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Panther seventh-grade girls finish strong
February 14, 2020
The Heber Springs seventh-grade girls basketball team started slow but showed great improvement over the course of the season.
Heber Springs coach Jay Moore said that this was the first time most of his team had played together.
“Half of my girls said that this was their first year to experience basketball, just playing the game,” he said. “I felt like we started way behind as far as learning to play with each other. We went from the first game where we could hardly inbound the basketball to beating a team that had beaten us earlier in the season.”
That team was Cedar Ridge, whom the Panthers beat on Feb. 6 at the Panther Den, 14-6.
“The only thing they are lacking in my opinion is to just go out there and play as hard as they can and believe in themselves,” Moore said. “The last couple of games of the season the effort really showed.
“We struggled to score in the early part of the season, and the last couple of games, we average in the teens close to 20 points so definitely a lot of improvement.”
BOXSCORES CEDAR RIDGE AT HEBER SPRINGS February 6 CEDAR RIDGE SCORING (9): No. 25 7, No. 3 2 HEBER SPRINGS SCORING (14): Jovie Smithson 5, Kinnison Prince 4, Taylor Parker 4, Baleigh Burchfield 1 CLINTON AT HEBER SPRINGS Clinton 7 12 6 7 - 32 Heber Springs 2 6 5 2 - 15 CLINTON SCORING (32): Gresham 14, Long 8, Collins 6, Shaver 4 HEBER SPRINGS SCORING (15): Baileigh Burchfield 5, Kinnison Prince 4, Taylor Parker 2, Kaitlyn Pierce 2, Faelen Evans 2
Heber Springs seventh-grade girls drop a pair
January 16, 2020
The Heber Springs seventh-grade girls dropped a pair of games to start to the new year.
On Jan. 9th, Heber Springs was shutout at Newport and returned home on Jan. 16 and was handed a 29-4 setback to Mount Vernon-Enola scoring all four points in the second half.
Jovie Smithson and Kinnison Prince each scored a field goal in the third quarter.
HEBER SPRINGS 7TH-GRADE GIRLS SCHEDULE Jan. 20 - Clinton Jan. 23 - Marshall Jan. 27 - at Mayflower Jan. 30 - at Southside Batesville Feb. 03 - Quitman Feb. 06 - Cedar Ridge
Heber Springs seventh-grade girls off until January
December 16, 2019
The Heber Springs seventh-grade girls basketball enters the Christmas break with a record of 1-3 and will be off until the new year when they travel to Newport on January 9th.
The squad closed out the 2019 portion of the schedule with a 20-13 win at South Side Bee Branch on December 12.
Kinnison Prince, Baleigh Burchfield, Taylor Parker and Heidi Vowells all scored in the win for the Panthers.
Heber Springs coach Jay Moore added that Faelen Evans, Zoey Hendrix and Kaitlyn Pierce all played great defense and gave great effort.
Heber Springs had been winless on the season before the win over the Hornets. The Panthers dropped a road contest at Cedar Ridge on Dec. 5, a 22-8 decision to Greenbrier at home on Nov. 18 and to Harding Academy, 23-9, on Nov. 11.
November 18 7th-Grade Girls Box Greenbrier 10 12 - 22 Heber Springs 6 2 - 8 GREENBRIER SCORING (22): Madison Crum 8, Ally Fulmer 4, Hallie Wharton 4, Karley Hughes 2, Abbey Bangs 2, Meredith Murray 2 HEBER SPRINGS SCORING (8): Taylor Parker 2, Jovie Smithson 2, Baleigh Burchfield 2, Kinnison Prince 2
HEBER SPRINGS 7TH-GRADE GIRLS BASKETBALL 2019-2020 ROSTER COACH: Jay Moore 3 Taylor Parker 5 Zoey Hendrix 10 Kaitlyn Pierce 12 Lynnlee Presley 13 Katie Tate 15 Faelan Evans 20 Zoey Shannon 21 Jovie Smithson 22 Baleigh Burchfield 24 Joy Bray 25 Heidi Vowels 31 Kinnison Prince HEBER SPRINGS 7TH-GRADE GIRLS SCHEDULE Jan. 09 - at Newport Jan. 16 - Mount Vernon-Enola Jan. 20 - Clinton Jan. 23 - Marshall Jan. 27 - at Mayflower Jan. 30 - at Southside Batesville Feb. 03 - Quitman Feb. 06 - Cedar Ridge