Menard rolls, ASH, Tioga learn second-round foes

(Photo by MICHAEL RANDY MIXON, courtesy Tioga Football)

The Menard Eagles dominated visiting Thomas Jefferson Friday night in the first round of the LHSAA football playoffs.

Menard rolled 47-0. The 13th-seeded Eagles will play in New Orleans at No. 4 Newman Friday night in a second-round Select Division III contest. The Greenies had a first-round bye.

In the other first-round game Friday involving a local team, Pineville fell 56-7 to ninth-seeded St. Paul’s in the Select Division I bracket.

ASH and Tioga had first-round byes in the big school bracket.

Fifth-seeded ASH will host No. 12 Brother Martin Friday night. The Crusaders moved forward with a 17-16 win in the first round over Liberty Magnet.

No. 6 Tioga will be home against 11th-seeded Rummel, which shut out Holy Cross 24-0 in the first round.