SULPHUR — St. Louis Catholic’s front seven pressured South Lafourche quarterback Carson Orgeron all night long to lead the Saints to a 38-6 win Thursday night at Matt Walker Memorial Stadium.

“It’s a great group,” St. Louis head coach Brock Matherne said. “They have a lot of experience. That front seven started as sophomores.

“We talk about it all the time, bend don’t break. Yards don’t mean anything, points do. We started so sloppy in all three phases, but I am proud of the way the guys stuck with it. That defense has a lot of experience, and we look for them to continue to do what they did tonight.”

Junior defensive lineman Kade Nugent led the charge with three tackles for a loss and a sack as the Saints (7-1) held the Tarpons to a single score after they scored 59 points last week.

“We let Kade Nugent be Kade Nugent and Ethan Goss and Gavin Phillips and the entire defensive line,” Matherne said. “We had one of our better defensive linemen out the last two weeks, and those three stepped up.

“Those three all started last year. Early, we blitzed ourselves out of a lot of situations and just played our base defense and let them four get after the quarterback.”

Nugent made two tackles behind the line of scrimmage on the Tarpons’ opening drive that reached the red zone, and Phillips sacked Jacob Curole on fourth down.

Defensive back Colton Wood broke up two passes in the end zone to end South Lafourche’s next drive.

South Lafourche (2-6) reached the red zone three times but scored once, a 13-yard run by Orgeron in the second quarter that cut the Saints’ lead to 7-6.

The Saints forced the Tarpons to punt three times in the third quarter and forced