The Lions baseball team went out and helped their community through the flooding aftermath last month. They also helped their fellow teammates Mac Sceroler and Gage Pickett who suffered damages because of the flooding.
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Lions baseball pitchers Mac Sceroler and Evan Jordan are preparing for this upcoming season after dealing with the loss of their homes and the homes of their family members, due to flooding this past August.
“Both my brother and my sister lost their houses,” said Jordan. “The team did a great job helping us out. It was really tough trying to deal with it because my sister had just had a baby the day before, so it was a difficult time.”
Sceroler had damage to his own house and had to salvage what he could.
“My house flooded and we got about two feet of water in our house,” said Sceroler. “Thankfully we put our furniture on top of the tables and the bars and stuff. We salvaged some stuff, but we had to tear up all of our floors and sheetrock and pretty much start over.”
Both players are from Denham Springs, an area that was hit hard with the flooding. Sceroler says he now has a different perspective of what people went through during Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
“I was definitely young during Katrina,” said Sceroler. “Me and my next door neighbor were actually playing outside during Katrina. Back then we didn’t understand the effect it had on those people until it happened to us. We felt bad for the victims of Katrina, but we never thought that would be us.”
They both received help from their teammates after the flooding had gone down. Sceroler was touched by the love his teammates showed him.
“It meant the world to me to know that they cared about me,” said Sceroler. “Going way out of their way to help us and rip up stuff in our house during their free time. It means a lot.”
The players not only helped each other, but they went to neighboring houses and helped them to gut out and rip up things in their house.
“It was awesome,” said Jordan. “There is no way we would have got half the work done that we did in time. We went to my sister’s house and the door was locked and we couldn’t get in so we went down the street to help some people that were cleaning out their house. We did in fifteen minutes what it would have taken them six hours.”
Although much work was done for both of their families there is still a lot of work to be done.
“We’re still not done with our house now,” said Sceroler. “I have a house in Hammond and he has an apartment so everything is kind of back to the norm for now but not back home. I don’t really think about the home damage when I am here. When I’m playing baseball that’s sort of my time to get away. Right now my parents are living with my grandparents and everything they own is in one room. But, things will get back to normal.”
The Lions will play their first game of the preseason this Friday, Oct. 7 at 6 p.m. at Alumni Field. The game will give fans a chance to take a break and watch some baseball.
“People love coming out here to watch some baseball,” said Sceroler. “I think it helps some people to just get away. A lot of the same people who went through the same thing in this flood are gonna get together and it’s gonna be good.”
Evan Jordan.
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Mac Sceroler
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Editor's Note: The article has been edited to fix a content error.