Girls basketball teams at Oak Hill and Plainview are home teams tonight for a chance to reach Marsh Madness next week, while ASH, Buckeye and Menard are on the road for their LHSAA girls basketball playoff quarterfinal games.
The parish playoff matchups:
Division I — ASH (8th seed) at John Curtis (1) – 6 p.m.
Division II — Buckeye (9) at University-BR (1) – 6 p.m.
Division III — Menard (10) at Academy of Sacred Heart-New Orleans (2) – 4 p.m.
Class B — Pitkin (6) at Oak Hill (3) – 6 p.m., game site is Northwood-Lena HS
Class C – Gibsland-Coleman (6) at Plainview (3) – 6 p.m.
Winners advance to Marsh Madness, the LHSAA’s girls basketball final four tournaments in Hammond next week. The schedule for next week’s games may be announced as early as Friday but likely over the weekend. Ten state championship games will be staged next Friday and Saturday after semifinal games beginning Monday and finishing Thursday.
Boys state playoffs begin Friday night. Four (Tioga, Northwood-Lena, Glenmora and Oak Hill) of the seven parish teams qualifying play first-round games, with three more (ASH, Peabody and Plainview) earning first-round byes.
Scores of Rapides Parish girls teams winning Monday night second-round games:
ASH 58, Riverdale 35
Buckeye 40, Frederick A. Douglass 39
Menard 51, Newman 17
Oak Hill 67, Hicks 51
Fairview 71, Glenmora 26