2021 LA HS Lacrosse Thread - Jesuit D1 Champs Dutchtown D2 champs

Thanks for this.

Rain all over the state is moving this weekend's slate of games around with big time district implications.

Catholic BR @ STM was moved from tonight to Tuesday 6pm.
STM @ Dutchtown was moved from Dutchtown to STM tomorrow night.

A week ago, Byrd took down Catholic BR by a score of 8-7. Catholic managed just 1 goal in the 2nd half of that game. Last night they beat cross town rival Loyola 10-7. That has virtually sewn up Byrd's slot in the North District title match up.

Jesuit (NOLA) is rolling on cruise control in their schedule mowing down all contenders.

Lower AL has also been in control with loads of physical play.

LHSLL Schedule + Results up to week of 4-16

What is Low Al and Chaos?

Got it. Didn't realize lacrosse wasn't an LHSAA sport.

Appreciate the answer

D1 Super 8 update:


In game 1 of the Super 8 quarterfinals, Jesuit made easy work of Chaos Lacrosse Club (Northshore/Covington area community based program made up of players from 9 different HS). The Blue Jays tallied scoring from 10 different players in the gameas they punched the 1st ticket to the Final 4 in Shreveport up at Lee-Hedges Stadium May 15th.


In Game 2 of the day, the CE Byrd Yellow Jackets dispended of the Newman Greenies, who entered the post-season for the 1st time in their young LHSLL existence.
Byrd found scoring from over 5 different players & got an impressive performance from their goalie in the crease. Byrd will be the defacto "host" of the Final 4 this weekend, though the Shreveport Bossier Sports Commission are the true hosts. Byrd has a strong chance to bring the State Title to the 318 for the first time in over 6+ years.


Game 3 saw Catholic High (BR) pick up right where they left off in the regular season match-up vs. STM to make a statement for them to qualify for their 2nd trip to the Final 4 to give them a great opportunity to bring the State Title to Baton Rouge for the 1st time ever. In a matching trend of offensive production on the day - Catholic saw scoring from more than 7 different players in the contest.



Game 4 was a strong showing by the Lower AL (community program from the Mobile, AL area). Their night of strong defensive play was exclamated by very impressive play from their freshman goalie, who earned FTK Player of the Game. Lower AL all but dominated the face-off X as well which secured them the 4th ticket punched to the Final 4.
The game saw a West Point + a US Naval Academy student-athlete playing against each other. Certainly wish those 2 young men a great next 4 years as they represent themselves, their families, their schools, & of course-our country.

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D2 Championship update:

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D2 is supposed to be an easier division?

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D2 is supposed to be an easier division?

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Why don't schools like Parkview Baptist, St. Amant, ESA, Barbe, Sulphur, Zachary, Alexandria area schools, etc have their own teams or community based teams? There's more than enough athletic talent to cross over football & basketball players, even wrestlers to fill out big lacrosse rosters.

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i'm sure they would love all those schools to join, but it costs money for equipment and you have to have 10 kids or so who want to play

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It is an expensive sport to get involved in from the ground up. 5 of the 8 playoff teams are private schools. And Byrd had plenty of money, even though they still do fundraising and such. It’s nice to have a few sponsors with deep pockets.

And to have a team, you need no less than 15-17 players. And that’s a minimum. To be competitive, you would need closer to 25.

I’m glad there is the LHSLL to organize and oversee the teams around the state, but if the LHSAA would sanction the sport, then more high schools would buy in and be a part, but until then, it’ll be the private schools, the schools that have donors with deep pockets and the club teams with parents willing to do whatever to make it work that will continue to have successful lacrosse programs. That’s simply my $0.02. Not saying it’s right or wrong, only how I see it.

It really is a great sport and fun to be involved with and watch. When my son came home and said he wanted to be involved with it, I had to google it and watch videos on YouTube to get an idea of what was going on. Now 5 years into it, I couldn’t imagine him doing anything else.

Good luck to all the remaining teams in the playoffs. It should be an exciting few games with some good teams this weekend.

Lacrosse is not an LHSAA sport.....yet. Rather, it is governed by a mirror organization called the LHSLL (Louisana High School Lacrosse League). It would require a petition from a minimum "x" number of schools, perhaps 80 schools, to adopt the sport. As it stands, there are only about 23 teams in the whole league, which include teams from southern Miss and southern ALA that don't have enough teams to have a league of their own.

Great efforts are underway to grow the game, which include getting coaches into middle school P.E. units to introduce the game for a few weeks, which is proving to be very successful.

Because of this, players/parents entirely self-fund this sport. No school-issued gear. Players must buy their own shoulder pads ($40-80), own helmet ($150-200), protective gloves ($30-100), elbow pads ($30-80), lacrosse sticks ($45-130, depending on shaft, head , and meche/net). As kids grow up in this sport, parents have to re-purchase this gear in some form or another. Other than obvious growth changes, gloves wear out and sticks break.

And to get good at this sport, lacrosse camps have required out of state travel (cost of camp, plus travel), but that is changing now.

ETA: sorry forever, not replying to you, but to burdman