LITTLE ROCK — Valley View’s Micah McMillan scored three goals on her birthday Friday as the Lady Blazers cruised past De Queen 5-2 in the second round of the Class 4A girls’ state soccer tournament.

JONESBORO — Arkansas State has work to do to reach the Sun Belt Conference baseball tournament.

JONESBORO — Jonesboro would love to have one more match with Searcy, the only team to defeat the Lady Hurricane this season.

BROOKLAND — Mark Hindsley was hired as Brookland High School’s head football coach during a school board meeting Tuesday night, according to athletic director Bobby Gross.

JONESBORO — Jonesboro and Valley View both face a tougher road to the state baseball finals this season, at least on paper.

JONESBORO — Tuckerman softball coach Matt Dillon put together a challenging schedule with this week in mind.

JONESBORO — Valley View looks ready for another state tournament run in boys’ soccer.

CARLISLE — Buffalo Island Central earned its third shutout victory of the Class 2A North Region baseball tournament Monday afternoon, defeating McCrory 7-0 in the championship game.

BROOKLAND — Stuttgart came up with the big hit that eluded Valley View in the Class 4A East Region softball tournament championship game Monday evening.

JONESBORO — Jeff Purinton’s name was the first mentioned to Arkansas State University System President Chuck Welch when he made his first call in the search for a new vice chancellor for intercollegiate athletics.

BROOKLAND — Valley View held off Westside 3-2 Monday morning in the Class 4A East Region softball semifinals.

JONESBORO — Wes Swift has coached seven state championship teams in 27 seasons of high school basketball, including five in 13 seasons at Jonesboro High School, where his teams have averaged more than 23 victories per season.

JONESBORO — Quion Williams spent the first 12 games of the season on the sideline, cheering for his Jonesboro High School basketball teammates while awaiting the January date when he would be eligible to join them on the court.

BAY — Bay coach Brad Brannen was planning to move his son Justin to the senior high team as a freshman in the 2020-21 basketball season before an injury changed those plans.

MOBILE, Ala. — Arkansas State pitchers will face one of the Sun Belt Conference’s best offensive teams this weekend.

HARRISON — Valley View’s Elise Knight won two events Tuesday to lead the Lady Blazers to the girls’ team championship in the Class 4A state track and field meet.

JONESBORO — Jonesboro wrapped up the 5A-East conference championship Tuesday night with a 7-0 victory over Nettleton in boys’ soccer at Raider Field.

JONESBORO — Jonesboro High School’s spring athletic signing day Wednesday featured nine seniors who have made plans to attend seven different institutions in the fall.

JONESBORO — Arkansas State University System President Dr. Chuck Welch announced Wednesday that Jeff Purinton, a veteran athletics administrator who spent the last seven years as part of the University of Alabama Athletics Department’s executive staff, has been named the Red Wolves’ Vice Cha…

JONESBORO — Nettleton senior Jeremiah Turner signed a letter of intent Wednesday to play basketball next season at NAIA national power Talladega (Ala.) College.

BAY — Bay High School bowling standout Lilly Williams signed a letter of intent Monday to play for Missouri Valley College starting next season.

BROOKLAND — Brookland senior soccer standout Ridge Lewis signed a letter of intent Monday to play for Williams Baptist University.

JONESBORO — Arkansas State University’s women’s golf records required considerable revision to reflect Olivia Schmidt’s superb 2021-22 season.

JONESBORO — Statistics aren’t enough to measure the impact McKenzie Williams made in her first full season of high school basketball, Nettleton coach Jason Smith said.

JONESBORO — Ereauna Hardaway’s role on the basketball court changed in subtle ways during her senior season at Jonesboro.

JONESBORO — Wynne was a long way from a conference championship or a state tournament berth when Tim Hawkins took over as the school’s girls’ basketball coach before the 2019-20 season.