17th White River Water Carnival 4 Mile Classic
(6 August 1995)
Classic race champs run with the same heart
By Paul Glover of the Guard Staff
The White River Classic 4-Mile Road Race champions' only other similarity you can be sure of is their Pioneer hearts. Brian Baker, a 1989 graduate at Batesville High, won his seventh Classic title Saturday morning. Six of those came in a row - 1988 though '93 - where he was also winning all kinds of races and all kinds of state and national honors as a Pioneer and an Arkansas Razorback cross country and track star. Michelle Smart, a 1991 graduate at BHS, won her first road race title of any kind Saturday. Smart, a tennis player for the Lady Pioneers, didn't even take up running until three years ago. Last year as a junior at Lyon College, her first year to run as a collegian, she qualified for the NAIA national meet and made all-conference.
How they finished...(80)
| Name | From | Time |
| Brian Baker | Fayetteville | 19:36 |
| Sean Carlson | West Plains, MO | 22:02 |
| Brandon Roberts | Pottersville, MO | 22:16 |
| Joe Melvin | West Plains, MO | 22:29 |
| Mason Pickins | Batesville | 22:51 |
| Terry Smith | Batesville | 22:56 |
| John Redmond | Batesville | 26:13 |
| Calvin Deterow | N. Little Rock | 26:26 |
| Steve Hollowell | Little Rock | 27:03 |
| Sam LaDart | Memphis | 27:08 |
| Ethan Busby | Paragould | 27:17 |
| Chird Bobbitt | Searcy | 27:25 |
| Robert Hopkins | Little Rock | 27:31 |
| Wilbert Dawson | Palestine | 27:50 |
| Dan Gregory | Batesville | 28:22 |
| Joe Pool | Batesville | 28:27 |
| Mark Scott | Batesville | 28:38 |
| Michelle Smart | Batesville | 29:20 |
| Sam Cooke | Batesville | 29:24 |
| Mike Brannon | Batesville | 29:32 |
| Carl Cerniglia | Little Rock | 29:37 |
| Glenn Haynie | Jonesboro | 29:44 |
| Stephen Smith | Batesville | 29:53 |
| Candace Bennett | Batesville | 29:57 |
| Doyle Tyer | McCrory | 30:10 |
| Luther Schmidt | Batesville | 30:14 |
| Ronnie Hampton | Batesville | 30:52 |
| Mike Hanson | Nt. Pleasant | 31:09 |
| David Timko | Batesville | 31:16 |
| Jack Heston | State University | 31:25 |
| Bill Biggs | Jonesboro | 31:28 |
| Andy Buschman | Batesville | 31:33 |
| Tara Burnett | Warsaw, MO | 31:41 |
| Constance George | Batesville | 31:50 |
| Walt Gunter | Batesville | 31:54 |
| Darla Cole | Batesville | 32:01 |
| Bruce Johnston | batesville | 32:07 |
| Lackey Moody Jr. | Batesville | 32:08 |
| Roger Lawson | Marianna | 32:23 |
| Sue Augustus | Batesville | 32:35 |
| Mitchel Kennedy | Batesville | 32:47 |
| Randy Taylor | Batesville | 32:49 |
| Jeff Porter | Batesville | 32:50 |
| Dayla Hampton | Memphis | 33:02 |
| Rick Franks | Batesville | 33:17 |
| Laura Ross | Sulphur Rock | 33:19 |
| Jim Ruthledg | Memphis | 33:43 |
| Brandy Burnett | N. Little Rock | 33:51 |
| Brian Shidaker | Wilmington, OH | 34:01 |
| Barbara Bird | Jonesboro | 34:11 |
| Jackie Franks | Batesville | 34:34 |
| Alex Morgan | Batesville | 34:49 |
| Charles Barnett | Batesville | 35:22 |
| Julie Brooks | Batesville | 35:50 |
| Gary Crawford | Wynne | 36:42 |
| Penny Story | Mt. Pleasant | 36:46 |
| Paul Miller | Melbourne | 37:13 |
| Clearence Cash | Little Rock | 37:17 |
| Jermey Jones | Newark | 38:09 |
| Forrest Priest | Batesville | 38:40 |
| Patricia Stueve | Batesville | 39:22 |
| Judith Shidaker | Wilmington, OH | 39:32 |
| Regues Grant | Springfield, VA | 39:50 |
| Ronald Shidaker | Wilmington, OH | 39:52 |
| Kermit Gunther | Batesville | 40:08 |
| Jessica Franks | Batesville | 40:18 |
| Gregory Lawson | Walnut Ridge | 40:19 |
| Hazel Bearden | Batesville | 41:08 |
| James Lawson II | Walnut Ridge | 41:52 |
| Judy Held | Batesville | 43:40 |
| Dennis Martin | Batesville | 43:42 |
| James Anderson | Pine Bluff | 44:03 |
| Rachel Anderson | Pine Bluff | 45:47 |
| Mike Loggains | Melbourne | 48:51 |
| Norman James | Alexander | 55:19 |
| Mechele Carson | Batesville | 57:37 |
| Bill Carson | Batesville | 58:27 |
| Robin Hidy | Batesville | 58:28 |
| Suzanne Magouyrk | Batesville | 59:43 |
| Wendy Grant | Batesville | 59:47 |