New Bryant Hornets basketball coach Mike Abrahamson has scheduled the Little Hornets Camp for boys entering grades 3 through 6 June 14-18 from 9 a.m. to noon each day at the Bryant High School gym.

Bryant’s Kenzee Calley, K-Ron Lairy, Alana Morris and Brandon Parish will be among the Saline County high school senior basketball all-stars who will take on team of former Arkanas athletes in a benefit game at 7 p.m., on Friday, May 7, at the Benton High School Arena.

The Razorbacks for Reading benefit game will be hosted by the Leadership Saline County, Class V, as a fundraiser for Imagination Library of Saline County.

Tickets are $6 for adults and $4 for students.

Physicals and tryouts for 2010-11 athletics have been scheduled at Bryant Middle School. According to assistant principal Lesa Lindberg, all athletes must have a current physical to tryout.

The school will provide transportation to physicals given at OrthoArkansas for boys on May 3 and girls on May 6. There is a $10 cash fee.

BryantDaily.com readers:

Nate Olson of the Benton Courier interviewed new Bryant basketball coach Mike Abrahamson. Here's his story:

http://www.bentoncourier.com/content/view/211526/33/ 

By Rob Patrick

From a Wasp to a Hornet.

Last season, Mike Abrahamson served as an assistant basketball coach and head cross country coach for the Emery & Henry College Wasps of Emery, Va. In 2010-11, he will be the head basketball coach for the Bryant High School Hornets.

Bryant athletic director Tom Farmer announced the hiring of Abrahamson after the Bryant School Board approved the selection at its Monday, April 19, meeting.

Bryant Hornets senior guards K-Ron Lairy, left, and Brandon Parish, right, have been named all-conference by the coaches of the 7A-Central Conference for their play during the 2009-2010 basketball season. (Photos by Rick Nation)

By Rob Patrick

While we’ve had a lot about the bid by Bryant’s Travis Wood to make a Major League roster for the first time with the Cincinnati Reds, there are several other former Bryant athletes still competing on a high level. Following is information about as many as I could track down but, first, a little more about T.Wood.

With the MLB season beginning next week, Wood is still in contention for the fifth-starter spot in the Reds rotation and MLB.com beat reporter Mark Sheldon says in his latest blog, it looks like he has the inside track.

By Rob Patrick

“You know, 30 years ago when I started coaching, the coaches did all the taping,” recalled Bryant athletic director Tom Farmer. “If there was an injury, we’d go out and say, all right, put some ice on it, and move on.”

The other variation of that scenario is the classic (exaggerated, of course) instance when a coach would be looking down on an injured player and saying something like, “Okay, rub a little dirt on it and let’s go.” Then helping the player up.

But times have changed. With the advances in medicine and health care in a broad array of fields, a little more expertise is called for. And more and more, public schools are following the lead of colleges and professional athletics by making sure there’s an athletic trainer available.

Bryant, as Farmer related, is one of those schools.

BRYANT HORNETS

2009-2010 basketball schedule

9-19, 2-12

BRYANT HORNETS

2009-10 freshman basketball schedule

16-8, 9-5