JONESBORO — Mike Balado’s fourth summer basketball camp at Arkansas State is the largest yet, even with limited time for promotion.

JONESBORO — Nettleton’s Kyle Tolley celebrated his birthday Tuesday by signing a letter of intent to play baseball for South Arkansas Community College next spring.

JONESBORO — Arkansas State’s offensive statistics stacked up fairly well among Sun Belt Conference baseball teams this spring.

JONESBORO — Trey Harding and Dale Schenk weren’t surprised to learn their schools will face different competition during the Arkansas Activities Association 2022-24 classification cycle.

JONESBORO — The Xtra Innings Summer Classic is all about being seen.

EUGENE, Ore. — A routine Oregon rain shower couldn’t stop Arkansas State’s Bennett Pascoe in Wednesday evening’s 3,000 steeplechase semifinal at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships.

JONESBORO — Emotions took hold of Nettleton’s Daylin Goodlow after a successful tryout with Central Baptist College’s basketball team.

JONESBORO — Centennial Bank Stadium will be a busy place this evening.

JONESBORO — Head coach Mike Balado said Arkansas State has already seen some benefits from Desi Sills’ decision to play basketball for the Red Wolves.

JONESBORO — Desi Sills will play basketball in his hometown again next season.

JONESBORO — The Nettleton Raiders have the makings of another productive rushing attack in the fall.

JONESBORO — Westside will put the football in different hands this year.

JONESBORO — Spring football answered a number of Jonesboro head coach Randy Coleman’s questions.

JONESBORO — Valley View’s offense will look different, at least in terms of personnel, when the Blazers open the 2021 football season.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Arkansas State had to chase runs, as head coach Tommy Raffo described it, one more time in its final game of the 2021 baseball season.

BROOKLAND — Hired in April 2020, Eric Munoz didn’t have the typical spring or summer to prepare for his first season at Brookland.

JONESBORO — Cameron Moore and Laityn Tippy recently won the John E. Hill Award as Westside’s top male and female senior athletes during the school’s athletic awards presentation at the WHS Fine Arts Center.

JONESBORO — Arkansas State was one of three upset winners on the first day of the Sun Belt Conference baseball tournament, ending Troy’s championship hopes with a 9-6 victory.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Arkansas State came up with big hits early and late Tuesday in the Sun Belt Conference baseball tournament.

BROOKLAND — Brookland’s Tyler Privett and Cole Doke plan to play junior college baseball in Illinois next spring.

JONESBORO — Arkansas State opens the Sun Belt Conference baseball tournament today with an opponent the Red Wolves faced less than two weeks ago.

BENTON — Valley View senior shortstop Wil French held the Class 4A state championship trophy as he answered a couple of questions after Saturday's game, savoring a moment that was years in the making.

BENTON — Valley View's defending state soccer champions weren't about to let go of the crown Saturday morning.

BENTON — The final score of the Class 3A state softball championship game doesn’t reflect where the contest stood with two outs in the bottom of the fifth inning.

BENTON — Winning streaks stand as bookends to Valley View’s baseball season with one game to go.

JONESBORO — Jonesboro High School seniors Keyln McBride and Keagan Pointer made their college plans official on the day before graduation, each signing Friday with a Great American Conference institution in their respective sports.

BENTON — Harding Academy's bid for a clean sweep, as Walnut Ridge coach Jason Belcher described it, netted another state championship Friday afternoon.

WALNUT RIDGE — The Class 3A baseball final offers Walnut Ridge an opportunity for revenge as well as its first state championship on the diamond.

BENTON — Tuckerman was down but hardly out in the final two innings of Thursday’s Class 2A state softball championship game.

BENTON — Jonesboro couldn’t solve the man on the mound for the Van Buren Pointers.

JONESBORO — The last step could be tricky.

NOBLESVILLE, Ind. — Finishing with a second-straight 6-under par 66, Zan Luka Stirn surged to a program-best tie for third individually, helping Arkansas State to a program-best seventh-place team finish at the NCAA Noblesville Regional that wrapped up Wednesday at The Sagamore Club.

JONESBORO — The way Arkansas State’s baseball schedule has unfolded, it seems to head coach Tommy Raffo like the Red Wolves are facing the Sun Belt Conference’s hottest team every weekend.

HOXIE — Success has followed the Hoxie Lady Mustangs from sport to sport through the 2020-21 school year.

Inexperience proved irrelevant last week for the Tuckerman Lady Bulldogs, just as it has all season.

PARAGOULD — Paragould senior Jack Henry Glasgow will continue his baseball career about five miles from his home field with the Rams.

HARRISON — Valley View advanced to the championship game of the Class 4A boys' state soccer tournament by defeating Pulaski Robinson 2-1 in the semifinals Saturday.