Stories from Thursday, March 17, 2016

The World Association of Benchers and Deadlifters (WABDL) Southern National Championship was held February 27 at the Fairbridge Hotel in Jonesboro. There were 82 lifters competing in front off a crowd of over 300. "Every lifter that competed was a winner whether they won an award or not," event organizer Eddie Morgan said. "If everybody will bring at least one new lifter for next year, we will have close to 200 lifters making it a huge event," Morgan added...

EPC couldn't find a way to stop Earle's high powered offense last Thursday night in the 2A state championship game. Each time the Warriors made a run the Bulldogs answered and slowly increased their lead after each quarter on their way to a 68-48 win last Thursday at the Bank of the Ozarks Arena in Hot Springs. The conference foes met for the fourth time this season with Earle winning each contest...

Trumann jumped out to an 11-0 lead early only to see Hoxie chip away at the lead throughout the game before the Wildcats went on to post a 17-16 win in high school baseball action this past Monday in Trumann. The game had a little extra interest as Trumann's Jason Dahl coached against his brother Adam Dahl of Hoxie...

Marked Tree (1-3, 1-2) needed extra innings to beat BIC 4-3 in a 2A-3 conference game this past Monday. Emma Gean drove in the winning run as she finished with two RBIs on the day. Harley Daniels got the win for the Lady Indians going all nine innings while allowing two hit and striking out 11 batters. ...

Bay (37-7) outscored Emerson (35-1) 10-4 over the last two minutes of the game as the Yellowjackets beat the Pirates 61-55 to claim the 1A state championship for the second year in a row. Bay also topped Emerson in last years' final. "Back to back titles is really nice I know that," Bay coach Brad Brannen said after the game. "We didn't win this game out of anger toward Emerson but out of love for each other," Brannen added...