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The University of Louisiana's recently renovated Cajun Track/Soccer Complex will host the Louisiana High School Athletic Association's annual Nokia Sugar Bowl soccer championships. The event, which includes the championship game in Divisions I and III in both boys' and girls' competition, is scheduled for March 3-4. UL interim athletic director David Walker said Sunday the university had approved the hosting of the soccer event in a Friday meeting. "It's a quick turnaround," Walker said, "but it's a done deal." The event was scheduled for Tad Gormley Stadium in New Orleans, but that facility cannot host the event after suffering extensive damage from Hurricane Katrina. Not a done deal, though, is the state Class 5A baseball tournament, an eight-team event scheduled for May 12-13. Walker said his department has not made a final decision on whether to host the baseball event at M. L. "Tigue" Moore Field. That event requires a greater financial commitment from the university, including hotel payments for teams traveling more 90 miles. It also falls on a weekend when the UL team is on the road. The Cajuns will be at Middle Tennessee for a Sun Belt Conference series that weekend, so other sources for staffing the tournament would have to be found. The rest of the story Dan McDonald dmcdonald@theadvertiser.com