re: Official Louisiana High School Baseball Mega-Thread 2023

There’s no doubt that the sw area is way ahead in baseball. The downside is football doesn’t matchup to other areas as these kids may play other sports.. but baseball is king and it shows. From little league on up…

Throw in the level of competition coming out of SE tx and you’ve got a breeding ground of great baseball.

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There’s no doubt that the sw area is way ahead in baseball. The downside is football doesn’t matchup to other areas as these kids may play other sports.. but baseball is king and it shows. From little league on up…

Throw in the level of competition coming out of SE tx and you’ve got a breeding ground of great baseball.

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agreed to an extent

football has fallen behind for a couple of reasons

1) lc prep opening up syphioned off lots of kids that were going to barbe

2) hurricane laura killed the population for a couple years. especially in the lower and low middle income population which made up a lot of the best football players. north LC and east LC was devasteted. i was told fk white middle school alone lost over 300 students compared from before the stomr

3) barbe and westlake lost their long time head coachs in the last decade. them retiring and being replaced with coaches not as good. Westlake is on the way back and hopefully Owens does good at barbe. St louis has awesome coach and if they get the new school built look out. Sam houston has always been week in football, no culture of winning there. Iowa is killing it though. Sulphur has way way too much politics going on. Have a shite ton of talent, more than anyone in the area but struggles to get and keep coaching and to let the coaches coach

most of the baseball talent is comign from south lc and then the middle to upper middle class in the other areas. those areas are traditional baseball families. in the past many played both but are specializing once they get to 8th or 9th or at latest after soph year now. Same problem West Monroe has run into somewhat. but those are small things compared to what i named above.

Yep I'm retarded and skimmed right over it lol...

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agreed to an extent

football has fallen behind for a couple of reasons

1) lc prep opening up syphioned off lots of kids that were going to barbe

2) hurricane laura killed the population for a couple years. especially in the lower and low middle income population which made up a lot of the best football players. north LC and east LC was devasteted. i was told fk white middle school alone lost over 300 students compared from before the stomr

3) barbe and westlake lost their long time head coachs in the last decade. them retiring and being replaced with coaches not as good. Westlake is on the way back and hopefully Owens does good at barbe. St louis has awesome coach and if they get the new school built look out. Sam houston has always been week in football, no culture of winning there. Iowa is killing it though. Sulphur has way way too much politics going on. Have a shite ton of talent, more than anyone in the area but struggles to get and keep coaching and to let the coaches coach

most of the baseball talent is comign from south lc and then the middle to upper middle class in the other areas. those areas are traditional baseball families. in the past many played both but are specializing once they get to 8th or 9th or at latest after soph year now. Same problem West Monroe has run into somewhat. but those are small things compared to what i named above.

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You have good points as always. Only one I challenge is LC Prep to a degree. LC Prep hurt LaGrange and Washington Marion WAY more than it did Barbe. That excuse has been used before and I am not buying it as much as the other reasons. When you look at the history of Barbe football, their difference makers were almost always in zone kids with few exceptions. Perhaps they lost a little depth from kids goings to LC Prep. I would argue that more kids are getting to HS and focusing just on Barbe Baseball. Drost, Guidry, and so many others for sure would have been at least solid contributors on the gridiron.

It IS odd that SWLA is so dominant in baseball yet not so in football. I WILL say that whether you like him or not, Cecchini is a difference maker. You make that guy a HC in football and there is no doubt in my mind he would be successful as well.

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5A is very competitive, that's all you need to fall off sometimes

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prep hurts them but coaching and the populaiton decrease with the hurricane is really what messed it up.

but i do believe the area is on its way back in football too though but swla will never really dominate in football like they do baseball. wont happen because as mentioned many of the best athletes give up football to play baseball.

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Helpful to learn all these things about Barbe sports and 5A, had no idea. This board is fortunate to have so many knowledgeable insiders. And to know what zone every starter for LC Prep in the past 8-10 years came from. Wow. Case closed.

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wait i wasnt talking zone....bro barbe is like 40% out of zone kids now


you think all those kids with all that speed were from in zone :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:

Updates in bold below. games are supposed to resume this morning, but we are getting lots of rain and under lightening alerts this morning. will update as it develops, but i would expect lots of delays today. LHSAA has the updates in real time on their facebook page.


Division I nonselect

1 West Monroe vs 4 Sam Houston, Thursday 5 PM
2 Barbe vs 3 Sulphur, Thursday, 5 PM

Division I select

1 Catholic BR vs 13 Rummel, Thursday 2 PM
2 Jesuit vs 6 Pineville, Thursday 2 PM

Division II nonselect

4 Eunice vs 8 Lakeshore, Thursday 11 AM
6 North DeSoto vs 7 Iowa, Thursday 11 AM

Division II select

1 St Louis Catholic vs 5 Vandebilt Catholic, Wednesday 5 PM
2 E.D. White vs 3 St Thomas More, Wednesday 5 PM

Division III nonselect

1 Kinder vs 5 Berwick, Wednesday 2 PM
2 South Beauregard vs 3 Doyle, Wednesday 2 PM

Division III select

1 St Charles Catholic vs 4 Dunham, Wednesday 11 AM
3 Notre Dame vs 7 Holy Savior Menard, Wednesday 11 AM

Division IV nonselect

1 Oak Grove vs 12 Mangham,
will play Wednesday (5/10) at 2 pm on Field 37

2 Logansport vs 3 DeQuincy,
will play Wednesday (5/10) at 11 am on Field 37


Division IV select

1 Ouachita Christian vs 4 Opelousas Catholic, Tuesday 2 PM
Ouachita gets the W, 7-3

2 Ascension Catholic vs 3 Glenbrook, Tuesday 2 PM
Ascension dominates before the game with a jimmy hendrix anthem by a student LINK then gets dominate pitching to win 4-1 and advance


Division V nonselect

1 Choudrant vs 5 Anacoco, Tuesday 11 AM
Anacoco wins 4-3 to adv to ship

3 Pitkin vs 7 Weston, Tuesday 11 AM
Pitkin led by former LSU great JC holt walks it off to win 5-4

LINK


Division V select

1 Avoyelles Public Charter vs 4 Claiborne Christian, Tuesday 11 AM
Avolyelles dominates 10-1 to advance

2 Family Community vs 3 Grace Christian, Tuesday 2 PM
family community dominates 7-1 to advance

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Actually, it was his personal demons.

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that too but losing the UC hurt his talent pool in a big way.

update from lhsaa from 27 min ago




lhsaa facebook is posting the updates


but yea radar looks really bad. i thnk things will be delayed for sure