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High school basketball makes up the local Friday schedule, as Mountain Home will have its first home games of conference play. The Bombers and Lady Bombers will welcome Paragould to the Twin Lakes Area. Mountain Home’s girls

On the bowling lanes Thursday, the Mountain Home High School teams won both matches against county rival Norfork at Driftwood Lanes. In boys’ action, the Bombers prevailed 8-5. Hunter Bahr unleashed a 276 game, Devon Lee rolled

It was a rough night for the Mountain Home Junior High basketball teams, as they dropped three of four games at Paragould. The Junior Bombers fell by a score of 34-25. Colby Lockhart led the scoring with

BOONE, N.C. – For the second-straight game, the Arkansas State men’s basketball team played an extra five minutes, but the Red Wolves came up short in an 83-80 overtime decision at Appalachian State Thursday at the Holmes

JONESBORO, Ark. – A season-best shooting night that featured four double-figure scorers propelled Arkansas State to its fourth straight victory Thursday night, defeating Appalachian State 76-58 at First National Bank Arena. The Red Wolves (7-9, 4-1 SBC)

CONWAY, S.C. (AP) – Jaizec Lottie had 17 points to lead five Arkansas-Little Rock players in double figures as the Trojans beat Coastal Carolina 71-55 on Thursday night. Nikola Maric added 13 points for the Trojans. Ruot

The Arkansas Activities Association has announced the hosts for upcoming state tournaments this winter and spring, and a few area schools were able to get the winning bids. Mountain Home was awarded the Class 5A State Tournaments

The Norfork High School bowling teams split their matches at Driftwood Lanes Wednesday against Concord. The Panthers moved to 2-0 on the season with an 11-2 win. Ethan Chapman had games of 225 and 176 and Tyler

FAYETTEVILLE – Jimmy Whitt Jr. scored a career-high 30 points and grabbed eight rebounds to lead Arkansas to a 75-55 victory over Vanderbilt Wednesday night at Bud Walton Arena. The Razorbacks improve to 14-2 overall, 3-1 in

SPRINGFIELD – Visiting Bradley tied a Missouri State opponent record with 17 3-pointers – with seven coming in a key seven-minute stretch late in the game – to lead the Braves to a 91-78 comeback win over

Missouri State University has picked a former Arkansas coach to lead its football program. A news release from the university Wednesday morning says a news conference to introduce Bobby Petrino as the school’s new head football coach

Basketball is included on the local Wednesday schedule, as the Alpena Junior High Tournament will wrap up its opening round. On the boys’ bracket, Flippin and St. Joe tip off at 5 p.m., and Bruno-Pyatt faces Western

There was plenty of high school basketball in the area Tuesday night. In boys’ action: -Izard County cruised past Norfork 70-42. Coby Everett led the way with 27 points and Caleb Faulkner added 21, as the Cougars

STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) – Reggie Perry had 23 points and 10 rebounds to lead Mississippi State to an easy 72-45 victory over Missouri on Tuesday. Perry has now collected nine double-doubles this season and has 18 for

The Mountain Home High School basketball teams ended up with mixed results, as they went to Paragould and took on Greene County Tech. Matt Sharp has the details. Listen: right-click to download mp3 The Lady Bombers picked

The Norfork High School bowling teams picked up a pair of wins Monday at Rogers against the Bentonville junior varsity teams. The Lady Panthers had 1,729 total pins to Bentonville’s 1,496. Madison Lawrence paced Norfork with games

In junior high basketball Monday night, Mountain Home dropped two of three games at Jonesboro Annie Camp. The Junior Lady Bombers were 28-18 winners to up their record to 9-5. Cate Jackson led the way with 10

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Arkansas baseball has been placed at No. 7 in D1 Baseball’s preseason rankings, making it three top-10 marks so far heading into the 2020 campaign. It marks the second time in three years the

Following is the Overall Top 10 high school boys’ basketball teams in Arkansas and the top five in Classes 6A, 5A, 4A, 3A, 2A and 1A as voted by a panel of sports media from around the