CROSS COUNTY — The Wynne and Cross County junior high teams will open their seasons tonight.
The Junior Jackets will play at Marion, with an eighth-grade game starting at 5:30 p.m. followed by the junior high game.
Cross County plays at Harrisburg. A seventh-grade game begins at 5:30 p.m. followed by the junior high game.
NEA Youth Football League
Twenty-four teams from the Northeast Arkansas Youth Football League will be in Blytheville Saturday for the league’s preseason jamboree. They include fifth- and sixth-grade teams from Gosnell, Osceola, Rivercrest, East Poinsett County, Paragould, Marked Tree, Nettleton, Trumann, Greene County Tech, Brookland, Harrisburg, Jonesboro Westside, Valley View, Earle, Pocahontas, Walnut Ridge, Manila, Hoxie, Cross County, Wynne, Newport, Blytheville and Batesville.
The jamboree will begin at 8 a.m. Saturday and will end at about 5 p.m.
The regular season for the Northeast Arkansas Youth Football League begins Sept. 12.
Wynne and Cross County will play each other Saturday, with the fifth-grade game beginning at 12:45 p.m. and the sixth-grade game beginning at 1:15 p.m.
The Wynne Stingers will open the season at home against Nettleton on Sept. 12, while Cross County will play at Jonesboro Westside that day.
