For the fourth consecutive year Cox Sports Television (CST) and the Louisiana High School Athletic Association (LHSAA) will team up on full game rebroadcasts of all five of the football championship games from Shreveport, La. The games took place Thursday through Saturday, 12/8-10 at the Independence Bowl in Shreveport. The Shreveport location filled in for the Superdome in New Orleans which remains under repair from damages caused by Hurricane Katrina.
A total of 160 Louisiana high school football teams began the play-offs on November 11 and 10 made it to Shreveport in search for the coveted championship trophy within class 1A through 5A. The match-ups for the 2005 Nokia Sugar Bowl Prep Classics are listed below,
1A Championship: Opelousas Catholic (Opelousas) vs. Evangel (Shreveport)
2A Championship: St. Charles (La Place) vs. John Curtis (River Ridge)
3A Championship: Notre Dame (Crowley) vs. Redemptorist (Baton Rouge)
4A Championship: Bastrop (Bastrop) vs. Breaux Bridge (Breaux Bridge)
5A Championship: West Monroe (West Monroe) vs. Acadiana (Lafayette)
The exclusive Cox Sports Television replay schedule is as follows,
Saturday, December 17
10:30 am Class 2A championship
Sunday, December 18
Noon Class 1A Championship
3:30 pm Class 4A Championship
7:00 pm Class 5A Championship
Tuesday, December 20
9:00 pm Class 3A Championship
The CST announcing team of Dennis McCain and Rob Musemeche return for their fourth consecutive year of announcing the football championships on CST. Rounding out the broadcast team is Tressy Leindecker who will provide sideline updates and interviews.
CST plans special encore airings of all 5 classification finals on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Please visit the CST Website (coxsportstv.com) for encore airings of the 2005 Nokia Sugar Bowl Prep Classic Football Championships.
About CST
Cox Sports Television, the home of the NBA’s New Orleans Hornets, is an innovative 24-hour local sports network that delivers exclusive programming, including both professional and collegiate sporting events and is available to over 1,300,000 viewers in Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, and central Florida. CST and the LHSAA recently announced a three year extension to their television agreement whereby CST will televise 26 LHSAA championship events each year of the agreement. CST televises over 350 events per year. Cox Sports Television is available to pay television distributors throughout its coverage area and is a part of Cox Communications Louisiana LLC, one of the largest telecommunications companies in the state of Louisiana.