Eastfield won the Metro Athletic Conference tournament with an 83-68 win over North Lake on Feb. 20, which advanced them to the National Junior College Athletic Association Division III championship tournament in Loch Sheldrake, New York. This will be the third appearance in four years for the Harvesters. Et...

Mesquite, TX- The Eastfield Harvesters basketball team defeat Cedar Valley in the second round of the Metro Athletic Conference tournament on Feb. 18. Eastfield led at halftime 46-36 and ended up winning 93-89. Photos by Luis Gonzales, David Sanchez, and Jonathan Wences/The Et Cetera

By Brianna Harmon After 23 seasons as head coach, 15 conference titles and one national championship, former Eastfield basketball coach Bob Flickner has been selected to be inducted into the National Junior College Athletic Association Men’s Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame. Flickner...

By Brianna Harmon The Eastfield Harvesters have compiled a 5-2 record in conference play since losing star player Tevin Corprew to academic eligibility after the fall semester. Corprew was a five-time Region V Player of the Week during nonconference play. He led the nation in points, assists...

Different countries, identical obsessions By Brianna Harmon Eastfield sophomores Din Androk and Teekay Biti left their home countries as children for different reasons, but both came to the college for the same reason: basketball. Androk was born in Bosnia, while Biti was born in Zimbabwe. Both...

By Brianna Harmon Former Eastfield basketball coach Bob Flickner was selected yesterday into the 2016 class of NJCAA Men’s Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame. The Harvesters won a national title in 1997 under his guidance. In his 23 seasons as head coach, Flickner racked up 423 wins...

By Brianna Harmon Mesquite, TX-- The Eastfield Harvesters defeated Mountain View on January 13 in the final seconds of the game with a shot from Shooting Guard Donald McBride who had 20 points. Eastfield led Mountain View 55-42 at halftime. LeTron Manning led the way for Eastfield scoring 34 points.

By Gabriel Flores The Harvesters notched five more wins over the past two weeks and remained perfect on the season with a 8-0 record. Eastfield leads the na- tion in scoring at 119.6 points per-game, and point guard Tevin Corprew is the nation’s top individual scorer with 35 points per game....

Harvesters return strong behind veteran ‘Glue guy’   By Gabriel Flores The Eastfield Harvesters men’s basketball team has retooled and is determined to restore the program’s winning ways. Last year Eastfield finished with a 19-11 record but was just 3-7 in Metro Athletic Conference...

By Juanita Hernandez IRVING — The Eastfield Harvesters men’s basketball team ended its season with a 96-83 loss to Brookhaven on Friday in the opening round of the Region V Tournament at North Lake College. This will be the first time in three seasons that the Harvesters won’t go to New York...

By Tony Neese, Brad Watkins and Carolina Catalan After winning 11 games, the Eastfield Harvesters lost their first game of the season Nov. 25 against Paris Junior College and are now 12-1. The following is a roundup of the Harvesters’ games played during the past two weeks. Eastfield 101, Southeastern...

By Brad Watkins Growing up in the commonly mispronounced small East Texas town of Mexia, Walter Bell led a simple childhood. Then he received some difficult news: His parents were getting a divorce. Bell took the news hard. “It was tough on me because I’m a daddy’s boy,” he said....

By Tony Neese The fourth-ranked Eastfield Harvesters basketball team is off to a 7-0 start after a 112-91 home victory over El Centro on Nov. 14. The explosive Harvesters have already surpassed the 100-point mark in scoring four times in seven games and are now averaging 106 points per game. The...

By Brad Watkins and Tony Neese First-team All-District. District Most Valuable Player. High school state champion. These are just a few of the accolades won by the players on the 2014 Eastfield Harvesters basketball team. Yet when their high school careers were over, no scholarship schools gave any of them...

By Kevin Cushingberry Jr. I could hardly sleep the night before. I tweeted out my excitement, writing “Big day tomorrow,” but little did I know just how big the day would be. I woke up bright and early. Well, really, it was just 6 a.m. April 4 but that’s about six hours earlier than my ideal...

Editor in Chief Kevin Cushingberry Jr. takes a look at the first-round NBA playoff matchups and LeBron James’ quest to fulfill his promise to win multiple titles for the Miami Heat. As the playoffs continue, look for updates/reactions on each series as well as our postseason awards on eastfieldnews.com. Western...

By KEVIN CUSHINGBERRY JR. LOCH SHELDRAKE, N.Y. — Freshman forward Ricardo Artis slumped in a chair with a towel over his head, hiding his sweat-drenched face and watery eyes. The Eastfield Harvesters had just lost 72-68 to Caldwell (N.C.) in the Final Four, and Artis wasn’t ready to accept...

Game 1: Eastfield vs. Brookhaven Freshman guard Tevin Corprew scored 27 points to lead the Harvesters to a 92-75 victory over No. 3 seed Brookhaven on Thursday. The win avenged a 3-point loss Eastfield suffered at the hands of the Bears just three weeks before. The win, against the only team other...

By Kevin Cushingberry Jr., Editor in Chief Ricardo Artis had never played on a winning team. In fact, he hadn’t played a single playoff game in his life. The freshman forward signed with Eastfield six months ago in hopes of finally being a winner. Now, he can say he made the right decision. Artis...

By Kevin Cushingberry Jr., Editor in Chief A win was on the line every night in the Shockey family’s front yard in Haltom City. The one-on-one basketball battles became so competitive, twin brothers Josh and Aaron hung a poster on their bedroom wall keeping tally of each victory. More than...

By Kevin Cushingberry Jr., Editor in Chief When it came time to decide who was the toughest guy on the basketball court during the preseason, it was an easy choice for Sheldon Yearwood’s new teammates. The transfer from Paris Junior College was a unanimous pick as Eastfield’s junkyard dog:...

BY KEVIN CUSHINGBERRY JR., EDITOR IN CHIEF After finishing last season as the national runner-up, the Eastfield Harvesters are a brand new basketball team. Six players from last year’s squad earned scholarships to four-year universities. One player earned first-team all-American honors, and the other...

BY KEVIN CUSHINGBERRY JR., EDITOR IN CHIEF Hours later, the Eastfield Harvesters took on the Brookdale Jersey Blues in the NJCAA Division III championship game. Eastfield’s best wasn’t enough as the Harvesters fell to the Jersey Blues by six points, 61-55. Following the second-place finish...