ESA, CHS lead area girls’ teams into soccer playoffs
Published 7:30 am Wednesday, January 31, 2018
- ESA, CHS lead area girls’ teams into soccer playoffs
The ESA Lady Falcons and the Catholic High Lady Panthers pulled down the Teche Area’s highest seeds as the Louisiana High School Athletic Association released the prep girls’ soccer playoff brackets Tuesday.
ESA is the third seed in Division IV while district rival Catholic High School is the fifth seed in the division.
Both teams get first-round byes and will play host to second round games as the playoffs wind towards the state championships set for Feb. 21-23 at ULL Ragin’ Cajun Soccer Field in Lafayette.
In Division III, St. Martinville Senior High finished as the ninth seed and will play host to a first round game while Erath finished as the 21st seed and will travel in the first round.
All first round games must be played by Friday.
Neither Division I New Iberia Senior High (31st seed) nor Division II Westgate (30th seed) qualified for the playoffs. Only the top 24 teams in each Division in the power rankings made the postseason.
ESA (10-2-5) will play the winner of 14th seed Runnels (9-6-2) and 19th seed Christ Episcopal (10-3-2) in the second round while Catholic High (16-10-2) will play the winner of 12th seed Metairie Park Country Day (8-11-1) and 21st seed Northlake Christian (8-10-0) in the second round.
Neither ESA nor CHS faced any of their potential second round opponents this season.
All second round games must be played by Wednesday, Feb. 7.
St. Martinville (16-7-2) will play host to David Thibodaux STEM (5-11-4) in the first round. The two teams are in the same District 3-III and played twice this season with SMSH winning the first game 2-0 at the Beau Chene Tournament on Dec. 2 and winning the second game 1-0 when the two teams met in district play Dec. 30.
Erath (7-9-3) travels to face 12th seed DeRidder (10-12-0) with the winner advancing to face fifth seed E.D. White (10-9-4) in the second round. The Lady Bobcats did not face either team this season.
New Iberia Senior High finished with a record of 6-14-1 this season while Westgate finished with a 4-12-5 record.
The LHSAA will release the boys playoff brackets in all divisions today.
