Bryant High School will be well represented at this week's annual Arkansas High School Coaches Association All-Star events on the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville.

The ASC Cougars U18 girls soccer team is in the Region 3 National Championship playoffs in Baton Rouge, La., representing Arkansas as the U18 state champions.

This afternoon, they lost a heartbreaker to the Texas state champions from Dallas, 1-0, in the first game of pool play at the tournament.

Bryant Lady Hornets Tarra Hendricks and Katie Moore have been named as Class 7A All-State performers for the 2010 soccer season, according to head coach Julie Long.

In addition, London Abernathy, Erica Selig and Sarenity Gomez earned all-conference honors, and Selig was voted to the Class 7A All-State Tournament team for her play during the Lady Hornets’ run to the State semifinals.

The Lady Hornets set a new school standard with their State run and the 17 wins they posted.

LITTLE ROCK — After leading their respective teams to their best seasons ever, Bryant soccer coaches Julie Long and Jason Hay have been chosen to be the head coaches for the East squads in the seventh annual East-West Arkansas High School Coaches Association All-Star soccer games.

The games, sponsored by Tyson Foods and the Arkansas Army National Guard, will be played Tuesday, June 22, at Razorback Field on the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville. The girls game will start at 6 p.m. The boys game at 8. As with the football, basketball, volleyball, baseball and softball All-Star games, the contests are held annually in conjunction with the Arkansas High School Coaches Association Coaches Clinic, which will be headquartered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Fayetteville June 23-25.

Work has begun today on the installation of artificial turf at Bryant Stadium.

At the Monday, May 17, meeting of the Bryant Board of Education, athletic director Tom Farmer announced that fund-raising efforts had reached the target to trigger the matching funds from the school district. The Board approved the project.

The 2010 Hornet Soccer Camp will be held July 7-9 for players entering grades 3 through 8.

Pre-registration will be $50 per camper. After June 3, it will be $60 per person.

BRYANT LADY HORNETS

2010 soccer schedule

17-8, 9-5

ROGERS — In their first two games of the 2010 Class 7A State tournament, the Bryant Lady Hornets soccer team just flat got after it. They scrapped and battled, took both games to overtime then to shootouts and won.

Advancing to the semifinals was something no previous Lady Hornets team had done. Running their win total to 17 was likewise a high water mark for the program.

ROGERS — During the regular season, if the Bryant Lady Hornets got an opponent to a shootout, they were usually golden. They’d pump one penalty kick into the net after another after another, keeping the pressure on the opposition to match them.

They rarely did.

So when, in their first two games of the Class 7A State Tournament, their contests went to shootouts (after finishing in a tie through regulation and two 10-minute overtimes), it figured to play right into the Lady Hornets’ hands . . . er, feet.

Though it wasn’t as cut-and-dried as usual, they found a way to get past Springdale Har-Ber in the first round late Friday night then Fort Smith Southside on Saturday evening as they advanced to the semifinals of the tournament, a win away from playing for a State championship.