Gabriel Clement will play wide receiver and running back for Kaplan. (photo by Leah McClelland)
KAPLAN - Kaplan junior Gabriel Clement’s nickname could very well be “slash” and not just because he plays running back/wide receiver for the Pirates.
According to first-year head coach Cory Brodie, it’s very likely because he’s such a versatile weapon in the Kaplan offensive arsenal for the 2021 season.
Quarterback Parker LeBlanc, a junior, is ready to lead Delcambre back to the playoffs. (photo by Leah McClelland)
DELCAMBRE - Parker LeBlanc has some big shoes to fill.
LeBlanc, a junior, steps into the quarterback position filled for the past couple of years by Kalob Moneaux. Moneaux helped lead the Panthers into the Class 2A playoffs last year. Unfortunately, they ran into a Kinder team that had several players from Barbe who transferred in due to the effects of two hurricanes that pummeled the Lake Charles area.
But Moneaux has graduated from DHS, so the a Panthers are now LeBlanc’s team.
E.J. Chiasson returns at VC’s center.
Vermilion Catholic High center E.J. Chiasson may have to wear a name tag for a while so that his fellow offensive linemen know who he is.
Last season, as a junior, he was surrounded by seniors to his left and his right during the Eagles’ semifinal run in the Division IV playoffs.
As the only returning member of the offensive line, Chiasson becomes the most experienced and elder statesman of a new group of linemen for the 2021 version of Vermilion Catholic football.
North Vermilion senior Katie Trahan and sophomore Madison Cessac (10) work the ball by a VC defender.
North Vermilion head coach Meraiah Young talks to her team before a soccer match.
NEW IBERIA - Summer is usually time for baseball and football workouts, but another sport gets some summer time as well.
New Iberia Senior High head boys soccer coach Casey Friend puts on a 7-on-7 soccer session that lasts through June and July. This year, both Vermilion Catholic and North Vermilion girl’s soccer teams took part in the two-month sessions that met every Wednesday.
Vermilion Catholic coach Kelli Knickerbocker divided her team into two groups so more of her players could get some summer work in.
After six years at Centenary, Mark Suire is moving north to coach at Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas.
The former Abbeville High and Delcambre High softball coach, Mark Suire, was recently named the new head coach at Hendrix College located in Conway, Arkansas.
For the last six years, Suire has been the head softball coach at Centenary University where he won more than 100 softball games.
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