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is the first step in that process.”
In other business:
The police jury will also have about $3.5 million more to spend on road repairs after it approved the re-allocation of some ARPA funds as the Public Road Committee recommended.
The committee had decided at its Oct. 5 meeting to recommend the movement of $3,487,500 toward roads. The money had previously been intended for the parish water districts.
In other business, the police jury approved a request from the Lynch family to abandon a road right-of-way on property in Pecan Island. The parish had been given road right-of-way in case a road needed to be built to give people access to their property through the property owned by the Lynch family. Still, those properties have other road access so a road was never built on the levee where the right-of-way was granted, Mary Lynch Courville told the police jury.
Courville said her mother had given the parish the right-of-way in 1978, but no road was needed in the 44 years since, so the family asked if the right-of-way could be abandoned. After a few questions from police jurors, the police jury voted to authorize Moresi to prepare an act of abandonment in connection with the right-of-way.
“When she bought Acadiana Marina, my mother was a peacemaker, and she always felt she wanted to make sure everyone had an extra right-of-way in case there was a need,” Courville said. “It’s just a levee road. It’s in Pecan Island near Acadiana Marina, and we were doing an abstract on the property, and we had no clue that it was never abandoned. So we’re asking you that you abandon this because all of the people beyond us have a right-of-way through us on the front side of our property, as well as they have their right-of-way, the Broussards do, which is through a right-of-way that’s off of Freshwater City Road.”
Courville thanked Moresi for his work in meeting with the family over the matter and thanked police jury executive secretary Amber Harrington for the great help she provided in guiding the family through what it needed to do to move the process along.
“Before I leave, I want to tell you all Vermilion Parish has been phenomenal,” Courville said. “We’re originally from Vermilion, but y’all help us so much when we come to this courthouse. I can’t brag enough about you all because I now live in Lafayette, and I can’t brag about them as I brag about you guys. Thank you very much.”

LAFAYETTE — The North Vermilion Patriots did what they had to to get a much-needed district victory.
On Friday, the Patriots cruised to a 42-20 road win over the Northside Vikings.
“The kids talked all week about coming out here and doing a job,” NVHS coach Brett Blakey said. “I’m proud, especially the offense. I told them I felt like we’re improving week in and week out.”
The Patriots scored on their first drive that went 62 yards in 11 plays. QB Jag Broussard scampred in from the 1.
. The Patriots recovered the ensuing kickoff on the Vikings’ 26.
NV took three minutes off the clock, and Tucker Denais had a 1 yard run for a score. North Vermilion was up 14-0 before Northside touched the ball.
NV led 28-0 lead with 3:43 left until intermission, thanks to a 3-yard Denais score and a 21-yard scoring run by Isaiah Whitlock.
The Patriots had a nine-play, 58-yard drive to get a 2-yard TD run from Denais for a 35-14 lead 45 seconds into the fourth quarter.
Denais continued his hard running to finish with 95 yards and three scores on 20 carries.
The Patriots rushed for 287 yards as a team, with seven different backs splitting the carries.
NV is 4-4 on the season.

Gueydan...................53
Hamilton Christian....26

LAKE CHARLES —Cohen Guidry rushed for 225 yards and three touchdowns and caught a 65-yard TD pass from Zach Guidry to help Gueydan bounce back from a loss the previous week with a 53-26 win at Hamilton Christian on Friday.
Zach Guidry completed six of eight passes for 74 yards and a TD and ran for 37 yards. James Slack added 69 yards on the ground with a touchdown and Riley Benoit also had a TD run. Ashton Terry caught five passes for the Bears.
Gueydan, 5-3 overall and 2-2 in district, plays host to Oberlin in a district game Friday.

St. Martinville.... 34,
Kaplan ..............14

ST. MARTINVILLE — Steven Blanco ran for 104 yards and four touchdowns and St. Martinville beat Kaplan in a District 5-3A game Friday.
Caden Campisi rushed for 139 yards and two touchdowns on 25 carries for the Pirates. Raine Mire threw for 61 yards, with Carter Petry catching three passes for 29 yards and Landon Cheek catching one for 32 yards.
Kaplan travels to Church Point Friday for a non-district game.

ERATH — The Erath Bobcats’ defense came up big against the Abbeville Wildcats in a district showdown.
The Bobcats (5-3, 2-1) held Abbeville to 21 points and stopped the big plays when the game was on the line.
Abbeville (5-3, 2-1) rushed for 241 yards but lost 31-21.
The EHS defense forced Abbeville to play catchup football. Erath stayed ahead all game, taking Abbeville out of its run-controlled offense. The Wildcats threw 15 times, something EHS defensive coordinator Jonathan Bouillion wanted to happen.
“We knew that if our offense was going to move the football, we wanted to press and make Abbeville throw the football,” Bouillion said. “That is what we wanted them to do.”
The Bobcats’ defense came up big late in the second period. Erath was ahead 14-6 and forced Abbeville to punt. However, an EHS player touched the ball, and the Wildcats recovered on the EHS 30-yard line. The excellent field position gave Abbeville a chance to score right before halftime.
Abbeville marched down to the EHS 14-yard-line and was threatening to score. However, an alert EHS cornerback Bo Lancon tipped a pass at the 5-yard line, and EHS’s Blake Dautreuil plucked the ball out of the sky for an interception, killing Abbeville’s scoring threat right before halftime.
“I thought we played a great first half, and we needed to continue to do that in the second half. We needed that kind of second half,” Bouillion said.
Erath’s defense answered when called on.
In the second half, the EHS defense came up big in Abbeville’s opening drive. The Wildcats were at midfield, and a bobbled handoff gave EHS freshman defensive end Kaiden Viator the opportunity of a lifetime. Viator saw running back Jaysen Shelvin juggling the football. Viator, about to make the tackle, reached in and snatched the football out of Shelvin’s hands.
“I snuck my hand in there, and grabbed it and took off with it,” said Viator about the fumble. “It just happened. I did not think about it. I took the ball and tried to go to the house.”
Viator turned upfield and ran 16 yards downfield before he was tackled. The Bobcats’ offense turned that turnover into seven points and a 21-6 lead.
The Wildcats punted the ball four times, and three were in the first half.
Abbeville’s top rusher was Trasean Greene, who had a career night with 117 yards on 17 carries. Shelvin was held to only 17 yards rushing.
Erath cornerback Christen Migues said. “Our defense works together as a team. We rallied to the football. Our game plan was simple - make the tackles and wrap up.”
After going ahead 31-21 on a 37-yard-field goal from Dylan Duhon with 1:05 to play in the game, the Bobcats’ defense was called on one final time.
The game’s final play turned out to be a sack by EHS defensive lineman Chase Broussard, ending Abbeville’s threat.
“The game plan was winning the battle in the trenches,” said Bouillion. “I think we did that.”

Walking up to a school sporting event five minutes before tip-off or kickoff may be a thing of the past because of new security guidelines that could be implemented in schools throughout the state.
School shootings at sporting events are no longer something you heard or read about at high schools in other states. Instead, they are happening in Louisiana.
With the shooting after Abbeville’s Friday night football game, Vermilion Parish School Superintendent Tommy Byler, school board members, and administrators have been discussing ways to make schools and sporting events safer.
“Athletic events are an extension of our school, and thus we need to make sure that we are holding people to an acceptable standard of what is allowed at school functions,” Byler said. “This needs to be in place from when participants, students and fans arrive at the stadium until they depart. We have to work with school officials, city officials and law enforcement to ensure we are providing a safe environment.”
When the AHS game ended and fans were walking back to their vehicles, a shooting occurred outside the J.H. Williams Middle School grounds.
The fans were walking on the sidewalk and reached Prairie Street when someone fired five shots at them.
One male at the AHS football game earlier was hit by a bullet and is expected to recover.
According to Police Chief Mike Hardy, the person doing the shooting was allegedly firing shots because of retaliation for the killing of Jazaylon Levy, 18, that happened over the summer. Levy was a student and football player at AHS.
It is not known if the person who did the shooting was in a vehicle or on foot.
As of Tuesday, no one has been arrested for the shooting.
Eight police officers (city officers and officers from the Marshal’s Office) were at the game. That was two more officers than are usually at an AHS game.
The AHS administration went to the clear bag policy for the homecoming game.
“I can only control what happens inside the fence,” said Byler. “We have to do a better job with kids in the bleachers and their parents. We have to do a better job with what gets in the game. We have to feel safe within the confines of the game.”
Byler said cameras were located at the middle school, but school buses blocked the cameras’ views. He wants to make sure that does not happen again.
Byler said a school board member wants to close streets around the stadium at J.H. Williams Middle School.
Chief Hardy said he has no plans to close any streets by JHW. For a middle school football game Wednesday at JHW, there will be extra security on the roads around the school. The streets will be open, however.
Byler said the school district would look into hiring extra security to do bag checks as fans enter the game.
Abbeville travels to Erath to battle the Bobcats in a district contest.
Erath Police Chief Anna Lapointe said there would be extra security inside and outside the game.