Sports

Abbeville High School now has two world powerlifting champions.
Khandi Shuford from Cajun Prep Powerlifting won three medals at the IPF World Classic & Equipped Sub-Junior & Junior Powerlifting Championships in Malta.
Shuford secured a silver medal for bench press and gold medals for deadlift and total weight in the 57 KG Sub-Junior division. She won the world title on her mother, Katreet Shuford’s birthday.
Furthermore, Brylee Batiste from AHS won a world title in her weight class on Friday morning.

Abbeville High School senior wide receiver Derek Arclies worked for three and a half years to crack the starting lineup, and during last Friday’s scrimmage, he finally did it – at defensive end.
 Arclies measures at 6’5.  As a freshman, putting him at receiver was a no-brainer.  He’s tall, athletic, and has enormous hands.  But he never could get to first string.
  “I was in my head too much,” Arclies explained.  “On offense, you have to worry about so much.  On defense, you just run through people and attack the ball.”

Football teams around Vermilion Parish will be participating in jamborees this week in their final preparations for the regular season, which begins next week.
The Abbeville Wildcats will host the Crowley Gents on Friday in Wildcat Stadium at 8 p.m.  Following their scrimmage last Friday against Patterson, head coach Johnathan Zenon said the Wildcats have a lot to fix.