Sports

Five parish teams made the LHSAA softball playoffs, which were announced this week.
The playoffs begin with the Bi-District Round deadline set for Saturday, April 19, followed by the Regional Round deadline on April 23. 
The quarterfinal games must be completed by Saturday, April 26. The winners will head to Sulphur for the state softball tournament.
The tournament will be held May 2-3 at North Frasch Park in Sulphur.
Landing in the playoffs from Vermilion Parish  are:

The Kaplan Lady Pirates won their 17th straight game, beating Class 5A Barbe on Thursday, Nachitoches Central, 3-2 , Ouachita Parish 9-1 and Assumption 6-5.
With the wins, the Lady Pirates (23-2)  climbed to No. 2 in the Division III Non-Select power rankings. 
This past week, the Lady Pirates beat three Division I Non Select schools that are ranked in the Top 28 and one Division II Non Select school.

Vermilion Catholic has announced that 24-year-old Anne-Catherine Gallet Mathews will be the new head coach of the girls’ basketball team.
Mathews played for Kim Guidry from 2015 to 2019.
Before accepting the position, Mathews has been coaching at Acadiana Renaissance  Charter Academy in Youngsville for the last two years. She was the girl’s assistant basketball coach and the head tennis coach.  
Mathews is the daughter of VC assistant coach and former player Angela Dubois Gallet.  Gallet and Hollie Nelms Trahan will remain as the assistant coaches.