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The Union Parish Farmers showed why they reached the Class 3A state finals last year. They also showed Abbeville fans that they are not just a one-person machine.
In the quarterfinals, the No. 7 seeded Farmers beat No. 2 seeded Abbeville 45-6 on Friday in Wildcat Stadium.
The Farmers will be back to Acadiana on Friday to battle St. Martinville in the semifinals.
In only his second year, Abbeville head coach Roderick Moy was proud of his team for their outstanding 11-2 season.
“This (the loss) doesn’t take away from everything we accomplished,” Moy said. “Nobody gave us a chance at even finishing top two in the district, much less finish in the top two in triple-A in the state. Getting to the quarterfinals and going on the road three and a half hours away and beating an excellent Wossman team.
“I’m extremely proud of this group. You talk about the first time in 20 years that we’ve been right here. This is just the beginning for us. We’re losing 12 seniors, but we’ve got a big group of 18 coming back next year that will be hungry. We’ve tasted it. Now we’ve got to get the next step.”
All week leading up to Friday’s game, the talk was about Union Parish’s runner Trey Holly. Holly, a junior, is a four-star running back recruit and can pick the college he will attend.
Abbeville fans had a hard time seeing what type of running back Holly was because he was not why the Wildcats lost the game.
Heck, at halftime, Holly had only seven carries for 36 yards. But, when the game was over, Holly had 105 yards, including a 48-yard TD run in the third quarter.
Union Parish used their fullback Ja’ quarius Donald. Donald led the team with 19 carries for 139 yards and two scores. He ran right up the middle and gained three and four yards each carry.
When Abbeville put most of their players at the line of scrimmage to try and stop the run, Union Parish quarterback Cole Dison made them pay with a pass.
He threw four passes, and three were for touchdowns.
Union Parish led 24-0 with 4:24 left in the second period.
“We just had to start faster,” Moy said. “The plan was to get the lead, control the clock, keep their offense over there – do exactly what they did to us. Keep that thing and make them get impatient. They did it to us. That was the team that was going to win. We knew that’s the way it was going to go. They imposed their will, and we didn’t get to do what we wanted to do.”
All season the Wildcats’ offense was running the football. However, they had more passing yards than rushing yards in Friday’s game.
AHS tailback Blake Saddler had 2,000 yards rushing this year and had only six carries for 54 yards - a season-low. In the first half, he had two carries for 31 yards.
Moy said when the Wildcats got behind 24-0, Abbeville had to change its offensive plan and go to the air.
“We got behind the 8-ball 24-0, and we had to move fast and throw the ball,” Moy said. “We just got behind what we were going to do and we couldn’t get him (Saddler) going.”
Quarterback Tahj Judge had his best game, completing 15 out of 29 passes for 178 yards. Chad Nolan led AHS with seven receptions for 69 yards and a touchdown.

Brenda Faye
“Bren” Boudoin

ABBEVILLE, LA – Funeral services for Brenda Faye “Bren” Boudoin are scheduled for Saturday, November 27, 2021 at Lighthouse For Jesus Church – 6526 Chaisson Road -- at 1:00 P.M. with visitation starting at 9:00 A.M. until time of service. Pastor Joseph Boudoin, Sr. will officiate the services. Interment will be at St. Paul Cemetery.
Brenda Faye “Bren” Boudoin was born February 8, 1951 in Abbeville, LA to the union of Maxie Boudoin, Sr. and Elnora Cooper Boudoin. Brenda lived a life surrounded by family until November 17, 2021, the day she went to be with the Lord. She was a dedicated mother and nurturer to everyone who knew her.
Brenda was known in the community for her meals prepared with love and her willingness to feed all who visited her home. Her presence will be missed in her role as an active member of Lighthouse Church of Kaplan, LA where she served as a member of the kitchen ministry. Brenda lived her life until her last day as a living example of the woman depicted in Proverbs 31; she was resourceful and respected.
Brenda is survived by four children: Malissa (Leroy, Jr.) Plowden; Tomika (Ruben) Collins of Abbeville, LA; Gregory (Liteesha) Mitchell of Zachary, LA and Jacqueline (Charles) Williams of Spring, Texas; one step-daughter, Jacklyn (Jacolby) Levine, whom she reared as her own; Leroy Mitchell, Jeremy Mitchell, Jaxon Williams and Mason Williams all of Spring, Texas. Brenda also leaves to cherish her memory, 23 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren; one sister, Gladys Cooper; two brothers: Pastor Joseph (Sandy) Boudoin, Sr. and Maxie Boudoin, Jr. of Abbeville, LA; a long-time friend, Mary Gaines of New Port Richey, Florida; one uncle, Johnny Cooper of Port Arthur, Texas and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.
Brenda was preceded in death by two sons: Jones Mitchell, Jr. and Jackie Mitchell; grandson, Gerald L.Mitchell; her mother Elnora Boudoin; her father, Maxie Boudoin, Sr.; her ex-husband, Jones Mitchell, Sr.; her brothers, Gregory Boudoin, Thaddeus Boudoin; sisters: Mercedes Brookshire, Rosella Calliet and Bernice Williams and her niece and best friend, Aretha Bernard and nephew, Chalon Boudoin.
Kinchen Funeral Home—218 North St. Valerie Street 337-898-9595 – is in charge of final arrangements. Additionally, condolences to the family may be expressed on our website at: www.kinchenfuneralhome.com.

September 11, 1941 ~ November 21, 2021

KAPLAN — Funeral services will be held at 3:00 PM on Tuesday, November 23, 2021 at Vincent Funeral Home - Kaplan honoring the life of James Steven Faulk, 80, who died Sunday, November 21, 2021 at his residence. He will be laid to rest at Cossinade Cemetery with Deacon William "Billy" Vincent officiating the services. Serving as pallbearers will be Timothy Faulk, Joey Bradley, Eric Bradley, Mitchell Bradley, Keith Primeaux and Michael Faulk.
Mr. Faulk was a rice and soybean farmer and worked for the Vermilion Parish Police Jury as an inspector for mosquito control until his retirement. Upon his retirement, Mr. Faulk enjoyed crawfishing, tending to the farm and working on his equipment. He was a man of few words who loved the land, the outdoors and his family. He loved to be in the field on a tractor, or walking the levees of his crawfish pond.
He is survived by his wife of 60 years, Avadean Primeaux Faulk of Meaux; his two daughters, Donna and her husband, Joey Bradley of Forked Island and Annette Faulk and her companion, Corey Landry of Maurice; his son, Timothy Faulk of Lafayette; his two grandchildren, Eric Bradley and his fiancée, Kelli Day of Gulf Shores, AL and Mitchell Bradley of Meaux; and two great grandchildren, Grayson and Addison Bradley.
He was preceded in death by his father, Leoday Faulk; his mother, Agnes Stelly; his two brothers, Lloyd and Jessie Faulk; his sister, Mary Faulk Baudoin; and his uncle, Nelson Faulk.
The family would like to thank Lamm Family Care Hospice and especially his nurses, Patti and Marisa for their compassionate care.
The family requests that visiting hours be observed at Vincent Funeral Home - Kaplan, 300 N. Eleazar Ave., on Tuesday, November 23, 2021 from 10:00 AM until the time of the services at 3:00 PM with a rosary being prayed at 11:00 AM.
All funeral arrangements are being conducted by Vincent Funeral Home of Kaplan, (337) 643-7276 [Service Information 225-5276]. Condolences may be sent to the Faulk family at www.vincentfuneralhome.net.

December 26, 1940 ~ November 21, 2021

GUEYDAN — A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 2:00 PM on Wednesday, November 24, 2021 at St. Peter the Apostle Roman Catholic Church honoring the life of Linda Guidry Zaunbrecher, 80, who died Sunday, November 21, 2021 at her residence. She will be laid to rest at Gueydan Cemetery with Reverend Corey Campeaux officiating the services with Bret Lee assisting. Serving as pallbearers will be her grandsons and her nephew, Craig Campbell Guidry. Honorary pallbearers will be her sons-in-law, grandsons-in-law, and all her nephews. Serving as gift bearers will be her granddaughters and granddaughters-in-law and serving as lectors will be Victoria H. McDonald and Katherine G. Douthitt.
A native of Gueydan, Linda was a loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. By her own admission, Linda did not have an agricultural background. She grew up in town, blocks away from rice fields. It was not until she married into a German farm family that she quickly learned what it meant to live and work in agriculture. It was a life-changing event that led Linda to become a female leader in a male dominated industry and establish a legacy that ensured a future filled with new agricultural leaders
In the 1980’s, Linda became involved in the Vermilion Parish Farm Bureau and the Louisiana Farm Bureau Women’s Leadership Committee. In 1984, her peers elected her to chair that committee. That position came with a seat on the Louisiana Farm Bureau Board of Directors. As the Women’s Leadership Committee chair, Linda fostered leadership roles in every parish of the state and worked closely with the American Farm Bureau Women’s Leadership Committee.
In 1990, Linda made history as the first woman elected to the Louisiana Farm Bureau Board of Directors Executive Committee. For 25 years, Linda served as 3rd Vice President of the Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation. In her role as 3rd Vice President, she became an even stronger advocate for agriculture. She served as chair of the Louisiana Farm Bureau Coastal and Wetlands Advisory Committee; a position she maintained even after retiring from the Louisiana Farm Bureau Board. She also assumed leadership positions on the Louisiana Rice Council and the USA Rice Federation and made history again when she became the first woman elected to the Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance Company’s Board of Directors.
It was also during this time that Linda helped establish the Louisiana Farm Bureau Foundation. This is a charitable program of the Louisiana Farm Bureau which helps fund Louisiana Agriculture in the Classroom programs and provides scholarships to young people who plan to make a career in agriculture. That scholarship program has grown from a single-year stipend to a four-year scholarship which follows recipients through their college career. In 2016, the Louisiana Farm Bureau changed the name of the scholarship to the Linda and Wayne Zaunbrecher Scholarship.
In 2019, Linda was only the second woman to enter the Ag Hall of Distinction. Her career is distinguished by her pioneering work in increasing leadership opportunities for women in agriculture.
She is survived by her daughters, Alison and her husband, Dewey Domingues of Erath; their sons, Tyler Louis and his wife, Brooke, and children Lily Grace and Rosie Kate; Philip Dwayne and his wife, Chelsie, and children Grady Dwayne, Azalie Elizabeth, and John Reista Michael; Samuel Mark and his fiancée, Elizabeth Chiasson and their son Graham; and Matthew Dewey; Andrea and her husband, Christopher Herpin of Kaplan; their children, Victoria H. and her husband, Walker B. McDonald II, and their children, William Walker, Henry Nicholas, Anna Barbara, and Clyde Burnside; Michaela H. and her husband, Alex D. Lee, and their son, Kenneth-Wayne; and Christopher Ridge and his girlfriend, Victoria E. Roussel; and one brother, Kenneth Paul Guidry and his wife, Mary Taylor.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Wayne N. Zaunbrecher; her parents, Wilbur and Lucille Vincent Guidry; and her son, Dwayne Anthony Zaunbrecher.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to La. Farm Bureau Foundation/Linda and Wayne Zaunbrecher Scholarship (PO Box 95004, Baton Rouge, LA 70895-9004) -or- Vermilion Farm Bureau Federation/Dwayne A. Zaunbrecher Memorial Scholarship (3139 Veterans Memorial Dr., Abbeville, LA 70510).
The family requests that visiting hours be observed at Vincent Funeral Home – Gueydan, 311 Fourth Street, on Tuesday, November 23, 2021 from 2:00 PM until 9:00 PM with a rosary being prayed at 7:00 PM; Wednesday, November 24, 2021 from 9:00 AM until the procession departs for the church at 1:30 PM.
All funeral arrangements are being conducted by Vincent Funeral Home of Gueydan, (337) 536-6124 [Service Information 225-5276]. Condolences may be sent to the Zaunbrecher family at www.vincentfuneralhome.net.