FOOTBALL
ASU assistants' salaries finalized
Contracts for Arkansas State's new football assistant coaches aren't yet finalized, but their salaries are.
New offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Buster Faulkner will make $210,000 in his first season at ASU. New offensive line coach Allen Rudolph will make $150,000, and new running backs coach Norval McKenzie will make $100,000, ASU Athletic Director Terry Mohajir told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette on Wednesday.
Salaries for Faulkner and McKenzie are more than what their predecessors were making. Former offensive coordinator Walt Bell made $205,000 before leaving for Maryland in December, while former running backs coach Anthony Tucker made $90,000 before joining Bell at Maryland last month.
Former offensive line coach Glen Elarbee made $200,000 before leaving for Missouri last month.
The new salaries put ASU's total for assistants at $1.12 million, which is $35,000 less than the $1.155 million it was last season. But Mohajir said new deals are in the works for most assistants and staff members.
Faulkner joins ASU after spending the past five seasons at Middle Tennessee. Rudolph has held various positions, including at Sun Belt rival Louisiana-Monroe in 2002-2003, and most recently coached the offensive line for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League.
McKenzie, a former Vanderbilt player and graduate assistant, spent the past five seasons as an assistant coach at FCS-level Furman.
-- Troy Schulte
Lindsey to join Hogs
Springdale High quarterback Jack Lindsey will join the Razorbacks next season as a walk-on, Arkansas Coach Bret Bielema announced Wednesday.
Lindsey completed 201 of 365 passes for 2,226 yards and 16 touchdowns last season. His passing yardage was second in the 7A-West Conference.
"Our staff has watched Jack grow over the last three years, and we're excited to have him join our program," Bielema said in a news release. "He is the definition of the type of player and person we want in our program."
Lindsey, a 6-4, 180-pounder, and the son of Lyndy and Laura Beth Lindsey, will carry on the family line at Arkansas, following his father, a four-year letter winner from 1988-91, and his grandfather, Jim Lindsey, a captain on the Razorbacks' 1964 national championship team and a prominent businessman.
Lindsey helped lead Springdale High to its first playoff appearance since 2011 this fall under first-year Coach Zak Clark.
-- Tom Murphy
BASEBALL
Central Baptist to play at Busch Stadium
Central Baptist College's baseball team will play St. Louis Community College on Oct. 1 at Busch Stadium, the home of the St. Louis Cardinals.
The Mustangs are scheduled to play after the Cardinals' game against the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Cardinals game is scheduled for 3:15 p.m.
Tickets are $15 for general admission for both games and are available at cbc.edu/cardinals or by calling (501) 205-8920.
Two UCA players honored by Southland
Central Arkansas outfielder Tyler Langley and pitcher Connor Gilmore were named to the Southland Conference preseason team Wednesday.
Langley, a senior, is a first-team selection, while Gilmore, also a senior, earned a second-team nod.
Langley hit .305 and led the Bears in slugging percentage (.463) and stolen bases (10) last season. Gilmore was 8-3 with a 2.42 ERA in 108 innings while striking out 59 batters.
GOLF
ATU women picked to win GAC
The Arkansas Tech women's golf team was selected as the favorite to win the Great American Conference by the league's coaches Wednesday.
Arkansas Tech received 72 votes and eight first-place votes. Henderson State was second with 64 votes and one first-place vote, while Southwestern Oklahoma came in third with 59 votes and one first-place vote.
Rounding out the poll are Arkansas-Monticello and Southern Nazarene in a tie for fourth, East Central (Okla.), Southern Arkansas, Harding and Northwestern Oklahoma.
Sports on 02/11/2016