By FRED CONLEY
T-H Sports Editor
University of Arkansas football coach Houston Nutt returns to Forrest City later this month and will be the featured speaker at this year's Razorback Rally.
The rally returns to its original February date after being moved to May a year ago to accommodate newly-hired Arkansas basketball coach Stan Heath.
The Rally will be held Wednesday, Feb. 26, at the Forrest City Civic Center and is once again being sponsored by the East Central Arkansas Razorback Club.
"There will be tickets available at the door, but I would sure like to see all of them sold in advance," Billingsley said recently. "That way we know how many people we need to prepare for."
Former Forrest City Coach Harold Horton and former UA Razorback baseball coach Norm DeBriyn will be at the Rally as well.
Tickets are available now from several local merchants or from Billingsley by calling 633-4941.
Tickets prices for the Rally are $15 for adults and $7.50 for kids ages 12 and under.
The fourth annual Harold Horton Award will once again be announced at this year's Rally.
The Horton Award is given to the one Arkansas student-athlete who best serves the community during his UA career.
Don and Ellen Edmondson of Forrest City initiated the award through the Razorback Foundation in recognition of Horton's career as an Arkansas player, coach, recruiting coordinator and administrator.
Plaques in honor of all four Horton Award recipients will be placed on the Hall of Honor at Mustang Arena.
The rally will begin at 6 p.m., with a social hour and a catered dinner by Corky's Barbeque will be served at 7 p.m.
A silent auction will be held and drawings will be held for door prizes during the Rally.
By FRED CONLEY
T-H Sports Editor
One more win and both Hughes junior high teams will be playing for the district title.
The junior boys and girls teams will play semifinals games today at Earle.
Tuesday, Hughes downed Cross County in the junior boys bracket while the Hughes junior girls ousted Crawfordsville.
Tonight, the team swap opponents when the boys play Crawfordsville at 5:15 p.m. and the girls play Cross County at 4 p.m.
A year ago, the Junior Blue Devils lost to Lonoke in the finals of the 6AAA district tournament while the junior girls fell to Pine Bluff Dollarway in the opening game.
In other junior high games set for tonight, the Forrest City Blue Mustangs will host Jonesboro Annie Camp at Mustang Arena while the Forrest City White Mustangs will make their second trip of the week to Jonesboro MacArthur. The White team played at MacArthur Tuesday in a make-up game.
A Forrest City Blue win coupled with a White Mustang win will leave the Blue Mustangs in fourth place headed into the postseason conference tournament.
A Blue Mustang win coupled with a MacArthur win leaves the Blue team in fifth place.
The AAAAA-East conference tournament will be played next week at Blytheville.
West Memphis Wonder, at 10-3, leads the boys standings while Jonesboro Annie Camp clinched the junior girls' league title Monday.
On Wednesday, the league named its All-Conference players.
Stephon Weaver was the lone choice from the Blue Mustangs while Cameron Henderson was named All-Conference from the White Mustang team.
The full All-Conference list will be published on Friday.
The Palestine-Wheatley Patriots and Lady Patriots will host Elaine tonight for Senior Night at Patriot Gym.
The game is the regular season ending game for both teams.
The Junior Patriots will kick off the three-game set at 5 p.m.
The Patriots are coming off a 79-46 6AA Conference loss to Altheimer on Tuesday.
The Lady Patriots lost for the first time in conference play Tuesday, falling to Altheimer 55-39. Nikita Love and Libby Martin had 12 points each in the loss.
Palestine-Wheatley is 10-1 going into tonight's game and will share the conference title with the Lady Devils.
The P-W girls will be the No. 2 seed into the 6AA junior and senior high district tournament at Clarendon, which begins next week.
The Altheimer girls will be seeded No. 1.
The Boys and Girls Club of Cross County will present Rodger Hunter, student life coordinator at the University of Arkansas on Saturday, Feb. 22, at 12 noon. at the O'Dell McCallum Center, 325 Magnolia Street in Wynne.
Arkansas Razorback football and former Wynne High School players Arrion Dixon and Justin Slaughter will be on hand as well.
Hunter, who played high school football at North Little Rock and then at the college level at Oklahoma State University, will detail the dynamic story of his life as a drug user, crime and prison.
The program is free to the public.
* PREP BASKETBALL
Junior High School
Thursday's February 13
Annie Camp at Forrest City Blue
Forrest City White at MacArthur
Elaine at Palestine-Wheatley
High School
Thursday, February 13
Elaine at Palestine-Wheatley
* PREP BASEBALL
Thursday, Feb. 20
Forrest City at Marion, 4 p.m.
Feb. 26-28
Forrest City at WMemphis Tournament