Patterson, Central Catholic fall in close games

Staff report
In a Week 2 of St. Mary football marked by lopsided wins, Patterson and Central Catholic provided fans with plenty of thrills — but no wins.
On Friday, Comeaux spoiled Patterson’s miracle comeback with a 60-yard last-second touchdown pass to win 34-30. Central Catholic, a 1A team, took 2A contender Catholic-New Iberia deep into the fourth quarter but fell 21-13.
Otherwise, the scores lacked drama. Kaplan knocked off Berwick 49-0 (see related story), and Jeanerette beat Franklin 66-20.
Two weeks into the season, West St. Mary is the parish’s only unbeaten team after downing Centerville 44-6.
On Thursday, Slaughter Community Charter dimmed the memory of the previous week’s Morgan City victory over Berwick by hanging a 62-0 loss on the Tigers.
In Thursday games this week, 1-1 Central Catholic punches up again, hosting 5A H.L. Bourgeois, also 1-1. Patterson, 0-2, will play at Catholic-New Iberia, 2-0.
On Friday, Morgan City (1-1) will be at St. Edmund (2-0); Berwick and Franklin, both 0-2, will play at Berwick; Centerville (0-2) hosts Thomas Jefferson (0-1); 2-0 West St. Mary hosts 0-1 Thrive Academy; and Hanson (0-2) is at South Terrebonne (2-0).
Comeaux 34,
Patterson 30
This game sometimes looked like a blooper reel before it turned into a highlight reel.
Patterson, coming back from 16 points down and trailing 28-24, set up at its own 48-yard line with 1:03 left. After an incompletion and a delay penalty — untimely penalties were the Lumberjacks’ contribution to the bloopers — quarterback Hayven Keller hit Jamall Pollard with a 26-yard pass.
A Comeaux penalty and an 8-yard Keller run moved the Jacks to the 10. From there, Daylan Jones took a Keller screen pass in for the score. For the fifth time in the game, Patterson failed on a 2-point attempt, but the home team was ahead for the first time, 30-28, with only 25 seconds to go.
Then the lightning struck.
After a kick return to its own 41, Comeaux direct-snapped to workhorse back Jaden Celestine. Quarterback Sean Brinkhaus, who had lined up wide, moved back behind center. He took a toss from Celestine and fired a 61-yard bomb to a wide-open Iulian Popp for a TD with 5 seconds left.
Comeaux overcame at least four bad snaps, three on punts, to secure the 34-30 win, the first for the Lafayette team in the last 33 games.
Catholic-N.I. 21,
Central Catholic 13
The home team once more passed sparingly and relied on a cast of thousands on the ground.
Xailen Hebert made his throws count, going 2-for-4 for 55 yards, including a 50-yard TD to Dominic Lipari.
Khyler Willis also had a 21-yard completion to Hayden Walker in five attempts.
On the ground, Hebert picked up 80 net yards on 14 carries, including an 81-yard score. Walker ran eight times for 21 yards; Parker Gros, six for 22; James Sanders, two for 8; and Lipari four for 20.