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.
Mena Senior Girls Basketball Coach Scott Wright has released the post season honors for his Ladycats.
All State
GRAYSON FAIRLESS
All Conference
MADI LYLE
EMMI HINES
EMILY LEONARD
BROOKLYN PENNINGTON
Congratulations to these deserving young ladys !
Tune in FM101 on Monday & listen for NEVAEH AUCOIN !
Nevaeh will have this week's report from Louise Durham Elementary during Bearcat News. Only on Mena Public Schools Radio at
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Mr. Jacob Turner, with the Arkansas Department of Transportation, talked to 5th grade students at Holly Harshman Elementary today about using drones to inspect bridges. Thank you Mr. Turner !!!
MHS Senior Parents:
The Arkansas Challenge Scholarship will be available to all seniors who have completed their FAFSA application and have a minimum ACT superscore score of 19. The ACCUPLACER is an acceptable equivalent test. The ACCUPLACER will be administered free of charge to interested seniors on March 29th at 8 am in MHS Room 202. Seniors must sign up using the form sent to their email from Mrs. Lyle by March 17th.
If you or your senior have questions, please contact Mrs. Lyle or Mr. Walston.
Mena High School Student Council President Will Davis and senior member Sarah Grenier dropped off the Student Council dog food and cat food donations on Friday morning at the Humane Society of the Ouachitas.
Tracy Floyd and Amy Martin represented Mena School District at the University of Arkansas Teacher’s Fair in Conway on Friday.
Our FFA member of the month is Lexi Dilbeck! Lexi is a senior at MHS and has been an integral part of planning, organizing, and conducting events of the Mena FFA Chapter. Lexi is on the Parliamentary Procedure team, the Food Science team, and is a candidate to receive the State FFA Degree this spring. You will normally see Lexi behind the camera at all the FFA activities.
Bearcat Soccer was looking to win back to back games with a win on Thursday at Bob Carver Bearcat Stadium but were only able to manage a tie.
Mena Bearcats - 0
Heavener - 0
Mena will play at Cossatot on Monday !
