a big victory for us — Round 1,” Boustany, 56, said to a

crowd of cheering supporters. “Now, we got a little more work to do, but guess what. We won this fi rst round with over 120,000 votes. Our nearest competitor (Landry) got nearly 40,000 votes less. Now he can’t hide; it’s one-on-one, baby!

“We have a little work to do, but it’s important for the future of our state, our

district and certainly for our country,” Boustany added regarding the next month of campaigning. “The economy and jobs is still the number one issue. We have work to do there. We will put this state back on solid footing. We want to see our country moving forward, and I tell you what — I’m ready to go! I’m energized; I’m ready, because he cannot

hide!”Moving forward, Boustany said the

tactics might have to change, but the message would remain the same.

“We have to look at some numbers tomorrow and readjust where we want to go with it,” Boustany said. “But it’s pretty much the same message. I’m going to focus on the results we’ve gotten and develop a plan going forward.”

Landry also spoke to his gathering of supporters at the Madison Street Banquet and Reception Center in Broussard.

“After voting for bailouts, massive debt increases and taking himself a pay raise, Charles Boustany turned around and said in August he was going to win this race by 30 or more points. Today, we’ve cut that in half,” said Landry, 41. “But let me tell you what I think is more important. Today, the voters have spoken

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Louisiana voters approve eight of nine amendmentsAMENDMENT 1: Medicaid Trust

Fund for ElderlyThe Legislature or governor is

prohibited from taking money from the Medicaid Trust Fund for the Elderly to help balance the state’s operating budget. The Constitution allows money to be tapped from various trust funds to cover the defi cit, but the Medicaid fund was never before used. Swiping dollars from state trust funds has been used many times in the past few years as the state has anticipated a shortfall in revenue, including funds for higher education and health care. AMENDMENT 2: Strict Scrutiny for Gun Laws

All laws restricting the right to keep and bear arms are required to be subjected to strict scrutiny. The right to bear arms is now considered a fundamental right in Louisiana and prohibitions that limit carrying concealed weapons are void. The state could continue to prohibit guns in public places like school campuses and government buildings. Criminal code statutes regarding gun possession could be affected, including restricting felons

from owning guns, gun owners from carrying fi rearms at bars or parades, or gun possession without serial numbers.AMENDMENT 3: Earlier Notice of Public Retirement System Bills

Bills affecting the state’s public retirement systems must be fi led a month earlier than other types of legislation prior to a legislative session. The public notice period for prefi led retirement bills is now doubled. Separate pre-fi ling and public notice requirements for any proposed change to the state’s public retirement systems are now required, along with fi ling retirement bills or constitutional amendments no later than 45 days before the fi rst day of the legislative session. AMENDMENT 4: Property Tax Exemption for Spouses of Certain Disabled Veterans

A deceased veteran’s spouse is allowed to claim a higher homestead exemption, even if it was not in effect at the time the veteran died but only if the veteran had a 100 percent service-connected disability. AMENDMENT 5: Forfeiture of Public

Retirement Benefi ts for Convicted Public Servants

Any public employee hired or re-elected after Jan. 1, 2013 with a felony related to his or her offi ce could be required to forfeit some or all publicly funded retirement benefi ts when convicted. Forfeiture would apply if the public servant was convicted with a crime associated with his offi ce.AMENDMENT 7: Membership of Certain State Boards and Commissions

Voters decided how the members of university boards, the Board of Regents, State Civil Service Commission and the State Police Commission are selected to align with the reduced number of congressional districts to ensure that each district is equally represented. After Jan. 3, vacancies will be fi lled with preference from a congressional district that is either underrepresented or has no representation. AMENDMENT 8: Property Tax Exemption for Non-Manufacturing Businesses

The Board of Commerce and Industry is now allowed to grant local

property tax exemption contracts to a specifi c group of non-manufacturing businesses that choose to participate in the program. The fi rst $10 million of assessed business value or 10 percent of the fair market value would be taxed. Property owners are currently required to pay ad valorem taxes to local government entities based on the value of their business properties. AMENDMENT 9: Crime Prevention and Security Districts

Bills that recreate crime prevention and security districts must be advertised more and the notice of intent to introduce such a bill must be published on three separate days in the offi cial publication for the area where the special district is to be located. It also requires the notice of intent to state whether the crime prevention district’s governing authority could collect a parcel fee, whether it could be imposed or increased without an election and what the maximum amount it would be.

Information provided by Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana

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Incumbent U.S. Rep. Jeff Landry thanked his supporters for cutting Boustany’s predicted lead in half.

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History classes on piracy separate fantasy and reality

Beginning in spring ‘13, great news sails in for both undergraduate

and graduate students interested in delving into the richness of historical and modern piracy.

The classes, HIST 371: The Golden Age of Pirates and HIST 525: Readings in Maritime History, will both be instructed by Kim Todt, Ph.D., assistant professor of history.

Todt’s interest in pirates was sparked by research conducted for her dissertation.

“I’m an early-Americanist historian, so I also focus on trade with regard to my own research,” said Todt, “and part of trade involves looking at maritime history and what is going on in the high seas. Piracy is part of that because ships were always at risk for being pirated, whether that be by

pirates or privateers.” ‘Privateer’ is just a pretty

word for pirates who have been given permission by the government to go out and pillage.

Louisiana has its own historical claim to fame in pirate and privateer Jean Lafi tte. Lafi tte was able to hold both titles, as it was contingent upon who he was stealing from.

“If you were French, you were saying, ‘Oh, of course he’s a privateer because he had permission,’ but if you’re somebody who’s not French and he’s pirated your ship, for example, then you’re going to say he’s a pirate,” Todt explained.

“Students are going to learn a lot, and I think they’re

going to be surprised by what they’re learning,” Todt enthused. “We’ll also be looking at the foundations for piracy, how it had early antecedents. And we’ll spend a couple of lectures on modern-day piracy.”

This would include examples such as what is happening in Somalia or pirating something on the Internet, Todt added.

“I think it’s important (to tie in the old and the new),” Todt said. “That’s the beauty of a history course. We have this broad spectrum of what’s available to us, but it also allows students to understand the history. It’s more than just the facts or name memorization — it is all around us.

“We’re hoping this will be an annual course that will have a lot of popularity to it but will expose people

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New liberal arts courses will immerse students in the history of pirates and privateers.

Lafayette fostering co-ops as part of creative community

In hard times, creativity thrives — so in this economic climate, it comes

as no surprise that co-ops are springing up throughout Lafayette.

A co-op (short for cooperative) business model is typically a non-profi t business that comes in many forms. Co-ops offer exclusive benefi ts usually accompanied by small fees for artists and artisans working with a budget.

Tipitina’s is one of the co-ops found in Lafayette, but remains the only in town that deals with music. Opened in 2008, Lafayette’s branch of the popular New Orleans club-turned-non-profi t offers access to recording equipment, conference rooms, Adobe Creative Suite, Final Cut, Pro Tools and even legal aid through the Entertainment Law Legal Assistance

for a monthly fee of $15. Tipitina’s also offers free weekly workshops, which cover topics ranging from taxes for freelancers to yoga for musicians and fi lmmakers.

“Our main purpose is to develop

a professional artist’s career,” said Rachel Nederveld, manager and founder of the downtown Lafayette branch. “Lots of the time, it’s students because students are looking to start their career after school or even during

school.”As opposed to a normal business

model that thrives on profi t, why would a business that sees nationally known artist like GIVERS and Grammy winners like David Egan glide through their doors choose the co-op model?

“Well, it’s a community-minded thing and so it’s advantageous to the community and also the user because the money’s staying local,” stated Nederveld, “but it monetarily benefi ts the people that are using it. It directly benefi ts those people.”

Local artist Tanya Falgout, owner of the Arts Co-Op downtown, opened her shop a year ago and has seen countless artists saunter through her studio. Now there is hardly any extra space for prospective painters to place

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David Klier founded the Freetown Farmers’ Market, a local co-op where vendors can sell their produce and crafts.

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