Sports

The Carroll County Strikers had a busy weekend at the district tournament in Siloam Springs this weekend, playing four games in three days. The Strikers came away with a 2-2 record with wins over Pea Ridge and Gravette. They suffered losses to Siloam Springs and Madison County...

After winning the 11-and-12 year old district championship in Berryville on June 10, the Carroll County Legends baseball team went to Mountain Home looking for more hardware at the regional level. The Legends fell a game short of the regional title, losing to Mountain Home in the championship game...

After a four-win season in 2016, the Carroll County Strikers turned things around and went 16-1 in 2017 en route to winning the 9-and-10 year old district championship on Saturday. The Strikers defeated the Huntsville Cardinals 7-1 in the championship game...

After coach Tony Coffey announced his resignation at Monday's special called board meeting, the Green Forest Tigers are starting the search for a new baseball and assistant football coach. Superintendent Matt Summers said he will miss working with Coffey, but is looking forward to filling the position...

The Ice Cream Social 5K race took place on Saturday as part of the 32nd annual Ice Cream Social. Dylan Douglas was the top finisher with a time of 17 minutes and 4 seconds. Hannah Smith was the best finisher among females at 21:42. Individual results are as follows and are broken down by age group:...

After serving three years as the boys head soccer coach and assistant basketball coach, Joey Curtis has been named the assistant principal at Berryville High School. "It's a family decision," Curtis said. "I've got three kids under the age of 4. One is under the age of 1. ...

The Carroll County Legends won another district championship on Saturday, knocking off the Carroll County Outlaws, 11-3, to win the 11- and 12-year-old championship. Legends Coach Chad Hipps is proud of the effort his team showed on Saturday. "We played great," Hipps said. ...

After 17 seasons with the Green Forest Tigers, coach Tony Coffey has announced his resignation and will be moving to Siloam Springs, where he will be an assistant football and baseball coach. "I love my job," Coffey said. "I'm perfectly content with what I'm doing here at Green Forest. ...

The Kansas City Royals won the World Series two years ago. The Carroll County Royals defeated Green Forest 3-2 on Saturday to bring a championship home to Carroll County as well. "I am so proud of our team and the season they had," Royals coach Heather Smith said. "And I am so proud of the way they fought to win the championship."...

The Berryville Lady Bobcat and Green Forest Lady Tiger basketball teams are finding ways to improve throughout the summer. Berryville recently attended a camp in Fayetteville where Lincoln, Elkins, Springdale Har-Ber, Prairie Grove, West Fork and Shiloh Christian were also there. The Lady Bobcats went 6-0. Coach Daniel Cornelison was proud of the way Berryville played...

The 2017 Carroll County baseball season championship is this weekend at A.L. Carter Field. There is a rookies division, minors division and majors division. Brandon Stone, who coaches his two sons in the 7- and 8-year-old rookie division, is looking forward to Saturday's year-end tournament...

Berryville football coach Doug Shott has a limited amount of time to practice with the team over the summer, but he is attempting to make the most out of it. "We have clinic the third week of this month and then dead week is the next two weeks," Shott said. "We had yesterday's 7-on-7 camp in Harrison and then we will go back to Harrison for a team camp on July 11. And then we will go to Branson on the 19th and 20th."...

I'm sure there are some of you out there who believe in the Madden cover curse or the Sports Illustrated front page jinx. I officially started the Loftis editorial curse last year by prematurely crowning the Golden State Warriors as NBA champions when they took what seemed like a commanding 2-0 series lead. Instead, the Cleveland Cavaliers came back to defeat the Warriors, including winning games six and seven at Golden State to close out the series...

As the No. 13 seed, the Berryville Junior High trap shooting team won the Arkansas Youth Shooting Sports championship last Friday in Jacksonville. Clay McCall, Ross Nance, Jarrett Stringer, Harley Titsworth and Chett Hudgens helped bring home the trophy for the Bobcats and some of these shooters got their personal best scores at the state competition. ...

The Green Forest Lions Club Rodeo produced by Rand Rodeo Company took place over the weekend as it was part of the 22nd Annual Ozarks Area Agriculture Appreciation days. Individual results for each event on Friday and Saturday are as follows: Friday: Reid Breedlove won the mutton bustin’ competition, while Sawyer Roth won the mini bronc saddle riding and Kody Brown won the bronc saddle riding. ...

High school baseball season is over, but summer league baseball is just getting warmed up. Berryville is already a few games into the season and coach David Broseus knows everybody on the team will learn from these extra games. "It's a great opportunity for the kids that want to improve to get out and play against some really good competition," Broseus said. "I encourage all of the kids to play. Some of them can't for different reasons, but the ones that do play improve."...

School is out for the summer, but that isn't stopping area basketball teams from staying busy during the off-season. The Berryville Bobcats are hosting their own summer league and they will also be going to camps at North Arkansas College, West Fork, Alpena and Fayetteville throughout the summer...

This years marks the 50th anniversary of the Berryville cross country program. To celebrate this anniversary, the Berryville Lady Bobcats are going to California to compete in the Woodbridge Classic, an invitational cross country meet. "If you are familiar with the Chile Pepper race, (in Fayetteville) it's a lot like that on steroids," Berryville coach Andrew Killingsworth said. ...

Now that school is out, it's time to back at the year that was in Carroll County sports with the top 10 sports stories of the year. 10. After Green Forest basketball coach Brandon Stone was reassigned, the Tigers began searching for a new basketball coach. ...

Going undefeated and getting a No. 1 seed in the Class 4A state soccer tournament was quite a feat for a team that didn't even qualify for the state tournament a year ago. The Lady Bobcats went on to lose in penalty kicks in the semifinals of the state tournament...

Berryville had a successful athletic season, as two teams made it to the state tournament semifinals and Kris Grile won a gold medal at the state wrestling championship in February. The Berryville Lady Bobcats got a second-place finish at the state cross country championship in November...

The Green Forest Tigers competed at the Arkansas Decathlon and Heptathlon event on last Wednesday and Thursday in Cabot. Jose Lozano and Kevin Solorzano competed in the decathlon, while Kassidy Bell competed in the heptathlon. Lozano finished 67th overall and Solorzano finished 71st in the decathlon. Bell finished 42nd in the heptathlon. Individual results for the decathlon are as follows:...

It was another good year for the Green Forest Tiger athletic program. It was highlighted by another Class 3A state championship for the boys cross country team. Patrick Hunter, Gabriel Ramos and Rafael Rosales each made all-state. The Lady Tigers finished second and Karina Maravillas made all-state. ...

Thursday evening's spring football game didn't get off to the best start for the Berryville Bobcats, as starting quarterback Luke Britt sprained his ankle on the second play from scrimmage. He returned to the scrimmage, but the Bobcats didn't execute as well as coach Doug Shott hoped his team would...

The Berryville Bobcat soccer team played with toughness all season. That toughness showed up in its final match of the season when Warren defeated the Bobcats 2-1 on a last -second goal in the first round of the Class 4A state soccer tournament. The Lumberjacks went on to play for the state championship...

Donnie Smith has been named the new head basketball coach at Green Forest high school. Smith, who was most recently the basketball coach at Perryville, has also coached at Lincoln, Decatur and Lead Hill. Smith looks forward to bringing a winning attitude back to Green Forest...