by - July 12, 2025 2:00 pm
Connor Cox is one player who thinks the Fort Smith Marshals are starting to turn things around. After having won just once at home, the Marshals returned to Crowder Field…
by - July 9, 2025 11:39 am
With his distinctive handlebar mustache, Fort Smith Marshals’ baseball player Matt Schilling largely resembles a human incarnation of the team’s mascot, Marshal Smitty. Especially when Schilling is wearing his cap…
by - July 5, 2025 9:40 am
With the end of her college softball career now complete, Cailin Massey – the former Northside High School standout who pitched for four years at Prairie View A&M University in…
by - June 27, 2025 12:09 pm
Madi Conklin is ready to turn the page on the next phase of her life after finishing her career as a college softball player. At the same time, Conklin admits…
by - June 21, 2025 10:37 am
Cody Vaught, who was recently hired as Alma’s new boys basketball coach, didn’t begin his coaching career with that sport. He started out as a softball and volleyball assistant in…
by - June 9, 2025 1:04 pm
One day after her high school career ended in a hard-luck defeat, Makenzie Freeman was right back in the circle, doing what she loves. She didn’t want to dwell on…
by - June 7, 2025 12:24 pm
Dartyn Meeks will always have very fond memories of his senior season playing baseball for Wister. Even if the ending wasn’t quite what he wanted. Meeks, who was primarily a…
by - June 5, 2025 2:28 pm
In previous postseason all-star games, D.J. Gist could be on the field and join his players that had been selected. On Sunday, June 8, Gist will get to return to…
by - June 3, 2025 10:41 am
Exactly 40 years ago, Scott Thompson’s coaching career began in the small, central Oklahoma town of Paden. He was in charge of the boys basketball program, from grades 6-12. But…
by - May 31, 2025 5:59 pm
Sallisaw’s Kayli Macon got to stand on the podium twice due to her being able to place in the Oklahoma Class 4A state track meet. She placed fifth in the…
by - May 26, 2025 10:21 am
Going into this season, Shawn Hogan knew he was going to be counted on as the ace of the pitching staff for Panama (Okla.). Hogan prepared for the role by…
by - May 21, 2025 4:42 pm
Morgan Coryell still has vivid memories of being part of Hackett’s first state championship softball squad last season. “Being a part of such a historical win for Hackett was truly…
by - May 16, 2025 1:32 pm
Northside senior Cherish Blackmon knew it would be a tough act to follow what she did on the track last season. As a junior, she won the Class 6A state…
by - May 10, 2025 7:40 pm
Van Buren’s Jocelyn Parga developed a love of softball actually through another sport – baseball. Parga is in her final season with the Lady Pointers, playing center field. She has…
by - May 8, 2025 6:54 pm
Abigail Harding is familiar running countless miles around the track at Southside High’s Jim Rowland Stadium. Her knowledge of the track definitely paid off on April 24, when the Southside…
by - May 6, 2025 12:23 pm
Lilly Oxford doesn’t need many reminders that, after winning the program’s first state title last season, Hackett’s softball team is now the hunted. She’s heard it from her coach on…
by - April 30, 2025 4:04 pm
There’s definitely a huge source of pride as far as Ivey Perkins is concerned. Though she is only one of two seniors on Van Buren’s softball roster, Perkins has a…
by - April 26, 2025 9:33 am
Growing up with two athletic older brothers, Kord Fenton learned the hard way at times about being competitive and standing his own ground. Looking back on that experience, Fenton wouldn’t…
by - April 19, 2025 1:00 pm
Greenwood senior Brilea Rofkahr has a very vivid early memory of learning to play softball. If she didn’t field a ball properly, she worked to make sure it didn’t happen…
by - April 11, 2025 9:56 am
As a freshman two years ago, Farah Crossno made history as the first girls wrestler from Greenwood to win an individual state championship. Her bid to repeat last year came…
