In Friday's non-league outing, the Bearden Bears (Bearden, AR) basketball squad nipped the visiting Dollarway Cardinals (Pine Bluff, AR), by a margin of 53-49.

The Bears (6-6) will now prepare for their outing against Parkers Chapel (El Dorado, AR). The Trojans go into the 2A Region 8 outing with a 7-6 record. In their last outing, Parkers Chapel got by Smackover (Smackover, AR), 56-51, in a non-league outing.

The Cardinals now own a 4-11 record. They play next when they travel to Genoa Central for a non-league outing on Saturday, December 29. Dollarway will clash with a Dragons squad coming off a 67-60 non-league loss to Harmony Grove (Camden, AR). The Dragons record now stands at 4-9.