Catholic League shuffle: 2 games canceled, 1 rescheduled

The District 9-5A football schedule has been a bit like a typical New Orleans weather day Thursday.

Wait five minutes, the saying goes, and it will change.

In the span of just a few hours, one game was canceled, another was rescheduled and later canceled, and one of the teams involved in the cancellations picked up a strong non-district opponent.

The morning started with the news of the cancellation of the 9-5A opener between Archbishop Shaw and Holy Cross, which was scheduled for Thursday night at Hoss Memtsas Stadium.

Shaw director/interim principal Fr. Lou Molinelli confirmed to CCS that the school had “two student-athletes that were exposed to COVID-19 and they tested positive.”

Later in the morning came word that the St. Augustine-John Curtis game, scheduled to be played at Joe Yenni Stadium, had first been shifted from Saturday to Sunday and then later canceled.

Barely two hours after the cancellation became official, Curtis replaced the St. Aug game with a blockbuster non-district matchup against defending Class 5A champion Acadiana. The game will be played Sunday at noon at Joe Yenni.

Curtis will take on Acadiana on Sunday…@Curtis_Patriots @WGNOsports @garlandgillen @CCSprep https://t.co/d502ubN7bE pic.twitter.com/YTpr6CF78k

— Catholic League Sports (@CatholicLeague_) October 8, 2020

The only game on the docket untouched for this weekend is the Jesuit-Brother Martin matchup Saturday night at Hoss Memtsas.

Rummel, which drew the bye on the opening weekend of district play, is also not playing this weekend after its highly anticipated matchup with St. Thomas More in Lafayette was canceled.