re: Official Louisiana High School Baseball Mega-Thread 2023

Last year 4A District 8 had 2 state championships in Vandebilt Catholic and South Terrebonne. That district has been really competitive. Sucked that Assumption got knocked out this year. They were looking really good.

South Beauregard, Iowa, St Louis, Kinder district is nice

No way the 2 pm games start on time. This sucks for all involved.

Are they going to play? How’s the weather?

Delayed until 2:30

yea gonna be longer than that lol

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Looks like it may clear out by 3.

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just got the all clear on lightening at the plant which is close by so should be clear to start now if the rain holds out.

Stoppage in play. Doyle RHP has a funky motion where he double kicks sometimes and does a double wind-up at times. Umps cracking down on him

Doyle’s pitcher (Woods) is entertaining. He has 10 different throwing motions. Just dropped down completely sidearm out of the blue.

ETA per Twitter, he was 9-0 back in August with an 0.79 ERA

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couple people have asked how the hell SWLA can be producing so much talent with 3 teams in the maxpreps top 12 and 8 teams in the semis, here is the reponse i wrote on the recruiting board to that question


couple reasons

1) unlike a lot of the rest of the state, there is a big emphasis on it, but in tournament ball most kids are still almost forced to play football and other sports and do not specialize until high school

2) emphasis on extreme hard work around here when it comes to baseball. kids see the tradition at barbe, sam houston, sulphur, st louis and the smaller powers and they see what it takes. they start hanging around the programs early and they see the dedication so they start doing it.

3) because of the above, kids train year around for it. notice i didnt say play year around as the travel teams in SWLA tend to play less overall games than many other areas but tend to train and practice more. lot more emphasis on training than playing

4) because these kids see what it takes many start strength and conditioning early, very early with many starting at 7 & 8 even. they also work around the house a lot and see how big they actually need to be.

for a metro area of 250k its insance. 6 teams from calc parish in the semi plus kinder and south beau. over 20 d1 prospects and prolyl another 25 going to play juco or d2/d3.

also prolly the biggest factors is awesome coaching. Barbe, St Louis and Sam Houston have amazign coaching. these coaches understand the importance of the off season and run year around weight lifting, they run off season velo/long toss programs, run bat speed programs etc etc. there is a huge focus on development and its tracked. all the schools above have their own pitching coach, own hitting coach and coaches that really really beleive in the weights. look at the size of many of the kids compared to other schools. its very very evident when st louis plays, only stm was as big really. in 5a less so once you are deep in playoffs but district games....very obvious.


so combo of things...high level coaching, elite work ethic and tradition/passion for the game.


oh and the 3 are within 10 miles of each other and st louis is within that 10 mile radius too.


in the end if your school is not runnign year around lifting, giving off season programs and using tech to track things like velo, exit velo, 60 times and long toss distance than you are falling behind. I will be honest all of the schools around here have very sub optimal lifitng programming but consistency wins out of optimal every time. and thats what these programs have. kids dream of going there, see what it takes and are starting down that journey earlier and earlier.


lately there have been some out of state kids moving into, not at barbe or st louis but sam houston has had a few coming from setx area, specifically for baseball.

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While the point of this post is well taken, it is not well written. My eyes got aids trying to read that shite.