Eleven locals get playoff assignments, six earning home games Friday

HEADED HOME: Quarterback Javontaye Dean and his Green Oaks teammates earned a first-round home playoff game Friday night. (Journal photo by GAVEN HAMMOND, landgphoto.com)

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Haughton and Parkway will collide for the second time this season Friday night in the first round of the LHSAA football playoffs.

Brackets in the eight divisions were set Sunday and six Shreveport-Bossier schools will host first-round games Friday night.

Haughton topped Parkway in Week 5, 55-36 at Parkway as Bucs’ tailback Brandon Craig ran for seven touchdowns, only the second time in 84 years a local player has done that.

The Bucs and Panthers will square off again six weeks later, this time in Haughton.

Also getting home games are Airline, Booker T. Washington, Captain Shreve, Evangel and Green Oaks.

Calvary and Loyola earned first-round byes and will host second-round games Nov. 13.

Eleven of the 19 local teams qualified for the postseason:

Non-Select Division I

No. 22 Parkway (5-5) at No. 11 Haughton (8-2)

No. 18 Central-Baton Rouge (5-4) at No. 15 Airline (7-3)

Select Division I

No. 21 Warren Easton (4-6) at No. 12 Evangel (6-4)

No. 20 Huntington (4-6) at No. 13 John Curtis (4-6)

No. 18 Hammond (4-6) at No. 15 Captain Shreve (5-4)

Non-Select Division II

No. 19 Northwood (6-4) at No. 14 Cecilia (7-3)

Select Division II

No. 24 McKinley (4-6) at No. 9 Booker T. Washington (7-3)

Non-Select Division III

No.21 Donaldsonville (5-5) at No. 12 Green Oaks (7-2)

Select Division III

No. 5 Calvary (9-1), bye (will host winner of No. 12 Baker-No. 21 Helix Mentorship)

No. 8 Loyola (7-3), bye (will host winner of No. 9 Dunham-No. 24 Fisher)