Crescent City Sports to live stream three baseball rivalry matchups this week

NEW ORLEANS – As the high school baseball regular season enters its final week, Crescent City Sports will spotlight three of the best rivalries in the New Orleans area with live streaming coverage this week.

The coverage begins Tuesday at 4 p.m. with the matchup between District 7-5A and St. Charles Parish rivals Destrehan and Hahnville from the Tiger campus in Boutte. Wednesday at 7 p.m., District 9-5A and Jefferson Parish rivals Archbishop Rummel and John Curtis Christian face off at Mike Miley Stadium in Metairie. On Thursday at 6:30, Catholic League rivals Jesuit and Brother Martin meet at historic “Rags” Scheuermann Field at Kirsch-Rooney Stadium.

V.K. Jones will have the play-by-play on Tuesday, while CCS’ Ken Trahan will describe the action Wednesday and Thursday. Wednesday’s game will also be simulcast on NASH ICON 106.1 FM.

Tuesday’s game sends the visiting Wildcats (21-8, 5-0) across the river to take on the Tigers (17-11, 3-2). Destrehan has won 11 straight and sits at No. 8 in the unofficial Division I non-select power rankings, while Hahnville is at No. 21. The teams meet again Thursday in Destrehan.

Destrehan swept the series a year ago and has won six of the last eight meetings since 2018.

The Wednesday and Thursday matchups on CCS not only feature the openers of two-game rivalry series, but they pit the top four teams in 9-5A. Entering Tuesday’s games, Brother Martin (19-6, 8-1) has a one-game lead on John Curtis (17-7-1, 7-2) and a two-game lead on Jesuit (22-6, 6-3), with Rummel (17-12, 6-4) another half-game back.

As of Monday evening, the unofficial Division I select power rankings have Jesuit second, Brother Martin third, Curtis sixth and Rummel 11th.

Since John Curtis moved into the district for the 2016 season, it has dominated the series with Rummel, winning 14 of 16 meetings. A year ago, the Patriots swept the regular-season series. In a Division I quarterfinal rematch, the Raiders won game one before Curtis rebounded to win the final two games of the best-of-three series.

The Brother Martin-Jesuit series has been basically even over the last decade, though the Crusaders have won four straight with two-game sweeps each of the last two years. The Blue Jays swept the series in 2019 for its last victories in the series (the teams did not meet in the COVID-19 abbreviated 2020 season).

Besides the rivalry and district race, Thursday’s matchup between the Blue Jays and Crusaders also falls on the posthumous 100th birthday of the field’s namesake, hall of fame coach Louis “Rags” Scheuermann.

The Crescent City Sports team is in its 12th season of producing live broadcasts for television and internet, having produced more than 400 live streams since 2012, and is continuing its extensive commitment to prep sports coverage on its website for 2022-23.