JOURNAL SPORTS

Evangel’s half-dozen state crowns leads the local list of LHSAA baseball champions with Calvary winning the most recent title to pull within one of the Eagles at five.

Both schools are still alive in this year’s playoffs. Both are Select schools with Evangel in Division II and Calvary in Division III. This weekend, Evangel (12-20) is a No.  13 seed and will travel to face No. 4 Teurlings Catholic (20-10). Calvary (24-10) is a No. 6 seed and  hosts No. 11 Fisher (17-10).

Here is a list of the local schools that have won state championships and finished as runner-up, with the years in parenthesis.

State champions 

6 – Evangel (1995, 2006, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014) 

5 – Calvary (2007, 2008, 2012, 2019, 2022) 

5 – Shreveport (1920, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926) now Byrd 

4 – Fair Park (1957, 1963, 1965, 1970) 

2 – Byrd (1930, 1956) 

2 – Jesuit (1964, 1974) now Loyola 

1 – Benton (2018) 

1 – Captain Shreve (2006) 

1 – Parkway (1998) 

State runners-up 

4 – Loyola (1957, 1983, 1986, 1999) – formerly St. John’s in 1957

2 – Airline (1989, 1991) 

2 – Bossier (1972, 1973) 

2 – Byrd (1958, 2021) 

1 – Benton (2007) 

1 – Evangel (2008) 

1 – Calvary (2006) 

1 – Captain Shreve (2007) 

1 – Haughton (1981) 

1 – Northwood (2005) 

1 – Parkway (1997)

1 – Southfield (1976) 

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