Haynes sweeps Crescent City in volleyball action

admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:18:06 +0000

Posted by: Tommy Taylor in Prep Sports on Sep 02, 2010

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The Haynes Yellowjackets opened its season wtih a straight set, 25-4, 25-13, 25-6, victory over the Crescent City Pioneers Thursday at the Haynes gym.

After jumping out to a 5-0 lead early in the first game, Cloe d’Aquin later served 16 consecutive points, including eight aces, as the Yellowjackets took a commanding 24-4 lead.

Trailing 5-0 in the second game, Katie Philippi sparked the Yellowjackets rally with nine consecutive points, including seven aces as Haynes led 18-10.

In the final game, Victoria Kissinger served 14 consecutive points, including five aces, as the Jackets led 23-4.

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Corinne Bailey Rae and Mia Borders delight HoB crowd

admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:24:01 +0000

Posted by: Dwayne Fatherree in Show Reviews on Sep 02, 2010

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NEW ORLEANS | The final tickets were sold for Corinne Bailey Rae’s House of Blues appearance Wednesday evening, leaving disappointed fans along Decatur Street. But for those who were lucky enough to buy tickets early, the evening was uplifting, exuberant and beautiful.

The show kicked off with a stellar set from New Orleans’ own Mia Borders. Backed by her seasoned band, the quartet moved from “romantical,” as Borders called the band’s softer songs, to full-on rock and roll.

• See photos from the show!

The band’s heavy touring schedule over the last few months promoting its “Magnolia Blue” record has honed the group’s stage presence dramatically. Instead of the standard polite opening set applause, Borders drew the crowd in and had them cheering for more by the time she announced the last song of her 30-minute set.

As for Corinne Bailey Rae, she wasted no time capturing the audience’s attention. Although her solo material is softer and more soul oriented than her early work with funk entrepreneurs The New Mastersounds, there is an undeniable flow to the music that kept the crowd focused on her voice.

That didn’t lessen the energy of her performance. The audience was riveted as she moved through material from her second record, “The Sea,” and laughed along with her as she showed her unabashed joy between songs. Her five-piece backing band pushed the music along effortlessly, creating a seamless nest for Rae’s incredibly tight vocals.

Judging from the bursts of applause and rapt silence during the songs, Rae’s hypnotic sound worked on the New Orleans audience.

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Game Notes: Ouachita Christian-Mangham

admin — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:09:21 +0000

Notes provided by David C. Cox here.

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Home Field Advantage Campaign Surpasses $2 Million as construction starts on new Jesuit field

admin — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:43:06 +0000

From Jesuit High School:

In January 2010, Jesuit quietly began a campaign to raise funds to build a first-class stadium complex and field that could be called “Home” for the Blue Jay athletes on its many different teams. Since then, the Home Field Advantage (HFA) project has been moving forward sans any great fanfare.

There will come a time for the Jesuit community to celebrate, especially when this magnificent facility is completed sometime next spring. Jesuit president Fr. Anthony McGinn, S.J. ‘66 has been busy (quietly) knocking on the doors of Blue Jay alumni, current parents, parents of alumni, and foundations to explain the project. His efforts, and those of the project’s co-chairmen from the Class of 1974, Billy Babin and Terry Billings, have resulted in approximately 100 commitments totaling more than $2 million.

The goal for the HFA drive is to raise $5 million. While avid readers of Jaynotes might have learned about the HFA campaign in the winter-spring issue (mailed in June), the information, along with galleries of images and architect renderings, is now posted on Jesuit’s web site on the Home Field Advantage Main Page. Over the course of the school year, the Blue Jay community will be kept informed about this exciting project via E-News and the Jesuit Web Site.

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Importance of complying with sports injury rehab therapy

admin — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:16:32 +0000

With the start of the pro football season and the new academic year, where fall sports programs are underway at colleges and high schools nationwide, sports-related injuries are occurring, both on the field during competition and during practice sessions. Concurrent with this, rehabilitation-related therapies are administered by certified athletic trainers and physical therapists to help these athletes recover from their injuries.

While many of these therapies have been in existence for a long time and other, newer ones have been developed, an alarming number of these injured athletes do not appear to be complying with the rehab programs that are designed to help them. This was the conclusion drawn by a research team in a recent study that was published in the Journal of Sport Rehabilitation.

According to the study, “Rehabilitation adherence is accepted as a critical component for attaining optimal outcomes. Poor adherence is recognized as a problem in the athletic training setting.” The study produced some alarming numbers over a fifteen-year period between the 1988-89 and the 2003-04 college athletic seasons. Out of an estimated 380,000 student athletes participating in 15 of 23 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) sports at more than 1,000 institutions nationwide, 72,316 injuries were reported during games. This translates to an average of 13.79 injuries per 1,000 athlete exposures. An additional 109,160 were reported during practice sessions, translating to an average of 3.98 injuries per 1,000 athlete exposures. And these are just the reported cases. There is reason to believe that actual injury rates could be higher.

To cite just a few more numbers, the study found that “sport-injury rehabilitation-adherence rates in community-based sports medicine rehabilitation settings (e.g. physical therapy or physiotherapy clinics range from 40% to 91%. In one study, physiotherapists reported that 55% of patients were not fully adherent with prescribed home modalities and 51% of these patients were not fully adherent with prescribed rest from activity.” The study went on to assert that less than 100% adherence “may be less than optimal.”

The study did not break down by numbers or percentages which sports the reported injuries occurred in. For the overall purpose of the study, this was probably intentional, but it’s safe to assume that a large percentage of those injuries may have been incurred in the contact sport of football, and this is going to be my focus here.

Having worked with hundreds of professional football players over a period of thirty years, I have encountered many diverse patterns of injuries and have helped in the management of these players through the rehabilitative process before they go back out on the field. Injuries are an intrinsic part of the game of football; they go with the territory. Football players know this going in, and they usually prepare themselves for this on the physical level with high-intensity functional workout regimens. What they are NOT often prepared for is the EMOTIONAL impact an injury and the “sitting-out” process will have on them. I will comment on this a little further on. For the moment, however, I want to focus on injuries and rehab adherence.

I don’t like to use the term “damaged goods” but, when talking about many of the pro football players who come to me during or even after their pro careers, where there is an injury involved this is often what I’m dealing with. The injuries they sustain during their pro careers may often date back to their high school or college playing days. The training they endure during practice sessions can be as much a cause of the injury as the impact sustained during a game, if that training is not done correctly.

For ten years prior to Katrina I administered my NFL Draft Preparation Program, which helped prepare players for the yearly February NFL Combine and for their “Pro Day” on their respective college campuses. During this time I was amazed to observe how many previously injured players were in that number. This is why, after extensive evaluations, I chose to work with only about ten players at a time. But, even today, I am flabbergasted at the ability of some of these athletes to play with such collateral damage.

Serious hamstring pulls are one of the most frequent and debilitating types of injuries I encounter, followed by groin injuries. Research appears to show that a hamstring injury, after healing, has a 50% chance of re-injury. My belief is that, especially in the pros, injuries like hamstrings are not being effectively managed and players are being brought back too quickly, either by their own choice or by permission of the team.

Depending on the seriousness of the injury, such as an ACL (anterior cruciate ligament), a player may be sidelined for an entire season.

Last year, during the football season, I teamed up with an orthopedic surgeon on a series for the Washington Post‘s online NFL site, “The League.” For 17 weeks we discussed injuries and the effects they were having on teams. The loss of a key player, especially a quarterback, can have a major impact on an entire team and can change the dynamic of its season week-by-week. It can range from being a “game changer” to a “season changer” for a player and his team. As training methods adapt to the nature of today’s game and collisions occur at greater speeds, we will continue to see devastating injuries. And, as these injuries occur, there will always be someone to come in and take the place of the player who has been carted off the field. No matter how important that injured player is, there will always be someone to replace him on the field. The game must go on in spite of the injuries that occur to key players.

Statistics I have seen from the website FootballOutsiders.com point to the fact that, at any given point during the course of a pro season, anywhere from 2.1 to 2.4 active players are sitting on the bench with injuries, whereas that number drops to 1.4 to 1.7 during the playoffs. What this tells me is that a lot more players are playing injured when there is more at stake, as is the case when a team makes it into the playoff rounds.

So, the bottom line here is that effective injury management, prehabilitation (injury prevention) and functional performance training, all of which I successfully manage for the client, are the keys to long-term success at all levels of play – high school, college and the pros. And, concurrent with this – as I alluded to earlier – is the emotional aspect a player must face when an injury takes him out of the game. In my experience this is the most devastating thing to a player because they are nearly always unprepared for the psychological impact of an injury. This is something they definitely have to think about and prep themselves for, along with the physical side.

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The Sports Mole’s Class 5A football predictions

admin — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 15:13:59 +0000

Posted by: The Sports Mole in Prep Sports on Aug 29, 2010

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Louisiana’s top classification is mostly wide-open once again in 2010, but defending champion West Monroe will be tough to knock off their throne:

Predictions

1-5A

8) Natchitoches-Central

Top “programs” in 5A (no order): West Monroe, Catholic-BR, Rummel, Hahnville, Acadiana

2010 5A sleepers: Zachary, Mandeville, Brother Martin

Back to prominence in 2010: Keep an eye on Carencro with new coach Brent Indest who has turned around Abbeville, Crowley, and Kaplan and spent a year on Derek Dooley’s first staff at Louisiana Tech.

Best district, top to bottom:

6-5A is probably the toughest district in the state in this class, with Destrehan winning two of the last three state championships. Hahnville was a 2009 quarterfinalist and Dutchtown was the 6th seed in last year’s playoffs. East St. John is blessed with great athletes annually and St. Amant and East Ascension almost knocked off at least two of the top four teams last season.

Next is 10-5A, the New Orleans “Catholic League” where all five teams made the post-season last year; four should compete for the district title in 2010.

Best players on offense: East St. John WR Dhaquille Williams, Catholic-BR’s QB Zack Oliver, and West Monroe QB Paul Turner.

Best players on defense: St. Paul DT Mickey Johnson and West Monroe DT Chuck Hunter.

John Ehret – West Jefferson

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West Jeff overcomes Helen Cox in jamboree

admin — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 01:08:41 +0000

When you only have the ball for four plays in an entire half, it is hard to score. West Jefferson had that distinction Friday night against Helen Cox but managed a score. It proved to be important.

After falling behind 13-0, West Jefferson rallied in the second half to edge Helen Cox 20-19 in a thriller in the second game of the West Bank Optimist Jamboree at Hoss Memstas Stadium.

Buccaneers senior quarterback Shawn Hoye completed a pair of touchdown passes to tight end Erick Henneman, the first covering 19 yards and the latter four yards with 1:55 to play in the game. Senior kicker Jose Mazier provided the margin of victory, drilling the extra point.

It did not start well for West Jefferson. Helen Cox jumped out to a 7-0 lead. The Cougars took the opening kickoff and drove 83 yards in 10 plays, taking 3:22 off the clock with Ellis Carey scoring from one-yard out.

On the ensuing kickoff, Devin Scott muffed it and Kerry Brister recovered at the West Jefferson three-yard line. Two plays later, Rodrick Johnson scored from one-yard out to make it 13-0 Helen Cox.

Once again, the ensuing kickoff led to another score. Ronald Lewis returned it 72 yards to the Helen Cox 19-yard line, setting up Hoye’s scoring pass to Hanneman. The two-point conversion attempt failed and it was 13-6 Cougars at halftime.

West Jefferson came out on the first possession of the second half and drove 71 yards in 14 plays, taking 5:10 off the clock with Hoye scoring on a one-yard run to tie the game.

The Cougars answered with an eight-play, 79-yard drive with Johnson scoring on a one-yard run, set up by a 48-yard run by Kerry Brister. The extra point failed and it proved decisive.

The Buccaneers went 61 yards in seven plays to win it. The big play was a fourth down run from punt formation by Lewis.

He fielded a bouncing snap and elected to run right, gaining 14 yards to the 50 to keep the drive alive, setting the stage for Hoye’s game-winning pass to Henneman.

For West Jefferson coach Marcus Scott, the game was reminiscent of last year’s jamboree victory over the Cougars.

“It was similar to last season. We had things go wrong in the game and we had to pull it out in the end against a well-coached Cox team.

We had a sophomore muff a kickoff. Once we scored in the first half, I just told the guys we’ll get the ball in the second half, we’ll keep chopping wood and we’ll make a comeback similar to last year. We showed some character coming back.

We have to tackle a lot better moving forward. We have some things to fix against a very good St. Augustine team next week. We look forward to the challenge,” said Scott.

Hoye, Jr. completed eight of 13 passes for 148 yards and the two touchdowns. Redd Hartman had four catches for 78 yards and two scores. Lewis had two catches for 40 yards.

For Helen Cox, Kenny Brister had a huge game, rushing 15 times for 156 yards while Johnson had 12 carries for 67 yards and two scores.

Helen Cox opens its season next weekend against Destrehan while West Jefferson takes on St. Augustine.

WEST JEFF 6 14 20

HELEN COX 13 6 19

West Jefferson 23 yards (Shawn Hoye 3 carries for 11 yards)

Helen Cox 245 yards (Kerry Brister 15 carries for 156 yards, Rodrick Johnson 12 carries for 67 yards and 2 touchdowns)

Shawn Hoye 8 of 13 for 148 yards and 2 TD’s

Darian Hills 2 of 3 for 9 yards

Kendall Roberts 1 of 3 for 17 yards

Redd Hartman 3 catches for 72 yards

Erick Hanneman 2 catches for 23 yards

Rodrick Johnson 2 catches 25 yards

Kerry Brister 1 catch for 3 yards

West Jefferson 5 for 45 yards

Helen Cox 8 for 40 yards