LHSAA Playoff Brackets: Top Storylines, Prospects | Division-III Select
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Louisiana’s high school football playoffs kick off this weekend. The LHSAA’s second postseason under a tweaked format features eight brackets — four “nonselect” and four “select” — full of impressive teams and prospects and intriguing matchups and storylines. We’ll give a…
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Continue ReadingLouisiana’s high school football playoffs kick off this weekend.
The LHSAA’s second postseason under a tweaked format features eight brackets — four “nonselect” and four “select” — full of impressive teams and prospects and intriguing matchups and storylines.
We’ll give a quick preview of each, including the top five seeds, two lower seeds to watch for a potential run, up to eight top-ranked prospects, up to five sleeper prospects, an intriguing first-round matchup, a most intriguing potential second-round matchup and an overarching storyline entering the tournament.
Check out the Division-III Select capsule below.
Top 5 seeds: No. 1 St. Charles Catholic, No. 2 Calvary Baptist, No. 3 Isidore Newman, No. 4 University Lab, No. 5 Catholic (New Iberia)
Lower seeds to watch: No. 9 Notre Dame, No. 10 Parkview Baptist
2022 champion: St. Charles Catholic
2022 runner-up: Dunham
Top prospects: 2025 Isidore Newman OL Brett Bordelon Brett Bordelon 6'5" | 315 lbs | OL Isidore Newman | 2025 State LA , 2026 University Lab OL/DL Lamar Brown Lamar Brown 6'4" | 260 lbs | OL University Lab | 2026 State LA , 2025 Bunkie DB/WR Kyle Johnson Kyle Johnson 6'0" | 170 lbs | ATH Bunkie | 2025 State LA , 2025 University Lab LB Alec Haynes Alec Haynes 6'2" | 210 lbs | LB University Lab | 2025 State LA , 2027 Dunham QB Elijah Haven Elijah Haven 6'4" | 190 lbs | QB Dunham | 2027 State LA , 2025 University Lab LB Keylan Moses Keylan Moses 6'2" | 215 lbs | ATH University Lab | 2025 State LA , 2025 University Lab QB Emile Picarella Emile Picarella 6'2" | 215 lbs | QB University Lab | 2025 State LA , 2025 Calvary Baptist RB James Simon James Simon 6'0" | 200 lbs | RB Calvary Baptist | 2025 State LA .
Sleeper prospects: 2024 University Lab WRs Granville Anderson II Granville Anderson II 5'10" | 180 lbs | ATH University Lab | 2024 State LA and Seth Gale Seth Gale 5'10" | 160 lbs | WR University Lab | 2024 State LA , 2024 Isidore Newman LB Isaiah Grant Isaiah Grant 6'2" | 225 lbs | LB Isidore Newman | 2024 State LA , 2024 Calvary Baptist WR Aubrey Hermes Aubrey Hermes 6'2" | 175 lbs | WR Calvary Baptist | 2024 State LA , 2024 Dunham DL Louis Phillips Louis Phillips 6'4" | 240 lbs | DL Dunham | 2024 State LA , 2024 Notre Dame OL Luke Schultz Luke Schultz 6'4" | 245 lbs | OL Notre Dame | 2024 State LA .
Intriguing first-round matchup: No. 14 Northlake Christian vs. No. 19 St. Thomas Aquinas
Most intriguing possible second-round matchup: No. 7 Dunham vs. No. 10 Parkview Baptist
Overall Storyline: Recent champions St. Charles Catholic (2011, 2021, 2022), Calvary Baptist (2013, 2014, 2020) and University Lab (1974, 1988, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2021), each of whom boasts marquee wins against higher classification teams, appear to be the leading candidates to bring home the title this year in one of the most intriguing brackets of all levels. But Dunham made a surprise run to the Superdome in 2022, including defeats of both Calvary Baptist and University Lab, and is again among the other talented teams — also notably including No. 3 Newman, No. 5 Catholic (N.I.) and No. 6 Bunkie — with the opportunity to flip the anticipated scripts.