JOURNAL SPORTS
The final week of the high school football regular season featured some top-shelf battles as teams pushed for playoff seedings, while the two local winless teams had highlights as their seasons finished.
Evangel pushed by Parkway for the District 1-5A title and Loyola edged Northwood in a matchup of one-loss 1-4A teams.
Airline got pushed by Huntington but escaped the Raiders with a fourth-quarter score, and Captain Shreve got all it could handle in Byrd’s final game.
Winless Magnolia School of Excellence was able finished its season on the field after a Week 9 forfeit caused by a shortage of players resulting from injuries and disciplinary action.
Plain Dealing also ended winless but did get on the scoreboard for the fourth time this season.
Week 10 local scores:
District 1-5A
Airline 34, Huntington 27
Captain Shreve 35, Byrd 27
Evangel 55, Parkway 27
Natchitoches Central 27, Benton 13
Non-district
Haughton 58, St. Louis Catholic 34
District 1-4A
Booker T. Washington 40, Woodlawn 14
Loyola 28, Northwood 27
North DeSoto 56, Bossier 3
Minden 42, Southwood 0
District 1-2A
Calvary 51, North Caddo 6
Green Oaks 58, Magnolia School of Excellence 6
District 1-1A
Non-district
Pickering 31, Plain Dealing 6