Ready to Jam at Jamborees

If last week was the “joint practices” or scrimmages as they are more commonly known, this week’s jamborees are more like “dress rehearsals” for the 2021 prep football season.
For the most part, the jamborees will consist of two 12 minute halves of football, usually running time, and there will be no coaches on the field watching every play.
As Abbeville coach Roderick Moy put it, half a football game, teams put the finishing touches in preparation for the prep football season, which begins next week.
The jamborees, which begin Thursday, will have Abbeville playing Rayne at 6 p.m. and Kaplan playing host Lake Arthur right after as part of the Acadia-Vermilion Parish Jamboree.
Erath will host the Vermilion Parish part of the Acadia-Vermilion Parish Jamboree as North Vermilion battles Crowley at 6 p.m., and Erath faces Church Point right after.
Vermilion Catholic will head to Eunice to the St. Edmund Jamboree as the Eagles will host St. Edmund in the second game after the 6 p.m. start of Opelousas Catholic and Ascension Episcopal.
Delcambre will be in the Iberia Parish Jamboree Friday night at Loreauville, and the Panthers will face Jeanerette in the second game of a three-way. The first game will be at 6 p.m. with Highland Baptist at Jeanerette, followed by Jeanerette and Delcambre and then Delcambre and Highland Baptist.
Vermilion Parish coaches are ready for the jamborees.
“ Church Point has some big ones over there and some guys who can get after it,” Erath coach Eric LeBlanc said. “It’s going to be a good little challenge for us before week one.”
LeBlanc said that Logan Lemaire and Landon Toups each did well in the scrimmage for the Bobcats.
“I think that we need to lock in who our starters are going to be in the jamboree,” LeBlanc said. “I looking forward to seeing guys go through a full-contact game and see how tough they are.”
Moy loved how his team performed in the scrimmage and the energy they showed but added his team got tired later in the scrimmage, which is something they need to work on.
“It was a scrimmage,” he said. “There were some good things, some bad things, but we came out healthy, and I’m pleased.”
Moy said he’s looking for one main thing out of the jamboree.
“Looking forward to seeing people hit somebody and for better conditioning,” Moy said. “It’s more of a realistic look that we got last week.”
North Vermilion coach Brett Blakey also liked what he saw in the scrimmage, especially from his backup quarterback Logan Thompson.
“Our sophomore backup quarterback in his first high school experience did fairly well,” Blakey said. “He took all the snaps and completed 25-of-42 passes. So you can’t be upset with a 60 percent completion percentage.”
The NVHS coach also is looking for something specific in the jamboree.
“Consistency,” Blakey said. “I told them that great teams are consistent. It’s great to have 300 yards passing as a team, but if we can’t duplicate the next week, then it doesn’t mean anything.”
Vermilion Catholic coach Broc Prejean also saw some good things from the scrimmage as he preps his team to go to the jamboree.
“We felt good about how our kids matched up and battled against a quality (Class) 4A opponent,” Prejean said. “The Blue Jays are competitive. They have their sights set on a quality season and are playing several (Class) 4A opponents this year.
“For us, we need to come out and play two quality quarters, get out of there healthy and put some stuff on tape we feel good about and stuff we can work on.”
Prejean said that Ethan Landry had a good game in the scrimmage and John-John Dartez at quarterback and credited the offensive and defensive lines.

Jamboree Schedules

Sugar Cane Iberia Parish
Jamboree

(At Loreauville High School)

Friday, Aug. 27

6 p.m. - Highland vs. Jeanerette

Delcambre vs. Jeanerette

Delcambre vs. Highland

Acadia-Vermilion Parish Jamboree

Thursday Aug. 26

(At Lake Arthur High School)

6 p.m. - Abbeville vs. Rayne

Kaplan vs. Lake Arthur

Friday Aug. 27

(At Erath High School)

6 p.m. - Crowley vs. North Vermilion

(after first game) Church Point vs. Erath

St. Edmund Jamboree

Friday Aug. 27

(St. Edmund Blue Jay Field)

6 p.m. - Ascension Episcopal vs. Opelousas Catholic

St. Edmund vs. Vermilion Catholic