Rison Advances in Playoffs; Bears Fall on Last-Second TD

ONSIDE KICK RECOVERY - Woodlawn (white) and Izard County (black) players react after the Bears' Payton Leveritt (on the ground, right) came up with a onside kick recovery that enabled the Bears to erase a 16-point fourth quarter and tie the game, 56-56, with 2:24 left. Pictured for Woodlawn are (on ground, left to right) Landen Booth, Matthew Vontungeln and Leveritt; (standing, left to right) Ethan Oliver (no. 16), Aidan Moore (no. 33) and Jaxson Raney (no. 24).
ONSIDE KICK RECOVERY - Woodlawn (white) and Izard County (black) players react after the Bears' Payton Leveritt (on the ground, right) came up with a onside kick recovery that enabled the Bears to erase a 16-point fourth quarter and tie the game, 56-56, with 2:24 left. Pictured for Woodlawn are (on ground, left to right) Landen Booth, Matthew Vontungeln and Leveritt; (standing, left to right) Ethan Oliver (no. 16), Aidan Moore (no. 33) and Jaxson Raney (no. 24).

RISON - The Rison Wildcats advanced to the Class 3A quarterfinals against top-ranked Prescott this Friday night at George Walker Field of Champions while the Woodlawn Bears suffered a last-second heartbreaking loss to Izard County in the Class 2A semifinals at Brockwell after erasing a 16-point fourth quarter deficit.

Kickoff for the Wildcats' playoff game will be at 7 p.m. The Arkansas Activities Association (AAA) requires all tickets be purchased on line thrugh the GoFan.co app/ website. No window tickets will be available, per AAA guidelines.

Rison took advantage of four second half turnovers by the Bismarck Lions to pull away for a 30-19 victory while the Izard County Cougars scored on the final play of the game to pull out a wild 62-56 victory over Woodlawn.