The Jennings Bulldogs extended their area-best win streak to seven games and did it by doing something no Southwest Louisiana team has done in more than a decade.

The Class 3A No 3 Bulldogs (7-1) beat Notre Dame (4-4) 17-16 at Jerry Simmons Stadium in Jennings on Thursday.

Peyton Herpin’s 26-yard field goal put Jennings on top 17-14 with 3:30 left in the third quarter.

A field goal was also the deciding factor the last time an area team beat Notre Dame on Sept. 23, 2011. St. Louis Catholic beat Notre Dame 9-6 in overtime on a 27-yard field goal by Harrison Flynt.

The loss ended Notre Dame’s 45-game win streak against Southwest Louisiana teams.

Notre Dame cut the deficit to one on a safety when the Bulldogs snapped the ball out of the end zone on a punt. But Notre Dame missed two field goal attempts on its final two possessions.

While Jennings was on the right end of a thriller, the Sulphur Tors (3-5, 1-4) ended on the wrong end of one, 26-21 at Carencro (4-4, 4-1).

Sulphur entered the week needing a win to get off the playoff bubble, and as if the Tors had the win they needed after scoring twice in the fourth quarter to take a 21-20 lead. But the Bears won as time expired on a 41-yard pass Hail Mary pass from freshman quarterback Carson Gurzi to Brandon Duffy.

The Tors scored twice in 5 minutes to erase a 13-6 deficit. Luke Clark scored his second 1-yard touchdown with 5:36 left to tie the score. The Tors went ahead with 42 seconds left on a 9-yard pass from Brodie Depriest to Jayden Shirley.

The loss dropped the Tors to No. 28, the last spot to qualify for the Non-select Division I playoffs with two games left in the regular season.

2,000

Leesville (6-2, 2-1) senior running back Xavier Ford broke the 2,000-yard season rushing mark on Friday for a third consecutive season. Ford averaged a season-best 16.3 yards per carry as the Wampus Cats beat Washington-Marion (1-7, 0-3) 67-16.

He ran for 277 yards and scored six touchdowns to push his season total to 2,127 yards and 35 touchdowns. He needs 583 yards to break Cecil Collins’s ‘school career rushing record (7,834). He owns the school career rushing touchdown record with 103.

LCCP

The Lake Charles College Prep Trailblazers’ late-season surge has bumped them up four spots in the Select Division II power ratings to No. 14. LCCP dominated Westlake 42-12 on Friday to win back-to-back games for the first time this season.

Quarterback Dylen Vital had 171 yards and three touchdown passes while the defense forced two turnovers, including Braylon White’s 73-yard interception return near the end of the second quarter.

Ayden Carer and Alijah Pete each scored a rushing and receiving touchdown.

1,000/1,000

Two quarterbacks are closing in on a challenging feat, 1,000 rushing and passing yards.

Hamilton Christian’s (6-1, 3-0) Javon Vital cleared 1,000 rushing yards last week with 127 and three touchdowns in a 49-12 win at Oberlin (3-4, 1-2). He needs 201 passing yards to top 1,000 yards in the air.

The sophomore has accounted for 32 touchdowns in seven games.

South Beauregard’s Christian Wold needs 22 passing yards and 144 rushing yards after leading the Golden Knights (6-2, 1-1) to a 35-7 road win over St. Louis (1-7, 0-3). He ran for 163 yards and four touchdowns and completed 10 of 17 passes for 139 yards, including a 23-yard touchdown to Luke Fontenot in the first quarter.

Defense

The DeQuincy Tigers (7-1, 1-0) shut out an opponent for the third time, beating East Beauregard (1-6, 0-1) 44-0 on the road.

M.J. Clark led the way with nine tackles and recovered a pair of fumbles. Gunner Grove and Wyatt LaVergne made seven tackles each.

The Tigers, who moved up to No. 2 in the Non-select Division IV power ratings, allow a Southwest Louisiana beat 10.5 points a game.

Volleyball

With the end of the regular season approaching on Saturday, Sam Houston has cut the gap in the power ratings with Division II No. 1 St. Thomas More to 0.88 points.

Sam Houston (35-5) is riding a 10-game win streak after beating Leesville 25-10, 25-10, 25-1 to win the Division II, District 3, plus a three-set sweep of Division I No. 11 Southside last week.

The Broncos travel to Division V No. 2 Westminster Christian today and host Iowa on Wednesday