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Trey Coleman and the West Monroe Rebels will play a Class 5A quarterfinal game at home against St. Amant on Friday.
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A Thanksgiving tradition in the city of West Monroe as common as turkey, cranberry sauce and hunting — high school football playoffs. After a year hiatus following a secondround loss last year at Ponchatoula, holiday football is back on the west banks of the Ouachita River. West Monroe — the No. 2 seed in the LHSAA Class 5A playoffs — hosts No. 7 St. Amant at 7 p.m. Friday in the quarterfinals. Don’t expect teenage boys to skimp on the holiday buffet but the hunting can wait.
“It’s the best feeling,” fullback Trace Mayo said. “I love having my hunting ruined (on Thanksgiving).” Mayo has emerged as a go-to player both for blocking and showing off his skills as a pass catcher last week at Ouachita. Fellow senior Jacob Adams — a linebacker — said the right to practice on Thanksgiving was important to the seniors after the disappointment of last season. “It is great,” Adams said. “I like to go hunting on Thanksgiving, but that is all right. It is not like missing football.” The Rebels host a St. Amant Gators team that is fresh off a 16-6 win over No. 10 Barbe.
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The two programs have a brief history with West Monroe winning a pair of regular season games in the early 2000s. St. Amant has one of the state’s most high-powered offenses — scoring 50 or more points in five games and have not scored less than 28 points at any point this year. The Gators (11-1) lost to Catholic-Baton Rouge 31-28 in district for their only loss of the season. Quarterback Hayden Mallory threw for 102 yards on 9-of-20 passing last week. The Gators have gone through major injuries this season in the backfield and turned to its third-string running back after Mark Darby was injured earlier this season and Cade Nelson was injured in the second half on Friday.
West Monroe schedule Sept. 2 Wossman W 34-6 Sept. 9* John Curtis L 27-13 Sept. 16 at Madison Central T 17-17 Sept. 23 Franklinton W 43-6 Sept. 30 Ridgeway W 61-36 Oct. 7 Ruston W 33-17 Oct. 14 Natchitoches Central W 36-21 Oct. 21 at Ouachita W 44-21 Oct. 28 at Pineville W 36-0 Nov. 4 Alexandria W 40-14 Nov. 11 H.L. Bourgeois W 48-14* Nov. 17 at Ouachita* W 61-21 Nov. 24 St. Amant* * Playoffs
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West Monroe's Slade Bolden (10) gets some yards for the Rebels as they play against the Ouachita Lions Thursday night in Monroe.
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West Monroe used a balanced offensive attack that saw four players score TDs in a 61-21 win over No. 18 Ouachita Thursday in the second round of the LHSAA Class 5A playoffs. TURNING POINT: West Monroe scored 19 straight points beginning with 1 minute remaining in the first quarter when Trey Coleman bolted into the end zone on a 7-yard reception from Robert Scott Foust. Ouachita had tied the game on a 50-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Devion Warren. West Monroe would propel off the momentum of the Coleman touchdown to a 15-yard touchdown run by Foust, and — just as he did in the team's previous meeting in district play — Taylor Young returned a punt 50 yards for a touchdown. Ouachita scored again on a Dylan Roberts 2-yard run but the Rebels scored just before half on a Foust touchdown pass of 25 yards to Slade Bolden. Bolden also had a firsthalf rushing score to send the Rebels to the break up 33-14. KEY STATISTIC: Bolden and Coleman each rushed for more than 100 yards and Bolden had two receiving touchdowns. Coleman rushed for two scores and had one receiving touchdown. NEXT UP: No. 2 West Monroe will host No. 7 St. Amant. Ouachita ends its season at 6-6. Connect with Cody on Twitter @cfutrellTNS
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evion Warren gave the home crowd in the Lion’s Den hope that this could be the year early in the first quarter. Some wanted to believe that Warren’s 53yard touchdown pass to C.J. Brown was the sign of something bigger. Maybe — just maybe — this was the moment where No. 18 Ouachita finally put it together and beat No. 2 West Monroe. And in the second round of the Class 5A playoffs no less. It was not that moment. West Monroe wasted little time re-establishing the balance of power in this playoff edition of the REBEL-LION. Slade Bolden ran left, Taylor Young right and Trey Coleman up the middle in a 61-21 rout. Ouachita’s season is over. The Rebels (10-1-1) have now taken 22 straight from the Lions (6-6) and another class will exit stage left never knowing the feeling of beating West Monroe. It wasn’t always this way for one of Louisiana’s fiercest rivalries though. There was a time when Ouachita played the role of the metaphorical hammer and not the nail. Former Lion great Eric Bowie will tell you all about it. Bowie’s role is a vital one as the oneman master of ceremonies, hospitality wagon — and most importantly — chef-in-charge at every alumni tailgate. The former All-State left tackle on Ouachita’s 1989 state championship team served out a pot of gumbo while the rest of the aging delegation that once wore cardinal and white reminisce about the Superdome, the halcyon days of District 2-5A and knocking heads with the Rebels. “I played at McNeese State and trust me I never saw anything in college like lining up against (former Rebel and Carolina Panther) Shawn King. If you can handle that for four quarters
you’ve done something,” Bowie said. “The scores weren’t ever indicative of how tough the games were. It’s always that way in a cross-town rivalry and that’s how it should be.” Almost two decades of losing — the series went on a two-year hiatus when Ouachita spent 2005 and 2006 in 4A — hasn’t made the rivalry in its current form any easier for the men who built the apex of Lion football. It was just understood in those days you didn’t lose to West Monroe if you grew up on the south side or east end of Ouachita Parish. Mike Vallery made sure of that. Vallery’s players have a different recollection of events, but the coach who built those Ouachita teams swears West Monroe week didn’t require any extra from him. “I didn’t have to do a lot to get my kids ready because a lot of the time their fans and student body would do it for me,” Vallery said. “When they come circle your school with rebel flags, you never had to do anything special to motivate them.” Vallery never went into a big game thinking it would be a blowout, but he always thought Ouachita had a chance to win. There must have been something to that approach given his resume. The late Don Shows — the architect of Rebel football — nor any West Monroe coach for that matter, ever beat Vallery. The Lions haven’t beaten West Monroe since 1994, Vallery’s last season at Ouachita and a game that even 22 years later still sends Rebel fans into a white-hot rage. Ouachita kicked a field goal as time expired to beat West Monroe 21-18 at the Lion’s Den — there was just one problem. Running back Jermaine Brown didn’t make it to sideline before the ball was snapped as Ouachita rushed to get its offense off the field and the field goal team on. The officials all had their attention on the line of scrimmage and had no clue of seeing Brown. Shows met Vallery at
midfield after the game backed by a horde of irate West Monroe fans; the only thing separating them from your run-ofthe-mill villagers being torches and pitchforks. “I still hear it every year about how we cheated. I told Don, ‘Would you rather one of those officials be watching my sideline instead of what’s taking place on the field?’” Vallery said. “It all happened so quick that those officials couldn’t have seen if a player was on the field and that player had nothing to do with the play.” Depending on which side you talk to, it’s also worth noting Shows put the ball in the air instead of running the clock out in the final seconds, which resulted in an interception that set up the Ouachita field goal. Some folks on the west side of the Ouachita River will tell you that karma from that game is what led to West Monroe’s current streak. There could be something to that, but there’s also the fallout from Vallery’s departure to consider. Shows was able to lure Ouachita assistants Scott Stone, Shelby Ainsworth and Jeff Schexnaider to West Monroe. Correlation or causation is up for debate, but a dynasty was born in the process. The Rebels returned from New Orleans with state championship after state championship over the coming years. Ouachita has yet to recapture the magic from the Vallery years now more than two decades since he left the Lion’s Den. The former Lions regulated to the sideline by time now can only watch the REBEL-LION bragging rights head west each season. “It’s hard for me to see these kids work as hard as they do and continue to come up short. We’ve seen some times when we knew we should have won, but mistakes happen and next thing you know its slipping out of your hands,” Bowie said. “All you can do is keep working and hope that next year is your year.” Follow Adam on Twitter @adam_hunsucker
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The West Monroe Rebels visited the Lion's Den in Monroe Thursday night for a second-round playoff game against the Ouachita Lions. West Monroe won 61-21.
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