Two top-ranked baseball teams played Monday. Two more softball teams play today (April 1) in a big district game.
In baseball, Jesuit beat Brother Martin 1-0 in a game between the top-ranked teams in the NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune. Jesuit pitcher C.J. Avard recovered from a shaky first inning in which he hit two batters to shut out top-ranked Brother Martin.
In another baseball game, St. Paul’s beat Northshore 17-2 and has another game today against Covington. St. Paul’s and Covington are in a three-way tie with Fontainebleau for the District 6-5A lead.
The big softball game today is on the North Shore, between first-place Fontainebleau and Northshore, which are separated by one game in the District 6-5A standings.
In another big softball game, played Monday, top-ranked Mount Carmel lost to Dutchtown 9-2 in a non-district game. Mount Carmel was ranked No. 1 in the latest NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune large schools softball rankings, and Dutchtown was No. 5 among Baton Rouge-area schools.
In other sports, East Jefferson football could have a new coach named this week, and Holy Cross’ Greg White-Pittman and Mount Carmel’s Jennifer Clark were named Class 5A basketball MVPs by the Louisiana Sports Writers Association.
TODAY: We’ll have updates from the following games: BASEBALL, Brother Martin at Rummel, 7 p.m.; Holy Cross at Jesuit, 7 p.m.; Covington at St. Paul’s, 6:30 p.m.; Covenant Christian at Country Day, 4 p.m. SOFTBALL, Northshore at Fontainebleau, 4 p.m.