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Decades old rivalry takes to the field Mena set to battle DeQueen on the gridiron Staff Report
The Mena Bearcats traveled to Mansfield on August 18th for a pre-season benefit game. The Scrimmage consisted of one live half, with a running clock session that followed. “Overall, we were pleased with our benefit game. Our starters played a quarter and a half and controlled the game on both sides of the ball. We need to clean up penalties, we had 3 touchdowns called back. I was happy with the way we controlled the flow of the game, mixed in our different personnel packages and the physicality and energy showed on both offense and defense. Defensively we need to do a better job in scramble situations and ending drives when we get an opportunity at a turnover. It was exciting to see what we are capable of on both sides of the ball, and even in the kicking game. I was also very proud of our younger players...they got a ton of reps and moved the ball offensively and made stops on defense when they needed to. They will continue to improve!” said Mena High
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7:30 in Mena will be the 85th meeting School between the two football schools, with De coach, Craig Queen leading the all-time series with Bentley. 51 wins. Mena has 28 victories. There have The first football game ever played in been five ties over the decades. Mena was on November 23, 1912. De Queen The two schools have played annually was the opponent, and M.H.S. prevailed since 1948. Mena and De Queen on the with a 20-6 victory. To put the history of gridiron was a Thanksgiving Day tradition this rivalry into proper perspective, 1912 in the late 1940’s through most of the 1950’s. was the year that the Titanic sank! The game Beginning in 1960, the two schools opened was played at the Polk County Fairgrounds, the season for one another. That tradition which at that time was located on nine acres, ended in 1998, when the Leopards moved at Pickering Avenue and U.S. Highway 71. into the Bearcats conference. The seasonTeams had to play games near the Kansas opening tradition resumed in 2010 as City Southern railway for travel purposes, again, the Bearcats and Leopards are nonsince roads were practically non-existent in conference opponents. 1912. Last year in De Queen, the Bearcats rolled Since that initial contest back in 1912, to a 39-0 victory, scoring all their points Mena and De Queen have battled eightyin the first half. Max Montgomery threw four other times on the gridiron. So the See RIVALRY August 27th renewal of this old rivalry at continued on page 2
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