By: RHETT MANUEL
Sports Editor
VILLE PLATTE – At just the right time of the year, the Sacred Heart Trojans’ running game is coming good.
After last week’s 230-yard performance against St. Ed’s, the ground game gave a worthy encore in pounding in four rushing touchdowns in a 40-14 win over the Westminster Christian Crusaders Friday night at Soileau-Landry Field in District 6-1A play.
Sacred Heart’s running game was buoyed by a returning Blake Hebert, healthy for the first time in several weeks.
Hebert contributed a rushing touchdown late in the contest.
Sacred Heart jumped out quickly, scoring the game’s first 22 points before Westminster could even catch its breath.
Much like it has all season, Sacred Heart’s offense went as quarterback Hayden Droddy went.
Droddy accounted for another four touchdown game for Sacred Heart, giving them two through the air and two more on the ground.
He started with a bang, connecting with Wade Pitre on a 34-yard scoring strike to give Sacred Heart a touchdown on its opening possession.
A safety stretched the lead to 9-0 before Droddy found Kohen Joubert for his second touchdown catch in as many weeks, this one a four-yard effort to increase Sacred Heart’s lead to 15-0.
A Droddy three-yard touchdown run extended Sacred Heart’s lead to 22-0 early in the second quarter.
But as it goes with big leads, explosive teams tend to find a way to crawl back into games.
That’s exactly what WCA did, scoring on two possessions to close out the first half and cut Sacred Heart’s lead to 22-14 heading into the locker room.
That’s when the Trojans leaned on its rejuvenated running game to bring it to the finish line.
All three of Sacred Heart’s second-half touchdowns came via the ground game.
The first, a Jude Hebrt three-yard effort, capped a four-play drive that was bolstered by a 37-yard Droddy run. Hebert’s run extended Sacred Heart’s lead to 28-14.
Droddy and Blake Hebert carried Sacred Heart all the way to the end zone in its opening possession of the final quarter.
Hebert contributed runs of nine and five yards before Droddy’s 19-yard touchdown run left the Crusaders in the dust with 8:46 left to go in the contest.
The elder Hebert capped his comeback game in style. His nine-yard touchdown run added style points to an already thorough win.
Sacred Heart’s matchup with Opelousas Catholic this week takes on extra importance, with the winner getting a leg up on a potential district championship.
June 20, 2026
