Boys/Co-Ed Bowling: Central Lafourche, H.L. Bourgeois advance to semifinals

HOUMA – Staying at home Monday was a good thing for Central Lafourche and H.L. Bourgeois.

The South Central region rival Trojans and Braves survived a nine-game marathon to advance to the semifinals in the boys/co-ed division of the Ochsner LHSAA Bowling championships at Creole Lanes.

Top-seeded Central Lafourche (15-0) defeated Teurlings Catholic, St. Amant and Captain Shreve, while No. 13 seed H.L. Bourgeois (13-2) knocked out Lafayette and the top two seeds in its quarter of the bracket, fourth-seeded Hammond and No. 5 seed Archbishop Shaw.

The quarterfinal matchup between H.L. Bourgeois and Shaw was the most dramatic of the day.

The Eagles (13-2) took a 6-2 lead and held a 118-pin edge after the first game on the strength of its right side of Joshua Collins (200), Riley Elwood (238) and Jonathan Arena (225).

HLB pulled within 9-7 and cut the pin margin to 22 entering the final game, and the Braves stepped up in the final game to claim four of the six individual matches and an 1,165-1,134 edge in total pins not only claimed two more points in the game, but the three-point bonus for overall total pins.

Elwood led Shaw in the quarterfinal with a 669 series and Collins had a 613 set. H.L. Bourgeois’ balanced effort in the victory was paced by Landon Crochet’s 611, Dax Westerman’s 607 and Lucas Benoit’s 601.

H.L. Bourgeois fired a 3,494 team series in its victory over Hammond. The Braves won seven of the nine individual matches on the left pair. In its opening-round win, HLB swept the final game to snap an 8-8 tie and defeat Lafayette.

Central Lafourche’s road to the semifinals was much less stressful. The Trojans lost only 14 points in three matches and fired a 3,506 series in the opening round and a 3,446 in the second round.

Ethan Domangue averaged 220 for eight games to lead Central Lafourche.

Shaw reached the quarters with victories over Woodlawn and Catholic, the latter of which avenged a season-ending semifinal loss to the Bears a year ago.

Elwood’s 661, including a 277 final game, led the Eagles in their win over Catholic. No one bowled more than two games against Woodlawn.

The other New Orleans region team in Houma, John Ehret, was knocked out in the first round by Hammond, 21-6.

Matthew Nguyen led the Patriots with a 620 series, including games of 212 and 236. Peyton Chiasson had a closigame 208 for Ehret, which finished 7-6 in its first season as an LHSAA program.

Central Lafourche and H.L. Bourgeois will meet in one semifinal on March 30 at Premier Lanes Entertainment Center in Gonzales. The other semifinal matchup will be decided Tuesday when the bottom half of the boys/co-ed bracket bowls its early rounds at AMF All Star Lanes in Kenner, beginning at 10:30 a.m.

Five of the 16 teams in action Tuesday are from the New Orleans region: No. 2 seed Brother Martin, No. 7 seed Jesuit, 18th-seeded Patrick Taylor, 22nd seed Slidell and No. 26 seed Archbishop Rummel.

LHSAA Bowling Playoffs

Boys/Co-Ed
Monday’s Matches
at Creole Lanes, Houma
First Round
(1) Central Lafourche 23½, (32) Teurlings Catholic 3½
(17) St. Amant 23, (16) St. Paul’s 4
(9) Captain Shreve 16, (24) Morgan City 11
(8) Byrd 24, (25) Benton 3
(5) Archbishop Shaw 19, (28) Woodlawn-BR 8
(12) Catholic-BR 23½, (21) David Thibodaux 3½
(13) H.L. Bourgeois 19, (20) Lafayette 8
(4) Hammond 21, (29) John Ehret 6

Second Round
(1) Central Lafourche 23, (17) St. Amant 4
(9) Captain Shreve 16½, (8) Byrd 10½
(5) Archbishop Shaw 20, (12) Catholic-BR 7
(13) H.L. Bourgeois 19, (4) Hammond 8

Quarterfinals
(1) Central Lafourche 20½, (9) Captain Shreve 6½
(13) H.L. Bourgeois 16, (5) Archbishop Shaw 11

Tuesday’s Matches
at AMF All Star Lanes, Kenner
First Round – 10:30 a.m.
(3) East Ascension vs. (30) Parkway
(14) Terrebonne vs. (19) Alexandria
(11) Dutchtown vs. (22) Slidell
(6) St. Thomas More vs. (27) Holy Savior Menard
(7) Jesuit vs. (26) Archbishop Rummel
(10) Denham Springs vs. (23) St. Michael
(15) South Terrebonne vs. (18) Patrick Taylor
(2) Brother Martin vs. (31) Comeaux

Second Round – 1:15 p.m.

Quarterfinals – 3:15 p.m.

Girls
Wednesday’s Matches
at All Star Lanes, Baton Rouge
First Round – 11 a.m.
(1) Dutchtown vs. (16) Pineville
(8) Ellender vs. (9) St. Amant
(5) Archbishop Chapelle vs. (12) Cabrini
(4) Byrd vs. (13) St. Joseph’s Academy
(3) Albany vs. (14) Airline
(6) Denham Springs vs. (11) Academy of Our Lady
(7) Lafayette vs. (10) Central Catholic
(2) H.L. Bourgeois vs. (15) St. Scholastica

Quarterfinals – 2 p.m.

Semifinals/Finals
March 30
at Premier Lanes Entertainment Center, Gonzales