Tigers Sweep Wolves In Volleyball Action

PRAIRIE GROVE DEFEATS LINCOLN IN CONFERENCE PLAY

PRAIRIE GROVE — The Prairie Grove Tigers and the Lincoln Wolves hooked up at Prairie Grove’s volleyball court on Sept. 4 for their first ever matchup as conference rivals.

A slightly more seasoned Tiger squad was able to stave off the upstart Wolves in three games (25-19, 25-16, 25-23), allowing Prairie Grove to improve to 2-0 in conference play, while Lincoln falls to 0-2

right guard Jeremy Alexander. “We knew the game plan.”

Spencer Boudrey carried for 8 yards and a facemask penalty against the Tigers moved the ball to the Cardinal 49. Four more Boudrey runs brought the ball to the West Fork 18 before Farmington converted on fourthdown for the score.

“Our offense did better, we stepped it up and returned it to the defense,” said center Morgan Lewis.

West Fork fumbled on their first play and Farmington recovered at the Tiger 26. Four plays later the Cardinals scored as Boudrey went around left end for a 9 yard touchdown. This time the point- after kick failed and Farmington led 13-0 with 6:15 showing in the first quarter.

On their next two series, the Tigers could not make a first-down and punted twice. Farmington scored with a long play on a screen pass to Michael Ingram going the distance as the sophomore fought off tackles during a 51-yard touchdown.

“Ingram came up with a big play for us,” Adams said. “It was good to get him on track.”

With 14 seconds left in the opening stanza, the game went into an extended delay and when it got started again, Farmington picked up where they left off by holding West Fork without a first- down. Chris Sims, Colton Shadrick, T.J. Askegaard and Brackett were in on stops and West Fork again turned the ball over with a desperation pass falling incomplete on fourth-down after a bad snap.

Farmington converted the possession into points, going 32 yards in six plays with Josh Blew’s touchdown putting the Cardinals in front, 25-0, with the extrapoint blocked.

West Fork came up with their only first-down of the half as time expired with a running clock. The Tigers had only one other firstdown after Montgomery’s long kick return but Dalton Strange made a hit that allowed no gain and the Tigers never scored.

Farmington won 25- 0 and will host 3A Paris on Friday.

Adams said he knows very little about Paris, noting they were a playoff team last year and runnerup to Charleston in their conference.

“They have 17 starters back, it will be a good test for us,” Adams said.

Kickoff is at 7 p. m. on Friday at Allen Holland Field, at Farmington.