By FRED CONLEY
T-H Sports Editor
All three St. Francis County schools had home games scheduled tonight, but that number has now been downgraded to just two.
Forrest City, scheduled to host Little Rock Mills for a two-game AAAAA-East set tonight, will have to wait a while longer to play the Comets.
The two teams still have not played each other this season.
Originally set for Jan. 15 at Mills, the first meeting was pushed back to Feb. 21. Now, with Central Arkansas under the threat of a possible snow/ice mixture, the Pulaski County School District cancelled all athletic activities.
The game has been rescheduled for Monday, Feb. 11, beginning at 5 p.m.
The Comets have won seven consecutive conference games since losing their opener.
The Mustangs are 2-16 coming in and are winless in the conference at 0-8.
The Lady Mustangs ended a five-game slide last Friday against Sylvan Hills.
Over at Palestine-Wheatley, Lady Patriot Coach Beverly Bass will be coaching her final home game tonight when Altheimer rolls into Patriot Gym.
Bass plans to retire from coaching at the end of this season to enter administration.
It's Parent's Night tonight for the Palestine-Wheatley teams.
The Junior Patriots will start the three-game set at 5 p.m., followed by the senior girls and the senior boys.
The Hughes Blue Devils will host Lonoke tonight, for a two-game set beginning at 6 p.m.
In the first meeting between the two teams on Jan. 11, Lonoke handed the Blue Devils a conference loss in overtime.
The Blue Devils are 8-2 in the 6AAA Conference, behind league-leading Pine Bluff Dollarway at 9-1. Dumas is third while Lonoke stands at 6-4 for the year.
The Blue Devils will wind up the conference season on Friday when they make the trip to Dollarway.
The Hughes Junior Blue Devils opened play Monday in the 6AAA Junior District Tournament at Lonoke and advanced to the second round with a 55-43 win over Brinkley..
David Dowden led Hughes with 27 points while Marcus Washington added 17 and Adrian Driver finished with six.
Hughes will face PB Dollarway Thursday at 5:45 p.m.
By FRED CONLEY
T-H Sports Editor
JONESBORO -- The Forrest City Blue Mustangs ended the regular junior high AAAAA-East conference season with a win over Jonesboro Annie Camp Monday night.
The Blue Mustangs outscored Annie Camp 24-to-6 in the second half to finish the year at 6-10 overall and 5-9 in the conference.
Stephon Weaver nailed three, three-pointers to finish with 11 points to lead the Blue Mustangs. LaCody Braddock added nine and Aaron Williams finished with eight points.
Aside from Forrest City White, Annie Camp was the only other league team to lose twice to the Blue Mustangs, who have won three of their last five.
Annie Camp, which finishes the regular season at 4-17 and 3-11, led 15-11 at the half, but fell behind 26-19 after three periods.
*The White Mustangs fell just short of ending the year with their fourth straight win Monday night, losing to Jonesboro MacArthur 49-46 at Mustang Arena.
The White Mustangs came into the game riding a three-game win streak.
MacArthur's Stephen Cox scored 12 of his 22 points in the final period to put away the White Mustangs, 3-13 and 3-11.
MacArthur ends the resgular season at 17-1 and 13-1 in the league, giving them the league title and the No. 1 seed into the upcoming district tournament.
Talya Haskins poured in 22 points Monday to lead Jonesboro MacArthur past the Forrest City White Junior Lady Mustangs 38-35 at Mustang Arena.
Forrest City ends the season at 9-10 overall and 5-9 in the league. The White Lady Mustangs lost their last five games.
MacArthur finishes at 11-3 in the conference.
*The Forrest City Blue Lady Mustangs ended the regular season at 1-15 overall and 1-13 in the conference after losing to Jonesboro Annie camp 31-16 Monday.
Jonesboro outscored the Blue Lady Mustangs 11-to-2 in the second period and led 22-9 to start the fourth period.
The district tournament will begin Monday, Feb. 11, at West Memphis High School.
Jonesboro and Sylvan Hills hooked up Monday in a AAAAA-East makeup game at Bear Country in Sylvan Hills.
The boys' game went down to the wire when Ervin Jones' putback basket with 2.1 seconds left to play lifted the Hurricane over the Bears 68-67.
Jonesboro improves to 8-12 overall and 4-4 in the conference standings.
The eighth-ranked Jonesboro Lady Hurricane ended a two-game slide with a 54-48 win over the Lady Bears.
Prior to Monday's game, the Jonesboro girls had lost to West Memphis and Cabot.
Latoya Wortham led Jonesboro with 22 points while Tara Lehman and Rachael Simmons each added eight points as the Lady Hurricane improved to 16-4 overall and 6-2 in the league for third place behind West Memphis and Jacksonville.
The Jonesboro boys trailed 67-66 with less than 10 seconds left to play when T Prunty missed the potential game winner. Jones was there for the rebound and putback.
The Bears, coming off a 68-59 win over Forrest City Friday, led 23-19 after the first period thanks to eight points from Jeremy Brown, who finished with a game-high 28.
Jonesboro's Matt Byrd scored eight of his 13 points in the second period which helped to put the Hurricane up 38-30 at the half.
Prunty led the Hurricane with 27 points, 11 of that total coming in the fourth period on a three-pointer, a two-pointer and six free throws.
Jonesboro is scheduled to host Jacksonville tonight, weather permitting.
* PREP BASKETBALL
Monday's Scores - Senior Boys
AAAAA-Central
LR Parkview 60, LR Hall 42
AAAAA-East
Jonesboro 68, Sylvan Hills 67
Senior Girls
AAAAA-Central
LR Parkview 58, LR Hall 43
AAAAA-East
Jonesboro 54, Sylvan HIlls 48
AAAA-East
Paragould 39, Green County Tech 37
Nonconference
Marmaduke 48, Sloan-Hendrix 30
Highland 59, Mammoth Spring 50
Junior High Boys
Sylvan Hills 48, Little Rock Catholic 36
NLR Eastside 48, Cabot South 36
Tuesday, February 5
AAAAA-Central
Conway at LR McClellan
LR Catholic at Mountain Home
Mount St. Mary at Mountain Home
NLR at LR Central
AAAAA-East
Blytheville at Sylvan Hills
Cabot at West Memphis
LR Mills at Forrest City
Jacksonville at Jonesboro
AAAAA-South
Benton at Lake Hamilton
Bryant at El Dorado
Camden Fairview at Sheridan
Pine Bluff at Texarkana
AAAAA-West
Fayetteville at Rogers
FS Northside at Russellville
FS Southside at Van Buren
Springdale at Bentonville
AAAA-East
Batesville at Newport
Nettleton at Wynne
Osceola at Marion
Paragould at Greene Co. Tech (boys)
AAAA-Southeast
Crossett at Monticello
Stuttgart at White Hall
Watson Chapel at North Pulaski
West Helena at Marianna
AAAA-Southwest
Hope at Arkadelphia
Hot Springs at LR Fair
HS Lakeside at Robinson
Malvern at Magnolia
AAAA-West
Greenbrier at Harrison
Morrilton at Greenwood
Searcy at Vilonia
Siloam Springs at Alma
6AAA
PB Dollarway at Brinkley
England at DeWitt
Lonoke at Hughes
2AA-South
DeValls Bluff at Augusta
McCrory at Harding Academy
6AA
Altheimer at Palestine-Wheatley
Barton at Gillett
Marvell at Clarendon
Nonconference
Armorel at Buffalo Island
Crawfordsville at Rivercrest
Delaplaine at Marmaduke
Des Arc at White County Central
Elaine at Cotton Plant
Hazen at Carlisle