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Hogs call on Bale two times | Arkansas Democrat Gazette

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September 29, 2024

Hogs call on Bale two times |
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ARLINGTON, Texas — The University of Arkansas special teams went 1 for 2 on fakes involving Devin Bale in Saturday’s 21-17 loss to No. 24 Texas A&M on Saturday at AT&T Stadium.

In the first quarter Bale — who punts, kicks off and holds on field goal and extra point attempts — rushed for a first down on fourth-and-15 from the Arkansas 46 when he gained 25 yards on a fake punt.

Bale’s run set up a touchdown that put the Razorbacks ahead 14-7.

After Bale fielded the ball from long snapper Ashton Ngo, he took a few steps as if getting ready to rugby kick, then took off running when he saw an opening.

“The fake punt was just a green light for Devin,” Arkansas Coach Sam Pittman said. “We had seen that they turn their back and I trust the guy.

“So we just said, ‘Hey, if they turn their back and you feel like you can get 15 yards, take off,’ and he did.

“And, man, he did a phenomenal job with that. Big play.”

Bale also was involved in a fake field goal attempt in the third quarter with the game tied 14-14.

The Razorbacks lined up for what would have been a 50-yard attempt by Kyle Ramsey on fourth-and-6 from the Texas A&M 32 when Bale took the snap from Ngo and got up to run.

Instead of getting the first down, Bale was tackled for a 5-yard loss by safety Marcus Ratcliffe and defensive end Shemar Stewart.

Pittman said the Aggies initially showed the same look on field goal defense as they have this season, but they reacted differently.

“The problem was, they normally drop the two outside guys,” Pittman said. “We were trying to run Landon (Jackson) on a fake pass and we knew the guy would go with him if we could run him into the middle linebacker, and then kick out the outside guy because he always just came up and stopped.

“It was the exact same look, except they rushed off the edge, which they hadn’t shown this year. On a tackle-over situation to the boundary, they rushed and they got us on it.

“Obviously, I felt like we’d make it or I wouldn’t have called it. But we didn’t.”

Back issue

Arkansas starting tight end Luke Hasz came out of the game with 11:26 left in the third quarter and didn’t return. He caught a pass from Taylen Green for a 2-yard gain, got up and grabbed his back, then motioned that he needed to come out. He went to bench and didn’t return.

“He came into the game with a back (issue),” Razorbacks Coach Sam Pittman said. “We felt like he could get through the game. He obviously could not.”

Hasz suffered a season-ending shoulder injury against Texas A&M last season in the fifth game.

First loss

Arkansas offensive coordinator Bobby Petrino suffered his first loss in six games in which he’s coached at AT&T Stadium. He had been 5-0 in Arkansas-Texas A&M games with both teams.

Petrino was 3-0 as Arkansas’ head coach when the Razorbacks beat the Aggies three consecutive years, winning 47-19 in 2009, 24-17 in 2010 and 42-38 in 2011.

Petrino won again at AT&T Stadium when Arkansas beat Kansas State 29-16 in the Cotton Bowl to cap the 2011 season.

Last season, when Petrino was Texas A&M’s offensive coordinator, the Aggies beat the Razorbacks 34-22.

In a rush

Arkansas running back Ja’Quinden Jackson has as many rushing touchdowns as the Razorbacks did all of last season.

Jackson’s 8-yard touchdown run with 4:50 left in the first quarter to put Arkansas ahead 14-7 was his ninth rushing touchdown in five games.

The Razorbacks had nine rushing touchdowns last season in 12 games with KJ Jefferson, Raheim Sanders and AJ Green sharing the team lead with two each.

Arkansas has 17 rushing touchdowns this season.

First sacks

Landon Jackson, Arkansas’ senior All-SEC defensive end, finally got his first sacks of the season to make sure the Aggies didn’t get a score late in the second quarter to take a halftime lead.

Jackson broke through double-team blocking to sack Marcel Reed for a 9-yard loss to push the Aggies back to their 43.

With 25 seconds left before halftime and the scored tied 14-14, Texas A&M faced third-and-19 and chose not to run another play.

Jackson was credited for another sack in the third quarter, when Reed was called for intentional grounding.

Arkansas sophomore defensive end Quincy Rhodes got the first sack of his career when he tackled Reed for a 7-yard loss in the third quarter.

60,000-plus

Announced attendance for Saturday’s game — with the contract expiring for the Arkansas-Texas A&M to be played at AT&T Stadium — was 60,928.

It was a slight increase over last season’s attendance of 59,437.

The largest crowd at AT&T Stadium for an Arkansas-Texas A&M game was 71,872 in the teams’ first meeting there in 2009.

Going long

Taylen Green’s 75-yard touchdown pass to Isaac TeSlaa to cap Arkansas’ first possession was the longest play of the season for the Razorbacks.

The previous long play was Green’s 58-yard touchdown pass to Isaiah Sategna in Arkansas’ 24-14 victory at Auburn last week.

Green’s touchdown pass to Sategna was on third-and-19. His touchdown pass to TeSlaa was on third-and-10.

Injury report

Arkansas starting cornerback Jaylon Braxton missed his third consecutive game because of a knee injury. Marquise Robinson started in Braxton’s place.

Hogs safety Hudson Clark dressed out but didn’t play because of a back injury that has sidelined him the last three games.

Tight end Andreas Paaske missed his second game in a row because of concussion protocol.

Guard Patrick Kutas still hasn’t played this season because of a back injury. Wide receiver Monte Harrison was out with an undisclosed injury.

Running back Rashod Dubinion missed the game because of a suspension.

Texas A&M quarterback Conner Weigman missed his third consecutive game because of a shoulder injury and again was replaced in the starting lineup by Marcel Reed.

Vs. Aggies

Arkansas leads its series against Texas A&M 42-36-3, but the Aggies have been dominant in SEC matchups.

Since Texas A&M joined the SEC in 2012, the Aggies are 12-1 against the Razorbacks, including 10-1 at AT&T Stadium.

Arkansas’ only victory in its last 13 game against Texas A&M was in 2021 when the Razorbacks won 20-10 at AT&T Stadium.

Quick score

Arkansas took a 7-0 lead on Taylen Green’s 75-yard touchdown pass to Issac TeSlaa with 13:49 left in the first quarter.

It was the second-earliest score in the history of the Southwest Classic, which started in 2009 with the game played in Arlington.

The earliest score came in Texas A&M’s 35-28 overtime victory in 2014 when the Aggies took a 7-0 lead on Brandon Williams’ 13-yard touchdown run with 13:55 left in the first quarter.

Honorary captains

Fred Marshall, a senior quarterback on Arkansas’ 1964 team that won a share of the national championship, served as an honorary captain along with R.C. Slocum, Texas A&M’s coach for 14 seasons from 1989-2002.

Marshall was an Arkansas teammate of Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones. The two sat together at Saturday’s game in Jones’ private box. The 1964 Razorbacks finished 11-0, capped by a 10-7 victory over Nebraska in the Cotton Bowl.

Slocum led Texas A&M to a 124-47-2 record overall and three consecutive Southwest Conference championships from 1991-93.

For starters

Arkansas opened in a two-tight end set as Luke Hasz — who has started every game — was joined in the lineup by Ty Washington. It was Washington’s first start of the season.

Quarterback Taylen Green kept the ball on a rushing attempt and was dropped for a 2-yard loss by defensive end Nic Scourton.

Rankled

Arkansas fell to 0-2 against ranked teams this season with its loss to No. 24 Texas A&M.

It was the second loss for Arkansas to a ranked team this season along with Oklahoma State’s 39-31 victory in double overtime on Sept. 7.

The Cowboys were ranked No. 16 for their game against the Razorbacks and rose to No. 13 in the subsequent Associated Press poll.

After a 22-19 home loss to Utah last week, Oklahoma State fell to No. 20.

The Cowboys’ 42-20 road loss at Kansas State on Saturday likely will drop them out of the poll.

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6 die in South Arkansas car wrecks –

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December 23, 2025

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Separate vehicle crashes in South Arkansas in the days before Christmas claimed the lives of six people.

Information was compiled from preliminary fatal crash summaries posted by Arkansas State Police.

On Saturday, Dec. 20, a Texarkana pedestrian was struck and killed on Arkansas Highway 82. A report says 47-year-old Christopher Lamin was walking in the roadway near its intersection with Vanderbilt Road when an eastbound 2010 Toyota struck and killed him. Weather and road conditions were clear when the collision occurred at 8 p.m.

On Sunday, Dec. 21, a Nashville woman died in a crash at the Nevada County town of Emmet. Marshauntie T. Sanders, 30, was traveling on US Highway 67 when the 2015 Ford Edge she was driving left the roadway and struck an embankment. The weather and roads were clear when the crash happened at 1:16 a.m.

A second crash early Sunday morning on US Highway 79 left a Magnolia man dead and a Waldo woman injured. Therran R. Moreno, 19, was driving a 2013 Chevy Tahoe north when the vehicle left the roadway and struck an embankment, overturning the vehicle and ejecting Moreno. His passenger, Summer Murphy, also 19, was transported to Magnolia Regional Center for treatment to unlisted injuries. The weather was clear and the roads were dry at the time of the crash, at 3:07 a.m.

A third car accident Sunday morning killed two Star City residents in the Desha County city of Dumas. James Dale Wilcox Jr., 63, was driving a 2023 Chevy Trailblazer north on US Highway 165 when he veered left of center, drove off the highway and collided with an embankment at Dan Gill Drive. Both Wilcox and his wife, Brenda, 59, were killed in the crash. Roads and weather conditions were clear at the time of the crash, 9:48 a.m.

A one-vehicle wreck on Arkansas Highway 51 in Hot Spring County left one person dead Monday, Dec. 22. Matthew Joseph Buffington, 40, of Malvern, was driving a 2021 Jeep Compass when he drove up an embankment, sending the vehicle airborne and striking two trees. Weather and road conditions were clear and dry at the time of the crash, 12:20 a.m.

Editor’s Note: Preliminary Arkansas State Police fatality reports sometimes contain information that turns out to be inaccurate. Typical errors include spelling errors in names, or incorrect ages; outdated hometown information; vehicle direction of travel; and incident times. The ASP sometimes corrects these errors in updated reports. ASP reports omit names of passengers or drivers who are not injured, even in instances when uninjured drivers may appear to be at fault. The reports also omit names of juveniles who were injured or killed, although we report those names when obtained through other sources.

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Chronic wasting disease spreads to new counties in Arkansas, alarming game officials

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December 23, 2025

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Chronic wasting disease spreads to new counties in Arkansas, alarming game officials

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KATV) — Three cases of Chronic-Wasting Disease have been detected in parts of Arkansas where they never have been before. Now the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission is urging hunters to be on the lookout for this disease, which affects white-tailed deer and elk.

Chronic-Wasting Disease (CWD), also known as zombie deer disease, has been prevalent in portions of North Central and South Arkansas since 2016. But now for the first time, the disease is in Grant and Sevier counties, which is concerning to Arkansas Game and Fish.

In Grant County, one deer was taken southwest of Sheridan, and the other was killed by a hunter near Grapevine. Just 4 miles from the Oklahoma-Arkansas border in Sevier County at the De Queen Lake Wildlife Management Area, the third deer was harvested by a hunter.

The previous nearest-known case of CWB in Arkansas to these areas was 80 miles away.

“It’s difficult to tell where it came from, how it got there, if it came from another state, it’s just basically impossible to tell that,” says Keith Stephens, the commission’s chief of communications.

CWD has been in the United States since 1967, affecting deer, elk, moose, antelope, and caribou populations.

The disease is caused by abnormal prion proteins, which are found in the central and peripheral nervous systems. It can cause a damaging chain reaction, spreading to the brain, which can lead to neurodegeneration.

The disease takes nearly 2 years to present symptoms, but once they begin to show, those symptoms are easy to spot.

“They just don’t act normal. If they are just standing there, they typically stand like a tripod, their legs are spread apart real wide. They salivate, excessively,” explains Stephens.

He continues, “they drink excessively, they use the bathroom excessively, walk in circles.”

Stephens also says that these deer no longer have a fear of humans, and they do not run away if a person approaches one.

This disease is deadly for these creatures.

“Eventually it does kill the deer. They get very sick. They have some really erratic behavior, and as the name implies, they just basically waste away,” Stephens says.

There is one question experts are still trying to answer: can humans contract this disease?

“There’s been a lot of testing done around the country, and so far, we haven’t found the link,” states Stephens.

Though there has not been a case where a human has contracted CWD, the American Academy of Neurology reported that in 2022, there were two hunters who died after developing Creutzfeldt Jakob disease, a central nervous system disorder caused by misfolded prion proteins, after eating CWD-infected venison.

Stephens urges Arkansans to report deer with this disease to the Game and Fish Commission.

“We always tell people if their deer does test positive for CWD not to eat it. Let us know, and we’ll come get it.”

The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission has freezers in every county in the state where anyone can drop off their deer so it can be tested for CWD. The entire list of locations is here.

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