East St. Mary teams make state baseball playoffs

The four Tri-City area prep baseball teams qualified for the postseason when brackets were announced Sunday.
Central Catholic and Berwick are the area’s highest seeds. The Eagles are the No. 6 seed in Division IV, while Berwick is the No. 8 seed in Class 3A. Patterson is Class 3A’s No. 17 seed, and Morgan City is Class 4A’s No. 31 seed.
Morgan City (1-21) will begin the postseason first as it travels Monday at 6 p.m. to face No. 2 North Desoto (29-4) in bi-district action.
Tuesday, Berwick (17-10) will host No. 25 Lake Charles College Prep (8-18) at 6 p.m., while Patterson (15-15) will take the long trip to face No. 16 North Webster (14-15) in north Louisiana at 6 p.m.
Central Catholic (19-9) will host No. 11 Central Private (15-13) in Divi-sion IV playoffs this weekend. Division IV playoffs begin in the regional round with a best-of-three series.
Morgan City
The Morgan City Tigers finished the final week of the regular season with an 0-4 mark, all against District 8-4A opponents.
Morgan City fell to South Lafourche 15-4 at home on April 19, was routed by Vandebilt Catholic 23-0 on the road Tuesday, lost to South Terrebonne 13-3 on the road Wednesday and dropped an 18-7 decision to Vandebilt Catholic at home Thursday.
Heading into the playoffs, Morgan City and North DeSoto have no common opponents.
Morgan City will be trying to pull a huge upset on the road Mon-day and in the process snap an eight-game losing streak that began with a 9-4 loss to West-gate on April 5.
North DeSoto had won 26 straight before falling to Minden 4-3 Wednesday in District 1-4A play. The squad defeated Minden 7-2 the next evening to close the regular season.
Berwick
The Berwick Panthers finished the final week of the regular season with a 3-2 mark.
Berwick fell to E.D. White in Thibodaux on April 19 in District 9-3A action 12-2, swept a district doubleheader from Donaldsonville by scores of 15-0 and 16-1 at home Wednesday, fell to E.D. White 13-3 at home Thursday and closed the regular season with a 9-6 nondistrict victory against South Lafourche on the road Friday.
Lake Charles College Prep and Berwick played Patterson this season.
Lake Charles College Prep fell to Patterson 8-2.
Meanwhile, Berwick split with Patterson as it defeated the squad 3-2 after falling to the Lum-berjacks 5-4.
Lake Charles College Prep won three straight to end the season as it defeated Hamilton Christian, topped LaGrange and was victorious against Warren Easton.
Patterson
The Patterson Lum-berjacks finished the final week of the regular season with three losses, including two in District 9-3A action.
Patterson fell on the road to Lutcher 13-2 in district play Tuesday, lost to Metairie Park Country Day 16-7 on the road Wednesday and dropped a 5-2 contest to Lutcher at home Thursday.
Patterson and North Webster will be looking to snap losing streaks in the first round of the playoffs. Patterson has dropped three straight, while North Webster has dropped two straight, falling to Northwood Shreveport and Lakeside.
Central Catholic
The Central Catholic Eagles finished the final week of the regular season with a 4-1 mark in five district games. Central Catholic de-feated Centerville 6-3 at home on April 19, topped Covenant Chris-tian 4-1 on the road later on April 19, was routed by Hanson Memorial 16-3 on the road Tuesday, defeated Vermilion Catholic 5-1 on the road Thursday and concluded the week with a 9-0 victory against Highland Baptist at home.
More on Central Catholic’s regional matchup will be in Thursday’s newspaper.