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Upon entering the finals on Saturday evening it appears that Brother Martin will win their fifth consecutive Division I team title.  In Division II Teurlings Catholic is in great shape to win their third consecutive Division II team championship.  De la Salle looks to be the team champion in  Division III.

Division I

The Crusaders have seven finalists and a 37.5 point lead over second-place Jesuit, who has five finalists.  Holy Cross has a lock on at least the third spot as the Tigers have a 23 point lead over fourth-place Comeaux, who rather unexpectedly should be the top public school finisher.  St. Paul's is currently in fifth place by seven points, and could surpass the Spartans as the Wolves have two finalists and the Spartans are done scoring., though, has a chance to surpass Comeaux, however, as they are only seven points behind the Spartans.

Several big upsets were had in Saturday's semifinals:

•  Top-seeded and undefeated Rodrigo Diaz of Lafayette allowed a last-second takedown by #4 Darian Mitchell of Barbe, giving Mitchell his first win over Diaz in four attempts, 6-5;
• Brandon Greer of Jesuit continued his run at 182 lbs. with an 11-5 win over #4 Payton Wicker of Zachary;
• Also at 182 lbs., sixth seed Matthew Putnam of Holy Cross defeated #2 Travis Viener of Brother Martin 8-3;
• At 106 lbs. unseeded Kobe Bernard of Dutchtown knocked off #2 Kiefer Fuselier of Sulphur 7-5;
• Brother Martin's Paul-Stephen Schmidt, at 113 lbs., defeated top-seeded Adam Larriviere of Jesuit 8-4;
• Every other weight class aside from 106, 113, 182 and 220 consist matches between the top two seeds.

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Division II

Teurlings Catholic brings a 17.5-point lead over Live Oak into the finals, and the Rebels have four finalists to the Eagles' three.  The battle for third place should be interesting as Rummel holds a slim four-point lead over Shaw, and both teams have five finalists.  No finals matches pit Raiders against Eagles, though. 

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Division III

With a 39-point lead De la Salle looks to have their first team championship since 1971.  Four Cavaliers are finalists.  Brusly made a great run after being in fourth place at the end of Friday's competition, and are currently in second place.  Right behind them by a half-point is North Vermillion.  The Panthers have the edge in the finals with five finalists to two for the Patriots.   

The finals are scheduled to start at 6:30 p.m. Saturday evening.

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