Congratulations to Austin Rose for being our Matt Thomas - State Farm Agent player of the week for week 3 of our season. Austin was 6/10 on the week with 4 RBI’s and a couple of runs scored. Also pitched 7 innings for us giving up 4 runs and on defense had 13 putouts with a 2 double plays.
Mena Jr. and Sr. High Ladycat Basketball had their first Spring Ladycat Night on Tuesday. The girls competed in a Freethrow Contest and 5 on 5. Local businesses have sponsored prizes for the winners. Tonight's sponsors were Wendy's, Chiquitas and Simple Simons.
Senior High Freethrow Champ: Payton Clark
Junior High Freethrow Champ: Annabelle Peters
Upper Classmen Group 5 on 5 Champs: Payton Clark, Chloe Hooper, Annabelle Peters, Kate Wilson, Elliott Dugan, Katie Rowe, Alaina Gilbert
7th Grade 5 on 5 Champs:
Laynie Powell, Maddie Rowe, Zoe Adams, Tessa Williams and MaKenley Sullivan
Mena baseball played a hard fought game at Union Bank Park on Tuesday.
Bearcats - 11
DeQueen -13
Mena falls to 3-6/1-4 on the season and will play at Dierks on Thursday.
https://www.menaschools.org/o/athletics/athletics...
Mena softball picked up a pick up a big conference win on Tuesday at Union Bank Park.
Ladycats-15
DeQueen-0
Mena improves to 7-4/ 3-2 & will be back in action this Friday & Saturday at the River City Rumble in Van Buren !
https://www.menaschools.org/o/athletics/athletics...
Mrs. Brown and Mrs Taylor’s class at Louise Durham had a visitor today. A velociraptor came to help us learn about the letter "V".
Ashley Curbow, Coordinator for the Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Program, is presenting on the dangers of tobacco use and vaping to 7th graders at Mena Middle School. MMS 8th graders will receive the presentation on Wednesday.
Congratulations to the 2022 Mena High School Seniors !!!
Today we spotlight the following students:
CASSIDY JOY MARIE ASHCRAFT
MICHAEL AUCES
JETT ANTHONY BABER.
Graduation is scheduled for Saturday, May 21st at 10:00am in Bob Carver Bearcat Stadium.
Congratulations to the 2022-2023 MHS Cheerleading and Mascot Team!
Mascot: Josh Noble and Asher Wooden
Cheerleaders: Joey Decker, Patience Ferguson, Cloey Massey, Hailey Emerson, Abby Felix, Briley Dean, Amy Gragg, Brooklyn Hilderbrand, Kiylee Hughes, Rylie McClara, Shantal Tecson, Sophia Vacca, Lainee Garrett, Gia Hobson-Fagan, Destiny Hogan, Kayleigh Noble, and Jolina Butterfield
Austin Rose and Jarret Burger won the Arkansas Young Guns Open Tournament on Lake Ouachita Saturday with a string weighing 12.38 pounds. They also had the big bass that weighed in at 3.28 pounds!
GO BASSCATS !
Congratulations to Mrs. Lana Coogan & the Mena High School Bearcat Bellas! The Bellas made a Division I Superior rating at CPA on Friday in Hot Springs. They will be competing at the State Competition on Tuesday, April 5th!
The Matt Thomas - State Farm Insurance Baseball Player of the Week !
The 2/28-3/6 Player of the Week was CALEB PETERS.
Caleb pitched well in the Smithville win and picked up the save. Peters also hit .500 on the week with 6 runs scored and 5 RBI’s
The Player of the Week for 3/7-3/11 is BLAKE BROWN. Blake came in relief in a tied game with Hope and pitched 4 innings giving up 0 runs while striking out 8 batters. Blake was also 2/4 at the plate with 2 RBI’s in the 7-2 Hope victory
The player of the week for 3/14-3/18 will be announced after spring break.
Mena Middle School 8th graders attended Career Day at the University or Arkansas Rich Mountain on Friday.
Congrats to Payton for being chosen as the cafeteria coloring contest winner for this week at Holly Harshman Elementary!!
Thank you to the Natural Resources Conservation Service for talking with our 4th graders about the importance of trees. They provided every 4th grader with their very own pine tree to plant!
Mena High School & Mena Middle School students were treated to a performance of "The History Show" by a group from TheatreSquared on Friday in the Performing Arts Center.
https://www.facebook.com/TheatreSquared
The Mena Ladycats & Bearcats competed in the Mena Sr. High Relays on Thursday at Bob Carver Bearcat Stadium. See results on the MIle Split website at the link below
https://ar.milesplit.com/.../457692-mena-high.../results
Mrs.Brown and Mrs Taylor’s PreK at Louise Durham Elementary are having a great St. Patrick's Day
Congratulations to ALEXIS HOGAN at Holly Harshman Elementary on walking 100 miles during our Hero Hikers!
A large number of schools participated in the jr. high track meet at Bob Carver Bearcat Stadium on Tuesday. The Mena Ladycats dominated the event & finished in 1st place in the team standings. The Bearcats finished in 7th. Click the link for results
https://ar.milesplit.com/meets/457695-mena-jr-high-relays-2022/results#.YjKNU3rMLIU
Congratulations to the Mena Basscats !
AUSTIN ROSE & JARRETT BURGER won the Arkansas Youth Federation Bass Tournament at Lake Ouachita on Sunday. The tournament was an MLF national qualifier'. The team took first by over 4 lbs & also claimed the prize for big bass.
