It appears the Springfield High football team will likely be without the parish's leading rusher for the remainder of the season.

FOOTBALL

Here are the Louisiana High School Track Coaches Association's cross country state rankings that were released today with first place votes in parenthesis followed by total votes.

Live Oak cross country coach Travis Johnson insists there’s no pressure on either of his teams heading into the parish meet Oct. 17.

HAMMOND – The way Southeastern’s game with Houston Baptist played out, the ending was fitting.

FRIDAY'S GAMES

DENHAM SPRINGS – The belief Denham Springs had in the first three-plus minutes of Friday’s encounter with reigning Class 5A state champion Zachary quickly turned to disbelief.

GREENSBURG – Sometimes all it takes is a few seconds to open the floodgates.

BATON ROUGE - Going into halftime, Scotlandville was clinging to a narrow one-touchdown lead over Live Oak.

HAMMOND – The mood of the Southeastern football team following last week’s loss to Incarnate Word was understandably not the best, and it’s a feeling the Lions likely don’t want to experience again.

WATSON – Regardless of the outcome a week ago, and the piercing pain brought on by defeat, Live Oak coach Brett Beard arrived at a distinct realization.

WALKER - The Walker Wildcats showed they could bounce back strong. The next assignment is to finish strong.

ALBANY – Yeah, Albany is 0-2 in District 9-3A play, but Hornets coach Mike Janis is hopeful his team has something to build on coming out of Thursday’s 21-13 loss to Jewel Sumner.

DENHAM SPRINGS – Denham Springs High senior Sydni Mayo’s witnessed such a display before.

Springfield notched its first district win in three years last week, but there’s not much time to get caught up in that.

DENHAM SPRINGS – Before playing the game, Denham Springs High School doesn’t want to get caught by the name.

What a difference a week makes.

Things are a little bit different for the Albany football team this week in a couple of ways.

Rushing

WALKER – Keondre Brown had conditioned himself for the time away from the playing field on Friday nights.

CLINTON, MS – Walker High’s Kaye-Loni Bowden turned in a strong performance in Saturday’s Mississippi College-Watson Ford Invitational.

Denham Springs gets the opportunity Friday to try and keep Livingston Parish from going 0-for-3 against the Alabama of District 4-5A.

DENHAM SPRINGS – Livingston Parish high school swim teams wrap up the regular season on Saturday with the last Capital City Swim League meet in Baton Rouge.

District 4-5A

Here are this week's Louisiana Sports Writers Assocation's statewide rankings that were released today.

ST. AMANT – After dropping the first two sets, Denham Springs’ volleyball team returned to the floor of the Gold Dome in Monday’s District 4-I against St. Amant with a decidedly different attitude.

HAMMOND – Frank Scelfo didn’t mince words when discussing the Southeastern football team’s effort against Incarnate Word.

DENHAM SPRINGS – With her team having won the first two sets of Monday’s District 4-I match against Walker, Denham Springs volleyball coach Pam Dubuy relaxed in her court-side chair, awaiting the start of the third set.

FOOTBALL

SAN ANTONIO -- Incarnate Word outscored Southeastern Louisiana 28-7 in the second quarter and never looked back on the way to a 52-34 victory over the Lions in Southland Conference football action Saturday evening at Benson Stadium.

BATON ROUGE – For two years they were training partners with Live Oak’s Justin Peters usually getting the best of Nic Broderick.

CENTRAL 30, LIVE OAK 21

This wasn't the way Albany wanted to open District 9-3A play.

DENHAM SPRINGS – The sight of watching Ferriday’s defense continually try and crowd the line of scrimmage simply made the eyes of Denham Springs quarterback Luke Lunsford open wide.

ZACHARY -- The Walker High football team is undefeated no more.

WATSON - Central coach Sid Edwards knew a surge was coming.

SPRINGFIELD – It’s been three years since Springfield last won a district game, but that’s history now.