LAPLACE — West St. John and St. Charles Catholic will be looking to extend the good starts they got off to with wins in week one.

WSJ at Donaldsonville

The West St. John Rams (1-0) will travel to take on the Donaldsonville Tigers at 7 p.m. Friday.

The Tigers are coming off a lopsided week one 34-14 loss to Assumption, whereas West St. John put up a masterful defensive showing in its 12-6 win over St. James. St. James beat Donaldsonville 30-0 in the jamboree game two weeks ago.

While the Rams will be facing Donaldsonville in their first road game, West St. John head coach Brandon Walters said he is somewhat relieved to be traveling this.

“I feel a little more at ease actually being on the road knowing that I can concentrate on football and not have to concentrate so much on the logistical stuff that goes on in preparation for the game,” Walters said.

Despite the Tigers’ rough start to the season, Walters is not underestimating his team’s opponent.

“They are pretty big all the way around, there are some good sized kids,” Walters said. “So we are going to have to be able to move the ball and drive.”

While last week the Rams faced a strong rushing team in St. James, this week in going up against the Tigers they will see a team primarily focused on the passing game.

Included in that passing game is 6-foot-5, 230-pound wide receiver Stephen Sullivan.

“He is a real big kid and they just like to throw it up to him,” Walters said. “You’ve got to be aware of where he is on the field and make sure you are sound defensively going up to get the ball and not allowing him to make those big plays.”

Overall, Walters said his team will be focusing on cleaning up errors. Most notably the Rams threw an interception that was returned for a touchdown last week and gave up two turnovers on punts.

“We are just going to work and get those things cleaned up,” Walters said. “Our guys know they don’t have to be the hero. Work on ball security and stuff like that, I think we are going to be fine.”

Walters said heading into the Donaldsonville game he is not expecting his team to change what they do, only to do it better.

“I just want to prepare our guys and make sure we come out and play fast and remain physical on defense,” Walters said. “Hopefully we get our offense clicking on all cylinders and get them to start and play hard and play fast early.”

SCC at Thomas Jefferson

The St. Charles Catholic Comets (1-0) are coming off a huge win and will attempt to continue their roll against (1-0) Thomas Jefferson Jaguars at 7 p.m. Friday at Hoss Memstas Stadium in Harvey.

Both teams are coming off of big shutout wins in week one.

St. Charles Catholic may be without starting quarterback Patrick Ratliff who exited last week’s 31-0 win over Thibodaux after suffering a big hit. In his place sophomore Lloyd Nash was capable throwing for two touchdowns.

The Comets are going to look to continue the strong play of their running backs. Last week three Comets running backs, Justin Loupe, Tahj Smith and Eric Lewis, combined to score all of St. Charles’ four touchdowns.

St. Charles Catholic is known for its run game, and St. Charles Catholic head coach Monica is pleased with how his backs performed in week one.

“The key to our football team is keeping people healthy,” Monica said.

“I think we can accomplish that by keeping people fresh, and I think we can do that by playing more than one running back and keeping up the pressure.”

Despite his team’s performance in their week one win, Monica said the Comets still have a long way to go.

“We have to do a better job all the way across the board,” Monica said. “We have just played one game, and you can see will still have some young guys that need to grow up at that position and we still have personnel decisions we need to make we are unsure of.”

To keep up their offensive production, the Comets will have to get past a stiff Jaguars defense.

The Jaguars shutout St. Martin’s 27-0 last week in a game that was called due to lightning in the second quarter.

“They have some real, real good athletes, and we do know they are very athletic and their forte is their defense,” Monica said.

Monica said Thomas Jefferson also has a number of good players they will be keeping their eye out for.

“They run a spread offense,” Monica said.

“They do a lot of things to move the ball.”

In a particular the Comets will be focusing on he play of Thomas Jefferson’s 6-foot-2, 200-pound quarterback Tyler Butler.

“They have a big quarterback and they can throw the ball,” Monica said. “It is not like we haven’t seen it before. I am just hoping this football team can mature and grow up little faster.”