POP'S GOT FOOTBALL ...  Shelby Willis is going. Pop is not. It will be extra toil and trouble, starting Monday, for Erik Willis as well as for his peers in Iberville Parish’s five high schools. Preseason football practice begins next week.

Nicholaus Parker, a student at North Iberville Elementary School, recently completed in the 12 and Under AAU Basketball National Championships as a member of his dad’s Louisiana Bayou Flames hoop club.

A few weeks ago PS SPORTS announced that former Plaquemine resident Blake Pizzolato and his teammate Dwayne Eschete won the Wal-Mart FLW Western Division Tournament of the Venice Redfish Series.

The way they went about winning the tourney will be telecasted on Sunday, August 3, on FSN Cox Cable Channel 38, beginning at 10 a.m. for local enthusiasts to watch.
Pizzolato and Eschete, who hails from Mandeville, decided to move from the waters near Venice to the Cocodrie area, about a hundred miles away from the tourney home base. It was the right move, despite the distance.

State American Legion Junior Baseball Tournament host Post 167 B team closed out its play Saturday with a 1-2 record. The locals fell by an 11-1 score Saturday to Lakeside of Shreveport and were eliminated from the tourney field.