Jesuit-based Retif Oil and Rummel-based Malcom Dienes will play a rematch of their state championship baseball game won by Jesuit when the school-based teams meet on the opening day of summer-league games at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at John Ryan Stadium.
The summer baseball league, started last year by Rummel coach Frank Cazeaux, has 17 teams set to play up to 15 games over the course of five weeks — up to three games per week. The league championship will be decided in a four-team, single-elimination playoff set for the first week of July. The teams will consist of players with remaining high school eligibility.
Jesuit defeated Rummel 1-0 in the Division I select state championship game on May 13 at McMurry Park in Sulphur. The league is sponsored by Crescent City Sports, which will live stream one game per week.
In addition to the teams from Jesuit and Rummel, the league will include teams from Belle Chasse, Brother Martin, Chalmette, De La Salle, Holy Cross, John Curtis, Lakeshore, Lutcher, Mandeville, Northshore, Pope John Paul II, Shaw, St. Augustine, St. Charles and St. Thomas Aquinas.
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Ten schools will be represented in the JPRD East summer prep league that begins Tuesday. Participating schools will play three games per week with games split between Mike Miley Playground and East Jefferson High School.
The league will include teams from Country Day, East Jefferson, Haynes Academy, John Curtis (junior varsity), Kenner Discovery, Newman, Riverdale, Riverside, St. Martin’s and Willow.