Taking a group photo before playing on Tuesday were EHS senior soccer players (left to right): Cy-David LeBlanc, Landon Romero, Kalex Cornner, Evan Vaughn, Sean Herrington,, Annabel Etie, Carlos Arellano, Andrew Stutes, Coby-Jake Landry, Bennett Hargrave and Houng Phetsarath. (photo by Ragen Ashley Photography)
Signing a letter of intent were (left to right) Kevin Marix (Nunez Community College), Blaze Duhon (South Arkansas Community College) and Alex Landry (Gulf Coast State). The baseball coaches standing are Ralph Biondi, Seth Patin, Jarrod Duhon and head coach Jeremy Stephens.
LEROY - Three baseball players from North Vermilion have officially signed letters of intent to continue their careers at the junior college level.
The signings include:
• Kevin Marix, who will be playing at Nunez Community College in Chalmette, Louisiana. They compete against teams like LSU-E, Delgado, and Baton Rouge Community College. Marix is an infielder and a right-handed pitcher for the Patriots.
• Blaze Duhon has signed with South Arkansas, based in El Dorado, Arkansas. Duhon plays first base and is a left-handed pitcher for NVHS.
There will be a new face leading the Abbeville Wildcats in 2026.
The applying process is over for the new head football coaching job at Abbeville High and there are there are nine applicants.
The school district closed the application process at noon on Monday and the school administrators and school district administrators are expected to begin interviewing the candidates by the end of the week or next week.
Two of the applicants are already on the AHS football coach staff, while only one is coaching in the Acadiana. The rest are coaching or have coached at different parts of the state.
Head football coaching positions are being filled quickly, and Sunday saw a lot of activity.
• Ryan Silverfield is moving from Memphis to become the new head coach at Arkansas.
• Alex Golesh is leaving South Florida for Auburn.
• Jon Sumrall is leaving Tulane for Florida.
• Lane Kiffin is leaving Ole Miss to take over as the new head coach at LSU.
Arkansas, LSU, Tulane, and Auburn each have a new head football coach now.
But Abbeville High School still needs to hire a new head football coach. What happens next for Abbeville High?
Kaplan’s Jacob Devoltz dives for extra yards on a fake pump attempt against Kinder. Devoltz was stopped short of the first down marker.
Kaplan’s defenders Codi Clement (5) and Taven Housend (48) team up to tackle a Kinder running back,
If you had told John Thompson back in August, when he took over as Kaplan’s new head coach, that his team would finish 7-5 and lose in the second round of the playoffs, he probably wouldn’t have believed it.
But that’s exactly what happened for the first-time head coach. Thompson took over the Kaplan program and switched from the Wing-T offense to a spread offense just a month before the season started.
The No. 20 Pirates made it to the second round of the Division III Non-Select playoffs, but lost 40-27 to No. 4 Kinder Yellow on the road last Friday.
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