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Football league continues to grow
The St. Bernard Recreation Department's 2009 youth football program has 100 more players than it did last year.
"Our football program is going great," said Kirk Carlin, program manager for the Recreation Department. "We have great competition and excellent coaches."
The program has 16 teams from St. Bernard Parish, plus two 7- and 8-year-old teams from the Plantation Athletic Club in Algiers.
This season 310 youths, ages 5 to 12, signed up to play compared to 205 last year. Carlin said the increase is another sign that St. Bernard is rebuilding and moving forward.
There are 64 players on four teams in the 5- and 6-year-olds compared to only 28 last year. The 7- and 8-year-olds, 9- and 10-year-olds and 11- and 12-year-olds also have four teams each.
The season began Sept. 17 with a jamboree and will conclude Nov. 7-8 with the St. Bernard Buccaneer Bowl.
When the regular season ends, Carlin said St. Bernard will field five all-star teams that will compete in bowl games in the New Orleans area as well as in Gatlinburg, Tenn.
The games are played at the recreation facility located in Meraux at the site where Archbishop Hannan High School stood prior to Katrina.
"The facility has contributed a lot to helping us have a successful program and we are getting closer to where we were before Katrina," Carlin said. "People can go to the facility and see where their tax dollars are going."
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Registration for youth basketball, ages 5 to 14, is now open with the St. Bernard Recreation Department.
Registration forms can be picked up at the Recreation Department office at 8201 W. Judge Perez Drive, Chalmette.
For more information, call 504.278.4295.
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Earl Hodges writes about recreational events in St. Bernard. He can be reached at earlhodges@msn.com or 504.887.4731....
