Varnado 8th-grade team wins parish title
Published 4:13 pm Friday, January 18, 2019
- COURTESY PHOTO Varnado Junior High School’s eighth grade team captured the eighth-grade parish title with a 42-17 victory over Franklinton Junior High. Outside of the state championship tournament last year, Varnado’s team has gone 24-0. Shown are: sitting, Miguel Fland; middle row, left to right, DJ Roberts, Benny Jarvis, Alan Jones, Quavadis Bickham, Kelvin Moses, Judea Jones and Devonté Magee; and third row, Varnado coach Brad Cooper and Donté Pernell.
Varnado Junior High’s eighth grade basketball team won the parish championship with a 42-17 victory over Franklinton Junior High on Thursday at Pine High School.
Outside of last year’s state championship tournament, this team has won every game they played in the parish over the last three years, posting a 24-0 record.
The team has won the parish championship in their age group each of the last three years.
“This group of kids is very special in athletic ability and basketball IQ,” Varnado Junior High eighth grade coach Brad Cooper said. “I told them in the first quarter that the game was theirs and that I was just going to sit on the bench. They went out there and impressed everyone in the gym. Their love for the game and their drive to win surpasses any team I’ve coached so far.”
The team will be playing in the double-elimination state championship tournament in Alexandria, beginning Saturday, Jan. 26.
