Panther seventh-grade girls finish strong

Heber Springs’ Taylor Parker looks to get rid of the basketball in action earlier this season at the Panther Den. PHILIP SEATON FILE PHOTO

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 

Panther 7th-Grade girls fall to Clinton

January 20, 2020

Clinton downed Heber Springs, 32-15, in seventh-grade girls action at the Panther Den.

The Yellowjackets led 19-8 at the half and 25-13 at the end of three quarters.

Baleigh Burchfield paced Heber Springs with five points.

Heber Springs was scheduled to play host to Marshall on Thursday but the game was canceled due road conditions in northern Arkansas.

The Panthers will travel to Mayflower on Monday.

HEBER SPRINGS VS. CLINTON 
Clinton        7 12  6  7 - 32
Heber Springs  2  6  5  2 - 15
CLINTON SCORING (32): M. Gresham 11, K. Keith 7, B. Collins 6, A. Shaver 6, M. McCoy 2
HEBER SPRINGS SCORING (15): Baleigh Burchfield 5, Kinnison Prince 4, Taylor Parker 2, Kaitlyn Pierce 2, Faelen Evans 2
HEBER SPRINGS 7TH-GRADE GIRLS SCHEDULE

Jan. 27 - at Mayflower
Jan. 30 - at Southside Batesville
Feb. 03 - Quitman
Feb. 06 - Cedar Ridge

Heber Springs seventh-grade girls drop a pair

Heber Springs’ Joy Bray looks to get past a Mount Vernon-Enola defender in action at the Panther Den on January 16. PHILIP SEATON PHOTO

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’ Kinnison Prince dribbles in front of the Heber Springs bench in action against Mount Vernon-Enola. PHILIP SEATON PHOTO
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