Note to Our Readers: The following story was sourced in its entirety from Mr. Glenn Parrish, Director of Communications, Booneville School District. Mr. Parrish is a RNN Sports contributor, and we thank him for bringing this story to our readers.
There are four high schools with a form of Bearcat as its mascot in Arkansas.
Booneville has met Mena 63 times for football and have had meetings in most other sports.
Booneville’s Bearcats met Brooklyn previously in baseball and will complete the cycle with a football game against Melbourne on Friday.
Melbourne, which uses a spelling of Bearkatz, will host the game at its Bearkatz Stadium. Melbourne reached the semifinals by beating Glen Rose 21-20 last week.
The Bearkatz (13-0) beat Jessieville 55-14 in the first round and eliminated Greenland 61-51 in the second round. The Bearcats (11-2) beat Osceola 35-20 last week to follow up a 60-14 win over Smackover and one of 42-14 over Junction City.
Greenland is a common opponent. The Bearcats beat the Pirates 55-21 on October. 7.
In Friday’s game at Osceola Dax Goff ran for 189 yards to push his season total to 2,081 establishing a new single season high by a Bearcat.
The Bearcats led the Seminoles 21-20 when Goff went 58 yards for a touchdown with 9:45 to play to make it 28-20.
A ball fumbled into the end zone and recovered by Trace Hall gave the Bearcats a two-score lead at 35-20.
An interception by Jace Washburn ended any late game heroic aspirations by the Seminoles.
Washburn also had a key 30-yard reception in the game to set up the touchdown that made it 21-20. Goff also threw a touchdown pass to Brooks Herrera that led to an 8-8 tie, then caught one from Peyton Tatum on a play that covered 55 yards to give the Bearcats their first lead at 14-8.
