Southern Unviversity's Human Jukebox and Grambling State University's Marching Tigers stormed the field inside the Superdome on Friday night just before 9 p.m., ready to face-off with the Grambling State University's Marching Tigers in the annual Battle of the Bands and Greek Step Show.

The musical blow-out is the prelude to Saturday's 34th annual State Farm Bayou Classic, the legendary gridiron contest between Southern and Grambling. Game time is 1 p.m.

But Friday night belonged to the bands, who took the field following the Greek Step contests, in which four fraternities and four sororities competed for prizes. The winners were as follows:

Sorority Step: Zeta Phi Beta of Grambling took first prize, winning $3,000. Delta Sigma Theta of Southern was second, winning $2,000; Alpha Kappa Alpha of Grambling took third, winning $1,000.

Fraternity Step: Phi Beta Sigma of Southern took first prize; Kappa Alpha Psi of Southern was second; Alpha Phi Alpha of Grambling was third. The cash prizes were the same as for the sororities.

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