Join the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and the River Valley Democrat-Gazette sports team of Chip Souza, Rick Fires, Henry Apple and Leland Barclay talk about the exciting Week 0 football games in Northwest Arkansas and the River Valley.

They'll recap some amazing games including Bentonville's victory over Broken Arrow, the Battle of Rogers Avenue in Fort Smith, Rogers Heritage's first opening weekend victory in years and more.

The team will look ahead to Week 1 matchups like Little Rock Christian versus Shiloh Christian, Bixby at Har-Ber, Greenwood at Stillwater, Charleston at Elkins, Cabot at Bentonville West and others. 

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Chip Souza, Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette sports editor, and his staff preview the opening week of the prep football season and dissect the teams across the region on today’s podcast. Check it out in Thursday’s digital edition and on YouTube.

In this week’s Prep Rally Podcast, Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette sports editor Chip Souza and Leland Barclay discuss the All-Star week experience in Conway.

They also talk about Greenwood's new softball coach, Donald Hart, Springdale’s new basketball arena and the new arena in Huntsville.

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The Bentonville Tigers were the last team from the 6A-West to earn a berth in the state baseball tournament. Now they are the last team standing from the West after punching their ticket to the state finals.

The Van Buren baseball team is back in the championship game for the second straight year, and the Bentonville softball team is making its sixth consecutive state championship game appearance.

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Isaiah Sategna said he had unfinished business this track season, and the Fayetteville phenom handled that to lead his team to the Class 6A state championship, breaking a longstanding record in the process. Shiloh Christian’s Bo Williams was all smiles after winning a state powerlifting championship last week.

The NWADG sports crew recap these events and preview this week’s state baseball, softball and soccer tournaments in this week’s Prep Rally Podcast.

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With one swing of a Rogers Heritage bat Tuesday night, Heritage, Fort Smith Southside and Bentonville West earned playoff berths in 6A baseball. Chip Souza, Henry Apple and Leland Barclay will also talk about Pea Ridge completing the track triple-crown by winning the Class 4A boys team title.

Will it take an abacus, slide rule, calculator and sun dial to figure out which 6A-West baseball teams will make it into the state tournament? Maybe. 

Chip Souza, NWA Demcrat-Gazette sports editor, talks with Leland Barclay, the River Valley sports guru, talk about how Rogers has the conference locked up, but the 2-3 seeds are still up for grabs. Who will grab it? Springdale Har-Ber?, Rogers Heritage, Fayetteville?

Leland also talks about a stellar baseball game between Greenwood and Alma that true baseball fans can appreciate.

Also what happens if teams tie? 

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Rogers Heritage has tabbed Eric Munoz as its new head football coach. The former Springdale Red’Dog was hired Tuesday night to take over the War Eagles’ program.