Iowa lands two all-state players on LSWA Class 4A all-state team

Published 8:00 am Thursday, June 12, 2025

Iowa’s Lucas Alexander and Alivia Singletary produced several career top marks this season and earned first-team spots on the Louisiana Sports Writers Association Class 4A all-state baseball and softball teams.

Alexander, a senior shortstop for the Yellow Jackets baseball team, was voted to the first team for a third consecutive season. He helped lead Iowa to the quarterfinals after a Non-select Division II state championship run in 2023 and a semifinal appearance last season.

Alexander had career highs in batting average (.390), RBIs (29), runs scored (35) and home runs (5) for the 17-14 Yellow Jackets.

Singletary helped the Iowa softball team earn its fifth consecutive top-six seed.

The junior three-year starter added pop to her bat this season with a career-high five home runs, six doubles and 30 RBIs while batting over .400 for a second consecutive season (.426). The outfielder scored 46 runs and stole 15 bases as the Yellow Jackets went 24-11 and won the District 3-4A championship and committed three errors in 56 chances.

Juniors Lauren Baudoin of Vanderbilt Catholic and Teurlings Catholic’s Evan Vincent are the softball and baseball MVPs, respectively.

Baudoin led the Terriers to a second consecutive state championship while going 24-1 in the circle with 226 strikeouts and a 1.10 earned run average. She hit .380 with 29 RBIs. Vincent, a Louisiana-Lafayette commitment, went 10-0 with a 1.26 ERA and 86 strikeouts in 61 innings.

North DeSoto swept the Coach of the Year awards. Tim Whitman led North DeSoto softball to its fourth state championship in five seasons and a 32-3 record, while Bob Odom led the baseball team to its first state championship since 2012.

CLASS 4 ALL-STATE

Baseball

Player, School Cl. Stats

P Jace Garber, Teurlings Catholic Sr. 9-0

P Brayden Ray, Brusly Jr. 10-2

P Alex Richardson, Belle Chasse Jr. 7-4

P Owen Stempel, Archbishop Hannan Sr. 7-2

C Thomas LeCompte, E.D. White Jr. .398

INF James Guidry, Vanderbilt Catholic Sr. .378

INF Reni Mason, North DeSoto Sr. .465

INF Will Power, Teurlings Catholic Jr. .474

INF Jax Triche, E.D. White Sr. .413

OF Gage Berthelot, Lutcher Sr. .352

OF Cole Cory, North DeSoto Sr. .383

OF Aiden Washington, Brusly Sr. .383

UT Drew Daigle, Brusly Sr. .384

UT Dalton Davidson, Archbishop Shaw Sr. 7-3

UT Cameron DeRoche, Lutcher Jr. 8-1

UT Cade Wilkerson, St. Thomas More Sr. .411

UT Evan Vincent, Teurlings Catholic Jr. 10-0

OUTSTANDING PLAYER — Evan Vincent, Teurlings

Catholic

COACH OF THE YEAR — Bo Odom, North DeSoto

HONORABLE MENTION: Kingston Adams, Loyola; Lucas

Alexander, Iowa; Will Allen, West Ouachita; Jaxon Bentzler,

Northwood; Ryan Berard, Teurlings Catholic; Grant Bouillon,

Lakeshore; Braden Breaux, South Terrebonne; Gavin Brint,

Loyola; Jack Carlisle, Northwood; Andrew Carriere, St. Thom-

as More; Nathan Cervantes, Northwood; Brayden Clement,

South Terrebonne; Jake Clifton, Pearl River; Kayden Coghlan,

Tioga; Ryan Crooks, Tioga; Peyton Daigle, Rayne; Cayden

Dartez, St. Thomas More; Tyler Dartez, Iowa; Luke Delafield,

North DeSoto; Noah Detillier, South Terrebonne; Blaze

Duhon, North Vermilion; Reed Dupre, Iowa; Myles Futrell,

Grant; Spencer Guilbeau, Vandebilt Catholic; Xan Harwell,

Pearl River; Chip Joiner, West Feliciana; Braden Jones, North

DeSoto; Patrick Kennedy, Archbishop Hannan; Gabe Kugler,

St. Charles Catholic; Hayden Lebleu, Iowa; Jack Ledet, South

Lafourche; Thomas Mancuso, Morgan City; Cam Martin,

West Ouachita; Landon Martin, Northwood; Kaden Miller,

West Ouachita; Ryland Nation, Grant; Brayden Netterville,

Kenner Discovery; Jacob Pierce, South Lafourche; Cole Pryor,

Loyola; Jack Purser, Teurlings Catholic; Ryan Reeves, Tioga;

Dylan Robichaux, E.D. White Catholic; Mason Rogillio, West

Feliciana; Riley Rowell, St. Thomas More; Reese Sanzone,

Lakeshore; Aubrey St. Angelo, Brusly; Bryce Waguespack, St.

Charles Catholic.

Softball

Player, School Cl. Avg.

GAZZOLO

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The athletic depart-

ment will start the new

year with three of its five

major sports, led by head

coaches who own the

school record for wins in

their respective sports, as

Matt Viator returns to the

football sideline.

Viator joins James

Landreneau (softball) and

Justin Hill (baseball) as

the winningest coaches in

their respective sports at

McNeese.

“That is unheard of,”

Schroyer said. “We are

very fortunate to have

those coaches leading our

programs.”

Combined, the three

have been named SLC

Coach of the Year nine

times, with Landreneau

leading the way with four

such honors.

As for the two brand-

new coaches, Ayla

Guzzardo takes over the

women’s basketball pro-

gram after transforming

Southeastern Louisiana

into a league power. She

has won two of the last

three SLC top coaching

honors for her sport, giv-

ing McNeese a total of 11

in the Big Five.

Bill Armstrong takes

over the top program, the

men’s basketball team,

after Will Wade won the

last two titles for the

Cowboys and coaching

awards. Armstrong seems

to have brought in the

best talent possible in

McNeese hoops history.

You can see why it

appears McNeese is on

the upswing, but there

are no guarantees. With

increased investment

comes greater pressure

to win, win now, and win

big.

Fans expect it, and

boosters generally de-

mand it. They are busi-

nesspeople who expect

to see results from their

investments.

But this is what Mc-

Neese officials have been

asking for: to be treated

like they are sitting at the

adult table.

Being the best in the

Southland is nice, but it

has never been the end

goal. There is more to

come for McNeese as the

game continues to evolve.

However, it has to start

with a big year.

The coming year is

a pivotal one for the

program’s direction. You

can only claim you are

rebuilding for so long.

Eventually you have to

complete the process.

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Jim Gazzolo is a freelance writer

who covers McNeese State athlet-

ics for the American Press. Email

him at jimgazzolo@yahoo.com

LSU

Continued from A6

Brown tied the score at

4-4 in the seventh when

he reached on an infield

single as a pinch-hitter

and eventually scored on

Derek Curiel’s single.

Frey, who had a solo

home run in the fourth

inning, ended the game

with a sacrifice fly in the

wee hours that scored

Jared Jones.

There was no such

drama the next day as

LSU jumped on the Ra-

zorbacks early and late to

win 13-3 in seven innings

— the Razorbacks’ lone

10-run, mercy-rule loss of

the season.

“I think that game was

at that time was the best

game that we’d played

collectively as a team,”

Brown said. “Now you can

add in some of the post-

season games — I think

we played one of our best

games of the year against

(Dallas Baptist), and in

the super regionals we

played two good games.

“But Arkansas is a

really competitive team

— and (it showed) so are

we.”

It was one of Brown’s

best games for sure.

All he did, batting

cleanup, was go 3-for-4

with three runs scored,

with his five RBIs coming

on three at-bats.

He started the on-

slaught with a three-run

homer in the first, added

a solo shot in the third

and got an RBI single in

the fifth.

Frey was 2-for-3 (with

two walks) while driv-

ing in four runs with a

based-loaded walk in the

fourth and a three-run

homer in the fifth.

It was the rare 10-run

victory that ended with

a walk-off, wild-pitch-

strike out in the bottom

of the seventh.

The Razorbacks

temporarily avoided the

mercy rule with their first

three runs of the game in

the top of seventh to cut

LSU’s lead to 12-3.

Steven Milam struck

out swinging in the

bottom of the inning, but

the ball got away from

catcher Ryder Helfrick

and he threw wide trying

to keep Daniel Dickinson

from advancing to third.

Instead he trotted home

with the game-ending

run.

The first game was a

duel between left-handers

Kade Anderson of LSU

and Zac Root, a match-

up likely to be repeated

Saturday in Omaha.

Both were effective.

Anderson went 52/3 in-

nings with 10 strikeouts

while giving up three

runs. Root went six in-

nings, giving up two runs

on five hits.

The gem of the week-

end was turned in by

LSU’s Anthony Eyanson

in the second game.

“He just stuck it to

us,” Arkansas head coach

Dave Van Horn said at

the time. “We had some

frustrating at-bats …

chased some balls and left

runners out there.”

Eyanson struck out 11

in six shut out innings.

In the Hogs’ victory,

they basically won a game

of bullpens after both

LSU starter Casan Evans

and Arkansas’ Landon

Bedelschies were gone by

the fourth inning.

Arkansas used five

relievers to hold LSU to

one run over the final six

innings. LSU used seven

over the final 51/3, who

allowed three runs.

What effect those

games have on Saturday’s

much bigger stage is any-

body’s guess.

Probably none.

The Razorbacks, after

all, didn’t take the mer-

cy-rule loss personally,

bouncing back to win the

final game.

“I’ll look at them like

we never played them be-

fore,” LSU head coach Jay

Johnson said. “It just gets

back to my theory of guys

change game to game.

Teams change game to

game — let alone when

played them four weeks

ago, whatever it was.”

LSU will be making its

20th CWS appearance,

seeking it eighth national

championship.

P Lilia Alleman, Assumption So. 17-6

P Lauren Baudoin, Vandebilt Catholic Jr. 24-1

P Margaret Oge, St. Thomas More Jr. 20-6

P Avery McCloskey, North DeSoto Sr. 27-2

C Shyanne Irvin, St. Thomas More Sr. .495

INF Adrienne Arnett, St. Charles Catholic Jr. .560

INF Maddy Stringer, North DeSoto Sr. .420

INF Kallie Waalk, Vandebilt Catholic Fr. .450

INF Zoe Fabre, Brusly So. .471

OF Emma Bailey, St. Thomas More Sr. .510

OF Livie Thibodeaux, Assumption Sr. .504

OF Alivia Singletary, Iowa Jr. .436

UT Shelbee Gros, E.D. White So. 18-8

UT Raegan Henderson, North DeSoto Sr. .446

UT Kennedy Stutes, St. Thomas More Sr. .396

UT Miki Watts, Loranger Sr. .615

UT Briley Whittington, West Ouachita Sr. .372

OUTSTANDING PLAYER — Lauren Baudoin, Vanderbilt

Catholic

COACH OF THE YEAR — Tim Whitman, North DeSoto

HONORABLE MENTION: Emersen Blanchard, Pearl Riv-

er; Grace Chaisson, Caddo Magnet; Blair Clement, Lutcher;

Maddie Bourgeois, Lutcher; Carsyn Curtis, North DeSoto;

Bella Daniels, Grant; Allie Darbonne, Iowa; Alexis Dejean,

Cecilia; Ashlee Douglass, West Ouachita; Mylie Elsensohn,

Pearl River; Sasha Falls, North DeSoto; Kallie Gibson, North

Vermilion; Leigha Gilbert, Minden; Abigail Heidbrink, Brusly;

Makayla Husser, Loranger; Mackenzie Jagers, Northwood;

Abby Jones, Tioga; Peyton Kirtland, Grant; Ava Kulivan, Arch-

bishop Hannan; Ella Mabile, Assumption; Morgan Malveaux,

David Thibodaux; Lexi Matherne, Vandebilt Catholic; Payton

Miller, North DeSoto; Anistyn Nichols, Tioga; Bree Pech, E.D.

White Catholic; Riley Perilloux, St. Charles Catholic; Haliegh

Perrilloux, E.D. White Catholic; Khloe Renton, Archbishop

Hannan; Kaitlyn Roberts, Tioga; Carleigh Roe, Grant; Hayes

Ruttledge, Vandebilt Catholic; Eva Sattler, Eunice; Aubrey

Savini, David Thibodaux; Mia Smith, Teurlings Catholic;

Avery St. Pierre, Lutcher; Ayla Stollsteimer, Iowa; Alya Taylor,

Archbishop Hannan; Lauren Taylor, Tioga; Mya Thompson,

Belle Chasse; Baileigh Tregre, St. Charles Catholic; Braylyn

Waggoner, West Ouachita; Presley Walker, Loyola; Tannah

Willie, Lakeshore; Saydie Wilson, Grant.