A total of 15 teams will be competing in this week’s state tournaments for baseball and softball. Mountain Home’s softball team will have the advantage of being in front of the home crowd as it hosts the Class 5A State Tournament.
The majority of the Class 5A softball games will be played at Freedom Field at McClain Park. Half of the opening round games on Thursday will also be held at Keller Park. A total of 16 teams will be in Mountain Home for the tournament.
The Lady Bombers’ opening opponent will be Sheridan. Mountain Home enters the tournament as the fourth-seeded team from the 5A-West with a record of 15-10. The Lady Yellowjackets are the champions of the 5A-South. The first pitch at Freedom Field is scheduled for Thursday at 3 p.m.
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March 7, 202110:35 am
I was a little surprised to see an extensive article in today’s Arkansas Democrat-Gazette about the effort to get the entire 8th U.S. Circuit of Appeals to hear an appeal of a three-judge panel’s decision refusing to force
four Arkansas school districts to participate in the state’s open-ended school transfer plan.
In the case: Camden Fairview, Hope, Lafayette County and Junction City have been upheld by a district court and the 8th Circuit panel in arguing that their federal court desegregation plans exempt them from forced school choice participation under Arkansas law. School choice would contribute to the flight of white students to neighboring districts, they argued successfully.
8th Circuit denies state appeal of decision in South Arkansas school transfer case
In a 2-1 decision today, the
8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld
federal Judge Susan Hickey’s order that
four South Arkansas school districts could not be compelled to approve interdistrict student transfers because they operate under desegregation rulings.
The state has gradually made school district transfers all but automatic and has eliminated segregation impact as a reason to deny transfers unless a district is under a federal court order. The state Board of Education went to court to force
Hope, Lafayette County, Camden Fairview and Junction City districts to allow interdistrict transfers. They are among a handful of districts still operating under past desegregation rulings, but the state argued their orders didn’t specifically prohibit transfers and said it would allow them. The districts went back to court for protection from forced transfers, which statewide have been sough