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Shields Headed Home
Yes you can go home again! Brother Martin has hired Nick Shields as the wrestling head coach. Shields won three state championships (2006-2008 125lbs)Â wrestling for the Crusaders and has also been an assistant coach at Brother Martin. Last season he was an assistant coach at Holy Cross. Former Brother Martin head coach Robbie Dauterive spoke…
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St. Paul’s finally shakes feisty Riverside, 4-3
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…
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Senior salute: Newman Baseball Class of ’26 looks to wrap up prep careers in style
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…
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Pope’s Caden Amie ‘a human video game’ for Coach Brian Babin, Jaguars
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…
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A softball team scored 17 runs Saturday and lost by 10.
Newman entered the bottom of the fifth down by 7. Thirty-four minutes later, they won by the mercy rule.
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SAUSKA NO-HITTER ENDS NEWMAN’S LONG DROUGHT vs. ST. CHARLES
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…
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Amie shines in District Opener; Late STA Coach Catalano Honored
By Jim Derry Cole Catalano wouldn’t have liked the outcome of Tuesday night’s game that pitted St. Thomas Aquinas and Pope John Paul II, but he certainly would have appreciated the hustle and determination from both teams. On a night the Falcons honored their former coach who died of cancer 20 months ago, a three-run…
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1st event for VSN Space Coast? State Wrestling
You can call the past few days in Kissimmee a learning experience for VSN Space Coast. Getting to know the teams, the wrestlers, and the coaches was all part of the deal at the FHSAA Wrestling State Championships over the past few days. Up to this point we’ve done a few feature stories but this…
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Welcome to VSN Space Coast
So here we go again. Another career challenge in a 36-year sportscasting run that has been full of them. The launch of VSN Space Coast came about in a unique fashion, but I’m comfortable in saying that I’m where I need to be. Let’s start by introducing our new followers to Varsity Sports Now. We…
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State Title for Shaw Slips Away in Wild Ending
By Jim Derry It was over. Shaw recovered an onside kick and was three kneel-downs and 35 seconds away from becoming back-to-back Division II Select state champions. Then the unfathomable happened. So unfathomable that some players and coaches didn’t even know what was happening as some mysterious tide turned that allowed top-seeded St. Charles to…
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Ascension Catholic comes up short, vows to return
By Jim Derry In each of Ascension Catholic’s 11 victories this season, with one of the leading rushers in the nation, they had scored 40 or more points. So having scored just seven in the first half of the Division IV Select state championship game against a potent team like Riverside had to be a…
