By Kyle Roberts
With the regular baseball season now drawn to a close, each Lincoln Parish high school team learned its respective fate in its postseason brackets.
For the Choudrant Aggies, the reigning Class B state champion earned the No. 1 overall seed in the Non-Select Division V bracket and will be treated to a first round bye after a 26-4 record. The Aggies are currently on an 18-game winning streak and swept through district play.
“I tell the boys all the time– I’m not worried about what anybody else does; I’m just worried about what we do,” Choudrant head coach Joel Antley said about not knowing who the first opponent will be. “If we execute and do what we should do; I just want the boys to play a good ball game.”
Across the parish, the Simsboro Tigers posted a 17-10 overall record and earned the No. 16 spot to take on No. 17 Doyline.
“They’ve got a good pitcher,” Tigers head coach Scott Hiers said. “We’re going to have to find a way to disrupt him.”
Should Simsboro emerge victorious, the Tigers will have to play district opponent Choudrant.
For the Ruston Bearcats, a 21-11 season yielded a No. 19 seed in the Non-Select Division I bracket for a first round matchup with No. 14 Destrehan. The Bearcats will be traveling to South Louisiana for a best of three series that will start Friday, April 21, at 4 p.m.
“We know it’s going to be a dog fight,” Ruston head coach Zack Smith said. “They’re a good team; they have a good program. If we can pitch well, play good defense and get timely hits, I think we have a good chance to win and advance.”
Neither Cedar Creek nor Lincoln Prep qualified for the postseason.
Ruston’s playoff bracket can be found here, while the bracket for Choudrant and Simsboro can be found here.
