Four St. Mary teams make football playoffs

A long, tough prep football season ended Friday for St. Mary teams. For four of them, a new season begins.
Central Catholic, Patterson, Franklin and West St. Mary each earned a place in this week’s first round of the LHSAA playoffs.
Central Catholic, 3-7, will be at 6-4 Southern Lab at 7 p.m. Thursday.
In 7 p.m. Friday games:
•Patterson, 2-8, will be at Marksville, 8-2.
•Franklin, 4-5, will be at Homer, 5-5.
•West St. Mary, 7-3, will host Basile, 5-5.
In last Friday’s games, Patterson got its second win by beating Donaldsonville 28-19; A.J. Ellender beat Morgan City, 31-6; Covenant Christian was a 49-6 winner over Central Catholic; St. James blanked Berwick 63-0; West St. John shut out Centerville 46-0; Franklin was a 22-14 winner over Delcambre; Jeanerette downed Hanson Memorial 60-0; and Loreauville edged West St. Mary 15-14.
Patterson 28,
Donaldsonville 19
Both teams have quarterbacks who can throw — Hayven Keller for Patterson and Skyler Garrison for Donaldsonville. And throw, they did.
Garrison went 16-for-39 for 231 yards, three touchdowns and an interception. But Keller won the big prize, going 16-for-28 for 303 yards with two TDs and an interception.
The touchdown throws went to Gregory Johnson, who caught five passes for 77 yards, and Jamal Pollard, whose two receptions went for 159 yards, including an 85-yard TD. Pollard also grabbed a 74-yard pass that set up Daylan Jones’ 1-yard touchdown run.
Garrison threw touchdowns of 30 and 6 yards to Khy Jones and a 12-yard score to Donald Brown.