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The Ark-La-lex leader in high school sports coverage (She dimes snreuenort HIGH SCHOOL Log on every week to talk about your team, view scores, see extra photos and a lot more. 4U MONDAY, OCTOBER 27,2003 CONTACT BRIAN MCCALLUM 459-3298 or sportsshreveporttlmes.com District 1-5 A District W-L 2-0 pea dates complicate' Overall W-L 4- 3 5- 3 4-3 4-4 2-6 2-1 2-1 Evangel Huntington muston Southwood NAjchitoches Central Player of the week LaQuartus McDonald, Green Oaks running back LaQuarlus McDonald accounted for all of Green Oaks' points In a 29-23 win at Mansfield on Friday. McDonald scored four touchdowns, kicked a field goal and two extra points as the Giants started 1-0 in District 1-3A. He had scoring runs of 5, 4 35 and i yard, Including the game winner In the fourth quarter. He 0-2 0-2 I Friday's results MSAA playoff system DeLaSalle, Calif.

27, Evangel 10 Huilngton 42, Natchitoches Central 8 Rustin 30, Southwood 14 Friday's games Huntington (Independence) Central vs. Southwood Ruston at Hauton District 2-5A Airline 2-' West Monroe 1 fkarhita I '-2 7-0 7-1 2- 6 4-4 3- 4 antain Shrouo 0-2 Byrd Of 1 Thursday's rlRsu'i West Monroe 42, Byrd 13 Friday's results. fli larhita 9A Tanlain Rhfftufl 14 ..4 Captain Shreve vs. Byrd (Lee Hedges) Friday's game Airline at West Monroe 7-0 7-1 4-3 2-6 1-7 0-7 i a at 6-2 4-4 3-5 2-6 1-6 kicked the extra points for each ot the Giants nrst McDonald two touchdowns; the team tried two-point passes on the final two. Just before halftime, McDonald kicked a 22 yard field goal with 10 seconds on the clock.

The following earned honorable mention for their performances last week: 1. DeAndre Williams, Fair Park running back 2. John Williams, Huntington receiver 3. Benton defense 4. Taylor McGlmsey.

Loyola WRRBKR 5. Greg Nelson, Homer running back 6. Brandon Brownmiller, Haynesville running back 7. Russell Woodard, Ruston receiver Coacnes are invited to nominate athletes from any sport (or performer of the week. Nominations are due by noon each Saturday and can be e-mailed to bmccallumQgannettcom or faxed to the attention of Brian McCallum at 459-3301.

Include all statistical material supporting the nomination, including length of scoring plays. High school notebook Louisville, football coach fired LOUISVILLE, Miss. Louisville football coach Joe Gant has been fired in a dispute that school superintendent Harry Kemp will only describe as a personnel matter. Gant said he was fired Wednesday for removing pictures of former Louisville stars Rod Baker and Moine Nicholson from the Wildcats' fieklhouse and refusing to put them back on the wall. Kemp would not discuss Gant's firing or the reasons for his dismissal.

Baker, 34, and Nicholson, 27, both are serving time for felony convictions. Gant said he removed the pictures because he doesn't think the players are role models. The letter I've been given says I'm being fired for verbal abuse and profanity in dealing with football players and for insubordination by repeatedly refusing to follow specific directions from the superintendent," Gant said. Gant, 50, is in his first year as the Louisville coach and athletic director. He previously coached for 23 years at Weir, where he became the only coach to win five state championships.

Gant retired from Weir following the 1999 season. He was hired at Iauisville in August, two weeks before the season started, after Tony Stanford unexpectedly retired. "I don't mind being fired for it," Gant said, "because I feel in my heart that it was the right thing to do. I'd do the same thing tomorrow and the same thing 10 years from now." Baker, a quarterback who helped Ijouisvilk win Class 4A stale titles in 1985 and 1986, is in the state penitentiary at Parchman on two counts of uttering forgery and one count of grand larceny. Nicholson, a running back, is in the Kemper County Correctional Facility on one count of selling marijuana and one count of selling cocaine.

High school hoops team fails to score OLIVET, Mich. Shutouts happen in baseball, hockey and football. But basketball? The Leslie High School girls' basketball team failed to score a single point in a 61-0 loss to Olivet on Tuesday night. Leslie's players missed all 24 of their shots from the field and all four foul shots. The Blackhawks (0-13) entered averaging 15 points a game, with their highest output this season 22.

Olivet (14-0) is ranked third in the state in Class and already beat Leslie 56-9 this season. LHSAA releases wrestling testing schedule The LHSAA will hold weight management training and testing for North Louisiana on Sunday at 2 p.m. The session will take place at Airline High School. Contact the LHSAA at (225) 925-0100 for more information. Byrd athlete makes commitment Erica Henry, a 6-foot-2 post player for the Byrd High School girls basketball team, has decided to play her college basketball at Fresno State, a member of the Western Athletic Conference.

Henry was a first-team all-District 2-5A player last year, averaging 14 points and 7.8 rebounds. Saints offering ticket discounts District 1-4A Bastrop 3-0 Neville 3-0 Woodlawn 1-2 Fair Park 1-2 Northwood 1-2 Mmden 0-3 Friday's results Bastrop 40, Minden 0 Neville 33, Fair Park 20 Saturday's result Northwood 11, Woodlawn 6 Thursday's games Neville at Bastrop Woodlawn vs. Fair Park (Barnes) Friday's game Minden at Northwood District 2-4 A Haughton 3-0 Bossier 1-1 Parkway 1-1 West Ouachita 1-2 Wossman 0-2 Friday's results Haughton 21, Bossier 14 West Ouachita 35, Parkway 13 Friday's games Wossman at West Ouachita Bossier at Parkway Ruston at Haughton District 1-3A Benton 1-0 Green Oaks 1-0 Mansfield 0-1 BTW 0-1 Friday's results Benton 40. BTW 12 Green Oaks 39. Mansfield 23 Friday's games BTW vs.

Green Oaks (Barnes) Mansfield at Benton District 1-2A Springhill 3-0 Loyola 2-1 North Caddo 2-1 Lakeside 1-2 Homer 1-2 North DeSoto 0-3 Friday's results Loyola 31, North Caddo 20 Homer 40, Lakeside 14 Springhill 45, North DeSoto 14 Friday's games Springhill at North Caddo Homer at North DeSoto Loyola at Lakeside District 2-2A Jonesboro-Hodge 1-0 Red River 1-0 Lakeview 0-1 Many 0-1 7-1 6-2 5-3 2-5 Jim Hudelson Hit Times Airline's Travis Warren (center) and the Vikings will only play nine games during the regular season. Some teams stand to lose power points for lack of games Open dates 5-3 7-1 7-1 4-4 3-5 1-7 There are 40 teams in the Louisiana High School Athletic Association with fewer than 10 games this season. In addition to lost revenue, each team misses a chance for a victory and for strength points that could improve their chance to qualify for the postseason. Here are the teams with open dates each of the 10 weekends of the 2003 season: i Sept. 5: (5A) Evangel; (3A) Carroll; (1A) Southern Lab Sept.

12: (1A) Phoenix Sept. 19: (5A) Higgins; (4A) John Curtis, Woodlawn; (1A) Southern Lab Sept. 26: (5A) Carver; (3A) Winnsboro; (2A) Jewel Sumner; (1A) Grambling, Lutheran Oct. 3: (5A) Byrd, John Ehret, Ruston, Tara; (1A) Delta, Gueydan, Lutheran, Ridgewood, Ringgold Oct. 10: (4A) Breaux Bridge; (2A) Northeast Oct.

17: (4A) BTW, John Curtis; (2A) Red River; (1A) Boothville-Venice 1 Oct. 24: (5A) Airline; (4A) DeLaSalle, St. Martinville, Wossman; (3A) Amite; (2A) Farmerville, Livonia, University; (1A) Dunham, Lutheran, Ridgewood Oct. 31: (5A) Ouachita; (4A) Salmen; (2A) Christian Life; (1A) Davidson, Ecole Classique Nov. 7: (1A) Boothville-Venice; Catholic-Point Coupee 6-2 4- 3 5- 3 5-3 smaller district than the one he came from.

Red River, Many, Jonesboro-Hodge and Lakeview make up the new 2-2A. "It all depends on if you've been winning," Prealow says in finding games. "We've been really successful, so I have coaches tell me we can't play with you We get the larger teams calling that want to play us, but we're not ready to play 5A teams." Red River shared an open date with 4A power Jolin Curtis, 1A Bootliville-Venice and BTW, which it had already played. "John Curtis has 60 kids; we dressed out 31 the other night," Prealow says. "I did call Boot-hville-Veniee, but it was so late.

The coach said this was just a little too Car." Prealow misses having the larger district he had in 1-2A. He's gone from five or six district games to three, but the waiting to learn the new district alignment hurt just as much in his mind. "My tiling is having an official time to start scheduling." Prealow says. "We were waiting to see who was going to be in our district and who we were losing. Those who pretty much knew what they were getting had already started scheduling." One former opponent of Red River from 1-2A, Homer, played up against 5A Southwood.

That also reduces the number of teams available for 2A opponents, and Prealow doesn't see it changing as long as teams can play down with no penalty in the power ratings. "It used to hurt, because if you played down you would lose points," he says. The big schools, now, will play smaller schools." By Brian McCallum bmccallumgannett.com Mike Greene and his Airline football team was off last week, unable to find an oponent to fill an open date on their schedule. It gave the Vikings a chance to heal their wounds and s)cnd a little more time preparing for their next opponent, the Class 5A No. 1 team.

West Monroe. Reginald Prealow, the head coach at Red River, took his squad to Many for the District 2-2A oener against the Tigers and won, upsetting a team on the edge of the Ijouisiana Six)rLs Writers Association lop 10. Both coaches believe they improved themselves in the power points rankings used to determine which 32 teams in each classification will fill spots in the postseason. "We didn't even play last week," Greene says, "and I tliink we moved up some sX)ts." It was not as productive a weekend for Jim Gatlin. Hie Parkway coach watched his Panthers lose a district game on the road to West Ouachita, previously winless in the district And with the Vikings not playing, Gatlin believes his team may have lost ground in its bid to collect enough X)ints to make the4A playoff field.

His reasoning comes from studying the rules for determining power ratings. In addition to getting points for winning, teams receive points for each of their opponents' wins. At the end of the season, each team's total number of points is divided by the number of games played. Parkway's total points will be divided by 10, because the Panthers will have played 10 games. The Vikings will see their points The New Orleans Saints are offering discounted tickets through the Louisiana High School Athletic Association Terrace sideline tickets, which are regularly $60, will be available for only $45, a savings of more than 35 percent.

The discount is available for the Saints game against the New York Giants on Dec. 14 and the game against the Dallas Cowboys on Dec. 28. Those interested should download an order form from the LHSAA Web site at www.lhsaa.org. There is a link to the form on the site's main page.

Seating is based upon availablity, and Friday's results Red River 24, Many 20 Jonesboro-Hodge 48, Lakeview 7 Friday's games Many at Lakeview Jonesboro-Hodge at Red River District MA Haynesville 3-0 4-4 Arcadia 1-2 3-4 Plain Dealing 1-2 3-4 Ringgold 1-2 3-4 Cotton Valley 1-2 1-7 Sarepta 0-3 3-8 Friday's results Arcadia 33, Plain Dealing 20 Haynesville 39, Sarepta 0 Cotton Valley 38, Ringgold 34 Friday's games Arcadia at Cotton Valley Plain Dealing at Haynesville Sarepta at Ringgold More Friday results Cedar Creek 15, Bernice 14; Delta 50, Grambling LaSalle 28, Logansport St. Mary 34, Montgomery Glenbrook 40, River Oaks Franklin 32, Grawood 18; University Christian 52, Plain Dealing Academy 0 More Friday games Cedar Creek (3-5, 1-2) at Delta; Oak Grove at Grambling (0-7, 0-3); LaSalle at St. Mary (5-3, 3-0); Logansport (5-3, 2-1) at Northwood Lena; Montgomery (2-6, 0-3) at Rosepine there will be no refunds or exchanges. The Times needs basketball schedules divided by nine, based on a nine-game schedule. Because of Airline could have missed out on a win Uits week, Gatlin will have potentially fewer points but still divide by 10.

1 But it gets worse for Gatlin. Two other Parkway opponents, Booker T. Washington and Wossman, also have had open dates. "It just hurts us," Gatlin says. "Let's just say Airline plays and wins, we're losing right there.

When you are sitting where we are (in the power ratings), it could hull" 1 Greene doesn't expect his nine-game schedule to hurt him directly, but he realizes another win could help depending on the who the opponent would be. "If one of them had nine wins High school basketball coaches are asked to send their bas and you beat them, it may help you," he says. That'll affect you a little bit, but what hurts is if you play a schedule with a team playing nine games." Red River had an open date but also played BTW, which has one itself. Although the big win over Many will help the Bulldogs up their points, they also could miss out on points from BTW. Prealow agrees with Greene that not playing doesn't always hurt.

"When we didn't play, I think we moved up if I'm not mistaken," he says. "But if (BTW) had more ballgames, we could get more points." Prealow's scheduling difficulty came from two factors. His team has been a winner in recent years, and he is in a new, ketball schedules and rosters to The 1 lmes. Coaches for both boys and girls basketball can send their schedules to the attention of Brian McCallum at or by fax to 459-3301. Schedules should include year, height and jersey number.

From Staff and Wire Reports Clarification A story in The Times on Friday concerning ESPN2 televising high school football games stated that Evangel finished first a national football poll in 1999. It was not the USA Today Super Orleans Parish deputies to accompany team to Lake Charles 25. in mm Class 5A4A-3A Class 2A-1A The Associated Press NEW ORLEANS As promised after a fight last month involving Orleans and Calcasieu parish school football teams, a handful of Orleans Parish Civil Sheriff deputies are scheduled to travel Friday with the Landry High School football team for its game at Wasliington-Marion. "Tliis is so local parents whose children participate in high school sports have some peace of mind that local law enforce ment will be present to make sure our kids stay out of trouble, whatever kind of trouble that would be," Orleans Civil Sheriff Paul Valteau said Thursday. John F.

Kennedy and Barbe high schools were fined $1,500 apiece by the Louisiana High School Athletic Association after SepL 19 post-game brawls that also have resulted in a criminal charge against a coach. Ron Alvarez, an assistant coach for Kennedy High School in New Orleans, was charged with simple battery for allegedly striking Barbe assistant coach Paul Demarie. Valteau criticized the way Lake Charlesarea authorities reacted to die brawl afterparents of Kennedy players and students complained that police at the Barbe football field pointed guns at them as they attempted to leave Calcasieu authorities have said Lake Charles police were in charge at the scene and both agencies have said they were not aware of any such wrongdoing by officers. Valteau said his deputies he expected to send about five would be at Wasliington-Marion mainly to have a presence and act as a deterrent 'lrtainfydon'tanticpiteanyu ing happening," Valteau said. While Calcasieu Parish deputies or Lake Charles police would have jurisdiction in tlieir own parish and city, Orleans deputies have state commissions which allow them to work outside their parish, Valteau said.

Vaheausaidheliadnotdiscussal anything with Calcasieu Parish or Lake Charles authorities, "When we get there we will contact the local sheriffs department and let them know we're there to act as assistance for the Landry contingent," Valteau said. "As long as I'm sheriff, we will cooperate with other schools in helping to assist their students in their extracurricular activities," Calcasieu Sheriff Beth Oakley Lundysaid. 1. Loyola 7-1 2. North Caddo 7-1 3.

Springhill 5-3 4. Logansport 5-3 5. Many 5-3 6. St. Mary 5-3 7.

Red River 4-3 8. Haynesville 4-4 9. Lakeview 5-3 10. Lakeside 4-4 1. Airline 7-0 2.

Evangel 4-3 3. Huntington 5-3 4. Benton 7-1 5. Green Oaks 6-2 6. Haughton 6-2 7.

Ruston 4-3 8. Southwood 4-4 9. Captain Shreve 4-4 10. Mansfield 5-3 I i. ft.