Louisiana Referees Head Back to Work

Louisiana high school sports officials will be back to calling games tonight. Basketball referees protesting the lack of a pay increase walked off the court Monday, forcing the cancellation of some 80 contests statewide. But a promise Wednesday from the Louisiana High School Athletic Association to revisit a rejected raise was enough to sway most of them to return. (As of Wednesday night, members of one officials association were still holding out, according to media reports.)

The decision came after an emergency meeting of the heads of the state's 14 officials associations, principals representing those associations and members of the LHSAA staff and executive committee. The walkout occurred after principals voted down a pay hike requested by officials at the Louisiana High Athletic Association's annual meeting last week. The raises would have affected football, basketball, baseball, softball, volleyball, soccer and wrestling officials.

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