2004 S-Club Hall of Fame inducts five new members

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Coker, O’Neal, Trosclair, Owens, Babineaux honored.

LAFAYETTE — The Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns will induct five former athletes into the “S” Club Hall of Fame today during Homecoming activities surrounding the Cajuns’ football contest against Arkansas State.

The inductees include golfer Trey Coker, baseball standouts Leslie O’Neal and Mark Trosclair, track and field’s Keisha Ray Owens-Williams and football star Baron Babineaux.

The five will be formally inducted during a noon luncheon today in the Mardi Gras Ballroom of the Cajundome, and the group will also be honored during halftime activities of today’s 4 p.m. football contest at Cajun Field.

Tickets for the luncheon are $30 each and tickets for the football contest run from $10 to $32 and are available at the Cajundome box office beginning at 10 a.m. as well as at the Cajun Field gates beginning at 2:30 p.m.

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Babineaux, Owens relish induction into Hall of Fame

LAFAYETTE — The setting was perfect.

Former University of Louisiana lineman Baron Babineaux was standing at midfield, looking up at a homecoming crowd of 23,121 fans and waving as he was introduced with four other new members of the school’s ‘S’ Club Hall of Fame.

Babineaux was an All-Gulf States Conference selection in 1968 and 1969, finished at UL in 1971 and still lives in New Iberia with his wife, the former Karen Viator, who was homecoming queen here in 1969 when the Cajuns played at McNaspy Stadium.

“She’s still my queen,” Babineaux said on Saturday. “We’ve been married 27 years.”

Babineaux was on UL teams that beat Terry Bradsaw and Louisiana Tech as well as Roger Staubach and Pensacola Navy in 1968. He also faced other future NFL stars.

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Bruce Brown
bbrown@theadvertiser.com