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THE PONCHATOULA TIMI=, MAY 23, 1985. PAGE
St. Joseph Boosters honor young athletes
Staff Report
The St. Joseph Booster's Club hon-
ed the I/,of St. Joseph School
ng a special family day at Yogi Bear
Imp in Robert on Sunday.
lmbers of the highly-active club
Icted Joey Berthelot president for the
ng year, after Lenny Miller an-
ed he would step down from the
ncv after three years at the helm.
was given a special award for start-
llvollevball, baseball anH softball t St
,_h and leading the drive to buy
for all teams.
,,El d to serve with Berthelot were:
President Wayne Foster; Secretary
Treas., Inez Miller; Debbie Berthelot,
iression Chair.; Gwen Lee. Door
t11 . Carol Vitter was honored for her
as secretary-treasurer with a
nt and a plaque.
AWards were mesented by Coaches
Buddy Pugh and Lenny Miller, as well
as by Mrs. Lydia Palisi, who announced
the award winners in volleyball.
Pugh, who has coached softball and
girls and boys basketball, appeared to
be still reconsidering his decision not to
coach for another season, good news
for parents in the Boosters Club who
can't help but admire his winning style
and character-building approach to
coaching.
He mesented his own surprise award
of appreciation to his wife Carolyn.
In the absence of Coach Roxanne
Quinn, Mrs. Lydia Palisi announced
trophy winners in volleyball. Jennifer
Reyes won Most Valuable Player in that
sport. Other award winners were team
members:
Renee Zimmerman (team captain),
Anna McMahon (Most Improved), Kim
Huszar (Best Sportsmanship), Amy
Palisi (Best Defensive Player), Monee
Byers (Best Offensive Player), Hope
i
Palisi (Most Promising), and:
Briagette Neal, Stephanie David, Jan
Howes, Bliss McMahon, Kami Murry,
Michelle Alexander, Theresa Daniels,
and Leslie Schaff.
Coach Pugh made the following
awards in Girl's Softball and in Girls
Basketball and Boys Basketball:
Winning Most Outstanding awards in
Girl's Softball were Amy Palisi and
Tammy McCrory, who were joined at
the awards table by fellow players who
won awards:
Deborah Pugh, Alyson Lee, Monee
Byers, Tiffany Arbour, Anna Mc-
Mahon, Colt Fisher, Michelle Garaudy,
Janis Ryan, Valerie Kraft, Xheiarine
Labourdette, Leigh-Ann Martino, Hope
Palisi, Tammy Tucker, Sandy Schanz-
bach, Jan Howes, Renee' Zimmer-
man, Th--esa Daniels, Tracey Watts,
Les|ey Schaff, Leslie Morgan, Geri
Lane Mclntvre. and Bliss McMahon
," Taking time to say a kiqd word or
deliver an amusing anecdote about
each player, Coach Pugh went on to
give his award presentations to the girls
basketball team.
Deborah Pugh and Alyson Lee
shared the spotlight and were each
awarded Best All Around Player.
Tammy McCrory won the Most Hustle
award, while Amy Palisi took Best
Defense honors. Other trophy winners
were: Anna McMahon, Stephanie
David, and Monee Byers.
Boys Basketball awards included a
split decision on Best All Around Player
between Lance Vitter and Jason
Adams, with Best Defense awards
going to Kevin Darouse and Best Of-
fense honors goinq to Jay Adams. ,lson
l-osier was named Most Promising, with
Most Hustle honors going to Lester
Richoux. Accepting the award for Most
Dedicated Player was Jo Shane
Boudreaux.
Other award winners were: Lenny
Miller, Terry Hall, Clay Thompson,
Paul Jackson, Lonnie Braun and Darryl
Falcon.
Ernest Lemoine and Ottie Ernst won
high praise from Boys' Baseball Coach
Lenny Miller for assisting him during the
season.
Team members also were honored by
their coach for turninq a three year old
• /s
Award winning athletes
who received awards
the PHS Spring Athletic
are as follows: (bottom left)
Poweil, Jackson-Vaughan Best
Award; Joe Neal, Rotary
s choice for the Most Improved
player; Jenny Flint, the
roved Tennis player; Sherry
the Jaycee's choice as the
Valuable Girl on the tennis
k; Pat Miller, Kiwanis Club's
as the Best Gloveman on the
team; Craig Perriloux,
selection and Jeremy Robinson who
also was awarded the Booster Club
Sportsmanship Award in baseball;
(back row) Brett Chatelain, Jaycee's
selection as the Most Valuable Boy on
the tennis team; Asa Faulkner,
winner of both the W.J. Thibodeaux
Best Hitter Award and Louis
Layrisson's Most Valuable Player
Award on the baseball team; Clem
McKay, first winner of the Judge
Dufreche Best Pitcher Award; Jeff
Darouse, Booster Club's choice for
the Sportsmanship Award in track;
Joe Frazier, the Most Valuable Team
Member of the track team; Scott
Kupper, second winner of the Judge
Dufreche Best Pitcher Award; Raffaei
Neai, named the Outstanding
Defensiveman in basketball by the
Ponchatoula Homestead and Timmy
Disher, winner of the Lavigne Most
aluable Player Award in Basketball
and honorable menUon on the
baseball team.
(Times Photo by Duane Harris)
Club's Soortsmanshin Award
P. H.S. players Honored
By DUANE E. HARRIS elgin year clistrict playoff record held by Dufrene received recognition.
Sports Editor
1 didn't win anything,' and if
think then you didn't get
out of athletics this year,"
coach Bobby Hebert during
track awards presentation Thurs-
ay 16 in the Ponchatoula Jaycee
where over 60 athletes were duly
for their efforts in tennis,
baseball, basketball and junior
sports.
year was new to a lot of the
players in basketball. We had
6-18 season but the
a lot. Take for example
rally with Amite. We were
six points of the district champs.
few bad breaks lost us the game•
Neal) was so high on himself. He
that he had scored con-
like he did," said coach Steve
shortly before the basketball
)resentation.
Perriloux was awarded the
looster Club Sportsmanship
Raffel Neal took the Pan-
Homestead Defensive Player
hands down: Joe Neal was
s the team's most improved
by the Ponchatoula Rotary Club
my Disher was honored as the
Valuable Player with the
Award•
the awards presentation.
Chris Foster. Darron Lan-
Clem McKay. Jarold Partier.
Rock, Paul Uter and Bradley
were recognized for their par-
ughout the season.
there were plenty of good-
ibes exchanged, such as:
it or not, the '85 baseball
Was responsible for breaking the
Coach Greg Marten.
In addition Marten was not thrown
out of the game at all this past season,
which is only the second time for Mar-
ten in his career at PHS.
Those superior players who were
recognized as the All-District selections
were Asa Faulkner, short stop; Scott
Kupper, pitcher and Pat Miller, catcher.
Making honorable mention were
Timmy Disher, Steve Hebert, Clem
McKay and Jererny Robinson.
"We had a tough time this year
figuring out who led in any one position
for the awards because there were so
many who averaged the same. Whether
it be pitching, batting average or field
percentages," spoke coach Marten who
was backed by JV coach Tommy
Bolton.
Recognized for their endurance,
stamina and agility were: Jeremy
Robinson. who received the PHS
Booster Club Sportsmanship Award;
Clem McKay and Scott Kupper, who
together tied for the udge Dufreche
Best Pitcher Award; Asa Faulkner took
the W.J. "Bootsy" Thibodeaux Best
Hitter Award; the Kiwanis Club's Best
Gloveman Award went to Pat Miller,
and Asa Faulkner added to his awards
the Louis Layrisson MVP Award.
Recognized for athletic participation
were Timmy Beyl, John Brown, Mike
Cooper, Doug Cowart, Timmy Disher,
Chris Foster, Ben Harrison, Steve
Hebert, Mike Hutches, Lance Hutson,
Pat Vicknair and Kevin Wells.
JV Coach Tommy Bolton com-
mended Coach Marten for the team's
accomplishments before announcing
the JV team's outstanding athletes:
Darryl Allen, Darron Landry, Johnny
Settoon, Shane Stewart and Shane
"Through thick and thin these guys
went a long way together," commented
tennis coach Lawrence Thompson
shortly before his comical-yet-dramatic
awards presentation to his team of only
nine players. "It was tough for these
guys. The little freshman faced enor-
mous odds against teams with the finest
facilities and coaches and never com-
plained," added Thompson.
Brett Chatelain finished as the only
male tennis player to wm an award.
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Award winners included:
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Steven Ernst, Brad Berner, Sean
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