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Regular Session, 2014
SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTI ON NO. 169
BY SENATOR CORTEZ
COMMENDATIONS. Commends the St. Thomas More baseball team upon winning the
Class 4A state championship.
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTI ON1
To commend the St. Thomas More High School baseball team upon winning the Class 4A2
state championship of the Louisiana High School Athletic Association.3
WHEREAS, top-seeded St. Thomas More High School from Lafayette, with a season4
record of thirty-one wins and only five defeats, beat Neville High School from Monroe to5
claim its first Class 4A state baseball title in over two decades at the LHSAA/State Farm6
Baseball Tournament played at McMurry Park in Sulphur, Louisiana; and7
WHEREAS, the St. Thomas More (STM) Cougar baseball team earned its way to the8
state tournament for the third consecutive year and this was the second straight year that the9
team had played in the Class 4A championship game; and10
WHEREAS, STM has had a very successful athletic program through the years, but11
the last time the school won the state baseball title was in 1992, long before any of the12
players on this year's team were born; and13
WHEREAS, STM right fielder, Orynn Veillon hit a towering walk-off grand slam14
in the bottom of the sixth inning to finish a 13-0 shelling of Neville and to earn the title for15
the Cougars; and16
WHEREAS, in the championship game, STM senior Wyatt Marks, who was named17
the championship game's Outstanding Player, took the mound and pitched six shut-out18 SCR NO. 169
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innings, scattering four hits and one walk, before the Cougars won in the sixth inning on the1
ten-run rule; and2
WHEREAS, the STM Cougars put up seven first inning runs with an RBI by3
Chase Vallot, a three-run triple by Brandon Romero, and an RBI-single by Brennan Breaux,4
which ended the scoring in the opening frame; and 5
WHEREAS, the Cougars scored again in the third inning, adding two runs from6
Vallot and designated hitter Mason Temple, leaving the score with a nine-run STM lead, and7
setting the stage for Veillon's dramatic finish; and8
WHEREAS, the STM team included seven seniors and Coach Gary Perkins gave9
much of the credit to the six starters returning from last year, stating that he didn't believe10
that the players who had been to the championship game two previous years were willing11
to leave without a title this year.12
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby13
commend the St. Thomas More High School baseball team upon winning the Class 4A state14
championship.15
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to16
Coach Gary Perkins in care of St. Thomas More High School in Lafayette, Louisiana.17
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Mary Dozier O'Brien.
DIGEST
Cortez SCR No. 169
Commends St. Thomas More High School baseball team upon winning the Class 4A state
championship.