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The Berryville Lady Bobcats suffered a tough loss in the second round of the CS Bank Holiday Hoops tournament last week at Bobcat Arena. It might even be accurate to call the outcome of Berryville’s 56-55 loss to Heber Springs unfair.

With the Berryville Bobcats and the Monticello Billies tied at 48 with 12.4 seconds left in the consolation championship game of the CS Bank Holiday Hoops tournament, there was no doubt who would get the basketball for Berryville.

The Berryville Lady Bobcats picked up a nice victory on the road on Tuesday, Dec. 20, defeating Shiloh Christian 38-32 in Springdale.

It’s practically unheard of for two players to account for all of one team’s scoring in a high school basketball game, but that’s what happened when the Eureka Springs Highlanders hosted Life Way Christian on Dec. 13 at Highlander Arena.

The Eureka Springs Highlander Mountain Bike Team wrapped up its second season with a fifth-place overall finish at Centennial Park in Fayetteville, beating much teams from larger schools like Bentonville West, Fayetteville Composite and Russellville.

Depth might be an issue for the Berryville wrestling team, but coach Ryan Whetham said there’s no shortage of talent or work ethic on the Bobcats’ roster. “We’ve got a bunch of new, young kids, ninth-graders and a few 10th-graders that have never wrestled before, and that’s good for our future,” Whetham said.

Playing without their senior point guard, against probably the best Class 4A team in the state, the odds were stacked against the Berryville Bobcats last Friday night at Bobcat Arena. And the odds held, as a talented Farmington team beat Berryville 68-28 in the 4A-1 conference opener for both teams.