Central City News

The Central Wildcats (1-1) will travel to Metairie Friday afternoon for a 7 p.m. game against the Jesuit Blue Jays, a quality foe who can always be counted on to provide stiff competition. Jesuit (0-2) is much better than its record would suggest, having lost to two top teams — Warren Easton and St. Paul’s […]

Woody Jenkins has been in the TV business most of the past 50 years. He worked at WAFB-TV as a young newsman in the 1960’s and later started more than a dozen small TV stations across the South. He still has an interest in WSTY-TV, Hammond and Baton Rouge. But Jenkins, who edits the Capital […]

After a hard-fought and evenly matched contest, the McKinley Panthers appeared to cinch a non-conference victory over the Central Wildcats when McKinley took a 15-14 lead with 1:40 left in the 4th Quarter. It would have been a sweet victory for McKinley coach Ken Hilton, who served as defensive coordinator at Central for three years. […]

The Central High School Lady Wildcats basketball team is in the midst of a busy summer in preparation for next season. They began one of four competitive college camps, playing at McNeese State on Saturday, June 4 and won two of four games. The girls will also participate in competitive team camps at UNO, ULL, […]

“10-0! It’s a surreal feeling!” exclaimed former Central Wildcat Zach Hetrick, as he held the 2015 Sunbelt Championship trophy after McNeese’s win over Lamar. Now, the 2nd Team All-Conference tight end will wait with his teammates for their first playoff opponent. Those who missed McNeese State’s Southland Conference-clinching win over Sam Houston State three weeks […]

Central High School athletic director and head football Coach Sid Edwards isn’t shy about how he feels about the school’s varsity volleyball team. “They are the pride and joy of Central,” he said, “and they have the potential to win the State Championship!” The Lady Wildcats won the State Regional Championship Monday, defeating Sam Houston […]

Central High School enters the first round of the state 5A football playoffs Friday at 7 p.m against the state’s No. 1-ranked team, the West Monroe Rebels (10-0). The two teams last met in the 2013 playoffs when Central won 14-0 in one of great victories in Central football history.  West Monroe has one of […]

By Woody Jenkins, Editor, Central City News Do smells bring back memories to you? Every spring when we cut the grass for the first time, the memories lood back to me. Sometimes I pick up a handful of freshly-cut grass and hold it to my nose. I’ve even been known to lay face down in […]

Was the 1955 Istrouma High football team the greatest in Louisiana history?  As long as football is played in this state, that will be debated. Louisiana has only had one Heisman Trophy winner — Billy Cannon — and he starred on the 1955 team, which went undefeated and won the State Championship. 2015 is the […]

When I was a child the first college football hero I remember having was LSU Heisman Trophy winner Billy Cannon. Back in those days there was no ESPN. No 50 plus games a week on TV, and being at that age, I lived in New York and California, it’s hard to recollect how Billy became […]