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Freshman Will Bagley had a huge night as he lead the Pioneers with a career high of 16 points in a 73-47 victory over the Tallulah Academy Trojans.

Following behind Bagley was senior Macon Murphy with 13 points, junior Drake Holmes with 8 points, junior Adam Campbell and senior John Cunningham with 6.

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Stanley’s girls’ basketball team traveled to Natchitoches to take on St. Mary’s on Tuesday, Dec. 12. After getting a huge lead in the first quarter, Stanley stayed ahead throughout the game. St. Mary’s tried to catch up, but it wasn’t enough to beat Stanley. The game ended with Stanley winning 67- 47.

In the first quarter, Stanley scored 19 points while St. Mary’s scored only 6. In the second quarter, Stanley and St. Mary’s each scored 16 points. Stanley advanced their early lead by scoring another 23 points in the third quarter. St. Mary’s scored 5 points.

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Congratulations Tigers for having such a great season and making it into the play-off semi-finals!

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By Kelsey Wheless

The Logansport Tigers earned a return trip to the Semi finals with a convincing 40-18 win over the visiting Varnado Wildcats. The win improved the Tigers record to 13-0. In the Semifinals, the Tigers will travel to Edgard, LA to take on the West St John Rams. Wes St John is the number 1 seed in the playoffs and the Tigers are the fifth seed. This will be the 3rd meeting all time between the 2 schools with the first 2 also being in the semi finals. Logansport lost in 1993 at home and traveled to Edgard in 1994 and also fell to the Rams. Against Varnado, the Tiger offense rolled up a season high 580 yards while the defense limited the Wildcats to 237 yards.

By Madison Ruston

The Griffins were in the 2nd round of the playoffs this week and they had to travel down to New Orleans to take on the #4 seed Warren Easton. North DeSoto was big underdogs coming into this game, but they also had some people who thought they could pull off the ultimate upset. The Griffins knew they had to leave everything out on the field if they wanted to see the 3rd round of playoffs.

By Kelsey Wheless

The Logansport Tigers continued their march to another state championship with a dominating 48-0 win over the Homer Pelicans. Next up for the Tigers is a quarterfinal game versus the Varnado Wildcats. The Tigers carry a 12-0 record into the game along with a 26 game winning streak. Varnado has an 8-3 record. These 2 teams met last year in the quarterfinals with Logansport taking a 50-14 victory. The Tiger defense, which earned their 5th shutout of the season limited the Pelicans to 113 yards of total offense while forcing 4 turnovers.

Logansport received the opening kickoff and drove 75 yards in 5 plays to take the early lead. On the fifth play of the drive Tresmin Brown broke free for a 47 yard touchdown run. Austin Edgar added the extra point for a 7-0 lead with 10:11 left in the opening quarter.

By Kelsey Wheless

In the opening round of the Class 1A playoffs in 2015, the Logansport Tigers opened up against North Central Hurricanes. In that game the Tigers scored a school playoff record of 59 points on their way to a 59-0 win. Flash forward to 2017 and the Tigers are the defending Class 1A State Champions. On again the North Central Hurricanes came into town to open the playoffs. This year was a different score but the same result as the Tigers came away with a 52-0 win. Logansport was able to race to a 32-0 first quarter lead. The host Tigers added 14 more in the second quarter for all of the scoring in the game. In the second half, the teams agreed to play 5 minute quarters. In the second round of the playoffs the Tigers will travel to Homer to take on the Pelicans, who upset LaSalle in the first round.

By Antwone Jacobs

This past Friday, Coach Mike Green and the Mansfield High Wolverines hosted a first round playoff game against the East Feliciana Tigers. The Wolverines came into the playoffs winning six of their last seven games. They overcame an early season injury to starting quarterback LaKendrick Ross finished the regular season with a 7-3 overall record and 3-1 for District 1-2A play. East Feliciana came into the playoffs off a 34-14 win over District 8-2A foe Northeast High. After an 0-3 start to the season, the Tigers went 5-2 over their last seven games to finish with a 5-5, 3-2 record. Before the Wolverines took the field, Coach Green told his team “that all he was asking this team to do was keep fighting. There are 32 teams left and you have to do what it takes to remain one of them.”

By Kelsey Wheless

In the season finale and warm up before the playoffs the 9-0 Logansport Tigers played host to longtime rival and 8-1 St Mary Tigers. The standing room crowd got their money’s worth as the 2 Tiger teams fought tooth and nail until the final horn sounded. After Logansport had extended their lead to 12 with 7:21 left in the game, St Mary cut the lead to 6 with 48 seconds left. St Mary then attempted an onside kick which bounced off a Logansport player and was recovered by the visitors. With 4 seconds left and 12 yards from the tying score, St Mary tried to trick the defense with a running play. Lacadrian Gant and Lekadrian Turner stopped the St Mary back for a loss of 2 yards to seal the victory 36-30. This week the Tigers begin the playoffs with a home game at Tiger Stadium.