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Hunter smacks 300th homer

Updated: Jun 17, 2013 6:14pm

Pine Bluff native and Detroit Tiger Torii Hunter hit his 300th career home run on Sunday in Minneapolis against the Minnesota Twins.

Minnesota, which drafted Hunter in the first round of the...

Gross Memorial Final

Updated: Jun 17, 2013 9:18pm

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<p>Tevin Hammond engineered a 16-14 record for UAPB men’s basketball as a point guard this past season. (Special to The Commercial/Mike Adam)</p>

‘Very frustrating’: Golden Lions, other teams deal with prospects of ban

Updated: Jun 11, 2013 9:41pm

Arkansas-Pine Bluff point guard Tevin Hammond didn’t sign up to miss two years of postseason basketball action, but that’s the very thing he and his teammates are facing, pending a review of the...

SC’s Capps receives offer from Hogs

Updated: Jun 11, 2013 7:16pm

For the first time in about 50 years, a football athlete from Star City has received an offer from the University of Arkansas.

Austin Capps, a defensive tackle for the Bulldogs, received a...

Razorback football safe with 938

Updated: Jun 11, 2013 10:36pm

FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas football was the program that came closest to the Academic Progress Rate benchmark of 900 after netting a four-year score of 938 in data released by the NCAA on Tuesday....

Hoop Hogs surpass cutline

Updated: Jun 11, 2013 10:41pm

FAYETTEVILLE — The Arkansas men’s basketball program has struggled through Academic Progress Rate headaches the past several years, resting well below the NCAA’s mandated cutline.

The...

Digest for 06-12-13

Updated: Jun 11, 2013 10:18pm

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Green sinks hole-in-one

Anthony Green shot a hole-in-one on Saturday using a 9-iron on the No. 5 hole at the Jaycee Golf Course in Pine Bluff. It was witnessed by Joe Blanks,...

Home Runs for Breast Cancer Awareness

Updated: Jun 12, 2013 2:22pm

The second annual “Home Runs for Breast Cancer Awareness” softball tournament will be held at the White Hall softball complex on July 12 and 13.

This year the fundraiser will benefit the...

Baseball success up North

Updated: Jun 11, 2013 6:53pm

LITTLE ROCK — Before Paul Eells found his calling behind a microphone, he fancied himself behind home plate for the Iowa Hawkeyes.

On one of those long trips back from Fayetteville, he...

<p>John Reed of PBNB tags out Alex Kennedy of Southwest Arkansas at second base during Sunday’s 16-under Jim Hill Wood Bat Classic final. (Special to The Commercial/Mike Adam)</p>

Trophy Stays Home: PBNB rides Jones’ arm to 16-under title

Updated: Jun 11, 2013 1:03pm

Pine Bluff National Bank could bank on an all-around performance by Jeffery Jones in Sunday’s 16-under championship of the Jim Hill Wood Bat Classic.

Jones held Southwest Arkansas to three...

<p>Addison Grandy of Wingstop runs for home plate as Arkansas Pulpwood’s William Dever waits for the throw Sunday in the 17- to 19-year-old final of the Jim Hill Wood Bat Classic. (Special to The Commercial/Mike Adam)</p>

Camden club rules wood bats

Updated: Jun 10, 2013 9:03pm

In a wood bat-only tournament, Arkansas Pulpwood stood out the most.

The Camden ballclub hammered 12 hits and overcame an early 3-0 deficit to defeat Pine Bluff’s Wingstop 10-7 Sunday in the...

Digest for 06-11-13

Updated: Jun 10, 2013 9:35pm

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Tigers fall, despite Hunter’s efforts

Torri Hunter was 2 for 4 with a run scored in Monday’s 3-2 loss to Kansas City in Missouri. The Tigers (35-27) had a 2-0 lead after the...

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