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THREE BIG PLAYS LEAD CURLEY WOLVES PAST RISON ON SENIOR NIGHT

RISON — Rison coach Clay Totty came into Friday night’s contest with Prescott concerned with the Curley Wolves’ big-play potential, and it only took three big plays to build a substantial lead by halftime. Prescott then had to hold on to a 42-35 victory Friday at Wildcat Stadium to secure a 7-3A Conference Championship, the league’s No. 1 seed and a first-round bye.

GOLDEN LIONS-GRAMBLING MEET IN MUST-WIN FOR BOTH TEAMS

If last week was about asserting itself in the middle of a Southwestern Athletic Conference Western Division race for Arkansas-Pine Bluff, than this week is about nothing other than survival.

UAM LOOKING FOR BOOM IN CLASSIC

One team has inexplicably had Arkansas-Monticello coach Gwaine Mathews’ number during his first four seasons at UAM. During the last three years, Southern Arkansas has gone 2-9, 3-7 and 2-8, but each year one of those wins was against a Mathews-coached Boll Weevils squad.

GOLDEN LIONS LOSE 37TH STRAIGHT MATCH IN VOLLEYBALL

The Arkansas-Pine Bluff volleyball team still has one match to play, but its 2009 season essentially ended weeks ago.

1-0 ADVANCES LADY LIONS TO SWAC SOCCER FINAL

Arkansas-Pine Bluff soccer coach Roberto Mazza was about as calm as he had been all season heading into Friday’s semifinal game at the Southwestern Athletic Conference Tournament.

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WHITE HALL COMES BACK TO BEAT LITTLE ROCK MILLS ON GOAL-LINE STAND IN OT
WHITE HALL — The saying goes football is a game of inches, and the White Hall Bulldogs got to live through every letter of that phrase Thursday.

ZEBRAS HOLD AT GOAL LINE
This time, it was Pine Bluff that made the play at the goal line.

WATSON CHAPEL SENIORS SHOW OUT FOR SEASON ENDER
By the time Nick Vanderbilt reached the Benton 30-yard line, he had already sprinted more than 50 yards and he began to think, “Do something memorable.”

DOLLARWAY DEFEATS STAR CITY 28-24
On the final weekend of the regular season, with Star City sporting an 8-1 record and Dollarway coming in at 1-8, one would expect an uneventful contest.

BOBCAT SENIOR MACHINE ROLLS TO 41-8 VICTORY OVER HAMBURG LIONS
DUMAS — Darion Griswold threw four touchdown passes, three of them to Pierce Lacy, as the Dumas Bobcats rolled to a 41-8 Senior Night victory over the Hamburg Lions at Tidwell Field on Thursday night.

WOODLAWN BEARS GRAB ANOTHER WIN AGAINST DERMOTT RAMS
DERMOTT — The fact that the Woodlawn Bears were playing their second game within a 72-hour span seemed to have little consequence Thursday night as they rolled up the winless Dermott Rams 38-0 at Sportsman’s Field in Dermott.

MCGEHEE CLINCHES PLAYOFF SPOT AFTER WIN AGAINST FORDYCE
McGEHEE — As it turned out the McGehee Owls didn’t need Dumas’ help against Hamburg to clinch a playoff spot. T’Cambry Green and Grant Gill handled it between themselves. Green had 23 rushes for 143 yards and three touchdowns as well as four catches for 113 yards, and Gill had six rushes for 91 yards and two touchdowns, completed 11 of 15 passes for 196 yards and had three interceptions on defense as the Owls secured the 8-4A Conference’s No. 4 seed by beating the Redbugs 40-20.

MONTICELLO TAKES DOWN NORTH PULASKI
Monticello scored on its first three possessions of each half, and Brian went for three long scoring runs as the Monticello Billies took down the North Pulaski Eagles 41-8 Thursday night at Hyatt Field.

LUMBERJACKS WIN BIG ON SENIOR NIGHT
Warren shook off a disappointing loss last week with a blowout win over Lake Village to conclude its regular season with a 49-6 win at Jim E. Hurley Jr. Stadium on Thursday.