Sports

The Winnfield Senior High School Tiger Football Team is excited to announce that the sale of 2017 – 2018 season tickets began on August 3rd. The ticket sales will continue until August 24th.

The ticket price this year is $50 per seat and includes five home games during the regular football season. Those individuals on the waiting list for season tickets will be contacted after August 25th regarding ticket availability. And, the school asks that readers be reminded that the season tickets are not valid for Junior Varsity football home games.

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Hunter Simons and Austin Stevenson were part of a four member team that placed ninth overall in the nation with Coach Bob Davis directing the team. They were part of the Louisiana Shooting Sports delegation that traveled to Nebraska to compete. The national competition encompasses a variety of disciplines, including archery, BB gun, muzzle loading, air rifle, rifle, air pistol, pistol, shotgun, and hunting skills.

These 4-H member from Winn Parish first practiced on the parish level with personal coaches, advanced to the regional level and then won at the state level that qualified them to compete nationally. “Winn Parish has over one hundred participants in the shooting sports program, according to Donny Moon, and the numbers are growing each year”.

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Pictured, left to right: back row: lzabella O’Bannon, Kindra Gorham, Raelynn Bartlett, Camden Johnson, Natalie Callender, Lauren Rouse, Ja’Shira Henson. front row: Madelyn Gorham, Josie Perrett, Ra’Shunta Holden, Kyleigh Blundell, Riley Gough. The players and coaches would like to thank their sponsors, including Gaar Timber LLC, Sikes General Store, Country Girl, Mrs. Diana Smith and S&S Industrial of Natchitoches, as well as everyone who purchased raffle tickets in support of the team.

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The Winnfield Senior High School 2016 – 2017 baseball team finished their season with an overall record of 14 – 19 and 5–5 in district play. Although most would look at this record and say it’s not a winning season, others look beyond the numbers and know the boys have a lot to be proud of. The season was filled with joys, sorrows, errors, rough games, close losses, bad calls, double plays, shut outs, home-runs, a grand slam, amazing catches, defensive plays, close games, and great pitching! For these boys, baseball is not just a game – it is a way of life. Sometimes it is more than numbers or stats on a piece of paper. It is more than winning games. Baseball is about building character, working as a team, learning the importance of sportsmanship, and being there for your team-mates. Baseball is about playing a game you love with heart and integrity.

The Winnfield Senior High School Baseball Team landed several players on the 3 – 3A All District Teams for the 2016- 2017 year, in recognition of their accomplishments on the field, throughout the season.

Those named to the 3 – 3A District Teams are as follows: Justin Lawson, sophomore, 1st Team All District, Utility Player; Jackson Teal, senior, 1st Team All District, Outfield, MVP WSHS Baseball Team; Jacob Desadier, senior, 2nd Team All District, 2nd Base, Defensive Player of the Year WSHS Baseball Team; Joseph Tinnerello, senior, 2nd Team All District, Pitcher; Brett Jurek, freshman, 2nd Team All District; Utility Player; Offensive Player of the Year WSHS Baseball Team; and Joshua Tinnerello, freshman, Honorable Mention, Outfield.

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Summertime. What special meaning does it have for you? What thoughts and memories are triggered when you think about that three month span of time when the “living is easy and the cotton is high”?

To most of us, it’s trying to find a place to keep cool, getting outside work done early so as to avoid the penetrating heat of the summer sun. In my childhood days, though, it was a different story.

Summertime meant a three-month reprieve from sitting in a classroom and having to do homework. I’d count the days off during May, days that passed at the same snail’s pace as those last days before Christmas. When the school bell rang for the last time that school year, what an exciting time that was.

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It sometimes amazes me how some things are taken for granted. You know they’re there; you drive by them everyday but you’re headed some-where else and it never crosses your mind to stop by.

Lincoln Parish is home to atleast two of those entities that we know are there but most of us fail to visit. Lincoln Parish Park is located in the beautiful tree-studded hills just north of Ruston. Granted, the local community is generally supporting this mecca in the pines but if you check license plates of visitors to the park, most are from other states. Bike trails, hiking trails, a beautiful lake for fishing and swimming, picnic areas and overnight camp sites are there for a modest fee for families to enjoy

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Ron and Tes Jolly operate a farm in east-central Alabama. Tes is a nationally-known wildlife photographer while Ron works for the state of Alabama and is an award winning outdoors writer.

I read an article by Ron in the July-August issue of Turkey Country magazine, published by the National Wild Turkey Federation. This article hit home because the problems the Jolly’s are having on their Alabama farm mimics the problems land owners, hunting lease members and the general public are also having here in Louisiana.

“Ten years ago,” Jolly writes, “feral hog sightings were a novelty on our east-central Alabama farm. A decade later, he points out, he would be in an all-out war to preserve his farm’s water resources, habitat and food plots he had worked so hard to manage and establish, habitat and resources the hogs were destroying.

Though they may appear to be vulnerable and in need of assistance, unattended white-tailed deer fawns encountered in the wild should not be disturbed, according to Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries’ (LDWF) biologists. LDWF is reminding the public the best practice is to leave them alone and to remember it is against the law to capture young deer or any other wild animal.

Newborn fawns rely on their spotted coats and concealment during the first few weeks of life. Does will forage nearby and return periodically to nurse the young fawn. The lack of flight and hiding strategy phase of a newborn fawn often creates the illusion of abandonment. However, as fawns grow and develop, they will begin to forage for food alongside the mother.

Brady Johnson, age 11, and Daniel Martin, age 10, got the surprise of their young lives two weeks ago. Their Poppy and Gran, Wayne and Judy Harlan, surprised them with tickets to Omaha, Nebraska for Game 2 of the Men’s College World Series, LSU vs. Florida State. Brady and Daniel were the first fans to form a line to welcome the LSU Tigers to the TD Ameritrade Park. They held their signs and got high fives from all of the players and coaching staff. They were amazed at the size of the ballpark and how many LSU fans traveled to Omaha. Sporting their brand new souvenir ballcaps, bought earlier in the day, they watched the game intently and enjoyed some ballpark food favorites. A foul ball landed two rows in front of them and they both had their arms stretched as far as possible trying to catch it. After the WIN they joined other LSU fans to send the Tigers off to rest up for the next game.