By FRED CONLEY
T-H Sports Editor
CABOT -- The Forrest City Lady Mustangs fell behind early in the first half against Rogers Thursday, regrouped in the third period to get within four but faltered in the final period, losing 63-48 at the Panther Invitational.
The Lady Mustangs will play the final game of the round-robin tournament Saturday at 9 a.m., when they take on Mount St. Mary's.
Deosha Agnew led Forrest City with 22 points, 10 rebounds and five steals while Caronica Randle added 13 points and three rebounds. Trina Wynne had nine and Erika Haggans finished with four points.
Rogers led 14-10 after the first period and 30-17 at the half.
The Lady Mustangs cut the lead to four in the third period.
Rogers drilled four, three pointers during the game.
Forrest City was limited to just 39 percent shooting from the floor and 25 percent from the foul line, hitting 4-of-16 attempts.
In other games played Thursday, West Memphis rallied to put down Sheridan and Cabot defeated Harding Academy.
Cabot and West Memphis will play for the tournament title Saturday at 1:30 p.m. in an all-AAAAA-East matchup.
Harding and Sheridan will play for third place at noon.
"This is a good tournament with some solid teams," said Forrest City Coach Sue Jayroe. "It's good competition to help prepare teams for the conference."
TURRELL -- Turrell has four chances to win a tournament title beginning tonight.
Turrell will play in each of the four championship games at their own Turrell Invitational Tournament.
Tonight, the Junior Lady Rockets will take on the Forrest City Junior White Lady Mustangs at 6 p.m.
Forrest City defeated C.V. White, Blytheville and Parkin to reach tonight's finals while Turrell knocked off Crawfordsville, West Memphis East and Hughes on their way to the championship round.
In the junior boys' final, set for Saturday at 6 p.m., the Junior Rockets will take on the Earle Junior Bulldogs.
Turrell's Lady Rockets will face Brinkley tonight at 7:45 p.m., in the senior girls' final.
Brinkley defeated Hughes 58-43 Thursday night to advance.
And finally in the senior boys' title game, the undefeated Turrell Rockets (13-0) will face Parkin in Saturday's 7:15 final.
Parkin defeated Marvell Thursday to get into the finals.
*In other tournament action, the Hughes Blue Devils defeated Star City 72-49 Thursday at the DeWitt Invitational Tournament to advance to the semifinal game tonight against Holly Grove at 5:30 p.m.
Robert Davis led the Blue Devils with 20 points while Antonio Cotton added 14 points and Jay Doolittle and Chris Crawford helped out with six points each.
Hughes led the entire game.
A win over Holly Grove tonight puts Hughes into Saturday's championship game at 8:30 p.m.
The Hughes Junior Blue Devils lost their tournament matchup up against Stuttgart.
The Junior Blue Devils will be playing at the Lonoke Invitational next week.
*In regular season junior high action Thursday, West Memphis East defeated Forrest City Blue Junior Mustangs 46-38.
Stephon Weaver had 12 points for Forrest City while Terrance Ware added 10 points and LaCody Braddock chipped in six points.
East won the 'B' game as well, 40-29 with Weaver scoring 10 points in that matchup.
By FRED CONLEY
T-H Sports Editor
SEARCY -- Both the Palestine-Wheatley Patriots and Lady Patriots play today at the Lion White County Medical Center tournament at Searcy High School, which concludes Saturday.
To reach Saturday's final round, however, both Palestine-Wheatley teams will have to post victories tonight.
Due to Wynne's participation in the Class AAAA state football championship game, set for noon Saturday at War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock, the Yellowjackets and the Lady Yellowjackets will not play after tonight, opting to follow their football team on Saturday.
Wynne's departure forced some time changes and pairings.
The Lady Patriots will play Pine Bluff Dollarway today at 4 p.m. A P-W win will bring the Lady Patriots back on Saturday at 12 noon to face Batesville, a winner over Wynne Thursday night. A loss to Dollarway ends the tournament stay for P-W.
The Patriots must defeat Mt. View tonight in their 5:30 p.m. game to have a chance to play Clinton Saturday at 1:30 p.m. A loss to Mt. View ends the tourney stay for Palestine-Wheatley.
In other games set for today, Jonesboro and Osceola will face off in senior girls' action at 7 p.m. and Beebe and Searcy will play in senior boys' action at 8:30 p.m.
In boys' games Thursday, Wynne defeated Clinton and PB Dollarway defeated Batesville.
In girls action, Batesville beat Wynne and Ozark defeated Searcy.
Brandon Boys, 15, of Marion, formerly of Forrest City and Cameron King, 14, of Forrest City, helped lead Christian Brothers High School to a 6-2 record this year. Both are freshman.
Boyd played TB and King played safety and tailback.
Boyd is the son of Kenneth and Pam Kipkulei and King is the son of John Williford and Pamela King.