By FRED CONLEY
T-H Sports Editor
Even though there's still a chance for more rain tonight, Forrest City Recreation Director Kenneth Taylor said that "all games are on tonight as scheduled."
"We don't have a choice," Taylor said. "We have to play. We're already down too many games."
Taylor said as of this morning the fields were in good shape.
The youth baseball and softball teams are 48 games in the hole already this season.
Taylor has scheduled a make-up day for Saturday, May 31, for the T-Ball, Minor, Bambino and 10-under girls' slow pitch softball leagues and has added Monday, June 9, as a make up day for the 12-under and 16-under girls' fast pitch softball league and the Junior Babe Ruth League.
The program suffered a rain out last Tuesday and there were no games scheduled last Friday due to Forrest City High School graduation.
Tonight's schedule of youth games in all leagues begin at 6 p.m.
By FRED CONLEY
T-H Sports Editor
Even though the numbers are down, the Forrest City American Legion baseball program is up and running under first-year coach Brett Bullard.
Bullard said he had only about 14 players on hand for the first official team meeting held last week and just a handful at batting practice Thursday night.
He was hoping for 18, which would round out his roster, but for now, Bullard will settle for what he can get.
Bullard said he is still working on completing the season schedule, which has been cut back to about 25 games this year.
Forrest City is scheduled to open the Legion season on Saturday, May 24, at 2 p.m., at Trumann.
Bullard has been the head coach at Lee Academy in Marianna for the past five years but has coached at many different levels.
The annual Flat As A Pancake 5K run-walk and pancake breakfast will be held Saturday, June 7, in Wynne.
The event will begin and end at the Women's Progressive Club, located at 333 East Merriman Ave., in downtown Wynne. The building is three blocks west of Highway 1.
The course is USATF certified and is a completely flat, well-supported loop.
Entry fees are $15 per person in advance of the date, $20 on the day of the race. The pancake breakfast is include din the 5K entry fee.
The event features both walking and running divisions plus a separate kid's fun run. The fun run entry fee is $5 and does not include the breakfast.
The race will benefit the Cross County Veterans committee projects.
The 5K run-walk starts at 8 a.m. while the kid's fun run will start at 8:45 a.m.
For more information about the event, contact David or Karen Reagler at (870) 238-4235 during the day. Applications may be obtained from the website www.arkansasrunner.com.
Trophies will be awarded for overall Masters and age group winners.
The race is being organized by the Cross County Ramblers USATF Club.
Heavyweight t-shirts will be given to the first 125 entrants the Wynne Lady Yellowjackets' 400 meter relay team ran a personal best time of 50.01, but finished second to Sylvan Hills in the event.
The Lady 'Jacket relay, which included Latoyia Hare, Sabreem Aleem, Latricia Marrs and Chiquita Holmes, had the top qualifying time coming into the event, but the Lady Bears' anchor leg broke open a tight race in the final 100 meters.
Holmes also finished third in the 100 and sixth in the 200.