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Ross Granger has been in the dugout for every LSU-E baseball game since 2016, and he was also a member of the team that secured their eighth national championship in June of 2024.
In March of 2015, Granger signed a baseball scholarship to attend LSU-E and play for the Bengals.
However, the Erath High graduate never threw a pitch for the Bengals. Two months after he graduated EHS, he was diagnosed with a brain stem astrocytoma. Then, on Nov. 11, 2016, he passed away at his house. He was buried on Nov. 14, 2016, in his LSUE baseball jersey.

Former and current players, their families, and the VC community gathered in Kim Guidry Gym Saturday night to pay homage to the gym’s namesake, Lady Eagles’ head coach Kim “Gidge” Guidry, who’s retiring after 40 years at the helm.
Former player and current assistant coach and former player, Hollie Nelms Trahan, spoke first, officiated the event, and helped plan it. She admitted that until Guidry walked through the doors, they weren’t 100 percent sure she was going to show up.

Fans of Elijah Mitchell will need to buy a new football jersey when the 2025 NFL season starts in September.
On Monday, Mitchell, a 2020 Erath High graduate, signed a free agency one-year contract with the Kansas City Chiefs. His one-year salary will be $3.5 million.
The Kansas City Chiefs’ quick work in free agency continued in the legal tampering window provided by the NFL with the news that the team had signed Elijah Mitchell to a one-year deal.
Mitchell was the sixth-round choice of the San Francisco 49ers in the 2021 NFL Draft.