Tee Cotton Bowl is cancelled due to COVID issues
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The Sacred Heart defense converges to make a stop against Pine Prairie in the Evangeline Parish Jamboree. The Trojans begin the season 1-0 after earning a win over Ville Platte High because of a forfeit. (Gazette photo by Rhett Manuel)
After last season’s cancellation of the Tee Cotton Bowl due to Covid-19 concerns, all systems appeared to be go for the game’s return to open the 2021 high school football season in Evangeline Parish.
Apparently, it will have to wait another year.
The annual game, which hasn’t been played since 2019 due to the pandemic, was cancelled Tuesday due to a continued coronavirus outbreak at Ville Platte…
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