GOLF
Glover leads match play qualifying
Beau Glover of North Little Rock shot a 7-under-par 65 on Thursday to lead the qualifying at the Arkansas State Golfers Association Match Play Championship at The Greens at North Hills in Sherwood.
Glover’s score gave him the No. 2 seed behind defending champion Stan Lee in the match play portion of the tournament. Nickolas Zimmerman of North Little Rock was two shots behind at 67, while Richard Wrentz of Little Rock was next at 68.
The round of 64 in the championship flight begins at 9:40 a.m. today.
John Tetens of Conway shot a 1-under 71 to lead the senior division. He earned the No. 2 seed behind defending champion Bev Hargraves of Helena-West Helena.
Players in the senior division will begin teeing off at 8:40 a.m. in the round of 16.
David Lawrence of Sherwood led the super seniors with a 6-over 78 and received the second seed after defending champion Oscar Taylor of Hot Springs Village.
The round of 16 in the super senior flight starts teeing off at 8 a.m.
Defending champions were exempt from qualifying Thursday.
BASKETBALL
Arkansas-Dayton game on ESPN2
Arkansas’ men’s basketball game against Dayton on Dec. 13 at Walton Arena in Fayetteville will tip off at 1 p.m. and will be televised by ESPN2, the school announced Thursday.
It’s the first meeting between Arkansas and Dayton since the 1990 NCAA Tournament when the Razorbacks beat the Flyers 86-84 en route to the Final Four.
Arkansas will play at Dayton next season as part of the home-and-home series.
FOOTBALL
ASU announces game dates
Arkansas State announced the dates for a series of games with UNLV on Thursday. The Red Wolves will play at Mountain West Conference member UNLV on Sept. 2, 2017, and the teams will play at Centennial Bank Stadium in Jonesboro on Sept. 1, 2018.
Both games will be season-openers. The 2017 game will be followed a week later with ASU hosting Miami. No other nonconference game has been announced for 2018.
UNLV beat ASU 28-23 in the only meeting between the teams on Sept. 9, 1995, when both teams were members of the Big West Conference.
Lake Hamilton player injured
A Lake Hamilton High School football player suffered a head injury Thursday night at the team’s practice at Wolf Stadium in Pearcy.
Wolves Coach Jerry Clay said the player, who wasn’t named, was transported to Arkansas Children’s Hospital in Little Rock as a precaution.
The player was tackled in a thud drill. Clay did not witness it.
“Anytime you have a head injury, you have to be cautious,” Clay said in a telephone interview.
Lake Hamilton’s practice started at about 6 p.m. Thursday. It was the second full-pads practice for the Wolves, who play in the 6A-South.
— Jeremy Muck
SOCCER
UCA picked sixth
The Central Arkansas women’s team was picked to finish sixth in the Southland Conference in polls by the league coaches and another by conference sports information directors.
UCA went 9-10-2 overall, and 6-6 in the Southland last year, reaching the Southland Tournament for the first time. The Bears play an exhibition against Oral Roberts at 5 p.m. Saturday in Conway and open the season Aug. 23 against Louisiana Tech in Conway.