Sports

If you read or watched any coverage of the U.S. Olympic Men's Track and Field team trials in Oregon over the weekend, you probably heard about the amazing feat of a 16-year-old high schooler setting a world record in the 400-meter dash.

Briarfield Academy staff and parents, along with the staff of the Lake Providence Country Club, honored the 2023-24 Briarfield Academy Rebel basketball team with a special ring ceremony. The Rebels won the State Championship at the MAIS Tournament, finishing the year with a 24-3 record.

Briarfield is typically big winners and spring sports and this year is no different. The baseball team made it to playoffs and the track teams brought home district championship trophies for JV Girls and Boys and Varsity Girls and Boys.

In 1975, Briarfield boys basketball won the state championship in a down-to-the-wire shot coming from a player who hadn’t been slated to take it. The play had fallen apart, it landed in his hands, and the rest was history. The men on that team told the story to the Briarfield boys basketball team Thursday night before they headed to Marks, Mississippi, to claim the state championship title for the first time in 49 years.

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Briarfield’s junior varsity girls and boys basketball teams, both coached by Blake Ratliff, brought home championship trophies from the district tournament held at Riverdale Academy on Saturday. In the final game, which the girls team went straight into as the number 1 seed, they defeated Claiborne Academy 24-23, with Anna Beth Russell and Lila Anne Frith high scorers with 8 points each.

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) is accepting applications for Wildlife Management Area (WMA) lottery turkey hunts and the White Lake Wetlands Conservation Area (WCA) fishing lottery. The deadline to apply is February 7.

Wydett Williams Jr. left Lake Providence a star of the General Trass Panthers football team, went on to spend two years excelling on the field of Delta State University, and next year will be found beneath the lights of University of Louisiana at Monroe’s Malone Stadium.

General Trass Panthers football team was well represented on the 2023 District 2-2A All District Team, according to Head Coach Toriano Wells. Panther players who received all district honors include: first team offense: Kameron Williams, senior, Anton Davis, junior, Joshua Hopkins, junior; second team offense: Keimare Campbell, senior, Aaron Martin, sophomore, Jamarion Powell, sophomore; first team defense: Kameron Williams, Twan Wilson, junior, Ahmonie Williams, junior; second team defense: Stephon Everfield, senior, Dylan Baker, senior, Za’Corrion McCallum, junior, J’Bion Newson, sophomore.