Berwick wins, Patterson and MCHS fall on Friday

Berwick High enters its homecoming week as the only remaining unbeaten team in east St. Mary Parish.

The Panthers went to 4-0 by knocking off Cohen of New Orleans 43-14 Friday. Patterson took its first loss in a nail-biter, falling 36-34 to Chalmette.

Morgan City dropped its homecoming game to Ellender, 52-7.

Berwick's homecoming game will be against Thrive Academy, 0-4, on Sept. 30. Patterson, 3-1, will be at Franklin, which got its first win Friday over Central Lafourche.
Morgan City High, 1-3 will be at Assumption, 1-2, in Napoleonville. Central Catholic, 3-1, will be at Jeanerette, 2-2.

Chalmette 36,
Patterson 34

Patterson had the quick-strike passing attack that gained nearly 500 yards. Chalmette had the powerful running game.

But a third element, the special teams, proved to be the key in Patterson's first 2022 loss. Two punt snaps set up touchdowns by Chalmette in the first half, and an extra-point penalty led to what proved to be Chalmette's winning margin.

In the first half, a snap sailed over Patterson punter Jasper Russell's head to set the visiting Owls up at Patterson's 2-yard line. Quarterback Ethan Couvillion took it into the end zone from there.

On Patterson's next series, a mishandled punt snap gave Chalmette the ball at Patterson's 32. Seven plays later, Kyron Angeletti punched it in from the 5-yard line to put the Owls on top 21-7 with just under 3 minutes left until halftime.

Patterson fought back to tie the game 28-28 in the fourth quarter on a 3-yard run by quarterback Caylon Davis, the second of his three rushing touchdowns.

But Chalmette responded with a six-play, 42-yard drive featuring five runs by Angeletti. The last was a 1-yard TD plunge.

Chalmette kicker Brandon Ramirez missed the extra point, but an offsides penalty on Patterson gave the Owls a second chance. Chalmette decided to go for two, and Angelleti struck again put the visitors ahead at 36-28.

Patterson drew to within two points at 36-34 on a Davis 3-yard TD run with 52 seconds left. The two-point conversion failed.

But special teams play finally worked for Patterson when Taij Tillman recovered the onside kick. The Lumberjacks had seven shots with 47 seconds left, starting at the Chalmette 46. The drive ended when a fourth-down pass into the end zone fell incomplete.

Even in the loss, Caylon Davis put on an aerial show, hitting 31 of 53 passes for an unofficial 490 yards. His chief target was Howard Kinchen, who caught 13 passes for 213 yards and two touchdowns. The first was a 41-yarder on Patterson's first series.

Khylin Brooks caught five passes for 97 yards, and Camron Davis caught four for 40.

Angeletti rushed 19 times for 116 yards for Chalmette. Kai Williams finished wth 119 yards on 14 carres and had an 80-yard touchdown run.

A.J. Ellender 52,
Morgan City 7

Morgan City continues to show some encouraging signs, along with reminders that the Tigers are rebuilding: the dropped passes, the turnovers, the penalties at inopportune times.
And then, sometimes, there's the bizarre.

Early in the third quarter, for example, Morgan City forced Ellender into a fourth-and-10 at the Tiger 47. The fourth down snap was fumbled, but as the ball was batted around,
Ellender's Daviante Scott swooped in to recover it and return it to Morgan City's 35 for a first down.

And so it went.

For Morgan City, quarterback Thomas Mancuso went 16-for-35 for 240 yards and a 69-yard touchdown pass to Logan Linston. Jamyre Bias caught five passes for 45 yards; Linston had four for 99; Anthony Bourgeois Jr. grabbed four for 29; and James Richardson caught two for 59.

Bourgeois rushed twice for 28 yards, and Mancuso picked up 26 on three trips. Bias carried seven times for 20 yards.

After Linston's touchdown reception tied the game 7-7 early in the first quarter, Ellender rolled off 45 unanswered points.

Ellender quarterback kade Adkins completed seven of his 16 passes, four of them to Royal Williams for 150 yards and the two scores. Jaden Carter caught a 20-yard touchdown pass for the Patriots.

Running back Xaviah Bryant rushed 17 times for 88 yards and touchdowns of 1 and 34 yards. Williams also had a rushing touchdown of 85 yards
Scott returned an interception 20 yards for a touchdown. Ken Grant kicked a 27-yard field goal, and Ellender got two points when a Morgan City punt snap was too high and was kicked out of the end zone.