Crescent City Sports to live stream Holy Cross-Shaw baseball playoff series

NEW ORLEANS – An opening-round Division I playoff matchup of District 9-5A rivals Holy Cross and Archbishop Shaw will be live streamed this weekend on Crescent City Sports.

CCS’ coverage of the best-of-three series between the No. 9 seed Tigers (12-22) and the eighth-seeded Eagles (17-16) from Shaw’s Winterscheidt Stadium begins with Game 1 at 6 p.m. Thursday and continues Saturday afternoon with Game 2 and, if necessary, Game 3. CCS’ Ken Trahan will describe the play-by-play.

The teams finished in a fifth-place tie in the Catholic League standings, but Holy Cross swept the two-game regular-season series, winning 12-0 on March 31 and 8-7 a day later.

Both programs are in the midst of transitions in leadership. Holy Cross announced a coaching change on Tuesday, with Ryan Kamlade named as interim head coach for the postseason. Shaw will make a change after the season, with Doug Faust stepping aside and being replaced by current assistant Chad Foret.

Additionally, it will – at least for now – be the last meeting between the schools as district members. Shaw is leaving the Catholic League and moving back to Class 4A for the next two years.

The winner of the Holy Cross-Shaw series heads to Baton Rouge next week to face top-seeded Catholic High (27-7) in a best-of-three quarterfinal series.

The Crescent City Sports team is in its 11th season of producing live broadcasts for television and internet, having produced more than 350 live streams since 2012, and is continuing its extensive commitment to prep sports coverage on its website for 2021-22.