FOOTBALL
Arkansas-Mizzou on Friday
Arkansas’ home football finale against Missouri this fall has been moved to a 1:30 p.m. kickoff on Friday, Nov. 27.
The newly coined “Battle Line Rivalry” will be played at Reynolds Razorback Stadium for the first time in the seventh meeting between Arkansas and Missouri. The Tigers won last year’s regular-season finale, the first meeting between the schools as SEC competitors, 21-14 in Columbia, Mo.
Arkansas’ final game of the regular season was against LSU and was held on the Friday after Thanksgiving every season from 1996 through 2013 with the exception of 2009 and 2010.
— Tom Murphy
BASKETBALL
Wake Forest transfer signs with UALR
Chris Beard has added more size to his first UALR men’s basketball roster.
The Trojan’s first-year coach announced Thursday that Daniel Green has signed with UALR and has become the fifth player to do so since Beard was announced as coach April 8.
Green is a graduate transfer from Wake Forest and is eligible immediately to play his final year for the Trojans. The 6-10, 240-pound forward played a total of 4 minutes last season and scored 1 point and had 1 rebound.
Green missed all of the previous two seasons after tearing his ACL in an exhibition in October 2012, then reinjured his knee in July 2013. Green, from Colleyville, Texas, averaged 1.4 points and 1.7 rebounds in 7.4 minutes per game as a freshman.
In an official release announcing Green’s signing, UALR said he had also drawn interest from Charlotte, Oral Roberts, Rice, Illinois State and Cleveland State.
Green joins Lis Shoshi, a 6-11 forward, as post players Beard has signed. The Trojans are committed to 10 scholarships next season. The NCAA Division I limit for men’s basketball is 13.
BASEBALL
Fayetteville hires Gallagher as coach
Fayetteville High School didn’t have to look far to find a successor for retiring head coach Vance Arnold.
Scott Gallagher, an assistant coach with the Bulldogs for the past 12 seasons, has been named the new head coach. Gallagher’s appointment was approved Thursday by the Fayetteville School Board.
Gallagher, 32, graduated from the University of Arkansas in 2004 and earned his master’s degree from the school in 2005. He was on the Fayetteville staff for state championships in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2013 and a state runner-up finish in 2014. Gallagher was promoted to assistant head coach in the 2012 season.
Arnold announced his retirement earlier this spring before wrapping up his 27th season as Fayetteville coach. He restarted Fayetteville’s baseball program in 1988 after the school had gone 27 years without the sport in 1961-1987. Arnold compiled a 583-247 overall record, which included eight appearances in the state finals and six state championships.
— NWA Democrat-Gazette
MOTOR SPORTS
Street Stock Nationals slated for Batesville
Batesville Motor Speedway in Locust Grove will be hosting the Renegade Racing Fuels Street Stock Nationals tonight and Saturday night, an event which figures to draw most of the region’s top racers in the division.
Time trials and qualifying heat races will be held tonight, with last-chance qualifiers and the 50-lap, $3,000-to-win main event slated for Saturday night.
Gates open at 5:30 p.m. and racing starts at 8 p.m. each day. Adult grandstand admission is $10 tonight and $12 Saturday night. Children age 14 and under get in free.
The event is the first of four races in the Bad Boy Mowers Street Stock Series at the track. Others scheduled are the ASC Street Stock Challenge on June 19-20 ($4,000 to win), the Summer Street Stock Clash on July 24-25 ($5,000 to win) and the 20th annual Schoenfeld Headers Street Stock Championship on Sept. 18-19 ($10,000 to win).