By: Richard Sharp Lake Area Sports The Quitman Lady Bulldogs continued their hot streak in 2A-5 action with a perfect 3-0 week to roll to 6-0, crushing Lisa Academy 75-4, Maumelle Charter 82-17 and South Side Bee Branch 72-34 for a 229-55 scoring margin against their opposition. Quitman … [Read more...]
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Lake Area Sports Gives Back
Lake Area Sports Gives Back By: Summer Peters Lake Area Sports When the Covid restrictions were released by the Arkansas Athletic Association at the beginning of the basketball season, the team at Lake Area Sports knew they wanted to give something back to the schools to help offset the … [Read more...]
Upsets, buzzer beaters highlight Roundball Round-Up
West Side Sr. Boys Defeat Defending 1A Runner-up ICC By: Richard Sharp-Lake Area Sports COVID-19 continued to wreak its evil head this past week for Greers Ferry Lake area basketball teams, forcing multiple postponements for games across the board. The games that were played, however, … [Read more...]
Roundball teams breeze through busy week of conference play
By Richard Sharp-Lake Area Sports With Christmas Break steadily approaching and the first half of the basketball season coming to a close, it was another productive week for Greers Ferry Lake area teams, who are all now well underway into conference play. A showdown of two rival Lake Area Sports … [Read more...]
Roundball Round-Up
Concord, Quitman roundball squads haul in league victories By Richard Sharp The Concord and Quitman varsity basketball teams combined to rack up four conference victories this past Friday night, as the Lady Pirates and Pirates swept action at Shirley while the Lady Bulldogs and Bulldogs … [Read more...]
Historic ride for Bulldog football ends in Sweet Sixteen
By Richard SharpLake Area Sports LEPANTO-Reeling off a historic playoff victory over Murfreesboro in front of their home crowd, the Quitman Bulldogs traveled northeast to battle a very talented and quick East Poinsett Warrior team, who would go on to claim a 56-29 victory over Quitman and bring … [Read more...]
Bulldogs corral Rattlers, advance in historical playoff victory
By Richard Sharp QUITMAN-The Quitman Bulldogs rewrote the history books not once, but twice this past Friday night after hosting a playoff game for the first time, proving that was just not enough and adding to that feat by claiming the program's first state playoff victory with a 54-30 … [Read more...]
COVID-19 shakes up LAS basketball schedule
By Richard Sharp Lake Area Sports After having a successful start to the 2020-21 basketball season, COVID-19 has reared its nasty head and forced cancellations and postponements all across the Natural State, some of those games including key conference matchups that will need to be made up at a … [Read more...]
Hector pulls away from Quitman in final quarter for triumph
By Richard SharpLake Area Sports HECTOR-Leading 8-6 at the half and 22-20 after three quarters of play, the Hector Wildcats got some much needed insurance in the final session while holding their opposition in the Quitman Bulldogs scoreless to hold on for a 30-20 victory in each team's conference … [Read more...]
Ramblers historic 8-man season ends in state semifinals
By Richard Sharp Lake Area Sports LITTLE ROCK-Competing in their very first state playoff game in school history in their first season of eight man football, the Rose Bud Ramblers seen their 2020 campaign come to a close in the state semifinals at the hands of the Little Rock Episcopal Wildcats by … [Read more...]