This re-writing history business is getting to be a regular thing with the Captain Shreve Lady Gators.

Maybe they should consider putting out their own book – a who’s who of girls’ high school basketball, because it seems every night there’s a new chapter written by a different author on the court.

In Monday’s 66-59 victory over scrappy Ruston, it was little Jalia Redd who stepped up to move her team into the uncharted waters of the LHSAA Class 5A state quarterfinals. Never been there before – no big deal for a Lady Gators squad that had never won a district title or a playoff game until last season – then made it consecutive district titles for the first time this year.

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Last year, the Captain Shreve girls basketball team was one of the feel-good stories in the area. The Lady Gators won a district championship and the first playoff game in program history.

This season, Captain Shreve again topped District 1-5A and garnered the No. 6 seed in the Class 5A playoffs. However, the mindset around the Swamp isn’t the same.

These Lady Gators mean business.

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Kennedi Heard was bouncing along quite nicely in her high school basketball career playing third fiddle to team leaders Dezyre Black and Aaliyah Stevenson when the unexpected happened.

Two of the key cogs in Captain Shreve’s historic run to the District 1-5A title last season, the first for the Lady Gators, Black and Stevenson went down with knee injuries and sat on the sidelines most of this season. Heard got a call to visit coach Keith Greene to talk about stepping up her play.

She wasn’t necessarily ready for that, but what’s a girl to do.

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Will Adcock hasn’t met many sports he doesn’t like. That fact, along with a pretty impressive GPA and ACT score, make the Captain Shreve senior the kind of student-athlete any school in the state would love to have.

Outstanding kicker on the football team, center defensive midfielder on the perennial championship Gator soccer team and regional qualifier in doubles tennis with Parker Smith – all that describes Adcock, who plans to major in pre-med at LSU this fall.

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Captain Shreve High School is closed today, following two bomb threats in two days.

The first threat was reported Thursday afternoon just before school let out, and no bomb was found when law enforcement searched the campus. The second threat came early this morning just before 7 a.m. The decision to close the campus was made by Superintendent Lamar Goree at 7:30 a.m. as authorities conducted a sweep, said Mary Nash-Wood, spokesperson of Caddo Schools and Cpl. Angie Willhite of the Shreveport Police Department.

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It’s the week everyone on both sides of the coin look forward to each year – Byrd-Captain Shreve Week.

It’s a time of the year, a football game above all games, sometimes pitting brother against figurative brother, boyfriend against girlfriend, former employee against former boss.
Shreve principal Ginger Gustavson formerly administrated for Byrd principal Jerry Badgley. Captain Shreve football coach Bryant Sepulavdo, a Byrd graduate, formerly assisted in coaching with Byrd’s Mike Suggs.

It’s the kind of game that everyone wants to win but that half the attendees will go home Thursday night dreaming about what could have been.

Last year, Captain Shreve prevailed 34-7 against an injury-depleted bunch of Yellow Jackets simply hanging on for dear life. It was the Gators’ first victory in the series in seven years.

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Dr. Peggy W. Murphy, veteran educator and devoted community volunteer, has been named the 2017 Virginia K. Shehee Most Influential Woman.

“I love serving and I do believe it comes from your heart,” said Dr. Peggy Murphy after receiving her award. “I thank you for my friends who are here and for everyone who supported me in the journey and when I come to them and ask them will you serve, will you work a shift, will you give me some money, will you do anything to help me with anything to make this a better place.”

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Shreve’s Stephen, a.k.a. Buddy, Smith, who was a seventh-grade stud for Youree Drive coach Benji Piazza, gets a lot of joy plying his trade as a Gator wide receiver these days for coach Bryant Sepulvado.

Smith (6-2, 210) has been a productive perimeter player for the Gators over the past couple of seasons snaring just about every pass thrown his way by fellow senior Lucas Grubb. His hands of glue have already earned Smith a chance to play at the next level for Louisiana College.

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Danielle and Rhiannon Dykes pause at Friday’s GUMBO Games at Lee Hedges Stadium. (Photo via Jimmy Watson, The Times)

Even though she suffered a stroke while in her mother’s womb, deals with cerebral palsy on a daily basis and occasionally has seizures, Captain Shreve freshman Rhiannon Dykes is emblematic of all that’s good about athletics.

Participating in the Games Uniting Mind and Body, a sports competition for students with physical or visual disabilities for the 10th consecutive year on Friday at Lee Hedges Stadium, has given Dykes focus during her first year of high school.

“I attribute Rhiannon’s success academically to what she has learned through athletics like the GUMBO games and Special Olympics,” said her mother, Danielle. “I think sometimes people underestimate the power of sports and the influence that coaches have on kids.” Continue reading →

Capt. Shreve’s Aaliyah Stevenson drives to the basket during a game against Evangel at Evangel Christian Academy Tuesday night.

Shout it from the rooftops, break out the bubbly. The Captain Shreve Lady Gators are your District 1-5A champions for the first time in 50 years – the first since the school began, heck, maybe since time began.

Not even when the great Danielle Butler was roaming the Gator pen under the late Carolyn Boydstun did the team enjoy this success.

The renaissance in the girls’ basketball program was capped with a relatively easy 65-46 victory over injury riddled Evangel Tuesday night in the Lady Eagles’ gym. The Lady Gators clinched at least a share of the title that has been mostly owned by Southwood over the years. If Keith Green’s club can defeat Byrd Friday night, they have the title all alone. Continue reading →