JOURNAL SPORTS

Every advantage matters in the postseason. Captain Shreve, Green Oaks, Huntington and North Caddo all have the homecourt edge tonight In the first round of the LHSAA boys basketball playoffs.

A dozen teams from Shreveport-Bossier made the LHSAA’s brackets. Airline was eliminated Thursday night, 60-44, at Covington in a Non-Select Division I game.

Calvary and Bossier are off tonight after securing high seeds and first-round byes.

Tonight’s first-round state boys basketball playoffs involving local schools, with tip times:

SELECT DIVISION I

No. 19 Holy Cross (17-14) at No. 14 Captain Shreve (17-11), 6:30

No. 24 Hammond (14-9) at No. 9 Huntington (19-8), 6:30

No. 22 Evangel (9-15) at No. 11 Karr (24-9), 6:30

NON-SELECT DIVISION I

No. 26 Benton (14-13) at No. 7 Sulphur (26-4), 6:30

No. 23 Parkway (17-15) at No. 10 Slidell (24-7), 6:30

SELECT DIVISON II

No. 20 Booker T. Washington (12-8) at No. 13 St. Michael (15-14), 6:30

NON-SELECT DIVISION II

No. 24 Woodlawn (13-13) at No. 9 Opelousas (22-11), 6:00

SELECT DIVISON III

No. 17 Rosepine (12-15) at No. 16 North Caddo (19-12), 6:00

NON-SELECT DIVISION III 

No. 22 Many (17-10) at No. 11 Green Oaks (13-14), 6:30

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