Sports

BOM made a donation to the Converse High School Softball Program. The team won the LSWA Class B All-State 2023 State Championship and the donation is to go towards to purchase of their championship rings. Pictured left to right, BOM’s Ashley Parrie and 2023 Coach of the Year Chris Brumley. Congratulations!

The Many Bass Club’s May 2023 Tournament took place on Saturday, May 6th and Sunday May 7th on Toledo Bend. The weather on Saturday and Sunday was overcast and breezy with temps in the seventies and eighties and the moon was full. The Lake level was 171.5’, and the fish were shallow, but the bite was tough. The water temps were in the upper 60’s. The first and third place stringers were caught on Sunday and the second-place stringer was caught Saturday. There were three double digit stringers caught. The three winning stringers all came from the mid-lake area around bushes and shallow vegetation.

The NRMC Wound Care Center has been recognized as the Center of Distinction 2022, Robert A. Warriner Clinical Excellence Award 2022, and the Prestigious President’s Circle Award 2022.

For more than a decade, Healogics has presented the Center of Distinction Award to acknowledge the hard work, dedication, and accomplishments of the Center staff to deliver care, treatment, and services in a manner that exceeds the performance of other Centers. COD awards are given to Centers that achieve or exceed outstanding clinical and operational results, including ≥ 92% Patient Satisfaction Rate, ≥ 75% Wound Adjusted Comprehensive Healing Rate, and a ≤ 16% Outlier Rate.

To be awarded the Clinical Excellence Award, a Center must score in the top 10 percent of eligible Wound Care Centers for 2022 on the Clinical Excellence measure, which is the Comprehensive Healing Rate weighted by wound mix.

The Northwestern State University chapter of Alpha Lambda Delta welcomed 120 new members at the annual induction ceremony held recently at the A.A. Fredericks Auditorium.

Alpha Lambda Delta recognizes the best and brightest members of the nation’s first-year college students. Students in Alpha Lambda Delta must have a grade point average of at least 3.5 after their first semester of full-time enrollment at Northwestern State.

Alpha Lambda Delta first-year honor society was founded in 1924 at the University of Illinois and has over 280 chapters in the United States. The local chapter of Alpha Lambda Delta was established at Northwestern State on March 10, 1965. The mission of the Society is to encourage superior academic achievement; to promote intelligent living and a high standard of learning and to assist students in recognizing and developing meaningful goals in society.

Samuel “Cole” Pickett, center, a senior at Many High School, signed to join the Northwestern State University Fishing Team. Picket will attend NSU on scholarship as part of the university’s competitive bass fishing team. Pickett will also be in the President’s Leadership Program while majoring in Health and Exercise Science. He hopes to eventually become a physical therapist. He is pictured with his parents, Andrea and Brad Pickett. The NSU Fishing Team is open to all NSU students. For more information on the NSU Fishing Team, email team sponsor Juddy Hamous atjuddyh@ nsula.edu or call (318) 332-0565.

By Ramona Moore

The Many Bass Club’s April 2023 Tournament took place on Saturday, April 8th and Sunday April 9th. The weather on Saturday was overcast, and breezy with temps in the upper fifties. Sunday was also overcast with similar conditions. The water temps were in the upper 60’s. The fish were active and shallow on Saturday and Sunday with twelve anglers competing in the tournament. There were two double digit stringers and three 5-fish limits were brought to the scales. The three winning stringers all came from the midlake area around shallow vegetation.

Northwestern State University’s Department of Health and Human Performance received approval to offer a bachelor of science degree in Sports and Recreation Management with coursework set to begin in the Fall 2023 semester. The degree program will provide completers with a foundation for entry into the sport and recreation field and jobs in marketing for sport and recreation, athletic administration, gameday management, sport psychology, legal and ethical issues in sport, contemporary leadership, facility management, sales and revenue generation and sport media.

After the 2022 season ended for Zwolle in Burton Coliseum, the Hawks felt defeated and disappointed. A State Runner- up finish for most schools would have been a huge milestone; however, in ZWOLLE, you are measured by one thing…. CHAMPIONSHIPS. (The former players are sure to remind you of that if you are not playing up to the lofty expectations). The Zwolle seniors, along with the rest of the team, used the Runner-up finish as motivation all season long, capping off a 34-2 campaign with a 4025 victory in the LHSAA Division V State Championship game over rival Anacoco Friday night in a very GREEN Burton Coliseum.

Converse High School Baseball team receives donation from Sabine State Bank

BOM is a sponsor of the Converse Dixie Youth Baseball program. Pictured are Drake Parrie, Gage and Owen Bush, Jedidiah, Obidiah, and Briella Scott, and BOM’s Ashley Parrie.