re: Ronnie Estay reminiscing about old times

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I am from Lockport and here's what I was told about Labruzzo. He did grow up in Larose-CutOff. However, by the time he was near high school age, the Mayor of Lockport became his guardian and he played his high school years there. He did lead them to a runner-up finish. Mike Hillman led Lockport to back(Class B) to back (Class A)championships just after Labruzzo left for LSU. I believe LCO won a championship at the same time in Class AA with Cantrell and Estay. Two championship schools about 10 miles apart. Good times on the bayou back then

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Thanks for correcting that for me, I didn't have my records in front of me and I didn't remember the years. Labruzzo led Lockport to a 1A runner up in 60', and Mike Hillaman led Lockport to championships in 63' Class B and 64' 1A.

Those years were way before my time, but I spent weeks in the library compiling and reading old Central Lafourche, Lockport, Raceland and Holy Savior records.

Labruzzo's wife used to be my French teacher both in junior high and high school, and she lived a couple houses over from me for as long as I remembered so I just assumed he was from Lockport because of that and since he played high school ball here.

Oh, your right about it being good times on the bayou back then.

59' - St Francis (Vandebilt) runner up
59' - Thibodaux runner up
60' - Assumption runner up
60'- Lockport runner up
63' - LCO runner up
63' - Lockport championship
64' - Assumption championship
64'- Lockport championship
65' - LCO championship
66'- South Lafourche runner up
68' - Central Lafourche runner up
68'- EDW championship
69' - EDW Championship
71' - South Lafourche championship

Then you have other schools like Raceland (Mike Robichaux), Holy Savior, Terrebonne teams that don't have championships but made deep playoff runs.

John Curtis only has 50 something loses all time, funny thing is 3 of them are to Holy Savior hahaha.