Sports

By Daniel Jones, editor

After a choppy start to the season, the Ebarb Rebels baseball team shows signs of progression and coming together, winning four of their last six games.

The Rebels went down in defeat on April 2, losing 16-8 to Evans.

The Rebels scored four runs in the sixth inning on hits by Hunter Barnes, Garrett Rivers, Trayce Ezernack, and Robert Meshell.

Ezernack was on the mound for Ebarb, going four innings and allowing five runs on seven hits while striking out four and walking one.  He was relieved by Jacob Lovelady, who pitched two-thirds of an inning, and Alec Remedies, who pitched one-third of an inning.

Days before, on March 27, the Rebels traveled to Pleasant Hill and soundly defeated the Eagles 13-3.

More than 30 students signed up to learn the sport of boxing in a safe and comfortable environment for the spring semester at the Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts.

Taught by Jonathan Roberts and Kelvin Samuel, students will learn to master essential basic skills and conditioning exercises that form the regular regimen of real boxing training without the risk of injuries caused by full contact sparring.

“The boxing class has been a wonderful addition to our physical education program,” said Dale Clingerman, coordinator of athletics and recreation. “The students are extremely excited and passionate about learning a new skill and getting in shape.

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Scott Springer and Trust Say, a pair of 17-year olds from the Chicago area, used a noontime flurry of big bass bites to power past the 241 other teams competing on Toledo Bend Reservoir on Sunday in the Mossy Oak Fishing Bassmaster High School Central Open presented by DICK’S Sporting Goods.

The teens, who are part of the Christy, Springer and Say Community Club, boated a five-bass limit that weighed 21 pounds, 7 ounces, which was more than 2 pounds heavier than the secondplace duo. That catch propelled Springer and Say into the High School national championship tournament, which will be held at an undisclosed location later this year. In all, 24 of the 242 teams (the Top 10 percent) earned a berth in the championship with their showing on Toledo Bend.

The week has been full of twists and turns for Hunter DeSplinter and Conner Choate of the University of Wisconsin-Platteville at the Carhartt Bassmaster College Series Central Tour presented by Bass Pro Shops on Toledo Bend.

After catching 25 pounds, 9 ounces on Friday, they took the lead as the Top 30 teams prepared for the final day of competition. Little did they know they wouldn’t need another cast on Toledo Bend to take the Central Tour title.

Saturday’s action was canceled after heavy fog hung over Toledo Bend, and Choate and DeSplinter were named champions with a two-day total of 41-6.

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