Joseph Kincannon

Blake Forsgren

Dominic Parkinson

Jayden Webb

FORT SMITH SOUTHSIDE MAVERICKS

2023 RECORD 7-5, 3-4 7A-West COACH Kim Dameron RETURNING STARTERS 1 offense, 3 defense KEY PLAYERS OL Nick Arnold( Jr., 5-11, 245), LB Dominic Parkinson( Sr., 5-8, 170), S Joseph Kincannon( Sr., 5-10, 160), S Peyton Zimmerman( Jr., 5-10, 175), LB Ethan Dunn( Jr., 5-11, 230), QB Blake Forsgren( Jr., 6-2, 185) NOTABLE Kim Dameron begins his fifth season as Southside’ s head coach. … Southside is not playing in the state’ s largest classification for the first time since 1982. … Junior offensive lineman Nick Arnold is the lone returning starter from an offense that set a single-season school record with 3,586 rushing yards a year ago … The Mavericks have nine new opponents on the schedule from last year with cross-town rival Fort Smith Northside being the lone exception. … Southside plays four of its seven 6A-West games on the road. … Southside has never played Mountain Home or Shiloh Christian, and the Mavericks haven’ t played Siloam Springs since 1966. … Southside’ s 42- 35 win against Northside to open last season was the first win in the Battle of Rogers Avenue since 2015. QUOTABLE“ We have new kids playing new opponents. Going into the game, we’ re just going to try to be the best we can be and not really worry about the rest of it. I feel like if we do that and the kids continue to work like they have, we’ ll keep our team atmosphere and family atmosphere will keep those guys close together. You show up at the games and see what happens. That’ s what I’ m going to do.”— Kim Dameron, Southside head coach.

Isaiah Arrington

Kaylor Jasna

Grant Karnes

Ashton Stein

GREENWOOD BULLDOGS

2023 RECORD 14-0, 8-0 6A-West COACH Chris Young RETURNING STARTERS 7 offense, 4 defense KEY PLAYERS LB Cash Archer( Sr., 6-1, 218), WR Grant Karnes( Sr., 6-1, 180), WR Isaiah Arrington( Sr., 6-0, 170), Kaylor Jasna( Sr., 5-11, 185), S Zack Zitzmann( Sr., 5-10, 175), LB Zackary Edwards( Sr., 5-11, 200), OL Cody Taylor( Jr., 6-3, 293), QB Kane Archer( Jr., 6-2, 207) NOTABLE Young begins his fifth year as head coach with a 47-8 record and 25th year at Greenwood overall. … The Bulldogs return seven starters from an offense that gained 5,883 yards and averaged 51.5 points per game a year ago, setting a singleseason school record for points with 669. … Junior quarterback Kane Archer completed 73.6 percent of his passes for 2,393 yards and 33 touchdowns with just three interceptions, including just one in his final nine games. … Senior receivers Grant Karnes, who had 70 catches for 947 yards and 13 touchdowns, and Isaiah Arrington, who caught 38 passes for 575 yards and nine scores in 10 games, return as main targets for Archer. … Senior defensive end Cash Archer had 20 sacks last year and is one of just four starters back on defense. … The Bulldogs have four of their seven conference games on the road, including the opener at conference newcomer Shiloh Christian on Sept. 27. QUOTABLE“ We try to put what happened in the past in the past and look forward. Those guys have done a good job of that. It starts in our offseason program in the spring. We got after it real well.”— Chris Young, Greenwood head coach.

Dalton Carnes

Cole Creighton

SHILOH CHRISTIAN SAINTS

2023 RECORD 11-3, 6-1 5A-West COACH Tucker Barnard RETURNING STARTERS 6 offense, 6 defense KEY PLAYERS DL Sid Scott( Sr., 6-2, 240), OL Andrew Dawson( Sr., 6-1, 255), DL Hudson Ball( Sr., 6-2, 235), WR Dalton Carnes( Sr., 6-0, 170), LB Carter Henley( Sr., 6-1, 230), DE Aiden Pullin( Jr., 6-0, 245), QB Cole Creighton( So., 5-9, 145) NOTABLE Tucker Barnard begins his second season as head coach of the

Griffin Mason

Saints. … Sophomore quarterback Cole Creighton

threw for 1,111 yards and 14 touchdowns despite missing seven of Shiloh Christian’ s 14 games due to an injury suffered in the first quarter of the season opener at Little Rock Christian. … Shiloh Christian is playing in its third conference in five years in the 6A-West. … Shiloh Christian was elevated to the second-largest classification in the state after being deemed‘ dominant’ in the private school Competitive Equity Factor for playing in two-straight championship games in Class 5A after being bumped up to Class 5A after playing in two-straight championship games, and winning one, in Class 4A. … The Saints play both Class 6A finalists from a year ago; Little Rock Christian in nonconference action and champion Greenwood in the opener of conference play. … The Saints do play four of their seven conference games at home. QUOTABLE“ There is no doubt it’ s a different team. It feels different in the locker room and field. That’ s not good or bad, it’ s just different. Our identity may be different. We’ ll probably throw the ball more than we did last year. Defensively, we’ ll probably bring a lot more pressure than what we did last year. The casual observer probably doesn’ t notice any of it, but the people that are really close I think will see some things different.”

Caden Davidson

Dane Marlatt

Victor Toledo

SILOAM SPRINGS PANTHERS

2023 RECORD 0-10, 0-8 6A-West COACH Doug Loughridge RETURNING STARTERS 6 offense, 7 defense KEY PLAYERS WR / DB Mikey McKinley( Sr., 5-7, 157), QB Gio Flores( Sr. 6-0, 206), QB Dane Marlatt( Sr. 5-8, 182), OL Francisco Suarez,( Jr. 6-1, 264), LB / RB Victor Toledo( Sr. 5-8, 180), DL Christian Mendez( Sr., 6-3, 220) NOTABLE Doug

Head coach Doug Loughridge

Gio Flores

Loughridge was hired as the new Panther coach in February … Siloam

Springs has lost 27 straight games dating back to the 2021 season … Dane Marlatt completed 63 of 154 passes for 680 yards and three touchdowns last year … Mason Short is the leading rusher returning from last year with 305 yards on 73 carries … Max Carter is the leading returning receiver with 16 catches for 91 yards … Victor Toledo is the Panthers’ leading returning tackler with 55 stops. QUOTABLE“ Football is football and we have been trying to preach that from day one. When you’ re a little kid growing up your favorite time of day is recess. Well, that’ s our recess. The kids have fun when we come to practice. We have coaches with high energy, we’ ve got music going. We have all kinds of reasons for them to have fun out there.”— Doug Loughridge, Siloam Springs head coach.

SCHEDULE Aug. 30........... at FS Northside Oct. 11................. at Shiloh Christian * Sept. 6............ Open Oct. 18.............................. Van Buren * Sept. 13.......... Little Rock Central Oct. 25........................ at Russellville * Sept 20........... Little Rock Southwest Nov. 1............................. Greenwood * Sept. 27.......... Mountain Home * Oct. 4...................... at Lake Hamilton * Nov. 8............. at Siloam Springs * *— Denotes 6A-West Conference game. All kickoffs 7 p. m. unless noted.

SCHEDULE Aug. 30........... Farmington Oct. 11................... FS Southside *

Sept. 6............ at LR Christian Oct. 18...................... Russellville * Sept. 13.......... at Lincoln Christian( Tulsa) Oct. 25............ at Siloam Springs * Sept. 27.......... Greenwood * Nov. 1................... Lake Hamilton *

Oct. 4.............. at Mountain Home * Nov. 8...................... at Van Buren * *— Denotes 6A-West Conference game. All kickoffs 7 p. m. unless noted.