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The Briarfield Academy Lady Rebels allowed the Tallulah Academy Lady Trojans only two runs in the finals at South State on Monday, taking an easy 21-1 victory over their rival team in the first game and a 13-1 win in the second to become South State champions at the Sports Complex in Sterlington.

General Trass is 3-0 against Bastrop since September of 2021, and they'll have a chance to extend that success tomorrow, October 4. The General Trass Panthers will take on the Bastrop Rams at 7 p.m. in Bastrop.

Briarfield took out Columbus Christian Academy Friday night at home with a final score of 36-24. Head Coach Beau Travis laments that the team continues to start slow, displaying a reticence as they undertake play. “But they makebigplayswhenweneed to make them. And we win,” he said.

Easily the most missed game last week was the Saints loss to the Eagles. After two impressive wins they had us all believing again.

Despite not having the home-field advantage, the General Trass Panthers scored 48 points and limited the host Madison Jaguars to 12 in the Panthers non-league triumph on Friday. The Panthers now hold a 2-1 record.

Coming off of a bye week, Briarfield put a win on the scoreboard away against Tensas Academy. According to head coach Beau Travis, “it wasn’t pretty, but it was a W.” The off week may have led to a slowdown in energy for this matchup, but still the Rebels shut the Chiefs down 36-0.

The defense recorded no errors, and pitcher Gracie Forman threw an almost perfect game in Briarfield Academy Lady Rebels’ win against Riverfield Academy on Monday. But in the end, the game belonged to Aubree Jones, the Lady Rebels pitcher and batting weapon.

Scores improved over the first week’s picks with three contestants, Jim Lensing, Davis Holt and Tommy Brown, getting 18 games correct. Lensing gets the win based on the tiebreaker.

The LSU AgCenter offers two ways to stay healthy – a recipe and a food program. It may still be hot in Louisiana, but as school gears backs up, many people start thinking about Fall.

The 46th annual Football Picks contest got underway last week and as usual some teams played up to expectations while others disappointed their fans. Locally, BA and GTHS were winners, as well as our state college teams with ULM, Grambling, Southern, Louisiana and LSU all coming out on top The top picker last week was Lola Ratcliff, the only contestant to pick 17 games correctly, missing only the Bengals loss to the Patriots, FIU over Central Michigan and ULM’s win over UAB.