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The Patterson High School Lumberjacks were undefeated in its Advance Physical Therapy Lumberjacks Invitational held this weekend.
In Friday PHS invitational action:
South Lafourche 40, St. Martinville 37
South Lafourche’s Matt Bellanger lead the Tarpons with 18 in its 40-37 squeaker. In the loss, St. Martinville’s Jamel Fontenette knocked down nine points in game one action.
Patterson 70, Jeanerette 40
The second game of the night saw the Lumberjacks’ Kai Schexnayder sizzle on the backboard with 20 points to lead PHS to its blowout win of 70-40. Other top scorers for the ’Jacks were Dajon Richard with eight, and RJ Talver, Elijah Williams and Tyrone Tillman each scoring seven points.
Schexnayder put in two 3-point shots in the contest.
Jeanerette’s leaders were Deandrick Keal with 13 and Shonathan Sparrow with 12.
Berwick 44, Central Catholic 39
The Berwick High Panthers clawed it out with the Central Catholic Eagles in game three for a 44-39 win.
For Berwick, Travis Whitehead had the hot hand with nine points. Other top scorers for the Panthers were Tavaris Howard, Patrick Robertson and Josh Carver each scoring seven points and Dayton Clark with six off of 3-point shots.
The Eagles’ D.J. Lewis hit the basket for 10 points, Elijah Swan with eight, and Taylor Blanchard, Brooks Thomas and Davidyione Bias all with six.
In Saturday PHS invitational action:
Berwick 48, Jeanerette 46
In a close game-one battle, Berwick defeated Jeanerette 48-46, thanks to the high scoring of Whitehead.
The Panthers’ top scores came from Whitehead with 22 points followed by Robertson with 12.
Jeanerette’s Jared Drexler put in 19.
Patterson 60, South Lafourche 46
Patterson was no match for South Lafourche as the ’Jacks came away with a 60-46 win thanks to a hot hand on the boards by Schexnayder.
Schexnayder’s 30 points, 18 of which came off of 3-pointers, was followed by high scorers Williams with 11 and Drew Lucas with 6.
South Lafourche had top scores from Luke Chiasson with 17, Bellanger had 15 and Marquis Francis with 11.
Central Catholic 40, St. Martinville 38
In the final invitational game, the Eagles held off St. Martinville for a 40-38 win.
Central Catholic’s high scorers were Thomas and Lewis, each with 12 points, and Blanchard had seven.
St. Martinville’s Brian Wiltz came away with 15 and Markavon Williams, Trayvon Marshall and Damontae Gardner each added six.
Northside 66, Morgan City 62
The Morgan City High School Tigers team was eliminated from New Iberia’s tournament with a 66-62 loss to Northside Friday.
Leading the Tigers on the backboards were Ke’Sean Francois with 25, 18 points from 3-pointers, followed by Tywaun Walker with 17 and Taaj Daniels with 11.

The Morgan City Youth Bowling League held its awards banquet Tuesday night at Charlie’s Lanes in Morgan City.
Below is a list of the award winners:
Team Season Highs:
—Handicap Series: Double Trouble (Zach Aucoin and Jonathan Spinella) (1,360), Rock-N-Bowl (Gabriela DaCosta and Jett Lodrigue) (1,346) and Dabbing Bois (Merlin Boudreaux IV and Shayne LaCoste) (1,345).
—Scratch Series: Team 13 (David Laubach Jr. and Devin Hidalgo) (1,214), Dumb & Dumber (Briana Toups and Emily Price) (1,066) and Twins (Shannon Derise and Haidyn Derise) (922).
—Handicap Game: Team 14 (Jackson Kenney) (520), Team 6 (Richard Sartwell and MacKenzie Amador) (480) and Team 3 (Mckenzie Buckner and Jaci Lynch) (464).
—Scratch Game: Grilled Cheese (Zachary Stewart and Trevor Tong) (421), Panthers (Cameron Kelly and Scott Price) (368) and Team 17 (Caroline Owens and Collin Deslatte) (289.
Boys Season Highs:
—Handicap Series: Collin Deslatte (736), David Laubach Jr. (712) and Trevor Tong (707).
—Scratch Series: Zachary Stewart (679), Devin Hidalgo (612) and Scott Price (513).
—Handicap Game: Jonathan Spinella (320), Richard Sartwell (280) and William Sartwell (258).
—Scratch Game: Zach Aucoin (297), Ryan Armond (226), and Jackson Kenney (183).
Girls Season Highs:
—Handicap Series: Montana Pillaro (739), Marina Duval (724) and Caroline Owens (675).
—Scratch Series: Emily Price (609), Briana Toups (577) and Jolie Boudreaux (390).
—Handicap Game: Mckenzie Buckner (264), Shannon Derise (251) and Gabriela DaCosta (238).
—Scratch Game: MacKenzie Amador (218), Jaci Lynch (154) and Chassity Pillaro (121).

NEWBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — Old Rockefeller Center Christmas trees never really die, they just get built into the wall frames and floor supports of affordable homes.
For the past decade, the ornament-laden trees that have been lit up with glitz, songs and dancing Rockettes have gone on to be milled into lumber used in dozens of Habitat for Humanity homes from Philadelphia to Pascagoula, Mississippi. Each tree yields a truckload of 100 or more boards, all stamped with an image of the tree and the year it was on display.
Wood from three of the Rockefeller trees has gone 50 miles (80 kilometers) up the Hudson River to the hardscrabble city of Newburgh, New York, which has helped create an unlikely Rockefeller Row of four homes on the same block.
“They didn’t just cut it and throw it away. They used it in something good. And what better than my home?” says Viridiana Perez, who was visiting her family’s soon-to-be home being built with wood from last year’s 94-foot (28-meter) Norway spruce.
Homeowner Keith Smith can’t see the unique wood from the 2015 tree in his home, but he feels it. He appreciates his family’s connection to the annual tree lighting extravaganza in Manhattan.
“Pretty much everyone on TV is watching it. That makes it a part of history. That makes me proud to have a part of history in my house,” Smith says.
In addition to Newburgh, other locations that have received Rockefeller wood include Morris, New Jersey, and Bridgeport, Connecticut. Rehabilitating a home in this historic city can cost $150,000, though the subsidized costs to buyers are based on 30 percent of their income. Habitat for Humanity makes up the difference through fundraising.
Buyers also must contribute hundreds of hours of “sweat equity” by working alongside Habitat for Humanity volunteers.
The Rockefeller wood is more symbolic than structural. That’s because the big Norway spruces that tower over skaters each December at Rockefeller Center are show trees, not work trees, with wood often too knotty to support a lot of weight. So Habitat volunteers use the special spruce strategically, as they did last week in Newburgh with 14-inch (35-centimeter) sections bracing floor joists in a gutted row house.
Several doors down, it was used to help frame in an interior wall. That house is ready for a move-in by Perez, her husband and their four children. Perez is a Jehovah’s Witness and does not celebrate Christmas, but she still showed the lone piece of still-visible stamped wood above a light switch to her toddler.
“Even though I don’t celebrate Christmas, it means a lot for me because it’s still nature,” she said.
Perez hopes to move in within a few months. By then, this year’s Rockefeller tree will be milled into planks headed to a yet-to-be-determined city for Habitat for Humanity.
“After it’s all said and done with, it’s going to somebody else’s house,” Smith says. “It makes me wonder how they’ll feel about that. Will they feel how I feel?”