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Lane Frederick, son of Craig and Carleen Frederick, has been named Junior Parade Marshal for the 2018 Louisiana Cattle Festival.
The Cattle Festival Grand Parade is set for 1 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 13. It will roll down Charity and State Streets in Abbeville.
Lane will be among those who will be recognized at the 2018 Louisiana Cattle Festival Honoree Banquet & Social that will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 10, at Magdalen Place. The event begins at 6 p.m.
Lane is an 8th grade student at J.H. Williams Middle School. Lane has one older sister Victoria. His hobbies include raising and showing registered red Brahman cattle, riding horses, roping, hunting and fishing. He’s a busy fellow.
Lane is a member of the J.H. Williams Beta Club, President of the J.H. Williams 4-H Club, member of Jr. Leader Club, Louisiana Junior Cattleman’s Association, Louisiana Junior Brahman Association, All American Junior Brahman Association, American Brahman Breeders Association.
Lane is an active member of the Vermilion 4-H program. Lane has been chosen as Outstanding 4-H Club member in our parish for the past four years. He has been an active member of the Beef Project for five years. He has exhibited his animal on the parish, district, state and national levels. Lane has won many awards throughout his show career. His greatest accomplishment has been winning his showmanship buckle. Lane has realized that hard work and determination is what it takes.
Lane is a member of the horse project where he has competed in parish and state levels.
Lane is a member of our horse judging teams where he and his team competed at our state show and placed 1st in many levels of judging. The horse program has helped Lane realize that there are other options in the program not only showing, there’s the master horseman camp Lane has attended for five years which has taught Lane that there are many ways to train your horse in a stress-free environment. Lane has come to realize that being involved in the horse program has helped him to find his greatest passion of all, roping. He has decided roping is his all time favorite and has started taking lessons and will see where this road takes him.
Lane has participated in other projects and contests. Some of his other activities include Challenge Camp, LOST Camp, Personal Development, Demonstration Day, Achievement Day, Record Books. Lane’s project book was awarded the 6th grade Achievement Award for placing 1st with his Beef Records. Lane ‘s favorite words doing record books are not fun, but the hard word pays off.
Lane is a very hard worker and has realized, that hard work, determination, helping others and being responsible always pays off and helps you to become the best person that you can be.
Lane is very deserving of this honor his dedication, accomplishments, hard work and determination has helped him in being named as 2018 Junior Parade Marshal for the Louisiana Cattle Festival.

November 22, 1933 ~ October 7, 2018

ABBEVILLE — Funeral services will be held at 11:00 AM on Wednesday, October 10, 2018 at Vincent Funeral Home - Abbeville honoring the life of Isabelle Chauvin Hardy, 84, who died Sunday, October 7, 2018 at Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center.
She will be laid to rest at St. Paul Cemetery with Pastor, Rev. Dr. Mollie McGee officiating the services. Pallbearers will be Brett Adams, Kade Breaux, Edward Suire, Michael Suire, Brannon Bodin and James Moore. Honorary pallbearers will be Cherokee Moore, Dakota Moore and Jax Breaux.
Isabelle is survived by her son, Brett Hunter Adams and his wife Keisha; daughters, Mona Rae Hardy, Marilyn Hardy, Marlene Suire and her husband Ronnie, Maxine Hardy and Stacia Hardy and her husband Chris; brothers, Maldred “Tee” Chauvin and James Chauvin; grandchildren, Crystal Marie
Breaux and her husband Kade, Edward James Suire and Michael Ryan Suire; great grandchildren, Kayne Matthew Breaux, Gabrielle Paige Gallet, Brannon Jude Bodin and Jax Raymond Breaux; and great great grandchildren, Breiana Rae Adams, Autumn Rayne Adams and Layla Rose Adams.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Richard R. Hardy; parents, Serge Chauvin and the former Elvina Theriot; two grandchildren, Krista Rae Hardy and Hunter Paul Adams; and numerous brothers and sisters.
The family requests that visiting hours be observed at Vincent Funeral Home - Abbeville, 209 S. St. Charles St., on Tuesday, October 9, 2018 from 10:00 AM until 10:00 PM; Wednesday, October 10, 2018 from 8:00 AM until time of services. Condolences may be sent to the family at www.vincentfuneralhome.net.
All funeral arrangements are being conducted by Vincent Funeral Home of Abbeville, (337) 893-4661.

BERWICK - It was a win the Erath Bobcats needed and they got it in impressive fashion, beating Berwick 36-14 on Thursday night.
The win was the first all season for the Bobcats (1-5 overall), though you wouldn’t have known it by watching them Thursday. It was also the first win for new EHS coach Eric LeBlanc.
When Leblanc played his final high school game at Erath, the Bobcats beat Berwick 42-12 in 2007. Now, Berwick is the first team he beats as a new head coach.
So, Berwick now holds a special place in his heart.
“These guys are happier than I’ve seen them all year,” Erath Coach Eric LeBlanc said after the game. “They looked like they were ready for a win. We had a good game plan on both sides of the ball. The difference between this and previous weeks was that we finally executed.”
Erath jumped out to a 16-0 lead in the first quarter and led 22-0 by halftime. It scored on each of its first four possessions, as quarterback Luke LeBlanc made running a spread offense look easy. His quick strike to receiver Luke Frederick on the Bobcats’ first drive led to a 33-yard Andrew Sonnier field goal that gave Erath a 3-0 lead early.
The Bobcats scored on their next three possessions.
After a high snap over Berwick punter Seth Canty’s head set up a first-and-goal at the 5-yard-line, Erath scored its first touchdown when Jax Thibodeaux rushed from five yards out to put the Bobcats up 10-0 halfway through the opening quarter.
On its next drive, Erath drove 70 yards with LeBlanc hitting receiver Matt Domingues for a 44-yard touchdown pass for a 16-0 lead.
Erath pulled ahead even further when LeBlanc threaded the needle on third-and-goal from the Berwick 7-yard line, hitting receiver Ian Harrington on an inside slant and giving Erath 22 points on its first four possessions.
Even with the game well out of hand in the second half, Erath kept adding on and throwing the ball deep into the fourth quarter.
LeBlanc added a 12-yard touchdown pass to Domingues and a 31-yard strike to Nicholas Nguyen to up the Bobcats’ lead to 36-0 before Berwick finally found the end-zone near the end of the game.
Sanford got the Panthers on the board with 4:53 remaining when he found an opening and raced 29 yards for a touchdown that made it 36-7.
He then completed a 58-yard touchdown pass to Keyon Singleton with 1:03 remaining to cap the game’s scoring.
Playing without tailback Josh Jones was a game-changer for Berwick’s offense. The senior sensation had been suffering all week with an ankle injury that had kept him limited during practice, Berwick Coach Mike Walker said. The Panthers tried to test him during pregame warmups — and even on one snap in the game — but to no avail, Walker said.
“With him on the field, I think it’s a completely different game,” Walker said. “We have the mentality of ‘next man up.’ Unfortunately, (Erath) made plays, and we didn’t. We knew they were going to try to load the box and force us to throw the ball. We were semi-prepared for it, but we just didn’t execute. That’s the bottom line.”
Berwick also wasn’t prepared for LeBlanc, who was lights out all night. He completed 17 of 29 passes for 231 yards and three touchdowns. He also ran when he had to, totaling 42 yards on three carries.
“Defensively we got beat on the back end,” Walker said. “We didn’t necessarily think they could throw the ball as well as they did, but sure enough, they beat us on some go routes and some 50/50 balls. They made plays and we didn’t.”
Erath totaled 374 yards of offense and 17 first downs. Domingues was LeBlanc’s top receiving target with nine catches for 147 yards and two touchdowns. Frederick caught five balls for 64 yards.
On the ground, Thibodeaux rushed 17 times for 70 yards.
Sanford completed just nine of 26 pass attempts for 158 yards with a touchdown and an interception.
Singleton caught three passes for 76 yards and a score, and Barrett Hover had five grabs for 60 yards.
Berwick finished with 219 yards of offense and eight first downs.

LEROY -- After falling 35-21 to South Beauregard last week, North Vermilion Coach Brett Blakey knew his team needed to get back to its identity for the season: physical running and passing out of necessity.
Friday night against Patterson, the Patriots did that and got some help from their defense, too, as they defeated Patterson on homecoming 52-28.
“We set the tone,” Blakey said. “We were physical in the run game. We felt like we could take it to them, and I felt like our offensive line answered the call tonight.”
North Vermilion (3-3 overall, 1-0 in district) had 363 yards of offense (291 rushing and 72 passing).
The Patriots also intercepted three passes by Patterson quarterback Randy Paul and turned each of them into touchdowns.
With the game tied at 7 after Malik Criner’s 7-yard run with 5:08 remaining in the first quarter, the Patriots quickly regained possession as Micah Istre intercepted Paul on the first offensive play of the Lumberjacks’ ensuing drive.
Istre returned the ball to the Patterson 2-yard line, and one play later, Criner scored from 2 yards out with 4:51 remaining for a 14-7 North Vermilion lead.
The Patriots added a score on their next offensive possession when quarterback Garrett Becker completed a 31-yard touchdown pass to Parker Romero with 57 seconds left in the quarter for a 21-7.
The Patriots added a pick-six by Kendrick Baudoin on the Lumberjacks’ ensuing offensive drive.
Hunter Hulin, who was 7-for-7 on point-after attempts and 1-1 on field goal tries, made his fourth extra point of the night for a 28-7 North Vermilion lead with three seconds left in the first quarter.
The hole was too much for Patterson to overcome.
After Patterson’s Dajon Richard scored on a 2-yard run with 10:38 remaining in the first half, the two teams went scoreless until Hulin connected on a 25-yard field goal to close the first half and give North Vermilion a 31-14 advantage.
Patterson (1-5, 0-1) cut its deficit to 31-21 with 7:12 left after Richard recorded a 54-yard touchdown reception from Paul.
However, North Vermilion added three more touchdowns: a 53-yard run by Becker with 6:53 remaining in the third, a 10-yard run by Criner with 5:37 left in the third quarter and a 17-yard run by Criner with 45 seconds left in the third quarter.
Criner led North Vermilion with 34 carries for 205 yards, and he scored four touchdowns, while Becker had eight carries for 70 yards and one score.
Becker also completed 2 of 5 passes for 72 yards and a score.
Defensively, North Vermilion limited Richard, a University of Texas-San Antonio verbal commit, to 211 yards of offense (117 rushing yards and two scores and 94 yards receiving and a touchdown). Richard’s final touchdown, a 79-yard run, came against North Vermilion’s junior varsity.
Blakey was pleased with his team’s effort stopping the Patterson standout after warning his team about the playmaker’s ability.
“I said, ‘Dajon’s going to make some plays. He’s really good. When we get the opportunity to make stops, we got to make stops,’” Blakey said.