The Forrest City-Cabot AAAAA-East Conference game, being played tonight at Cabot, will be the featured high school football game on the KTHV-Channel 11 sports report at 10 p.m. KTHV sports anchor Craig O'Neill, during Thursday's newscast, said he had a "feeling about the game" and on the air, picked the Forrest City Mustangs to upset the Panthers. Cabot is coming into the game on the heels of a 28-20 loss to West Memphis last week.
By FRED CONLEY
T-H Sports Editor
JONESBORO -- The Jonesboro Lady Hurricane remained undefeated with a 15-3, 15-0, 15-0 trouncing of Forrest City Thursday in high school volleyball.
Kristin Etter led Jonesboro (22-0) with eight kills and five aces, Hillary Speer went 10-for-10 serving with four aces and 14 assists.
Stacey Lewis tallied four aces and five kills while Lindsey Bennett contributed with four kills.
The Jonesboro junior varsity defeated Forrest City handely 15-2, 15-0.
Forrest City has two regular season conference matches remaining to be played both road games, at Mountain Home and at Blytheville.
*Brynn Biggs had three kills and seven assists to vault Harrisburg past East Poinsett County 15-0, 15-11 in high school volleyball action Thursday.
Suzette Easton and Amanda Sears each tallied three kills while Heather Webb hit a pair of aces with four assists and Alissa Hutchison had two kills and two assists for Harrisburg (6-12, 4-5).
*The Nettleton Lady Raiders disposed of Greene County Tech 15-4, 15-11, 15-6 Thursday in high school volleyball at Nettleton.
Nettleton's Rachel Allison recorded seven kills and five blocks, Amanda Gragg posted six kills and 12 assists and Christy Swindle hit seven kills and three blocks.
Taylor Williams contributed in every area for the Raiders (8-2 AAAA-East) with three aces, three kills, 12 assists and a pair of digs.
*Wynne hit 29 kills, recorded 97 digs and went 81-for-81 from the service line en route to a four-game 7-15, 15-4, 15-1, 15-10 win over Paragould Thursday in high school volleyball.
The Yellowjackets (15-6 overall, 8-2 AAAA-East) were led by Autumn Campbell's nine kills and 15 digs. Nicole Johnson scored six kills and five blocks, Jessica Stett had 23 digs and eight assists and Marla Mays compiled 11 digs and 12 assists.
In other high school matches, West Helena defeated Little Rock Mills and North Little Rock defeated Little Rock McClellan in straight sets.
By FRED CONLEY
T-H Sports Editor
Kiel Smith and Alfred Robinson stopped West Memphis Wonder on downs with 1:15 to play in Thursday's game and held on to take a 14-8 win at Sam Smith Stadium.
Wonder took possession with three minutes to play but an incompletion, a quarterback sack and two stuffed running plays by Forrest City, helped the White Mustangs to their second win of the year.
The Mustangs improve to 2-4 for the year.
Michael Holland scored from a yard out with 4:10 to play in the first quarter to put Forrest City in front 6-0.
Wonder took an 8-6 lead in the second quarter when Terry Bullocks ran 19 yards for the score and quarterback Paul, Clayton added the two-point conversion.
Forrest City regained the lead late in the third quarter when Robinson took the pitch and raced 10 yards for the deciding touchdown. Robinson also added the two-point play.
Annie Camp 28, Blytheville 6
Carter Harbuck threw for two touchdowns and ran for another to lead Annie Camp to a 28-6 win over Blytheville in AAAAA-East junior high football Thursday night.
The Whirlwinds improved to 6-0 overall and 4-0 in the league with the victory.
Harbuck completed 4-of-7 passes for 77 yards and added 34 more yards rushing on only four carries as Annie Camp amassed 262 yards total offense, compared to just 93 for Blytheville.
WM West 20, FCity Blue 0
Unbeaten West Memphis West stayed that way Thursday by grabbing an 8-0 halftime lead and then scoring twice in the second half to shut out Forrest City Blue 20-0 in junior high AAAAA-East Conference play.
The Blue Mustangs got to the West Memphis four-yard line early in the first quarter but couldn't score.
"That was as close as we got," said Forrest City Coach Rich Trail. "We couldn't get any offense going at all. We just didn't get the job done."
The Blue Mustangs slip to 3-2 for he year while West improves to 6-0.
West keyed on stopping Blue Mustang tailback Cory Embry, which coupled with the fumbles, proved to be the difference.
MacArthur 20, W.M.East 0
Jonesboro MacArthur took advantage of a pair of West Memphis East fumbles en route to a 20-0 win in junior high football Thursday night at Cooksey-Johns Field.
Fielder Kelly threw two short touchdown passes and also added a 2-yard touchdown run for MacArthur, which won its second straight game to improve to 2-4 overall and 2-2 in AAAAA-East play.
Kelly, who ran for 55 yards and threw for 15 more, added a 3-yard touchdown pass to Garner, but the PAT failed and MacArthur led 20-0 with 2:17 left in the first half.
Turrell 12,
Palestine-Wheatley 0
For every first down the P-W Junior Patriots picked up Thursday, they had a fumble.
At least, that's how it seemed to head coach Dan Cockrell today.
"It was a disappointing loss for us because I thought on film, we had a chance to get a win," Cockrell said. "It's real easy. Our own mistakes just killed us."
Turrell did all of the scoring in the first half.
Hughes 20, Parkin 18
Hughes rallied from an 18-8 halftime disadvantage to take a 20-18 come-from-behind win over Parkin Thursday.
The Junior Blue Devils move to 5-1 for the year.
The Forrest City Chamber of Commerce will host the 2002 Golf Tournament and Barbecue, set for Monday, Oct. 21.
The four-man scramble tournament will be played at Forrest City Country Club with a tee time set for 1 p.m.
The tournament will be preceded by lunch at 11:30 a.m.
Cost per person is $75.
The deadline to register for the tournament is Tuesday, Oct. 15.
The tournament helps raise money for economic development in Forrest City.
The tournament field is limited to the first 25 teams to register.
For more information, call the Chamber office at 633-1651.
* LOCAL SPORTSMEN'S FALL SOFTBALL
Thursday, October 10
All Games Rained Out
JUNIOR HIGH FOOTBALL
Thursday's Scores
Hughes 20, Parkin 18
Turrell 12, Palestine-Wheatley 0
FCity White 14, WMemphis Wonder 8
WM West 20, FCity Blue 0
YOUTH SOCCER
Thursday, October 10
All games Rained Out
HIGH SCHOOL VOLLEYBALL
Thursday's Scores
Jonesboro defeated Forrest City, 15-3, 15-0, 15-0
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL
Friday, October 11
AAAAA-East Conference
Forrest City at Cabot
West Memphis at Searcy
Jacksonville at Blytheville
Mountain Home at Jonesboro
3AA Conference
Salem at Walnut Ridge
Palestine-Wheatley at Hughes
Turrell at Earle
Marked Tree at Rector
Cross County at Parkin