By FRED CONLEY
T-H Sports Editor
Kim Ursery and Katrina Wynne combined to score 35 points Thursday night to lead the Forrest City Blue Lady Mustangs past Blytheville West 41-23 in junior high action at Mustang Arena.
Ursery poured in 18 points while Wynne added 17. Torrie Willis chipped in four points.
Forrest City improves to 10-7 for the year.
Blytheville led 7-6 after a slow first period before Forrest City outscored the visitors 13-to-9 in the second period to lead 19-16 at the half.
Forrest City held West to just seven, second-half points, and led 28-18 after three periods.
"We played good, solid defense the entire game," said Blue Coach Gwen Franklin. "I credit the recent successful streak to team play by all of the girls, without any selfishness on the court."
JBoro Annie Camp 34, FC White Lady Mustangs19
Annie Camp built a 23-14 halftime lead and held Forrest City White to just five second-half points to take a 34-19 win in junior girls' basketball Thursday at Annie Camp.
Forrest City falls to 3-13 for the year.
Junior Boys
Blytheville West 53, Forrest City Blue Mustangs 35
Blytheville West used a 17-to-6 second period including a 13-2 run to end the frame that effectively put away the Forrest City Blue Mustangs 53-35 Thursday at Mustang Arena.
West led 35-25 to start the final period.
Deangelo Braddock led Forrest City with 12 points while John Foreman had seven, Kenyatae Chism added five and Terrance Ware had four.
Doug Echols led West with 12 points followed by Andre Anderson and David Williams with 11 points each.
FCity White Mustangs 39, JBoro Annie Camp 31
Forrest City White took an early lead and never relinquished it in beating Annie Camp 39-31 Thursday night in junior high school boys' AAAAA-East conference basketball.
Annie Camp (2-14, 1-12) trailed 7-0 at the end of the first quarter and 13-10 at the half.
Forrest City White pushed their lead to 23-15 lead to start the final quarter.
Lorenzo Spearman had 11 points to lead the White Mustangs while Roy Parker had eight points and Maurice Lowe hit two threes to finish with six points for Forrest City.
Annie Camp was led by Glenn Ritter with 15 points.
Annie Camp won the eighth-grade game 54-34.
By FRED CONLEY
T-H Sports Editor
JUNCTION CITY--Fordyce was better than Huttig, but not enough to derail the Palestine-Wheatley Lady Patriots Thursday night at the Dual State Tournament being played at Junction City.
The win sets up a semifinal game Saturday morning against either Emerson or Union.
The No. 1 seeded Lady Patriots flexed their scoring muscles early, hitting several three's to roll to a 20-2 lead after one period.
Junior point guard Nikki Bass finished with 18 points and drained three, three-pointers.
Erica Smith finished with 25 points, 11 of that total in the first period, while Libby Martin added eight points off the bench. Melanie Baker finished with five points and eight rebounds while Carlene Gardner and Markita Tomlin had four points each.
The Lady Patriots improved to 20-1 while Fordyce falls to 13-6.
P-W increased its lead to 40-8 late in the second quarter as Bass scored 12 points in the half.
Fordyce trailed 42-10 at the half, but hit back-to-back 3-pointers to start the third.
Bass answered with a three-pointer of her own, triggering a string of 20 unanswered points as the Lady Patriots built a 63-16 lead with 5:56 left in the game.
Cacye Smith led Fordyce with nine points.
"Fordyce was a little better than Huttig (a team P-W defeated 68-26 Wednesday), but we played probably the best game of the season Thursday," said P-W Coach Beverly Bass. "We came out hot and kept our momentum high the entire game."
P-W is ranked No. 1 in the state's Class AA rankings and third overall in the state.
The Lady Patriots have outscored its opponents 83-14 in the first half of their first two tournament games.
"We didn't know anything about anybody in this tournament," said Bass, whose team has arrived in time to play and leaves right after the game. "I haven't watched any of the other teams play. We just take it one day at a time. It seems like we do better when they don't know anything about who they're playing and they just go out and play. I might call a coach but I try not to let them know too much. We've never played in this area before and we are enjoying ourselves. This is a good tournament for us."
By FRED CONLEY
T-H Sports Editor
The Forrest City Mustangs and Lady Mustangs will host Cabot tonight for a two-game set beginning at 6 p.m., at Mustang Arena.
The Lady Mustangs, looking to pick up their second AAAAA-East Conference win of the year, will start the evening against the Lady Panthers, 4-10 overall and 2-3 in the league.
Forrest City will be without the services of senior starting center Leslie Jayroe, who was injured Thursday morning in practice.
Coach Sue Jayroe said Katrina Floyd will take Jayroe's place in the lineup.
Meanwhile the Mustangs, 3-3 in the East and locked in a four-way tie with Jonesboro, Jacksonville and West Memphis, will be looking to end the first half of the conference schedule with a win.
In other East conference games tonight, Jonesboro will host Little Rock Mills. The Lady Hurricane will be without starting guard Jennifer Sullivan who suffered a knee injury Tuesday against Blytheville.
Sullivan had an MRI done on her knee Thursday, but Jonesboro coach Michelle Birdsong said the senior guard won't know the results of the test until her scheduled doctor's appointment Tuesday.
The Lady Hurricane lead the AAAAA-East with an overall record of 17-2 and 6-0 in the league, faces last-place Little Rock Mills (1-14, 0-6) tonight at Hurricane Gym.
Jonesboro's boys will face league-leading Mills. Jonesboro (11-7, 3-3) is coming a 44-42 loss to Blytheville Tuesday.
Mills is currently 13-3 overall and 6-0 in the AAAAA-East.
Sylvan Hills will be at Jacksonville and Blytheville will play at West Memphis to round out tonight's schedule.