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Noah Matheson

Noah Matheson

Rison's Matheson Makes Arkansas All Preps Team

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Wednesday, June 11, 2025
LITTLE ROCK - Noah Matheson of the Rison Wildcats has been named to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette's All Arkansas Preps Underclassmen Baseball team, earning him an invitation to the All Arkansas Preps Banquet to be held June 14 at the Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock.
Woodlawn senior pitcher Lillie Faye McWhorter was named the 2025 Gatorade Softball Player of the Year for Arkansas on Monday, recognizing her as the top high school softball player in the state regardless of classification. Gatorade Player of the Year is the top honor in high school sports, celebrating each state’s best high school athletes in each sport for their success on the field, in the classroom and in the community. McWhorter will be playing for the Arkansas Razorbacks next season.

Woodlawn senior pitcher Lillie Faye McWhorter was named the 2025 Gatorade Softball Player of the Year for Arkansas on Monday, recognizing her as the top high school softball player in the state regardless of classification. Gatorade Player of the Year is the top honor in high school sports, celebrating each state’s best high school athletes in each sport for their success on the field, in the classroom and in the community. McWhorter will be playing for the Arkansas Razorbacks next season.

McWhorter Named Gatorade Softball Player of the Year

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Wednesday, June 11, 2025
CHICAGO - In its 40th year of honoring the nation's most elite high school athletes, Gatorade announced Monday that Lillie Faye McWhorter of Woodlawn High School is the 2024-25 Gatorade Arkansas Softball Player of the Year.
MEANS VISITS PLAYERS - New Woodlawn Football Coach Doug Means (right) speaks with players and parents during his first meeting with his new team last Friday afternoon at the Woodlawn Gym. Means brings plenty of experience coaching both offense and defense, mostly at larger schools in Georgia,Florida and Arkansas. Pictured in the background are (left to right) Woodlawn Superintendent Dr. Kevin Hancock and assistant football coaches Michael Anderson and Matt Huitt.

MEANS VISITS PLAYERS - New Woodlawn Football Coach Doug Means (right) speaks with players and parents during his first meeting with his new team last Friday afternoon at the Woodlawn Gym. Means brings plenty of experience coaching both offense and defense, mostly at larger schools in Georgia,Florida and Arkansas. Pictured in the background are (left to right) Woodlawn Superintendent Dr. Kevin Hancock and assistant football coaches Michael Anderson and Matt Huitt.

Veteran Coach Means Takes Over Bears Football Program

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Wednesday, May 28, 2025
WOODLAWN - New Woodlawn Football Coach Doug Means met with some of his players and their parents for the first time last Friday afternoon as he formally introduced himself and gave them an idea of what to expect as they prepared for the upcoming season.
Photo Courtesy Cleveland County Master Gardeners

Photo Courtesy Cleveland County Master Gardeners

Countywide Volunteers Pick Up 700 lbs of Trash

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Wednesday, May 21, 2025
RISON - The Cleveland County Master Gardeners hosted its third Cleveland County Clean Up event this past weekend sponsored by the Keep Arkansas Beautiful Foundation.
CRITICAL PLAY - Riverside’s Carly Jo Womack beats out the tag from Woodlawn’s Kathryn Dixon at third base in a critical play in the top of the fifth. Her slow-rolling liner into left gave her enough time to squeeze out a triple, eventually scoring the game’s only run on a passed ball with two out.

CRITICAL PLAY - Riverside’s Carly Jo Womack beats out the tag from Woodlawn’s Kathryn Dixon at third base in a critical play in the top of the fifth. Her slow-rolling liner into left gave her enough time to squeeze out a triple, eventually scoring the game’s only run on a passed ball with two out.

Lady Bears Drop Heartbreaker To Riverside 1-0 in Semifinals

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Wednesday, May 21, 2025
PALESTINE - Riverside scored the game’s only run off a passed ball in the top of the fifth inning as the Lady Rebels edged the Woodlawn Lady Bears, 1-0, in the Class 2A state semifinals Saturday at Palestine-Wheatley High School.

Woodlawn Hires Means As New Football Coach

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Wednesday, May 21, 2025
WOODLAWN - Doug Means, a veteran coach who was as an assistant coach/special teams coordinator at Class 5A Magnolia this past season, has been hired as the new football coach at Woodlawn High School.
BASEball - All-State: Lawson Kidd (center), Noah Matheson (second from right); All-Conference: (left to right) James Lee Jacobs, Andrew Couture, Lawson Kidd, Noah Matheson and Ayden Laws. James Lee Jacobs was named 8-3A Conference Defensive Player of the Year while Noah Matheson had the lowest ERA of all pitchers in the 8-3A conference. Ayden Laws was named Offensive Player of the Year and Andrew Couture set a school record for hit by pitches with 21 for the season.

BASEball - All-State: Lawson Kidd (center), Noah Matheson (second from right); All-Conference: (left to right) James Lee Jacobs, Andrew Couture, Lawson Kidd, Noah Matheson and Ayden Laws. James Lee Jacobs was named 8-3A Conference Defensive Player of the Year while Noah Matheson had the lowest ERA of all pitchers in the 8-3A conference. Ayden Laws was named Offensive Player of the Year and Andrew Couture set a school record for hit by pitches with 21 for the season.

Rison Spring Sports Banquet

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Wednesday, May 21, 2025
REEVES TAKES MEET OF CHAMPIONS - Rison sophomore Christrian Reeves cleared 6-feet, 6-inches to win the high jump at the 2025 Arkansas Meet of Champions held last week at Searcy. Reeves set a new Rison High School high jump record in the process. (Photo by Chris Vereen)

REEVES TAKES MEET OF CHAMPIONS - Rison sophomore Christrian Reeves cleared 6-feet, 6-inches to win the high jump at the 2025 Arkansas Meet of Champions held last week at Searcy. Reeves set a new Rison High School high jump record in the process. (Photo by Chris Vereen)

Reeves Wins High Jump at Meet of Champions

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Wednesday, May 21, 2025
SEARCY, Ark. - Christian Reeves of Rison High School cleared 6 feet-6 inches (6-6) in the high jump to beat state high jump champions from across the state at the 2025 Arkansas Meet of Champions last Wednesday, May 14, at Harding University in Searcy.