Dominican, Newman claim top seeds in LHSAA girls soccer

LHSAA GIRLS SOCCER BRACKETS

DIVISION I   |   DIVISION II   |   DIVISION III   |   DIVISION IV

St. Mary’s Dominican and Isidore Newman secured No. 1 seeds in their respective divisions as the LHSAA announced the four playoff brackets for girls soccer Tuesday.

Dominican (18-0-1) and Mount Carmel (16-1-2) are the top two seeds in the 32-team Division I bracket and, if seeds hold, they would face off in the finals in Hammond, scheduled for Feb. 24-27. Each opens playoff action with a Northshore school as Dominican faces Slidell and Mount Carmel meets Ponchatoula in the first round.

Newman (8-4-3) is the No. 1 seed in Division IV. As Divisions II, III and IV have only 24 teams in their respective brackets, the top eight seeds get byes. The Greenies will host either Northlake Christian or Calvary Baptist in the second round.

The other No. 1 seeds went to St. Thomas More in Division II and Loyola Prep in Division III.

The other local schools claiming top eight seeds came almost exclusively from the Northshore and Bayou regions: sixth-seeded Mandeville and No. 7 seed Northshore in Division I, No. 2 seed Lakeshore, fifth-seeded Vandebilt Catholic and sixth seed Ben Franklin in Division II, No. 5 seed E.D. White in Division III and No. 2 seed Houma Christian in Division IV.

Other first-round Division I matchups featuring local teams include a 16-17 matchup between Fontainebleau and Central Lafourche, No. 9 St. Scholastica hosting Alexandria, No. 25 West Jefferson traveling to Dutchtown, No. 13 Destrehan entertaining Baton Rouge, No. 29 H.L. Bourgeois visiting St. Joseph’s Academy, No. 14 Thibodaux hosting Hahnville, Mandeville facing Live Oak at home and Northshore welcoming Pineville.

Division II has a pair of matchups with two teams from the region: No. 18 Bonnabel at 15th-seeded Terrebonne and No. 20 Archbishop Chapelle at 13th seed South Terrebonne. Academy of Our Lady grabbed the No. 21 seed and will travel to Franklin Parish, while Edna Karr got the 24th and final spot in the bracket and will head north to face West Ouachita.

The 16-17 matchup in Division III is all-local with Pearl River welcoming Ursuline Academy. No. 11 Archbishop Hannan is at home against Livonia and 14th-seeded Lusher Charter welcomes Cecilia. Local teams traveling in the first round include No. 24 Haynes Academy heading to Sterlington, No. 21 seed Kenner Discovery traveling to North Vermilion, 20th-seeded Cabrini visiting South Beauregard and No. 18 Lutcher heading to David Thibodaux.

Besides Northlake’s trip to Calvary in the 16-17 game, the other locals in action in the first round of Division IV include an all-area matchup between No. 13 Country Day and No. 20 St. Charles Catholic in Metairie, 10th seed Sacred Heart hosting Evangel Christian, 11th-seeded Pope John Paul II welcoming Westminster Christian, No. 15 Covenant Christian facing Delta Charter at home and 21st-seeded Riverside Academy traveling to Highland Baptist.

The boys soccer bracket will be unveiled Wednesday.