For Edna Karr, this was a business trip. A ride across the Crescent City Connection and into the place that felt like home.

The Caesars Superdome offered familiar surrounding for a team that had been there just one year earlier in the state championship, and once again, it was Karr that posted a resounding victory.

The top-seeded Cougars leaned on their defense the same way it had all season and complemented that with a strong ground game on offense on the way to defeating No. 3 St. Augustine 49-14 Saturday in the LHSAA Division I select state championship.

Karr (14-0) has won eight football state titles, six of them with Brice Brown as head coach.

St. Augustine (12-2) played for a state title in the Dome for the first time since it faced Jesuit in 1978 — a near five-decade long wait.

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