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Travin ‘Tiki’ Moore would love to be just like his dad.
“I know my dad (Travin Moore) was a great athlete at Abbeville High, (2000 AHS grad),” he said about his dad, who was a standout player at Abbeville back in the day. “But I would also like to be better than he was .. someday.”
That is pretty big words to say considering his father’s athletic accomplishments in high school and college.
The elder Moore was an All-State football player and track star for the Wildcats. He played football at Northwestern State. Travin is also in the Abbeville High Hall of Fame.

With new masks mandates and the delta variant running wild, there has been some question whether the 2021 prep football season will be affected before it is slated to begin in three weeks.
For the head football coaches at the various high schools in Vermilion Parish, it’s something that they are keeping an eye on, but they don’t believe that the start of the upcoming football season will be pushed back or delayed.

KAPLAN — Last Wednesday, the Kaplan Pirates had picture day for the upcoming football season, and there was one area that stood out.
The incoming freshmen class.
There are at least 55 players on the Pirates’ roster, and almost half of them are freshmen.
Each player walked into the Kaplan gym wearing a face mask and right before a photo was taken, they took off their mask.
The photographer took individual shots of the players, coaches and trainers.
Then the photographer took class photos.
The senior class went first. There was a modest nine players.