Crescent City Sports to live stream Rummel-Jesuit baseball series this weekend

NEW ORLEANS – Crescent City Sports concludes its live streaming coverage of high school sports for the 2020-21 season this weekend with a Division I baseball best-of-three quarterfinal series between Catholic League rivals Archbishop Rummel and Jesuit.

Friday’s coverage on CrescentCitySports.com will begin just prior to the scheduled 6 p.m. first pitch for Game 1 from John Ryan Stadium in Metairie, the Blue Jays’ home field. Game 2 is scheduled for 1 p.m. Saturday, and if Game 3 is necessary, it will be played at 6 p.m. Saturday.

Danny Riehm, Kenny Francingues and CCS’ Ken Trahan will contribute to the broadcasts this weekend.

The seventh-seeded Raiders (19-11) swept past McKinley in the opening round, winning 11-0 and 14-0, to advance to the quarterfinals, while the No. 2 seed Blue Jays (27-6) were one of four teams to receive a bye.

The teams met twice in the regular season, with Jesuit winning both games, 4-2 on April 10 and 5-0 on April 18.

The schools have a storied playoff history, highlighted by a pair of head-to-head matchups in championship games. Jesuit won 3-2 in the Class 4A title game in 1980, one of the Blue Jays’ state-record 20 baseball championships, while Rummel won 5-1 for the Class 5A crown in 1997, the most recent of the Raiders’ five state titles.

This will be the third best-of-three meeting in the last eight years between the schools. Most recently, Rummel swept Jesuit in the Division I quarterfinals in 2017. In 2014, the Blue Jays swept a regional round Class 5A series from the Raiders.

The winner of the Rummel-Jesuit series advances to the state semifinals next Thursday at 2 p.m. at McMurry Park in Sulphur, when the format reverts to single-game matchups, for another Catholic League rematch against the survivor of this weekend’s series between Brother Martin and John Curtis Christian. The Division I championship game is set for May 15 at 2 p.m.

The Crescent City Sports team is in its 10th season of producing live broadcasts for television and internet, having produced broadcasts of more than 300 live games since 2012, and is continuing its extensive commitment to prep sports coverage on its website for 2020-21. Additionally, in cooperation with Cox Sports Television, CCS will also produce additional events that will both be televised on CST and streamed on the site.