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Vandebilt Catholic came out hungry for its first win of the season and jumped on Berwick Friday at Geisler Stadium in Berwick.
The Terriers ran out to a 21-0 first quarter lead and a 34-0 halftime advantage.
“They came out and punched us in mouth with their physicality on both sides of the ball, and we didn’t have an answer for it,” Berwick Coach Mike Walker said.
Vandebilt Catholic piled up 306 total yards in the first half (142 rushing and 164 passing), while Berwick had just 43 yards (15 rushing and 28 passing).
Berwick did get a spark from senior running back Keyon Singleton late in the third quarter, and he capped a 15-play, 76-yard scoring drive with a touchdown reception with 4:53 remaining in the third quarter. Senior kicker Seth Canty added the point-after to cut the Panthers’ deficit to 34-7.
Quarterback Reed Gonzales added the Panthers’ other touchdown on a run in the fourth quarter.
For the game, Singleton finished with 11 carries for 44 yards. He also caught touchdown, finishing the game with two catches for 15 yards. Jayden Milton added six carries for 49 yards.
Gonzales led the Panthers’ offense with nine carries for 87 yards and a touchdown, while he was 9-of-20 passing for 63 yards with a touchdown and an interception.
“He battled all night, and when he has time to set his feet, throw the ball and read defenses, he does a great job,” Walker said. “But again, I have to give them (Vandebilt Catholic) credit. They did a good job of mixing up their pressure fronts and forced our guy to run for his life too much.”
Berwick drops to 1-2 with Rayne coming to town this week.
“I told them losing is a word we have removed for our vocabulary,” Walker said. “We either win or learn, so we will come in the morning (Saturday) and we’re going to learn from those mistakes and get better for next week.”
Vandebilt Catholic (1-2) totaled nearly 500 yards of offense with 20 first downs. Terriers quarterback Gavin Daigle did most of the damage, completing 11-of-14 passes for 187 yards and two touchdowns. Daigle finished the game with 110 yards rushing and four touchdowns.
Vanderbilt will hit the road Friday when it travels to face Dutchtown.
Additional reporting by www.bayoupreps.com.

Morgan City and Berwick High schools finished 2-0 on the first day of Morgan City High School’s volleyball tournament.
Morgan City defeated New Iberia 2-1 (19-25, 25-19, 15-8) and Patterson 2-0 (27-25, 25-14).
Meanwhile, Berwick defeated South Terrebonne 2-0 (25-16, 25-20) and West St. Mary 2-0 (25-8, 25-12).
Patterson finished 1-1, defeating Ellender 2-0 (25-16, 25-14) and falling to Morgan City.
No individual statistics were available from the matches.
The trio of Tri-City Area teams will return to action in the tournament Saturday. Morgan City High School will face Destrehan at 8:30 a.m. and Ellender at 10:30 a.m., both in the Ogden E. “Oggie” Stansbury Multi-Purpose Building. Patterson will play Destrehan at 9:30 a.m. at New Iberia at 12:30 p.m., both in the multi-purpose building, while Berwick will meet Sam Houston at 9:30 a.m. and Hahnville at 12:30 p.m., both at Morgan City Junior High School.
Earlier this week on Tuesday, Morgan City won at Delcambre 3-1 (25-9, 23-25, 25-18, 25-15), Patterson was victorious at Abbeville 3-0 (25-16, 25-11, 25-17) and Berwick fell on the road to Catholic High of New Iberia 3-0 (25-20, 25-18, 25-17).
No individual stats were available from these matches.
CCHS defeats
South Lafourche
The Central Catholic Lady Eagles defeated South Lafourche 3-0 (25-12, 25-13, 25-23).
Katie Hoffpauir and Yani Johnson led the squad. Hoffpauir had six kills, 26 assists, one ace and 15 digs, while Johnson had 21 kills, one ace, five digs and four solo blocks.
Other top Central Catholic contributors were Symone Wiggins, one ace, two assists and 14 digs; Rachel Rogers, 11 digs; Ava Nicar, three kills, one ace and seven digs; Emily Lipari, one ace and five digs; Natalie Sloane, one dig and three solo blocks; and Kennedy Grizzaffi, two kills and two solo blocks.
Tuesday, Central Catholic fell at home to Dominican 3-0 (25-23, 25-20, 25-10).
No individual stats were submitted.
Central Catholic will return to action Tuesday when it travels to face Lafayette Christian Academy in a 6 p.m. contest.

BATON ROUGE (AP) — Because of a projected $500 million surplus, Louisiana’s savings account for troubled financial times will receive a sizable $125 million bump in its deposits. But the “rainy day” fund still will remain below its peak after years of depletion to fill budget gaps.
While other states have focused on rebuilding their reserves since the last recession, Louisiana spent those years careening from one self-created budget crisis to the next, until Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards and the majority-Republican Legislature reached a seven-year tax deal in 2018.
Recent surpluses have started refilling Louisiana’s rainy day account, formally called the Budget Stabilization Fund. But lawmakers and the governor also stripped a lucrative replenishment source to pay for roadwork rather than sock into the savings account.
Meanwhile, the $406 million balance in the fund remains below the level of reserves that national credit rating agencies advise — and below the level that half the nation’s states have in their rainy day funds — even as economists have warned a national recession could be on the horizon.
“Now’s a good time to prepare by filling up the rainy day fund,” said Robert Travis Scott, president of the Public Affairs Research Council, a nonpartisan government watchdog group. “We do not have it filled to the rate that’s probably prudent for the next economic cycle, and it’s clearly short of what the rating agencies say.”
While Moody’s Investors Service improved Louisiana’s credit outlook to “positive” last week, the Wall Street credit rating agency dinged the state for its low rainy day fund, calling it a “credit weakness.”
Louisiana created the savings account in its constitution in 1990 and reworked it eight years later, requiring that lawmakers earmark one-quarter of any surpluses into the fund. While certain income tied to oil and gas also flows into the account, the benchmarks to trigger such deposits haven’t been reached in many years.
The fund can be tapped when the state income forecast for an upcoming budget year is less than the current year. Only one-third can be withdrawn in a two-year period, and a two-thirds legislative vote is required.
The Budget Stabilization Fund topped $853 million at its high point in the 2008-09 financial year, according to the treasurer’s office. Former Gov. Bobby Jindal, Edwards and lawmakers siphoned off money five times in the last decade to lessen financial gaps, draining it to $287 million three years ago.
Three years of surpluses are starting to replenish the account.
Edwards, running for a second term on the Oct. 12 ballot, highlights the increased rainy day deposits as a sign Louisiana’s on improved financial footing, pushing back on criticism that he and lawmakers raised taxes too high.
But while the upcoming surplus deposit will boost the savings balance to more than $530 million, its highest level since 2014, that’s not nearly enough for Treasurer John Schroder.
“You’ve got to be well over a billion dollars to be healthy,” the Republican official said. “If we’re going to create some stability in this state, having a healthy savings account is part of that stability.”
Louisiana’s lawmakers had pledged another stream of annual cash would flow into the rainy day fund, a portion of hundreds of millions in Gulf oil spill recovery money that Louisiana is receiving from BP PLC as compensation for economic damage from the massive spill.
But Edwards and lawmakers earlier this year redirected those dollars to instead finance roadwork, bridge upgrades and port improvements.
That will leave surpluses as the primary driver for filling the rainy day fund. If no surpluses appear, lawmakers and the governor have to put at least $25 million in the account annually, part of the settlement of a lawsuit involving prior uses of the fund.
Schroder suggests lawmakers and the governor should spend less than all the state dollars available yearly, to create new surpluses. Scott wants to see Louisiana rewrite its tax structure to lessen the unpredictability of its revenue streams.
“As long as you have a tax base that is sort of inherently uncertain and volatile, as we currently have it structured,” Scott said, “you’re probably going to need more money in a Budget Stabilization Fund than we have now.”
Melinda Deslatte has covered Louisiana politics for The Associated Press since 2000. Follow her at http://twitter.com/melindadeslatte