Junior Lady Cobras advance at district

PARIS — Fountain Lake’s junior high girls’ basketball team won by one point on Monday to advance to the second round of the 3A-4 district tournament.

The junior Lady Cobras entered the tournament as the No. 4 seed. Jaylin Rhoades hit the game-winning basket with 3.8 seconds to play in a 31-30 victory against the No. 5 seed, Booneville.

“The girls played tremendously hard tonight,” said Fountain Lake coach Michael Blees. “They fought and scrapped for this victory.”

Fountain Lake led, 11-5, after the first quarter. The lead was just 13-12 by the start of the second half and the junior Lady Cobras were ahead, 1816, to start the fourth quarter.

Rhoades finished with a team-high 14 points. Kara Martin added eight points.

Sophie Skinner scored seven points, including four crucial free throws in the fourth quarter.

Fountain Lake will play again Thursday at 4 p.m. in the semifinals against top-seeded Lamar, which advanced past the No. 8 seed Two Rivers on Monday.

Fountain Lake’s junior boys entered the district tournament as the No. 3 seed. The junior Cobras will play in the first round tonight at 7:15 p.m. against No. 6 seed Paris, the host team.

Junior Wolves sweep final home games of season

PEARCY — Lake Hamilton’s junior high boys’ and girls’ teams each walked away with victories on Monday, the final home games of the regular season.

The junior Wolves won, 54-36, against El Dorado at Wolf Arena.

Gavin Robbins and Chase Jessup were the top scorers with 15 points each. Hayden McDougal scored 12 points and Zac Pennington scored 10.

The junior Lady Wolves also won, 56-45.

Both teams will close the regular season on Thursday with non-conference road games at Star City.

The Central Arkansas Junior High Conference tournament is scheduled to begin Monday in Cabot.

Henderson swims past Ozarks in final regular season meet

CLARKSVILLE — Henderson State picked up two wins in its last meet of the regular season on Saturday women’s team raced past the University of the Ozarks, 133-72, and the men came away with a 128-114 victory.

The Reddie women won every event but one in their competition. Savannah Martin had four individual wins in the 50-yard breaststroke, 32.39;

50-yard backstroke, 30.34; 50-yard butterfly, 27.66; and 100-yard individual medley, 1:05.48.

Caroline Beattie and Emma Sewell each took first place in three events. Beattie won the 100yard backstroke, 1:09.59; 100-yard freestyle, 57.41; and the 50-yard freestyle, 26.56. Sewell claimed victories in the 200-yard freestyle, 2:08.55; 100yard butterfly, 1:08.88; and 500-yard freestyle,

5:59.45.

Martin, Beattie and Sewell teamed up with Lara Kockaya to win both the 200-yard medley relay, 1:58.00, and the 200-yard freestyle relay,

1:48.60.

Jason Seiner took first place in four individual men’s events: the 100-yard individual medley,

55.67; the 50-yard freestyle, 22.75; the 100-yard breaststroke, 1:04.83; and the 50-yard breaststroke,

28.40.

Jack Baudouin won the 100-yard butterfly in 56.55. Both Baudouin and Seiner swam legs for Henderson’s victorious 200-yard free relay team in the last event of the day, along with Ryan Brown and Jose Maria Beltra.

Henderson will race again Feb. 20-23 in the New South Intercollegiate Swim Conference championship meet in Cleveland, Miss.

Oaklawn winners make common statement

Oaklawn Park carded six open maiden special weights races through Friday, the fourth day of the scheduled 57-day season.

All six winners made their last starts at the Churchill Downs fall meeting.

The first of the winners, Shaharazad, a 3-yearold daughter of 2007 Kentucky Derby winner Street Sense, had been narrowly beaten in her Nov. 10 debut for Shadwell Stable and trainer Dan Peitz.

“I thought almost all the maiden races there last fall were really salty, except the one I ran it and got beat a neck,” Peitz said. “I thought it was one of the softest ones, so I really didn’t have a feel for how we were going to run.”

Under Richard Eramia, Shaharazad ($10.40) beat Adari by 1 1/4 lengths on opening day, Jan.

25. She ran 6 furlongs over a fast track in 1:11.56. “I said to Richard in the paddock that if she duplicates her first race and we get any kind of pace in front of us, she’s going to come running,” Peitz said. “I’ll think about stretching her out next time.”

The other five Churchill Downs-raced maiden special weights winners were Motion Emotion,

3-year-old daughter of Take Charge Indy, for trainer Tom Van Berg; Laughing Fox, 3-year-old Union Rags colt, for Hall of Fame trainer Steve Asmussen; Oncewewerebrothers, 3-year-old Cairo Prince gelding, for trainer Jimmy DiVito; Ulele,

3-year-old Candy Ride filly, for trainer Brad Cox; and New Colossus, 4-year-old Curlin colt, for trainer Larry Jones.

New Colossus recorded the most lopsided victory of the young meeting in Friday’s sixth race,

10 1/4 lengths, in Friday’s sixth race under Hall of Famer Calvin Borel.

Six Shooter moving forward to $500K Southwest Stakes

Trainer Paul Holthus, of Hot Springs, said this week Six Shooter is being pointed for the Grade 3

$500,000 Southwest Stakes for 3-year-olds on Feb.

18 at Oaklawn Park.

Six Shooter was beaten 1 1/2 lengths in his last start, the $150,000 Smarty Jones Stakes on Jan.

25. The one-mile race was Oaklawn’s first of our major preps for the Kentucky Derby.

“He ran a good race,” Holthus said. “Kind of got sucked back around the turn a little bit.

“Was in a little tight quarters and sucked back out of there and probably lost a couple of lengths when he first turned up the backside. Then he made a run down the lane and I thought he was at least finishing. Looking like more ground wouldn’t hurt him.”

A gelded son of Trappe Shot, Six Shooter races for Holthus and wife Nancy (N P H Stable), Dundalk 5 LLC (Tim Kindlon) and Wes Herek. Claimed for $20,000 out of his Sept. 20 career debut at Churchill Downs, Six Shooter broke his maiden on Oct.17 at Indiana Grand, was a Nov. 25 allowance winner at Churchill Downs and won the $75,000 Big Drama Stakes on Jan. 5 at Delta Downs Racetrack in Louisiana. He has a 3-0-3 record from eight career starts and earnings of

$131,350.

Nominations to the 1 1/16-mile Southwest close Thursday. Other locally based horses pointing for the Southwest include Gray Attempt and Super Steed, first and seventh, respectively, in the Smarty Jones.