Local teams keep to their high-scoring ways

East St. Mary Parish's fall scoring extravaganza continued Friday. when the four teams combined for 162 points in three wins and a loss.

Berwick celebrated homecoming with a 67-16 win over Thrive Academy. Central Catholic was a 47-0 winner at Jeanerette, and Patterson downed Franklin 41-16.

Morgan City's struggles continued with a 55-7 loss to Assumption.

Berwick remained unbeaten at 5-0. Running back Jayden Milton had a touchdown and Andre Engleton scored twice before the first hydration time out to put the game out of reach for the Baton Rouge school, which dressed out only about two dozen players for Friday's game.

Sophomore Evan Crappell got a win, backing up Berwick quarterback Cru Bella, who watched the game from the sideline with an injury.

Berwick will open district play Friday at Donaldsonville. Thrive Academy, 0-5, will be at Kentwood.

Assumption 55,
Morgan City 7

Assumption put the Tigers away early in its district opener.

Running back Reece Turner scored three straight touchdowns, one on a 51-yard run and one on a 5-yard pass from quarterback Landen Sanchez. Braydin Gros caught a 15-yard TD pass from Sanchez to put Assumption on top 28-0 by the 6-minute mark of the second quarter.

Morgan City's score came in the third quarter, when quarterback Thomas Mancuso found James Richardson with an 8-yard pass to the end zone. Jairo Gomez added the extra point.

Morgan City, 1-4 and 0-2 in the district, will be at home Friday for another district game, this time against Vandebilt. Assumption, 2-2 and 1-0 in district, will be at home against South
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Central Catholic 47,
Jeanerette 0

Central Catholic's prescription was a dose of Damondrick.

Eagle running back Damondrick Blackburn rushed 23 times for 225 yards and five touchdowns to help Central Catholic go to 4-1.

Blackburn rushed nine times in Central Catholic's first 11 plays from scrimmage and caught a 9-yard pass from Benjamin Case. His 8-yard touchdown run during that stretch and Channing Rivere's kick made it 7-0.

The Eagle defense, meanwhile. held Jeanerette to 120 yards of total offense, and caught Jeanerette behind the the scrimmage line on 11 of the Tigers' 27 rushing attempts.

Jeanerette got closer to pay dirt than the Central Catholic 39 only once, when Central Catholic stopped the Tigers on a fourth-and-goal from the Eagle 4.

Evan Picou picked off a pass from Jeanerette's Zyon Colar, and Tate Fontenot and Jack Lipari recovered fumbles for the Eagles. Lipari's recovery set up some Central Catholic razzle-dazzle.

After the fumble recovery at Jeanerette's 36, Case flipped the ball to Blackburn, who tossed it to Tylon Hollins, who threw it back to Case. The sophomore quarterback then hit Blackburn for a pass to the Jeanerette 9. Blackburn took it from there for his fourth touchdown.

The Eagles scored on the game's last play, when a shanked Jeanerette punt from the Tiger 18 bounced all the way back to the end zone, where Central Catholic fell on the ball.

Case went 7-for-11 for 114 yards with a touchdown and an interception. Blackburn caught two passes for 36 yards, and Jakavior Kemp had two receptions for 11 yards. Hollins caught one pass for 51 yards.

For Jeanerette, Colar was 10-for-17 in passing for 92 yards and the interception. Steven Lively led Tiger rushers with 30 yards on 12 trips. Taville Frederick had four catches for 25 yards.

Central Catholic, 4-1 and 2-0 in district, will be at Centerville on Thursday. Jeanerette, 3-2 and 1-1 in district, plays Friday at unbeaten Hanson Memorial.

Patterson 41,
Franklin 16

Patterson quarterback Caylon Davis went 19-for-31 passing for 250 yards and a touchdown and rushed for two more scores to push the Lumberjack record to 4-1.

Franklin stayed close, trailing only 22-16 before Patterson's first possession of the third quarter, when the Jacks drove 60 yards on 11 plays, the last a 19-yard TD pass from Caylon Davis to his brother, Cam Davis.

A 4-yard TD run by Caylon Davis and a 20-yarder by Elijah Johnson and point-after kicks by Jasper Russell completed the scoring.

Cam Davis caught seven of his brother's passes for 62 yards and a touchdown. Howard Kinchen caught six for 91 yards, and Khylin Brooks brought in six for 97 yards.

Johnson finished with 12 rushes for 128 yards, and Cam Davis ran 12 times for 48 yards and a touchdown. Josiah Jennings also had a 2-yard touchdown run.

For Franklin, quarterback Jyklon Ceasar was 7-for-17 passing for 99 yards and a 15-yard TD pass to Jayshaun Johnson.

Zamarion Webber rushed 10 times for 30 yards.

Stocky defensive tackle Michael Moses recovered a Davis fumble in the end zone for one of Franklin's scores. He also hauled in a batted pass near the Franklin end zone to stop Patterson on a second-quarter drive.

Patterson opens district play at home Friday against 4-1 E.D. White. Franklin, 1-4, opens its district schedule Friday at home against Delcambre.