Bowling: Shaw, Jesuit, Chapelle lead area teams headed to playoffs

State Tournament Brackets

Boys DI | Boys DII | Girls

Archbishop Shaw, Jesuit and Archbishop Chapelle are the highest-seeded teams from the New Orleans region in the LHSAA bowling playoff brackets revealed Monday.

Shaw (12-0) is the lone No. 1 seed from the area, in the boys/co-ed Division II bracket. For the first time in 2024, the boys/co-ed side is broken into two divisions, with Division I made up of Class 5A schools and Division II covering Classes 4A and lower.

The Eagles are joined in the Division II bracket by two other West Bank schools: fourth-seeded Patrick Taylor (9-1) and No. 10 seed Belle Chasse (10-2).

In the opening round next Monday at All Star Lanes in Baton Rouge, Shaw meets St. Thomas More, Patrick Taylor takes on first-year program French Settlement and Belle Chasse faces University Lab.

Four Catholic League schools are headed to the Division I playoffs – No. 2 seed Jesuit (10-1), sixth-seeded Brother Martin (11-1), No. 7 seed Archbishop Rummel (10-2) and 12th seed Holy Cross (9-3). Slidell (8-3), which competed in the Hammond region this season, grabbed the 16th and final spot in the bracket.

The early rounds will be contested at Colonial Lanes in Harahan on March 26. Jesuit will bowl Catholic High, Brother Martin faces Central Lafourche, Rummel meets Hammond, Holy Cross takes on Denham Springs and Slidell battles top-seeded Captain Shreve.

If Jesuit and Rummel win their opening round matches, they would face off in one of the quarterfinals that afternoon. Jesuit defeated Rummel 17½-9½ on March 4.

Brother Martin has won the last five boys/co-ed championships.

Chapelle (12-0), one of four girls teams in the state to go undefeated in the regular season, is the No. 4 seed as it seeks its second title in four years. The Chipmunks will face Airline in the opening round March 27 at Bowlero Kenner.

St. Scholastica, which competes in the Hammond region, is the No. 12 seed and could potentially face Chapelle in the second round.

The other New Orleans region teams in the girls bracket are Patrick Taylor (8-2), the No. 9 seed who will meet Alexandria in the first round, and No. 14 seed Academy of Our Lady (8-3), which opens with third-seeded and unbeaten Albany in a rematch of a 17-10 Albany victory on Feb. 8, also in Kenner.

The other unbeaten teams are top-seeded H.L. Bourgeois and defending state champion and No. 2 seed Dutchtown. HLB meets region rival South Terrebonne, which won a roll-off against Ellender Monday afternoon to determine the 16th and final team in the girls bracket.

At each early-round site, teams need two wins to advance to the semifinals and finals at Premier Lanes in Gonzales. The girls finals are April 3, with both boys/co-ed brackets in action on April 4.

The singles finals will be at All Star Lanes on April 5, with the top 80 boys and top 48 girls in the state, based on 21-game averages during the regular season, competing.

In the boys division, Brother Martin qualified a state-high seven for singles, led by Jacob Vangilder, whose 218 average led the New Orleans region. Shaw is second with six qualifiers, led by Joshua Collins and defending singles champion Jonathan Arena, each with 217 averages. Thirty-two bowlers statewide finished with a 200 average, nearly twice last year’s total of 17.

Chapelle has a state-best eight qualifiers in girls singles, led by the region’s two highest averages, Olivia Bares (204) and Elizabeth Hamilton (202). Defending singles champion Sydney Lee of Dutchtown averaged a state-best 217.

Crescent City Sports will have coverage of all final rounds of the state bowling championships for the fifth consecutive season.