Sports

Move over 1994 State Championship Trophy because you now have company.
For the last 27 years, the North Vermilion Class 2A State Championship baseball trophy stood alone in the trophy case at NVHS. No longer. It now has to share the case with a Class 4A State Championship trophy won by the 2021 Patriots baseball team.
The No. 3 seeded Patriots upset No. 1 seeded Tioga Indians 5-3 in the Class 4A finals on Saturday.
The 1994 Patriots were the last team from Vermilion Parish to win a state baseball title until Saturday night.

Down by five runs with two outs, the North Vermilion Patriots somehow managed to find a way to win in the bottom of the eighth inning in the Class 4A semifinals.
The Patriots were down 10-5 with two outs. No one panicked. Instead they got back to back to back singles by Brandt Fontenot, Dylan Naquin and Jordan Blanchard to load the bases.
Cooper David hit a Two-RBI single to make it 10-7. Two more runs scored on a South Terrebonne error to make it 10-9.
Lane Patin had the game tying RBI with a double.

The No. 3 North Vermilion Patriots are playing in the LHSSA Class 4A semifinals this morning against No. 7 South Terrebonne.
The game gets underway at 10 a.m. in McMurry Park in Sulphur. It is on Field 40.
This is the first time the Patriots make the semifinals since 1995 and since 2009 for South Terrebonne.
The winner will play either Tioga (28-7) or Neville (22-15) in the championship game at 6 p.m. on Saturday.
South Terrebonne made it to the state semifinals twice before (1976 and 1980) but failed to make it to the championship game.