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• Gov. announces 50% outdoor stadium capacity for high school football

  October 15, 2020 7:53 AM

  BATON ROUGE - As of Friday, high school, outdoor stadiums will be allowed to open at 50% capacity in parishes where COVID positivity levels are below 5% for at least two weeks. Based on data collected by the state, local parishes eligible to increase capacity include East Baton Rouge,... more »

• State officials host Friday meeting to lay out 2020-2021 plan for high school sports Play Video

  September 4, 2020 6:45 AM

  BATON ROUGE - Fans of high school football are in anticipation of a Friday morning meeting that will provide more information about how high school sports programs will be handled during 2020-2021. High school athletic programs have been hampered by the COVID health crisis, with over 150,000 cases of... more »

• LHSAA notifying schools high school football starts no earlier than Oct. 8

  August 5, 2020 2:01 PM

  BATON ROUGE – The LHSAA notified high school sports officials the upcoming prep football season will be delayed until October amid the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. The LHSAA notified schools of an October 8 start for high school football, during a virtual conference Wednesday. Many schools are scheduled to... more »

• State senator calls for cancellation of fall high school sports amid COVID-19 crisis

  July 6, 2020 6:00 PM

  BATON ROUGE - State Senator Cleo Fields has asked for state education leaders to suspend high school athletic events for the fall semester amid the ongoing health crisis. Fields wrote to the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Louisiana School Boards Association. Fields urged for the... more »

• Lee High School will get football program next year Play Video

  November 16, 2018 2:12 PM

  BATON ROUGE – School officials announced prep football will become a part of the Lee High School athletics program next year. School officials released details during a news conference Friday afternoon during an event for students. The Lee High School mascot is the Patriot. School colors are white,... more »

• Dutchtown High's Saia to retire after 31 year coaching career

  March 6, 2017 2:34 PM

  GEISMAR – After 15 years of manning the helm at Dutchtown High School, football head coach and athletic director Benny Saia will step down. In a statement released Monday, the school said Saia’s resignation will be effective on March 31. He will continue to serve Ascension Parish Schools as... more »

• LHSAA: Belaire HS penalized for plot to play ineligible player

  October 17, 2016 3:11 PM

  BATON ROUGE - Administrators, coaches and either the parent or an unidentified football player conspired to hide the player's ineligibility for high school football play at Belaire, the LHSAA ruled in a report released Monday. Belaire, a District 6-4A school, will forfeit its five winning games played between September... more »

• LHSAA adds baseball, softball and basketball to split playoffs

  June 8, 2016 2:20 PM

  BATON ROUGE – After a special June meeting, nothing will change regarding the LHSAAsplit playoffs system. LHSAA said 306 principals voted, and 56.5 percent wanted to keep the organization in split playoffs for football, baseball, softball, and basketball. Football was split in January 2013. Earlier this year principals... more »

• Local high school, LSU track and field coach "Boots" Garland dies Play Video

  January 11, 2016 3:56 PM

  BATON ROUGE - Former LSU head track and field coach and coach at several Capital Area high schools, Murrell “Boots” Garland died Monday at 82. Garland was an LSU graduate who took the reins of the Tigers track and field team as head coach for the 1982 campaign. He... more »

• La. high school football player dies after hit during game Friday

  September 5, 2015 12:20 AM

  WINNSBORO - A high school football player died from injuries sustained at a Friday night football game in Franklin Parish. Sheriff Kevin Cobb identified the victim as 16-year-old Tyrell Cameron. Officials said he died at a hospital after being rushed there from the game. Franklin Parish High School... more »

• LHSAA votes to split public, private school playoffs

  January 25, 2013 11:45 AM

  BATON ROUGE - Sports 2 reports a controversial plan to split private and public school football teams up when they reach the playoffs passed at the final day of the Louisiana High School Athletic Association's annual convention. Proposition 18 divides the 388-school organization into separate playoffs for "non-select" schools... more »