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Green Forest’s Ashley Wilson is the Arkansas High School Coaches Association’s 2021 Outstanding Girls Soccer Coach, the association announced recently. “It was a huge surprise,” Wilson said. “It’s a great honor and it makes me feel really good. I wasn’t expecting that.”...

Several players were absent from the Green Forest Tigers’ spring football drills, which wrapped up Friday, May 21, but coach Greg Tibbitt isn’t complaining one bit. “We had seven or eight guys still involved with soccer,” Tibbitt said, alluding to the Tigers’ run through the Class 3A state soccer tournament that culminated with their second state championship in eight years. ...

The Berryville Bobcats got their first primer on new head coach Bryan Hutson’s Spread offense during spring practice. A learning curve can be expected, but Hutson said he was pleased with how the Bobcats responded. “It’s going well,” Hutson said last week as spring drills neared an end. “It’s a whole 180 turn for these kids as far as what we’re doing offensively. But they’re picking up on it pretty well.”...

When Green Forest High School graduate Eric Perez returned to his alma mater to coach soccer, his mind was already imagining the possibilities. Perez, who played for the Tigers’ 2014 Class 4A state championship team, wondered how it would feel to coach Green Forest to a second state title...

For most of the first half Saturday, the Green Forest Lady Tigers held their own against a fast, physical Harding Academy squad in the championship game of the Class 3A girls state soccer tournament. In the end, however, the Lady Tigers couldn’t overcome the combination of a difficult opponent and a string of key injuries as Harding Academy ran away with a 6-2 victory at the Benton Athletic Complex...