Few other schools in the metro area will have as big a rebuilding project as Bairnsfather.

Jesuit couldn’t hold off Barbe either time it took the lead and fell 7-5 in the Class 5A state championship game.

The Blue Jays allowed the Wrecking Rams to chip away at the lead, and cut it to two runs in the seventh inning before senior Stephen Lukinovich shut down the rally.

Against the Vikings, those two traits all but disappeared as the Skippers stranded eight base runners and committed four errors in giving Airline the opening it needed to eliminate Mandeville 9-5.

A little more than a month and a half later and that same Jesuit team has lost only one more game and reeled off 14 wins, including nine straight.

And now he’s gone, along with nearly the entire offense.

This fall will mark 22 years at Ehret for North, and still, the thought of spring practice at the Patriot Street campus excites him.

The Terriers opened the Division II state tennis tournament in impressive fashion on Monday, scoring 10 points on the first day to capture the state championship.

This time, however, more is on the line than neighborhood bragging rights and a possible district title.

The Longhorns lost their All-America point guard Wednesday when Augustin announced he would skip his final two seasons at Texas and enter the draft, where he is widely considered a a first-round pick.

Only one teenager was lifting at this moment, but should a need have arisen for other students to change for a PE class, little room would have been left for the players to finish their training cycle.

Newman chipped away at the Patriots’ lead, but couldn’t punch through the ceiling and Curtis won 19-13 to clinch the 10-2A crown at Kirsch-Rooney Stadium.

“I may have gone a little overboard with it, but it’s paying dividends now.”

Paralyzed from the neck down by injuries suffered during a 2002 high-school football game Wright, now 21, harbors hopes that this trip to California will result in a breakthrough personal victory.

So, with the Blue Jays off to a 13-9 start, including a 2-2 start to district play, those might be grumblings you’re hearing from Banks Street

And they won by coming through in a close game, taking it 3-1.

That would seem to be a coincidence, until you listen to how Howard recruited Thompson.

Arcadia had no answer for anything Metairie Park Country Day threw up in the Cajundome, and the No. 3 Cajuns breezed into the Class 1A finals with an 80-58 win over the second-seeded Hornets.

Both schools, you see, haven’t even hit their five-year anniversary.

A year ago, she told head coach Christy Thieler the Chipmunks would be playing tonight in the Class 5A final.

But he was certain of one thing – whatever he did wouldn’t be the usual raffle-style fundraiser.

Tyron Mouzon the realist knows the scenario is a little different for his players.

The lower halves of those same walls are made of tough Cypress wood. His floors also are wood, smooth and shiny in their feel and appearance.

Despite controlling the tempo of the game and creating more scoring opportunities, Jesuit’s boys soccer team is out of the state playoffs, losing in the semifinals 1-0 to Woodlawn on a fluke goal by a veteran goalkeeper.

He just had two simple words for Newman’s boys soccer team – settle down.

The Lonergans moved to Baton Rouge, and then relocated to a relative’s house on the Northshore.

Only, this time, they’ll have to go through a team that already has beaten them.

Catholic earned 214 points to Jesuit’s 210, and Brother Martin ended third with 199 points. Rummel was fourth with 184 and Mandeville was fifth with 127 points.

With eight wrestlers in the semifinals, Jesuit and Rummel have more players in the big bracket than any other school. Brother Martin has seven guys still alive, and Catholic is sitting with six in the championship bracket, with the Red Raiders holding down three No. 1 seeds.

Instead, they passed the forward on their way to Hunter LeBlanc, the unlikely hero in goal.

He had a nearly 4-to-1 touchdown-to-interception ratio as a senior, leading the Tigers to a 10-3 season and a Class 4A quarterfinal berth.

Especially this year.

Bryce McKinney, a junior at Ponchatoula High, suffered an incomplete injury to the C4 vertebra in his neck during a football game this past September. He was paralyzed.