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Pie-Yow!
Co-MVPs for
Denham
By Sam
Muffoletto
The
All-Parish
first-team
outfield was
also as
diverse,
with the
likes of
Live Oak
sophomore
Tyler
McGrew,
Albany
junior Denny
Dansby,
Doyle
sophomore
Logan Jones
and Denham
Springs
senior
Posey.
McGrew, who
was named
the parish's
"Slugger of
Year,"
batted 362
with seven
home runs
and 27 RBIs.
He also
helped guide
the Eagles
to within
one playoff
win from
making it to
the Class 4A
State
Tournament.
Jones led
the Tigers'
efforts this
season with
a sizzling
.481
average,
with six
doubles, two
triples, 15
RBIs, 37
runs scored
and 16
stolen
bases.
DSHS' Mark
Carroll, who
guided the
Yellow
Jackets to
not only the
district
title, but a
28-7 overall
record, was
named the
parish's
"Coach of
the Year."
Live Oak
dominated
the second
team
selections
with five
players
chosen,
junior
outfielder
Logan Lee,
senior
infielder
Brandon
Berthelot
and junior
infielder
Cameron
Chatelain,
senior
pitcher
Koley Little
and senior
utility
player Josh
Craft.
Craft was a
first-team
all-parish
pick a year
ago, while
Lea repeats
as a
second-team
selection.
Honorable
Mention
selections
included
Denham
Springs
senior Tyler
KuyKendall
and junior
Yellow
Jacket Jacob
Saizan;
Walker
senior Bo
Baggett;
Live Oak
senior Cody
Roddy and
Eagle junior
Blake Viator;
Albany
senior Chad
Dickerson
and Hornet
junior
Justin
McKnight;
Doyle
sophomore
Travis
Bencaz;
Springfield
sophomores
Cole
McKigney and
Dustin McLin;
French
Settlement
seniors John
Sager and
Blake West
and Lion
junior Aaron
Guitreau and
Holden
senior Shane
White and
Rocket
junior
Johnathan
Prokop.
Live Oak
fares well
in All 6-4A
baseball
In the
two-team
District
6-4A, both
league
champion
Zachary and
Live Oak
each
garnered
nine players
apiece on
the
all-district
first team.
The Broncos
took three
out of four
from the
Eagles to
win the
district
crown.
Zachary
pitcher and
LSU signee
Zack Von
Rosenberg
was named
the league's
Most
Valuable
Player,
while Bronco
second-baseman
and pitcher
Ben
Hernandez
was given
the "Golden
Glove"
award.
Both Von
Rosenberg
and
Hernandez
were named
to the
four-man
first-team
pitching
rotation,
along with
Live Oak
senior
hurlers
Koley Little
and Josh
Craft.
Little had a
6-2 overall
record this
year, with
both of
those loses
coming at
the hands of
Zachary. In
58 total
innings
pitched, he
recorded 48
strikeouts
and an
earned run
average of
3.48.
Craft, who
picked up a
win over the
Broncos in
the team's
fourth and
final
showdown,
finished the
year at 4-3
with a 3.32
ERA. In 38
innings, he
struck out
51. At the
plate, Craft
batted .300,
with five
doubles, one
home run and
16 runs
batted in.
Live Oak senior Adam Leblanc was the lone player chosen
as a
first-team
catcher. He
batted .378
on year,
with two
doubles, a
pair of
triples, one
home run and
nine RBI's.
The
first-team
infield was
comprised of
three
Zachary
players, but
Live Oak
senior
Brandon
Berthelot
was named
the league's
top
second-baseman.
Berthelot
batted .340
with five
doubles,
three
triples,
seven home
runs and 29
RBI's.
The
remaining
first-team
infielders
included
Hernandez at
shortstop,
Broncos
teammate Joe
Martin at
third and
Zachary's
Keith Von
Rosenberg at
first.
Live Oak
garnered two
of three
first-team
positions in
the
outfield.
Junior Eagle
Logan Lee
batted .345
with eight
doubles, one
triple,
three home
runs and 22
RBI's, while
LOHS
sophomore
Tyler McGrew
hit .362
with eight
doubles, one
triple,
seven home
runs and 27
RBI's.
McGrew also
had 27
stolen
bases.
Zachary's
Cam Pierce
was the
other
first-team
outfielder
selected.
Live Oak
junior
Cameron
Chatelain
was named
the league's
top
designated
hitter. He
batted .421
with six
doubles, one
home run and
19 RBI's.
Eagle senior
Cody Roddy
and junior
teammate
Blake Viator
were both
named
first-team
utility
players,
along with
Zachary
junior Ryan
Manuel.
Roddy, who
played
third,
batted .328
with four
doubles, one
home run and
12 RBI's,
while
first-baseman
Viator
batted .323
with seven
doubles, two
home runs
and 15
RBI's.
Live Oak gets
hot
Live Oak 14
Benton 7
BENTON - Live Oak was on a mission and it
showed early on as the Eagles rocked the
team that eliminated them from the playoffs
last year. Not even a second-inning
grand slam by the home team could head off
the steam roller in Live Oak's 14-7 second
round Class 4-A post-season victory Tuesday
night. The Eagles now find themselves
in familiar territory as they must travel to
district rival and defending state champion
Zachary Friday for a fifth meeting on the
season to determine which team advances to
Shreveport for the state tournament. Zachary
is 3-1 against Live Oak this year, with the
Eagles' lone victory coming in the final
game of the regular season after the Broncos
already wrapped up the district title.
Yet anyone questioning Live Oak's ability to
exact revenge should ask Benton, which saw
its post-season all but vanish in a first
inning barrage of six Eagle runs. When the
smoke finally cleared, Live Oak had 14 runs
off 13 hits.
Blake Viator
went three-for-four with a home run and
three RBIs and Brandon Berthelot homered in
a two-for-four effort. Winning pitcher Josh
Craft was also two for four. Logan Lee was
three for three with a double and Adam
LeBlanc two for three with an extra base hit
as well.Live Oak had a 7-1 lead in the
second inning when Benton loaded the bases
for A. Saunders to blast a grand slam and
pull his team within two runs. The
rally was short-lived as Live Oak answered
with three more runs in the fourth and four
for insurance in the sixth, while Benton
managed to scratch only two more.
Craft held the Tigers to just two more runs
as the home team finished its season at
25-6, while the visitors moved on with a
23-11-1 record.
Live Oak
610 304 0 - 14 13 2
Benton 140 001 1 - 7 5 1
WP - Josh Craft. LP - E. Whitehead.
Live Oak heads to
playoffs
WATSON - Live Oak finished its regular
season on a high note by beating defending
state champion Zachary over the weekend, but
the 5-0 victory in the second half of a
doubleheader came only after the Broncos
wrapped up the District 6-4A title.
Live Oak needed a sweep to share the title,
but Zachary defeated the Eagles 2-0 in the
first game. Zachary had already swept the
first league doubleheader between the two
programs in the district to take three of
four and the district crown. LSU
signee Zack Von Rosenberg, a nemesis for
Live Oak batters over the past couple of
years, tossed a complete-game two-hit
shutout in Game 1 Saturday while striking
out seven. It was then too-little,
too-late for Live Oak senior pitcher Josh
Craft, who tossed a three-hit shutout of his
own in a 5-0 victory for the Eagles in the
second game. It also snapped an
11-game losing streak to Zachary. The
Broncos ended the regular season at 19-10-1,
while the Eagles are 18-11-1. Live Oak
hosts Abbeville in an opening round playoff
game this afternoon at 4 p.m.
Zachary 2
Live Oak 0
Zachary senior pitcher Zach Von Rosenberg
didn't get a whole lot of run support, but
then again, he didn't need much, as the LSU
signee tossed a 2-hit shutout to clinch the
District 6-4A title for the Broncos.
Live Oak senior pitcher Koley Little
scattered only six hits, but he gave up a
run-scoring double to Keith Rosenbach in the
second and then a solo home run to Ben
Hernandez in the sixth for the only two runs
of the game. The Eagles did put up a
threat in the bottom of the fifth following
a one-out single up the middle by senior
first-baseman Josh Craft and a walk to
senior third-baseman Coddy Roddy. Von
Rosenberg, who had command over the Eagle
batters, showed a sixth sense over the Live
Oak base-runners as well, as he picked off
Craft at second with a picture-perfect play
to shortstop Hernandez. That play
helped preserve a 1-0 Zachary lead as
Rosenbach had doubled in teammate Cam Pierce
in the top of the second. Just to be
on the safe side, Hernandez gave Von
Rosenberg an insurance run in the sixth when
he jumped on the first pitch from Little and
cranked a home run over the fence in right
field. Sophomore outfielder Tyler
McGrew collected Live Oak's only other hit
off of Von Rosenberg, a single.
Hernandez went 2-for-3 for the Broncos,
including the home run, while Pierce also
picked up two hits.
Zachary 010 001 0 - 2 6 0
Live Oak 000 000 0 - 0 2 0
W - Zack Von Rosenberg. L - Koley Little.
(Second game)
Live Oak 5
Zachary 0
WATSON - Senior Josh Craft tossed a
three-hit shutout, while fellow senior
teammate Brandon Berthelot led a 10-hit
Eagle attack with two hits and two runs
batted in. Clinging to a 1-0 lead
through four and a half innings, Live Oak
padded Craft's cushion with four runs in the
bottom of the fifth, highlighted by
Berthelot's two-run single. Koley
Little also collected two hits for the
Eagles, including a double, while junior
Cameron Chatelain was 3-for-3 at the plate.
Cam Pierce, J. Martin and H. Anderson picked
up the three singles off of Craft, who
improved his pitching record on the year to
4-3. Ben Hernandez suffered the loss
on the mound for Zachary.
Zachary 000 000 0 - 0 3 0
Live Oak 001 040 x - 5 10 1
W - Josh Craft (4-3). L - Ben Hernandez.
Live Oak 13
McKinley 1
BATON ROUGE - Live Oak exploded for 11 runs
in the top of the third inning en route to a
13-1 win over McKinley in non-district play
on the Panthers' diamond last Tuesday.
The five-inning affair halted via the 10-run
rule helped relive somewhat the pain from
dropping a District 6-4A double-header to
Zachary the previous Saturday. The
Eagles improved to 15-7-1 overall prior to
scheduled non-district games this past
Thursday and Saturday against St. Michael's
and Christian Life. Live Oak, which
has to wait to April 25 to seek revenge
against Zachary in their two-team district,
will travel to Broadmoor on Tuesday and then
up to Bains for the West Feliciana
Tournament, where the Eagles will meet
unbeaten Evangel, Tara and West Feliciana on
Friday and Saturday. Against McKinley,
Logan Lee, Adam Leblanc and Tyler McGrew all
drove in a run apiece, while senior pitcher
Adam Mier picked up the win on the mound.
McKinley of District 7-4A, remained winless
on the year at 0-14.
Live Oak 10 (11) 10 - 13 7 1
McKinley 001 00 - 1 3 2
W - A. Mier. L - D. Landry (0-3).
Live Oak outblasts
Central in long ball battle
WATSON - Junior Logan Lee smashed a solo home run in the bottom of the fifth
as Live Oak won the long-ball battle against Central with a 3-2 win Tuesday
in non-district action.
Eagle senior Adam Leblanc's two-run shot in the third tied the game at
2-all.
Central had jumped out on top 2-0 in the top of the first inning on a pair
of solo home runs by Lee and McGrew.
Live Oak improved to 8-3-1 on the season.
Central 200 000 0 - 2 4 2
Live Oak 002 010 0 - 3 4 2
W - Grant Aydell (2-1). L- B. Stelly (2-1).
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