The Mena Ladycats won their final softball game of the season on Friday. Mena Ladycats-4 Arkadelphia-3 Mena needed to win by 2 in order to extend their season & earn a seed in next weeks regional tournament. The girls finish the season with a record of 9-13/7-7...GO LADYCATS!!!

Mena gave up three runs in the fifth inning & lost a road game on Friday. Sam Efird led the Bearcats at the plate with a pair of hits. Mena Bearcats-1 Arkadelphia-4 Mena will play their final game at Hope on Monday.

The Mena High School 2020/2021 Yearbook was unveiled and distributed to students on Friday by Mr. Andy Philpot and the yearbook staff.

The Mena High School Band & Jazz Band Spring Concert was held Thursday at the MHS Performing Arts Center. The band is under the direction of Mr. Charles Morgan.

Sophomore Olivianna Ortiz showed her classmates how to swing a softball bat and hit off of a softball batting tee yesterday in Mr. Philpot’s Personal Communications class. Despite the rain, Olivianna carried out her Demonstration/How-To Presentation as scheduled.

Seven additional Survey of Business students at Mena High School passed their MOS Excel 2019 certification exams today. Including: Juan Gee Sully Massey Maddox Medlin Elaurel Spencer Zenia Schmidt Sophia Vacca Heidi Wells

The Bearcat Soccer regular season came to an end on Wednesday at Bob Carver Bearcat Stadium. Mena Bearcats-0 DeQueen-10 The boys will compete in a play-in game on Saturday to qualify for next weeks district tournament. We will post Info on who & where that game will be played when it becomes available.

Mena Ladycat Soccer lost to DeQueen in the regular season finale on Wednesday at Bob Carver Bearcat Stadium. Mena Ladycats-1 DeQueen-10 The girls play in the district tournament next week. We will post a bracket as soon as it is available.

Congratulations to Mena High School JAG student CORI HILTON who completed the 2021 National Career Readiness Certification earning platinum status. A National (Arkansas) Career Readiness Certificate is a portable credential based upon the WorkKeys® assessments that demonstrates to employers that an individual possesses the basic workplace skills required for 21st century jobs. Getting a NCRC will allow an individual to show prospective employers that he or she possesses the basic skills they are looking for. Even if a job seeker has a high school diploma, GED or post-secondary degree, the Arkansas NCRC further verifies that he or she can handle tasks such as reading instructions and directions, working with figures, and finding information - tasks common in today's workplace. National Career Readiness Certification (Arkansas Career Readiness Certification) Areas Workplace Documents – The ability to understand information in common workplace documents such as letters, memos, procedures and instructions. Applied Mathematics – The ability to use mathematical reasoning in solving common workplace situations. Graphic Literacy – The ability to understand and extract information from graphics such as diagrams, tables, forms, graphs, and charts. To be certified, you must take all 3 assessments and score level 3 or better in each assessment - (lowest score of three assessments determines the overall level of certification). Each assessment is 55 minutes long.

The Mena Ladycats & Bearcats competed in the 4A Region 7 Sr. Conference Meet at Nashville on Tuesday.The Ladycats finished 7th & the Bearcats finished third as a team. GIRLS High Jump - 3rd Emily Wagner Discus - 4th Madison Birtcher BOYS Long Jump - 5th Caleb Peters Shot Put - 3rd Logan Yang, 7th Bobby Wallis Pole Vault - 2nd Jacob Flemons, 8th Hudson Vacca 4x800 Relay - 3 Mena - Caleb Peters, Trevin Plunkett, Tre McMellon & Logan Myers 1600 M - 2nd Logan Myers, 6th Tre McMellon 300 M Hurdles - 8th Sulley Massey 800 M - 2nd Logan Myers 3200 M - 3rd Logan Myers, 5th Tre McMellon, 7th Trevin Plunkett 4x400 Relay - 5th Mena Click the link to see complete results. https://ar.milesplit.com/meets/405028-4a-region-7-sr-conference-meet-2021/results/738005/raw

Ladycat & Bearcat Seniors were honored at Bob Carver Bearcat Stadium before the soccer games against Nashville. Mena Ladycats-3 Nashville-2 Mena Bearcats-8 Nashville-0 Seniors include: Elizabeth Cecilio Jaci Allen Annie Baker Lauren Sikes Madison Parnel Stephanie Lua Tabitha Levering Makori Gabourel Jet Hernandez Isaac Clark Andrew Davis Jacob Flemons Alessio Byrd Isaiah Kelley GO BEARCATS!!!

Congratulations to senior FFA member Cooper Anderle! Cooper is a recipient of an AR FFA License Plate Scholarship!

Mena Softball lost a close game on the road Monday. Mena Ladycats-1 Nashville-3 The Ladycats are back in action on Friday at Arkadelphia. https://www.menaschools.org/o/athletics/athletics?filter_ids=24459

The Mena Bearcats led at the end of four but gave up some late inning runs in a tough road loss on Monday. Mena Bearcats-2 Nashville-5 Mena Baseball returns to action on Friday at Arkadelphia!! https://www.menaschools.org/o/athletics/athletics?filter_ids=24460

Mena Softball played their last home game of the year Friday at Union Bank Park. Two seniors were honored before the game, MORGAN PUCKETT & EMILY WAGNER.... The game was called after four innings due to rain. Mena Ladycats-10 DeQueen-8 Emmi Hines pitched all four innings for Mena & Libby Sharp had three hits to lead the Ladycats. Mena will play at Nashville on Monday. Go Ladycats!!!!

Gameday Friday April 23rd ! Softball-4:30pm Soccer-CANCELLED - Rescheduled to Wednesday 4/28/21.

Mrs. Kristy Cogburn is pleased to announce that the Spring Choir Concerts will be on Thursday, May 20 in the Performing Arts Center. Middle School Choir will begin at 6:00pm and High School Choirs will begin at 7:00pm.

Bearcat Seniors will be honored prior to Monday's soccer game against Nashville at Bob carver Bearcat Stadium. Including: Jet Hernandez Isaac Clark Andrew Davis Jacob Flemons Alessio Byrd Isaiah Kelley GO BEARCATS!!!

The Mena Jr. Bearcats finished in 4th place at the conference track meet in Nashville on Thursday! 1600m 2nd Place Cooper Plunkett, 8th place Sean Sullivan 4x100m relay 6th Place Omar Cecilio, Jeff Richmond, Sully Massey, Robert Hill 4x200m relay 5th Place Jimmy Glenn, Kalib Cox, Cody Short, Brody Peters 4x400m relay 3rd Place Jeff Richmond, Michael Sullivan, Jimmy Glenn, Mason Burks 4x800m relay 3rd Place Omar Cecilio, Hudson Vacca, Sean Sullivan, Cooper Plunkett 300 hurdles 4th Place Sully Massey High Jump 4th Place Elijah Smith Long Jump 8th Place Robert Hill Triple Jump 4th Place Robert Hill, 7th Place Mason Burks Shot Put 4th Place Carter Cossey, 6th Place JD Murphy, 7th Place Brady Montgomery Discus 3rd Place JD Murphy Pole Vault 2nd Place Cody Short, 3rd Place Hudson Vacca, 7th Place Aden McClure

Bearcat Soccer fell behind early & could not catch up on Thursday at Bearcat Stadium. Hope-7 Mena Bearcats-1 Mena will host DeQueen on Friday.