Louisiana High School Football Scores – Week Four

Published

2 years ago

September 28, 2024

Press Room

Louisiana High School Football Scores – Week Four

Here are the high school football scores from Week 4 for the state of Louisiana:

Airline 47, Evangel Christian Academy 42

Alexandria 43, Opelousas 40

Amite 29, St. Helena 26

Ascension Episcopal 42, Rosepine 8

Avoyelles 46, Buckeye 0

Barbe 21, Carencro 13

Bastrop 28, St. Frederick Catholic 27

Baton Rouge Catholic 31, West Monroe 14

Belle Chasse 17, Bonnabel 6

Bowling Green 27, Columbia Academy, Miss. 14

C.E. Byrd 35, Ehret 14

Calvary Baptist Academy 56, D’Arbonne Woods 7

Captain Shreve 53, Benton 35

Central – B.R. 27, Cecilia 0

Chalmette 36, Booker T. Washington 6

Claiborne 46, Union Christian Academy 0

Covenant Christian Academy 45, Hannan 3

Covington 28, Northshore 0

De La Salle 10, St. Charles Catholic 0

DeQuincy 56, Lakeview 0

Delcambre 43, Vinton 42, OT

Denham Springs 20, East Ascension 17

Destrehan 39, East St. John 16

Donaldsonville 48, East Iberville 8

Dutchtown 49, Prairieville 0

E.D. White 60, Ellender 0

Evadale, Texas 34, Acadiana Christian 6

Franklinton 61, Fontainebleau 13

Glenbrook 36, Cedar Creek 16

H.L. Bourgeois 42, Patterson 0

Hahnville 51, Terrebonne 32

Haynesville 51, Plain Dealing 0

Holy Savior Menard 15, Abbeville 14

Homer 32, North Webster 22

Huntington 56, Haughton 27

Iota 48, Pine Prairie 7

Iowa 41, Wossman 18

Jeanerette 16, Loreauville 15

Jena 46, Winnfield 0

Jennings 35, Northwest 14

Jesuit 17, Brother Martin 5

Kaplan 37, Breaux Bridge 0

Karr 45, Holy Cross 20

Kentwood 35, Loranger 34

Kinder 22, Eunice 16

LaSalle 50, Block 30

Lafayette Renaissance 42, Landry/Walker 32

Lake Charles College Prep 55, Mansfield 34

Lakeshore 43, Northlake Christian 16

Leesville 41, Pineville 13

Loyola Prep 50, Southwood 0

Lutcher 48, Assumption 0

Mandeville 56, Slidell 14

Mangham 47, Beekman 6

Minden 28, Woodlawn (SH) 6

Neville 30, St. Thomas More 7

Newman 44, Willow School 0

North Caddo 46, Magnolia Excellence 6

North DeSoto 38, Shreveport Northwood 21

North Iberville 50, Centerville 7

Northside 33, North Vermilion 31

Oak Grove 49, Rayville 0

Oberlin 56, East Beauregard 28

Parkway 40, Natchitoches Central 12

Pine 28, Pearl River 20

Plaquemine 41, Brusly 18

Pope John Paul 42, Ben Franklin 7

Port Allen 63, Helix Mentorship Academy 0

RHS 34, Comeaux 20

River Oaks 52, Riverdale Academy 0

Riverfield 28, Greenville Christian, Miss. 26

Riverside Academy 67, St. Thomas Aquinas 0

Rummel 14, John Curtis Christian 7

Saint Paul’s 25, Kennedy 22

Sam Houston 46, Sulphur 7

Shaw 31, Lafayette Christian Academy 8

Silliman 41, Adams County Christian School, Miss. 35

South Lafourche 29, South Terrebonne 22

Southern Lab 56, Delhi 6

Southside 28, Lafayette 0

St. Amant 39, Scotlandville 38

St. Edmund Catholic 47, North Central 8

St. James 35, Ponchatoula 13

St. Michael 30, Belaire 19

Teurlings Catholic 42, Westgate 20

Tioga 59, Richwood 22

Union Parish 28, Green Oaks 0

Vermilion Catholic 41, Erath 34

Walker 36, Live Oak 18

West Ouachita 29, Sterlington 28

West St. John 60, Houma Christian 0

Westlake 42, DeRidder 28

White Castle 48, Red River 30

Woodlawn (BR) 57, West Feliciana 37

Source link

Louisiana GOP races to keep an exonerated Black man from taking office in New Orleans

Published

6 hours ago

April 17, 2026

Press Room

Louisiana GOP races to keep an exonerated Black man from taking office in New Orleans

The Louisiana House Judiciary Committee April 16 passed a bill essentially eliminating New Orleans’ clerk of criminal court just weeks before Calvin Duncan, a Black man who was wrongfully imprisoned for decades before being elected to the position last year, is set to take office.

Source link

Louisiana

Parole committee for people convicted by nonunanimous juries advances

Published

18 hours ago

April 16, 2026

Press Room

$Parole committee for people convicted by nonunanimous juries advances$

Incarcerated people with nonunanimous jury convictions would be able to send an application for parole to the committee within its first year.

Veronica Camenzuli
| LSU Manship School News Service

A Louisiana bill to review nonunanimous jury convictions advanced in a Senate committee.
The bill would create a temporary committee to recommend parole for incarcerated individuals.
The law allowing nonunanimous verdicts, rooted in an 1898 law to dilute Black jurors’ votes, was abolished in 2018.
Democrats and advocacy groups oppose the bill, arguing it does not go far enough to correct past injustices.

BATON ROUGE — A bill that would allow a committee to recommend parole to incarcerated Louisiana residents who received convictions through nonunanimous jury verdicts advanced 4-3 along party lines in a Senate judiciary committee.

Senate Bill 215 would allow the Department of Public Safety and Corrections to create a committee to review the appeal records of cases with nonunanimous convictions.

Incarcerated people with nonunanimous jury convictions would be able to send an application for parole to the committee within its first year. The committee would end after three years.

Democrats and advocacy groups opposed the bill, saying it did not go far enough to correct the problems.

The bill is meant to address possibly unjust convictions that are no longer legal in Louisiana after a constitutional amendment requiring unanimous verdicts passed in 2018.

The original law, allowing for convictions on as little as a 9-3 vote, was part of the 1898 constitutional convention, and it was designed to dilute Black jurors’ votes.

Louisiana changed the requirement to a 10-2 vote during the 1973 constitutional convention. Oregon, the only other state that allowed nonunanimous juries, had the same requirement.

Under the new bill, clerks of court would provide applicants with their records free of charge, and district attorneys and victims could respond at hearings.

Sen. Patrick McMath, R-Mandeville, who wrote the bill, said the legislation was a compromise between district attorneys who believed in the validity of convictions and criminal justice advocates.

“There’s likely not a way that either of those groups can come to a full consensus, but I think it was important to have the discussions and to continue to have the discussions,” McMath said.

Bradley R. Burget, president of the Louisiana District Attorney’s Association, supported the bill.

“We’re not exactly happy with it,” Burget said. “There’s a lot of the members of the DA’s association that may not be 100% for this, but I think this is something that they can live with.”

Zachary Daniels, the association’s executive director, liked the bill’s provision giving the committee authority to determine which nonunanimous convictions are just since “many of these contain strong evidence and are valid convictions where the prosecutor played by the rules at the time.”

Before the legislative session, the association found at least 1,215 cases a committee could analyze.

Daniels said it would be impossible to retry all of these cases because witnesses, officers and victims may no longer be available, and evidence may no longer exist.

The extensive list of issues the committee could consider includes the length of jury deliberations, the strength of the state’s case, the effectiveness of the defense attorney and evidence of racism.

Former Rep. Randal Gaines, who is now chair of the Democratic Party of Louisiana, filed a similar bill in 2022 that included the same list of issues that could be reviewed.

Herman Evans, who spent 37 years in prison after a nonunanimous jury convicted him in 1989 for a second-degree murder he did not commit, opposed the bill. Even after the perpetrator confessed in 2012, Evans did not get a hearing until 2024.

“That bill ain’t going to do nothing,” Evan said. “They’ve got the parole board. They’ve got the clemency board. It’s about the same board. And it costs about the same if you bring them back and let them get denied.”

Daniels said the expected cost to implement the bill is $1.8 million, based on a study resolution written for the 2025 legislative session by Sen. Charles Owen, R-Rosepine.

Owen also filed House Bill 219 that would allow courts to have resentencing hearings for nonunanimous convictions. The House Committee on Administration has not heard the bill yet.

One issue that arose in the meeting was the governor’s impact on the committee.

The governor would appoint to the committee three retired appellate court judges or Louisiana Supreme Court justices, one retired district attorney or assistant district attorney and one retired public defender.

The district attorney and public defender appointees would come from a list of three nominations from the Louisiana District Attorneys Association and the state public defender.

Although all five members would need to agree that a conviction was unfair, the current bill would allow the governor to make final decisions on releasing applicants.

The current bill does not provide details on the governor’s power. Daniels said the bill would eventually include that language after input from attorneys from the governor’s office.

Daniels also noted that there may be some conflict between the committee’s final decision and Gov. Jeff Landry’s tough-on-crime approach.

Sarah Gozalo of the Promise of Justice Initiative expressed concerns about the governor’s ultimate power.

“If we find that miscarriage of justice, the solution is, we will ask the governor — the one person who, in 2018, opposed getting rid of nonunanimous jurors,” Gozalo said.

Other opponents of the bill suggested keeping the bill in committee until it was amended to address their concerns.

Bruce Reilly, deputy director of Voice of the Experienced, and Erica Navalance, a criminal defense attorney, recommended adding post-conviction evidence to the records the committee sees to prove claims of ineffective defense counsel or prosecutorial misconduct.

McMath declined to defer the bill.

“I think that holding it up in this committee doesn’t necessarily give the chance to continue to move on through the process, where we all know that things sometimes can change and get new input,” McMath said.

Sen. Royce Duplessis, D-New Orleans, who had a similar bill in 2025 that did not pass, objected to the bill’s advancement.

“Just know that this is not an easy objection for me,” Duplessis said. “And if this bill does advance, I want to continue, or at least I want to work with you, to try to find a solution, because it’s been stated repeatedly, we’re not quite there.”

Source link

Louisiana

Herrmann’s resilience anchors Louisiana’s pitching staff

Published

1 day ago

April 16, 2026

Press Room

Herrmann’s resilience anchors Louisiana’s pitching staff

LAFAYETTE — Louisiana’s success on the mound this season has started with one name at the top of the rotation: Andrew Herrmann.

The fifth-year senior has been the backbone of the Ragin’ Cajuns’ pitching staff, leading the nation in innings pitched (63.2), starts (10) and complete games (three). His durability and consistency have helped stabilize a Louisiana team that has relied heavily on its arms throughout the year.

Herrmann’s journey to this point, however, hasn’t been smooth.

Throughout his collegiate career, he battled shoulder injuries that impacted his velocity and threatened to derail his development. Instead of fading, Herrmann adjusted, dedicating significant time to rehabilitation and refining his mechanics.

He credits pitching coach Taylor Sandefur for helping him regain form and confidence on the mound.

The work has paid off, as Herrmann has emerged not only as a statistical leader, but also as an emotional cornerstone for the team.

“This team, I mean the amount of hours we put out on the baseball field just working together,” Herrmann said. “I’d die for this team. I’d die for each one of those guys. … Just being able to work with those guys and see the effort that they put in each day has really kind of drawn me to it.”

For Herrmann, the season is about more than numbers. In his final year, his focus is on leaving a lasting impact on the program and helping elevate those around him.

Louisiana will look to continue its momentum this weekend with a three-game Sun Belt road series at Troy. The series opener is scheduled for Friday at 6 p.m.

————————————————————
Stay in touch with us anytime, anywhere.

To reach the newsroom or report a typo/correction, click HERE.

Sign up for newsletters emailed to your inbox. Select from these options: Breaking News, Evening News Headlines, Latest COVID-19 Headlines, Morning News Headlines, Special Offers

Follow us on Twitter

Like us on Facebook

Follow us on Instagram

Subscribe to our Youtube channel

Source link