Coach Jeremiah Williams’ Bossier High Bearkats have won 30 games two years in a row.

With one more victory, Williams will become the first basketball coach ever to win 95 games in his first three seasons at a Caddo-Bossier high school.

With four regular-season games remaining, he could reach 100 if Bossier High wins two state playoff games.

The 30-1 Bearkats extended their winning streak to 27 with a 83-50 victory over Benton’s Tigers at Benton Friday night.

Jalan West scored 17 points, Devonte Francis 14 and Lyndale James 10 for the Bearkats. Michael Durham had 16, Deterryion Robinson 13 and Steven Vinson 12 for Benton, now 9-11 for the season and 2-3 in district play. The Tigers play at Parkway Tuesday.

Bossier High’s next game is at Ringgold, where Williams played four years on teams coached by Floyd Pate and Walter Hayes in the early 1990s.

He was a four-sport standout at Ringgold, also participating in football, baseball and track and field, clearing 6-8 in the high jump and finishing second to Marvin Robertson of White Castle in the 1993 state meet.

Williams won the Scholar-Athlete award as a senior at Ringgold, earning a scholarship to Southern Arkansas University  (where he was an all-conference basketball player and cleared 6-10 in the high jump).

After spending the first three years of his coaching career at Benton Middle School, he was an assistant coach at Parkway for two years and head coach at Northwood for three years. His first Northwood team was 1-25, but the next team won 11 games and the Falcons tied the school record with 19 wins a year later before Williams moved to Bossier High — which had won 27 or more games five years in a row. Now, the Bearkats have done it eight years in a row, a school record.

In another 2-4A game, Haughton beat Parkway 75-54 Friday. Solomon Waddles scored 17 points, Blake Lewis 16, Dakota Prescott 15 and Willie Simmons 12 for the Bucs, now 13-12 overall and 2-3 in district going into a Tuesday game at Minden. Thomas Moore led Parkway with 19.

Airline took a 17-9 lead after one quarter but was outscored in each of the other three quarters in a 60-51 loss to Byrd in a 1-5A game. Freshman Hayden Hildebrand scored 12 points and Josh Hagins, whose playing time was limited because of foul problems, added 11 for the Vikings, who are 19-11 for the season and 1-1 in district play.

Plain Dealing moved closer to a fourth straight District 1-A title with a 74-46 win over Sarepta Friday and a 41-28 win over Haynesville Saturday.

Yondarius Johnson scored 23 points and LaCharlie Scott 11 for the Lions Friday, while Johnson had 18 points Saturday.

Plain Dealing (21-5) is in the driver’s seat in the district race with a one-game lead and two games remaining against teams with losing records: Logansport (9-13) and Ringgold (8-15).

Plain Dealing plays host to Logansport Tuesday and travels to Ringgold Friday.

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