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Hanson Memorial kept things close early with Morgan City High School, but the home standing Tigers and quarterback Devonta Grogan were too much as they pulled away for a 40-6 victory Sunday.
Grogan, Morgan City’s quarterback, rushed five times for 190 yards and two touchdowns. He also completed 1 of 5 passes for 19 yards.
While Morgan City took a 7-0 lead with 6:12 remaining in the first quarter after Kerwin Francois returned a punt 57 yards for a touchdown, neither teams’ offense reached the end zone until late in the first quarter.
With Morgan City facing a 1st-down-and-18 situation at its own 38-yard line, Khai Hartley, who also saw time at quarterback, was picked off by Hanson’s Stephen Rosamond. Rosamond returned the interception to the Morgan City 20.
Following a 5-yard Morgan City penalty, Rosamond brought Pierce Hanagriff in motion and handed off to him. Hanagriff then completed a 15-yard pass to an open Brian Sonnier in the end zone for a touchdown. Hanson’s two-point run was no good, but the Tigers had cut Morgan City’s lead to 7-6.
However, Grogan responded on the first offensive play of Morgan City’s next drive when he kept the ball and raced 58 yards for a touchdown with 2:50 remaining in the first quarter for a 14-6 Morgan City lead.
From then on, the rest of the game was all Morgan City as the Tigers reached the end zone with three more rushing touchdowns in the first half and added a second-half passing touchdown.
Morgan City scored on three of its next four offensive possessions in the first half as Fabre reached the end zone on a 2-yard run with 10:46 left in the second quarter, while Dylan Tingle scored on a 12-yard run with 5:05 remaining in the half.
Grogan closed the half with a 59-yard touchdown run with no time left on the clock for a 34-6 Morgan City lead.
The Tigers scored their second-half touchdown on their first drive as Hartley connected with Griffin for an 8-yard touchdown completion with 7:40 remaining in the third quarter for a 40-6 Morgan City lead.
Rangel finished the game 4-for-6 on point-after attempts.
The Morgan City-Hanson contest was played two days after it initially was schedule because of a self-admitted error by Thibodaux-based South Central Football Officials Association assignment secretary Danny Gunn. Gunn said Friday he accidentally left the Morgan City-Hanson contest off his master list for this week. Therefore, no officials were sent to the game.
After an approximate 40-minute wait with Morgan City Principal Mickey Fabre and Morgan City Head Coach Chris Stroud periodically on the phone, the game was rescheduled for Sunday.
In Sunday’s contest, Morgan City finished with 317 yards of offense, while Hanson had 103 total yards.
Tingle added six carries for 32 yards and a touchdown, and Fabre had eight carries for 28 yards and a score for the Tigers.
Hartley also completed 3 of 4 passes for 11 yards and a touchdown.
Griffin led the team’s receivers with three catches for 31 yards and a score.
Rosamond was Hanson’s leading rusher with 14 carries for 35 yards.
Through the air, Rosamond completed 7 of 12 passes for 59 yards with two interceptions.
Hanagriff was 1 of 1 passing for 15 yards and a score.
Sonnier led Hanson’s receivers with 2 catches for 20 yards and a score.
Hanson will return to action Friday, hosting Westminster Christian at 7 p.m.
Morgan City also will be at home Friday, hosting North Central at 7 p.m.

A Garden Market and Seed Swap, a benefit to help save the Morgan City Gathright House, is scheduled for 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Sept. 22, 725 Myrtle St., Morgan City.

Available for sale or swap will be plant sets, food plot seeds, gardening apparel, fresh-from-the-garden foodstuffs, fall seeds, honey, organic fertilizers, organic pest control and ornamental plants.

A lunch of hamburgers, grilled onions, chips and a drink will be available for $6. You can call or text ahead at 985-759-0602 to have your order ready.

Ninth-ranked Northwest High School rallied with two fourth-quarter touchdowns to avoid an upset-bid by Berwick High School in Prairie Ronde Friday in Class 3A action.
Trailing 31-20, Northwest scored a pair of touchdowns, one on a Mekhi Hammond 90-yard kickoff return following the Berwick score and another by Hammond on a 24-yard reception from Montaze Sam for the game-winner. Northwest converted the two-point conversion on the first touchdown but failed on the second one.
Early on, Berwick took a 3-0 lead following Seth Canty’s 34-yard field goal in the first quarter, but Northwest countered with a 56-yard run by Darriest Hogan and a 44-yard reception by Hammond from Sam for a 14-3 lead in the first.
Berwick cut its lead to 14-10 in the second quarter on Barrett Hover’s 25-yard receptio0n from Mitchell Sanford and took the lead at 17-14 in the third quarter on Keyon Singleton’s 39-yard reception from Sanford.
Berwick scored on a 5-yard run to begin the fourth and extend its lead to 24-14.
After Northwest cut its deficit to 24-20 on Devin Davis’ 38-yard reception from Sam, Berwick following with a 19-yard touchdown run.
Canty was 4-for-4 on point-after attempts.
Sanford completed 17 of 22 passes for 150 yards and two touchdowns.
Sam passed for 171 yards, completing 8 of 15 attempts. He had three touchdown passes.
Sam added 24 carries for 70 yards.
Hammond contributed five catches for 113 yards and two touchdowns, while Hogan had three carries for 77 yards and a score.
Northwest will return to action Friday when it hosts West St. Mary, while Berwick will travel to face South Terrebonne Friday.
Additional reporting by The Opelousas Daily World.

Following a long slump, crude prices have rebounded to about US$70 per barrel. That may make 2018 the most profitable year for oil and gas companies in at least four years.
Will oil and gas executives reap big rewards as well?
As energy economists, we’ve wondered how much the top oil and gas executives earn, particularly when their companies are earning large profits. To spot the patterns, we analyzed data on the compensation of more than 900 U.S. oil and gas executives between 1992 and 2016.
What do executives do exactly?
Before getting to the evidence, it is worth considering what executives do in general, and how they get compensated.
Chief executive officers, chief financial officers and other C-level executives make important strategic decisions. If they act wisely, their companies are more likely to succeed and earn bigger profits. Oil and gas executives, for example, make critical decisions about where, when and how much to invest.
In many industries, the decisions executives make can also impact the prices their companies can charge.
For example, Apple’s ability to charge $1,000 for an iPhone X reflects in part the skills of CEO Tim Cook and other Apple executives at developing a desirable product and marketing it. But in a global commodity market like oil, executives have zero control over price. No matter how talented CEOs are, or how hard they work, they can’t singlehandedly make oil prices rise.
In economic parlance, hiring an executive is a principal-agent problem. The board of directors, the principal, hires an executive, the agent, to act on its behalf.
The principal wants the agent to work hard and to make good decisions, but it is hard to measure this effort. Instead, executive compensation typically includes incentives like bonuses, stock options and other forms of pay, designed to align the interests of the executive with the interests of the company.
The Nobel Prize-winning economist Bengt Holmstrom pointed out, however, that it makes no sense for executive compensation to depend on what other scholars have since called “observable luck.”
Tying compensation to luck just makes compensation more volatile, which in turn makes both companies and executives worse off. Holmstrom and others have found it easy to remove luck from compensation by, for example, basing compensation on a company’s performance relative to its competitors.
Paying for luck
Oil prices are the classic example of observable luck. We looked, in particular, at U.S. oil and gas production companies, because these are the ones most impacted by oil prices. We excluded companies engaged partially or exclusively in oil refining – including Valero Energy, Chevron and Exxon Mobil, because the impact of oil prices is less clear and direct on that line of business.
We found that a 10 percent rise in oil prices increases the market value of these oil and gas production companies by 9.9 percent – almost a 1-for-1 relationship. Perhaps in no other industry are so many companies’ fortunes driven by a single global price.
More surprising, however, we determined that executive compensation follows a similar pattern. In particular, a 10 percent rise in oil prices increases executive compensation by 2 percent.
That is, we find strong evidence of a “pay-for-luck” dynamic, with large rewards to executives who happen to be in the industry at the right time.
We found this pay-for-luck pattern to be widespread across the different individual components of compensation for the top five executives at oil and gas companies. This includes not only stocks and options, but also bonuses and long-term cash incentives.
We also noticed that this pattern is asymmetrical.
Executive compensation rises more with increasing oil prices than it falls with decreasing oil prices. This is consistent with anecdotal evidence that the criteria used for executive compensation changes over time. And that they are more quantitative during “boom” times and more qualitative during “bust” times.
In other words, U.S. oil and gas executives reap big rewards, when prices go up, and they aren’t punished that much when prices fall.
Why is this happening?
Everyone in the industry understands that oil prices are highly variable and completely out of the control of individual executives. So why do executives earn more when oil prices go up?
The most likely explanation is that these CEOs and other top executives have co-opted the pay-setting process. Economists call this “rent extraction.”
That is, at least to some degree, executives are exercising influence over the board of directors – extracting compensation packages that exceed what would be expected in a competitive labor market.
And the compensation of all oil and gas executives in our sample, all told, totals almost $1 billion per year, making the money at stake substantial.
With median pay for U.S. CEOs nearly $12 million per year, executive compensation has become more complicated and important to understand than ever. Understanding pay-for-luck dynamics in the oil and gas industry can also shed light on what happens in other businesses where luck plays a less obvious, but often equally important, role.
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article here: http://theconversation.com/oil-and-gas-execs-out-earn-their-peers-are-th....