Pictured left to right in the 1964 Opelousas Warriors team photograph is (front) batboy Tommy Stelly, Jay Stelly, Raymond Stelly, Reggie Dejean, Randy McDaniel, and Johnny Nowlin; (back) Coach Willis Stelly, Jay Cormier, John Daigle, Sherman Edwards, Ronald Charles Dupre, John Stubblefield, Vaughn Walton, and Charles Soileau.
With only 12 players, the Warriors had a small squad that year, The team had a 15-game schedule, with all games, except the one played in Mamou, starting at 7:30PM.
According to Bobby Ardoin, “there were two teams that summer — the Opelousas Braves and the Warriors, which were mainly players from Opelousas High School.”
The Opelousas Warriors and the Opelousas Braves played the opening game that season on Thursday June 4,1964, at South City Park. (Photograph from the Daily World on June 3, 1964.)
