Sports

Two Vermilion Parish teams learned on Wednesday who they will play in the first round of the Division III high school soccer playoffs.
The North Vermilion Patriots earned a No. 10 seed and will play host to No. 23 Cecilia Bulldogs, either Friday or Saturday.
The winner of that match will be on the road to play the No. 7th seed St. Michael.
The Abbeville Wildcats, seeded No. 19, will travel to play Deridder, the No. 14th seed. The match will be Saturday at 1 p.m. The winner of that match plays No. 3 St. Louis.

The Abbeville Lady Wildcats helped their playoff cause by beating Westgate 48-24.
The victory gets Abbeville over the .500 mark at 12-11.
As of Tuesday, Abbeville is the No. 30th seed team in Class 4A. The top 32 teams qualify for the playoffs.
The Lady Wildcats blew the game open in the second half by scoring 31 points.
The Lady Cats had three players score in double digits.
Tayla Willis, who has been steady the last two weeks, scored a team-high 15 points.

The Abbeville Wildcats made 18 out of 24 shots at the charity stripe and cruised to a 59-33 win over West St. Mary in a non district game.
At the start of the fourth period, the Wildcats (20-6) led by three points, 34-31.
But then West St. Mary went cold shooting, while the Wildcats’ shooting got hot, especially at the free throw line.
The Wildcats went to the free throw line 15 times and impressively made 14 of their free throws in the final seven minutes of the game.