The Lincoln Parish Journal is providing our local schools an opportunity to submit nuggets from what’s going on at their respective schools in order to get more information out on its students, faculty and staff. The information below comes directly from those schools. Any school wishing to provide content each week can email to LPJNewsLA@gmail.com.
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Ruston High School
It’s testing week at Ruston High! Our Freshman and Sophomore’s have been hard at work LEAP testing this week, and the Juniors will join them next week!
On Monday and Tuesday, the girls golf team competed in the regional tournament, and Kate Boersma qualified for state.
The track team competed in the regional championship on Wednesday and several students are headed to state.
On Thursday, the tennis team is playing in the state tournament at ULM with their 11 state competitors.
This week several of our seniors signed with various scholarships in various sport: Girls basketball player Jaliyah McWain signed with Trinity Valley Community College; Track and Cross Country runners Thomas Rogers and Landon Byrd signed with LSU and Louisiana Tech respectively.
We are proud of Murphy DeMoss, Shelby Freeman, and Allie Richardson for being awarded scholarships from the Ruston Girls Softball Association.
We are headed into Senior week with many celebratory things taking place and we cannot wait!!! Go Cats!
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Scarlett Jones (9th grade) placed 1st in Nutrition and Food
Levi Adkins (10th grade) placed first in Geometry
Our baseball team defeated Florien in the first round of the playoffs. Up next will be round two at Pitkin at 6:00.
Our boys’ track team came in 2nd at Regionals this week.
The Regional Track Meet at Castor was held Wednesday, and we had several outstanding performances! Jahkeria Abney placed second in the long jump, the girls 4×100 relay team placed second (Bella Coon, Curniya McCallister, Jacoya Lewis, Jahkeria Abney), and Bella Coon placed second in the 400 meter run. Jalen Outley placed first in the triple jump, 100 meter and 200 meter dash. Tristan Deloney placed 2nd in the high jump. Itavus Brown placed 3rd in the 110 hurdles and 2nd in the 300 hurdles. Samarian Dismuke placed 3rd in the discus and Trent Buggs placed 3rd in the 300 hurdles. The boys 4×400 relay team placed 1st (Trent Buggs, Valley Reppo, Jeremiah Levingston, Tristan Deloney). The Simsboro Boys were the Regional Meet Runner-Up placing second overall in the competition. All of these individuals will compete at the state meet at LSU next week!
The Simsboro Future Business Leaders of America have had a very successful year this year. Aside from branching out into a slew of new competitions and community service activities, they doubled their membership from last year, doubled their amount of state qualifiers, and have now doubled their amount of national qualifiers! There will be 9 members traveling for the 8-day National FBLA Conference in Orlando this June where they will compete in events such as American Enterprise, Economics, Future Business Educator, Human Resource Management, Journalism, Local Chapter Annual Business Report, Partnership with Business, Public Policy and Advocacy, and UX Design. If you’re interested in sponsoring a portion of their trip, please contact their adviser, Miss Kaitlyn Mercer, at kaitlyn.mercer@
