Walker junior wide receiver Ja’Cory Thomas was the team’s leading rusher against Mandeville and scored four touchdowns in the 56-28 win to earn Sportsline Player of the Week honors.
Two former Warrick Dunn Award winners faced off against each other at Cajun Field in Lafayette, La. on Saturday, Sept. 11. and the two quarterbacks did not disappoint.
Due to Hurricane Ida, the first few weeks of the prep football season is going to feature a mix of originally scheduled games, make-shift games, and games that are on neutral grounds.
Week one of the high school football season started tonight for the Louisiana High School Athletic Association (LHSAA). Although only eight games were played in the WAFB viewing area due to Hurricane Ida.
Several teams across south Louisiana participated in scrimmages on Friday, August 20, and Saturday, August 21, to get their final tune-ups before jamborees.
With the debut of the 2021 season of Sportsline Friday Nite just one week away, here is a look back at more of the program in 1996 for its silver anniversary.
There were several noteworthy scrimmages in high school football on Thursday, August 19, with about a week to go until the return of Sportsline Friday Nite.
The 32nd season of Sportsline Friday Nite starts with the jamboree edition but the Silliman Wildcats got the jump on most south Louisiana teams with their jamboree against Brookhaven Academy.
With the debut of the 2021 season of Sportsline Friday Nite just two weeks away, here is a look back at the program in 1996 for its silver anniversary.
The Cougars of Escambia Academy in Alabama traveled more than 200 miles through Mississippi and into Amite on Thursday, August 12, to play Oak Forest for the Yellow Jackets’ jamboree.
Ascension Catholic High School will be conducting classes virtually until Wednesday, Aug. 18, a representative for the school tells WAFB’s Perry Robinson.
The Dunham School will officially be retiring the number of two time All-American LSU corner Derek Stingley Jr. on Friday, August 27 during their jamboree.
The 22nd season of Sportsline Summer Camp wraps up tonight with a school that was called the Lee High Rebels when we started. Now after 12 years of not having varsity football the school reemerges in 2021 as the Liberty Magnet Patriots.
The Sportsline Summer Camp crew recently visited one of the few Bayou State teams that don’t play in the Louisiana High School Athletic Association (LHSAA), the Silliman Institute Wildcats in Clinton.
Sportsline Summer Camp stop No. 53 was with the Baker Buffaloes. Not many schools and football programs have changed as drastically as Baker since the pre-Sportsline days of the 70s and 80s.
Ochsner Health and the Louisiana High School Athletic Association (LHSAA) have agreed to a five-year partnership and Ochsner will become the official healthcare provider. They will also serve as the title sponsor for all 21 of LHSAA’s annual championship events.
Stop No. 49 for Sportsline Summer Camp involved a trip across the Mississippi River to Plaquemine, where the Eagles of St. John have a new head coach with a familiar name in the prep ranks.
The full House failed to override Gov. John Bel Edwards’s veto of the transgender sports ban bill with a vote of 68-30 on Wednesday, July 21, and the session ended just hours later.
The Ascension Catholic Bulldogs and new head coach Chris Schexnayder are the next stop on the tour of high school football with Sportsline Summer Camp.
The Lutcher Bulldogs continued their 7-on-7 work Wednesday morning at East St. John High School. Sixth-year head coach Dwain Jenkins is enjoying the progress.
New Catholic High head coach David Simoneaux inherited the program from Gabe Fertitta in the spring and started evaluating a triple-digit roster of 128 players, so the cupboard’s not bare by any stretch of the imagination.
Sportsline Summer Camp rolling on with stop No. 40, head coach Hoff Schooler and the Brusly Panthers, the Panthers beating Carroll in the first round of the first round of the playoffs last season, before falling to Church Point in round two.
Stop No. 39 for Sportsline Summer Camp: is the University High Cubs as they were getting their strength and conditioning work in on Thursday morning as the 2021 season approaches.
We stay in District 7-1A for our next team preview for Sportsline Summer Camp. On Tuesday, July 6 we previewed the East Iberville Tigers. For stop No. 38, we preview the Tigers week 10 opponent, the Ascension Christian Lions.
We have under two months before jamboree play starts, but we still have Sportsline Summer Camp going on. Stop No. 37 takes us to St. Gabriel previewing the East Iberville Tigers.
We have reached the end of week seven of Sportsline Summer Camp, previewing all of the local high school football teams in our viewing area. Tonight is stop No. 35 of the tour, visiting with the Knights of Slaughter Community Charter.
As college athletes start cashing in checks from endorsement deals, circles around Louisiana high school sports are starting to wonder if the opportunity should be extended to high schoolers.
Sportsline Summer Camp visited with one of the great, most successful coaches in the area, as the crew checked in with Sid Edwards and the Central Wildcats.
