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by Doug Berger The Ava Lady Bears closed out their regular season with a shutout win over Gainesville, 10-0, in a five inning game. The Lady Bears take a 17-2 record into district play. Ava scored eight runs in the first inning. Olivia Gastineau walked and stole second. An error allowed Lexi Gastineau to reach…

by Doug Berger Ava may have fallen to the host Thayer Bobcats, 43-6, on Friday, but the Bear defense kept the Thayer ground game in check for the majority of the contest.  The Bobcats picked up only 98 yards rushing with 36 of those yards coming on one play, but they did their scoring through…

by Doug Berger The Ava Lady Bears volleyball squad fell to Conway last Thursday in three sets. Ava came into the matchup with an 11-8-2 record for the season. Conway had a season record of 8-8-3. In the first set, Conway picked up the first two points to establish a lead they held throughout the…

By Doug Berger The Ava Lady Bears softball team added two wins to their season record last week with wins over Seymour and Lebanon. Ava now has a record of 13-2. The Lady Bears opened  play last week with a 15-0 shutout in a three inning game with Seymour. Ava scored in each of the…

By Doug Berger The Ava Bears football squad celebrated their homecoming game with a 22-8 win over Houston. The win gives the Bears an overall record of 4-2 and they are now standing at 3-1 in the South Central Association Conference. Both teams started fast offensively, but the offenses were only able to put one…

The class 3 district 4 softball tournament seedings have the Ava Lady Bears with the number three seed. All games at the eight team tournament will be played at the Logan-Rogersville field. Logan-Rogersville takes the top seed and Cassville has the number two seed.  Ava will open play Wednesday, Oct. 14, against sixth seed Aurora…