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In a battle of two outstanding defenses, Lafayette Christian’s was one play better, and that play was good enough to help the Knights to their fourth consecutive state football championship.

Lafayette Christian scored on the first play from scrimmage, and then hold off St Charles Catholic 12-7 Monday afternoon in the Division III championship game at Turpin Stadium on the campus of Northwestern State University.

Here’s the highlights from WGNO Sports

Last year, Lafayette Christian defeated St Charles 41-14 in the championship game.

Lafayette Christian won the Division IV championship in 2017 and 2018, before winning the Division III championship in 2019.

Catch complete highlights on Friday Night Football presented by the Allstate Sugar Bowl Monday night on Nola 38 at 11. WGNO at midnight, and on the live stream at digital-staging.wgno.com.,