Mena Baseball picked up a win in the season finale at Hope on Monday. Riley Gilbert was the winning pitcher. Caleb Peters & Austin Rose each had two hits & Rose earned 3 RBI's.
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Hope-5
Mena finishes with a record of 5-16 / 2-12 on the season. GO BEARCATS!!!
Mr. Pete Rose is leading a hunters education course in the Mena High School Performing Arts Center on Monday & Tuesday. Many students are taking advantage of the opportunity.
Congratulations PAM GROSS on your retirement!
Congratulations to Mena High School juniors AUSTIN ROSE & JARRETT BURGER. The Basscats competed in the Bradford Cup Championship on Greers Ferry this weekend & claimed the trophy as Arkansas High School Anglers of the Year in the Arkansas Youth Federation Team Trail!
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Bearcat Junior Logan Yang attended the State Weight meet in Lake Hamilton on Saturday. He won his weight class and overall in both power clean (305 lbs) and bench press (370 lbs). Athletes from 2A-7A competed at this weight meet.
Congratulations to Mena High School senior Morgan Puckett. Morgan was nominated by her coaches and was selected for the FCA ALL STAR SHOWDOWN. She will be representing the Arkansas team in the game being held in Texarkana on June 16. She will be competing with teammates from across Southern Arkansas. They will be competing against students from Northeast Texas. GO MORGAN!!! GO BEARCATS!!!
The Mena Ladycats won their final softball game of the season on Friday.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Ladycat & Bearcat Seniors were honored at Bob Carver Bearcat Stadium before the soccer games against Nashville.
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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.
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Nashville-3
The Ladycats are back in action on Friday at Arkadelphia.
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The Mena Bearcats led at the end of four but gave up some late inning runs in a tough road loss on Monday.
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Nashville-5
Mena Baseball returns to action on Friday at Arkadelphia!!
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