Good morning, Benton.

A Bentonville couple found a friendly, well fed boa constrictor outside their garage at the Glen at Polo Park apartments Thursday night and kept it in a ventilated tote (about four feet long); the owner reclaimed the snake Friday afternoon after the manager contacted him.

Central Arkansas Christian beat Benton Harmony Grove 35-7 Friday night at Mustang Mountain in North Little Rock, as junior QB Jackson Plumlee rushed for 136 yards and passed for 160 while Brody Vantilborg added 100 rushing yards.

Arkansas and Missouri will play today at 6:45 p.m. in Fayetteville on SEC Network, and both teams' starting quarterbacks are left-handed, a matchup the SEC likely hasn't seen since Sept.

29, 2007.

Bauxite beat Heber Springs 44-20 Friday night to clinch the Class 4A conference's No. 2 seed and earn a home playoff game at The Pit, paced by touchdown runs from Eli Perry, Wyatt Foreman and Gunnar Morris and a defense that forced multiple turnovers.

Lake Hamilton beat Siloam Springs 35-0 at Panther Stadium, with Jace Bohannan accounting for four touchdowns as Lake Hamilton improved to 6-3, 5-1 in 6A-West play while the Wolves' defense stopped Siloam Springs inside the red zone four times.

Conway clinched the 7A-Central title Friday night by beating Little Rock Christian 42-28 at John McConnell Stadium after North Little Rock beat Bryant; Conway improved to (8-1, 6-0) as Dereon Holt rushed for 174 yards and three TDs.

Arkansas men's cross country placed second at the SEC Championships Friday at Gans Creek in Columbia with 76 points, while the women were fifth in the 6K with 161 points and Isca Chelangat took silver in 18:47.9.

Both teams will run at the NCAA South Central Region meet on Nov. 13 in College Station.