by Rob on Oct 30, 2009 at 9:21 AM PEARCY — While the freshman team and Bryant White were waiting out a storm that eventually led to the postponement of their games at Cabot, the Bryant Blue Hornets eighth grade team went to Lake Hamilton and won 12-6. The game, played in a driving rain, marked the first time in four years that the Bryant Bethel team has beaten Lake Hamilton, according to head coach Donaven Sims.
by Rob on Oct 6, 2009 at 2:27 PM  PEARCY — Lake Hamilton is always a difficult place to win and, after the first game of their match with the Lady Wolves on Monday, Oct. 5, the Bryant Lady Hornets freshman team had a full understanding of that. But, to their credit, the Lady Hornets battled back to win the second and third games and the match, 20-25, 25-20, 25-19, to keep their hold on first place in the South Division of the Central Arkansas Junior High Conference.
With their fifth win in a row, the Lady Hornets improved to 13-3 overall and 10-2 in Divisional play going into their final two contests during the regular season. They host Conway Blue on Thursday then Cabot South on Monday before the start of the Central Arkansas Junior High Conference post-season tournament which will be held at Bryant. In an eighth grade game on Monday, Lake Hamilton prevailed over Bryant White, 25-16, 25-22.
by Rob on Sep 25, 2009 at 12:56 AM By Rob Patrick Every season since 2002 except one, either the Bryant Junior Hornets or the Lake Hamilton Junior Wolves, or both, has won or shared the championship of the South Division of the Central Arkansas Junior High Conference. And some years, it’s come down to which one beat the other. In 2008, Lake Hamilton won the game 21-3 (amid some late-game controversy when the Wolves called a timeout to add a meaningless touchdown) but it was Bryant’s lone loss of the season and the teams wound up tied for the Division title with identical 9-1 records. In 2007, the Hornets drubbed the Wolves 35-14 on the way to an unbeaten run through the Division.
by Rob on Sep 24, 2009 at 11:28 PM By Rob Patrick The Bryant White Hornets eighth grade team limited their counterparts from Lake Hamilton to just 54 yards of total offense and three first downs in their game at rain-soaked Bryant Stadium Thursday evening. The Wolves managed only two forays into Bryant territory and never got closer than the 40 to paydirt. Unfortunately for the Hornets, despite three second-half drives that got inside the Lake Hamilton 15, couldn’t get across the goal line either as the two teams battled to a scoreless tie.
by Rob on Sep 11, 2009 at 10:51 AM  The Bryant Lady Hornets freshman team made it two wins in a row and four in five outings this season by sweeping the Lake Hamilton Junior Lady Wolves, 25-12, 25-20, at the Bryant Middle School gym on Thursday, Sept. 10.
An eighth grade game involving Bryant Blue (Bethel Middle School) was cancelled when Lake Hamilton was unable to accumulate enough players to play.
by Rob on May 19, 2009 at 11:59 PM  By Rob Patrick The most notorious example of the Bryant Black Sox' second-game droops came in 2007 of all seasons. The team lost 7-1 to Lake Hamilton and looked so bad that manager Craig Harrison wondered whether his team could manage a .500 season. He and coach Tic Harrison convened a team meeting in the outfield after the game, called their team out for its effort and the wind sprints across the outfield grass commenced. Ironically, that team not only played better than .500, they won 41 games, claimed a State championship and a Regional title on the way to become the first Bryant team to reach the American Legion World Series. Another lackluster performance against the Wolves in 2008 resulted in a sprint session as well. So, going into Tuesday's second game of the season, again with Lake Hamilton, the Sox were made well aware of the history. As it turned out, a crisply played game for six innings turned into a white-knuckler at the end but the Sox survived with a 6-4 victory thanks to a fine fielding play from second baseman Austin Benning and a heads-up reaction by pitcher Tyler Sawyer.
by Rob on Apr 27, 2009 at 9:10 PM  By Rob Patrick BRYANT, AR — As tune-up games go, Monday's regular-season finale went pretty well for the Bryant Hornets baseball team. Three pitchers including starter Caleb Milam, who was making his first varsity appearance since April 14, got some work in and combined on a four-hitter; senior Tyler Sawyer got a night off to rest the leg he tweaked on Saturday at Pine Bluff; and the Hornets reached double digits in runs scored for the fourth time in the last five games. They also flashed some leather. Caleb Garrett in center, Hunter Mayall at third, Kaleb Jobe at short and, later with Jobe on the mound, Jordan Taylor at short all made fine plays. It was the Hornets second consecutive errorless effort. The 11-1 win over Lake Hamilton also kept their momentum going. The fifth win in a row and 10th in the last 12 games makes them 22-7 going into the Class 7A State Tournament which begins Friday in Fayetteville and Springdale. With the championship of the 7A-Central Conference, the Hornets will open at noon on Saturday at Springdale's Randall Tyson Center against the survivor of a Friday game.
by Rob on Apr 3, 2009 at 10:33 PM PEARCY — Bryant's Christen Kirchner and Lake Hamilton's Kelsie Armstrong dueled to a 1-1 tie through seven innings but Lake Hamilton managed to get a run home in the bottom of the eighth for a 2-1 win on Friday, April 3. The game was quickly put together to make up an earlier meeting that had been weathered out after Bryant's scheduled game with Benton was called off so the Lady Panthers could make up a conference doubleheader. Armstrong struck out 16 and had a 1-0 lead through six innings. In the top of the seventh, freshman Jessie Taylor ripped a triple into the left-field corner. With one out, Lana Naumann beat out an infield hit to drive her home with the tying run.
by Rob on Mar 23, 2009 at 7:16 PM  By Rob Patrick PEARCY — The thing about being a closer is that, you work so few innings that one blow-up can wreck your earned run average. Then it takes that many more appearances to whittle it down. Such had been the case for Bryant senior Kaleb Jobe who had earned three saves but had a rough outing against Conway in a wild game that Bryant wound up winning 10-9. He then had similar trouble in a brief relief appearance on Saturday, March 21, in the midst of a come-from-behind win by Monticello. But Jobe got a start on Monday at Lake Hamilton and took a big chuck out of his inflated ERA by going the distance and allowing just one run on four hits as the Hornets got back on the winning track in an efficiently played 3-1 win in front of a crowd that was two-thirds Bryant fans. Jobe retired the first eight batters he faced, gave up a single then retired the next four. After the Wolves got on the board with a couple of hits in the fifth, the right-hander set down six of seven to close it out. He struck out six and walked no one.
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