Stories from Thursday, September 13, 2018

Griff Evans takes home gold at local fair.

The Piggott Mohawk and East Poinsett County Warrior junior high football teams met Thursday, Sept. 6, in non-conference action and played to an 18-18 tie. Actually, over three minutes remained in regulation at Piggott's Parker Field, but an electrical outage prompted the officials to call the game early...

Harrisburg (2-0) jumped out to a 14-0 lead in the opening quarter and never looked back in a 38-8 win over Cedar Ridge in junior high football action this past Thursday at Hornet Stadium. The Junior Timberwolves got the ball first as Jace Heeb's sack on third down forced Cedar Ridge to punt the ball to Harrisburg. ...

After losing their season opener in heartbreaking fashion last week at East Poinsett County, Manila entered the win column with a thrilling 27-24 come from behind victory Friday night at Marked Tree. Trailing 24-21 with 3:30 left in the game, the Lions forced a Jarmaria Anderson fumble, recovering the ball at their own 38-yard line. ...

The EPC Junior Warriors (1-0-1) beat Walnut Ridge 34-14 this past Monday night in a game that was postponed from August 30 due to inclement weather. A request for stats was not returned to paper by press time. Trumann took a 25-13, 25-21, 25-18 win over Cedar Ridge in high school volleyball action this past Monday at Wildcat Gym. ...

Trumann (0-2) didn't get the result they wanted this past Friday as they opened RMC Stadium against Shiloh Christian. The Wildcats hung tough the first half and only trailed 14-7 at the half. The Saints scored three times in the third quarter and held the Wildcats scoreless in the second half to take a 35-7 win...