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GO All The Way Lincoln wolves Lincoln, AR | 479-824-4301 Cassville, MO | 417-847-3030 www.preferred-poultry.com 37 PreP rally: Class 4A Thursday, augusT 31, 2017 BerryVIlle BOBCaTS 2016 RECORD 3-7 COACH doug shott RETURNING STARTERS 5 offense, 5 defense KEY PLAYERS QB Luke Britt (Jr. 5-10, 195), FB/LB Christian Lemus (Jr., 5-9, 180), TE/dE devon smith (sr., 6-3, 195), rB/s Charlie archer (sr., 5-8, 175), OT/dT austin Woods (sr., 5-10, 245), OT/LB Kyle disher - oon (Jr., 6-1, 210). THE SKINNY shott, a Booneville native, was hired in april and spent the past six seasons as offensive coordinator at hot springs. … he's installing what he calls a "Wing slot" offense, but plans to use mul - tiple formations. … Britt, who owns the school's triple jump record, ac- counted for nearly 1,000 yards and 14 Tds both rushing and passing combined last season. … smith av- eraged 15 yards per reception as a tight end and has 122 career tackles as a two-year starter at defensive end. … Two-way starters archer and Lemus combined for 186 tackles a year ago. … shott has had success convincing new players to join the team and believes he's found "four or five" newcomers who can con - tribute immediately, which will be a key to turning the program around. COACH SPEAK "We have been focused a lot of fundamentals, blocking and tackling and executing, but the biggest thing is overcom- ing that mentality these kids have from never winning before. When the medal hits the road, how are you going to react? good character can't be developed except for under stressful situations. That's how we've approached it. When things get tough, stick to what you know is right and what you've been taught. To get through that adversity, success will have to come with it. They need to know what it feels like to have success to know what to do and how to handle it," shott said. SCHeDUle sept. 1 ......................at decatur Oct 6 ............................... Lincoln* sept. 8 ............................Clinton Oct. 13 ...................... at gravette* sept. 15 ............... green Forest Oct. 20 ....................... Pea ridge* sept. 22 ..........shiloh Christian* Oct. 27 ...................Prairie grove* sept. 29 .................... at gentry* Nov. 3 ...................... at huntsville* * — denotes 4a-1 Conference game 4 a - 1 C O N F e r e N C e C a P S U l e S C. archer B. smith d. smith C. Lemus a. Woods Ridge and Charleston). Has one region of the state ever dominated the state champi- onships? In 1990 southeast arkansas produced state champions in all four classes with Pine Bluff high, Pine Bluff dollarway, Fordyce and rison. The champions were from the Pine Bluff area and arkansas high school histori- an Leland Barclay called it "The Cotton Belt sweep." Voting members with the Arkansas Ac- tivities Association recently passed Proposal 9, which reduced the number of classes in Arkansas from seven to six. So, how does that affect football? It doesn't. That's for other high school sports besides football. Class 7a will be re brand- ed as Class 6a beginning in 2018. Farm- ington, for instance, will remain in Class 5a for football then return to Class 4a in other sports. Rick Fires can be reached at rfires@nwadg. com or on Twitter @NWARick. Questions v Continued from Page 36 NWa democrat-gazette/daVId gOTTsChaLK Gravette High School football player Bailey soule' performs aug. 9, during drills at practice.