The Woodlawn Bears earned their first state tournament bid since 2019 last week but came up short at the Class 2A State Tournament being hosted by Mansfield High School Tuesday night with a 60-52 loss to the Lavaca Golden Arrows. Game details were not available at press time.Woodlawn earned a berth in the state tournament by defeating Spring Hill, 62-57, in the first round of the South Region Tournament last week. The Bears then dropped a couple of close ones, falling to Fordyce, 59-58, on a late basket, and the dropping a 53-45 decision to Junction City in the third place game.Woodlawn entered the state tournament as the no. 4 seed from the South Region while Lavaca was the no. 1 seed from the West Region. The Bears end their season with a 20-11 overall record.Here is a recap of last week's South Region Tournament games that were played at Acorn High School outside of Mena: Junction City 53, Woodlawn 45 (OT) In a game that saw several momentum swings, the Junction City Dragons ended up with the last one as they outlasted the Woodlawn Bears, 53-45, in overtime Saturday afternoon in the third-place game at the South Region Tournament.Junction City's final margin of victory was it largest of the game, and it took a 3-pointer at the final buzzer to push it to that eight-point spread. Neither team ever led by double digits.Early on, the momentum was with Woodlawn as Jake Allred and Raylon Lawson hit back-toback 3's to give Woodlawn a quick 6-0 lead. Junction City battled back to go up 11-10 lead before the Bears scored the final four points of the opening period to lead 14-11 heading into the second.Woodlawn used an 8-1 run to start the second quarter to build what would be its largest lead of the game, 21-12, before the Dragons ended the quarter with a 4-0 run to close to 21-16 at the half.After Jude Roberts had a steal and layup to start the third quarter to push Woodlawn's le...
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