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We have had some great basketball the last couple of days, but everyone has been talking about what Saturday is going to hold for us in the five and the six, and it has been a fun time here so far.

Yeah, the first few days have been really good, and now it just kind of culminates to this with the five eight girls, five boys, six eight, 068 boys.

We're expecting huge crowds.

We know there's going to be a ton of people watching us on TV, but we have four great games today.

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Ladies and gentlemen, that whole stadium is welcoming everyone.

Welcome back to Bank arena.

As we get ready to tip off the five day championship between Farmington and Mountain.

Home again, a little orange alongside West, black and West.

This is going to be an exciting one, but let's go ahead and show you exactly how both of these teams got here.

They play in the same conference.

They're very well aware of each other.

And for Mountain Home it was a 67 to 53 win over Valley View to open it up as the two seed, a big time win over Columbia by 1058 to 48.

And then a one point win over Nettleton 59 to 58.

They've got a really good squad here.

That is led by Levy Fox and they were tested in the state tournament.

The big test of course comes a couple of really good wins from home.

There's a good look at the deposit 50.8 points per game.

Option six all round, up to 40 for a very generous offense Saturday.

Yes, and here are some keys to the game with that Farmington.

Look, you got to take care of the ball.

You can't give for easy steals easy points.

They're going to get there to take care of the ball and get his big shots off the glass as you said.

And then dominating in the paint we just saw living there.

But number nine they take advantage of her let her control the pace shot.

Well let's see how it all goes.

And again Farmington the one seed at the top of the bracket.

And here's their route a 90 to 39 win over Batesville to open up the state tournament on to little Rock Christian, which is an exciting matchup 7556 that win.

And then they got the 64 to 58 win over Green County Tech, the team they played last year in the state finals now facing Mountain Home for the third time.

And we all know this offense runs through Easton McCullough.

He's already got a shooting off.

About to look at that 31.5 points per game for East River watching her shoot during warmups.

And it's a very beautiful stroke.

She flips that.

She's going to be fun to watch.

Keys to the game for them.

Yes.

Get her going about home is going to do everything they can to take her away from them.

But you can go to plays, you can get her going and try to pick up your 113th straight victory against in-state competition.

It is incredible what Farmington has been able to do from a lady's basketball stance.

And first time head coach Jessica McCullough, excited to see if they can add another trophy to that trophy case.

We're getting going here in Hot Springs.

Your starters for the home Brooklynn Mitchell, Jayla Yonkers Morgan Walls Lincoln Anderson.

And you mentioned earlier this year Farmington Houston McCullough the only starter from a season ago on this team Josie, Dylan Reed, Shireen and Sadie Morrison are your starting supporting cast here for the Cardinals.

And we're ready to tip off Reese Thornton collecting the ball over to Easton McCullough.

She brings it to the half court looking for an opening here.

Dribbling to the side.

Gets it over to Josie Dillard.

Dillon getting it over to Reed Shirey.

And the freshman.

Opens this one up with a three mountain home.

Came out in the box and one.

And you know what?

Farmington made them pay.

If you're going to pay attention to our stars, the other stars have to beat you.

Absolutely.

Lauren Rawls trying to make the shot, but it is corralled down by Reese Horton and back the other direction Easton orchestrating this offense.

You know it runs through her.

But she's got a talented supporting cast.

Like we just saw Josie Dillard looking for a shot.

Didn't have it.

Back to Easton trying to get the screen.

A little miscommunication there on the roll.

Taken away by Laken Anderson.

She just tries to go up.

It is blocked.

Easton McCullough going coast to coast loses the basketball out of bounds.

But it's going to stay in Farmington a little bit of a hurry up offense right now going west.

Great job by Mitchell to hustle.

Get back in the play and knock it loose I would like to see Mitchell.

If you're going to player face Carter.

Don't let her catch the ball.

Stay on top of her.

Don't worry about if you're going to play a box one.

Go for true box and one and put all your attention on Easton McCullough.

She gets off of it right now.

I go right in the grill the whole time, so she has a hard time catching the basketball.

Maybe over to Josie Dillard looking for any kind of opening.

Shirey taking it misses off the point.

Jayla Yonkers gets the rebound.

Takes it down the other way.

Mountain home here trying to set up their offense.

This one over to Brooklyn Mitchell Mitchell back out to Yonkers.

Hits the three.

And we're tied up now by three a great way to move that basketball around and find that open shot Farmington playing to 131.

They did a good job of working it around and giving it to a wide open Yonkers Easton over to Shirish Giri.

Great set.

Move to the basket.

Drives and gets it to go.

The freshman is going to be a fun one to watch in years to come.

For sure.

The farmington's not a one girl team and her teammates are showing if you're going to put all the attention on it.

We got other scores.

I talked to coach McCullough earlier this week and she said, we know we run through Easton, but every single one of these girls know their roles as the supporting cast.

As a big time three, they're by Lauren Rawls could have hit some shots against Farmington.

And they are.

They have.

Yeah.

They understand their roles the Cardinals do and what that means to play out here around Easton.

Open up three here off the mark for Shirey Mountain home gets it.

And they're going to push the basketball.

Trying to set the tempo right now they're so familiar with this Farmington team.

They know they're going to have an opportunity to knock off the Cardinals.

They're going to have to be aggressive early.

And they're doing their best to McCullough with the basketball again back to half court.

Easton seeing an opening.

Just a beautiful touch there to get on the board.

Her first two points of the day.

And it's a 7 to 6 lead now because they don't like that I mean if you're going to play a box and one the other four if she gets by somebody's got to cut her off.

They let her drop all the way to the basket.

She made that look a little too easy.

You're absolutely right.

The step and the block there by Reese Thornton.

Out of bounds.

But if you give it loose, no one thinks you're going to win this game.

You have nothing to lose.

Everybody is all over pharmacists.

They're shocked.

The world.

They're doing that right now trying the best they can.

Inbounds to Jayla Yonkers Yonkers over to Mitchell Mitchell to the basket.

Gets double team.

She gets fouled by restart.

And she's going to go shoot two at the line.

That's correct myself I shouldn't say no one thinks they're going to win.

Everyone behind.

And behind us thinks they're going to win.

But they didn't hear you win.

Yeah absolutely.

No they know and he knows Coach Leonard.

They've got a tall task ahead of them a big obstacle against this Farmington team.

Mitchell gets on the board with her first free throw of the day.

She hits them both and it is now back to a one point lead for the Lady Bombers.

What?

They stand in the pressure a little bit and since got two up they're opening up here for Dylan Dillard over to.

Sadie Morrison Morrison shot off the mark and the rebound back into the possession of the bombers.

Down into the corner inside.

Good pass.

But it is stripped away.

And they're going to call a foul again on Thornton.

That's her second.

They did a good job of working it inside to foster this.

Got it down the corner.

Made the defense shift a little bit.

Found her right around the low block.

Quickly the double team came.

She tried to split the double team put up the shot.

Got fouled over.

She actually got fouled before the shot.

That shot going to fall.

Now a 3.8 for mountain home 10 to 7 over Farmington.

This Farmington offense has had some shot opportunities.

Anna Smith in the game.

Now for the Lady Cardinals.

Back up to Easton orchestrating an offense.

The block by Morris.

There wide open down low.

Great feed.

Great shot there by Josie Dillard.

And now it's a one point game again great job.

Yes I will say the ball movement.

But this isn't the first time they've seen the jump defense this year.

They've seen that all year.

They know how to run their offense against that.

Trying to get something down low Sadie Morris going in for the shot blocked unfortunately just falls right into Yonkers.

That's going to be a timeout.

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The foul there by Sadie Morrison going to inbound the ball for Mountain Home.

As we take a look at both of these head coaches delivered over 20 seasons at Mountain Home as a head coach.

And Jessica McCullough, her first year as a head coach.

But longtime assistant under Brad Johnson.

Of course, a good player in her own right at Farmington back in the day was a big time basket, and they're going to call it offensive foul, and it's not going to count in travel, move or pivot foot.

I was looking down on my paper and these mountain home fans behind us not happy with it.

And if you want to call trout, you can call because she was pushed in the back.

I mean, the double team came and hit her.

If the foot move, I think there's a reason why.

And then to make matters worse, she made the basket and they blocked it off.

Farmington now with an offensive possession and Smith getting it back to McCullough.

Dillard with the shot off the mark.

Battle for the basketball Morris and grabbed it.

But they're going to call a foul on the floor.

These mountain home fans are upset because I said good block out.

This was a very good block out from by.

What was it like Lake Anderson?

Yes.

No fastness I player to watch great block out.

But she got pulled down so she couldn't get the rebound.

The jumper there by Sadie Morrison.

And we are now back up in front.

The Cardinals up 11 to 10.

Mitchell over to Yonkers Yonkers finding an opening with Rawls.

Trying to get something going on the baseline.

And I've been really impressed early on West with the Lady Bombers aggressive style of play.

Just driving to the basket and making Farmington foul them.

Yeah, I love it.

You got it.

Exactly.

Here's Mitchell down low.

Gets the ball over.

Stolen away by Morris and taken the other direction by Easton.

Just going to stop and pop that beautiful shot.

Watched her hit over and over and again in warm ups for two.

It's a 14 to 10 lead now for the Lady Cardinals.

That is like a lay up for her.

Yeah.

Just to be able to have the confidence to just stop and shoot it like that, it's pretty impressive that one just off the mark.

Rebound down by Morrison over to McCullough.

And she's going to set up the offense once more here.

Farmington on A70 run to retake the lead 153 left in the first quarter.

Looking for an opening over to Dylan Dillard to Shirey.

Shirey three just off the mark in the rebound there by fastness.

Mitchell bringing it back to the half court pushes it over here into the corner for Yonkers Yonkers back to Mitchell.

Cross court over to Anderson Anderson puts up the three.

Great shot to get this one back to a one point ballgame.

Timely shot needed to hit that one.

Get it to 1413 with a minute to go.

Easton with the basketball.

Looking for something Shirey into and a Smith.

Smith with the turnaround jumper off the mark.

Rebound by fastness mountain home will live with that all day long.

Will fade away six foot baseline down into the corner.

That one just off the mark.

They're going to say out of bounds.

It's going to stay with mountain Home.

Krause will inbound.

Into Yonkers Yonkers going to take the three just off the mark Easton McCullough getting away with the rebound.

She's going to take it the other direction.

Still trying to get Farmington's offense into a little bit of a rhythm here.

Double teamed into the corner for Shirey.

Shy redownload as Sadie Morrison.

And that is a beautiful play there.

She's seen that twice already early in this one textbook.

Yonkers came out to get the Double-team get the ball out of McCullough's hand and they kicked it down and got it back into position.

She vacated for the lay up.

Here's Yonkers trying to get it inside.

Stolen away by Dylan Diller, giving it to Easton Easton with some hands in the face.

So she's going to back off.

Takes a step that one maybe blocked a little bit.

That shot the rebound though.

Ball six into Morrison I think that changed possessions for about three times.

But Farmington able to capitalize with that shot.

Now they've got an 18 to 13 lead here with just about one second left on the shot clock to end the first quarter.

It's been a fun one so far in Hot Springs.

It is a five point lead for the Lady Cardinals.

But Mountain Home giving them everything they can here in this state championship game less got to take care of everything.

I don't want to say you had to play perfect, but you can't give up offensive rebounds.

We've seen it twice.

They've converted both times.

You can't turn over the ball.

They've only turned it over three times.

But they keep getting second chance points and points off turnovers.

You got to play on those targets coming in today has been playing pretty well so far.

It's good to see we'll be right back out of this timeout.

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We have some trivia for you.

The Arkansas Governors Quiz Bowl Association What's the record for most points scored by a player in state tournament history?

Which a single game.

It wasn't that long ago.

It it's not one game.

It's been in the 2020s also.

So in the last six years I didn't see it happen.

Did you happen to play for the Razorbacks?

Yes.

It is a player that most of the people in the state that college girls basketball will know what the back of their hand.

Absolutely.

We'll let them think on that and we'll give them the answer here in a bit.

As we start the second quarter at Bank arena here in Hot Springs Mountain home trailing Farmington, 1813, that zone all of a sudden starting to give mountain home some problems.

A lot of deflections, a couple of steals, a couple of turnovers.

Got to be crisp with those passes.

You got to stay aggressive.

We talked about that that first quarter.

We saw them really aggressive down on the baseline.

And that's where they were having some success.

That three just off the mark.

Smith fighting for the rebound.

And they're going to call a jump ball and go towards Farmington.

I was talking about it earlier.

Points off turnovers.

Farmington lead seven to nothing.

They're up by five.

Take care of the basketball.

Second chance points.

Also Farmington leads 4 to 2.

Two offensive rebounds and cashed in both times.

Their season with the basketball.

Looking for an opening.

Trying to drive.

Stopped by Mitchell out to Smith.

Over to Dillard.

Dillard what a sneaky move by Easton to find herself open in the corner.

And it's like the Lady Bombers just lost her.

And you cannot lose Houston McCullough on the court.

Well, they gave her a double screen on the baseline, and of course, the player trailing her, she can't get to her because it's a double screen.

The other players playing in the box have to see that double screen, get to the outside of the screen and be there to guard that shot.

She just kind of popped out of nowhere and and knocked down that three Farmington up now 21 to 13.

On.

The inbound here to Anderson.

Over to Rawls Rawls in the corner looking to drive.

Smith is there to block her now up to Yonkers.

Yonkers.

Back out to Mitchell Mitchell with the three shot.

And that one does fall.

I know they're doing a good job of hitting some clutch threes to get them back in the game.

Keep Farmington from getting too far out.

Mountain home now has four threes just off the mark a little bit on that three.

Tried to answer with her own.

That was the deepest three we've seen her take it has.

That was almost from the bank logo over there.

Yonkers hands it over to Rawls.

Rawls with the basketball now looking for an opening, dribbles it over to Mitchell.

Mitchell out to Yonkers.

The three off the Mark Smith down with the rebound.

And that's Smith.

The one thing she does her size down low really helping the rebounding game for the for the Cardinals Easton over to Smith looking for a move back to Easton.

Wanted that screen there but just an easy two step.

The layup just off the mark.

We're headed the other direction.

Rawls over to an open Yonkers.

Over.

Brown by Shirey.

Back over to McCullough.

Out.

Houston right now with eight points.

Shirey has five.

Morrison has six.

Over to Easton.

Easton down low to Morrison under the basket.

Over to and a stolen away by Rawls.

But she stepped on the baseline.

And it's going to stay with the Cardinals A great steal.

But unfortunately right there on the line oh that was great team defense.

We saw Rawls fired up after drawing a foul earlier.

And she was hustle right there.

Just the definition of hustle to intercept that pass.

Good help defense good team defense scrambling around to help each other Shirey inbounding the ball there and back.

But that one also another turnover so it doesn't cost the mountain the home lady Bombers anything there as Rawls inbounds it to Mitchell.

Mitchell looking for Yonkers to come take the basketball at the top of the key here.

Good.

Look at that.

Two one back to Mitchell.

Nice little trap.

Defense.

Anderson looking for an opening.

Doesn't have one.

Back to Mitchell 12 on the shot clock out to Yonkers Yonkers for three.

That one bounced up and over.

Out of bounds.

And they're going to say it is Lady Cardinals basketball.

Great battle foster trying to get in there and get that rebound.

Farmington sighs no I they made a substitution.

But it's it's worked.

It's taking foster out a little bit.

Remaining aggressive on those boards.

McCullough down low to Shirey in the corner.

Now back to McCullough.

Open Dillard.

Dillard with the shot.

The three on the mark.

She's got five now.

And Farmington has an eight point lead 2416 with 414 left here in the second quarter Mitchell looking for something over to Anderson Anderson with the quick little jumper.

Great.

That's the kind of movement from the basketball.

You want to see what the lady Bombers don't take up too much time.

You get quick baskets like that.

That's going to play in your favor.

Tack that baseline on the zone.

Dillard out to Moore said Morrison looking for an opening down low a nice little sidestep but just off the mark.

Tries to get her own rebound.

But it's corralled by Mitchell Mitchell the other direction looking to push the basketball straight down the lane out of bounds.

And the end.

And right when we take this break they're going to get the basketball out of this timeout.

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Earlier, I asked you what is the record for the most points scored by a player in state tournament history?

I think you do it.

I did.

Melissa, you had a good idea.

I did answer for everybody at home.

It is Izzy Higginbottom from Batesville.

Back in 2021, she scored 57 points.

That's impressive.

And, talking about 57 points in a single game.

Easton McCullough has had some pretty big numbers this season as well.

Back in December, by the way West, she put up 56 in a single game that broke the single game scoring record for Farmington.

Do you want to guess whose record she broke?

There's another trivia question for him.

When you go to one of the sisters, the oh, it's longer than that was 25 years old.

Oh, no, I wouldn't know her mom's.

She broke her mom's.

That's cool.

Yeah, that's her mom's record for 25 years.

And she broke it back in December, which is pretty cool.

Yeah.

Very fitting.

308 left here in the second quarter.

Mountain home with the basketball.

Yonkers in the corner.

Gets it back up to Anderson.

Anderson looking for an opening.

Doesn't have it out to Rawls Rawls with the three off the mark.

And Easton's going to collect it as she moves to the basket driving the sidestep.

They're going to call a foul before the shot on the court.

That one's going to go against Anderson on more than just a shooter.

We saw it right there.

She split the double team with a good drive.

Good ball handler.

Also the biggest thing with Easton to just a sophomore.

But her court vision is so impressive that one off the mark for saving Morrison.

The rebound corralled by the Lady Bombers.

Yonkers bringing it back down.

You know trying to find some kind of opening.

And she is right there.

She was doubled.

And you know she could have forced the shot in the corner.

She gave it up to a teammate.

Teammate gave it up on the back side.

They had a wide open layup.

They ran it did everything exactly correct.

They just missed the shot.

And it's a little bunny at the rim.

And now it's going to get a couple breaks like that.

Because you're going to be gambling with everything you can to stop McCollum.

And sometimes they're going to get an open shot and they miss it.

Yeah.

Eastern her eight points.

She's got two assists though to your point.

And then when you look at the rebounds they've got 11 rebounds compared to Farmington's 13.

The fastbreak there with the basket Josie Dillon gets it.

And one she is going to shoot an extra shot here at the free throw line to extend this lead 2618 right now with 219 left in the second quarter.

There's the unselfishness she intentionally drove to the right just to pull the defender away behind the back pass to a wide open teammate.

This time they convert and the foul.

She understands she doesn't have the success that she has on the court.

Without the four other players around her, and she's such a team player for as good as she is and a skill that she has as just a sophomore.

You mentioned she's got a offer from the Razorbacks.

She's got about 25 other offers to play on the Division one level.

That three bounces up in every part of the rim and then falls down.

She's got double digits now and it is a 3218 lead for the Lady Cardinals.

Here's Raul.

She looked to shoot it.

Thought thought against it.

Over to Mitchell stolen by Morrison.

And we're moving back the other direction.

Turnovers that take care of it out to Dillon Dillon and the wing.

Back to Easton.

Easton to Anna Smith.

Smith just looks around.

No one's there so she's just going to shoot it.

That three off the mark.

And.

Mountain home is moving.

There's Mitchell looks to make the shot.

The block is going to be called a foul on Smith.

And Mitchell is going to go to the line to shoot 232.

And there's a reason why she was wide open.

The line change.

And they'll let her shoot the live with that shot all day long.

That one bounces around and out now three for two for three to look at our officials.

We got Jake Black Colby burner.

Razorback fans may recognize they know that name to be working the state championship football game I believe.

And we have Jean afterwards.

That's your officiating crew today.

So Mitchell splitting her free throws.

They're about 30 to 19 McCullough seeing an opening drive and down in the basket.

The foul.

It looks like they're on Ross.

The mountain home fans behind us didn't like it taking on number three.

But Easton is going to drive down that lane.

If she sees an opening, she's going to take it.

The inbound from Shirey down to Morris and Morrison.

That was great pass.

She put it right on her extended hand.

Brought it in low hook shot.

She was good.

Sadie now has eight as does Dillard for the Lady Cardinals.

Out of bounds on heading into the other direction.

Again turnovers as you talked about you have to protect the basketball and you can't give it back like that without something to show for it.

32 seconds here left in the half.

It's a 32 to 19 lead for the Lady Cardinals Easton over two shot hits the three.

And the freshman knocking down the three from the wing.

So mountain home here with a chance to try to score before the end of the break.

13 seconds Mitchell with the shot.

That one just off.

And I think she could have chosen a little bit of a better shot there.

Yeah you wait you don't want to give Farmington another shot at the end.

But that's the frustration.

You hung around.

You hung around a couple of turnovers.

Next thing you look up and here you're down 16.

And instead of that you ready.

And so just like that with three seconds left and now more than three and it is 38 to 19 in favor of Farmington.

They're going to go into the locker rooms and talk about it.

But it has been a fun first half of basketball West here in Bank of arena.

What a shot.

That's exactly what you do not want to give Farmington another shot I don't want to give her that a ten.

Nothing but net and 19 point lead as we go to the half.

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Stick around because this is Arkansas TV where Arkansas stories come to life.

Coming up, Christina munoz as you to The Incredible Arkansas TV student All-Stars.

But first from the small town of Newark, Arkansas, two kids with big dreams prove that anything is possible.

Spencer and Austin Reeves just didn't make it to professional basketball.

They came back home to share what they learned.

Check out this story on how two Cedar Ridge High School graduates are using their success to inspire the next generation through their summer basketball camp.

My name is Spencer Reeves.

I'm from Newark, Arkansas.

I went to Cedar, a high school.

I do camps during the summer, and I played professional basketball overseas.

The rest of the nine, ten months out of the year.

My name is Austin Rivers of Newark, Arkansas.

Played basketball for the Los Angeles Lakers.

We want to show those kids that it's possible to live your dream.

Don't let anybody tell you anything different.

No.

Good.

Yeah.

We can.

We?

We always wanted to do something for the community and for the kids because, you know, Austin and I went to a lot of camps growing up, so it was kind of a fun thing we like to do with our friends during the summer, where we could go and learn and have a lot of fun.

Spencer and I go back to college.

Him and I kind of came up with the idea of, you know, camp is a really good opportunity to give back to the community, not just in the Newark area where they're from.

That was one of our first things, you know, talking about, you know, we wanted to come back here and do these camps.

Our camp is not just come in and play a bunch of games.

We really take pride in the development of the kids and the players.

They all have a different station of a certain basketball skill.

They'll teach.

And and we have some excellent coaches that come from all over the country.

And, and I trust what they're going to teach them at their certain stations.

And when we break up and play with the kids, the one coach will do shooting, one coach, new ball handling and then defense and spacing.

So you give them the general idea of what you want them to teach to the kids.

And you kind of just let them create what they want to create.

Mostly about learning the big game of basketball, learning and spacing learning terminologies for the game of basketball.

You know, we're looking for one of these and one more to back.

So just knowing the game and just being taught the game the right way.

I really focus on the kids who are just going to pick up the energy.

You know, they encourage the other kids.

And like if I say, hey, you got to make ten.

The kids are counting the loudest, you know, and they just, like, bring the energy to every girl that like you.

That's one of our coaches out there was a camper for us three years ago.

The camp was really good for building a little bit of community with your group that you were with, and I remember there's a few of them that later in the season we would play and I would always say I never would conversation with them.

I still keep up with them now getting out and seeing other places, seeing other people, leading other people.

Billy bonds with these other people.

And hopefully Arkansas can just have more opportunities for kids like this.

Sports can bring people through all walks of life.

You know, it doesn't matter.

Ethnicity, anything.

Like everybody can bond over all sports.

The whole point and the main focus is, is the community and trying to open different opportunities for players that not only have the ability to do so, but don't have as much opportunity as others as well.

There's always been a lot of talent in Arkansas.

Give these kids an opportunity to see in real life that their dreams don't have to just be dreams.

They could go make them reality.

They just got to work really hard to.

I just know I love the game of basketball.

I love impacting young kids lives.

Fun.

Yeah.

Does not let anybody tell you anything different.

If they do, don't listen to them.

And if I did, I wouldn't be in the position I am today.

So it's really just about showing them that, if possible, to do what they want.

Two professional basketball players from a high school like Cedar Ridge is, is kind of unheard of.

We just want to do it together to show that, like it doesn't matter where you come from, doesn't matter your background, you know, where you grow up.

It doesn't matter if you work hard and and it doesn't even necessarily have to do with basketball.

It can be life lessons towards anything.

It can be sports.

It can be work.

Just that if you work hard enough and you're persistent at doing that, you can be successful in life.

Spencer Austin's message is clear it doesn't matter where you come from or what obstacles you face.

With hard work and determination, dreams can become a reality.

We celebrate these homegrown heroes who remind us that success isn't just about where you go, but about remembering where you came from and lifting others along the way.

Now let's toss it over to Christina.

She's going to introduce you to some very hardworking student athletes.

Christina.

That's right.

Thank you.

Steve.

Earlier this season, we launched a statewide search for the best of the best athletes who dominate the game.

And the great book.

Now meet the Arkansas TV student all stars, class of 2026.

We start things off in one A with Maggie Tyrone of the Norfolk High School Panthers.

Maggie maintains a 3.5 GPA, and when she isn't writing poetry, she plans to play college ball and major in psychology.

Representing the boys is Kiana Wingfield, a senior point guard for the Nevada Blue Jays.

Kiana holds a perfect 4.0 GPA and is headed to Hvac school after graduation.

Moving to today, we have Caitlin Ledbetter representing the Acorn High School Tigers, a 4.0 student who loves the outdoors.

Caitlin is set to pursue a career in nursing for the two a boys, it's Xavier Jones from the Fordyce Red bugs.

Xavier carries a 3.9 GPA and is weighing his future between college football and the military.

In class three, a neat Kenzie McCarty of the Dover High School Pirates.

She boasts a 4.2 GPA and plans to study speech pathology while staying active in her church and traveling.

Representing the Newport High School Greyhounds is Jessen Russell.

Jessen also holds a 4.2 GPA and aims to earn a business degree to transition into the real estate field.

Halfway through the classifications, we find Sadie Meyer with the Highland Rebels, a 4.0 student athlete.

Sadie has already signed to play at UT Martin from Shiloh Christian.

We have Duke Bowman representing the Saints.

Duke has a 4.0 GPA and is committed to Simpson College to study finance and continue his basketball career.

Representing five A is Bailey Barton of the Beebe High School Badgers with a 4.05 GPA.

Bailey is committed to Washita Baptist University for nursing and serves as a director for local peewee basketball programs.

For the five boys, it's Mason Stallings from the Greenbrier High School Panthers.

An avid hunter with a 4.04 GPA.

Mason is headed to the University of Arkansas to study civil engineering.

Rounding out the girls is Kylie Johnson of the Conway Lady Wampus Cats, a 4.0 sophomore.

Kylie already has several college offers on the table, including the University of Arkansas.

And finally, for the six AA boys, we have Sammy Kenzie from the Harbor Wildcats.

Sammie holds a 4.1 GPA and is looking forward to playing college basketball at the next level.

Congratulations and keep up the good work.

All right Steve, it is about that time.

Yes it is Christina.

Let's get you back out to Ozark Arena for the second half.

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We are all set here for the second half between Farmington and Mountain.

The home, the five, a girls state championship game.

And as we head out of the break, Farmington with a 38 to 19 lead over the Lady Bombers and Mountain home coming out shooting early, nailing down some threes was Yonkers.

And there's Rawls with a three of her own.

But Farmington's offense just really started it going in the second half.

Morrison with the little jumper shot there Ethan McCullough with almost a half court three pointer to end the break.

And as you look at the Split West right now shooting favoring the Lady Cardinals 54% but points over turnovers favoring mountain home paint points favoring the Cardinals 16 to 2.

And that's going to be big here in the second half with Sadie Morrison having so much success.

Rough second half.

Our second quarter for Mountain Home.

They only made two shots.

They were two for ten from the field and turnovers was one of my keys for the game.

You got to take care of the ball from Mountain Home.

We saw the number for turnovers, points off turnovers 13 to nothing in favor of Farmington.

They have a 19 point lead 13 of them right there.

You got to take care of the ball the second half.

It's the simple things that make some shots.

Keep keep them off the boards and take care of the ball.

I guarantee you that's what Coach Leonard told them at the break.

As we get going here, McCullough leading all scorers with 14 and Mountain Home.

We'll start with the basketball over to Mitchell Mitchell finding rolls back to Mitchell.

Looked for the shot.

Didn't take it over to Anderson.

She will take it.

That three off the mark.

Rebound.

Corralled by the lady Cardinals Easton McCullough taking it the other direction looking for an opening.

She gets stopped so she sends it to Shireen over to Morrison and back to McCullough.

McCullough to Dillon.

Dillon looking for an opening.

For the quick little pass over.

Finding Shirey in the corner.

Good movement here early from the Lady Cardinals.

Easton weaseling her way down into the lane.

Gets that layup to go to extend this lead.

Yonkers looking for something over to Mitchell Mitchell trying to get it inside to Anderson.

But she could not.

She tries to shoot the three.

And that one air balled into out of bounds.

Need to get the defensive stop here.

You got to.

You got to find a spark somehow.

Quit looking at the scoreboard.

Forget about the scoreboard.

Just possessions after possession.

Farmington's defense coming out just like they were playing in the second half.

That three by Easton off the mark.

But it is corralled by Reese Thornton.

She puts it back in for two.

It's good time now because girls just looks deflated right now.

And somehow he's got to find Sampson.

Got her energized a little bit.

It feels like they're a little bit of a step behind.

Half step behind here.

And you're still in this one.

I know it's 42 to 19, but you can go on a run and you can get some offensive motivation kind of going.

Yeah.

Ten no run would do good wonders for this team and get them excited.

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We had some really good games and I have a feeling the next three today are going to be outstanding.

Very different boys.

Oh my gosh, you have to check this one out.

They're going to get after each other.

For the girls in the six day Harbor and North Little Rock.

All two, including Bryant and Central, are going to be in the stands for that one last.

I'm not going anywhere to think about Harbor North little Rock girls.

That's the one they the one seed from the central, the one seed from the west.

The two best teams win the state tournament again, will be playing for a state championship.

Excited for that one later on tonight.

But we are still getting going here in this five girls state title game.

Yonkers with the ball over to Mitchell Mitchell takes the three.

That one off the mark.

The rebound by Morrison.

And another empty possession for the Lady Bombers.

Gotta talk about the rebounding.

Two for Farmington an upset if they're not just a one person show coach putting on a show.

There she is finding that little spot in the wing gets the three to go and fouled.

So she's going to have a four point opportunity here at the line.

Mountain home has one offensive rebound.

That was what I was making the point Farmington is doing a great job of getting them those misses.

Not giving mountain home any second looks.

But I think a big credit to the size and athleticism of Morrison and Smith.

When Smith is in the game, just wasn't able to corral a lot of those offensive rebounds, and Boston hasn't scored yet.

I haven't seen her name much.

They've just not been able to get the ball inside.

To her credit to the defense for the Lady Cardinals, here's Anderson over to Rawls.

Back to Anderson.

Still trying to get it to forces inside and not having any success there.

Yonkers gets the layup attempt her own rebound.

Tries again but it's knocked out of bounds.

And that's the length to the size force of the altar shot.

And then the shoots getting her own rebound.

Just the you know here come that you know you know that size is coming.

You panic a little bit and it just goes off your hand.

Easton looking for an opening.

And she's got one around fastness gets the bucket and one.

So she's going to go back to the charity stripe to add another point on the scoreboard if she can.

It's a 48 to 19 lead right now with 530 left in the third.

She makes this one.

She'll have 23 points I think I just Inkster player Jinxes are real.

Mitchell with the ball over to Anderson right there at the top of the key.

Tries to get that jumper to go and does not Yonkers tried to get the rebound but it's taken by McCullough McCullough just able to dribble down.

Tries to shoot up that three.

The rebound by Thornton.

She gets it and she gets the basket.

And she's going to go to the line.

Now.

Second basket of the game for thought.

She already has four rebounds.

So give her an offensive rebound five rebounds and four points.

Come on.

That's going to be the second foul.

On falseness.

Oh they did not call it.

They called it on the floor.

On the floor is not good okay.

McCullough over to Dylan.

Wide open for three off the mark.

The rebound by Anderson.

Now the Lady Bombers are going to try to move in transition.

Great pass down for Mitchell.

And that is what this Lady Bombers offense needs to do.

Push the basketball get transitional points.

It's an easy looks but to get an easy look you got to get a stop in the rebound.

You got to put all those pieces together.

Good pass there by Morris.

And down to Easton.

That one bounces around and in 50 to 21 here with 424 left to play Yonkers over to Mitchell Mitchell nowhere to go out to Rawls Rawls for three off the Mark Easton with the rebound.

Now she heads the other direction looking around for her teammates.

And she's just going to take this one herself.

Instead she makes contact.

Yeah I thought you draw a foul there with a full body check but no foul call.

Now Easton starting to get her groove.

You can tell 26 points for the sophomore a big time three though by Rawls.

And that is exactly what the Lady Bombers need to continue to do to stay in this game.

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All the fans and all the agents enjoying today's festivities.

Take a look at our Arkansas TV sports student All-Stars.

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4.05 72 ERA era.

That's the GPA.

There you go.

It is baseball season.

Maybe she's a decent pitcher, too.

Sadie Morrison with the ball.

She's going to drive to the lane, kind of pass it out of bounds.

They say it's going to stay with Farmington.

That got deflected.

It's on the other side so we can't see it as well as they can.

Thornton puts up the ball tries to get her own rebound.

Great way to save that basketball.

Shirey throwing it back in bounds.

Oh my goodness.

Starting to feel it.

Oh she's going to she's going to go back to it.

And I don't know if she's going to be able to stop.

That is impressive 29 points.

Does Easton McCullough.

It is a 55 to 24 lead at the moment.

She has more points right now individually than the Lady Bombers came on the scoreboard.

And that is how quickly she can get hot.

If we get a chance, I'd love to see that play from Shirey again to save it from out of bounds.

That is twice that she has jumped out of bounds throwing it back in bounds and they've gotten points off of it in the first half.

They got a layup off of it.

And that time they get the long three.

Great pass down low to Smith.

Smith gets that bucket.

That is her first basket of the day to extend the Lady Cardinals lead here.

Yonkers trying to put up a three herself off the rim.

Fastness gets the rebound goes up with it.

She is fouled by Morrison.

And she's going to shoot two at the line.

A chance for foster to get some much needed points.

She doesn't have any quite yet but they haven't really been able to get the ball down into the lane for her to have any kind of opportunity to shoot the basketball.

She makes that first one, and they've done a really good job of keeping her off the glass.

She is a very good rebounder.

She has five rebounds, but that was her first offensive rebound of the game.

As she makes the second.

So two points for fastness on that trip.

5726 253 left.

Easton driving down going to pass it out.

Watch how she moves the ball.

A little miscommunication there between Dillard and Easton and that one.

A turnover mountain home.

Take that.

Any day of the week.

And Chip McCullough was cutting was about to cut to the basket.

Her teammate thought she was going to pop out.

Mountain home back with the basketball.

Yonkers putting up a three.

That one just off the mark.

And another empty possession for the Lady Bombers.

Now they're going to press a little bit.

And to Dillon Dylan going to take the ball down looking for McCullough.

She cashes it over to Morrison.

Morrison's got the basketball looking for an opening out to Cameron Farish.

Now Easton's got the basketball.

Great little pass there by Morrison down low Anna Smith.

The turnaround just off the mark out to Dylan to 14 on the shot clock.

Easton going to reset the offense.

Fans are going to pull it.

They want to shoot it from right there.

She could have.

She passes it out to Ferris.

And right there.

Comes off the bench hits the three.

It's one of those offensive days for the Lady Cardinals.

Mitchell over to Anderson.

Anderson the little jumper will go make it Anderson.

Yeah Farmington's tough to beat.

They're even tougher to beat when they're shooting 53% from the three point line.

They are now ten of 19.

And that's exactly what they wanted to come in here and do and not worry about the fact you've played Mountain Home twice.

You beat them twice in the regular season that their conference opponents.

And there there's a conversation I had earlier this week with coach McCullough, and I asked her, do you think you know, what is Farmington?

What is Mountain Home going to do differently against you the third time around?

And she says, you know, what's one of those things where you really just have to focus on ourselves and do what we do well?

And if we can do that and we can shoot 58%, or if we've got confidence that it really doesn't matter what any team throws at us.

I know for all of us, well, they are shooting 58% from the floor.

It's working out well again.

Jessica McCullough, first year head coach for Farmington, longtime assistant under Brad Johnson, coach Johnson leaving to join Kelsey Music staff at Arkansas.

And so that opened the door for her to step into that head coaching role as I tried to get the the basketball win bounced right over our heads there.

Wow.

And I asked her how this first year has been as the head coach.

And she says not much has changed.

I have to do a little bit more than I did before.

But you know, for me it was just keep the train on the tracks.

No pressure.

Right?

With this, Farmington team has been able to do as a program over the years, their seventh straight appearance in the state title game.

Big time play up there by Yonkers, 62 to 31 Farmington over Mountain Home as the final 40s here tick off in the third quarter.

Morrison, looking for an opening over to Farish, fires, crosses half court just going to take it.

And that one blocked out of bounds by Yonkers.

Isn't this crazy to think about was seven straight years they've been in the state title game.

Easton McCullough was in third grade.

It's a program.

It is.

I mean, it is just a program that reload, rebuild.

No, they don't rebuild.

They reload every year.

Just.

And it starts at an early age, a tradition.

And that's what's expected.

You know, it's a bad year if they don't make it to the state finals and players want to play for that program, they understand what it means to be a Lady Cardinal and be on this team.

And even talking with her again this week, she said.

There are players on our team who could be starting at other schools, but they want to be a part of this program and the talent that they have on that bench is something special.

There's a staff they haven't lost to an in-state opponent since the year 2022.

That's when Nashville beat them in the state finals.

Since then, Farmington moved up in classification, but it was 2022.

Nashville right here in the final.

Last team from Arkansas to beat them both their losses.

Of course, this year coming out of the state of Arkansas 112 straight victory, it's looking to make it 113 today.

To add to that, they have not lost to a conference opponent since 2021.

Mountain home a conference opponent if you want to call it that here in the state finals.

Over to Dylan Diller finding East McCullough wide open in the wing.

And she's just making it look too easy today.

McCullough now has 32 points.

Good shot by Yonkers.

Gets her own rebound.

Puts it back but not falling.

And that just feels indicative of how the struggles offensively for the Lady Bombers continue.

Out to Morris and Morrison finding Dillard in the wing.

She's got the shot up as time expires here in the third.

And they're going to call a foul.

Yeah.

Took the corner three and got a letter land and some contact there I think there was some contact.

They saw some contact.

It was on the opposite end of the court from us.

So I couldn't see anything I was watching in front of us.

Were a little bit of the mountain.

Home players got their feet tangled up.

Yeah, went to the ground and that kind of distracted us.

Meanwhile, the ball was in the corner getting shot by Dillard.

But yeah, a little bit of a collision here right in front of us at the bank of Z logo.

I think they're looking at it now just to see where the time is.

And so they put on 4/10 of a second left.

She's going to shoot three free throws.

Makes the first one seven threes for eastern today.

Their offense has just gotten better and better every single quarter 18 in the first 20 in the second.

Right now they're sitting at 27 points in the third quarter.

So she makes that one as well 6731 as the final.

That's the second takes off here in the third quarter.

We've got one more to play here at Bank arena.

As Farmington looks to try to win another state championship.

Here's that hustle play from Shirey diving out of bounds.

Just tapping it in the hustle.

Kick it out to McCullough.

And how about a deep three.

But 32ft 33ft nothing final.

Impressive.

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We've got one more quarter here to play between Farmington and Mountain Home.

And a reminder for you, the five eight boys game right after this between Marion and Parkview in our nightcap going to be exciting.

And the six eight girls and boys harbor and North Little Rock for the girls, Brian and Little Rock central for the boys.

Bryant trying to win back to back state championships.

Central trying to see if they can come in here and play.

Spoiler.

That's going to be a lot of fun.

And a Smith here with the basketball looking for McCullough.

McCullough had Mitchell on her and she is able to push that basketball out of bounds.

You tell you what I saw really cool moment during the timeout.

Phosphors gathered her four teammates on the floor right in front of us and gave them just a really spiritual pep talk, just to remind them where they are.

Let's have fun in this fourth quarter.

Yeah, it's a rolling clock.

We're down by 30.

But this is a moment.

You know, this is something we'll remember for the rest of our lives.

So let's enjoy this fourth quarter.

Don't get your head down and just a great job of picking up her teammates.

You love to see that.

One thing that Coach Leonard had said earlier this week with this team, last year's team that lost to Greene County Tech was the team everyone thought was going to go to the state finals and compete.

No one really thought maybe this team had what it took to get there.

And here they are.

And they've gone through a lot of adversity and they've battled this season.

And to be here in this building for any team is an accomplishment in itself.

A mountain home parent during the halftime break and she just went on and on how proud the town is of them just to be here.

And they knew it was going to be a tough game and they all know how good Farmington is.

But just reiterating what a great year has been, and this does not diminish what a special year that they have.

It definitely does not.

You have to remember all the wins and everything it took to just get here.

In general.

That's there's a reason why you celebrate at the state tournament after their semifinal victory.

It is a huge accomplishment to punch your ticket just to get here.

And they take pictures and celebrate.

And I think they should because they should.

Exactly.

We know how difficult it is to win a state championship.

It's difficult just to get here.

So celebrate the fact that you made it to Hot Springs.

East of losing the basketball, they're corralled and moving towards mountains Holmes basket.

Here's Mitchell looking for an opening.

Doesn't have one in the corner.

She gets it over to Rawls.

Rolls to Yonkers Yonkers going to shoot for three.

And she hits that one.

Here's Yonkers with 11.

The transition offense working now from Easton Thornton with the basket and the easy quick layup 6936.

Our score right now with 525 year left to play in this one fastness with the basketball.

Tries to have that move down low.

Doesn't get it to go out to Anderson Anderson for three off the mark Morrison gets the rebound and back out to Easton.

Morrison moves to the basket.

Trust to get that one to go.

And it's a little bit too strong.

Dillard with the rebound back out to Morrison.

Morrison cross court over to Shirish.

Shirey to Dillard.

And mountain home not backing off defensively Joe the illegal screen there from Sadie Morrison.

She was her third person I will have to say this mountain home defense remaining scrappy.

Oh they're chasing.

They are running and trying to contain McAloon playing help defense.

Rawls with the basketball right in front of us over to Mitchell.

Mitchell look to take the shot.

Passes it over to Yonkers quickly to fastness and open Rawls.

Rawls trying to get the basket to go, but she does not.

She bombs McCullough.

And that is going to be a foul for the desperate and merciful.

They're going to take immediate timeout here with that foul has fouled out.

That's her fifth.

Maybe maybe not.

They're discussing it right now.

Yeah.

We are not going to take a media timeout.

We're going to hang out with you guys.

We didn't want you guys to go anywhere.

It's chairs is going to check in for Rawls.

Shirey inbounds the ball to McCullough 6936 333 left here in the fourth quarter.

McCullough looking for an opening has Shirey in the corner.

And that is a foul on Anderson.

Mount first mass substitution for Mount Hope.

So here we go.

And now comes Addison McCarron.

Deanna.

Human to McKenna miller.

And number.

And Lily at Coffey here coming in for mountain home.

And.

You heard the crowd behind us.

The mountain home faithful standing ovation for these players and girls who have fought so hard today for the lady, for Mercedes Morrison with that basket to put Farmington over the 70 point mark at 7136.

Great to recognize those players for what we were just talking about before.

The very same thing with her bench.

Dylan corrals that loose ball over to Easton.

Easton just off the mark.

Gets the ball back to Shirey.

Gives it right back to McCullough.

Out to Shai.

Recio hit the three across and the freshman is going to make a statement as now the Lady Cardinals are swapping out their lineup number two and become numbers Uniqua McGee, Trista dos Santos, Cameron Farish, Reese Spurlock and Caitlin Bracey to play here for the Lady Cardinals.

Some of the minute and a half left exactly and again, a lot of talent.

They have a deep bench players who could be playing anywhere want to be a part of this Lady Cardinals basketball team.

Gracie with the basketball out to McGee.

McGee looking to try to take it.

Blocked over the DOS.

Dos.

Back to Bracey.

Looking to shoot Farish.

Good sidestep.

Tries to get the layup to go and does not the rebound back to mountain home.

We are under a minute the final minute here in regulation with Farmington up 74 to 36.

And another successful trip down to Hot Springs for the Lady Cardinals here.

Going to add another trophy to that trophy case and continue.

The dominant basketball that they play year in and year out.

That one just off the mark 30s left DOS puts up another shot.

It looked like all her teammates on the bench wanted her to shoot that one.

Try to make it.

There's a three.

That one by Addison McCaughan.

You heard it from the fans.

They want everybody to score this getting it Farmington crowd now on their feet.

They're clapping seven.

Six five.

That is a very good Farmington lady.

Cardinals are your five girls state champions.

Once again a successful trip to Hot Springs as.

It's a lot of celebrating and smiles and cheers over there in that Lady Cardinals huddle.

And the first state championship for Jessica McCullough as the head coach at Farmington.

Another impressive showing for the Lady Cardinals.

We'll be right back with the trophy celebration.

And to talk with the head coach and your MVP, who I assume will be her daughter Easton here in just a bit.

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As we get ready now to talk to the wedding head coach Jessica McCullough.

Jessica, congratulations on this win.

You knew if you came in here in this team just took care of business and played their game, you were going to have success.

What did you like the most about your performance from your team today?

You know, I just I got to brag on them for a minute because, you know, the traditions before them.

There's a lot of pressure for these girls to win.

And they handle that pressure.

And they played tough all season long.

And I think it shows a lot about who they are as people, too.

Great kids.

And I just I'm just so proud to be their coach.

You talk about the pressure on them.

What about the pressure on you?

Your first year, I mean.

Yeah, you don't want to mess this up.

Yeah.

I think I actually had someone tell me that, like, you want to fill those shoes.

I'm like, no, I really don't.

But here we are.

And so, you know, and like I said, this is a unique year for me.

I've been part of this program for 21 years.

This is my 21st year, 20 of those as an assistant.

So, you know, when I came in, I knew I wasn't changing what we had done.

You know, it was just to continue to build on what?

What the the players before these players did and the coaches before me.

And it was just to continue with our culture and our foundation.

You know, we're big on relationships and we just feel like laying that groundwork leads to success.

And I'm just so proud of these girls you talked to earlier in the week with me about just how everyone knows their role on this team, and you saw that today and on display, and how they distributed the basketball and what everyone's roles were.

And some of that stuff doesn't show up on the stat sheet that we hold, you know.

Yeah, they are just they're so unselfish.

I mean, they truly are.

They play for what's across the front of their jersey.

And they, they care about winning more than anything else, more than any individual stat they could have.

And I think that they just have proven like that's the recipe to be a champion.

And they did it.

You know that defensively y'all did a good job.

Not many offensive rebounds.

So you did a good job there.

And then the ball movement on offense I know you've seen every kind of jump defense there is.

Yeah.

But it doesn't faze them at all.

The way they move the ball and get it to an open open girl and the open shot.

Yep.

I'm glad you touched on the rebounding because I was one of our keys to winning.

You know, we knew we've had some games this year.

We didn't rebound it like we wanted to.

And and we really focused on that at this game.

And our kids did it.

And like you said, we've seen every defense.

There could be a prep time every time in practice.

So our kids just executed nicely real fast.

Before you take the headset off, can you take them, coach, cap off and put the mom hat on for a minute?

How proud of you are of of tonight.

You know, I see the work that Easton puts in behind the scenes.

You know, everybody else gets to see your talent out here in games.

But I know what she does outside of here.

And she really has as deserving of every accomplishment and every accolade she receives.

But beyond that, she's an incredible player.

But, I'm the most proud of the type of person she is.

She's an incredible teammate.

She is an incredible leader.

And and I'm proud of how she represents our program.

Congratulations on the win.

Coach, I'll let you take that headset off and hand it to Easton, and we'll talk to her.

We appreciate your time.

Thank you.

Coach.

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The headset now on Easton McCullough the MVP Easton.

You got the offense going.

And then it just finally felt like you could miss out there.

What did it take a little bit to kind of get that going.

And then you started to find your rhythm.

Obviously we're very comfortable with the team there in our conference.

You've already played them two times, so we knew they have a game plan for me.

So I think we talked about all week.

Just shoot it with confidence.

And I think that's what they did.

Obviously you hit it three I think the very first possession of the game that kind of got us going, and I think that opened me up the second half just because they were knocking down shots the first half that they didn't know how to guard.

So I think that helped a lot in the second half.

We kind of we kind of looked more like us, who kind of flowed a little better.

And I think that's because of that first half.

Everyone shot it with confidence and scored well.

And I think that that led to our aggression for sure.

How much have you been working to improve your ball skills?

Yeah, I noticed today just how different of a player you are from just a year ago in handling the ball, running the offense, running the point guard.

How much of that been an emphasis?

Yeah, well, people always think I'm just a shooter, but I mean, I think I do more than that.

I think I've shown just from last year, I think I handle the ball more.

I think I make better decisions, I think I play better.

So I think that's been that's been our big emphasis in the summer and just in our off season, just trying to be more like a playmaker, not just a shooter, because people obviously know I'm a good shooter, but I can bring more to the table for sure to go to go on that yet.

Seven assists.

So there is that, of course, as you as you build on your your game, when you look at this team, what does this one mean to you with this team to take that trophy back to Farmington?

No.

Yeah.

It's awesome obviously because we lost all our seniors last year.

No one really no one really expected us to be back here except for us.

And I think that that showed a long way.

You know, this is our first year, everyone playing together.

But no one would know that just just by the type of chemistry we have on the court and off the court.

So I think that's just carried us a long way.

And it's been a really fun year and I'm really proud of them.

I guess that's why we heard the four peat.

Cheers.

Yeah, that meant so much.

Yeah.

Now, do you all start preparing for the five heat and the five peat?

Cheers.

I think we'll celebrate this one a little longer first before we get on to that.

But obviously we lose two senior three seniors that have been in this program through all that.

So, you know, it's tough missing them.

But we'll be we'll all prepare good and be ready next year.

I think you're allowed to celebrate this one for at least a week before you guys.

So it might be longer before you before you guys have to move on to the next one.

Ethan, congratulations on the championship.

Thank you for the time.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Great job.

That is going to do it here for the five A girls state championship.

And again we've got a fun one on tap next Marion and Parkview.

The five eight boys go to battle it out for a state title right here in Bangkok Arena in Hot Springs.

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I'm Alyssa Orange and we've got a lot more basketball fun.

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