Central City News

The 36th Annual Charles Kinsley Tournament begins on Wednesday, Dec. 10 with four games at the Central High gym: • 4 p.m. – Woodlawn vs. Belaire • 5:30 p.m. – Glen Oaks vs. Zachary • 7 p.m. – Central vs. Redemptorist • 8:30 p.m. – Tara vs. University High The tournament continues Thursday and Friday […]

Central coach Sid Edwards says senior running back Anthony Johnson is one of the hardest working members of the Central Wildcat football team. But before last Friday night, Anthony had been on the playing field for only four or five plays all season. Then last Monday Coach Sid promised to put him in the game […]

CENTRAL — Life hasn’t always been easy for Alyssa Hollingsworth, a Central High School senior who suffers from cerebral palsy, multiple handicaps, and a few years ago cancer.  But one thing did come easy — an overwhelming victory in her election as Central High’s 2014 Homecoming Queen. She won in a landslide, receiving more than […]

CENTRAL HIGH HOMECOMING festivities will be held Friday, Sept. 26 and Saturday, Sept. 27. The Wildcats will host McKinley at 7 p.m. on Friday, and the Homecoming Dance will be held from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. on Saturday. Students attending the dance will have to follow strict dress guidelines. Seewww.centralcss.org. Quarterback Tyler Sansone created a sensation […]

Defending District 4-5A champion Central High (2-0) begins a five-game run that will test its mettle Friday, when the Wildcats travel to Jesuit in New Orleans. After that, Central will face, in succession, McKinley, Scotlandville, Denham Springs, and Zachary. Jesuit, ranked No. 8 in State 5A football, is “the real deal,” according to Wildcats head […]

City Park in N.O. Will Be Setting for Shootout Between Central and Jesuit. The Central Wildcat football team and Wildcat fans will enjoy their only out-of-town game of the regular season this weekend when Central travels to New Orleans to face the Jesuit Blue Jays. Coach Sid Edwards, who coached at Jesuit for one year, said the Central […]

The Central Private Rebels return to action this Friday, hosting Trinity Episcopal School of Natchez in a Mississippi Association of Independent Schools game.  The game starts at 7 p.m. Central Private plays its schedule two weeks ahead of schools in the Louisiana High School Athletic Association.  So it has already played in a jamboree and […]

After a slow start at the Zachary Jamboree against Baker last Friday, the Central Wildcats glided to a 21-0 victory.  Starting quarterback Gabe Brown threw a 13-yard touchdown pass to James Schoppe in the first half. In the second half, quarterback Ralph Moore threw a 15-yard TD pass to Schoppe and a 32-yard pass to […]

Thomas Eddlemon, graduate of Central High School and former All District Linebacker for the Wildcats, has been selected to the Dean’s List for the Fall 2013 Semester at Hendrix College in Conway, AR. The list included students “who, completing no fewer than four whole credit courses in the semester for a letter grade, have received […]

Dylan Rathcke is a 6’3”, 210-pound Class of 2019 offensive tackle, defensive end, and defensive tackle at Central Middle School.   He played Southern Louisiana Youth Football before playing for Central Middle last season.  He is a youth and middle school All-American who represented the South in the National Prep and Youth Football Association Top […]