Avoyelles Parish basketball teams face playoff challenges this week
This week's high school basketball playoff action for Avoyelles Parish teams:
This week's high school basketball playoff action for Avoyelles Parish teams:
HALFTIME IN SEMIFINAL GAME
The scoreboard tells the tale as the No. 4-seeded St. Joseph Lady Eagles took a 30-10 lead to the locker rooms in their Tuesday morning contest with Family Christian. St. Joe went on to win the semifinal match, 54-41. They play for the Division V championship against Claiborne Christian on Thursday in the Alario Center in Westwego. {St. Joseph Facebook photo}
The St. Joseph Lady Eagles upset the No. 1-ranked Family Christian Flames, 54-41, to earn a shot at a state high school girls basketball Division V championship. The Lady Eagles take on the No.
TWO MORE
Bunkie scoring ace Carlesia Fields goes in for a layup during the Lady Panthers’ 49-33 playoff victory over the Rapides Lady Mustangs. The win sends the Lady Panthers to Lake Arthur on Monday (Feb. 21) for the second round of the Class 2A playoffs. It was the school's first girls' basketball playoff victory since 1999. {Bunkie Magnet photo}
Three of Avoyelles Parish’s five high school girls basketball teams advanced in the playoffs after Thursday night wins, with one of the local cage squads falling by one point in overtime.
FINAL: A valiant defensive stand at their own 5 yard line gave Avoyelles one last chance to pull off the upset of the defending 2A champion Many Tigers, but an interception in the last minute of pl
The Avoyelles Mustangs continued their stampede to the Superdome Friday with a 46-28 victory over the North Caddo Titans.