Stories from Wednesday, May 3, 2023

By STEVE KNOX Osceola Times The Armorel School Board will keep its same officers for another school year. The board held its monthly meeting Monday at the district administration building electing new officers, approving a budget and dealing with several personnel issues...

By MARCUS MCCLAIN NEA Town Courier Early voting for an at-large Gosnell School Board seat began on May 2 with an official voting day set for May 9. Candidates include Lindsey Rouse, Cody Mace and Christian Foster. The seat was previously held by board member Gary Payne. Superintendent Len Whitehead told The Courier that Payne advised the board he would not run for re-election near the turn of the new year...

By MARCUS MCCLAIN NEA Town Courier Gosnell had a clean sweep of the 3A-3 district on April 26, returning with first place trophies in both baseball and softball tournaments. In a pair of matchups with the River-crest Colts,the Lady Pirates pulled out a 11-1 victory and the guys did the same, 9-4...

By STEVE KNOX Osceola Times PIGGOTT - Rivercrest and Manila battled for seven innings Tuesday at the 3A-3 Baseball Tournament at Piggott. The teams traded the lead four times, the Colts taking the lead for good in the sixth en-route to an 11-8 victory...

By STEVE KNOX Osceola Times Gosnell finally got the upperhand on rival Rivercrest in the finals of the Conference 3A-3 softball tournament at Piggott High School. Semifinals Rivercrest 14, Manila 3 Rivercrest snapped a 3-3 tie in the bottom of the fifth inning when Chesnee Chandler ripped a double to score a run and break the tie. The Lady Colts would go on to score 10 more runs to claim a 14-3 victory over the Lady Lions...

By COSMO COSSEY Poinsett County Democrat Tribune Marked Tree's Bryce Smith and Hillcrest's Mason Lecroy hooked up in a pitcher's duel with Hillcrest coming out on top 2-1 in one semi-final game of the 1A-3 district tournament in Marked Tree. The Indians (8-9) will play next week in the 1A-2 Regional Tournament at West Side Greers Ferry...

By REVIS BLAYLOCK NEA Town Courier Manila Sr. High Girls win Conference Champi-onship. Manila Sr. High Girls Track team won the senior high conference championship for the third year in a row. Outstanding Sr. girls performances in District which qualify to state championship in Prescott on May 2, 2023:...

By COSMO COSSEY Poinsett County Democrat Tribune Harrisburg fell behind early and couldn't catch up as Manila posted a 9-5 win over the Lady Hornets in the opening round of the 3A-3 district tournament last Monday (Apr. 24) in Piggott. Kaylynn Harvey popped out leading off for Manila in the top of the first inning as Hadley Cohn followed with a solo home run to make it 1-0 Lady Lions. ...

By COSMO COSSEY Poinsett County Democrat Tribune Marked Tree (3-11) lost 21-6 to Maynard in the opening round of the 1A-3 softball district tournament his past Friday in Marked Tree. The loss ended the season for the Lady Indians. Maynard sent 14 batters to the plate in the top of the first inning and scored nine runs to take the early 9-0 lead over Marked Tree. ...

By COSMO COSSEY Poinsett County BIC and Riverside played a game that was state final worthy as they battled it out with the Lady Rebels scoring in the bottom of the seventh to take a 1-0 win, on Klaire Womack's no-hit performance, advancing to the finals...

By COSMO COSSEY Poinsett County Democrat Tribune Riverside (17-4) held on to beat EPC (23-5), 1-0, to take home the championship trophy in the 2A-3 district tournament this past Saturday in Monette. It was their second 1-0 win in two days. Both teams will be in action next Thursday in the 2A North Regional Tournament in Lake City...

By COSMO COSSEY Poinsett County Democrat Tribune EPC (23-4) took an 8-1 win over Marmaduke in one semifinal game of the 2A-3 softball district tournament this past Friday in Monette. Kelly Ashcraft had two hits, a run scored and a RBI to lead the Lady Warriors as Mercedes Reel finished with a hit, a run scored and a RBI. ...

By DAVID PIERCE - NEA Town Courier MANILA – The Rivercrest Colts track team won four of 18 events and easily outdistanced its competitors capturing first in the 3A-3 Boys District Track meet Monday, April 24 at Manila. Despite just four first place finishes, the Colts scored points in 17 of the 18 events and tallied 177.5 points. ...

By DAVID PIERCE - NEA Town Courier MANILA – The Manila Lion girls track team left no doubt as to which school was the best in the 3A-3. Manila dominated its competition with a total of 253 points Monday, April 24 at the district track meet. None of the remaining six teams broke triple digits with Gosnell finishing second with 86, Osceola (78) fourth, Rivercrest (25) sixth, and Harrisburg (23) seventh...

The Blytheville Police Department issued an alert for a missing/runaway 17-year-old male. Damarion Palmer, was last seen at 11 p.m in the area of Ridgeway. Palmer is described as a black male, 5’7” and 130 lbs. Palmer has brown hair and hazel eyes. According to authorities, Palmer was last seen wearing a Sonic shirt, Sonic hat, black pants and black shoes. Please contact the Blytheville Police Department at 870-763-4411 with any information about Palmer’s location...