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Lady 'Cats Pound Glen Rose, 17-6

RISON - Three Lady Wildcats finished with three hits apiece Tuesday as Rison hammered the Glen Rose Lady Beavers, 17-6, in non-conference action Tuesday afternoon at Lady Wildcat Field.Glen Rose took advantage of an error and double in the top of the first to take an early 2-0 lead before Rison...

Errors Costly for Bears in Loss

LITTLE ROCK - Gosnell senior pitcher Trent Middleton pitched a one-hitter as the Pirates capitalized on five Woodlawn errors to hand the Bears their first loss of the season, 6-1, in the first round of the Arkansas Baptist Tournament last Thursday in Little Rock.Woodlawn bounced back with wins over...

Laws Sparks Big Inning As Wildcats Beat Magnet Cove

MAGNET COVE - Ayden Laws had two singles to drive in two runs in an eight-run fourth inning as the Rison Wildcats finished the Magnet Cove Tournament with a 14-9 win over the host team, the Magnet Cove Panthers, on Saturday.Rison improved to 2-6 overall with the non-conference win.Both teams went...

Lady Wildcats Win Two More

HORATIO - The Rison Lady Wildcats came back from a sixrun deficit to knock off the Nashville Junior Varsity Scrapperettes, 11-6, before blowing out the Acorn Lady Tigers, 175, in a double header at Horatio on Saturday.It was the fourth straight win for the Lady 'Cats as they improved to 4-3...
Woodlawn's Dillon Lunsford (See caption below)

Woodlawn's Dillon Lunsford (See caption below)

Woodlawn Survives Late Rally By Wildcats, 9-8

WOODLAWN - After being down by five entering the top of the seventh, the Rison Wildcats plated four runs and had the tying run at second when Woodlawn's Tate Hall managed to get a strikeout to finally end the game and turn back the Wildcat rally, 9-8, Tuesday afternoon at Woodlawn.The game was...
Photo by Kim Kaye King

Photo by Kim Kaye King

Rison's Taylor Signs with ASU-Three Rivers

RISON - Rison Lady Wildcat catcher Senior Breanna Taylor signed a National Letter of Intent last Friday to play softball at Arkansas State University-Three Rivers at Malvern, which competes in the National Junior College Athletic Association.

AAA Announces 2024-26 Non-Football Conferences

NORTH LITTLE ROCK - The Arkansas Activities Association board of directors last week unanimously approved the new classifications and conferences for non-football sports for the upcoming 2024-26 cycle.The conferences will apply to basketball, baseball and softball for both Rison and Woodlawn high...

Bears Sweep Hornets, Rebs

WOODLAWN - Mason Edmonds and Brayden Jones combined to throw a two-hitter as the Woodlawn Bears knocked off the Harmony Grove Hornets, 5-3, in the nightcap of a nonconference double-header Saturday at Woodlawn.Harmony Grove took an early 1-0 lead on a lead-off solo homerun by Caleb Johnson but...

Lady Bears Drop Two at Jonesboro

JONESBORO - Brookland's Brianna Patterson hit a walk-off, three-run homerun in the bottom of the fifth to power the Class 4A Lady Bearcats to a 10-7 victory over the Woodlawn Lady Bears in second round action of the Blazer Blast in Jonesboro on Saturday.With the score tied 6-6 going into the fifth...

Trojans Hold Off Wildcats, 7-4

PARKERS CHAPEL - Rison finally began to cash in on some of its scoring opportunities late in the game, but it was too little, too late as the Parkers Chapel Trojans beat the Wildcats, 7-4, in 8-2A action last Wednesday at Parkers Chapel.Rison had lead-off singles to start the second, third and...