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The Patterson 10U All-Stars finished 3-2 at the Cal Ripken State Tournament in Kentwood this weekend, good enough for a fourth place finish.
While Patterson fell to Madisonville 15-3 in its opener Thursday, the squad won three straight games against Kenner (16-13), West Feliciana (10-9) and Bayou BR (13-10).
However, Patterson was eliminated from the tournament Sunday when it fell to Terrebonne 29-5.
Against Madisonville, Patterson fell behind 15-0 after three innings before scoring its three runs in the top of the fourth. The game was called after the top of the fourth.
Linzy Howard led Patterson with a 2-for-2 performance with a double, an RBI and a run.
Other top Patterson offensive contributors were William Whitten, 1-for-1 with a double; Hayden Ribardi, 1-for-1; and Chance Rochel, an RBI.
Caleb Jennings suffered the loss. In two innings, he surrendered two unearned runs on two hits with two walks and one strikeout.
Against Kenner, Patterson prevailed in the high-scoring, back-and-forth contest.
After falling behind 3-0 after an inning and 5-3 after two complete, Patterson took a 7-6 lead after three innings before Kenner tied the game at nine after four innings.
Patterson scored seven runs in the top of the fifth inning, while holding Kenner to four runs in the bottom of the frame for the win.
Brody Newton led Patterson with a 3-for-4 performance with a double, a triple, three RBIs and three runs.
Other top Patterson offensive contributors were Steve Swisher, 2-for-4, a double, two RBIs, two stolen bases and three runs; Jeremy Allemond, 2-for-2, a double and two runs; Javyn Christopher, 1-for-3, a triple and a run; Rochel, 1-for-1, a double, an RBI and a run; Whitten, 2-for-4, two RBIs; Zeph Brinlee., 2-for-3, a stolen base and two runs; Howard, 1-for-2, a run; Jennings, 1-for-3, two runs; and Jackson Gierman and Ribardi, each an RBI
Newton earned the win. In 1.1 innings, he surrendered six runs (five earned) on two hits with four walks, one hit batter and fanned three.
Swisher earned the save. In 0.2 innings, he surrendered one unearned run on one hit with one strikeout.
LaCoste started the game for Patterson and received a no-decision.
In a back-and-forth game against West Feliciana, Patterson with three runs in the top of the sixth for the win.
Trailing 9-7 after five innings, Patterson scored three runs in the top of the sixth and held West Feliciana off the scoreboard in the bottom of the frame for the win.
Early on, West Feliciana led 4-3 after an inning and extended its lead to 6-3 after three complete before Patterson rallied for a 7-6 lead after the top of the fourth.
West Feliciana scored two runs in the bottom of the fourth for an 8-6 lead and added another run in the bottom of the fifth for a 9-6 advantage.
Whitten led Patterson with a 2-for-2 performance with three RBIs and a run.
Other top Patterson offensive contributors were Gierman, 1-for-1 with an RBI and a run; Brinlee, 1-for-2, an RBI and a run; Howard, 1-for-2, two RBIs; Jennings, 1-for-4, two RBIs; Newton, 1-for-3, two runs; Swisher, 1-for-3, two stolen bases and a run; and LaCoste, 1-for-3, a run.
Jennings earned the win in relief. In four innings, he surrendered four runs (two earned) on six hits with one walk, one hit batter and four strikeouts
Swisher started the game and received a no-decision. In two innings, he surrendered five runs (three earned) on four hits with two strikeouts.
Against Bayou BR, Patterson held off its opponent’s late charge.
Trailing 10-1 after two innings, Bayou BR cut its deficit to 10-5 after three complete and 10-9 after the top of the fifth.
Patterson scored three runs in the bottom of the fifth to extend its lead to 13-9, while it held Bayou BR to one run in the top of the sixth to clinch the win.
Brinlee and Whitten led Patterson’s offense. Brinlee finished 4-for-4 with two stolen bases and three runs, while Whitten was 3-for-4 with three RBIs and two runs.
Other top Patterson offensive contributors were Swisher, 2-for-3 with three RBIs, two stolen bases and three runs; Newton, 3-for-4, a double and three runs; Christopher, 1-for-2, two RBIs; Jennings, 1-for-4, an RBI and a run; Allemond, 1-for-2, a run; and Howard, an RBI.
Allemond earned the win. In 2.2 innings, he surrendered three runs (two earned) on three hits with one walk and three strikeouts.
Brinlee earned the save. In two innings, he surrendered three runs (three earned) on four hits with two walks and one strikeout.
Against Terrebonne, Patterson trailed as much as 29-1 after three innings before scoring four runs in the bottom of the fourth. The game was called after four innings.
Rochel led Patterson with a 1-for-1 performance with two RBIs, two stolen bases and a run.
Other top Patterson offensive contributors were Newton, 1-for-3, with a double and a run; Ribardi, 1-for-2, an RBI; LaCoste, 1-for-2, two stolen bases and a run; and Brinlee, 1-for-3, a stolen base.
Allemond suffered the loss. In 1.2 innings, he surrendered 20 runs (17 earned) on 20 hits with two walks and one strikeout.

LOS ANGELES — When Oprah Winfrey saluted unheralded #MeToo crusaders at the Golden Globes last January, she chose a rape victim from 1940s Alabama to drive home her point.
“Recy Taylor, a name I know, and I think you should know, too,” Winfrey said, sketching the outlines of the African-American woman’s assault by six white youths and her quest for justice.
Taylor’s wrenching story and its connection to female civil rights activists, most notably Rosa Parks, are illuminated in filmmaker Nancy Buirski’s documentary “The Rape of Recy Taylor.” The film aired Monday on the Starz channel and is available on the Starz app.
Taylor, who died last December at age 97 shortly after the film’s theatrical release, is seen and heard briefly in it. Her words are powerful despite her frailty.
“I can’t but tell the truth of what they done to me,” she said, condemning both her attackers and the authorities who weren’t “concerned about what happened to me.”
The film mixes orthodox documentary elements — accounts from Taylor’s relatives and other contemporaries, the perspectives of historians — with haunting visual touches and music such as Fannie Lou Hamer’s “Go Tell It on the Mountain.” It blends into somber, unsettling poetry.
There are clips from so-called “race films,” vintage movies made by African-American moviemakers, including one in which a distraught woman flees from unseen danger. In a scene from Oscar Micheaux’s “Within Our Gates” (1920), a white man attacks a black woman.
The movie excerpts help “communicate very quickly that this didn’t just happen to Recy Taylor” and help broaden one woman’s ordeal to a “much larger canvas” about the peril black women faced, filmmaker Buirski said.
In 1944 Taylor, then a 24-year-old married mother, was walking to her Abbeville, Alabama, home after an evening church service with two friends, an older woman and her son. Local whites out joyriding stopped them and, at gunpoint, demanded Taylor got in their car.
They raped her repeatedly and, after forcing money into her hand, released her after she agreed to remain silent.
She stumbled home “crying and upset,” recalls her brother, Robert Corbitt. “Those young boys felt like they can do it and get away with it. They really felt like they could. They know nothing was going to happen to them.”
But Taylor fought back, recounting the assault to the local sheriff. Her courage put her family at risk — their home was firebombed — and eventually led to two faint-hearted, failed efforts to bring the case to trial in the Jim Crow South.
The roots of such inaction run deep. Yale associate professor Crystal N. Feimster, who is part of the documentary, has written that it was a legal impossibility for a female slave to file rape charges against a white man in any Southern state before 1861.
Northern black newspapers doggedly covered Taylor’s case as it unfolded, prompting African-American protests and action by the NAACP. The civil rights group dispatched Parks, then the secretary in its Montgomery, Alabama, office, to meet with Taylor — before Parks gained fame as the woman whose refusal to move to the back of a segregated bus sparked a powerful boycott.
In a newspaper photo taken at the time, Taylor stares directly at the camera with an expression both stolid and determined. It’s a portrait of a young woman prepared to stand her ground.
At one point, the Abbeville sheriff dismissed Taylor as “nothing but a whore” whom he’d arrested before, then admitted she had never been jailed and that she and her family were of good reputation.
Filmmaker Buirski, who recounted the groundbreaking interracial marriage of Richard and Mildred Loving in a documentary and was a producer on the big-screen drama “Loving,” learned of Taylor from historian Danielle L. McGuire’s 2010 book, “At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance.”
“One of the things that I felt so strongly about in this film (and ‘The Loving Story’ documentary) is you have people who have the moral courage to stand up, and they change history as a result,” Buirski said. “They don’t have to be activists. Anybody can change history.”
There’s a question she’s fielded before, about why a white New Yorker felt compelled to make a film about Taylor, and she has a ready answer.
“I do feel that whites and blacks should be telling stories about each other. I think that whites in particular have a responsibility to deal with this information because whites really are the reason for the suffering that a lot of blacks had,” she said.
Was she the right person to make the documentary?
“I’m the first person to say I don’t know what it’s like to be in a black woman’s skin,” one who would recount Taylor’s life and times differently, Buirski said.
But, she added, it’s up to African-American filmmakers to make “The Rape of Recy Taylor” the first “in a volley of stories” about her, not the last.

A 26-year-old Morgan City woman was charged with aggravated battery stemming from a March incident in Morgan City during which she struck someone with a lock, Police Chief James Blair said in a news release.

—Breiana M. Gant, 26, of Leona Street in Morgan City, was arrested at 3 p.m. Monday on a warrant charging her with aggravated battery.

Gant was located and arrested at the police department on a warrant. The warrant stems from a March 27 investigation when police responded to the area of Bowman Street in regard to a complaint of a battery that had been committed.

Officers arrived when Gant was identified as one of the parties involved. Gant and the victim were involved in an altercation the night before when Gant allegedly struck the victim with a lock, Blair said. The investigation continued when a warrant was prepared for Gant’s arrest. Gant was jailed.

Blair reported that officers responded to 38 calls and reported the following arrests:

—Tarrike M. Phillips, 25, of Tiffany Street in Patterson, was arrested at 11:16 a.m. Monday on charges of possession of marijuana second offense and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Patrol officers observed a vehicle being operated in the area of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard negotiate an improper turn. A stop was initiated when Phillips was identified as the driver. K-9 Lady with the Morgan City Police Department K-9 Division was utilized and alerted to the presence of narcotic odor in the vehicle.

Phillips was in possession of suspected marijuana and drug paraphernalia, Blair said. Phillips was jailed.

—Joseph H. Pollard Jr., 56, of Federal Avenue in Morgan City, was arrested at 1:12 p.m. Monday on a warrant charging him with four counts of failure to appear to pay a fine.

Pollard was located and arrested at St. Mary Parish jail on a warrant for city court. Pollard was jailed.

—Dewayne P. Robertson, 25, of Jones Street in Jeanerette, was arrested at 1:42 p.m. Monday on warrants charging him with failure to appear to pay a fine and failure to appear to pay a probation fee.

Robertson was located and arrested at the Jeanerette Police Department on warrants for Morgan City Court. Robertson was jailed.

—Clarence Junifer, 58, of Federal Avenue in Morgan City, was arrested at 2:25 p.m. Monday on a warrant charging him with failure to appear to pay a fine.

Junifer was located and arrested in the area of La. 182 on a city court warrant. Junifer was jailed.

—Erik S. Driskill, 43, of Second Street in Morgan City, was arrested at 7:02 p.m. Monday on a charge of unauthorized entry of an inhabited dwelling.

Patrol officers responded to the area of Catherine Street in regard to a trespassing complaint. Officers arrived when Driskill was located inside of the home.

Police found evidence that Driskill had no authorization to enter the home, Blair said. Driskill was jailed.

St. Mary Parish Sheriff Scott Anslum reported that deputies responded to 35 complaints in the parish and reported the following arrests:

—Paul Peters Jr., 60, of Gross Road in Fawn Grove, Pennsylvania, was arrested at 11 a.m. Monday on a charge of disturbing the peace by language.

A deputy patrolling Amelia responded to a disturbance at a business. The deputy found evidence that Peters became irate with the victim, using profane language in the presence of several others. Peters was released on a summons to appear in court Oct. 5.

—Bricelon Martin, 22, of Samuel Street in Franklin, was arrested at 4:10 p.m. Monday on charges of simple burglary of an inhabited dwelling and illegal possession of stolen things.

—Eric Bridges, 30, of Rose Road in Franklin, was arrested at 4:50 p.m. Monday on a charge of illegal possession of stolen things.

Deputies patrolling the Patterson area responded to a burglary at a home on Cremo Lane. Through the investigation, deputies received information that individuals were attempting to sell items matching the description of the stolen items in Amelia, Anslum said.

Deputies made contact with Martin and Bridges and found them in possession of the stolen items. Deputies found evidence that Martin entered the residence and removed the equipment. Deputies also learned that Bridges purchased an item from Martin.

Both were booked into parish jail. Bridges was released on $500 bail. No bail was set for Martin.

—A juvenile female, 16, was arrested at 1:41 p.m. Monday on a charge of ungovernable juvenile. A deputy patrolling Bayou Vista responded to a disturbance at a home on Lagonda Lane. The deputy found evidence that the juvenile became irate and damaged property belonging to the victim. The juvenile was released to the custody of her guardian, pending juvenile court proceedings.

—Amber Metrejean, 28, of California Street in Berwick, was arrested at 3:10 p.m. Monday on a warrant for failure to appear on a charge of criminal neglect of family. Metrejean turned herself in at parish jail. Bail was set at $185.21.

Patterson Police Chief Janis Merritt reported no arrests.