Clay County Democrat: Sports

Dooley sinks hole-in-one (07/23/08)
Bill Dooley of Rector lived a golfer's dream last Friday, sinking a much-coveted hole-in-one at Thunder Bayou in Blytheville. Dooley performed the feat on the course's third hole. He sent his ball 132 yards on the par three hole, using his trusty eight iron...

Alberson joins Cougar staff as new head football coach (07/17/08)
The search for the new Cougar football coach officially concluded Monday night, as the Rector school board approved the hiring of Bob Alberson to the vacated position. Alberson, 32, is a 1994 graduate of Marion High School and 2006 graduate of Arkansas State University...

Sports hall of fame moving ahead (06/26/08)
Plans are moving forward for the proposed Rector High School Sports Hall of Fame following an organizational meeting held at Bowden's Family Restaurant Saturday. Several alumni gathered for the meeting in an effort to establish guidelines for the creation of the organization. ...

Glen Sain goes undefeated (06/18/08)
It was a banner season for the Glen Sain nine and ten-year-old baseball team. The squad started off on the right foot, winning the Rector Preseason Tournament. The youngsters never looked back from their hot start, finishing the season with an unblemished 19-0 record...

Jacobs departs from RHS (06/11/08)
A member of the Cougar family is moving on, as head football coach Elliott Jacobs has left his position as head football coach at Rector High School to take a job elsewhere. Jacobs will join Bethel Middle School in Bryant as the football coach for the seventh and eighth grade squad and assistant high school coach...

Young players hone skills at Rector basketball camp (06/11/08)
The basketball stars of tomorrow were given the opportunity to hone their talents last week at the annual Rector School Individual Skills Basketball Camp. The event wrapped up Thursday with an awards ceremony at the Rector Gymnasium...

Jacobs leaving Rector (06/05/08)
Rector High School is once again looking for a new head football coach. Former coach Elliott Jacobs has recently agreed to join the staff at Bethel Middle School in Bryant after leading the Cougars this past season. In 2008, Jacobs' squad garnered the high school program its first win since 2003...

Skills camp planned (05/28/08)
An individual skills basketball camp for any boy or girl entering grades one through seven will be held June 2 through June 15 at the Rector gymnasium. Campers will meet from 8 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Any student interested may pick up a form in the offices of Rector Elementary School or Rector High School. ...

Hounds finish second in state (05/18/08)
The Marmaduke Greyhounds saw their great baseball season come to an end Saturday, but not before they took home the runnerup trophy in the Class 3A State Baseball Tournament. The Hounds rallied late, but fell to Harding Academy, 8-4, at Baum Stadium on the campus of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville...

Early struggles hinder Cougars in state tourney loss to Dierks (05/14/08)
Dierks struck for seven runs in the first two innings and went on to post a 13-3 five-inning victory over Rector in the first round of the 2A State Baseball Tournament Friday afternoon at Taylor Field in Pine Bluff...

Greyhounds edge Wolves, now headed to Fayetteville for 3A state baseball championship (05/14/08)
In the three games which Marmaduke played in the 3A State Tournament in Searcy, the Greyhounds showed three different styles of winning. Friday they had to come from behind in extra innings to win, 4-3, over Pea Ridge. Saturday, they had a hitting circus as they blasted Mayflower, 18-2...

Greyhounds race into 3A state tourney semi-final (05/13/08)
At 11 p.m. Friday, Trent Smith came to the plate for the fifth time on the night. It was the bottom of the eighth inning of the 3A State Tournament opening round against Pea Ridge at Searcy. Smith had already been on the mound for the full game, having faced 32 batters and was visibly tired...

Foreman, Dierks win at Rector (05/12/08)
The Foreman Lady Gators and the Dierks Lady Outlaws will meet in the Class 2A Softball Championship on Saturday at Fayetteville after winning semifinal games Monday afternoon at Rector. The weather was ideal for the two semifinal matchups at Jeremy McDaniel Memorial Sports Complex in the first-ever AAA-sanctioned state tournament in Rector...

Marmaduke in state semifinals (05/12/08)
The Marmaduke Greyhounds are one win away from a trip to the state Class 3A baseball championship game. The Hounds face Lincoln at 4 today at Harding University in Searcy for the right to move on to the title game at 12:30 Saturday at Baum Stadium on the campus of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville...

Southern teams advance (05/10/08)
It's been all South Region at the Class 2A State Softball Tournament this weekend at Rector. All four teams representing the South Region have advanced to the semifinals, which will be played here Monday. In games Saturday afternoon, which just beat the rain, Parkers Chapel edged Western Yell County, 1-0, in eight innings; two-time defending state champion Foreman pounded Johnson County Westside, 14-1; Junction City blitzed Woodlawn, 19-1, and Dierks blanked McCrory, 9-0...

Cougars fall at state (05/09/08)
The Rector Cougars fell 13-3 to a strong Dierks team Friday in the state Class 2A Baseball Tournament at Pine Bluff. It was the first state tournament berth for the Cougars in several years. Coach Nate Henderson returns a good nucleus of the team next year with the hope of advancing farther in the tournament...

Big crowd at state tourney here (05/09/08)
The weather was perfect and the crowds were large as Rector hosted its first-ever state tournament Friday afternoon. The Class 2A State Softball Tournament opened at noon at Jeremy McDaniel Memorial Sports complex as 16 teams from all over the state took part in the competition...

'Hounds look strong in tourney (05/08/08)
Democrat News Staff The Marmaduke Greyhounds upended top-seeded Bergman 11-4 in the 3A Region 3 Tournament Saturday in Cave City to earn their second straight trip to the state tourney. Marmaduke benefited from an outstanding effort by senior hurler Trent Smith. Smith allowed two earned runs on a pair of hits while ringing up 12 and walking three...

Cougars notch state berth with lopsided regional win (05/08/08)
With their ticket to the state tournament at Pine Bluff already punched, the Cougars were playing for seeding and a chance at the regional crown when they squared off with Marked Tree in the 2A North Regional Tournament semifinals Monday night in Tuckerman...

Pairings set in state tournament at Rector (05/07/08)
The Arkansas Activities Association has released the pairings for the Class 2A State Softball Tournament which begins Friday in Rector. Here are the games: Friday, May 9 Field 1 12:00 -- Foreman vs. Bay 1:45 -- Johnson County Westside vs. Des Arc 3:30 -- Woodlawn vs. Magazine...

'Hounds make noise in state finals
FAYETTEVILLE --- After making school history this season, nothing could get the Marmaduke baseball team down. Not early errors, not an early deficit and not a stalled seventh-inning comeback. The Greyhounds fell 8-4 to Harding Academy in the Class 3A state baseball championship game at Baum Stadium on the campus of the University of Arkansas but nothing could take away from the accomplishment of making it to the finals for the first time in school history...
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