2014 All-Parish baseball team

The North Vermilion Patriots baseball team had the best season, as far as records go, in North Vermilion history.
The Patriots finished the season with a 27-3 record, and a split of the district 6-3A title.
Those 27 wins were the most wins in school history, and one of the main reasons the Patriots were able to win 27 games was junior pitcher/second basemen Donald Comeaux.
Not only was Comeaux named the district 6-3A MVP, he is also the All-Parish MVP.
“It is an honor to win,” Comeaux said. “I had a great season. It was a much better season than the one I had last year.
“I was just glad to be able to contribute to the team. We had a great season, now it didn’t end the way we wanted them to, but it was a great season nonetheless. I just want to thank my teammates because without them I couldn’t have played as well as I did. This to me almost feels like a team award.”
Comeaux finished the season with an 8-1 record on the year, and his lone loss came in the loss to Albany in the first round of the playoffs.
Throughout the season, he was able to lead the team in strikeouts with 72, to go along with his incredible low earned run average of 1.18.
Comeaux only allowed 11 runs over the course of the entire season.
“We know exactly what we are going to get when he (Comeaux) is on the mound,” Patriots Head Coach Jeremy Trahan said. “He isn’t going to walk anyone, and he is going to pound the strike zone.
“He has been with us since eighth grade and he has gotten better each and every year. The fact that he is so solid almost every time he takes the mound is one reason he and we are so successful.”
To go along with leading the team on the mound he was also a force to be reckoned with at the plate.
Comeaux was second on his Patriots team with a .354 batting average.
He was also tied for second with Taylor Abshire, with 28 RBIs.
The season didn’t quite end the way they wanted it too, but Comeaux knows that this means they have to work that much harder to reach their ultimate goal of winning a state title.
“The season didn’t end the way we wanted it to,” Comeaux said. “This just means that we are going to have to work that much harder, starting now.”
Comeaux isn’t like most kids, he won’t have the summer off.
He is already signed to play with the American Legion team out of North Vermilion, and Team America.
To go along with that he also has to start basketball workouts in a week or two.
“I have to balance a lot,” Comeaux said. “I have to balance baseball and basketball this offseason, and during the school year next year. I’m not going to lie, it is a little tiring, but I know it is going to make me better in both basketball and baseball.”
Comeaux has been playing baseball since he was in elementary school, and his parents were a big reason he got into sports in the first place.
“My parents were a big factor in me playing sports,” Comeaux said. “They were always competitive, and wanted me to try different things. So I tried baseball and have loved it ever since.”
It’s that love for baseball and his will to win that makes him the dominant force on the mound and at the plate for the Patriots.
“I want to win,” Comeaux said. “That’s the only thing that matters. Getting through the long basketball and baseball season, and all the practices that come with it, it’s my will to win that drives me to try and get better and better.”
As a junior Comeaux is already verbally committed to the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
Comeaux’s trophy stand is already starting to fill up, especially since he won two MVPs in a week, but he has one year left to put the one thing in his stand he craves, a state title.
Something tells me all of his hard work is going to have him and his Patriots team poised next season to do just that.