Stories from Thursday, September 21, 2017

Lake Poinsett's Ome Coleman reports getting a lot of phone calls asking if Lake Poinsett State Park will still be open due to the AGFC's draining of the lake. "YES, we will be open as usual. State Parks are not the ones draining the lake, Arkansas Game & Fish are in charge of the lake. ...

Arkansas State beats UA-Pine Bluff 48-3 at Centennial Bank Stadium.

The Harrisburg Lady Hornets (7-4, 3-3) fell to conference foe Brookland 17-25, 25-22, 15-25, 15-25 this past Tuesday in Harrisburg. Emily Newcomb finished 10-12 serving with two aces to go along with 35 assists and 8 kills, Olivia Deckelman was 12-12 serving with six kills and one block, Lacey Lambright had six kills and nine digs to go with 16-17 serving, Shaw Faulkner was 10-11 serving with eight digs, Destany Lovell totaled eight kills as Madison Peden had three kills and one block...

Trumann (2-13, 1-5) hosted Ridgefield Christian in high school volleyball action this past Tuesday at Wildcat Gym. The Lady Warriors took the first game 19-25 before the Lady Wildcats came back to win game two 25-18. Ridgefield Christian took the next two games, 22-25 and 21-25 to win the match 3-1...

Marked Tree (0-2, 0-2) fell behind early to the Earle Junior Bulldogs and could never recover as they lost 50-20 last Thursday at Don Lovell Memorial Field in Marked Tree. The Junior Indians won the toss and deferred to the second half. Earle returned the kick-off to the Marked Tree 30-yard line where it took two plays for the Junior Bulldogs to find the end zone to make it 6-0. ...

EPC (3-0) scored 30 points in the second half on their way to a 38-8 win over Corning in their final tune-up before conference play begins in week four against rival Marked Tree. Corning went three and out on their first series as they punted the ball to EPC with 10:38 left. ...