Heading into the final stretch of the Louisiana prep baseball season, Pope John Paul II had been playing its best baseball. That run ended Wednesday night, and the good news is there’s still time to regroup. The team’s nine-game winning streak was halted by French Settlement in an 8-6 defeat in the District 9-2A championship…

As teams prepare for the upcoming playoffs in about two weeks, a couple of Select teams from two ends of the classification spectrum faced off in Covington. On Tuesday night (March 31) at Heap Field, Goliath got the best of David, but it was anything but easy. St. Paul’s used key hits from the middle…

The day is quickly approaching when Pat Adams will arrive to the ballpark and coach this special group of Newman seniors one final time. He hopes it is on the third weekend of May at MacMurry Park in Sulphur, where the state baseball championships are held each year, but no matter when or where, that…

When Brian Babin accepted the job as head baseball coach at Pope John Paul II five years ago after a long stint at Salmen, he was intent on bringing that winning culture with him. He needed a core of players to help him do that, and it just so happened that the Jaguars were starting…

Newman entered the bottom of the fifth down by 7. Thirty-four minutes later, they won by the mercy rule.

One could forgive Christian Sauska if he was a little more amped up than usual. It was the last time in his prep career he would pitch against St. Charles – a team his Newman Greenies had lost 12 consecutive games to dating back a full decade. But sometimes being conveniently wild can work out…