By FRED CONLEY
T-H Sports Editor
The Forrest City Blue Junior Mustangs will put their unbeaten season mark on the line tonight against Jonesboro Annie Camp in their first home game of the year at Sam Smith.
Kick off is set for 7 p.m.
The Blue Mustangs own victories over Marianna and West Memphis Wonder.
Against Wonder, the Blue Mustangs were without three of their normal starters, including quarterback LaCody Braddock.
The team should be back at full strength tonight.
"We are playing good football right now," said Head Coach Rich Trail. "We still have some areas we need improvement in, but so far the kids are playing hard."
Meanwhile the White Junior Mustangs will play the other Jonesboro team -- MacArthur -- on the road in search of their first win.
The White Mustangs lost their opener last week to Newport.
Over at Hughes, the Junior Blue Devils, 2-0 overall and 1-0 in conference, will host Dumas in a conference game at Blue Devil Stadium. Kick off will be at 6 p.m.
And finally, the Palestine-Wheatley Junior Patriots, which opened the season last week with a win over Elaine will host Rector tonight for a conference game beginning at 7 p.m. at Wheatley.
Quarterback Fred Leak led what appears to be a talented Junior Patriot backfield which includes Rashun Barnes, Antonio Leak and Brad Barton.
P-W Coach Dan Cockrell said the special teams played "very solid football" last week.
"That's something we need to do each time out," Cockrell said.
By FRED CONLEY
T-H Sports Editor
University of Arkansas Athletic Director Frank Broyles will be the special guest speaker for the 2001 Forrest City Athletic Hall of Fame banquet and induction ceremonies, Friday, Sept. 21.
The banquet will be held at the Forrest City Civic Center and will begin at 5 p.m., according to Bill Baxter, Forrest City athletic director.
Tickets are $10 in advance and are available from Baxter, Horner, Devereux; edwin houston and Freeman's.
Twelve former Forrest City and Lincoln High School athletes will be inducted into the Hall, which is in its second year.
Four members of this year's Hall of Fame were recruited by Broyles during his tenure as head football coach of the Arkansas Razorbacks.
Broyles recruited Sonny Holmes, Jim Lindsey, Dudley Parker and William Hampton, all four graduates from Forrest City.
This year's Hall of Fame class includes Rodney Echols, Clarence Jones Jr., Florine Bingham and John H. Watson, representing Lincoln High School.
Bill Kessinger, Holmes, Lindsey and Pat Todd, representing FCHS before 1970.
Hampton, Parker, Jimmie Rogers and Charlotte Fields Wright, representing FCHS after 1970.
Bingham and Wright are the first female athletes to be inducted into the Hall of Fame.
The new members will be introduced during halftime of the Forrest City-Jonesboro football game that night at Sam Smith Stadium.
Baxter said all of the inductees will be at the ceremonies, except for Kessinger, the West Memphis School Superintendant, who will not be available.
By FRED CONLEY
T-H Sports Editor
The Forrest City men's fall softball league starts tonight at the Sports Complex.
Six teams comprise the fall league which will run through Oct. 15.
Tonight's first round of games puts S.S.A. against Miller Insurance at 6 p.m.; Boar's Head against Barnes Timber at 7 p.m. and the Young Guns against M&T Paving at 8 p.m.
The league will play on Monday and Thursday nights.
The fall co-ed softball league will begin it run on Tuesday, Sept. 18.
The league has four teams and will play nine dates through Nov. 29.
If that's not enough, then make way for the fall youth soccer and flag football schedule.
The soccer program, for boys and girls, will begin play on Tuesday, Sept. 25.
The flag football league, in its second full season, will open play on Monday, Sept. 24.
All of the youth games will be played at the Sports Complex.