OFFICIAL BULLDOG REPORT: Championship Saturday for the Nation

[NEark tigers]

After two grueling games featuring the senior girls ans senior boys last evening, the Earle Bulldogs find themselves on the biggest stage. Championship Day at the district tournament awaits.

First, the senior girls defeated the defending league and state champion Marmaduke, 63-56, in one semifinal. Roshala Scott made the biggest impact for the Lady Bulldogs, as she tallied 24 points, 8 rebounds, 6 steals, and 4 assists in her second game since moving up from the championship junior team. The Lady Bulldogs will now play EPC for the title.

As for the senior boys, who were coming into the game with a perfect regular season, knew that EPC would play them totally different, and they did for the first half. They decided to stall the game and slow the pace. EPC led 7-5 after the first, but Earle led at the half, 23-18. But Earle led the rest of the way, holding off EPC for the 52-43 victory. The Bulldogs will now face the tournament host and second seed Marked Tree.

[Pit Bull]

Go Bulldogs...

[ISU7]

Post the scores by quarters  PIt.

[NEark tigers]

Earle.    54
EPC.      43

FINAL

Earle: First conference tournament championship since 1993

[Mr. Trill]

I will post scores if no one else does

[Mr. Trill]

Back to back 3's to start EARLE 14-7

[Mr. Trill]

Earle 14 MT 11 End of 1

[Mr. Trill]

MT first lead 21 19

[Mr. Trill]

27 25 Earle 2:11 2nd

[mrkingark]

Im just glad to see 4 Football schools in top 4 on boys side! Being in a conference with non-footballers, they have a head start...But cream rises to the top!

[Mr. Trill]

Earle 30
MT 28
HALTIME

[Mr. Trill]

9 fouls to 10 and a whole Lotta traveling destinations

[Mr. Trill]

40 all 3:43 3rd
Back to back 3's to tie

[Mr. Trill]

1st tech on Earle, 2:38
tied 42

[Mr. Trill]

MT 49 47 End of 3rd.
MT got away with a travel before buzzer and #25 of Earle fouled out

[Mr. Trill]

Mt got fouled from the 3, 56-51

[NeaBaller21]

MT 56 Earle 51 5:12 left to play

[NEark tigers]

Anything contested by MT offense will get the benefit of a doubt...

MT 57
Earle 51

5:12 left in 4th

[Mr. Trill]

63-54 2:36 Mt

[Mr. Trill]

Earle will suffer 2nd defeat

[Mr. Trill]

68-59 FINAL

[NEark tigers]

These refs swallowed their whistles...

[ISU7]

I will post scores if no one else does

Thanks Mr. Thrill congrats too Marked tree, big win over the #1- 2A team in the State.

[mtindian42]

🌳🔝 wins when it matters... Remember that!

[Pit Bull]

That whistle was hot tonight but congrats Marked Tree, you guys did enough to win it....

[NEark tigers]

First and foremost, congrats to the Lady Bulldogs for capturing the 2016 2A-3 Championship...JOB WELL DONE!!!!!!


Congrats to Marked Tree for their win tonight, saying it loosely....


I'm not making any excuses, but the game could have been better officiated than what I seen tonight.

Let's go Bulldog Nation, and prepare for next week at the regionals.

[Mr. Trill]

Officiating was good to me except for like 2-3 whistles. The worst thing that happen was when the center  (MT) traveled so easily and made the layup.

[mtindian42]

You lost. we won. move on...we beat you when it counted... If we see you again this year. We will beat you again. 👍

[Pit Bull]

You lost. we won. move on...we beat you when it counted... If we see you again this year. We will beat you again. 👍

On a neutral court you will get beat 15.... Remember that's 1 of 3 and your trash talking...

[mtindian42]

Yep. Cause you get better as the year goes on... I gusse mt is 9 points better then Earle when it counts the most...👍

[NEark tigers]

Yep. Cause you get better as the year goes on... I gusse mt is 9 points better then Earle when it counts the most...👍

And the Nation was 30 points better back in December, and about 30 points better back in October during football season. Just sayin...

[mtindian42]

We live in the now... Get out of the past! 👍

[mtindian42]

Oh yeah I allmost for got... What was I thinking? We our DISTRICT CHAMPS!!!

You can have your meaningless 30 point victory

We will take our victory over you and our trophy that comes with it...we our the kings of this district!

[Pit Bull]

Really you guys played well on your home court, had some shots falling last night that made a big difference but I definitely wouldn't be bragging after knowing how lopsided the calls were last night....

[bigworm]

Congrats MT!

[Dogg]

Oh yeah I allmost for got... What was I thinking? We our DISTRICT CHAMPS!!!

You can have your meaningless 30 point victory

We will take our victory over you and our trophy that comes with it...we our the kings of this district!

You are not district champs. Your are the conference tournament champs. Earle is the conference champs. Earle was overdue for a flat game. MT just played better. When you go undefeated in conference you are gonna have an off night and Earle did. If MT wins a state title then you will have won when it counts.
Just remember Earle has won 7 times when it counted. 

[Dogg]

Congrats to MT on playing a great game in their house

[Pit Bull]

I just reviewed the game again, short ref with the gray salt/pepper hair blew his whistle on every (I mean every) contested shot against Marked Tree, it's like he couldn't wait to blow it before any contact was made. He's so obvious. Where did you guys get him from? I thought the other ref was worst but after looking at this over he completely gave y'all the game at the line.... Terrible way to win MT.... Pitiful

[mtindian42]

Nea made this thread to gloat and say I told you so and to brag about how great Earle is and yada yada...

He was so sure Earle had this in the bag.......

And then it happen... The great Earle lost!

Don't ever ever wright off the Indians...or you will lose👍

[birddawg1986]

Earle is still the #1 team in the state. Just one game but it was good for MTs confidence going forward. If you think whistles flew in the TREE,  Earle will have 10 fouls before they leave Crittenden County heading to Imboden on Thursday. I promise you tick-tack will be called and body language will be T'ed. They will be out for the ole 2 3A conference.

[TeamTiger]

Actually Brinkley is the #1 team in the state according to the Arkansas Democrat Gazette. 

[Pit Bull]

Yea we know about those body language "T's," got one up in the tree Saturday night, plus every other foul that you can imagine... I just don't understand how a team can feel good about winning like that... But hey, it is what it is, of our 7 titles they were all uncheatable teams, Bulldogs will have to toughen up to complete this journey because people have no conscious about winning the wrong way...

[Pit Bull]

Nea made this thread to gloat and say I told you so and to brag about how great Earle is and yada yada...

He was so sure Earle had this in the bag.......

And then it happen... The great Earle lost!

Don't ever ever wright off the Indians...or you will lose👍

Trust me I would give the credit if this was a good Marked Tree team because I've seen and played against "Great" Marked Tree Teams, but this team isn't one. They are ok but not good or great in comparison to past squads, your edge Saturday was the officials and we'll see how far that takes you...

[Pick_DA_EAGLES]

Excuses, excuses,  always excuses.  You got beat on the score board.  Move along and worry about regionals.

[bdubyab60]

If they are not good or great then how did they play you guys within 3 points at the pound? While I dont think they are great they are a solid team and play team ball.

Whats hurting Earle is #35 is no longer on the team. He was a difference maker. Also talked with Earle coach before the EPC game and he was worried about officials. You cant worry about officials before the game even starts. Cause then it doesnt matter if the call is right or wrong its wrong in your eyes before it even happens.

Murray wasnt the only one either. During the EPC game with Earle I had to move to the other end of the court. Overheard Duke coach giving an interview on the Earle/Duke girls game. It went something like this, no its not exact words.

You know this was a tough one but these officials. We battled but hese officials. The officials dictated the pace of the game. Blah, blah, officials, officals, officials and so on it went for about 5 minutes. No to mention what some of the fans said during the game. This from a game where in the first half Earle had more fouls than Duke and they still werent getting enough calls. Then in the second half the fouls were fairly even until the fouling to send folks to the line. The rest of the calls didnt seem lopsided to me either but I didnt count those.

Just for notes
In the pound earlier this year EPC was in a fairly tight ballgame with Earle fo rmost of the game. 14 or 15 straight fouls were called on EPC.

We also had another game we played where one player hit 23 freethows against us. Thats hit 23 freethrows against. While we only took 12.

[Pick_DA_EAGLES]

My thoughts on Earle since they came back down to 2A  (I know my opinion doesn't mean crap, but it's what I see).

They are world beaters (in both football and basketball) in preseason and regular season. Then when it's actually time to beat "the world" and they fail. Then the excuses start flowing like river water or their posters just dissappear. It's never "we just got beat by the better team tonight". Always someone else's fault.

Maybe yall should move back up to 3A where the competition is "tougher" where you can actually win something.

[patriot15]

The officials were terrible the whole tournament, that's just a fact. Marked Tree has a good team and I think Earle might have underestimated them and was not as focused as they should have been. But for u to suggest that Earle does not have a championship caliber team is ridiculous. When u get in a tournament it only take an off night and u can get beat, that doesn't mean that your not a good team.

I don't think the fans feel that they are "world beaters" but like most fans they feel like they have the best team and they have been really good for a while, that's just a fact. The semi finals and the finals of most tournaments can usually go either way and the team with the best players don't always win.   

Marked Tree was a better TEAM Saturday night.

Congrats to the Indians

[Bigtimebasketballfan]

Just wait...since Earle couldnt win the district with who is on the team they will show up with two new starters nobody has ever heard of at regionals lol.  Happens every year

[Pit Bull]

Excuses, excuses,  always excuses.  You got beat on the score board.  Move along and worry about regionals.

Please stay out our trash talking segment, we are attempting to fuel up and regenerate a rivalry that has lost some tanacity from the days of old because of Bulldog dominance and to be honest it's great to see the competitiveness return. So please but out while I think of more excuses to fuel this fire... We live for competition in BBall buddy and if you think by any means we are shooked by losing to the Indians on their home court you must have no idea how bad we're are going to spank their tail next time out.... Lol

[mtindian42]

Keep dreaming pit. keep dreaming! 👍