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BATON ROUGE — The Vermilion Catholic Eagles advanced to the semifinals for the second time in three years by doing what they do best.
The Eagles, 12-0, beat Southern Lab, 17-7, in Friday’s quarterfinal round of the Division IV Select Playoffs.
VC will play St. Martin’s Episcopal at home in the semifinal round.
The winner of that game advances to the Division IV State Finals, to be played in the Superdome in New Orleans on Thursday, Dec. 8.
St. Martin’s beat St. Mary’s 29-24.

The North Vermilion Patriots built a lot of confidence in the final game of the regular season with a tough battle against Teurlings Catholic, enough so that they felt they had a legitimate shot at beating 10th-seeded Franklin Parish in the first round of the playoffs.
That confidence was warranted as the Patriots upset Franklin Parish 35-28 in double overtime to advance to a second-round Division II non-select playoff game at home this week against No. 7 seed Church Point.

ERATH — With the game and their season on the line Friday night in the first round of the Division II non-select football playoffs, the Erath Bobcats established their will on both offense and defense to pull out a 34-30 come-from-behind win over the Eunice Bobcats.
“We were down 30-20 in the third quarter, and the kids were able to battle back,” Erath head coach Eric LeBlanc said. “We scored a couple of touchdowns and held them out of the end zone. I thought the kids played great. They fought their butts off and represented the blue and white well.”