Fifty years ago, the Samuel Vaster High School Pirates took small-school basketball in Arkansas by storm and won the Class B state championship, eventually earning the right to take on long-standing power Little Rock Central in the finals of the second overall state tournament the Arkansas Activities Association conducted.
Thomas Woods of Moro had about 45 minutes to hunt with his crossbow after work on Oct. 26, and he made the best of it, killing the buck that won Best of Show at the Arkansas Big Buck Classic Sunday at Barton Coliseum in Little Rock.