Division-IV Non-Select Preview Notes | LHSAA State Championships
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<p>The LHSAA's annual Prep Classic football state championship event kicks off Thursday with the two Division-IV matchups kicking off a slate of eight title games in three days.</p>
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<p>Prep Redzone Louisiana will break down the overall storylines, paths teams took to reach the Superdome, programs' histories and players to watch.</p>
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<p>The Division-IV Non-Select game will wrap Thursday's two-game schedule.</p>
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<p><strong>No. 3 Oak Grove (11-2) vs. No. 4 Haynesville (12-1)</strong></p>
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<p>The Tigers and Golden Tornado are two of the state's blue-blood programs among smaller, rural public schools with a combined 24 state championships between them — with Haynesville's 17 second only to the 28 for John Curtis — and a similarly physical, run- and defensive-oriented style. And they arrive with plenty of recent head-to-head history to go with all that tradition. </p>
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<p><strong>The Paths</strong></p>
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<p>Oak Grove</p>
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<p>— First-round bye</p>
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<p>— Beat Lake Arthur, 49-20</p>
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<p>— Beat district rival Mangham, 31-30, to sweep the season series</p>
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<p>— Beat Kentwood, 49-28, on the road for the second straight postseason</p>
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<p>Haynesville</p>
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<p>— First-round bye</p>
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<p>— Beat General Trass, 48-22</p>
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<p>— Beat Jeanerette, 36-6</p>
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<p>— Upset top-seeded Logansport, 31-14, in a rematch of a wild 2016 title game</p>
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<p><strong>Recent Meetings</strong></p>
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<p>This will mark the teams' fourth meeting in the past two years. Haynesville won, 28-21, in Week 6 last season before Oak Grove got the best of a rematch in the semifinals, 48-7, and then won this year's regular-season date, 61-27.</p>
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<p><strong>Players to Watch</strong></p>
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<p>Oak Grove</p>
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<p>2025 QB [player_tooltip player_id='291089' first='Jackson' last='Bradley'], 2025 RB/ATH [player_tooltip player_id='1221054' first='Jay' last='Freeman'], 2024 DL Gunner Hale, 2024 LB [player_tooltip player_id='421608' first='James' last='Harris'], 2025 TE [player_tooltip player_id='291088' first='J.T.' last='Layton'].</p>
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<p>Haynesville</p>
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<p>2024 OL Jake Acklin, 2025 RB Byruss Burns, 2025 RB [player_tooltip player_id='1596587' first='Zykerius' last='Fielding'], 2024 LB [player_tooltip player_id='902128' first='Alonzo' last='Jackson Jr.'], 2024 OL Kamarion Penegar, 2025 LB [player_tooltip player_id='914221' first='Keizavion' last='Woods'].</p>
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<p><strong>State Championship History</strong></p>
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<p>Oak Grove: 7-5</p>
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<p>— Wins in 1989, 1991, 1999, 2001, 2019, 2020, 2022</p>
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<p>— Losses in 1964, 1986, 1997, 2004, 2018</p>
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<p>Haynesville: 17-9</p>
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<p>— Wins in 1924, 1929, 1936, 1970, 1971, 1984, 1987, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2009, 2013, 2014</p>
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<p>— Losses in 1932, 1938, 1972, 1983, 1988, 1989, 2012, 2015, 2016</p>
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The LHSAA's annual Prep Classic football state championship event kicks off Thursday with the two Division-IV matchups kicking off a slate of eight title games in three days.
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