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FIVE QUESTIONS
1 What pro sport did Althea Gibson
play when her tennis career ended?
2 What arrived in Britain in 1967 and
wiped out most of the countrys elm
trees?
3 What ballet term translates literally
as in Arabic fashion?
4 Which civil rights campaigner was
awarded the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize?
5 What is Europes longest river?
Answers, 6D
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Opinions 4,5A
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Today
Voice recital: Soprano Cherry
Dunn and tenor Zane Lynn present
a recital at 3 p.m. in Poindexter
Hall at Mississippi University for
Women. (This program, originally
set for April 29, was rescheduled
due to weather.) Free to the public.

Tuesday, May 6
Book signing: Author and
sitting Mississippi Supreme Court
Justice Randy Pierce signs his new
book Magnolia Mud at 3 p.m.
at The Book Mart, 120 E. Main
St., Starkville. To reserve a signed
copy of Pierces novel about a
ctional governors race and
Mississippi political intrigue, call
662-323-2844.
PUBLIC MEETINGS
May 5: Lowndes County
Board of Supervisors, Court-
house, 9 a.m.
May 5: Clay County Board
of Supervisors, Courthouse,
9 a.m.
May 5: Caledonia Board
of Alderman, town hall at 6
p.m.
May 6: Columbus City
Council, municipal complex,
5 p.m.
May 6: Starkville Board of
Aldermen, City Hall court-
room, 5:30 p.m.
May 8: Clay County Board
of Supervisors, Courthouse,
9 a.m.
May 9: Lowndes County
School Board, Central Ofce,
11 a.m.
Derby afternoon
Mary Alice Weeks/Dispatch Staff
Britney Tranum of the Starkville Junior Auxiliary serves hors doeuvre at the Kentucky Derby Fundraiser held at Magnolia Manor
in Starkville. Guests enjoyed live music, a live viewing of the race, and a silent auction. TOP OF PAGE: A ceramic mug really cap-
tures the eye of Caroline Hintz, 9, of Columbus, during Market Street Festival in downtown Columbus on Saturday. The mug is by
Chad Nelson, of Coleman, Alabama. Caroline is the daughter of Melanie Hintz of Columbus. Photo by Luisa Porter/Dispatch Staff
Businesses
protest new
Mississippi law
Some say religious
freedom law could lead
to discrimination
BY EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS
The Associated Press
JACKSON Some Mississippi
business owners who support equal
treatment for gays and lesbians are
pushing back against a new law that
bans government from limiting the
free practice of religion.
Critics fear the vaguely written
law, which takes effect July 1, will
prompt authorities to look away
from anti-gay actions that are car-
ried out in the name of religious be-
liefs for example, photographers
refusing to take pictures for same-
sex couples because they believe
homosexuality is a sin.
Hundreds of Mississippi busi-
nesses, from hair salons to bakeries
and art galleries, have started dis-
playing round blue window stickers
that declare: We dont discrimi-
nate. If youre buying, were selling.
See PROTEST, 6A
BY CARL SMITH
csmith@cdispatch.com
Starkville aldermen could
contract an Oxford-based plan-
ning rm, Slaughter and Asso-
ciates, to begin a preliminary
study identifying possible fu-
ture annexation territory.
The board is slated to dis-
cuss entering into contract ne-
gotiations for the service Tues-
day, but city ofcials tempered
the agenda item by calling it a
preliminary part of a possible
long-term project.
Slaughter and Associates is
currently producing a compre-
hensive plan, which includes
land-use charts and an outline
of future use, for county super-
visors.
Areas east of Starkville, es-
pecially those toward Missis-
sippi State Universitys campus,
are logical choices for possible
annexation in the future, city
ofcials conrmed Friday; how-
ever, none of Starkvilles lead-
ers specically identied land
they would like to see added
into the municipalitys bound-
aries.
Logically, though, ve areas
are prime targets for possible
inclusion, as they would add
increased sales tax receipts,
Starkville ofcials interested in annexation study
Proposed board motion would enter the city into negotiations
with planning rm for preliminary assessment
See ANNEXATION, 6A
BY CARL SMITH
csmith@cdispatch.com
Starkville aldermen
are expected to discuss
scheduling public hear-
ings on lowering the citys
alcohol sales restrictions
Tuesday, a move that
could allow on-premises
sales and consumption to
more business parcels.
Currently, businesses
cannot sell beer or light
wine if it is located with-
in 250 feet of the near-
est point of any church,
school, child care facility
or funeral home. That dis-
tance is measured with a
straight line, rather than
routes of pedestrian trav-
el.
The city proposes
amending the rule to fol-
low state statute, Miss.
Code Ann. 67-1-51(3),
which allows for sales
beyond 100 feet of the
premises, provided they
are both zoned either
commercial or industri-
al. Churches and funeral
homes may also waive the
distance requirements,
the proposal states.
Traditional single-fam-
ily neighborhoods zoned
R-1 are granted increased
protection from alco-
hol sales as the change
increases the distance
requirement to 400 feet
in non-commercial and
Starkville aldermen consider change in alcohol law
Potential change could allow more on-site consumption,
would be consistent with state law
See ALCOHOL, 6A
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AP Photo/Gulrahim Niazman
Afghans search for survivors after Fridays landslide buried Abi-Barik village in Badakhshan province, northeast-
ern Afghanistan, on Saturday.
Sunday
SAY WHAT?
I really dont care if its by lethal injection, by the electric chair,
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Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian on the death penalty. Story, 8A.
Jack Bauers back to save
the day in 24 revival
BY FRAZIER MOORE
AP Television Writer
NEW YORK Jacks
back.
A counterterrorism
agent forced to go rogue,
Jack Bauer had been lying
low since 2010. Hes been
off the grid and off-screen
since the nal cycle of 24.
For eight seasons of
this Fox thriller, the in-
domitable Bauer repeated-
ly saved the country from
innumerable disasters (or
tried to) at grave cost to
himself. But far from being
showered in the thanks of
a grateful nation, he was
branded and re-branded a
most-wanted villain for his
service. He had no choice
but to go on the lam.
Viewers like his c-
tional pursuers on 24
might reasonably have giv-
en up on ever seeing Jack
again.
But on 24: Live Anoth-
er Day, he is nabbed by
the CIA shortly after 11
a.m., London time, as this
real-time, sequential dra-
ma erupts with the rst of
a dozen episodes that will
carry the saga to a breath-
less resolution 12 hours
later in the same hectic
day.
Noted: Past 24 sea-
sons ran 24 hours, hence
the series title. So 12
might have been a more
appropriate, if lame-sound-
ing, name for this mini-
series, which premieres
Monday at 7 p.m. CDT
with two episodes, span-
ning the period from 11
a.m. to 1 p.m.
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ABI BARIK, Afghanistan
Afghan rescuers and volunteers
armed with shovels and little more
than their bare hands dug through
the mud Saturday after a massive
landslide swept through a village
the day before, turning it into an
earthen tomb holding hundreds of
bodies, ofcials said.
The government and aid groups
rushed to bring food, water and
shelter to the survivors as the gov-
ernment tried to ascertain just how
many people were killed in the lat-
est natural disaster to hit a country
already reeling from nearly three
decades of war.
Figures on the number of people
killed and missing in the disaster Fri-
day varied from 255 to 2,700. Fears
of a new landslide complicated res-
cue efforts, as homes and residents
sat buried under yards) of mud.
That will be their cemetery,
said Mohammad Karim Khalili, one
of the countrys two vice presidents,
who visited the scene Saturday. It
is not possible to bring out any bod-
ies.
Though gures on the death toll
varied, residents knew the toll the
tragedy had taken on their own fam-
ilies.
From atop a muddy hill, Begam
Nesar pointed to the torrent of earth
below that had wiped out much of
her village. Thirteen of my family
members are under the mud, she
said, including her mother, father,
brothers, sisters and children.
Rescuers struggle to help Afghans
SLOVYANSK, Ukraine
Ukraine launched an
offensive against separat-
ist forces for control of
a besieged eastern city
Friday, while clashes be-
tween pro- and anti-gov-
ernment activists in the
previously calm southern
port of Odessa led to a
re that police said killed
31 people.
The rst serious offen-
sive by the government
in Kiev and the dozens of
deaths in Odessa sharply
escalated the crisis that
has led to the worst ten-
sions between Russia and
the West since the Cold
war. The Kremlin said
the battle for the separat-
ist-held city of Slovyansk
effectively destroyed the
Geneva pact aimed at
cooling the unrest in the
deeply divided country.
Oleksandr Turchy-
nov, Ukraines acting
president, said many in-
surgents were killed or
wounded in the eastern
offensive that also un-
derlined the militarys
vulnerability. The mil-
itary action came two
days after Kiev said it had
lost control of eastern
Ukraine.
Ukrainian unrest spreads; dozens dead in Odessa
AP Photo/Sergei Poliakov
Ukrainian police guard the burnt trade union building
where more than 30 people died trying to escape
during clashes in Odessa, Ukraine, on Friday.
Military action comes two days after
Kiev said it had lost control
At least 255 conrmed
dead in landslide
AP Photo/Gulrahim Niazman
Afghans search for survivors after Fridays landslide on Saturday.
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SUNDAY, MAY 4, 2014 3A
NOTICE OF
PUBLIC HEARING
City of Columbus
TO QUALIFY THE URBAN RENEWAL AREA AS BLIGHTED OR SLUM
AND TO CONSIDER THE ISLAND URBAN RENEWAL PROJECT
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to the requirements of the Urban
Renewal Law, TITLE 43. PUBLIC WELFARE CHAPTER 35. URBAN
RENEWAL AND REDEVELOPMENT ARTICLE 1. URBAN RENEWAL
Miss. Code Ann. 43-35-13 (2014), that the City Council of Columbus,
Mississippi will hold a public hearing at the Municipal Complex 1501 Main
Street; Columbus, MS; on Tuesday May 06, 2014 at 4:00 pm.
Te purpose of this meeting is to qualify the urban renewal area as a blighted
or slum area and consider the Island Urban Renewal Project.
Te boundaries of the urban renewal area incorporates the northern portion
of the Island, 5th Street North extending to Highway 45 N just past Leigh
Mall, the Entertainment District including a section of Downtown and a
portion of 7th Avenue north, a portion along Main Street beginning at 12th
Street and ending just beyond the railroad tracks, and the Warehouse District
located in the Southside Historic District.
Te Island project will consist of immediate development as a park and future
development as a mixed-use district.
All interested persons are invited to attend the public hearing. Individuals
wishing to address the above matter must sign-in prior to the commencement
of the council hearing.
A copy of the urban renewal plan and the urban renewal boundaries are
on fle at the City of Columbus Department of Planning and Community
Development; 1609 Main Street. For additional information regarding the
public meeting and matters to be considered please contact Christina M.
Berry, Director of Planning and Community Development at 662-245-5068.

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BY EMILY
WAGSTER PETTUS
JACKSON A Wash-
ington-based anti-tax group
is criticizing Sen. Thad
Cochran for not debating
challenger Chris McDaniel
in Mississippis Republican
U.S. Senate primary.
Club for Growth is air-
ing TV and radio ads that
say: After ve decades
in Washington, Cochran
wont even come home to
defend his record.
Cochran was rst elect-
ed to the U.S. House in
1972 and to the Senate in
1978. He made dozens of
campaign appearances in
Mississippi in April, when
the Senate was on break.
He was in the state again
this week, touring areas
damaged by tornadoes.
Cochran told The As-
sociated Press that he
doesnt see the point of de-
bating McDaniel because
he believes the challenger
is misrepresenting his re-
cord in Washington.
I dont know what
there is to debate, Co-
chran told AP after he
made a campaign stop
April 25 in Batesville. He
obviously is going to criti-
cize my record of service.
We disagree on some of
the issues. And there are
probably some things that
we can agree on. But hes
obviously, you know, try-
ing to make me look bad
by things hes saying about
my performance in the
Senate.
Club for Growth is
among the independent
groups pumping millions
of dollars into the Senate
race in Mississippi.
Whats Thad Co-
chran scared of? Club for
Growth president Chris
Chocola said in a news re-
lease Wednesday. Is he
worried that Mississippi
voters might reject his re-
cord of debt limit increas-
es, bailouts, tax hikes and
pay raises? Is he afraid that
Mississippi voters might
realize hes been there too
long?
McDaniel and tea party
critics have criticized Co-
chrans votes on federal
spending bills even though
the measures brought mil-
lions of federal dollars to
Mississippi. Cochran also
was criticized for his vote
in 2013 to halt a govern-
ment shutdown and voted
on New Years Day 2013 to
avoid a so-called scal cliff
bill that extended tax rates
and postponed automatic
spending cuts.
In early January, several
Mississippi television sta-
tions invited Cochran and
McDaniel to debate May
24. McDaniel accepted, but
Cochran has not.
McDaniel was elected
to the state Legislature in
2007. During a Tea Party
Express event attended by
about 70 people at the state
Capitol on April 24, he said
Cochrans voting record
has been liberal for an aw-
fully long time.
Hes been there 42
years name one ght
hes led against Barack
Obama, McDaniel said.
Name one. Name one
time hes raised his voice
in defense of our Con-
stitution, against Barack
Obama.
Cochran-McDaniel debate unlikely in Senate primary
TUPELO Bond has
been set at $50,000 each
for two men arrested and
charged for looting at Lee
County residences in the
storm aftermath.
Sheriff Jim Johnson
says 20-year-old Zachary
Gumm and 21-year-old Da-
vid Bennett were arrested
Thursday while working
disaster relief detail in the
Auburn community.
Johnson says the two
men are accused of tak-
ing copper wire and utility
items as they made their
relief rounds.
He says a description
of the suspects and the
vehicle they were in gave
deputies the information
needed to nd Gumm and
Bennett.
Johnson says the stolen
items were recovered.
Two arrested
for looting in
Lee County
NATCHEZ Natchez
and Adams County of-
cials arent making public
any details about the sale
of four acres at the local
port.
The county signed off
on the agreement Thurs-
day.
Natchez Inc. Executive
Director Chandler Russ
told The Natchez Dem-
ocrat the company is a
major player in the Tusca-
loosa Marine Shale devel-
opment and could invest
up to $5 million in the area
and create 20 new jobs.
Russ said local ofcials
are under a condentiality
agreement. An ofcial an-
nouncement could come
in 30 to 60 days.
This company is look-
ing to establish a presence
and footprint in the port
area for the movement of
their liquids in and out of
the TMS, Russ said. We
expect that to continue
to grow and expand over
the course of the play, he
said.
Tuscaloosa Marine
Shale formation is located
in southwest Mississip-
pi and central Louisiana.
Experts have said the for-
mation could hold 7 billion
barrels of oil.
Supervisor Mike
Lazarus said the agree-
ment came with a reverter
clause requiring that if the
company did not develop
the site in three years the
land would revert with
the county and the county
would be allowed to keep
the funds generated from
the sale.
Company signs deal at Natchez port
Opponents criticized Cochrans votes
on federal spending bills even though
the measures brought millions of
federal dollars to Mississippi
McDaniel Cochran
BY JEFF AMY
LOUISVILLE Rescuers were still
looking for people missing after Mon-
days tornado when Louisville and Win-
ston County ofcials started thinking
about long-term recovery.
The county of 19,000 people in east
Mississippi faces three major challeng-
es housing for hundreds left home-
less, rebuilding its health care system
after the twister shattered its hospital and
jump-starting storm-damaged business-
es.
Rebuilding will be slow, and not all res-
idents may stick with it to the end. Take it
from Smithville.
Just last Sunday, the Monroe Coun-
ty town celebrated completion of a new
town hall, a milestone on the third anni-
versary of a tornado that killed 16 resi-
dents and destroyed or damaged more
than 150 homes. The police department,
the post ofce, a school, the only grocery
store and four Smithvilles ve churches
were hit.
Smithville has rebuilt the buildings.
But the pre-tornado population of 900 has
fallen to about 600.
There are lasting effects, said the
Rev. Wes White of Smithville Baptist
Church. Known to his congregation as
Brother Wes, White rode out the 2011
tornado at the church with residents
from a mobile home park as the church
disintegrated. Somehow, all survived.
Five members of the congregation
elsewhere at the time of the storm died.
Its a process. We dont forget. We
look back with love and appreciation for
those that we lost, but we keep our eyes
focused on how the Lord can use us to-
day, White said.
Tornado recovery needs housing, hospital and jobs
Tupelo residents say some sirens silent
TUPELO Some peo-
ple in Tupelo are saying
that warning sirens failed
to sound before a tornado
struck the city Monday
afternoon.
Resident LaShona
Jamison, who has a siren
in her backyard, told WT-
VA-TV the siren never ac-
tivated.
It never went off,
Jamison said. Normally
the least slight of wind or
rain makes that thing go
off, but it didnt on Mon-
day.
Once a month the
county tests the siren, so
shes no stranger to the
noise.
Its loud, she said.
Its very loud.
However, Lee County
Emergency Management
Director Lee Bowdry
said a monitoring system
shows sirens did sound.
People in Tupelos down-
town and Crosstown sec-
tions said they did hear
sirens.
Tornado sirens are
supposed to activate as
soon as warnings are is-
sued. Sirens wail for three
minutes, the Northeast
Mississippi Daily Journal
reports, then pause and
usually activate again.
I did not hear them in
Oak Meadows and always
have been able to hear
them in the past, said
Bobby King of Belden.
Tupelo has 22 torna-
do sirens, while nearly as
many are located in other
parts of Lee County.
Tupelo Water & Light
Director Johnny Tim-
mons said that because
of all the complaints,
workers will check sirens
across the city for possi-
ble mechanical problems.
As city and county of-
cials test the sirens this
weekend, theyll try to
nd explanations for any
siren failure to activate.
Long-term recovery facing
east Mississippi town
Purchased by major player in the
Tuscaloosa Marine Shale development
Accused of
copper wire theft
4A SUNDAY, MAY 4, 2014
Opinion
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Hell froze over
Saturday morning: I
planted a garden, thus
fullling an ancient
prophecy.
On an August
afternoon circa 1970,
my brother Mick and I
sat under a shade tree,
staring despondently
at two bushels of but-
ter beans and a bushel
of purple-hull peas
that our dad said must
be shelled before we
went to play. So while
the other kids in the
neighborhood were out
swimming or shing
or playing baseball,
we shelled peas and
cussed our luck.
We had tried to pull
the old Tom Sawyer
scam on some of the
younger kids, but
nobody was falling for
it. We had fooled them
before; this time they
were wise to us.
That meant the job
fell to the two of us
alone, and we reck-
oned it would be al-
most night by the time
we nished shelling all
those butter beans and
peas.
I dont know what
Im gonna do when I
grow up, I said bit-
terly. But I know hell
will freeze over before
I plant a garden, thats
for sure.
Mick agreed. As
far as I know, he has
kept up his end of the
bargain. I did, too.
Until Saturday.
We just bought a
house in Columbus, an old house
with a really big yard. My girl-
friend, Tess, gured there was
ample room for a garden.
So it was that early Saturday
morning I gathered all the equip-
ment required for the job tiller,
rake, spade, potting soil, cross-
ties to frame the garden and wire
fencing to keep the dogs out
and went to work.
It was just me and my little
dachshund, Dooley, who is a nat-
ural-born digger and
was initially an asset
in the venture. When
my tiller bounced off a
root, Dooley swooped
in and tugged on the
root until it gave way.
Then he would prance
triumphantly around
the yard with his root/
trophy clenched tight-
ly in his jaws.
He was a big help
until I had nished
preparing the soil
and started planting
the tomatoes, which
Dooley never a
discriminating digger
mistook for roots. I
planted em. He pulled
em. Now, I have a
rm rule that I never
plant the same plant
more than twice, so
Dooley was banished
and I was left alone to
nish the job.
Admittedly, its
not much of a garden.
In fact, it may be an
exaggeration to even
call it a garden. Dad
would certainly laugh
at it. Its just a 10-foot
by 10-foot patch of
freshly turned and
planted earth sur-
rounded by a little
wire fence. The con-
tents are four tomato
plants and two ats of
marigolds. Tess says
planting marigolds
next to the tomatoes
will keep bugs away. I
am skeptical, though,
because dad never
planted marigolds
among his tomatoes,
and I gure what dad
didnt know about gardening isnt
worth knowing.
My appreciation of dads talent
for growing things will never
diminish. Funny thing, though: In
many ways, he was about as be-
reft of skills as me when it comes
to doing stuff most men can do.
Neither of us could remedy even
the simplest mechanical problem.
We are lousy carpenters, paint-
ers, plumbers and electricians,
too.
Ill just admit it: About the only
thing I can make is a phone call.
Dad, however, had a singular
gift: He could grow anything. It
was in his DNA, passed down to
him from the preceding genera-
tions of farmers, I guess.
Farming had been my dads
profession until 1950, when he
suffered a serious back injury,
was conned to bed for a solid
year and lost the farm. He moved
his family to Tupelo where he
could nd work. He eventually
wound up working for the city
of Tupelo, and while the job was
tolerable enough, its certainly
wasnt his passion.
He compensated by growing
the largest vegetable garden in
Lee County, enough to pack our
garage with canned vegetables,
keep two huge deep freezers
crammed so full you could barely
close the doors and supply the
whole neighborhood with but-
ter beans, peas, string beans,
squash, okra, onions, potatoes, to-
matoes, watermelon, cantaloupe
and peppers.
The secret to dads success as
a large-scale vegetable gardener,
was his ability to manage his
labor costs.
Thats where Mick and I
gured into the equation. Most
of our work began about the time
school got out of the summer
long hours of hoeing and picking
and shelling. We were not com-
pensated in cash payments for
this work, a condition that de-
spite many bitter letters to Cesar
Chavez and his National Farm
Workers Association never
changed.
So I was a Union Man from
the start and remain an Union
Man.
But I will confess that I have
changed in one way, at least. As I
dug my hands into the rich, moist
brown earth Saturday morning,
I realized that I was happy in the
work.
I guess maybe theres a little
father in the son, after all.
Next year, I might expand the
garden a bit.
Im thinking a couple of acres
ought to do it.
Slim Smith is the managing
editor of The Dispatch. His email
address is ssmith@cdispatch.com.
A rose to the Market Street Festi-
val, which was held this weekend in
downtown Columbus. We acknowledge
all who had a hand in making this
years event a success, including Main
Street Columbus and director Barbara
Bigelow, and her staff, more than 400 volunteers,
police/re personnel, entertainers, organizer Amber
Brislin and, of course, visitors. We also give a rose to
the weather. Unlike last year when rain washed out
the Friday evening portion of the festival, the weather
was perfect throughout, a cool but pleasant Friday
evening followed by a sunny, warm Saturday.
A rose to high school baseball in
Lowndes County. Columbus High
and New Hope High advanced in the
Mississippi High School Activities
Association playoffs with rst-round
series sweeps this week. Columbus
(23-6) eliminated third-ranked Clinton in the Class
6A playoffs, while New Hope (26-3) began its Class
5A state title defense by eliminating Center Hill.
New Hope, which faces Pearl this week, has won
14 straight games, while upstart Columbus is enjoy-
ing its rst postseason run, having won the schools
rst two playoff series this year.
Also Friday night, Heritage Academy ended its
campaign at 19-14 with a loss in the seminal round
of the Mississippi Association of Independent Schools
Class AAA, Division II playoffs. West Lowndes also
qualied for the MHSAA Class 1A playoffs but lost in
the play-in round.
A rose to the Starkville Community
Market, which opened Saturday. Of-
cials estimated about 800 people visit-
ed the market Saturday across three
operating hours. The market continues
to make strides since the Greater
Starkville Development Partnership took over the
event two years ago. Last year, the GSDP extended
the market into August in response to public demand
and added more vendors. This year, organizers will
add a Tuesday market, which will run from 4-6 p.m.
To meet the goal of growing the market, volunteers
are needed to help set up and take down vendor
areas, participate in shopper censuses and handle
logistical needs as they arise. Those interested can
email Jennifer Prather at jprather@starkville.org or
call Volunteer Starkville at 662-268-2865. For more
information on SCM, market guidelines and vendor
applications, visit visit.starkville.org/market.
A rose to Columbus chapter of
Kiwanis International, which Wednes-
day celebrated the history of the club.
The Columbus chapter was founded
93 years ago and is one of the earliest
chapters in the organizations history.
Kiwanis was founded in 1915 in Detroit, Mich. Ki-
wanis International is founded on six primary goals:
To give primacy to the human and spiritual rather
than to the material values of life; to encourage the
daily living of the Golden Rule in all human relation-
ships; to promote the adoption and the application of
higher social, business and professional standards; to
develop, by precept and example, a more intelligent,
aggressive and serviceable citizenship; to provide
a practical means to form enduring friendships, to
render altruistic service and to build better commu-
nities; and to cooperate in creating and maintaining
that sound public opinion and high idealism which
make possible the increase of righteousness, justice,
patriotism and goodwill.
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Saggy pants
What happened to the ordinance on saggy pants.
Obviously, its not being enforced. Everywhere I go I
see guys with pants hanging down low.
Mike Willis
Columbus
Voice of the people
Admittedly,
its not much
of a garden.
In fact, it may
be an exag-
geration to
even call it a
garden. Dad
would cer-
tainly laugh
at it. Its just
a 10-foot by
10-foot patch
of freshly
turned and
planted earth
surrounded
by a little wire
fence.
Your voice
voice@cdispatch.com
THE DISPATCH www.cdispatch.com SUNDAY, MAY 4, 2014 5A
Say what you
will, but youd best
check for recording
devices. Alternative-
ly, you might check
your thoughts.
The past few days
have provided a
cornucopia of repre-
hensible statements,
reactions to which
tell us as much
about our country
as the comments
do about the speakers. Within
those reactions, one nds cause
for both concern and consola-
tion.
Concern includes the poten-
tial ramications of cruel or
poorly conceived expression.
Making racist remarks can do
great harm to the public trust
and damage hard-won gains
toward racial harmony. Conso-
lation can be found in evidence
that Americans on the whole
have no tolerance for racism or
discriminatory behavior.
But there are other layers of
concern that at least bear men-
tion: One is the loss of privacy
owing to the widespread ten-
dency to record people without
their knowledge and the facility
with which those utterances
or behaviors can
become viral.
One could make
a case for the net
positive of exposing
harmful thoughts.
On the other hand,
one is reminded of
the Bob Dylan lyric:
And if my thought-
dreams could be
seen/Theyd proba-
bly put my head in a
guillotine.
Another source of concern
is the tendency to condemn
groups of people according to
the words or deeds of one or a
few. Racial proling is one such
manifestation: If black teens
commit burglaries in certain
neighborhoods, then all black
teens become suspect and
Trayvon Martin dies by a vigi-
lantes bullet.
Indicting all Republicans
as racist because of one cow-
boys rant is another form of
proling. If one old, white guy
thinks blacks were better off
on the plantation than they are
collecting unemployment insur-
ance, then all old, white guys (a
large percentage of whom vote
Republican) must be similarly
racist.
Finally, we should all be
nervous about the instan-
taneous formation of social
media mobs that attack a single
individual whose comments,
while contemptible, result in a
virtual execution. Once the mob
descends, no punishment short
of absolute destruction seems
sufcient. People may want jus-
tice but the mob wants blood.
The characters correspond-
ing to the above need no intro-
duction. The old, white guy is
Cliven Bundy, the cattle rancher
who greeted Bureau of Land
Management agents with guns.
Fortunately, no shots were
red, but the spectacle gave
Bundy, a longtime federal-gov-
ernment denier, an opportunity
to espouse his now-familiar
views on race.
Next came Los Angeles
Clippers owner Donald Sterling,
80, who urged his mixed-race
then-girlfriend not to post
online photos of herself with
blacks or bring blacks to basket-
ball games. The comments were
captured on tape and leaked to
TMZ, an online dispenser of
human nightmares. Who taped
and who leaked havent yet been
established, though gossip and
theories abound.
Sterling isnt a likable guy,
most are agreed. He has a
checkered history as a landlord
who allegedly didnt want to
rent to Hispanics or African
Americans. His comments sug-
gest disrespect for his players,
who are good enough to make
him richer but not to sit in his
stands. For those comments,
the NBA on Tuesday banned
Sterling for life and ned him
$2.5 million.
The pain his statements
caused his players, the Afri-
can American community and
basketball fans everywhere was
enough to warrant calls for him
to step down. Never mind his
callous disregard for women,
including his mistress and espe-
cially his wife.
So many morals, so little
space.
First the practical: If you
dont want your words broadcast
in the public square, dont say
them. The Orwellian taint to
this advice is not meant to be
harsh but is offered in recog-
nition of the world in which
we live. Were not so much a
global village as a small town of
gossips.
On a higher note, such
potential exposure forces us to
more carefully select our words
and edit our thoughts. This
isnt only a matter of survival
but is essential to civilization.
Speaking ones mind isnt really
all its cracked up to be, as any
well-balanced person reading
the comments section quickly
concludes.
Ever wonder who those peo-
ple are? I have some thoughts
but my nely tuned self-edit-
ing skills prevent my sharing.
Instead, I offer a refrigerator
quote Ive always liked. Its
often attributed to Mahatma
Gandhi but possibly may have
tumbled from the lips of a new-
age guru. Regardless of the
source, it ts the occasion:
Your beliefs become your
thoughts, your thoughts be-
come your words, your words
become your actions, your ac-
tions become your habits, your
habits become your values, your
values become your destiny.
Whence our beliefs, it
seems, is the crucial challenge.
Alas, bigots by denition are
not inclined toward self-aware-
ness.
Kathleen Parker is a Pulitzer
Prize winning columnist. Her
email address is kathleenpark-
er@washpost.com.
Americans want a smaller
role in global affairs than the
stage-hogging part we com-
mand today. Nearly half say
the U.S. should be less active
minding the worlds business,
and only 19 percent say more so,
a new Wall Street Journal/NBC
News poll suggests.
Who can blame them? Our
roads are shabby, the rail system
Third World. Were told America
cant afford the social niceties
that nations we defend take for
granted.
Though a return to an earlier isolationism would be
dangerous, todays hyperactivity is the other extreme.
America is a big, powerful place and must do more than
lesser nations. We must also bear in mind, however, that
others are quite happy to have us spend our blood, trea-
sure and prestige xing their problems.
Following are four irritating examples:
n Ukraine. Theres been much complaint over the
Obama administrations reluctance to economically punish
Russian aggression in Ukraine without the European
Unions full participation.
It happens that Ukraine is in Europe, and the current
tragedy stems from Ukrainians efforts to seek closer
ties with western Europe. If Europeans, so dependent on
Russian energy supplies, face more risks in enacting such
sanctions, well, that is a factor Europe must deal with. Of
course, our European allies would prefer that the United
States take the blows. Why wouldnt they?
In Washington, meanwhile, Bob Corker, the ranking
Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,
is demanding that Obama respond to Russian behavior
with something more muscular than a slap on the wrist.
What, exactly, does the good senator have in mind?
n South Korea and Japan. Both South Korea and Japan
feel threatened by an assertive China and crazy North Ko-
rea. But the leaders of South Korea and Japan reportedly
cant stand each other for historical reasons.
Somehow its become Americas job to get these allies
to like each other enough to cooperate. If they dont care
enough to confront serious common threats, why must we
press them?
This is our problem to the extent that should push come
to shove, all will expect the United States to come to the
rescue. Such thinking leaves leaders the luxury of nursing
their old resentments.
n Afghanistan. U.S. troops have helped protect Afghan-
istan from a descent into bloody chaos. Nonetheless, a
hostile President Hamid Karzai has refused to sign a bilat-
eral security agreement with the United States to continue
their presence. Its as if he was doing us a big favor letting
us in.
The good news is that two leading candidates in
Afghanistans presidential elections are breaking with
Karzai. They want to keep Americans there.
By the way, werent we training Afghans to take over
their own security?
n Israel/Palestine. Ah, the PEACE PROCESS. We read
of frantic diplomacy by Secretary of State John Kerry
to get the two sides moving. Of course, it failed. It always
fails.
Both Israelis and Palestinians have much to gain from
settling their differences. And as the United States be-
comes independent of Mideast oil, its stakes in the game
are going down.
Many were amazed at the spectacle of the administra-
tion offering to free Jonathan Pollard, the American now
serving a life sentence for spying for Israel. The adminis-
tration gured letting Pollard go might encourage Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to follow through on
his promise to release Palestinian prisoners.
One, the enormous sums we send to Israel should be
incentive enough. Two, Pollard is our prisoner, not Israels.
That America would be making concessions to get
warring parties to act, again in their own interests, shows
how cracked our need to solve everyones problems has
become.
Somewhere between taking on no burdens and taking
on all burdens lies a balance of national interests and con-
cern for humanity. Lets nd it.
Froma Harrop, a syndicated columnist, writes for the
Providence (Rhode Island) Journal. Her e-mail address is
f harrop@gmail.com.
Barack Obamas
949-word response
Monday to a ques-
tion about foreign
policy weakness
showed the presi-
dent at his worst:
defensive, irritable,
contradictory and at
times detached from
reality. It began with
a complaint about
negative coverage
on Fox News, when,
in fact, it was the
New York Times front page
that featured Obamas foreign
policy failures, most recently
the inability to conclude a trade
agreement with Japan and the
collapse of Secretary of State
John Kerrys Middle East nego-
tiations.
Add to this the collapse of
not one but two Geneva con-
ferences on Syria, American
helplessness in the face of
Russian aggression against
Ukraine and the Saudi kings
humiliating dismissal of Obama
within two hours of talks no
dinner after Obama made
a special 2,300-mile diversion
from Europe to see him, and
you have an impressive litany of
serial embarrassments.
Obamas rst rhetorical
defense, as usual, was to attack
a straw man: Why is it that
everybody is so eager to use
military force?
Everybody? Wasnt it you,
Mr. President, who decided to
attack Libya under the grand
Obama doctrine of responsibil-
ity to protect helpless civilians
every syllable of which you
totally contradicted as 150,000
were being slaughtered in
Syria?
And wasnt attacking Syria
for having crossed your own
chemical-weapons red line
also your idea? Before, of
course, you retreated abjectly,
thereby marginalizing yourself
and exposing the United States
to general ridicule.
Everybody eager to use
military force? Name a single
Republican (or Democratic)
leader who has called for
sending troops into
Ukraine.
The critique by
John McCain and
others is that when
the Ukrainians last
month came ask-
ing for weapons to
defend themselves,
Obama turned them
down. The Penta-
gon offered instead
MREs, ready-to-eat
burgers to defend
against 40,000 well-
armed Russians. Obama even
denied Ukraine such defensive
gear as night-vision goggles and
body armor.
Obama retorted testily: Does
anyone think Ukrainian weap-
onry would deter Russia, as
opposed to Obamas diplomatic
and economic pressure? Why,
averred Obama, in Ukraine,
what weve done is mobilize the
international community. . . .
Russia is having to engage in
activities that have been reject-
ed uniformly around the world.
Thats a deterrent? Fear of
criticism? Empty words?
To think this will stop Putin,
liberator of Crimea, champion
of New Russia, is delusional.
In fact, Putins popularity at
home has spiked 10 points since
the start of his war on Ukraine.
Its now double Obamas.
As for the allegedly mobi-
lized international community,
it has done nothing. Demon-
strably nothing to deter Putin
from swallowing Crimea.
Demonstrably nothing to deter
his systematic campaign of
destabilization, anonymous sei-
zures and selective violence in
the proxy-proclaimed Peoples
Republic of Donetsk, where
Putins maskirovka (disguised
warfare) has turned Eastern
Ukraine into a no-mans land
where Kiev hardly dares tread.
As for Obamas vaunted
economic sanctions, when he
nally got around to applying
Round 2 on Monday, the mar-
kets were so impressed by their
weakness that the ruble rose 1
percent and the Moscow stock
exchange 2 percent.
Behind all this U.S. action,
explained the New York Times
in a recent leak calculated to
counteract the impression of a
foreign policy of clueless ad ho-
cism, is a major strategic idea:
containment.
A rather odd claim when a
brazenly uncontained Russia
swallows a major neighbor one
piece at a time as Ameri-
ca stands by. After all, how
did real containment begin?
In March 1947, with Greece
in danger of collapse from a
Soviet-backed insurgency and
Turkey under direct Russian
pressure, President Truman
went to Congress for major and
immediate economic and mili-
tary aid to both countries.
That means weaponry, Mr.
President. It was the beginning
of the Truman Doctrine. No one
is claiming that arming Ukraine
would have denitively deterred
Putins current actions. But
the possibility of a bloody and
prolonged Ukrainian resistance
to inltration or invasion would
surely alter Putins calculus
more than Obamas toothless
sanctions or empty diplomatic
gestures, like the preposterous
Geneva agreement that wasnt
worth the paper it was written
on.
Or does Obama really
believe that Putins thinking
would be altered less by anti-
tank and antiaircraft weapons
in Ukrainian hands than by the
State Departments comical
#UnitedforUkraine Twitter
campaign?
Obama appears to think
so. Which is the source of so
much allied anxiety: Obama
really seems to believe that his
foreign policy is succeeding.
Ukraine has already been
written off. But Eastern Europe
need not worry. Obama under-
stands containment. He recent-
ly dispatched 150 American
ground troops to Poland and
each of the Baltic states. You
read correctly: 150. Each.
Charles Krauthammer is
a Washington Post columnist.
His email address is letters@
charleskrauthammer.com.
The sobering message from Cliven Bundys
and Donald Sterlings words
Obamas foreign policy of denial
Americans tire of
solving everyones
problems
Kathleen Parker
Froma Harrop
Charles Krauthammer
Protest
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Organizers of the
grassroots effort say that
in Columbus, The Elbow
Room, Lucky 7 Tattoos
and the Columbus Arts
Council have each shown
support.
L.B. Cook, an artist at
Lucky 7 Tattoos on High-
way 45 North, said she
reached out to the group
last month after hearing
about the movement.
The message that
Im trying to send is that
anyone and everyone is
welcome, Cook said. I
also want to contribute
to a community of under-
standing, respect, and
love for everyone.
Organizers say the
rst 500 stickers were
distributed in about two
weeks to businesses from
the Tennessee state line
down to the Gulf Coast.
Another 1,000 stickers
were on order.
Cook got her sticker in
the mail Wednesday and
immediately put it up.
Rob Swindol, an owner
at The Elbow Room, also
supports the campaign.
However, he has chosen
not to display the sticker
at his downtown business
because he feels that
openly supporting one
group alone is contradic-
tory to the movement.
The phrase, If Youre
Buying, Were Selling,
indicates that I welcome
business from anyone
and everyone, he said.
It means that I am neu-
tral ... equality is the
name of the game. Not
special recognition.
The Arts Council has
not yet received their
sticker but will display it
when it arrives.
The sticker campaign
started last month in
response to Republican
Gov. Phil Bryants sign-
ing the Mississippi Re-
ligious Freedom Resto-
ration Act.
The law says govern-
ment cannot put a sub-
stantial burden on reli-
gious practices, without a
compelling reason. While
it does not specically
mention gays or lesbi-
ans, People are going to
take it as permission, if
you will, to discriminate
against people they dont
necessarily agree with or
like, said Jackson hair
salon owner Eddie Out-
law, 42, who went out of
state to marry his hus-
band.
We have a long and
well-documented history
of discrimination in this
state, Outlaw said. To
think there wont be any
discrimination is laugh-
able.
Outlaw is among the
leaders of the We dont
discriminate campaign,
and he displays one of the
stickers in the window
of his salon in Jacksons
eclectic Fondren neigh-
borhood.
Bryant won praise
from national conserva-
tive groups, including the
Family Research Coun-
cil, by signing the legis-
lation that was backed by
the states Pentecostals
and Southern Baptists.
Family Research Council
president Tony Perkins,
who traveled from Wash-
ington to Jackson for a
private bill signing cer-
emony April 3, is among
Bryants backers.
Those who under-
stand the importance and
cherish the historic un-
derstanding of religious
freedom are grateful for
leaders who respond to
fact and not ctitious
claims of those who are
trying to quarantine faith
within the walls of our
churches or homes, he
said.
Bryant said the Missis-
sippi act mirrors a federal
law President Bill Clinton
signed in 1993 and that 18
other states have enact-
ed since the mid-1990s.
The governor also said
he does not believe Mis-
sissippis law, which also
adds In God We Trust
to the state seal, will lead
to anti-gay discrimina-
tion.
I would hope that peo-
ple will realize that the
law has no element in it
that the federal law does
not have in it, Bryant told
The Associated Press in
his Capitol ofce. It is
the same discussion of
not burdening someones
religious freedom that
the government, govern-
ment should not burden
someones religious free-
dom without a compelling
interest.
In 2004, 86 percent
of Mississippi voters ap-
proved a state constitu-
tional amendment to ban
same-sex marriage. The
state has a hate-crimes
law, but it does not cover
acts committed against
gays and lesbians.
Dispatch news editor
William Browning con-
tributed to this report.
Shop manager and artist Lora Beth Cook applies a sticker that supports the If Youre
Buying Were Selling grassroots movement that originated in Jackson and aims to
ght discrimination to the window at Lucky 7 Tattoo on Highway 45 in Columbus.
Annexation
property values and popu-
lation to Starkville:
The portion of Miss.
Highway 182 from the
Miss. Highway 12 bypass
on to the U.S. Highway
82 connection consists of
mostly Mississippi State
University-owned land,
however Starkville Ford-
Lincoln, Inc., Microtel
Inn and Suites by Wyn-
dham Hotels and other
retail development ac-
count for sales taxes not
reimbursed by the state
to Starkville. Also, the
area has a low population
count, so few residents
would actually be impact-
ed by a potential annex-
ation
Current and planned
housing developments in
the Oktoc and Blackjack
communities near Missis-
sippi State could provide
signicant boons for ad
valorem values. Starkville
is expected to grow out
into the county areas sur-
rounding MSU, and the
city currently provides
some services, like water
and sewage, for the area.
About $100 million worth
of apartment develop-
ments are in the works in
this area.
Although property
values arent expected to
come with the public insti-
tution of higher learning,
annexing MSUs campus
could add a signicant
increase to population
gures due to on-cam-
pus housing. Ofcials,
however, noted census
efforts with large univer-
sities prove problematic
at times, and more study
is needed to identify if
Starkville could claim the
territory and do it in a way
that doesnt adversely im-
pact the university.
South Montgom-
erys high-value homes
and land parcels could
also provide a signicant
addition to the citys ad
valorem intake. Starkville
operates a water treat-
ment facility near in the
area.
The Links at
Starkville apartments
west of Walmart also pro-
vides a logical annexation
area as the development is
located in close proximity
to city limits.
Mike Slaughter, owner
and founder of Slaughter
and Associates, declined
to discuss Starkville an-
nexation specics since
his organization has not
yet been contracted for
work but did say a poten-
tial study would involve
identifying logical expan-
sion areas and their as-
sociated infrastructure,
population statistics, land
usage and potential reve-
nue and expenditure num-
bers.
On average, that pro-
cess takes three to six
months, he said.
If the city moves for-
ward with annexation, it
must provide the same
capacity of city services
water, sewer, electrici-
ty, police, re, sanitation
and others to the new
area as received within
Starkvilles current bor-
ders. Most municipalities,
he said, annex territory to
protect tax bases.
In Mississippi, if a
business is located inside
a city, 7 percent (sales tax)
is sent to Jackson, and 18.5
percent of that 7 percent
comes back to the city. If
its located in the county,
the 7 percent goes to
Jackson, and none
of it comes back to a lo-
cal community directly.
Thats a revenue stream
that doesnt impact any-
one (since businesses are
required to pay sales tax
within or outside of mu-
nicipality),
Slaughter said.
Court systems, he said,
have identied 12 signi-
cant marks municipalities
must reach or show to pro-
ceed with expansion: the
municipality is in need for
expansion; the potential
inclusion area is within
the citys path of growth;
the city can eliminate po-
tential health hazards, in-
cluding sewage and waste
disposals; the municipal-
ity has the nancial abili-
ty to make improvements
and provide services; a
need exists for zoning and
planning within the target
area; municipal services
are needed; no natural
barriers will prevent ser-
vices from reaching the
expansion; the city had a
satisfactory experience
with previous annexation
efforts; economic benet
for those who live in the
proposed annexation area;
minority voters would be
protected in an expansion;
property owners bene-
t from the proximity to
the city without paying
their fair share; and a -
nal catch-all provision
that takes into account
unspecied-yet-important
conditions.
With all the devel-
opment going on near
campus and other areas
of town, its prudent to at
least take a look at the is-
sue, Ward 5 Alderman
Scott Maynard said. I
can easily see MSU and
its surrounding areas as
the center of town in 40
years.
Alcohol
non-industrial areas.
Starkville Main Street
Association and Conven-
tion and Visitors Bureau
boards both support the
potential change, as well
as Ward 5 Alderman Scott
Maynard.
Due to the physical
placement of churches
and businesses in the
Main Street, Russell
Street and Miss. Highway
182 corridors, the poten-
tial change could unlock
new retail opportunities,
thereby increasing
Starkvilles sales tax
and 2 percent food and
beverage tax receipts as
the city continues brand-
ing itself as a restaurant
destination for out-of-
town diners.
It is crucial to secure
the new alcohol ordi-
nance, Maynard said,
because incoming restau-
rants are expected to dot
the Russell Street corri-
dor.
Going to 100 feet
will allow developers to
build on specic corners
(of Russell Street) with
mixed-use retail, he said.
I think the big fear in the
past has been that big
bars are going to open up.
The reality is we havent
had a signicantly large
bar open in Starkville in
a very long time. I think
the citywide trend sit-
down, high-end restau-
rants will open on
Russell Street, mainly
because of developments
associated with the Mill
at MSU project.
We look at this as an
economic development
issue because the need
for this comes from the
growing requests and in-
quiries from restaurants
about locating down-
town. Were not talking
about nightclubs; were
talking traditional restau-
rants who want to locate
to Starkville, Greater
Starkville Development
Partnership CEO Jenni-
fer Gregory said. Our
restaurants are the down-
town anchors and provide
huge sales tax benets.
Right now, there are
specic restaurants and
developments looking to
come here and cannot
because theres no more
available space because
of the 250-foot rule. We
have property owners
holding onto parcels ideal
for restaurants, but they
have to have this legis-
lation. People are sacri-
cing their own money
while waiting.
When you begin to
inventory the churches
not just the big ones,
but the small, communi-
ty centers located in our
business corridors its
a lot of locations, she
added. The change isnt
radical it takes us, in
an economic development
mindset, to where the rest
of the state is.
One staunch opponent,
Ward 6 Alderman and
Vice Mayor Roy A. Per-
kins, to the alcohol rule
change emerged shortly
after the citys agenda
was published Friday.
Perkins, who adamantly
opposed allowing Sunday
alcohol sales, said low-
ering the minimum alco-
hol sales distance could
detract or prevent wor-
shipers from attending
church services.
There needs to be as
much separation of space
and distance as possible
between churches and
drinking establishments.
We as a community need
to protect the sanctity and
standards of the churches
in our community, he
said. Christ died for the
forgiveness of our sins.
This is enough justica-
tion for us, as a city, to
keep liquor, wine and
beer as far away from
Gods kingdom as possi-
ble.
Christ died for the forgiveness of our sins. This is
enough justication for us, as a city, to keep liquor, wine
and beer as far away from Gods kingdom as possible.
Ward 6 Alderman Roy A. Perkins
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Celletta Tate, from Starkville, and Lenora is the daughter of Stephanie and Craig Shackleford, also from Starkville.
Earnestine Trimuel, of Columbus, sings for a crowd with her band, The Real Brown Sugar,
during Market Street Festival on Saturday.
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Market Street Festival. Kinley and Laney are the daughters of Brad and
Patrice Curtis of Ackerman.
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Street Festival Saturday in downtown Columbus. Carson is the
son of Kelli and Jeffery Jones of Columbus.
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AP Auto Writer
DETROIT A media-
tor for General Motors has
begun negotiations about
settling more than 300
claims related to a deadly
ignition switch problem in
some older model small
cars.
Kenneth Feinberg con-
rmed in an interview with
The Associated Press that
he met for four hours Fri-
day with Robert Hilliard,
a Corpus Christi, Texas,
lawyer who said he rep-
resents families of 53 peo-
ple killed and 273 injured
in crashes of defective GM
vehicles. Feinberg would
not comment specically
on what was discussed.
Im evaluating various
compensation options for
GM to consider, said Fein-
berg, who said plans to
present the options to GM
in the next few weeks. Im
glad I met with him. It was
an interesting meeting,
Feinberg said.
Feinberg said he lis-
tened to Hilliard and four
colleagues explain the
quality and quantity of
their cases. Hilliard said
no dollar gures were
discussed, adding that he
wont settle at a discount to
what his clients could get
through court mediation.
GM has recalled 2.6
million small cars, most-
ly Chevrolet Cobalts and
Saturn Ions, to replace
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GM begins talks to settle
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BY NOMAAN MERCHANT
DALLAS A bungled
execution in Oklahoma
in which the condemned
prisoner writhed and
moaned as he received a
lethal injection outraged
death-penalty opponents,
invited court challenges
and attracted worldwide
attention.
But the inmates ag-
ony alone is highly un-
likely to change minds
about capital punishment
in the nations most ac-
tive death-penalty states,
where lawmakers say
there is little political will
to move against lethal in-
jections and a single ex-
ecution gone wrong wont
change that.
Oklahoma Rep. Mike
Christian, a Republican
lawmaker who pushed to
have state Supreme Court
justices impeached for
briey halting Tuesdays
execution, was unsparing.
I realize this may
sound harsh, Christian
said, but as a father and
former lawman, I really
dont care if its by lethal
injection, by the electric
chair, ring squad, hang-
ing, the guillotine or be-
ing fed to the lions.
Attorneys for death-
row inmates hope Tues-
days spectacle provides
new evidence to argue
that the injections are in-
humane and illegal. But
beyond the courtroom,
support for capital pun-
ishment is undeterred in
the states that perform
the greatest number of
executions Texas,
Oklahoma, Florida, Mis-
souri, Alabama, Georgia
and Ohio. And nowhere
in those places are any
elected ofcials of either
political party talking se-
riously about using the
incident to seek an end to
executions.
Lawmakers say
they wont abandon
death penalty
Execution
renews
debate on
doctors role
BY LINDSEY TANNER
AP Medical Writer
CHICAGO A
botched lethal injection
in Oklahoma this week
has renewed a debate on
whether doctors should
be banned from execu-
tions or required to
participate to make the
process more humane.
Some of the nations
32 death penalty states
mandate doctor par-
ticipation including
Oklahoma but crit-
ics say what happened
there proves a doctors
presence cant guaran-
tee the process will go
smoothly.
Physicians have an
ethical and moral re-
sponsibility to remain
as far from the execu-
tion chamber as possi-
ble, said Dr. Jonathan
Weisbuch of Phoenix, a
death penalty opponent.
He calls what happened
in Oklahoma torture.
How dare they experi-
ment on a living human
being, Weisbuch said.
Music for Market Street
Chip Knedlik, of West Point, strums on his banjo in downtown Columbus during Market Street Festival Saturday.
Knedlik sells his handmade wooden spoons, bowls and pens in his booth Woodchips and says music always
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Lipscomb
Prep Softball: New Hope 4, Germantown 3 Kentucky Derby Prep Track & Field
Prep Slow-Pitch Softball
Prep Baseball: Columbus 7, Clinton 6, 10 innings
See FALCONS, 6B
See NEW HOPE, 6B
See LIPSCOMB, 8B
See CENTRAL, 6B
See CHROME, 8B
Clinton High School second baseman Tyrance Carr (5) puts out
Columbus base runner Chris McCullough (22) during the third inning
Friday night in Columbus.
Central Academys Blake Rigdon elds an ineld hit during the game
played against Calvary Christian School in Macon on Saturday.
New Hopes D.J. Sanders (37) is congratulated by teammate MacKenzie Harvey (5) after
scoring a run during Saturdays playoff win over Germantown.
MARCHING ON IN STYLE
New Hope wins fourth game in four days to advance to North State third round
BY BETH HARRIS
LOUISVILLE, Ky. A
horse with a humble pedigree.
A couple of working stiff own-
ers. A 77-year-old trainer with
his rst Kentucky Derby horse.
Even Hollywood couldnt
have made this up.
California Chrome made it
look easy on Saturday, pulling
away down the stretch to win
the Derby by 1 3/4 lengths.
In a sport dominated by
wealthy owners and regally
bred horses from Kentuckys
bluegrass country, this was a
victory for the little guys. Own-
ers Perry Martin and Steve Co-
burn bred an $8,000 mare to a
$2,500 stallion to produce the
winner of the worlds most fa-
mous race with their one-horse
stable.
This is just a dream come
true and a great birthday pres-
ent, said Coburn, who turned
61 on Saturday.
California Chrome ran 1
miles in 2:03.66 and paid $7,
$5.60 and $4.20. The chestnut
colt was sent off as the 5-2 fa-
vorite by the crowd of 164,906,
the second-largest in the Der-
bys 140-year history.
His trainer, Art Sherman,
became the oldest trainer to
win the Derby, 59 years after
he traveled from California
as an exercise rider for Derby
winner Swaps. He watched that
race from the barn area; this
time he smelled red roses in
the winners circle.
Sherman was all smiles af-
ter the race. He gave me the
biggest thrill I ever had in my
life, he said.
California Chrome has
the unlikeliest pedigree for a
Derby champion. His mother,
named Love the Chase, won
just one race. She was pur-
chased by Coburn and Martin,
California
Chrome wins
horse race
BY ADAM MINICHINO
aminichino@cdispatch.com
The voice was relentless.
Wherever Alex Lipscomb
went, he couldnt escape the
question his mother, Rosalind
Boaz, had been asking for
years: When?
Lipscomb admitted that as
a high school freshman the
words seemed like noise a
constant nagging he avoided
by hanging out with friends or
ignored by playing it cool.
It wasnt un-
til Lipscombs
s o p h o m o r e
year that the
words nally
r ever ber at ed
in his head.
Maybe it was
the college foot-
ball coaches
who came to Columbus High
School and asked the coaches,
Who is No. 25? When Lip-
scomb heard college coaches
were asking about him, his
ears perked up and he thought
he must be doing something
right.
Then it dawned on him.
What about the voice?
It was pretty much, When
are you going to stop playing
and do it?, or When are you
going to listen to me and do
it? Lipscomb said about his
mothers message to him. It
was always, When? When are
you going to decide to do it? I
cant do it for you. I decided it
was time to playing and time to
go.
Consider the Alex Lipscomb
who didnt heed his mothers
words two years ago gone. In
his place is an Alex Lipscomb
that is much more mature and
on his way to realizing the po-
tential his mother and college
football and track and eld
Lipscomb
excels at
North State
BY BRIAN LENTZ
Special to the Dispatch
MACON Going into the
Mississippi Association of In-
dependent Schools Slow-pitch
State Championship Saturday,
the Central Academy Lady Vi-
kings had one thing on their
mind: winning the champion-
ship.
In order to do that, howev-
er, the Lady Vikings needed to
defeat their archrival Kemper
Academy just one more time.
Fortunately, Central Acade-
my would do just that, defeat-
ing the Lady Rams 10-2 to earn
their second consecutive state
title and secure an undefeated
season at 15-0.
It was the perfect nish to
a perfect season, said head
coach Sammy Lindsey. Its
really hard to run the table,
because there are so many
factors involved. We were in-
jury-free as well, so that was a
big plus to be able to do that.
Despite getting runners on
base early in the rst and sec-
ond innings, Central was un-
able to score any runs, thanks
in part to some crucial plays
made from the Kemper de-
fense. However, the bats would
come alive in the bottom of
the third, as freshman Kelsey
Robbins belted an RBI triple to
right eld, giving the Lady Vi-
kings a 1-0 lead and the rst of
many runs yet to come.
I just prayed for the Lord
to give me a hit, said Robbins.
Thankfully, the hit came at
just the right time and helped
to get us going.
The RBI from Robbins
would set off a series of scoring
plays for the Lady Vikings, as
senior Blake Rigdon drove in
Robbins on an RBI single. Not
long after, Savannah Stapleton
and Sarah Norris would tack
on three more runs, before se-
nior Neely Abrams closed out
Central Academy rolls to state title
BY MATTHEW STEVENS
mstevens@cdispatch.com
After going to the brink of elimination in
the previous round, New Hope softball had
no interest in going through that again.
Playing its fth game in four days, New
Hope rallied in the seventh inning to defeat
Germantown 4-3 to win a best-of-three se-
ries in the second round of the Mississippi
High School Activities Associations Class
5A North State playoffs.
New Hope will now face defending state
champion Neshoba Central in the third
round, beginning Friday at home.
The Lady Trojans rallied for one game
down in the last round against Lewisburg
and rallied in the nal inning Saturday to
eliminate Germantown.
I think the last thing we needed to have
happen, after what we did against Lewisburg
was have to play another do-or-die game,
New Hope coach Tabitha Beard said. This
was a total team win at home and thats what
make its so rewarding.
In a week that started with severe torna-
dos and storms ripping through the local
area Monday and having many of the team
members bunkered down and assessing the
property damage. Senior star D.J. Sanders
may have put it best after pitching and hitter
her team to victory.
I think Im just ready for an extremely
long nap after this week, Sanders said af-
ter New Hope won its fourth straight playoff
game in four days. With all the storms and
playing all these games, I think everybody
had to show we had just a little bit left in the
tank today.
BY SCOTT WALTERS
swalters@cdispatch.com
Columbus High School
baseball coach Jeffrey Cook
spent Saturday afternoon tak-
ing his son to the movies.
For the skipper of the Fal-
cons, hopefully it was a not pic-
ture with a dramatic ending.
Cook saw enough drama
Friday night as Columbus
scored three times in the sev-
enth inning and outlasted Clin-
ton 7-6 in 10 innings to win a
Mississippi High School Ac-
tivities Association Class 6A
best-of-three playoff series at
Sammy Fletcher Field.
A lot of people are taking
us lightly right now because
we are not one of the big-name
baseball teams in the state,
Columbus junior outelder
Isaiah Farmer said. But we
are here to play and compete.
If the other team wins, they
are going to have to try really
hard to take it from us.
Columbus (23-6) will
face Tupelo (22-8) in a sec-
ond-round playoff series be-
ginning Friday at Tupelo. The
teams will play Saturday in Co-
lumbus and could return to Tu-
pelo for a third game Monday.
Cook was pleased he did
not have to travel to Clinton
for a third game. Columbus
swept this series by also win-
ning 7-4 in Clinton Thursday
night. The Falcons are now 4-0
in postseason.
It is a huge relief to close
out and advace, Cook said.
There is something always
calm about this team. We
have played in so many tight
games that it is not unusual for
us. I really thought we played
more like the team that had
been there before and Clinton
played more a like a team that
was new to the situation.
If Columbus did not have
the full attention of Clinton
(24-7) after Thursday night, it
did after scoring three rst-in-
Falcons survive, advance in extra innings
Prep Baseball
Fridays Games
Mississippi High School Activities Association
Class 6A North State Playoffs Second Round
Columbus at Tupelo, 6 p.m.
Pearl at New Hope, time TBD
Saturdays Games
Tupelo at Columbus, 6 p.m.
New Hope at Pearl, time TBD
Prep Softball
Fridays Games
Class 5A North State Playoffs Third Round
Neshoba Central at New Hope, time TBD
Hamilton vs. Smithville, TBD
Saturdays Games
New Hope at Neshoba Central, time TBD
Hamilton vs. Smithville, TBD
Prep Track and Field
Saturdays Meets
State Championships Classes 2A, 4A 6A
State nals held at Pearl
College Baseball
Todays Games
Mississippi State at Auburn, 1 p.m.
Southern Miss at Tulane, 1 p.m.
Arkansas at Ole Miss, 1:30 p.m.
Florida at Alabama, 2 p.m.
Tuesdays Game
Jacksonville State at Alabama, 6 p.m.
Fridays Games
East Carolina at Southern Miss, 6 p.m.
Tennessee at Mississippi State, 6:30 p.m.
Georgia at Ole Miss, 6:30 p.m.
Alabama at LSU, 7 p.m.
Saturdays Games
Tennessee at Mississippi State, 2 p.m.
East Carolina at Southern Miss, 2 p.m.
Georgia at Ole Miss, 4 p.m.
Alabama at LSU, 6:30 p.m.
Sundays Games
East Carolina at Southern Miss, 11 a.m.
Alabama at LSU, 1 p.m.
Tennessee at Mississippi State, 1:30 p.m.
Georgia at Ole Miss, 1:30 p.m.
College Softball
Todays Games
Florida International at Southern Miss, noon
Ole Miss at Tennessee, 12:30 p.m.
Mississippi State at LSU, 1 p.m.
Wednesday through Saturday
SEC Tournament (Columbia, S.C.)
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Ole Miss at Tallahassee, Fla.
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Fridays Matches
Austin Regional (hosted by Texas)
Miss. State vs. Louisiana-Lafayette, 10 a.m.
South Bend Regional (hosted by Notre Dame)
Ole Miss vs. Northwestern, 10 a.m.
Womens College Tennis
Fridays Matches
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Ole Miss vs. Texas Tech, noon.
Tuscaloosa Regional (hosted by Alabama)
Jackson State at Alabama, 4 p.m.
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AUTO RACING
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Talladega, Ala., WLOV
Noon USCC, Prototype Challenge/GT Daytona,
Monterey Grand Prix, at Monterey, Calif., FS1
4:30 p.m. USCC, Prototype/GT Le Mans, Mon-
terey Grand Prix, at Monterey, Calif., FS1
COLLEGE BASEBALL
1 p.m. LSU at Texas A&M, ESPNU
1:30 p.m. Arkansas at Ole Miss, CSS
COLLEGE SOFTBALL
Noon Florida at Arkansas, ESPN
Noon Ole Miss at Tennessee, FSN South
2 p.m. Stanford at UCLA, ESPN
GOLF
5:30 a.m. European PGA Tour, The Champion-
ship at Laguna National, nal round, at Singapore
(same-day tape), TGC
Noon PGA Tour, Wells Fargo Championship,
nal round, at Charlotte, N.C., TGC
2 p.m. PGA Tour, Wells Fargo Championship,
nal round, at Charlotte, N.C., WCBI
2 p.m. LPGA, North Texas Shootout, nal
round, at Irving, Texas, TGC
6 p.m. Champions Tour, Insperity Invitational,
nal round, at The Woodlands, Texas (same-day
tape), TGC
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
12:30 p.m. Regional coverage, San Francisco
at Atlanta or Tampa Bay at N.Y. Yankees, MLB
Network
12:30 p.m. San Francisco at Atlanta, Sport-
South
7 p.m. St. Louis at Chicago Cubs, ESPN
MOTORSPORTS
6 a.m. MotoGP World Championship, Grand
Prix of Spain, at Jerez, Spain, FS1
NBA
Noon Playoffs, rst round, game 7, Brooklyn at
Toronto, WTVA-ABC
2:30 p.m. Playoffs, rst round, game 7, Dallas
at San Antonio, WTVA-ABC
NHL
2 p.m. Playoffs, conference seminals, game
2, Minnesota at Chicago, WTVA
6:30 p.m. Playoffs, conference seminals,
game 2, N.Y Rangers at Pittsburgh, NBC Sports
SOCCER
7:25 a.m. Premier League, West Bromwich at
Arsenal, NBC Sports
9:55 a.m. Premier League, Norwich at Chel-
sea, NBC Sports
3 p.m. MLS, Columbus at Kansas City, NBC
Sports
CALENDAR
ON THE AIR
BRIEFLY
Miss. State
Softball drops series to LSU
BATON ROUGE, La. No. 25/23 LSU used the home run ball to
power past Mississippi State 8-0 in six innings on Saturday inside Tiger
Park. LSU hit two long balls with Bianka Bell driving in four runs.
The Tigers scored their first seven runs within the first two innings
as senior Shana Sherrod threw a career-high four-and-two-thirds
frames and kept the Bulldogs in the contest. Sophomore Loryn Nichols
led MSU (37-18, 9-14 SEC) with two hits.
Senior Alison Owen (18-11) took the loss, yielding five runs on
four hits, two walks and one hit batter in one inning of work. Sherrod
allowed three runs on six hits. Baylee Corbello (17-7) earned the win for
the Tigers, limiting MSU to four singles and two walks while striking out
eight in the complete-game performance.
For the second-straight game LSU took an early lead, going ahead
5-0 in the bottom of the first. A.J. Andrews led off with an infield single
to shortstop Kayla Winkfield, who threw wide to first, allowing Andrews
to get to second. After a pop out on a bunt attempt, Sahvanna Jaquish
walked and Bell homered to give LSU a 3-0 advantage. Constance
Quinn was hit by the first pitch of her at-bat and Sandra Simmons
singled through the left side on her first pitch to put two on with one
out. Allison Falcon followed with a single to left that plated Quinn for a
four-run cushion. Owen recorded a pop out before a walk to Simone
Heyward loaded the bases. Andrews came up for her second at-bat
of the inning and grounded one toward second baseman Heidi Shape,
who tossed to Winkfield for the force at second, but Heyward was ruled
safe. Simmons scored for a 5-0 advantage and Falcon tried to come
around but was thrown out at home by Winkfield to end the inning.
MSU had its first base runner in the top of the second as senior
Sam Lenahan led off with a walk. Corbello closed the frame with a foul
out and double play.
The Tigers (34-20, 13-10 SEC) added two more runs in the bottom
of the second to go up 7-0. Sherrod entered to pitch for MSU and
LSUs Jacee Blades led off with a single, moved to second on a fly
out, advanced to third on a groundout and scored on a wild pitch. With
two outs, Quinn homered to left to make it a seven-run lead. A lineout
closed the frame.
Mississippi State tallied its first hit of the contest with two outs in the
top of the third on a single from Nichols, but a fly out ended the inning.
In the bottom of the third LSU had a chance to add to its lead, but
stranded two runners. Falcon and Tammy Wray began the frame with
consecutive singles to put runners on first and second. Batter interfer-
ence and two-straight groundouts to first base left the two on base.
The Bulldogs loaded the bases with two outs in the top of the
fourth, but could not score. After a strikeout and pop out, Lenahan
walked, junior Julia Echols was hit by a pitch and senior Logan Foulks
singled to left field. Corbello avoided damage with a strikeout.
MSU put together two hits in the top of the fifth but did not dent the
scoreboard. With one down, Nichols tallied her second single of the
contest before being caught stealing second. Senior Jessica Offutt hit a
two-out single, but a pop out ended the inning.
LSU ended the contest in the bottom of the sixth with the final run.
Blades reached on a one-out single and, after a pop out, scored on a
Bell double to left center.
Friday night, a two-run home run from Bianka Bell in the bottom of
the fifth inning lifted No. 25/23 LSU to a 6-5 victory against Mississippi
State inside Tiger Park. The Bulldogs erased a 4-0 deficit with a
five-run fourth inning to go ahead 5-4, but Bells late blast provided the
difference.
Mississippi State had five players drive in a run and five score a
run. Junior Julia Echols, senior Logan Foulks and freshman Katie Anne
Bailey each collected two hits to lead the offense.
Freshman Alexis Silkwood (12-6) took the loss for Mississippi
State, throwing four-and-a-third frames, yielding six runs on nine hits
and two walks. She also fanned six. The six whiffs increased her
season total to 145, the second most by a freshman in MSU history.
Sophomore Jacey Punches entered for the final inning-and-two-thirds,
limiting LSU to just a walk and single. LSUs Ashley Czechner (12-11)
went the distance, allowing five runs, two earned, on 11 hits and a trio of
walks. She struck out five.
LSU jumped out to a quick lead, going ahead 2-0 in the bottom of
the first. A.J. Andrews singled up the middle and stole second base.
After a strikeout, Sahvanna Jaquish hit a two-run home run to left.
Silkwood settled back down with a groundout and strikeout.
The Bulldogs loaded the bases in the top of the second but could
not convert. Echols led off with a four-pitch walk and moved to second
on a groundout. Bailey was hit by a pitch and sophomore Kayla Wink-
field singled to load the bases with one out, but consecutive strikeouts
stranded the trio.
The Tigers used a two-out rally in the bottom of the second to
extend the lead to 3-0. After a strikeout and lineout started the frame,
Tammy Wray doubled off the wall in center and scored on a single up
the middle from Bailey Landry. A fly out ended the inning as senior left
fielder Jessica Offutt made the diving catch.
It was another LSU two-out rally in the bottom of the third that
extended the lead to 4-0. With two outs and Bell on first following a
fielders choice, Kellsi Kloss doubled off the wall in right to move Bell to
third. A wild pitch plated Bell before a strikeout ended the frame.
Mississippi State broke loose in the top of the fourth with five runs
and went ahead 5-4. Echols hit the first pitch of the frame over the wall
in left. Foulks followed with a long ball to center to make it a 4-2 contest.
Bailey kept it going with a single down the left-field line. Winkfield
followed with a sacrifice bunt that moved Bailey to second. After a
strikeout, Offutt dropped a single into shallow right center that plated
Bailey and made it a one-run deficit. Senior Heidi Shape bunted for a
single and freshman Caroline Seitz singled to center to plate Offutt and
even the score at 4-4. Senior Sam Lenahan delivered a single to right
that drove in Shape for the one-run advantage. Seitz was thrown out at
home on the play to close the inning.
In the bottom of the fourth, the Tigers put two runners on but were
held off the board. With one out, Wray and Landry hit consecutive
singles to put runners on first and second. Andrews popped out
to Winkfield at shortstop and pinch hitter Alayna Falcon struck out
swinging to strand the pair.
MSU put two of its own runners on base in the top of the fifth and
also stranded the pair. Echols led off with a single and Bailey singled
after a foul out. Winkfield flew out to left and freshman pinch hitter
Mackenzie Toler hit into a fielders choice. Toler grounded one up the
middle and shortstop Bell tossed to second, but Bailey was safe. The
ball rolled away from second baseman Allison Falcon, but Bell recov-
ered and threw home to get Echols out at the plate to end the inning.
LSU regained the lead at 6-5 in the bottom of the fifth with a two-
run home run from Bell. Jaquish led off with a walk and was replaced
by pinch runner Alex Boulet. Bell then hit a ball just over the wall in right
center for the lead. After a pop out, Sandra Simmons doubled down
the right-field line to chase Silkwood. Punches entered and ended the
threat with consecutive fly outs to left field.
A key double play in the bottom of the sixth allowed MSU to keep
it a one-run game going to the seventh inning. Landry walked on four
pitches to start the frame. After Andrews was called out for batter
interference, Jacee Blades singled off the glove of Punches but Jaquish
grounded into a double play to end the inning.
n Track and Field places second at own meet: At Starkville,
on day two of the Jace Lacoste Invitational, Mississippi State track and
field captured second-place team finishes in front of a home crowd at
W.O. Spencer Stadium.
Competing in front of the hometown fans energizes athletes, MSU
coach Steve Dudley said. Today we capitalized on that energy and
used it to our advantage to post a successful meet. It especially feels
good to have this success at this particular meet, since its purpose is to
honor one of our own.
In its final regular season meet, MSU tallied six wins en route to
earning 156 points on the mens side and 109.5 on the womens side.
Rochelle Farquaharson donned a first-place finish in the womens
long jump with a mark of 20-10.50, while Ebony Brinker won the
womens triple jump at 40-00.50. The duos top finishes werent the only
highlight of the Bulldogs field action, as State posted eight more top-5
finishes off the track.
Winning the mens javelin, Piotr Antosik threw for 215-00. Following
him in second was Austin Britton with a mark of 196-04. Tautvydas
Kieras, who tossed a school-record 186-05 last weekend at the Golden
Eagle Classic, turned in a throw of 184-07 to finish third in the mens
discus.
Haley Reynolds posted two personal-bests on the day, a 45-02.50
in the womens shot put to finish third, coupled with a fifth-place score of
145-03 in the discus throw.
Dudleys squads also showcased their speed, garnering three wins
from a set of hurdlers. Keisha Wallace (13.70) took first in the womens
100-meter hurdles, while Javon Davis (14.14) and Scottie Hearn (51.04)
won the mens 110-meter hurdles and 400-meter hurdles, respectively.
Davis followed Hearn in the 400-meter hurdles with a second-place
time of 51.61.
Charles Taylor (10.70) and Marshall Nunn (10.74) clocked personal
bests to finish third and fifth, respectively, in the mens 100-meter dash.
With a personal-best 2:05.73, Rhianwedd Price crossed the line
second in the womens 800-meter run.
MSU also boasted a pair of second-place finishes in the 3000-me-
ter steeplechase, as Emma Neigel turned in a time of 11:25.52 and
Curtis Kelly posted a season-best 9:41.01.
To close out this years Jace Lacoste Invitational, both Bulldog
4x400-meter relay teams earned commendable finishes. The mens
quartet of Brandon McBride, Hearn, Alistair Moona and Dustin James
II ran a 3:10.00 for a spot in second. The womens foursome of Ocian
Archer, Wallace, Steyce McNeil and Peli Alzola clocked a 3:43.37 to
finish third.
From Special Reports
THE DISPATCH www.cdispatch.com 2B SUNDAY, MAY 4, 2014
Auto Racing
Sprint Cup lineup
At Talladega Superspeedway
Talladega, Ala.
Lap length: 2.66 miles
(Car number in parentheses)
1. (33) Brian Scott, Chevrolet, 198.29.
2. (27) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 197.888.
3. (47) A J Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 197.704.
4. (13) Casey Mears, Chevrolet, 197.37.
5. (3) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 197.362.
6. (31) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 197.297.
7. (10) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, 194.995.
8. (4) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 194.393.
9. (41) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 193.619.
10. (99) Carl Edwards, Ford, 193.615.
11. (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 193.486.
12. (14) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 188.958.
13. (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 194.963.
14. (95) Michael McDowell, Ford, 194.959.
15. (43) Aric Almirola, Ford, 194.911.
16. (22) Joey Logano, Ford, 194.88.
17. (7) Michael Annett, Chevrolet, 194.098.
18. (55) Brian Vickers, Toyota, 194.035.
19. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 193.541.
20. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 193.478.
21. (20) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 193.458.
22. (36) Reed Sorenson, Chevrolet, 190.89.
23. (21) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 190.575.
24. (83) Ryan Truex, Toyota, 197.913.
25. (17) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 197.908.
26. (9) Marcos Ambrose, Ford, 197.835.
27. (15) Clint Bowyer, Toyota, 197.806.
28. (66) Michael Waltrip, Toyota, 197.806.
29. (42) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 197.77.
30. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 197.765.
31. (26) Cole Whitt, Toyota, 197.721.
32. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 197.443.
33. (23) Alex Bowman, Toyota, 197.403.
34. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 197.378.
35. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 197.244.
36. (98) Josh Wise, Ford, 197.029.
37. (32) Terry Labonte, Ford, Owner Points.
38. (51) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet, Owner
Points.
39. (34) David Ragan, Ford, Owner Points.
40. (38) David Gilliland, Ford, Owner Points.
41. (40) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, Owner
Points.
42. (5) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, Owner Points.
43. (78) Martin Truex Jr., Chevrolet, Owner
Points.
Failed to Qualify
44. (77) Dave Blaney, Ford, 195.56.
45. (87) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, 194.551.
46. (35) Eric McClure, Ford, 194.366.
47. (44) J.J. Yeley, Chevrolet, 192.154.
Nationwide results
Saturday
At Talladega Superspeedway
Talladega, Ala.
Lap length: 2.66 miles
(Start position in parentheses)
1. (2) Elliott Sadler, Toyota, 117 laps, 130.4 rat-
ing, 48 points, $58,020.
2. (8) Chris Buescher, Ford, 117, 88.8, 43,
$48,925.
3. (32) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, 117, 103.9, 42,
$35,675.
4. (13) David Ragan, Ford, 117, 80.2, 0,
$26,025.
5. (1) Sam Hornish Jr., Toyota, 117, 105.5, 39,
$35,900.
6. (38) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, 117, 84.7, 0,
$27,825.
7. (34) J.J. Yeley, Dodge, 117, 74.4, 38, $26,625.
8. (12) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, 117, 86.7, 36,
$25,975.
9. (16) David Starr, Toyota, 117, 86.3, 36,
$25,350.
10. (21) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 117, 83, 34,
$26,475.
11. (36) Joey Gase, Chevrolet, 117, 64.4, 34,
$25,100.
12. (19) Mike Bliss, Toyota, 117, 81.9, 32,
$24,975.
13. (15) John Wes Townley, Toyota, 117, 84.3,
0, $18,800.
14. (29) Tommy Joe Martins, Dodge, 117, 61.9,
30, $18,625.
15. (7) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 117, 75.8, 30,
$25,150.
16. (39) Jeffrey Earnhardt, Chevrolet, 117, 66,
28, $24,575.
17. (18) Eric McClure, Toyota, 117, 54.9, 27,
$24,250.
18. (5) Dakoda Armstrong, Ford, 117, 74.3, 26,
$24,325.
19. (37) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 117, 95.1, 26,
$23,975.
20. (27) Ryan Sieg, Chevrolet, 117, 77, 24,
$24,550.
21. (6) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 116, 98.8, 0,
$23,850.
22. (31) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, accident, 111,
97.3, 0, $17,520.
23. (33) Jeremy Clements, Chevrolet, accident,
111, 60.4, 22, $23,370.
24. (4) Ryan Reed, Ford, 108, 78.3, 21, $23,470.
25. (40) Chad Boat, Chevrolet, accident, 107,
81.4, 19, $23,570.
26. (24) Josh Wise, Chevrolet, engine, 91, 49.6,
0, $22,920.
27. (17) Jamie Dick, Chevrolet, 87, 45, 17,
$22,795.
28. (26) Mike Harmon, Dodge, accident, 86,
35.7, 16, $16,670.
29. (9) James Buescher, Toyota, 86, 71.7, 15,
$22,520.
30. (20) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 78, 51, 0,
$16,595.
31. (3) Darrell Wallace Jr., Toyota, 74, 72.7, 0,
$22,595.
32. (22) Robert Richardson Jr., Chevrolet, en-
gine, 63, 48.1, 12, $22,170.
33. (10) Brian Scott, Chevrolet, accident, 61,
83.8, 12, $22,135.
34. (11) Brendan Gaughan, Chevrolet, acci-
dent, 61, 57.2, 11, $22,100.
35. (28) Dylan Kwasniewski, Chevrolet, acci-
dent, 43, 54, 9, $22,055.
36. (30) Bobby Gerhart, Chevrolet, engine, 31,
36.6, 8, $14,730.
37. (35) Carl Long, Dodge, electrical, 14, 28.7,
7, $20,695.
38. (25) Jeff Green, Toyota, vibration, 4, 28.3,
6, $14,661.
39. (23) Matt DiBenedetto, Chevrolet, vibration,
3, 26, 5, $14,525.
40. (14) Blake Koch, Toyota, vibration, 1, 25.4,
4, $14,425.
Race Statistics
Average Speed of Race Winner: 131.224 mph.
Time of Race: 2 hours, 22 minutes, 18 seconds.
Margin of Victory: 0.124 seconds.
Caution Flags: 7 for 29 laps.
Lead Changes: 27 among 13 drivers.
Lap Leaders: R.Reed 1-29; B.Gaughan 30;
T.Dillon 31-33; E.Sadler 34-39; B.Scott 40-
41; E.Sadler 42; B.Scott 43-45; J.Clements
46; J.Gase 47; R.Blaney 48-49; B.Scott 50;
E.Sadler 51; B.Scott 52; E.Sadler 53; B.Scott
54; E.Sadler 55-57; B.Scott 58-59; E.Sadler
60-66; J.Yeley 67; E.Sadler 68-83; R.Smith
84-103; D.Starr 104-107; C.Elliott 108-110;
D.Starr 111; E.Sadler 112-115; C.Buescher 116;
E.Sadler 117.
Baseball
American League
East Division
W L Pct GB
New York 16 13 .552
Baltimore 15 13 .536
Boston 15 16 .484 2
Tampa Bay 14 17 .452 3
Toronto 13 17 .433 3
Central Division
W L Pct GB
Detroit 16 9 .640
Kansas City 14 15 .483 4
Minnesota 13 15 .464 4
Chicago 14 17 .452 5
Cleveland 13 17 .433 5
West Division
W L Pct GB
Oakland 18 12 .600
Texas 16 13 .552 1
Los Angeles 14 14 .500 3
Seattle 13 15 .464 4
Houston 10 20 .333 8
Fridays Games
Cleveland 12, Chicago White Sox 5
Tampa Bay 10, N.Y. Yankees 5, 14 innings
Pittsburgh 6, Toronto 5
Boston 7, Oakland 1
Baltimore 3, Minnesota 0
Detroit 8, Kansas City 2
Houston 5, Seattle 4, 11 innings
Texas 5, L.A. Angels 2
Saturdays Games
N.Y. Yankees 9, Tampa Bay 3
Boston 6, Oakland 3
Minnesota 6, Baltimore 1
Seattle 9, Houston 8
Cleveland 2, Chicago White Sox 0
Detroit 9, Kansas City 2
Texas at L.A. Angels, late
Todays Games
Chicago White Sox (Rienzo 2-0) at Cleveland
(Kluber 2-3), 12:05 p.m.
Tampa Bay (Bedard 0-1) at N.Y. Yankees (Sa-
bathia 3-3), 12:05 p.m.
Oakland (Gray 4-1) at Boston (Lackey 4-2),
12:35 p.m.
Toronto (McGowan 1-1) at Pittsburgh (Volquez
1-2), 12:35 p.m.
Baltimore (Mi.Gonzalez 1-2) at Minnesota
(P.Hughes 2-1), 1:10 p.m.
Detroit (Verlander 3-1) at Kansas City (Vargas
2-0), 1:10 p.m.
Seattle (Maurer 0-0) at Houston (McHugh 2-0),
1:10 p.m.
Texas (Darvish 1-1) at L.A. Angels (Skaggs
2-0), 2:35 p.m.
Mondays Games
Minnesota at Cleveland, 6:05 p.m.
Toronto at Philadelphia, 6:05 p.m.
Houston at Detroit, 6:08 p.m.
Chicago White Sox at Chicago Cubs, 7:05 p.m.
Texas at Colorado, 7:40 p.m.
N.Y. Yankees at L.A. Angels, 9:05 p.m.
Seattle at Oakland, 9:05 p.m.
Kansas City at San Diego, 9:10 p.m.
National League
East Division
W L Pct GB
Atlanta 17 12 .586
Washington 17 13 .567
New York 15 13 .536 1
Miami 15 15 .500 2
Philadelphia 14 14 .500 2
Central Division
W L Pct GB
Milwaukee 21 10 .677
St. Louis 15 16 .484 6
Cincinnati 14 16 .467 6
Pittsburgh 12 18 .400 8
Chicago 11 17 .393 8
West Division
W L Pct GB
San Francisco 19 11 .633
Colorado 18 13 .581 1
Los Angeles 18 13 .581 1
San Diego 13 17 .433 6
Arizona 10 22 .313 10
Fridays Games
Chicago Cubs 6, St. Louis 5
Washington 5, Philadelphia 3
Miami 6, L.A. Dodgers 3
Milwaukee 2, Cincinnati 0
San Francisco 2, Atlanta 1
Colorado 10, N.Y. Mets 3
Arizona 2, San Diego 0
Saturdays Games
Chicago Cubs 3, St. Louis 0
Philadelphia 7, Washington 2
L.A. Dodgers 9, Miami 7, 11 innings
Cincinnati 6, Milwaukee 2
San Francisco 3, Atlanta 1
N.Y. Mets at Colorado, late
Arizona at San Diego, late
Todays Games
L.A. Dodgers (Undecided) at Miami (Fernandez
4-1), 12:10 p.m.
San Francisco (Bumgarner 2-3) at Atlanta
(A.Wood 2-4), 12:35 p.m.
Toronto (McGowan 1-1) at Pittsburgh (Volquez
1-2), 12:35 p.m.
Washington (G.Gonzalez 3-1) at Philadelphia
(R.Hernandez 1-1), 2:05 p.m.
Arizona (Miley 2-3) at San Diego (T.Ross 3-3),
3:10 p.m.
Milwaukee (Lohse 4-1) at Cincinnati (Simon
4-1), 3:10 p.m.
N.Y. Mets (Gee 2-1) at Colorado (Undecided),
3:10 p.m.
St. Louis (Lynn 4-1) at Chicago Cubs (Hammel
4-1), 7:05 p.m.
Mondays Games
L.A. Dodgers at Washington, 6:05 p.m.
San Francisco at Pittsburgh, 6:05 p.m.
Toronto at Philadelphia, 6:05 p.m.
N.Y. Mets at Miami, 6:10 p.m.
St. Louis at Atlanta, 6:10 p.m.
Chicago White Sox at Chicago Cubs, 7:05 p.m.
Arizona at Milwaukee, 7:10 p.m.
Texas at Colorado, 7:40 p.m.
Kansas City at San Diego, 9:10 p.m.
College scores
SATURDAY
SEC
Texas A&M 3, LSU 2
South Carolina 5, Georgia 2
Vanderbilt 5, Missouri 1
Florida 4, Alabama 3
Ole Miss 7, Arkansas 4
Tennessee 5, Kentucky 1
Mississippi State 3, Auburn 0
EAST
Bates 6-2, Tufts 5-4
Bridgewater (Va.) 3-3, Wesley 2-1
Castleton 8, Maine-Farmington 2
Endicott 10, Salve Regina 4
Dominican (NY) 9, Chestnut Hill 5
Farmingdale 10, Old Westbury 9
George Mason 7, UMass 0
Hofstra 10, Northeastern 8
Husson 7, Castleton 6
LeMoyne 2, American International 1
Pittsburgh 5, Boston College 4
Rhode Island 3, St. Bonaventure 2, 10 innings
Roger Williams 4, Wentworth 3
Thiel 9, Geneva 6
W. New England 15, Gordon 1
SOUTH
Austin Peay 9, Morehead St. 8
Clemson 9, James Madison 4
Davis & Elkins 5-1, Kentucky Wesleyan 0-5
E. Illinois 15, E. Kentucky 3
ETSU 3, SC-Upstate 2
FAU 8, Old Dominion 7
Florida Gulf Coast 17, N. Kentucky 5
Florida St. 5, Minnesota 4
Florida Tech at Tampa, ppd.
Georgia Tech 3, Virginia Tech 1
Maryland 6, Notre Dame 2
Memphis 6, U Conn 1
UAB 12, Charlotte 2
UT-Martin 3, SIU-Edwardsville 2
MIDWEST
Franklin 12-6, Bluffton 5-7
SOUTHWEST
Concordia-Austin 9, Mary Hardin-Baylor 8
Houston Baptist 7, Lamar 3
Texas A&M-CC 8, Abilene Christian 4
FAR WEST
Angelo St. 9, E. New Mexico 4
New Mexico 6, San Diego St. 1
FRIDAY
SEC
LSU 5, Texas A&M 4, 10 innings
Georgia 3, South Carolina 1
Vanderbilt 8, Missouri 3
Florida 7, Alabama 3
Ole Miss 3, Arkansas 2
Mississippi State 3, Auburn 0
EAST
Boston College 3, Pittsburgh 2
Castleton 7, Lyndon St. 2
Endicott 7, Wentworth 5
John Jay 12-6, Baruch 11-9
Northeastern 12, Hofstra 5
Old Westbury 4, St. Josephs (LI) 1
St. Johns 7, Xavier 3
Thiel 5, Geneva 4
SOUTH
Belhaven 5, Auburn-Montgomery 4
Clemson 8, James Madison 0
Davis & Elkins 5-4, Kentucky Wesleyan 0-1
E. Illinois 10, E. Kentucky 6
ETSU 8, SC-Upstate 4
Florida Atlantic 9, Old Dominion 4
Florida Gulf Coast 8, N. Kentucky 5
Jackson St. 9, Alcorn St. 3
Jacksonville St. 9, Belmont 1
Maryland 2, Notre Dame 0
Miami 11, Alabama St. 1
Minnesota at Florida St., ppd.
Morehead St. 10, Austin Peay 9
NC State 11, Coastal Carolina 1
SIU-Edwardsville 14, Tenn.-Martin 7
Tennessee Tech 4, Lipscomb 1
UAB 6, Charlotte 2
UTSA 4, Middle Tennessee 2
Wingate 12, Erskine 2
MIDWEST
Baker 5, Benedictine (Kan.) 3
St. Scholastica 18, Minn.-Morris 5
SOUTHWEST
Cameron 8, W. Texas A&M 3
Lamar 9, Houston Baptist 1
New Mexico Highlands 9-0, Metro St. 8-2
St. Edwards 2-1, McMurry 0-2
Tarleton St. 8, Texas A&M-Kingsville 3
Texas-Arlington 6, Ark-Little Rock 5, 10 innings
Texas-Dallas 8, Hardin-Simmons 6
FAR WEST
San Diego St. 6, New Mexico 5
San Francisco 6, Santa Clara 5
Basketball
NBA playoffs
First Round
Monday, April 28
Miami 109, Charlotte 98, Miami wins series
4-0 Tuesday, April 29
Washington 75, Chicago 69, Washington wins
series 4-1
Friday, May 2
Brooklyn 97, Toronto 83, series tied 3-3
Dallas 113, San Antonio 111, series tied 3-3
Portland 99, Houston 98, Portland wins series
4-2
Saturday, May 3
Indiana 92, Atlanta 80, Indiana wins series 4-3
Oklahoma City 120, Memphis 109, Oklahoma
City wins series 4-3
Golden State at L.A. Clippers, late (series tied
3-3)
Sunday, May 4
Brooklyn at Toronto, noon.
Dallas at San Antonio, 2:30 p.m.
Golf
Wells Fargo scores
Saturday
At Quail Hollow Club Course
Charlotte, N.C.
Purse: $6.9 million
Yardage: 7,562; Par: 72
Third Round
J.B. Holmes 70-67-66203
Martin Flores 67-68-69204
Phil Mickelson 67-75-63205
Kevin Kisner 72-66-68206
Jason Bohn 73-67-67207
Justin Rose 69-67-71207
Martin Kaymer 69-69-70208
Jonathan Byrd 68-71-70209
Michael Thompson 71-69-69209
Geoff Ogilvy 72-67-70209
Rory McIlroy 69-76-65210
Mark Wilson 72-72-66210
Pat Perez 73-71-66210
Ernie Els 76-67-67210
Brendon de Jonge 80-62-68210
Kevin Na 69-72-69210
Zach Johnson 71-70-69210
Roberto Castro 71-70-69210
Jim Furyk 72-69-69210
Charles Howell III 69-71-70210
Angel Cabrera 66-69-75210
Gary Woodland 71-72-68211
Wes Roach 71-71-69211
John Merrick 71-70-70211
Derek Ernst 73-68-70211
Webb Simpson 68-73-70211
Robert Streb 71-69-71211
Ricky Barnes 72-72-68212
Bud Cauley 71-71-70212
Danny Lee 71-71-70212
Vijay Singh 69-72-71212
Kevin Streelman 72-69-71212
Scott Langley 70-71-71212
Chris Kirk 71-70-71212
Martin Laird 69-70-73212
Stewart Cink 68-70-74212
Shawn Stefani 69-68-75212
Ben Martin 71-73-69213
Andrew Svoboda 72-72-69213
Brendan Steele 72-72-69213
Kevin Chappell 73-70-70213
Mike Weir 72-71-70213
Rory Sabbatini 74-68-71213
Hideki Matsuyama 69-72-72213
Scott Brown 71-73-70214
Sang-Moon Bae 72-71-71214
Daniel Summerhays 70-72-72214
Michael Putnam 73-69-72214
Retief Goosen 70-70-74214
Bill Haas 75-70-70215
David Hearn 70-74-71215
Y.E. Yang 73-72-71216
Jim Herman 76-68-72216
Will Wilcox 71-72-73216
Jason Kokrak 75-68-73216
Hunter Mahan 72-73-72217
Davis Love III 75-68-74217
Ryan Moore 70-71-76217
Robert Allenby 73-72-73218
Johnson Wagner 75-70-73218
Carl Pettersson 73-71-74218
Rickie Fowler 74-71-74219
Heath Slocum 77-68-74219
Jim Renner 71-74-74219
Justin Hicks 74-71-74219
Ted Potter, Jr. 72-73-74219
Brian Davis 74-71-75220
Kyle Stanley 74-71-75220
Josh Teater 72-73-75220
Kevin Tway 73-72-75220
Bronson LaCassie 71-73-77221
Cameron Tringale 74-68-79221
North Texas scores
Saturday
At Las Colinas Country Club Course
Irving, Texas
Purse: $1.3 million
Third Round
Stacy Lewis 71-64-69204
Meena Lee 70-64-70204
Dori Carter 67-70-68205
Julieta Granada 71-66-68205
Suzann Pettersen 66-71-68205
Jennifer Johnson 71-70-65206
Kim Kaufman 72-66-68206
Jenny Shin 69-69-68206
Thidapa Suwannapura 70-68-68206
Cristie Kerr 67-70-69206
Christina Kim 67-69-70206
Natalie Gulbis 70-65-71206
Na Yeon Choi 72-69-66207
Inbee Park 71-68-68207
Lexi Thompson 70-71-67208
Michelle Wie 67-73-68208
Sarah Kemp 71-68-69208
Alena Sharp 73-70-66209
Pat Hurst 72-70-67209
Lorie Kane 69-73-67209
Jodi Ewart Shadoff 69-72-68209
Haru Nomura 70-70-69209
Pornanong Phatlum 70-68-71209
Dewi Claire Schreefel 71-66-72209
Caroline Masson 67-67-75209
Amy Anderson 71-72-67210
Chella Choi 69-74-67210
Mina Harigae 74-68-68210
Karine Icher 73-69-68210
Jennifer Song 73-69-68210
Tiffany Joh 74-66-70210
Moira Dunn 70-68-72210
Alison Walshe 72-72-67211
Ryann OToole 70-73-68211
Stacey Keating 71-71-69211
Brittany Lang 70-71-70211
Jee Young Lee 71-70-70211
Ji Young Oh 73-67-71211
Pernilla Lindberg 73-71-68212
Cydney Clanton 67-76-69212
Megan Grehan 76-67-69212
Mi Hyang Lee 69-74-69212
Sydnee Michaels 71-71-70212
Sarah Jane Smith 72-70-70212
Juli Inkster 69-72-71212
Megan McChrystal 70-68-74212
Azahara Munoz 70-68-74212
Paz Echeverria 70-73-70213
Gerina Piller 72-71-70213
Felicity Johnson 70-68-75213
Katherine Kirk 69-69-75213
Web.com scores
Saturday
At Kinderlou Forest Golf Club Course
Valdosta, Ga.
Purse: $650,000
Second Round
Carlos Ortiz 67-65132
Max Homa 67-68135
Rob Oppenheim 69-66135
Andrew Putnam 68-69137
Alex Prugh 70-68138
Jimmy Gunn 70-68138
Daniel Berger 70-68138
Mike Miller 68-71139
Seth Fair 69-70139
Vaughn Taylor 73-66139
Nathan Tyler 71-68139
Cameron Percy 72-68140
Aron Price 68-72140
Adam Webb 70-70140
Kent Bulle 70-70140
Ryan Blaum 72-68140
Ryan Armour 74-66140
Ryuji Imada 70-70140
Roland Thatcher 70-70140
Jeff Curl 67-73140
Blayne Barber 68-72140
Kyle Reifers 72-69141
Garth Mulroy 74-67141
Jason Allred 72-69141
Hugo Leon 70-71141
Zack Sucher 71-70141
Jared Wolfe 71-70141
Scott Pinckney 69-72141
Greg Owen 72-69141
Miguel Angel Carballo 69-72141
Bill Lunde 72-69141
Andrew Georgiou 71-70141
Nathan Green 73-69142
Ryan Spears 73-69142
Peter Lonard 72-70142
Matt Hendrix 70-72142
Mark Hubbard 70-72142
Kelly Kraft 69-73142
Oscar Fraustro 72-70142
Andy Pope 71-71142
Trevor Murphy 73-69142
Roger Sloan 70-72142
Nicholas Lindheim 73-69142
Justin Lower 71-71142
Whee Kim 74-69143
Tag Ridings 75-68143
Carlos Franco 71-72143
Justin Thomas 74-69143
Steve Wheatcroft 73-70143
John Daly 72-71143
D.J. Trahan 71-72143
Tony Finau 71-72143
Luke List 73-70143
Tim Petrovic 72-71143
Derek Fathauer 70-73143
Jonathan Fricke 72-71143
Brett Lederer 71-72143
Alexandre Rocha 74-70144
Casey Wittenberg 72-72144
Matt Davidson 75-69144
Chris Epperson 73-71144
Mark Anderson 74-70144
Peter Tomasulo 73-71144
Richard S. Johnson 74-70144
Steve Allan 74-70144
Chris Baker 76-68144
Chase Wright 74-70144
Franklin Corpening 74-70144
Scott Harrington 72-72144
Bronson Burgoon 70-74144
Colt Knost 69-75144
Jeff Klauk 73-71144
Andres Gonzales 73-71144
Matt Fast 71-73144
Hockey
NHL playoffs
SECOND ROUND
Thursday, May 1
Montreal 4, Boston 3, 2OT
Friday, May 2
N.Y. Rangers 3, Pittsburgh 2, OT, N.Y. Rangers
leads series 1-0
Chicago 5, Minnesota 2, Chicago leads series
1-0
Saturday, May 3
Boston 5, Montreal 3, series tied 1-1
Los Angeles at Anaheim, late (first game)
Sunday, May 4
Minnesota at Chicago, 2 p.m.
N.Y. Rangers at Pittsburgh, 6:30 p.m.
Transactions
Saturdays Moves
BASEBALL
American League
CHICAGO WHITE SOX Placed OF Adam
Eaton on the 15-day DL. Recalled LHP Frank
De Los Santos from Charlotte (IL). Claimed OF
Moises Sierra off waivers from Toronto. Trans-
ferred RHP Nate Jones to the 60-day DL.
CLEVELAND INDIANS Placed C Yan
Gomes on the paternity leave list. Designated
INF Elliot Johnson for assignment. Selected
the contract of C George Kottaras from Colum-
bus (IL). Recalled LHP Nick Hagadone from
Columbus.
LOS ANGELES ANGELS Placed 3B David
Freese on the 15-day DL. Optioned OF J.B.
Shuck to Salt Lake (PCL). Recalled INF Luis
Jimenez from Salt Lake. Sent RHP Yoslan Her-
rera outright to Salt Lake. Selected the contract
of INF C.J. Cron from Salt Lake.
MINNESOTA TWINS Placed RHP Mike Pel-
frey on the 15-day DL, retroactive May 2. Re-
called INF Danny Santana from Rochester (IL).
NEW YORK YANKEES Selected the con-
tract of RHP Alfredo Aceves from Scranton/
Wilkes-Barre (IL). Designated RHP Chris Ler-
oux for assignment.
SEATTLE MARINERS Optioned LHP Lu-
cas Luetge to Tacoma (PCL). Activated RHP
Hisashi Iwakuma from the 15-day DL.
TORONTO BLUE JAYS Placed RHP Bran-
don Morrow on the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP
Chad Jenkins from Buffalo (IL).
National League
CHICAGO CUBS Activated RHP Jake
Arrieta from the 15-day DL. Placed OF Ryan
Sweeney on the 15-day DL. Recalled OF Chris
Coghlan from Iowa (PCL). Transferred RHP
Kyuji Fujikawa to the 60-day DL. Optioned LHP
Zac Rosscup to Iowa.
CINCINNATI REDS Reinstated INF/OF Skip
Schumaker from the 15-day DL. Designated OF
Roger Bernadina for assignment.
COLORADO ROCKIES Recalled C Michael
McKenry from Colorado Springs (PCL). Op-
tioned RHP Chad Bettis to Colorado Springs.
MILWAUKEE BREWERS Placed OF Ryan
Braun on the 15-day DL, retroactive to April
27. Activated OF Logan Schafer from the 15-
day DL.
PITTSBURGH PIRATES Placed RHP
Stolmy Pimentel on the 15-day DL, retroactive
to May 2. Optioned RHP Brandon Cumpton to
Indianapolis (IL). Recalled RHP Jared Hughes
Indianapolis. Selected the contract of RHP Vin
Mazzaro from Indianapolis.
Fridays Moves
BASEBALL
American League
BALTIMORE ORIOLES Optioned RHP Evan
Meek to Norfolk (IL). Recalled RHP Brad Brach
from Norfolk.
CLEVELAND INDIANS Placed 2B Jason
Kipnis on the 15-day DL. Recalled INF Jose
Ramirez from Columbus (IL).
DETROIT TIGERS Agreed to terms with
RHP Joel Hanrahan on a one-year contract.
HOUSTON ASTROS Agreed to terms with
LHP Tony Sipp on a one-year contract. Op-
tioned RHP Paul Clemens to Oklahoma City
(PCL). Transferred RHP Jesse Crain to the
60-day DL.
KANSAS CITY ROYALS Placed LHP Bruce
Chen on the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP Aaron
Brooks from Omaha (PCL).
MINNESOTA TWINS Placed OF Aaron
Hicks on the 7-day DL. Recalled LHP Logan
Darnell from Rochester (IL).
TORONTO BLUE JAYS Recalled C Erik
Kratz from Buffalo (IL). Optioned RHP Chad
Jenkins to Buffalo.
National League
ATLANTA BRAVES Agreed to terms with 3B
Chris Johnson on a three-year contract from
2015-17.
COLORADO ROCKIES Placed INF Josh
Rutledge on the 15-day DL, retroactive to April
28. Recalled INF Ryan Wheeler from Colorado
Springs (PCL).
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BRIEFLY
Ole Miss
Baseball clinches series with Arkansas
OXFORD The Rebels fell behind early, but the pitching staff
settled in as the offense heated up and No. 10 Ole Miss (35-13, 15-8
SEC) rallied to clinch the weekend series with a 7-4 win over Arkansas
(29-20, 10-13 SEC) Saturday at Swayze Field.
After surrendering four runs in the top of the first, the Rebels rallied
with three runs in the bottom of the first and the pitching staff took over
from there to put zeros on the board in the next eight innings as Ole
Miss rallied for the win.
Christian Trent (7-0) picked up the win, allowing four runs on nine
hits with four strikeouts in 5.0 innings of work. The southpaw allowed
only two baserunners in the next 15 batters faced after surrendering the
four runs in the first with one out to keep the Rebels alive in the game.
Ole Miss Josh Laxer picked up his fifth save of the season, allow-
ing one hit as he worked the ninth. He was one of four pitchers used on
the afternoon as the Rebels bullpen allowed only three hits and tallied
4.0 scoreless innings of work down the stretch.
Jalen Beeks (5-4) took the loss for the Razorbacks, allowing six
runs five earned on 10 hits with two walks and a strikeout in 3.2
innings of work.
In the first inning, if you look at what they did offensively, they
squared up some balls, said Ole Miss assistant coach Carl Lafferty. I
was proud of Christian (Trent). To really mature in this league and be a
quality starter, youre going to have to have innings like that where it just
doesnt go your way. Guys who are really elite in this league come up
and do what Christian did and put up four more zeroes for us and keep
us in the game and allow our offense to answer, which its done all year.
Arkansas got on the board first, putting together a big first inning
as the Razorbacks went to work following a pop out of the first better.
Six consecutive singles brought four runs home before Trent would
get a foul fly and a groundout to first to end the inning with the Rebels
down 4-0.
Ole Miss went to work in the home half of the frame, putting
together an answering rally to cut the lead to one run.
Three straight batters reached with one out to load the bases for
the Rebels before freshman Brantley Bell delivered the first run with
an RBI single to right that scored Auston Bousfield and kept the bases
loaded. A wild pitch then brought Austin Anderson home and moved
Bell and Will Allen into scoring position. Sikes Orvis then capped the
inning with a sac fly to left to score Allen and the Rebels trailed 4-3 after
the first inning.
After keeping the Razorbacks off the board in the second and third,
Ole Miss again went to work in the fourth with another three-run inning.
The Rebels again loaded the bases with a single up the middle
from Orvis and back-to-back bunt singles from Errol Robinson and
Preston Overbey to start the inning. J.B. Woodman then singled up the
middle to score Orvis and advance both Robinson and Overbey. The
Rebel second baseman went too far as he rounded second, getting
caught in a rundown between second and third, but the play allowed
Robinson to score and Ole Miss held the lead for the first time on the
afternoon.
A bunt single from Braxton Lee allowed the speedy leadoff hitter to
reach and advance Woodman to second.
A fielding error on the play allowed Woodman to take third and he
scored a batter later on a sac fly from Bousfield as the Rebels held a
6-4 lead after the fourth inning.
Ole Miss extended the lead in the fifth when a solo shot to right
field from Orvis took the lead out to 7-4.
Ole Miss won the series opener, 3-2 Friday night.
n Softball falls to Tennessee: At Knoxville, Tenn., for the second
time in as many games, the Ole Miss softball team took a lead on the
road at No. 8 Tennessee, but couldnt fight off the Lady Vols late rally.
The Rebels scored three runs in the fifth inning Saturday afternoon to
take a 3-0 lead, but ultimately fell 5-3 in Knoxville, Tenn.
We came out loose again and Im really proud of the way they
came out focused, ready to win and wanting to swing, Ole Miss head
coach Windy Thees said. It was a good pitching duel between Ellen
Renfroe and Carly Hummel. We got a lead, but it was just a big fifth
inning for both of us. We fought hard. I liked our fight in our team, we just
have to finish the job.
Hummel, a senior from Bakersfield, Calif., threw a strong game
for the Rebels, including holding Tennessee (41-9, 16-7 Southeastern
Conference) to just one hit and no runs in the games first four frames.
It was great to see her have everything working, Thees said. All
of her pitches were hitting the spots she wanted to hit. She mixed in her
speeds and just did a really great job. It was probably one of the best
performances Ive seen her have this year.
Offensively, Ole Miss (22-30, 3-20 SEC) was led by senior RT
Cantillo, who went 2-3 with a home run, two RBIs and a run.
The Rebels threatened in the top of the third. With runners on the
corners and one out away, sophomore Haley Culley hit a grounder to
third base in which the Lady Vols threw to first base to get Culley out.
When they did, junior Jamie Morgan, who was on third base, broke
for home but was called out on a close play at the plate as Tennessee
completed the 5-3-2 double play.
Ole Miss got on the board in the top of the fifth with three runs on
two hits to claim a 3-0 lead. With freshman Courtney Syrett on third
base and two outs away, freshman Miranda Strother hit an RBI triple off
the top of the wall in center field on the 10th pitch of her at bat. Cantillo
followed Strother with a two-run home run to left field. It was the second
triple of the year for Strother, and it was Cantillos third home run of the
season.
Tennessee came back in the bottom half of the inning with a
lead-off triple followed by an RBI single to left field to cut the Rebels
lead to 3-1. Four batters later, with two outs away and two runners on
base, the Lady Vols tied the game with a bases clearing double off the
wall in left field.
The Lady Vols took the lead the next inning on what proved to be
the game-winning two-run home run to left field by Cheyanne Tarango.
n Track and Field fares well at LSU: At Baton Rouge, La., Ole
Miss showed Saturday that it belongs among the best track & field
teams in the country with a strong performance at the five-team LSU
Invitational at Bernie Moore Stadium.
The 16th-ranked Rebel men finished third in the team standings
with 110 points behind No. 2 Texas A&M (166) and No. 10 LSU (143).
No. 1 Florida was fourth (104), followed by Miami (28). On the womens
side, No. 7 LSU took the title at home with 158 points, followed by No. 3
Texas A&M (135), No. 2 Florida (100), Miami (84) and Ole Miss (73).
We knew that coming in here and facing three top-10 teams would
be a daunting task, said Rebel head coach Brian ONeal. I felt that
from the first event all the way to the last, our kids gave great effort. We
competed to the best of our abilities today. Were beginning the round
the corner at the right time.
The Ole Miss men and women finished the day with numerous
personal and seasonal bests, and a total of six event victories.
Junior Phillip Young had an outstanding day for the Rebels in three
different events. The Key West, Florida native, who transferred to Ole
Miss from Florida State, won the triple jump with a big mark of 52-10.25
that ranks him third in the NCAA this year and sixth in school history. He
also placed third in the long jump (24-6.25) and anchored the Rebels
4x400-meter relay squad that finished runner-up in a season-best
3:08.38.
Freshman Robert Domanic was the top collegiate finisher in the
1,500 meters with a personal-best 3:44.78 that ranks him third-best in
school history and top 50 in the NCAA this year.
Ole Miss finished 1-2-3 in the 800 meters, led by freshman Sean
Tobin in 1:48.79. Junior newcomers Dameon Morgan and Holland Sher-
rer clocked lifetime bests of 1:49.50 and 1:49.54, respectively.
Other victories for the Rebel men went to sophomore Ian Carter in
the 5,000 meters (15:08.80) and junior Sam Kendricks in the pole vault
(17-6.5).
Freshman Jalen Miller has made a habit of running fast times every
time out, and Saturday was no different. He placed third in the 100
(10.31) and fourth in the 200 (20.90), with both times just off his personal
bests. He also helped the 4x100-meter relay team to a time of 40.08
that is just off its season best of 40.06.
The Rebel women got wins from freshman Mary Alex England in
the 5,000 (17:47.78) and freshman Saga Barzowski in the 3,000-meter
steeplechase (11:39.38). Senior Kayleigh Skinner was runner-up to
England in the 5K (17:54.16).
Among the women who achieved personal bests on Saturday
were Breanna Tate in the 200 (23.98), Destiny Lundy in the 400 (55.19),
Mariah Buford in the 400 (55.37), Kiannah Alexander in the 400 (55.41),
Margaret Harkness in the 1,500 (4:44.75) and Kenya Wheeler in both
the shot put (44-1.25) and discus (137-11).
Tennis
Errani wins opening match at Madrid Open
MADRID Sara Errani of Italy beat Andrea Petkovic 7-5, 6-1 in
the first round of the Madrid Open on Saturday, avenging a loss to the
German in the same stage four years ago.
Errani advanced to play countrywoman Francesca Schiavone or
Russias Elena Vesnina.
Errani placed 87 percent of her first serves in, and broke Petkovic
five times while saving five of six break chances against her.
Also, Bojana Jovanovski of Serbia beat Karin Knapp of Italy 6-1,
6-1, while American Alison Riske outlasted Estonias Kaia Kanepi 6-7
(7), 6-1, 6-2.
Christina McHale bettered training partner and fellow American
Lauren Davis 7-6 (2), 6-3.
Other winners from the first round included Spaniards Garbine Mu-
guruza and Lara Arruabarrena, and Magdalena Rybarikova of Slovakia.
From Special, Wire Reports
College Baseball
AUBURN, Ala. Another night at
Plainsman Park and another shutout.
Ross Mitchell threw his fourth com-
plete game of the season as the Missis-
sippi State baseball team made it back-
to-back shutouts with a 3-0 win over
Auburn in a Southeastern Conference
game played before a regional televi-
sion audience Saturday night.
Mitchell has thrown all four com-
plete games in league play. The back-
to-back shutouts have occurred twice
this season and the team has now ve
shutouts overall. MSU clinched its fth
conference series win.
MSU improved to 30-18 overall and
13-10 in league play. The Bulldogs are
now tied with Alabama for third place
in the Western Division standings. Au-
burn slipped to 25-22 and 9-14.
Ross had 10 ground ball outs,
MSU head coach John Cohen said.
Auburn had more balls in the air than
usual. We defended well enough. Brett
Pirtle made two great defensive plays.
Alex Detz has played well at rst base
this weekend.
We are doing what we do. We are
negotiating pitches, defending and
scoring enough runs.
In the series opener, Trevor Fitts,
Jacob Lindgren and Jonathan Holder
combined for a 3-0 shutout victory. Sat-
urday, Mitchell (7-4) went at it alone as
he threw for 132 pitches and allowed
four total hits.
In the third inning, the Bulldogs
scored all of their runs. Jake Vickerson
and Derrick Armstrong started things
with walks. C.T. Bradford followed
with an RBI-single, giving him three of
the teams six RBIs for the weekend. A
ground ball out by Detz scored anoth-
er run, while an RBI-double by Pirtle
capped the scoring in that inning and
for the game.
Timely hitting is the key, Cohen
said. I look at the scores around the
league and the teams that can put to-
gether one big inning will win. Pitch-
ing and defense are important. Our
kids believe they are going to win. It is
important to believe. We are nding a
way to score enough runs.
MSU nished with six hitters, in-
cluding no multiple hitters. Auburn,
which left the bases loaded in the ninth
inning, nished with four hits and no
multiple hitters. Keegan Thompson (5-
3) took the loss for the Tigers.
The series nale is at 1 p.m. Sunday.
n MSU 3, Auburn 0 (Friday): the
Mississippi State pitching trio of Trev-
or Fitts, Jacob Lindgren and Jonathan
Holder lifted the Bulldogs to victory
Friday night.
Winning a second straight weekend
series opener, MSU shut out Auburn
3-0 to kickstart a Southeastern Con-
ference weekend series at Plainsman
Park.
I thought we pitched really well,
Cohen said. Trevor really shoved it in
the strike zone and that set the tone.
Behind him, Jacob Lindgren was an
absolute champ for us. Then you get
Jonathan Holder closing it out.
Fitts (4-2) pitched 5.1 innings, al-
lowing ve hits, with three strikeouts
and a walk. Lindgren had 2.2 innings of
near-perfect relief, including a stretch
of eighth straight retired batters. Hold-
er got the Bulldogs 41st double play
ball of the season to close the contest
and earn his sixth save.
Offensively, the big hero was C.T.
Bradford. Bradford had three hits, two
RBIs and also hit his rst home run
of the season. That early round-trip-
per gave the Bulldogs a 1-0 lead in the
fourth inning.
In the fth inning, Cody Brown hit
his second home run of the year to up
the lead to 2-0. The Bulldogs got an-
other RBI-double from Bradford in the
eighth inning but left the bases loaded
in the ninth inning.
We actually had some good offen-
sive at-bats, Cohen said. We didnt
get as much production as we would
have liked but we had good at-bats.
Defensively, Brett Pirtle had some big
league plays. That is what happens for
championship teams. They have se-
niors make those types of plays.
AMITE CITY, La. The
Oak Forest (La.) Academy
baseball team swept Heri-
tage Academy 8-0 and 13-3
in ve innings Friday to win
the best-of-three Mississippi
Association of Independent
Schools Class AAA, Divi-
sion II seminal round play-
off series.
Oak Forest Academy, the
No. 1 seed out of the South,
lost to Heritage Academy
4-1 on Wednesday in Co-
lumbus. It advances to face
Magnolia Heights, the No. 1
seed out of the North, in the
Class AAA, Division II title
series next week.
Heritage Academy, which
played an errorless game
Wednesday, committed 11
errors in the games Friday,
including six in the opener.
It ends its season at 19-14.
In Game 1, Steve Liuzza
limited Heritage Academy to
four hits in a complete-game
effort. He walked two and out
six. Hunter Sykes had a dou-
ble, Dylan Barker had two
hits, and Thomas Cooper
had a hit. Sykes started and
took the loss. He allowed six
hits and four earned runs in
four innings. He walked one
and struck out three. Logan
Sneed allowed one hit and
one earned run in two in-
nings. He walked four and
struck out one.
In Game 2, Oak Forest
Academy took command
early, scoring four runs in
the rst inning, two in the
second, and four more in the
third.
Chet Niehaus started
and earned the victory. He
allowed two hits and zero
earned runs. He walked
three and struck out three.
Tyler Anderson scored
two runs for the Patriots.
Copper had two hits, includ-
ing a double, and an RBI,
while Tanner Fittes also had
an RBI.
Jace Caldwell started and
took the loss. The senior
left-hander allowed six hits
and four earned runs in 2
1/3 innings. He walked two
and struck out two. Cooper
allowed four hits and three
earned runs. He walked two
and didnt strike out a batter.
n New Hope 14, Center
Hill 3: At Olive Branch, the
Trojans pounded out 16 hits
and clinched their Missis-
sippi High School Activities
Association Class 5A playoff
series by the run rule.
New Hope will play
host to Pearl to start a sec-
ond-round series Friday
night.
Winners of 14 straight,
Jake Hollis and Parker Ear-
hart led the offensive attack
with three hits each. Payton
Lane, JC Redden and Wells
Davis each added two hits.
Redden hit a home run in
the contest. Redden, Hollis,
Taylor Stafford and Earhart
each drove in two runs.
Redden went the distance
on the mound in the ve-in-
ning contest, allowing ve
hits and one earned run.
Softball
n Hamilton 8-10, Var-
daman 0-0: At Hamilton,
the Lady Lions advanced to
the MHSAA North State Fi-
nal Four by run ruling Var-
daman Saturday to clinch
the best-of-three series.
Track and eld
n Starkville Academys
Merchant nishes sec-
ond: At Jackson, Starkville
Academys Caleb merchant
nished second in the long
jump with a mark of 21 feet,
9 1/2 inches Friday at the
MAIS overall state track
and eld meet at Jackson
Academy.
The eld events were
held Friday. The running
events were scheduled for
today at Jackson Prep.
Heritage Academys
Mary Douglass Kerby n-
ished fourth in the Class
AAA shot put (33-4). She
won the shot put with a
throw of 34-8 1/2 at the
Class AAA meet.
Starkville Academys
Maris Mooreland was sec-
ond in the Class AAA high
jump (5-2). She nished sec-
ond in the event at the Class
AAA meet.
Heritage Academys Mi-
chael Ledbetter was eighth
in the Class AAA high jump
(5-6). He nished fourth in
the event at the Class AAA
meet (5-8).
MSU shuts out Auburn twice to clinch series
Prep Baseball/Softball/Track
Heritage Academys postseason run ends
A awless weekend in the eld for second baseman Brett Pirtle (13) has been
huge for the Mississippi State baseball team.
College Basketball
Kansas builds home for original Naismith documents
LAWRENCE, Kan. The origi-
nal Rules of Basket Ball recorded
by James Naismith will soon have a
permanent home just off Naismith
Drive, and couple of traveling calls
from Naismith Court.
The University of Kansas broke
ground Friday on an $18 million facil-
ity connected to Allen Fieldhouse that
will house the documents, which were
purchased by Kansas alumnus David
Booth at auction for $4.3 million in
2010 with the intention of displaying
them at the school.
The 32,000-square-foot DeBruce
Center will also include a new training
table for the Jayhawks basketball pro-
grams, along with an activity center
and meeting space that are intended to
make the building into a student union
for the south part of campus.
It has been debatable that (Allen
Fieldhouse) is the best home-court in
college basketball. It is debatable that
there are other schools out there that
can challenge, said Kansas coach Bill
Self, accompanied by university of-
cials including Chancellor Bernadette
Gray-Little.
It will not be debatable any longer
once this structure is erected and we
are able to house the rules, Self said,
and take what is the coolest and most
historic building, where the walls still
sweat, and add all the modern ameni-
ties that every school in the country
would yearn for.
The groundbreaking is only the lat-
est step in a series of basketball-related
projects.
In February, the school also received
a lead gift for a $17.5 million apartment
complex that will house 32 mens and
womens basketball players and 34
non-athlete students; NCAA rules pro-
hibit student-athletes from residing in
dorms by themselves. The school also
completed major renovations to Allen
Fieldhouse in 2009, including work on
its adjoining buildings.
The DeBruce Center also will be
connected to Allen Fieldhouse by a
walkway through the second-oor con-
course of the Booth Hall of Athletics,
built in 2006 to house the schools hall
of fame.
The centerpiece of the DeBruce
Center, of course, will be the hall fea-
turing the original two-page document
on which, in 1891, Naismith outlined
the 13 basic rules for basketball.
When the rules came to auction,
Booth was convinced that the only ap-
propriate home for them was Kansas,
where Naismith founded the program
in 1898 and spent nine years as its
coach.
BRIEFLY
Alabama
Softball team shuts outs Missouri, wins SEC title
COLUMBIA, Mo. Alabama finished the 2014 regular season on
a strong note, shutting out Missouri in Saturdays rubber match to earn
the series victory.
Alabama (44-10, 19-5 SEC) capitalized on timely hits and mistakes
by the Missouri (41-15, 15-9 SEC) defense, earning the win despite only
tallying two runs. Both of the Crimson Tides runs were unearned, as
Casey Stangel (14-9) took the loss in the circle, throwing 4.1 innings.
Leslie Jury (15-6) had a strong outing for Alabama, earning the win with
5.1 innings pitched while Sydney Littlejohn pitched 1.2 relief innings with
just one hit allowed to earn her third save of the season.
With runners at the corners and nobody out in the top of the third,
Haylie McCleney stole second and nobody on the Missouri defense
was out covering the throw to second as the throw rolled into center
field, allowing Andrea Hawkins to score from third on the E2 and make
it a 1-0 ballgame. The Tide couldnt maintain the momentum though, as
a pair of groundouts and a popout prevented Alabama from adding to
its one-run lead.
Hawkins drew a one-out walk in the top of the fifth, advanced all
the way to third on a wild pitch and came home on yet another wild pitch
as that pushed the Tide lead up to 2-0. The second wild pitch was a ball
four to McCleney, who walked to first to end Stangels outing in the circle
as Tori Finucane entered for the Tigers. Kallie Case followed with a slap
single but a double play ended the half-inning with the Tide leading 2-0.
Missouri made a bid for its first run of the game in the bottom of
the fifth with a runner on second and two away. Taylor Gadbois sent a
single up the middle and the runner at second rounded third and broke
for home. McCleney fired in a rocket to home plate from shallow center
as Jordan Patterson applied the tag for out number three to preserve
the 2-0 lead and end the inning.
The Tigers put a pair of runners into scoring position in the bottom
of the sixth off a single and a throwing error, which ended Jurys start
as Littlejohn entered in the save situation. A ground ball to third caught
the runner at third in a rundown for out number two and the Tide inten-
tionally walked Angela Randazzo to load the bases. Natalie Fleming hit
a high popup back to the pitchers circle to strand the bases loaded as
Littlejohn pitched out of the jam to maintain Alabamas 2-0 lead.
Alabama couldnt add any insurance in the top of the seventh as
they took a two-run lead into the final half-inning of regulation. The
tying run came to the plate off a one-out single that put runners on first
and second. Kaila Hunt made a great play on a ground ball, flipping
the backhand on the run to Leona Lafaele at first for out number
two, though both runners advanced into scoring position. The Tide
intentionally walked Emily Crane to set up a force at any base but it
never came into play as Littlejohn struck out Mackenzie Sykes to end
the game, earning her third save of the season and securing the series
win for Alabama.
Next weekend, Alabama begins postseason play at the 2014 SEC
Tournament, hosted by South Carolina in Columbia, S.C. As the No.
1 tournament seed, the Tide will play the winner of Wednesdays No.
7 vs. No. 10 matchup on Thursday at 3 p.m. Every game of the SEC
Tournament will be broadcast live on ESPNU, with the championship
game on ESPN 2.
With a 3-1 win over Missouri on Friday, Alabama softball secured
sole possession of the 2014 SEC Championship, its fifth overall and
fourth in the last five years.
You have to give credit to Missouri, said Head Coach Patrick
Murphy. Theyre a great team and theyre going to get some wins in
the postseason. It was a great crowd here for college softball. Hats off
to Sydney Littlejohn, making the biggest start of her career on the road
in a game that really mattered. She kept her composure and as long as
we had the lead in that final inning, I was going to stick with her. Credit to
our defense as well, they were a lot better today.
Alabama earned the win behind a great start by Littlejohn (10-1)
in the circle, going the distance in her first-ever SEC start with six
strikeouts. Alabama scored three runs on seven hits with Kallie Case
and Leona Lafaele driving in the go-ahead and insurance runs in the
top of the seventh. Missouri (41-14, 15-8 SEC) played a close game
as starter Tori Finucane was credited with the full 7.0 innings, though
Casey Stangel (13-8) suffered the loss as she allowed the eventual
go-ahead run to reach base.
n Baseball falls to Florida: At Tuscaloosa, Ala., the 12th-ranked
Alabama baseball team suffered its first home series loss of the year,
as the fifth-ranked Florida Gators defeated the Crimson Tide, 4-3, in
a Southeastern Conference matchup on Saturday at Sewell-Thomas
Stadium.
Alabama (30-17, 13-10 SEC) will look to avoid the sweep as the
series with Florida (32-15, 17-6 SEC) wraps up today. First pitch is set
for 2:05 p.m., and will be available on ESPN3.
I thought it was a good battle on both sides, Alabama head coach
Mitch Gaspard said. For us, (Justin) Kamplain hung in there and got us
to the middle part of the game. His pitch count got up and thats a credit
to Floridas hitters. They really battled and competed and fought off a lot
of pitches and got to a lot of deep counts. (Ray) Castillo came in and it
was good to see him get a couple of zeros. We need him as we get later
into the season, and (Geoffrey) Bramblett was sharp in the ninth.
Justin Kamplain (4-3) was charged with the loss for Alabama after
allowing four runs on six hits and two walks with a pair of strikeouts in
5.1 innings. Ray Castillo held the Gators to a hit and two walks in 2.2
shutout frames, and Geoffrey Bramblett added a scoreless inning to
finish the game.
Gators reliever A.J. Puk (4-2) was the winning pitcher, throwing 2.2
scoreless innings, allowing two hits and two walks. The Florida bullpen
combined to blank the Crimson Tide for 6.2 innings, allowing three hits
and four walks, combined, to close out the game.
Wade Wass, Austen Smith and Kyle Overstreet each drove in a
run for the Tide. Overstreet and Chance Vincent had two hits each and
Ben Moore extended his hit streak to 12 games with a bunt single in the
third inning.
Offensively, we put the one inning together in the third, and really
from there just werent able to put much together, Gaspard said. We
had a couple of opportunities that we missed. Floridas pitching staff is
really good, we knew that, and they dont give you many chances, and
when you get those few, you have to try and capitalize on them.
The Gators were led offensively by Casey Turgeon, who was not
retired in the game, as he finished the day 3-for-3 with a pair of walks
and an RBI double.
Alabama dropped the series opener, 7-3 Friday night.
n Track and Field wins three events: At Starkville, Alabama
swept the three field events on Friday, the first day of the Jace Lacoste
Invitational at Mississippi State University at Starkville, Miss. Charodd
Richardson set a personal best en route to winning the mens weight
throw, Nia Barnes won the womens weight throw with a mark that ranks
eighth in school history, and Lakan Taylor was the top collegiate finisher
in the womens pole vault.
It was a good night of events for Alabama, Alabama head coach
Dan Waters said. We got some quality work in, and it was nice to see
some solid performances as we get closer to the SEC Championships.
Hopefully, we can get back out here tomorrow and string together a few
more personal bests and event victories.
Junior Charodd Richardson set a personal best in the mens ham-
mer throw to earn his third victory in the event this season. Richardsons
mark of 65.07 meters (213 feet, 6 inches), bested his previous PR set at
the Mt. SAC Relays (64.61 meters/212 feet). Richardson has now set a
personal best in the event in each of Alabamas five meets this season.
Oklahomas Charles Nguyen placed second in the event with a mark of
56.98 meters (186-11).
Junior Nia Barnes won the womens weight throw with a mark of
58.64 meters (192 feet, 5 inches). Her winning mark ranks eighth in
school history. Barnes also posted marks of 56.95 meters (186-10),
57.71 meters (189-4), 57.25 meters (187-10) and 56.94 meters (186-10).
Iowa States Kayla Sanford finished runner-up with a best mark of 55.92
meters (183-5).
Freshman Lakan Taylor was the top collegiate finisher in the
womens pole vault by clearing 4.10 meters (13 feet, 5 1/4 inches). Taylor
entered the competition at 4.00 meters and cleared that mark and 4.10
meters on her first attempt at each, but she failed to clear 4.20 meters
on three attempts. Former Alabama standout Alexis Paine won the
event, competing unattached and clearing 4.20 meters (13 feet, 9 1/4
inches). Alabama sophomore Autumn Conn finished fifth with a clear-
ance of 3.80 meters (12 feet, 5 1/2 inches) on her first attempt. Alabama
sophomore Anna Rawles and freshman Britainy Smith no-heighted.
On the track, senior Claire Turner took runner-up in the womens
5,000 meters. Turner (17:46.59) recorded her best time of the season
and finished just over a second behind Jodie McGuff (17:45.37) of
Mississippi State.
In the mens 5,000, sophomore Justin Ahalt placed third with a time
of 15:03.63, while freshman Andrew Faris posted a time of 15:24.12 to
finish eighth. Mississippi State senior John Valentine won the event in
14:50.05.
n Meadow earns league honors: At Tuscaloosa, Ala., the
Alabama senior womens golfer Stephanie Meadow added another
honor to her growing list of accolades on Friday when the Southeastern
Conference coaches selected her as the leagues Player and Schol-
ar-Athlete of the Year.
Meadow, from Jordanstown, Northern Ireland, was chosen as both
the SEC Golfer of the Year and the SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year for
the second consecutive year. She was also tabbed first team All-SEC
for the fourth time in her career, becoming the first Alabama player to
accomplish the feat. Sophomore Emma Talley earned second team
All-SEC for the second straight year.
Meadow currently leads the SEC and ranks fourth nationally in
stroke average at 71.24. The 2013 SEC individual medalist, she finished
the 2014 event tied for fifth at 3-over-par 219.
NBA Playoffs
BY MICHAEL MAROT
INDIANAPOLIS Indiana sal-
vaged its season Saturday by reverting
to form: its rst-half form.
Paul George scored a career play-
off-high 30 points, Lance Stephenson
added 19 and Roy Hibbert nally came
up big against the more nimble Atlanta
Hawks as the Pacers survived a rst-
round scare with a 92-80 victory in the
decisive seventh game.
Two days after staving off elimina-
tion in Atlanta, the top-seeded Pacers
did it again and advanced to a sec-
ond-round series against Washington
that starts Monday in Indiana.
We know what we want to get to
and we know what our journey is,
George said.
Though they have a quick turn-
around, at least the Pacers get a brief
respite from the problems and distrac-
tions that lingered during the series.
Indiana, the NBAs best home team
during the regular season, twice gave
away home-court advantage by losing
Games 1 and 5. Those losses sparked
public debate about what needed to
change in the offseason and whether
coach Frank Vogel would even return
if the Pacers became the sixth No. 1
seed to lose in the rst round since the
league went to its current 16-team play-
off format.
Atlantas spread offense and 3-point
shooters had Indianas normally stout
defense scrambling for answers after
the Hawks took a 3-2 lead Monday
night.
Hibbert, an All-Star center, was a
non-factor with just 20 points in the
rst six games combined.
George spent the week dealing with
a burglary at his home and the possibil-
ity of a Game 7 suspension.
None of it mattered Saturday.
George sparked the two biggest
runs of the game, nished 11 of 23 from
the eld and grabbed 11 rebounds for a
league-leading sixth double-double in
the playoffs.
Stephenson added nine rebounds
and ve assists, and wiggled his hips
after a game-clinching dunk with 80
seconds to go. Hibbert awoke from his
recent slumber with 13 points, seven
rebounds and ve blocks.
Indianas regular starters won back-
to-back games for the rst time since
mid-March, rallying from a 3-2 decit
to win a series for the rst time in fran-
chise history.
We know that when he is locked in
offensively, his defense is off the charts.
Thats when he becomes special,
George said of Hibbert. I thought he
was very special for us.
The Pacers got back to using their
size advantage, beating Atlanta 55-
38 on the glass, yet still found a way
to limit the Hawks to 11 of 44 from
3-point range. The 44 attempts broke
the NBAs single-game playoff record
(42) set by Dallas in a double-overtime
game in May 2003.
George also managed to slow down
the shifty Jeff Teague.
Kyle Korver led the Hawks with 19
points and Teague had 16. Paul Millsap
added 15 points and 17 rebounds not
enough for Atlanta to become the team
with the fewest regular-season wins
(38) to reach the second round since
Detroits 36-win team in 1976.
We had a good number of very
good looks, good opportunities, and
thats a big part of the game, Hawks
coach Mike Budenholzer said. You
have to make some shots, and tonight
we werent able to do it at the rate that
we needed to.
For the rst time in the series, Indi-
ana made it look easy.
The teams traded leads seven times
early in the second quarter, and then
the Pacers defense got stingy. It didnt
allow Atlanta to make a basket over the
nal 6:12 of the rst half, using a 14-2
run to take control with a 47-36 half-
time lead that ended with Ian Mahin-
mis clean block as Teague drove in for
a dunk at the buzzer.
The Pacers opened the second half
on a 10-4 spurt and took a 57-40 lead
with 8:10 to go when George Hill com-
pleted a three-point play. Atlanta never
recovered from the 24-6 run.
We just couldnt score for a good,
long stretch, Korver said. In the sec-
ond half, we had the mindset that we
would go out guns blazing. I think we
got a little too 3-happy and shot maybe
a few too many. When you dont make
them, it creates long rebounds and
they took those and got out and ran.
The Hawks twice cut the decit
to eight late in the third, but George
opened the fourth with six straight
points in a 9-1 run. Atlanta never got
closer than 10 again.
Were happy to get over this hump,
George said, and get ready for the
next task.
BY CLIFF BRUNT
OKLAHOMA CITY
Kevin Durant scored 33
points, Russell Westbrook
had a triple-double, and the
Oklahoma City Thunder
beat the Memphis Grizzlies
120-109 on Saturday night in
Game 7 of their rst-round
Western Conference playoff
series.
Westbrook had 27 points,
16 assists and 10 rebounds.
His assist total tied the fran-
chise record for a playoff
game set in 1987 by Nate
McMillan when the team
was still in Seattle.
The gritty Grizzlies, play-
ing without leading scorer
Zach Randolph because
of a suspension, led by 11
points in the rst half before
the Thunder overwhelmed
them and shot 66 percent af-
ter the break.
Marc Gasol led Memphis
with 24 points. Grizzlies
point guard Mike Conley
had 20 points and nine as-
sists while playing with a
strained right hamstring.
It was Westbrooks sec-
ond triple-double in the past
three games. He made 10 of
16 shots from the eld, both
of his 3-pointers and ve of
his six free throws.
Durant, slowed for much
of the series, looked like
his normal self. The regu-
lar-season scoring champi-
on made 12 of 18 eld goals
and all ve of his 3-pointers
after struggling from long
range throughout the series.
Guards Tony Allen and
Mike Miller started for
the rst time in the series
in place of Randolph and
Tayshaun Prince, and the
Grizzlies beat the Thunder
at their fast-paced game in
the rst quarter. Memphis
shot 60 percent in the open-
ing period to take a 36-27
lead.
Oklahoma City chipped
away in the second quarter,
and the Thunder nally took
a 51-50 lead on a 3-pointer by
Durant.
Durant hit another
3-pointer with 3.7 seconds
left to give the Thunder a
61-58 lead at the break. He
scored 21 points in the rst
half and Westbrook had 13
points and eight assists.
Gasol scored 15 points
in the rst half, but he and
Allen both had three fouls at
the break.
The Thunder opened the
second half on a 10-2 run.
Durant hit a 3-pointer to
give Oklahoma City a 71-60
lead.
Durant hit another 3 that
gave Oklahoma City a 78-63
advantage and led to a Mem-
phis timeout.
BY JENNA FRYER
TALLADEGA, Ala. A group de-
cision for all of the cars powered by
Earnhardt Childress engines to work
together at Talladega Superspeedway
proved the correct call in NASCARs
new knockout qualifying format.
Richard Childress Racing drivers
and their afliates swept the rst three
rows on the starting grid for Sundays
race, with the pole going to Brian Scott,
who will lead the eld to the green ag
in just his fth career Sprint Cup Se-
ries start.
Who would have thought that,
huh? Scott asked after Saturdays
qualifying session.
Cars with ECR engines took six
of the 12 spots in the third and nal
round of knockout qualifying, and
they all waited patiently on pit road for
someone to make a move. It came with
roughly 2 minutes, 20 seconds remain-
ing in the 5-minute session, when all 12
drivers made their way onto the track.
Tony Stewart posted the fastest
lap as he worked with the other three
Stewart-Haas Racing drivers, and as
the clock neared the nal buzzer, it ap-
peared the three-time NASCAR cham-
pion had the pole locked up.
Then came the ECR pack of cars,
with Ryan Newman leading, Scott
somewhere in the middle and Paul
Menard bringing up the rear. Team
owner Childress had designated New-
man as the driver to decide when
the pack should go, and Menard was
charged with pushing them along.
Just as time expired, the entire
group shot past Stewarts speed and
moved to the top of the leaderboard.
It was Scott on the pole, followed by
Menard and then AJ Allmendinger, an
RCR-afliated driver.
Casey Mears, also an afliated driv-
er, qualied fourth and was followed by
Daytona 500 pole-sitter Austin Dillon
and Newman.
It was just a great plan by RCR,
getting all the RCR alliance cars work-
ing together, Allmendinger said. We
worked on that (in practice) and felt
like we all had great speed. Ryan was
the guinea pig for all of us and timed it
right, and that last session, it was just
basically who was going to wait the lon-
gest to go out there.
It was the rst time NASCAR has
used its new knockout format on a re-
strictor-plate track in the Sprint Cup
Series. Daytona 500 qualifying in Feb-
ruary was done with traditional sin-
gle-car runs.
The qualifying format, I think
there are good tracks for it and bad
tracks for it, and this is denitely a
great track for it, Menard said. We
had a plan and we tried to stick to the
plan as best we could. Ryan, we put the
burden on him to decide when to go
and where to go, and the rest of us held
it in line. ECR top-six and RCR cars all
up there is pretty exciting.
Now Scott gets to show what hes
made of on one of NASCARs fastest
tracks. A Nationwide Series regular,
hes got three previous starts this sea-
son and nished 25th in the Daytona
500.
Ive got that dreaded yellow (rook-
ie) stripe on the bumper, and thats go-
ing to make people run away from me
like the plague, Scott said of nding
drafting partners on Sunday.
Stewart wound up 12th in the nal
session after it appeared he had the
pole locked up. SHR put all four of its
cars in the nal round, and Danica Pat-
rick earned the highest starting spot at
seventh.
Joey Logano, meanwhile, failed to
advance into the nal round of qualify-
ing for the rst time this season. Hed
made it through all three rounds in
eight previous sessions. He qualied
16th.
Its not by a good car or not, its just
by strategy, Logano said. We put a
lot of work and effort into keeping that
streak alive. Its unfortunate.
n Sadler wins Nationwide race:
most of Elliott Sadlers memories of
Talladega Superspeedway are un-
pleasant. They either involve a horrif-
ic 2003 crash in which his car ipped
several times and slid forever through
the grass on its roof, or many different
ways hed come up empty racing for a
win.
Finally, he has a victory that tops all
those other disappointments.
I have such a love-hate relationship
with this race track. We always run
good here, but I always doggone ip
or wreck or hit hard or something,
Sadler said in Victory Lane. Every au-
tograph session, everywhere I go, ev-
erybody always reminds me of the ip
I had down the backstraighaway here.
Now maybe they can ask me about win-
ning here.
Sadler won a three-lap shootout to
the checkered ag in the Nationwide
Series race.
The race Saturday was stopped for a
little more than nine minutes to clean
the track following a six-car accident
that began when Jeremy Clement was
turning into an outside wall and his car
shot back into trafc.
Sadler reected on many of his pre-
vious races during the stoppage.
Under the red ag, I was playing
all these scenarios in my head, Sadler
said. Really, how many races Ive lost
in the last couple laps not making the
right decisions.
There were three laps remaining
on the restart, and Sadler had to throw
several blocks to hold off a charge from
the pack of trafc behind him.
It was the 10th Nationwide Series
victory of Sadlers career, rst at Talla-
dega, and rst win since 2012.
We just stayed to the bottom and
stuck to our guns, Sadler said of his
strategy. We made the right blocks at
the right time.
I was disappointed last year we
werent able to do it. It means a lot to
me to get the JGR team to Victory Lane
they work their butts off and we
werent able to reward them.
After going winless last season,
his rst with Joe Gibbs Racing, nally
grabbing a victory was a heavy relief
for Sadler. He left Richard Childress
Racing to join JGR in an attempt to race
for the Nationwide title.
Instead, after winning four races in
2012 and nishing second that year in
the standings, Sadler had just nine top-
10 nishes and was a distant fourth in
the title race.
Chris Buescher nished second
and Regan Smith, winner of last years
race, was third. Sadlers win ended a
three-race winning streak for JR Mo-
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Junior colleges
EMCC golf four strokes off pace at region tournament
WESSON The East Mississippi Community College mens golf
team sits four shots off the lead in fourth place heading into Sundays
final round of this weekends NJCAA Region 23 Championship being
played at Wolf Hollow.
With only four shots separating the top four teams following
Saturdays first round, head coach Dale Peays EMCC Lions fired an
opening-round 315 to stand two strokes behind third-place Northwest
Mississippi (313), three shots behind Jones County (312) and just four
strokes off Mississippi Gulf Coasts tournament-leading 311. Copi-
ah-Lincoln follows in fifth place with a 321.
Coming off his runner-up individual finish at last weeks MACJC
State Golf Championship at Pine Burr, EMCC freshman Chase
Chitwood, of Jessieville, Ark., is tied with Itawambas Wilson Reeder for
third place with rounds of 76. Hinds Jordan Cole (73) owns a two-shot
lead over Patrick Dickson (75) of Jones County atop the individual
leaderboard.
EMCC freshmen Steven Eilders, of Ridgeland, and Hunter
Harmon, from Calhoun Academy, are both tied with Co-Lins Connor
Barnes for 14th place with identical 79s. Fellow Lion rookies W.D.
Newlin, out of Bruce High School, and Trent Humber, a Caledonia
product, rounded out East Mississippis opening-round scorecard tied at
22nd and 25th place with scores of 81 and 82, respectively.
Southern Miss
Baseball falls to Tulane in Saturday C-USA play
HATTIESBURG, Miss. - Grant Brown had three hits and Stephen
Alemais added a pair of runs batted in to lead Tulane to a 5-3 Confer-
ence USA baseball victory over Southern Miss here Saturday afternoon
at Turchin Stadium at Greer Field.
The Golden Eagles (28-20 overall, 15-8 C-USA) were led by Austin
Roussel who collected two hits and drove in a pair of runs including an
RBI triple in the fifth and a solo home run to rightfield, his fourth of the
year, in the seventh.
The Green Wave (19-25, 7-14) scored four times in the fourth inning
to take a lead that they never relinquished. After a strikeout by Southern
Miss starting pitcher Christian Talley to start the frame, Brown worked a
walk and Jake Rogers put runners on the corners with a single. Richard
Carthon then put down a bunt to knock in a run and, after another walk,
Alemais doubled to right-centerfield knocking in both of his runs. Lex
Kaplan finished the scoring with an RBI single to end Talleys day.
Talley (3-4) went 3 1/3 innings and allowed four runs on five hits
with a pair of walks with four strikeouts to suffer the loss. It was his
shortest outing since going only four innings against Middle Tennessee
on April 4.
The Golden Eagles cut into that gap with two runs in the fifth. With
one out, Dylan Burdeaux singled before Roussel tripled to right-center
to knock in the first run. Nick Dawson followed with a single of his own
to center to drive in Roussel.
The Green Wave lead was trimmed to 4-3 in the seventh on
Roussels homer to right-centerfield in the seventh, but Tulane added
an insurance tally of their own in the eighth on a run-scoring double by
Brown.
Southern Miss tried to rally in the ninth with a leadoff single by Matt
Durst, but Mason Robbins grounded into a double play and Burdeaux
lined out to leftfield to end the game.
Wave starting pitcher Randy LeBlanc allowed three runs on six hits
with four strikeouts and one walk over seven innings to get the victory
and improve to 4-4. Tim Yandel limited the visitors to a hit and posted
two strikeouts over the final two frames to earn his first save of the year.
Southern Miss won the series opener, 4-2 Friday night.
n Softball falls twice to FIU: At Hattiesburg, the University
of Southern Mississippi softball team dropped a doubleheader to
Conference USA newcomer FIU. The Panthers jumped out to early
leads in both games and the Golden Eagles were unable to recover.
FIU claimed the first game 17-4 (five innings), before earning a 10-0 win
(five innings) in game two.
Southern Miss and FIU square off in the final regular season game
of the year on Sunday afternoon. First pitch is slated for 12:00 p.m. The
game will be Senior Day for the Golden Eagles and after the game,
Southern Miss will honor its seniors Taylor Beck and Mackenzie Sher
for their efforts on the softball field.
Offensively, the Golden Eagles bats were stifled by the Panthers.
The Black and Gold made contact, only striking out eight times in two
games, but were unable to generate their normal production. True fresh-
man Tori Rouse recorded her first collegiate hit in game one. Rouse
broke up the FIU no-hit bid in game one with a single to the shortstop.
Sher followed with a two-RBI single later in the inning for the only other
hit of the game. Rouse, Meaghen Nelson, Michelle Stringer and Priscilla
Burns each scored runs, while Buns and Peyton Garner combined with
Sher for the RBI.
In the circle, Southern Miss used a trio of pitchers in game one.
Shelbee Rodgers earned the start, but struggled early. She worked 0.1
innings allowing five runs on three hits with two walks. She was relieved
by Samantha Robles who tossed 0.2 innings allowing two runs on three
hits. Kaitlin Wilson closed out the game tossing 4.0 innings. She allowed
10 runs (eight earned runs) on 12 hits with no walks and a team-high
three strikeouts.
In game two, Robles worked a complete game in the circle, going
5.0 innings allowing 10 runs (six earned runs) on 13 hits with a walk.
College football
Baylor wide receiver arreested
WACO, Texas Baylor University sophomore wide receiver
Robbie Rhodes reportedly is free on bond after his arrest on marijuana
possession and evidence tampering charges.
Waco police Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton told the Waco Tribune-Her-
ald that an officer stopped Rhodes about 4 a.m. Friday for changing
lanes without a signal on Spur 2 on the edge of downtown. Swanton
said the officer smelled marijuana when he approached the drivers side
window and found almost 6 grams of marijuana in a plastic bag under
the front seat.
Swanton said the tampering charge arose from Rhodes trying to
hide the drugs.
Coach Art Briles told the newspaper he would address the situation
but had no other comment.
Rhodes made 10 catches for 157 yards as a freshman.
n Green team wins Oregon spring game: At Eugene, Ore.,
Marcus Mariota was sharp in his limited appearance in the Oregon
spring game on Saturday, throwing a pair of first-quarter touchdown
passes to lead the Ducks green team to a 27-7 victory against the grey
team.
Mariota, a possible 2014 Heisman Trophy candidate who returned
to Oregon for his junior season instead of turning pro this winter, com-
pleted 6-of-7 passes for 100 yards and played in the first three series for
the green team. He also rushed for 23 yards on five carries.
It was a lot of fun, Mariota said. It was a good foundation for next
fall. There were some good things to take out of it.
None more so than the play of Mariota, who is 23-3 as a two-year
starter and coming off a season in which he accounted for 4,380 yards
of offense, 40 touchdowns and an Alamo Bowl victory against Texas.
I thought he did a very nice job, second-year Oregon coach Mark
Helfrich said. Marcus has been outstanding.
Mariotas one incompletion Saturday was a throwaway after rolling
out of the pocket to avoid a sack. Two plays later he connected with
running back Thomas Tyner on a 22-yard touchdown pass for a 7-0
lead with 3:22 to play in the first quarter.
Tyner, a sophomore who rushed for 711 yards and nine touch-
downs last season, finished with 58 yards on 10 carries and also had
two catches for 26 yards.
Mariota put the green team up 14-0 on their next possession with a
45-yard strike to receiver Devon Allen with 1:15 to play in the quarter.
n Michigan State student convicted: At East Lansing, Mich., a
Michigan State University student has been convicted for his role in a
disturbance that took place after the schools football team beat Ohio
State in the Big Ten championship game.
Jared Dubay was found guilty Wednesday of assembling to riot
and remaining within 300 feet of a fire. Both charges are city ordinance
violations punishable by up to 90 days in jail. The 23-year-old will be
sentenced June 18.
Defense lawyer Andrew Abood tells the Lansing State Journal the
case was an absolute railroad. He plans to appeal.
The December disturbance resulted in nearly 60 fires and up to
$10,000 in property damage.
MLive.com says two defendants are awaiting trial, and a number
of others have agreed to plea deals or had some of their charges
dismissed.
n Clemson adds former Stanford quarterback: At Clemson,
S.C, Clemson got some depth at quarterback with the addition of former
Stanford signal-caller David Olson.
Olson played at Irmo High School in South Carolina before
heading West. He spent four years with the Cardinal and saw action in
just one game. Hes transferring to the Tigers as a graduate student and
should give the team some breathing room after the dismissal of rising
sophomore Chad Kelly.
Cole Stoudt heads to fall camp as Clemsons starter with freshman
Deshaun Watson expected to back him up. Olson is 6-foot-3 and 218
pounds and believes he can earn some snaps this fall.
Kelly was in the quarterback competition to replace three-year
starter Tajh Boyd, but argued with coaches during the spring game last
month and was dismissed two days later.
From Staff, Wire Reports
Junior College Baseball/Softball
MACJC BASEBALL PLAYOFFS
First Round - Best-of-three series
n ECCC 2, EMCC 1: East Central 4, EMCC 3
EMCC 7, East Central 1
East Central 12, EMCC 3 (East Central advances)
n JONES 2, HOLMES 0: Jones 12, Holmes 2
Jones 7, Holmes 6 (Jones advances)
n HINDS 2, HINDS 0: Hinds 6, Northwest 2
Hinds 10, Northwest 8 (Hinds advances)
n NORTHEAST 2, PEARL RIVER 1: Northeast 9, PRCC 8
PRCC 12, Northeast 6
Northeast 12, Pearl River 11 (Northeast advances)
First Round winners advance to MACJC State Tournament
No. 8 EMCC baseball falls in state playoffs
SCOOBA East Missis-
sippi Community College
saw its baseball season end
Saturday night in the open-
ing round of the Mississippi
Association of Community
and Junior Colleges state
playoffs.
The eight-ranked Lions
dropped the nal game of
a best-of-three series 12-3
to East Central Communi-
ty College at Gerald Poole
Field.
EMCC (32-13) dropped
the series opener 4-3 Friday
but forced a third game Sat-
urday by winning the sec-
ond game of the series, 7-1.
Friday night, Chance
Whittens two-out, two-run
double in the eighth inning
lifted visiting East Central
Community College to a 4-3
victory over eighth-ranked
East Mississippi Commu-
nity College Friday night
in game one of an MACJC
baseball playoff series be-
ing held at EMCCs Gerald
Poole Field.
Game two of the best-of-
three playoff series is set for
a 2 p.m. start Saturday with
a third and deciding game,
if necessary, immediately
following. Saturdays action
will be video-streamed live
on www.EMCCAthletics.
com/live.
East Central got on the
scoreboard rst when lead-
off hitter Maxwell Harmon
greeted EMCC starting
pitcher Andrew Crane with
a solo blast over the left-
eld wall. Later in the rst,
the defending MACJC state
baseball champions picked
up an unearned run when
Kyle McCullouch singled
home Dylan Little, who
reached base on an ineld
single and advanced to sec-
ond via an errant throw on
the putout attempt before
being driven home.
As Crane settled in by
throwing ve subsequent
scoreless innings of no-hit
baseball following the two-
run rst, the Lions claimed
their rst lead of the game
with a three-run sixth. Af-
ter Chase Nyman led off the
frame with a single, LeDar-
ious Clark tied the game at
2-2 with a two-run blast to
left-center eld off ECCC
starting pitcher Kale Ful-
tz. The homer was Clarks
fourth of the year and ninth
of his collegiate career. Fol-
lowing a two-out walk to
Trent Waddell, Tyler Odom
greeted reliever Conner
West with a go-ahead RBI
double off the left-eld wall.
The Lions carried their
precarious 3-2 lead into the
eighth with sophomore clos-
er Conner Burton on the
mound. The inning started
off innocently enough for
EMCC with two quick outs.
McCullouchs ineld single
was followed by a walk to
Cody Daigle to set up Whit-
tens eventual game-win-
ning double to the opposite
eld that plated both Mc-
Cullouch and pinch-runner
Gage Sullivan.
East Mississippi man-
aged to get the potential
tying run to third base
during each of the nal two
innings but could not pro-
duce the clutch hit. Odoms
y out to right eld strand-
ed Chase Reeves at third in
the eighth, while Nyman
got caught looking at a full-
count third strike thrown by
Will Myers to end the con-
test with pinch-hitter Blake
Key at third.
Softball Tournament
At Fulton, Mississippi
Gulf Coast meets Jones Ju-
nior College at 1 p.m. today
in the championship game
of the MACJC state tourna-
ment.
Gulf Coast, Jones and
Pearl River Community Col-
lege have each qualied for
next weeks Region XXIII
tournament based on its
respective nishes at this
event.
Locally, Itawamba Com-
munity College lost both
of its games played in the
event, falling 8-2 to Gulf
Coast and 5-0 to Pearl River.
The Lady Indians n-
ish the season with a third
straight North Division
championship and 37-13
overall record.
Major League Baseball
CHICAGO Jake Arrieta tried to
tamper his pregame butteries.
Making his big league season debut
following shoulder stiffness, Arrieta
struck out seven in 5 1-3 shutout in-
nings Saturday as the Cubs beat the
St. Louis Cardinals 3-0 for their rst
three-game winning streak this sea-
son.
Arrieta said pitching at Wrigley
Field has become a special experience
for him dating to his Cubs debut last
season, also was against the Cardinals.
Arrieta walked two and threw 82
pitches. The Cardinals put ve run-
ners on base through the rst three
innings.
Command of my sinker down in
the zone was working really good, es-
tablishing the curveball early in the
game, he said. The more you do that
with secondary stuff, the less they can
eliminate certain pitches later in the
game. Thats kind of what we had go-
ing for us.
Chicagos bullpen combined for
three-hit relief, nishing a seven-hit-
ter. Brian Schlitter (1-0) got two outs
for the win, and Hector Rondon worked
around a pair of leadoff singles in the
ninth for his third save.
Junior Lake and Anthony Rizzo
homered for the Cubs, who hadnt won
three straight a series sweep at San
Francisco last July 26-28.
A day after the Cubs defeated Adam
Wainwright, Michael Wacha (2-3) al-
lowed two runs, ve hits and three
walks in six innings.
Lake hit a two-run homer in the
sixth for a 2-0 lead. He also doubled on
a 3-for-3 afternoon.
Its just frustrating, really, Wacha
said. I served one up there, and they
go up two runs. You just cant afford
that in that situation.
Rizzo led off the eighth with sixth
home run, and third in three games.
He connected on the rst pitch he saw
from Randy Choate.
We know were a good team, Rizzo
said. Its just about getting the wins.
Today we got the win. The last few days
weve gotten a win. Its just about stay-
ing with it, keep battling.
Yadier Molina and Jhonny Peralta
opened the ninth with singles off Ron-
don. But he got Jon Jay to hit into a dou-
ble play and struck out Mark Ellis.
St. Louis, which stranded eight run-
ners, has scored two runs or fewer in
seven of its last 13 games.
Arrieta struck out Molina to strand
runners on the corners in rst. The
Cardinals put two on with no outs in
the second before Greg Garcia struck
out, Wacha grounded out and short-
stop Starlin Castro made an over-the-
shoulder catch on Matt Carpenters
popup.
Right now, its not looking like what
we want it to look like, Cardinals man-
ager Mike Matheny. Whatever were
doing is not working, so we have to g-
ure it out and gure it out fast.
n Yankees 9, Rays 3: At Tampa
Bay, Masahiro Tanaka extended his
regular-season unbeaten streak to 40
starts, and Mark Teixeira homered and
drove in three runs to help the Yankees
rally past the Tampa Bay Rays Satur-
day and end a season-high, three-game
losing streak.
Tanaka (4-0) gave up solo homers
to Desmond Jennings and Wil Myers
around an RBI single by Ryan Hani-
gan, falling behind 3-0 by the fourth.
He is 32-0 in the regular season for Ja-
pans Rakuten Golden Eagles and the
Yankees since losing to Seibu on Aug.
19, 2012.
Kelly Johnson hit a tiebreaking solo
homer in the sixth off Josh Lueke (0-2).
Jake Odorizzi retired the rst nine
Yankees in order, then allowed New
York to go 4 for 8 with two walks before
he was removed.
n Red Sox 6, Athletics 3: At
Boston, Jon Lester (3-4) struck out a
career-high 15, allowing one hit over
eight scoreless innings Craig Gen-
trys leadoff bloop single in the third
over the head of second baseman
Dustin Pedroia.
Jonny Gomes hit a grand slam in
the rst off Tommy Milone (0-3), and
David Ortiz and David Ross added solo
homers in Bostons second straight
win after losing a day-night double-
header to Tampa Bay.
After Oakland scored three runs
in the ninth against Chris Capuano,
helped by two errors, Koji Uehara got
out of a one-out, two-on jam for his sev-
enth save.
n Twins 6, Orioles 1: At Minne-
apolis, Joe Mauer and Brian Dozier
homered, Kevin Correia earned his
rst win of the season and Minnesota
ended its four-game losing streak.
Mauer had three hits and four RBIs,
including a three-run homer off Brad
Brach in the seventh that broke open
the game. Doziers eighth homer, a
solo shot off Wei-Yin Chen (3-2) in the
third, gave the Twins the lead for good.
Correia (1-3) gave up one run and
ve hits in seven innings, retiring 13 of
his nal 14 batters. He had been 0-6 in
nine starts since winning at Texas on
Sept. 1.
ATLANTA Brandon
Belt, Buster Posey and Mi-
chael Morse hit home runs,
each to lead off an inning,
and the streaking San Fran-
cisco Giants beat the slump-
ing Atlanta Braves 3-1 on
Saturday night in a matchup
of rst-place teams.
The NL West-leading Gi-
ants have won four straight
and eight of nine. The
Braves, who lead the NL
East, have lost ve straight,
their longest skid in two
years.
The Giants have hit hom-
ers in 10 straight games,
matching their longest run
in almost four years.
The Giants got only four
hits. They scored all their
runs on homers for the sec-
ond straight night after hit-
ting two homers in Friday
nights 2-1 win.
Ryan Vogelsong (1-1) al-
lowed one run on ve hits
and four walks in six in-
nings.
Julio Teheran (2-2) gave
up just four hits with no
walks in seven innings, but
allowed a season-high three
runs.
Sergio Romo pitched a
perfect ninth for his ninth
save. Jeremy Affeldt and
Jean Machi also pitched
scoreless innings in relief.
Belt did not start in Fri-
day nights game and was
in a 1-for-21 slump with 12
strikeouts before he led off
the second inning with his
eighth homer.
The Braves only run
came in the third. Jason
Heyward walked, stole sec-
ond and scored on B.J. Up-
tons double to the left-eld
wall.
Posey homered in the
fourth for a 2-1 lead. His
seventh homer landed in the
rst row behind the left-eld
wall.
Morse led off the seventh
with a towering drive into
the seats in left-center. He
has ve homers in his last
10 games, including back-
to-back games against the
Braves.
The Braves hitting woes
continued. They were held
to one run by Giants pitch-
ing for the second straight
game and have scored no
more than one run in 11 of
29 games this season.
Weve got too much
talent offensively, Braves
manager Fredi Gonzalez
said before the game. We
shouldnt be scoring one
run, two runs or three runs.
Each team wore Ne-
gro Leagues throwback
uniforms for the Heritage
Game the Atlanta Black
Crackers and the 1946 San
Francisco Sea Lions. Each
ensemble featured high
socks.
n Braves sign Johnson:
Braves third baseman Chris
Johnson gets to keep his
dream job for another three
years.
Atlanta was the team he
cheered for while growing
up in South Florida, and
he idolized third baseman
Chipper Jones.
In this game, not many
times does a team tell a
player they want him to
be around for a really long
time, Johnson said. Im
excited they feel that way
about me and have the con-
dence in me to be around for
a little while. Now I just want
to work as hard as I can to
prove theyre right.
After agreeing to a $23.5
million, three-year deal an-
nounced Friday, Johnson
is under contract through
2017.
The 29-year-old was
among the teams biggest
surprises last season. A
supposed throw-in to the
Justin Upton trade, Johnson
ranked second in the NL
with a .321 average. He had
12 homers and 68 RBIs.
His agreement contin-
ued Atlantas recent trend of
signing a core of players to
long-term deals.
First baseman Freddie
Freeman ($135 million over
eight years), closer Craig
Kimbrel ($42 million over
four years), pitcher Julio
Teheran ($32.4 million over
six years) and shortstop
Andrelton Simmons ($58
million over seven years)
agreed to long-term deals
before or during spring
training.
Right elder Jason Hey-
ward then struck a $13.3
million, two-year deal.
Lake, Rizzo homer as Cubs beat Cardinals, 3-0
Braves offense falters in loss to Giants
Central
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the inning with an RBI
single, giving Central a
commanding 6-0 lead.
Although the Lady
Rams would get a run of
their own in the top of
the fourth, Rigdon would
come up big for Central
once again, as she nailed
a hit to center eld, scor-
ing two and putting the
Lady Vikings up 8-1. Rob-
bins would keep the scor-
ing coming in the bottom
of the fth, blasting a
two-run RBI triple, giving
Central a 10-1 lead after
ve. That would prove to
be all the Lady Vikings
needed, as Central Acade-
my shut down the Kemper
batters in the top of the
seventh, rolling to a 10-2
victory and their second
slow-pitch state title in
three years.
Senior Claire Camp-
bell picked up the win for
the Lady Vikings, keep-
ing the Kemper Academy
bats quiet for most of the
contest.
Winning the state title
was extremely special to
the teams four seniors,
who got to hoist the tro-
phy on their own eld
and in front of their own
crowd.
It was an awesome
feeling, said Rigdon.
Our bats had gotten kind
of rusty early on, but when
we were not hitting good,
our defense was there to
step up and make plays.
Weve been working all
year for this moment and
it feels amazing to go out
with a win.
Its a special group of
seniors that Coach Lind-
sey will miss.
They kind of feel like
my own, Lindsey said.
Ive had them playing for
me for so long. Theyre all
very close and they always
will be. Central Academy
softball has been strong
for such a long time, and
they know what to expect
out of me and they know
what I expect out of them.
These four girls have
shown great leadership
that I hope will carry over
onto your younger play-
ers.
New Hope
One Germantown fan,
who made the trip from
Madison, practically
yelled the early summary
of this contest by saying it
was a one player show.
That one player was Sand-
ers, a Louisiana-Lafayette
signee. Sanders account-
ed for the rst two runs
nearly on her own after
she manufactured the
rst runs on the board
in the rst and third by
turning a single and walk
into runs two batters later
with her speed.
We think that if we
play at our capabilities
then a state championship
is what we expect, Sand-
ers said. Whats really
fun is seeing some team-
mates of mine contribute
because we all knew on
this team that good things
would eventually happen
for everybody.
However, after Sand-
ers allowed a pesky Ger-
mantown team to nd
contact at the plate for
a three-run fth inning,
Sanders needed the help
of her teammates to avoid
a Game 3 situation at Lady
Trojan Field.
New Hope got a lead-
off single to right eld
by eighth-grader Alex
Melton and after Sanders
was intentionally walked,
senior Kaitlin Bradley
delivered. Bradley sent a
single into right eld for
the game-tying hit. Sand-
ers was brought in for by
a sacrice y by sopho-
more designated player
MacKenzie Harvey. It was
a barrage of youthful stars
Saturday as New Hope got
a pair of hits from a pair of
eight graders Melton and
Kerrington Jones.
We talk all the time
about our seniors like D.J.
Sanders and they are im-
portant but today a pair
of eighth graders decided
we werent losing today,
Beard said. For a coach,
thats so gratifying to see
young players with that
type of condence and
then see them succeed.
After struggling for six
hits to string consecutive
hits together, New Hopes
nal four batters would at
least reach rst base.
Germantown got its
rst runs of the playoff
series after a 10-pitch,
leadoff walk by Bari Be-
dells was followed by two
ineld singles including a
run-scoring single by Nat-
ilyn Hasty. Sydney Shell,
who had a hit taken away
from her by a leaping grab
in the previous inning,
blooped a single over the
head of the third baseman
for a 3-2 lead.
The Lady Mavericks
never got an extra-base
hit in the entire two-game
series but several long
at-bats Saturday forced a
tired Sanders to eventual-
ly give them pitches to get
out of the ineld.
Germantown left-
hander Avery Burns gave
up just four hits before
the seventh inning and
controlled the everyone in
the New Hope lineup but
Sanders.
Sanders got the victory
in the circle by going the
full seven innings and al-
lowing just four hits and
striking out six.
I think I got a talking
to, which I deserved, after
that fth inning because
I just lost focus and they
were timing me up really
well in that inning, Sand-
ers said. I didnt adjust
and thats my job as a
pitcher.
Follow Matt Stevens
on Twitter @matthewcste-
vens.
Falcons
ning runs Friday night.
The Falcons scored on a
two-run single by Chris
McCullough and a sacri-
ce y by Michael Sturdi-
vant.
We knew we had to get
off to a fast start, Sturdi-
vant said. After we won
the rst game, we knew
they would be ready.
Clinton then appeared
to seize the momentum in
the contest thanks to the
ne relief work of Todd
Staton. Staton allowed
one base runner in three
innings of work, as the
Arrows moved ahead with
two runs in the fourth in-
ning and another score in
the sixth inning.
Down 4-3, Columbus
missed a golden opportu-
nity to tie. Studivant led
off the inning with a triple
but was stranded at third
base. After a strikeout,
a ground ball out forced
Sturdivant at the plate.
From there, Clinton
plated a pair of potential
insurance runs off a tir-
ing Hunter Mullis in the
seventh inning. Mullis al-
lowed 10 hits and six runs
(all earned), in a pitching
performance similar to
Trace Lees in the series
opener. Lee, a senior like
Mullis, scattered 10 hits
and allowed four runs
(all earned) in Columbus
Thursday night victory.
A two-run, two-out single
by Armani Lewis ran the
Clinton lead to 6-3.
You could tell every-
one was down in the dug-
out, Cook said. I told the
guys to stack a bunch of
rally caps together in the
dugout. We did it at my
sons game last week and
it worked. It may have
been a little out there but
we needed to do some-
thing to nd a spark.
The spark came when
McCullough greeted new
Clinton reliever Chandler
Williams by lining a home
run to right eld to start
the home half of the sev-
enth inning. Now with
a new burst of energy,
Columbus kept plowing
ahead.
The home run was
big, Farmer said. It
changed the entire ball-
game around. We needed
something good. After
that ball left the park,
everyone was running
around and yelling. We
never doubted we could
win but that one hit to-
tally changed everything.
The crowd was alive. The
dugout was alive and ev-
erybody was believing.
Greg Sykes and Trace
Lee drew back-to-back
walks. Farmer followed
with a base hit. Sturdivant
followed with a gapper to
center to tie the contest.
The Falcons wound up
having second and third
with no outs before Tyler
Trussell worked the Ar-
rows out of that tight spot.
Things stayed tied un-
til the home half of the
10th inning thanks to the
relief pitching of junior
Bryan Ezell.
Ezell entered with one
out in the eighth inning
and closed out the win on
the mound.
We batted for so long
in the seventh inning and
to be honest with you
when we have second and
third, you are planning on
winning the game, Cook
said. Then they get us
out and we had to come
up with a pitching plan.
Hunter had thrown too
many pitches to continue.
We told him to get one
guy in the eighth and we
would go to Bryan.
Ezell pitched a shutout
in Columbus nal regu-
lar season game against
Caledonia. After that,
Cook knew then that he
had earned a chance in
the playoffs.
Bryan was incredi-
ble, Farmer said. He just
went out there and totally
shut them down. In the
playoffs, you have to have
that kind of player step it
up.
Cook said Ezell lled
the strike zone with fast-
balls and challenged the
Clinton hitters. With all of
the momentum garnered
by the big inning, it was
just a matter of time.
My goodness, Bryan
may have been the biggest
star of the game, Cook
said. We had so many.
But he went out there and
gave us a chance.
McCullough drew a
one-out walk and took
second on an ineld hit
by Sykes in the 10th in-
ning. After a groundout
advanced both runners,
Farmer hit a ground ball
back to the pitcher and
the throw home was not
in time as McCullough
scored the game-winner.
Columbus nished
with 10 hits, including
three-hit games by Farm-
er and McCullough. Stur-
divant also had multiple
hits.
It was an emotion-
al series, so it is good
to have some time off,
Farmer said. When next
week comes, we will be
ready for Tupelo. Hon-
estly, I dont know a lot
about their season. I do
know that we believe it is
all about us. We believe
if we play the way we are
capable of playing, we will
have a chance.
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Columbus High School third baseman Greg Sykes (30) gets the putout on Clinton
base runner Corbin Jamison (13) during Friday nights game in Columbus.
New Hope senior pitcher D.J. Sanders (37) throws a pitch during Saturdays playoff
win over Germantown.
NFL
Big names from small schools nally arrive on big stage at NFL Draft
BY MICHAEL MAROT
INDIANAPOLIS Zach
Moore and Larry Webster
found unconventional ways to
reach NFL draft weekend.
When Moores subpar high
school grades scared away
big-time football schools from
offering scholarships, the Chi-
cago native enrolled at tiny
Concordia University in Min-
nesota. Webster, the son of a
former NFL player, spent three
years starting on Bloomsburgs
college basketball team before
giving football a second shot in
2012.
League scouts still found
them and next week, these two
Division II stars could hear
their names called out on the
biggest stage of all, Radio City
Music Hall.
Not many of these people
thought I would get this far,
Moore said. The knock al-
ways is the level of competition.
Theyre always going to grill
you for not facing Division I tal-
ent, but as they watch in lm,
they know I can play.
The scouts have increasingly
found talent at smaller schools,
making sure they dont miss out
on the next big thing in football,
even if it comes far from the
spotlight.
Examples can be found ev-
erywhere.
Football Championship Sub-
division alums Kurt Warner
and Joe Flacco both earned
Super Bowl rings after becom-
ing starting quarterbacks, al-
though Warner had to play in
Arena Football and NFL Eu-
rope rst.
Robert Mathis, who also
played in the FCS, is the NFLs
reigning sacks champ. Offen-
sive lineman Jahri Evans has
been to ve Pro Bowls despite
coming out of Bloomsburg. And
three of the greatest players in
NFL history Brett Favre, the
late Walter Payton and Jerry
Rice all played college ball in
Mississippi, though none of the
three played at an SEC school
and only Favre played in the top
level of college ball.
Those sorts of oversights
have prompted NFL decision
makers to take their annual
talent search to some unusual
places.
I was actually in Concordia
this year and I wasnt the only
GM, which really blew my mind
when I saw a stack of business
cards and saw another GM in
there, Colts general manag-
er Ryan Grigson said. I was
always taught by my old boss
Charley Armey, I remember
him saying years ago, Scout
the player, not the school.
Its a sentiment that seems to
resonate within a league no lon-
ger totally reliant on traditional
powerhouses to nd talent.
A year ago, Central Mich-
igan offensive lineman Eric
Fisher was selected No. 1 over-
all by Kansas City. This year,
Buffalo linebacker Khalil Mack
is projected to go in the top ve,
giving the once overlooked
Mid-American Conference the
possibility of having top-ve
picks in back-to-back years.
The small-school talent pool
is not drying up. Anything but.
Quarterback Jimmy Ga-
ropollo has drawn comparisons
to Dallas quarterback Tony
Romo, a fellow Eastern Illinois
alum, and isnt expected to last
beyond the second round.
Haitian immigrant Pierre
Desir, a 23-year-old corner-
back, husband and father who
worked in sewers between
stints at two Division II schools,
Washburn in Kansas and Lind-
enwood in Missouri, could go
on the second day of the draft.
Short, powerful running
back Terrance West ran for
2,509 yards and 41 touchdowns
last season at Towson and ap-
pears to have a similar physique
to Maurice Jones-Drew.
Offensive lineman Billy
Turner played on three straight
FCS championship teams at
North Dakota State.
Receiver Jeff Janis of Sag-
inaw Valley State impressed
scouts at the combine with a
4.42-second 40-yard dash after
measuring in at 6-foot-3, 219
pounds.
Linebacker Johnny Mil-
lard of Cal Poly is attempting
to follow in the footsteps of his
father, Keith, a longtime NFL
player.
Moore, a 6-5, 269-pound
pass rusher who had 21 sacks
over the past two seasons, and
Webster, a 6-6, 252-pound de-
fensive end who had 26 sacks
in that span, are in the mix, too.
Both were nalists for the Cliff
Harris Award presented to the
nations best small-school de-
fender.
Its not that teams cant nd
the talent. Its just that some-
times it takes a lot more work to
discover it beyond the tradition-
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in will be held Tuesday,
May 6, 2014, at 2:00 pm
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May 3, 2014 from 4:00 pm
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Ida Davidson
Ida Mae Hill Davidson, 91, died Thursday,
May 1, 2014, at Baptist Memorial Hospital in
Columbus, MS. She was born on August 14,
1922, to Lucius Franklin Hill and Jesse Mae
Galloway in Manning, SC. Visitation is 9:30-
11:00 a.m. on Monday, May 5, 2014, at Koscius-
ko First United Methodist Church in Koscius-
ko, MS. Services will be at 11:00 a.m. at the
church with burial in Parkway Cemetery. Dr.
Don Patterson will ofciate the services.
She was preceded in death by her husband,
Hubert J. Davidson, Sr.; her parents; brothers,
Willard, Lucius, Marion, and Clyde Hill; sis-
ters, Virginia Brogdon, and Eleanor Ellis.
She is survived by her son, H.J. Davidson, Jr.
(Jamie) of Columbus, MS; and daughter, Nan-
cy D. LaForge (William N.) of Cleveland, MS;
grandchildren, Michael Davidson (Nicole) of
Collierville, TN, Benjamin Hill Davidson (Me-
linda) of Arlington, VA, Elizabeth Kate David-
son of New York, NY, Caroline D. LaForge of
Herndon, VA, and Clayton Davidson LaForge
of San Juan, Puerto Rico; great-grandchildren,
Michael, Sam, Eloise, and Phoebe Davidson.
Mrs. Davidson was a 1939 graduate of Man-
ning High School where she was a member of
the Beta Club, was selected Miss High Miss,
and was the lead soloist in the Glee Club sing-
ing When Irish Eyes are Smiling. After gradua-
tion she took business courses locally and then
managed Browns Department Store during
the war. She was trained as a military plane
spotter. Mrs. Davidson met Hubert Davidson
at a picnic at Shaw Field, and on September 15,
1946, they married in Manning, SC.
Mrs. Davidson lived most of her married
life in Kosciusko. She worked in the Chan-
cery Clerks Ofce and Pattersons Jewelry
Store. She was a homemaker, community
volunteer, and a devoted member of the First
United Methodist Church. She was a member
of the Walter V. Davis Sunday School Class, a
circle member, and a Sunday school teacher.
Throughout her childrens lives, she support-
ed their many activities, serving as homeroom
mother, president of the band boosters and an
ofcer in the PTA. She served as President of
the Fun and Flowers Garden Club and Presi-
dent of the Book Lovers Club for two terms,
respectively. She enjoyed volunteering at the
Kosciusko Natchez Trace Welcome Center.
Affectionately known as Meme, Mrs. David-
son loved getting to know people and encour-
aged young people to follow their dreams. She
was an avid reader, worked a daily crossword
puzzle and was a member of several bridge
clubs. She loved the Ole Miss Rebels and was
a loyal supporter of the University of Mississip-
pi. For many years she hosted a Monday after-
noon coffee club at her home to rehash Sat-
urdays ball game. Her beautiful spirit touched
us all. In lieu of owers, donations in Mrs. Da-
vidsons name may be made to the First United
Methodist Church of Kosciusko.
Pallbearers include: Robert T. Bob Jordan,
John Jennings, Doug King, Eddie Fenwick,
Barry Meek, Jimmy Roby, Toby Tyler, and Lou-
is Crowe. Honorary pallbearers are the former
employees of Merchants and Farmers Bank.
Memorials may be made to the Koscius-
ko First United Methodist Church, P. O. Box
1293, Kosciusko, MS 39090.
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Christine Dukes
MEMPHIS, Tenn.
Christine B. Dukes,
86, died May 2, 2014, in
Memphis.
Services are 2 p.m.
Monday at Family
Funeral Care in Mem-
phis. Burial will follow
at Memorial Park
Southwoods Cemetery.
Visitation is today from
3-6 p.m. at the funeral
home.
Mrs. Dukes was born
May 1, 1928. She was
a member of New Life
Baptist Church.
She was preceded in
death by her husband,
Lee Dukes.
She is survived by
her daughters, Rita
Schelly and Doey Bar-
rar; sons, Chris Dukes
and Terry Dukes; ve
grandchildren and four
great-grandsons.
Memorials may be
made to New Life Bap-
tist Church, 3823 Orchi,
Memphis, TN 38108.
John Jones
WEST POINT
John Ervin Jones, 60,
died April 29, 2014, in
Starkville.
Services are noon on
Monday at Bluff Creek
MB Church in Pheba
with the Rev. Eurisa
Culpepper ofciating.
2-5 p.m. at Carters
Mortuary Services
Chapel.
Mr. Jones was born
March 8, 1954, in
Pheba, to the late Ervin
Jones and Sallie V.
Jones.
In addition to his
parents, he was preced-
ed in death by his sister,
Wavel Jones.
He is survived by
his sisters, Gola Mae
Jones Russell and Allie
V. Jones Lyons; broth-
ers, Eddie Lee Jones,
Richard Jones, David
Jones, Luther Jones,
Jessie Lee Jones and Jr.
Burcheld.
Gracie Smith
COLUMBUS Gra-
cie Smith, 69, died May
3, 2014, at Baptist Me-
morial Hospital-Golden
Triangle.
Arrangements are
incomplete and will be
announced by Carters
Funeral Services of
Columbus.
Johnnie Stewart
ABERDEEN John-
nie Mae Powell Stewart,
81, died May 2, 2014, at
North Mississippi Medi-
cal Center in Tupelo.
Services are 11
a.m. Monday at New
Prospect Church with
John Maxey ofciating.
3-5 p.m. at Tisdale-Lann
Memorial Funeral
Home in Aberdeen.
Mrs. Stewart was
born Oct. 20, 1932, in
Choctaw County, Ala.,
to the late Benjamin
Lee Powell and Essie
Mae Jowers Powell. She
was formerly employed
as a seamstress and
was a member of New
Prospect Church.
In addition to her
parents, she was pre-
ceded in death by her
husband, Henry Lee
Stewart; brother, C.B.
Powell; and sisters,
Katie Duke and Peggy
Jones.
She is survived by
her sisters, Fenella
Thomas of Mobile, Ala.,
Earline Faye Leddon
of Ward, Ala., and Inez
Radcliffe of York, Ala.
Margaret Ivy
ABERDEEN Mar-
garet Ruth Epting Ivy,
67, died May 3, 2014, at
the Sanctuary Hospice
House in Tupelo.
Services are 2 p.m.
Monday at Southside
Baptist Church with
John Box ofciating.
Burial will follow at
Oddfellows Rest Cem-
etery. Visitation is
today from 4-7 p.m. at
Tisdale-Lann Memo-
rial Funeral Home in
Aberdeen.
Mrs. Ivy was born
Nov. 14, 1946, in Tupelo
to the late Luther Ept-
ing and Geneva Sullivan
Epting. She was a mem-
ber of Southside Baptist
Church.
She is survived by
her husband, Dr. Ros-
coe Ivy of Aberdeen;
daughter, Karen Ivy
Moore of Clinton; son,
Stephen Ivy of Calera,
Ala.; brother, David
Epting of Ripley; and
two grandchildren.
Patricia Shackelford
MILLPORT, Ala.
Patricia Ann Shack-
elford, 79, died May 2,
2014, at Fayette Medical
Center in Fayette, Ala.
Services are 3 p.m.
today at Chandler
Funeral Home with
Jerry Robbins ofciat-
ing. Burial will follow in
Walnut Grove Cemetery
in Millport. Visitation
is two hours prior to
service.
Mrs. Shackelford
was born Feb. 2, 1935,
in Lamar County, Ala.,
to the late James Noah
and Rose Adell McGee.
She was formerly em-
ployed with The Com-
mercial Dispatch.
In addition to her
parents, she was
preceded in death by
her husband, Roy Allen
Shackelford Sr.; ve
sisters, one brother and
two grandchildren.
She is survived by
her sons, Roy Allen
Shackelford Jr. and Ron-
nie Shackelford, both
of Millport; daughters,
Sonya Porter of Millport
and Debby Lawrence of
Columbus; and sister,
Laura Adkins of Mill-
port.
Pallbearers are
Anthony Atkins, Daniel
Foley, Darrel Driver,
Raymond Miller, Mi-
chael Smith and Robert
Box.
James Smith
WINFIELD, Ala.
James L. Smith,
78, died May 1, 2014,
at Northwest Medical
Center in Wineld.
Services are 11 a.m.
Monday at Shiloh Bap-
tist Church. Visitation
is today from 6-8 p.m.
at Otts Funeral Home
and one hour prior to
service at the church.
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Harper Orman
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Harper Bowen Orman,
8, died May 1, 2014,
at North Mississippi
Medical Center in West
Point.
Services were Sat-
urday at First Baptist
Church in West Point
with the Rev. Dale
Funderburg, Rev. Jeff
Shannon and Rev.
Wayne Mathis ofciat-
ing. Burial was at Odd-
fellows Rest Cemetery
in Aberdeen. Visitation
was two hours prior to
service.
Harper was born
March 23, 2006, in
West Point to Brooke
Bowan Orman and
Manuel Orman.
In addition to his
parents, he is survived
by his brothers, Jake
Orman of Huntsville,
Texas and Cooper Or-
man of West Point; and
sister, Caroline Eaves of
West Point.
Memorials may be
made to Blair E. Batson
Childrens Hospital
2500 N. State St. Jack-
son, MS 39216.
Girlie Oglesby
REFORM, Ala.
Girlie Hill Oglesby, 89,
died May 1, 2014, at
Hospice of West Ala-
bama.
Services are 2 p.m.
today at Skelton Funer-
al Home Chapel with
the Rev. Joe Fondren
and Rev. Ricky Jackson
ofciating. Burial will
follow at Cross Roads
Baptist Church Cem-
etery in Carrollton. Visi-
tation is at the home of
Mr. Oglesby following
interment on Sunday.
Mr. Oglesby was
born Oct. 23, 1924, in
Columbus, to the late
Richard Oglesby and
Estelle Perrigin Ogles-
by. He was a member
of Cross Roads Baptist
Church. He was for-
merly employed with
McShan Lumber Com-
pany and was a veteran
of the U.S. Army.
In addition to his
parents, he was preced-
ed in death by his wife,
Annie Lou Harcrow
Oglesby.
He is survived by his
daughters, Judy Diane
Barnes and Cherry
Austell, both of Reform;
brother, Freddie Ogles-
by of McShan, Ala.; four
grandchildren and ve
great-grandchildren.
Memorials may be
made to Hospice of
West Alabama, 3851
Loop Road, Tuscaloosa,
AL 35404 or to Gideons
International, Pickens
Co. Camp., P.O. Box
287, Carrollton, AL
35447.
Joyce Moore
STEENS Joyce
Marie Paterson Moore,
64, died May 2, 2014, at
her residence.
Services are 2 p.m.
Wednesday at the
Cornerstone Worship
Center with the Rev.
Bubba Dees ofciat-
ing. Memorial Funeral
Home is entrusted with
arrangements.
Mrs. Moore was
born Dec. 15, 1949, in
Oklahoma City to the
late O.W. and Jean Beel-
er Patterson. She was a
member of Cornerstone
Worship Center.
In addition to her
parents, she was pre-
ceded in death by her
husband, Lewis Wil-
liam Moore Jr.
She is survived by
her daughters, Melissa
Greene and Theresa
Moore, both of Steens;
son, Ronnie Moore
of Big Spring, Texas;
sister, Sandra Adams of
Big Spring; and seven
grandchildren.
Memorials may be
made to St. Jude Chil-
drens Hospital 501 St.
Jude Place, Memphis,
TN 38101.
Chrome
prompted a trainer to call
them dumb asses for
getting involved in racing.
Feeling inspired, they
named their operation
DAP Racing, which stands
for Dumb Ass Partners.
Their silks include an im-
age of a donkey.
Coburn lives near
Reno, Nevada, rising at
4:30 a.m. for his job as a
press operator at a 13-em-
ployee company that
makes magnetic strips for
credit cards and driver li-
censes.
Martin lives on the Cal-
ifornia side of the border
near Reno, running a lab-
oratory that tests high-re-
liability equipment, like
car air bags and medical
equipment.
Coburn and Martins
partnership is based on
a handshake, and their
wives are friends who
enjoy the sport, too. The
group came up with Cal-
ifornia Chromes name
by drawing it out of a hat.
The horse hadnt even
been out of his home state
until this week.
Sometimes you dont
get a lot of respect, Sher-
man said. Were in Ken-
tucky and you know most
of the Derby winners are
bred here and few outside
of Kentucky.
Sherman visited
Swaps grave near the
Derby museum earlier in
the week and whispered a
prayer: I hope hes anoth-
er Swaps.
He sure was.
California Chrome ex-
tended his winning streak
to ve races, won by a
combined 26 lengths. It
was the second Derby win
for Espinoza, who rode
War Emblem to victory in
2002.
I thought he rode him
perfect, said Sherman, a
former jockey. I was rid-
ing the last 70 yards with
Victor, so I think he was
riding two. He had a lot of
weight on him, I can tell
you that.
Espinoza had Califor-
nia Chrome sitting com-
fortably in third in the
19-horse eld as Uncle
Sigh and Chitu set the
early pace.
California Chrome
made his move on the -
nal turn in tandem with
Samraat. It looked like
those two would decide
the outcome, until Califor-
nia Chrome sped away to
become the rst Califor-
nia-bred to win the Derby
since Decidedly in 1962.
This horse has so
much talent, Espino-
za said. By the three-
eighths pole I knew that
was it. I could see other
horses struggling a lit-
tle bit, and he was just
smooth.
Dale Romans, who
trained eighth-place Med-
al Count, quickly changed
his tune about California
Chrome after believing
the colt had no chance to
win.
Im very impressed
the way he came into it,
the way he looked, the
way he was prepared and
the way he ran, Romans
said. Now he has a new
fan.
Commanding Curve, a
37-1 shot, rallied for sec-
ond, with Danza third.
Wicked Strong was fourth
and Samraat nished
fth.
Commanding Curve
returned $31.80 and
$15.40, giving trainer
Dallas Stewart his sec-
ond straight runner-up
nish with a double-digit
longshot. Danza, named
for actor Tony Danza of
Whos the Boss? fame,
paid $6 to show as the 8-1
third choice.
Lipscomb
coaches have seen for
years.
On Saturday, Lipscomb
continued that transfor-
mation by nishing in
the top four in four events
at the Mississippi High
School Activities Associa-
tion Class 6A North State
meet at Madison Central
High. In the process, Lip-
scomb qualied for the
MHSAA overall Class
6A meet in the 110- and
the 300 hurdles and the
4x200 and the 4x400 re-
lays. The Columbus High
junior won the 300 hur-
dles with a time of 39.98
seconds.
That time was just off
the personal-best time of
39.51 he recorded a week
earlier in winning at the
Class 6A, Region 2 meet
at Clinton High.
In addition to his rst
in the 300 hurdles, Lip-
scomb nished fourth in
the 110 hurdles (15.32).
He then teamed with Eric
Harris, Jarrelle Peterson,
and Donsha Walker to
nish fourth in the 4x200
relay. The teams time
was its second-best of the
year. The team of Johnson
Washington, Kenny Bush,
Peterson, and Lipscomb
also nished fourth in
the 4x400 relay. All of
the athletes will compete
next Saturday at the over-
all Class 6A meet at Pearl
High. The Class 2A and
4A meets also will be next
Saturday. The Class 1A,
3A, and 5A meets will be
Monday, May 12, at Pearl
High.
For Lipscomb, the over-
all Class 6A meet will be
another chance to prove
how far he has come from
his days as an underclass-
man who thought he had
all of the answers.
I feel like I have im-
proved a lot from my
ninth-grade year to where
I am right now, Lipscomb
said. My ninth-grade
year, I was playing around
and still trying to nd
myself. I wasnt working
hard and I was not under-
standing what coach was
saying and I wasnt lis-
tening to him. The more
mature I got, the more I
started listening to him
and understand if I put in
the work this could hap-
pen. That is how I feel I
started to get better. I
started to listen.
Lipscomb, whose
brother, Antoine, was a
standout track and eld
athlete at Starkville High
before moving on the com-
pete at Mississippi State,
credits his mother and
his coaches for staying on
him and telling him to in-
vest in his talent and that
he shouldnt allow his po-
tential to go to waste. He
said his mothers words
also have sharpened an
inner drive that motivates
him and pushes him not
to fail.
I want to be the best
in everything I do, Lip-
scomb said. To be the
best I have train the best
and do everything those
people are telling me to
do. That is where it came
from and how I learned to
strive for greatness.
Columbus High boys
track and eld coach Law-
rence Hill has watched
Lipscomb mature for the
past three seasons. He
admits Lipscomb might
be a little brash because
he believes in his abilities
so much. He recalls when
Lipscomb found out col-
lege coaches who came
to Columbus High had
asked about him and how
he started to take every-
thing a little more serious-
ly after that.
His drive and the way
he approaches things is to-
tally different, Hill said.
He is thinking about the
next level, how can I get
better for the next level.
When a kid starts think-
ing about that, that is
what you want.
Hill said Lipscomb,
who also plays wide re-
ceiver and free safety on
the schools football team,
has unlimited potential in
both sports to help pave
his way to college. He also
credits Lipscombs moth-
er, and said she stays on
Alex in part because she
wants him to be success-
ful more just as much as
any coach.
She is the driving
force behind him, Hill
said. She keeps asking
him, When are you going
to realize the opportuni-
ty? She keeps pushing
and pushing and pushing.
I think nally he said,
Maybe I need to push my-
self, too. Once he started
pushing himself it just
clicked.
Hill said the epiphany
Lipscomb had didnt al-
ter his focus in the class-
room. He said Lipscomb
is a solid student who
takes care of his work be-
cause he understands he
wont be able to continue
his athletic career if he
isnt diligent on and off
the eld. Thats why Hill
uses the clich the sky
is the limit when asked
what the future holds for
Lipscomb.
While coaches
throughout the country
may use that phrase to
describe their players,
Hill feels Lipscombs hard
work in the classroom and
in athletics is a unique
blend.
Every 17-year-old
high school student feels
he sometimes needs a day
off when he doesnt, Hill
said, but he is not afraid
to do the work, and he will
do the work. He has seen
the results from it.
Alexanders only lim-
itation is himself. He can
do whatever he puts his
mind to because he has
something other people
dont have. He has the
ability to back it up. If Lip
decides he wants to run
in the Olympics, he can
run in the Olympics. If he
decides he wants to play
Division I football and do
track, He can do it.
For now, Lipscombs
primary focus is nding
a way to do things a lit-
tle faster. The slightest
deviation could cost him
in the 110 and the 300
hurdles, while a twitch
or a slip could mean the
difference between a rst
and a fourth in the relays.
But Hill said Lipscombs
desire to be the best al-
lows him to accept coach-
ing and to understand he
needs to work every day
if he wants to realize his
goal.
If he forgets, Lipscomb
only has to listen for the
voice to remind him his
day isnt done and there is
work to be done.
School-wise, I am
telling you, she was at
the school getting me
right, Lipscomb said as
he snaps his ngers to
demonstrate his mother
was keeping him in step
and on time If my mom
wasnt there to be there
to say, Alex, you need to
do this. You need to stop
playing and you have to do
your homework when you
come home, I probably
wouldnt be where I am
academically (an A to C
student with a 2.7 grade-
point average) where I am
now if she wouldnt have
stay on me.
I think hurdling can
get me into college very
quickly. The work ethic
I put behind hurdling is
incredible. From where
I was just coming
to practice and sitting
around and thinking I
was the best to now and
(how hard) I have worked,
the practice is starting to
show. I can continue on
that route and work and
work and work and I will
get my times down. It is
just crazy. I feel like I can
do big things this year.
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BY JAN SWOOPE
jswoope@cdispatch.com
S
haoshin Candy Feng of
Starkville is a traveler, one
who journals her explora-
tions with a Nikon 40D camera.
England, Germany, Austria,
Switzerland, Ireland, Scot-
land and the Czech Republic
are a few of the destinations
recorded in her passport. But
it was in Iceland that she took
a photograph recently chosen
as one of 10 nalists in the
People category of Smithsonian
magazines 11th Annual Photo
Contest.
The stirring image was
taken one early morning in
June 2013, when Feng and her
family arrived at Fjallsarlon,
a glacier lake along the south
coast of Iceland. Feng remem-
bers walking back to the car
after taking numerous photo-
graphs of the sight before her.
When I turned my head
looking for my son, I saw him
standing in the distance, facing
the imposing glacier, recalled
the Mississippi State Univer-
sity alumnae. I snapped the
image with him being part of
the landscape, dwarfed by the
looming ice. I stood there for
a while, contemplating and ad-
miring. I wanted to remember
that moment forever.
Smithsonian photo editors
selected 60 nalists 10 each
in six categories from more
than 50,000 photographs sub-
mitted by photographers from
132 countries. Categories are
Area photographers photo among Smithsonian nalists
Vote online today for Readers Choice
From left, Toby Hartleroad, Miles Jordan, Miles Smith and Max Hartleroad pose for a band photo Tuesday in Columbus with some pick albums. The band Hartle Road
which also includes Tyler Carter has released an EP and will head out for dates in cities including New York and Chicago this summer.
Uncovered, from left, are Max Hartleroad, Miles Smith, Miles Jordan and Toby Hartleroad, holding
the album.
What makes a young band keep at it?
Hartle Road might have some answers
BY JAN SWOOPE
M
ax Hartleroad tries to step his long, lanky legs
into what appears to be a cast-off space suit for
a photo shoot. The legs prove too lanky; the
silvery suit is abandoned. Which doesnt deter Max and
the other guys in the band Hartle Road from nosing
around for other random inspiration that can push the
photo outside the proverbial box.
No surprise, really. Thats where their music is,
outside the box.
Brothers Toby and Max, and their cousin, Miles Jor-
dan, all of Columbus, unknowingly formed the nucleus
of what would become Hartle Road when they were
mere kids getting guitars for Christmas.
I was probably like 12, Max says. Miles was 11,
Toby was 15 or 16.
Mine and Maxs mom is a little bit more liberal than
your run-of-the-mill Columbus mother, so we were lis-
tening to Marvin Gaye, Tom Petty and The Beach Boys
when we were really, really young, says lead vocalist
Toby, at 24 the groups elder.
They practiced in a grandmothers garage in New
Hope. (We mildly knew how to play instruments
really mildly; we were not good, smiles Toby.)
Miles moved away at an early age, moved back later.
Tobys and Maxs grandfather took them to concerts
before they were old enough to take themselves.
The brothers squirreled away lunch money from dad
Boys
in the band
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The
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presents
The Tenth Anniversary Concert
featuring
The Columbus Girlchoir is funded in part by a grant from the Columbus Arts Council.
Dr. Cherry Dunn, Artistic Director
Tina Morgan, Junior Choir Director
Rachel Delk, Accompanist and Assistant Director
Friday, May 9, 2014 at 7:30 p.m.
Kossen Auditorium
Poindexter Music Hall

Mississippi University for Women
Premiere of commissioned piece
Miracles
by J.D. Frizzell
Today
Rescheduled voice recital
A recital by soprano Dr. Cherry
Dunn and tenor Zane Lynn postponed
from April 29 due to weather is
rescheduled for 3 p.m. this afternoon
at Mississippi University for Womens
Poindexter Hall. Nancy Kennedy and
Rachel Delk are accompanists. The
event is free and open to the public.
Tuesday, May 6
Book signing Author and
sitting Mississippi Supreme Court
Justice Randy Pierce signs his new
book Magnolia Mud at 3 p.m. at
The Book Mart, 120 E. Main St.,
Starkville. To reserve a signed copy
of Pierces novel about a ctional gov-
ernors race and Mississippi political
intrigue, call 662-323-2844.
Thursday, May 8
Extension Centennial The
Mississippi Extension Service cele-
brates 100 years with an open house
from 2-5 p.m. at the Lowndes County
Extension ofce, 318 Seventh St. N.,
Columbus. A tomato-growing seminar
begins at 5:30 p.m. The public is
invited. For more information, call
662-328-2111.
Exhibit reception The
Starkville Area Arts Council hosts a
free reception from 5:30-7 p.m. at the
Greater Starkville Development Part-
nership, 200 E. Main St., Starkville
for Mississippi, an exhibit of original
art by area artists. For more informa-
tion, call 662-324-3080.
Friday, May 9
Girlchoir Spring Concert
The Columbus Girlchoir presents
its Spring Concert at 7:30 p.m. in
Mississippi University for Womens
Poindexter Hall at 7:30 p.m. The
program is free to the public.
Saturday, May 10
Hitching Lot Grand Opening
See details at top of page.
Studio tours Starkville area
artists Laurie Burton, Betty Jane Cha-
tham, Briar Jones, Kathryn Ramsey
and Gerald Richardson open their stu-
dios for tours from 4-7 p.m. Tickets
are $10 in advance at the Starkville
Area Arts Council ofce, 101 S.
Lafayette St. (Suite 18) in Starkville,
noon-3 p.m., or all day at East Miss.
Lumber Co. On May 10, get tickets at
the Starkville Community Theatre foy-
er, 3-6 p.m. For information, contact
the SAAC, 662-324-3080.
Sunday, May 11
Mothers Day concert The
Columbus Choral Society presents
A Musical Treat for Mom at the
Columbus Arts Councils Rosenz-
weig Arts Center, 501 Main St., at 2
p.m. Admission is $5; all proceeds
support the Choral Societys June
trip to New York to perform. For more
information, contact Lori Pierce, 662-
368-2339.
Saturday, May 17
West Point Art Walk The
West Point Main Street Association
and West Point/Clay County Arts
Council present the second annual
Art Walk in downtown West Point from
10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Visit numerous
local and regional artists as they sell
their wares.
Friday, May 23
The British Are Coming
The Columbus Arts Council presents
an open mic night featuring area
musicians performing songs related
to the British music invasion. Tickets
are $8 in advance; $10 at the door,
at the Rosenzweig Arts Center, 501
Main St. Call 662-328-2787 for tick-
ets or information.
CALENDAR
Saturday, May 10
Hitching Lot Grand Open-
ing The Hitching Lot Farm-
ers Farmers Market at Second
Avenue and Second Street North
in Columbus celebrates its grand
opening from 7-10 a.m. Suzuki
Strings musicians entertain as
area growers and craftspeople
come to sell. Beginning May 10,
the market is open three days
weekly: Mondays 4-6 p.m., and
Thursdays and Saturdays 7-10
a.m. Learn more at hitchinglot.org
or contact Main Street Columbus,
662-328-6305. Starkvilles market
opened May 3; West Points mar-
ket opens May 29. Support locally
grown, made or conjured up!
OUT AND ABOUT
May 6 Moscow Ballet Cinderella, Riley
Center, Meridian ($24-38). 662-696-2200
or msurileycenter.com.
May 10 Bill Cosby, BancorpSouth Arena,
Tupelo ($56-77). 662-841-6528 or bcsare-
na.com.
Pioneer Day at French Camp (square
dancing, crafts vendors, live music), 9
a.m.-7 p.m. frenchcamp.org.
May 10-11 GumTree Festival (juried
arts, music, childrens activities), Court-
house Square, Tupelo. gumtreefestival.
com or 662-844-2787.
May 11 Mama Mia National Broadway
Tour, Ford Center, Oxford ($56-66). 662-
915-7411 or fordcenter.org.
May 23 Dave Matthews Band, Oak Moun-
tain Theatre, Birmingham. 855-346-5611
or oakmountain.ticketofcesales.com.
May 23-25 Delta Country Jam Music
Festival (Keith Urban, Florida Georgia Line,
Dierks Bentley, Lucero, more), Big River
Park, Tunica. 800-745-3000 or ticketmas-
ter.com.
May 27 Journey and Steve Miller Band,
Oak Mountain Amphitheatre, Birmingham.
855-346-5611 or oakmountain.ticketofc-
esales.com.
May 29 Styx, Foreigner and Don Felder,
Tuscaloosa Amphitheater ($16-71). 205-
248-5280 or tuscaloosaamphitheater.
com.
May 31 Clint Black, Riley Center, Meridi-
an ($48-54). 662-696-2200.
The Golden Triangle is within easy traveling distance of some of the best entertain-
ment in the South. Support arts and entertainment at home, and when youre on the
road, these might pique your interest. Be aware that some venues add facility/conve-
nience charges to ticket prices.
Ellie Junkins, 4, and her brother Jack Junkins, 5, pick out ruta-
bagas at the Black Creek Farms booth at the Hitching Lot April
5 when the market opened for Saturdays only. Ellie and Jacks
parents are Jacquelyn and Eric Junkins of Columbus.
SPECIAL TO THE DISPATCH
T
he Starkville Area Arts Council
(SAAC) sponsors a new project
to promote the visual arts plus
several of Starkvilles own artists. Five
artists will open their personal studios
to the public for tours Saturday, May
10 from 4 to 7 p.m. Tours will help
the public grasp the amount of effort,
practice and time it takes to create an
art object, whether it be a two dimen-
sional drawing or painting, or a three
dimensional sculpture.
Starkville architect W. Briar Jones
will show his studio and his watercol-
or paintings of local scenes, as well
as those from his world travels. He in-
tends to be working on a piece entitled
How to Open a French Restaurant
during the tour.
Laurie Burtons artwork extends
beyond her WildRose Studio and
Gallery to the retaining wall out front
with its charming faux lattice and ros-
es. Visitors will view her unique style
of creating art using found objects.
Additionally, some of Joe MacGowns
paintings will also be available.
Gerald Richardson will display the
results of years of his woodcarving.
He was a wood carver for Howard
Family Home Furniture years ago and
can carve anything from the family
dog and gnomes out of cypress knees
to crches.
Kathryn Ramsey creates with wa-
tercolors and vibrant colored pencils.
Besides neighborhood and travel
scenes, she often depicts the orchids
her husband, Kenneth, raises. He will
share his hobby for those interested.
Betty Jane Chatham will be in her
studio behind her home during the
tour. Her paintings, which incorporate
several media including oil and water-
color, create serene, calm scenes.
Tickets may be purchased for $10
each at the SAAC ofce, Suite 18,
101 S. Lafayette St. in Starkville from
noon to 3:00 p.m., and all day at East
Mississippi Lumber Co. Get tickets
May 10 at the Starkville Community
Theatre Playhouse on Main foyer
from 3 to 6 p.m. For more information,
call the SAAC, 662-324-3080.
The SAAC is supported in part by
the Mississippi Arts Commission, the
National Endowment for the Arts, the
GSDP and Art Works.
Peek inside artists
studios on tour
Courtesy photo
Kathryn Ramsey is one of six visual
artists who will open their Starkville
studios for tours May 10.
SPECIAL TO THE
DISPATCH
L
eakesville resident
and sitting Missis-
sippi Supreme Court
Justice Randy Pierce will
sign copies of his new
novel, Magnolia Mud
(Dogwood Press, 2014),
at The Book Mart, 120
E. Main St. in Starkville,
Tuesday, May 6 at 3 p.m.
First-edition, signed
copies will be available
for $24.95 plus tax.
Pierce, whose rst
novel, Pain Unforgiven,
was released in 2011, was
praised by Andy Taggart,
the co-author (with Jere
Nash) of Mississippi
Fried Politics. (He) has
drawn from a rich pantry
of ingredients Missis-
sippi political lore, parti-
san animosities, childlike
innocence, hard-boiled
arrogance to cook up
a dish that leaves us want-
ing more, Taggart said
of Magnolia Mud.
Randy Pierce spins
a tale of Mississippi
political intrigue that hits
close to home, said Mis-
sissippi Representative
David Baria (District 122,
Hancock County). Mag-
nolia Mud is a redemptive
morality tale with a sur-
prising twist that reminds
the reader of that which
is truly important and
sacred to all families.
Pierce is a lifelong res-
ident of Greene County.
A graduate of the Univer-
sity of Southern Missis-
sippi and the University
of Mississippi School of
Law, he previously served
in the Mississippi Legis-
lature.
Magnolia Mud is
about a ctional gover-
nors race in Mississippi.
The action takes place in
areas around the state as
the candidates make cam-
paign stops everywhere
they can.
Its great to work
with Randy and an honor
to publish him, said
Joe Lee, editor-in-chief
of Dogwood Press and
author of the forthcoming
suspense thriller, Di-
rectors Cut (Dogwood
Press, 2014). Magnolia
Mud is a great read and
reminds us that when you
get past all the political
consultants and lofty
rhetoric, the men and
women who run for elect-
ed ofce face the same
challenges the rest of us
do in our lives, and their
families hurt just like
ours in times of tragedy.
To reserve a signed
copy of Magnolia Mud,
call 662-323-2844.
Mississippi
Supreme
Court Justice
Pierce to
sign novel
Tuesday
Courtesy photo
Randy Pierce
Northaven Woods Garden Club
The April 15 meeting of Northaven
Woods Garden Club of Columbus was
held at The Prairie House, home of
Shannon Bardwell.
President Betty Swanzey opened the
meeting and led members in the Gar-
den Club Prayer, Conservation Pledge
and Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag.
Vice President Mary Faglie intro-
duced Bardwell, a native of Greenville
and a graduate of Mississippi College.
She is a paralegal and a dedicated
environmentalist. Her column Possum-
haw appears weekly in The Commer-
cial Dispatch. Her short stories have
placed in several Lets Write contests.
A number of her stories have been
included in anthologies such as Mag-
nolia Blossoms and Afternoon Tea,
Christian Miracles, Original Sin and
The Rocking Chair Reader.
Bardwell opened the program, read-
ing an inspirational short story from the
Weeders Reader before introducing
Laurie Parker gardener, artist and
writer from Starkville. Parker is pas-
sionate about gardening and happiest
when gardening or creating artwork.
The author read excerpts from Gar-
den Alphabet, one of the 13 childrens
books she has written, along with one
novel.
Following the program, Secre-
tary-Treasurer Valeria Speck read min-
utes from the last meeting and gave the
nancial report. A slate of new ofcers
was presented and accepted. Ofcers
include Betty Swanzey, president; Mary
Faglie, vice president; Valeria Speck,
recording secretary-treasurer; Linda
Jaynes, corresponding secretary and
Kay Marshall, reporter. New ofcers
will be installed at the May meeting.
Members were reminded about their
duties at the 85th Garden Club Annual
Convention April 22-24.
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Jessie Mae Harrison
Parents: Chad & Jessica Harrison
Introducing Our
Little Blessing
BY JAN SWOOPE
I
n an express-lane soci-
ety driven by changing
trends, constants come
to mean more as years
pass. In Caledonia, few
things are more constant
than the annual Caledo-
nia High School Alumni
Banquet. Its a standing
appointment for all alumni
the rst Friday before
Mothers Day. On May 9,
Caledonias graduates will
celebrate the 81st annual
banquet.
For ve
sisters
Dotty
Richards,
Evelyn
Thompson,
Nancy
Gerhart,
Sandra
Slayton and
Donna Grant the alum-
ni event has been a family
tradition since their own
graduations. Their moth-
er, Eva West Egger, at-
tended every year, except
one, since it began. Egger
passed away in February
at the age of 96; this will
be the girls rst banquet
without her.
Attending the gath-
ering wasnt optional
for Eggers children. It
was expected. Everyone
gathered at the matri-
archs home rst, so they
could all go together.
The sisters will present a
scholarship in her memo-
ry Friday to a graduating
senior.
I think Im correct
that she was the rst
teachers assistant at Cale-
donia Elementary, said
Grant. She loved that
school; she loved the chil-
dren. And she was very
proud to be an alumnae of
Caledonia. Her class was
the rst to prepare a meal
for the banquet (when it
began), and she wanted it
to continue. She wanted
it to be an evening when
all graduates could come
back and enjoy visiting
and reminiscing with
their fellow classmates.
All graduates welcome
Amy Betts Williams
is president of the 2014
Caledonia High School
Alumni Association. The
1991 graduate is making a
special effort to increase
participation from more
recent alumni.
The banquet is present-
ed every year in honor of
the current graduating
seniors, who then become
the newest members of
the Alumni Association.
I noticed last year
that, from about 1980 to
present, there were few
classes that attended,
said the third-generation
CHS graduate. I realized
there is a real possibility
of this event dissolving
within the next 10 years,
and I couldnt let that
happen without knowing
I tried and did everything
I could, because it was
extremely important to
my grandparents, parents
and their generations.
The banquet commit-
tee has added a few inno-
vations this year to spark
added interest. Among
them is a silent auction,
to benet the association.
Auction items include
condo use at Orange
Beach, a bath remodel
and football tickets with
skybox access.
This is in hopes of the
association being more
active in the community
and able to help others
when possible, Williams
explained.
Special awards
Organizers also look
forward to honoring alum-
ni Friday, including Mott
Ellis, for her work with
the American Cancer So-
ciety Relay for Life. The
association will sponsor
a team at Relay 2015 in
honor of Ellis and all
Caledonia High alumni
and their families who
have battled cancer.
The Sherrod brothers,
Dezmond and Derek,
will be recognized as
dual Alumni of the Year.
After playing football at
Caledonia, the siblings
played for the Missis-
sippi State Bulldogs
before advancing to the
NFL. Dezmond was
formerly a member of the
Pittsburgh Steelers and
Houston Texans. Derek
is a Green Bay Packer.
Both of these young
men are so impressive in
every aspect. Academi-
cally, they are incredibly
intelligent; both nished
their undergraduate de-
grees in less than three
years and then began
working toward their
MBAs, which they both
received. Were excited
about it, remarked Wil-
liams, adding that Dez-
mond and his parents are
expected to attend.
The 7 p.m. banquet at
the Caledonia High cafe-
teria/auditorium is open
to all alumni. (Sorry,
spouses are not included
until a graduates 50th
year.) The silent auction,
open to dues-paid Alum-
ni Association members,
is 5:30-7 p.m. For more
information, contact
Williams by text or call
to 662-549-1404, or email
Amy.Williams3@bmhcc.
org.
Calling all Caledonia alumni for 81st annual banquet
BY JAN SWOOPE
E
ven as Columbus-Lown-
des Habitat for Human-
ity made nal plans for
National Women Build Week
May 3-11, tornadic weather in
Lowndes County was orches-
trating a revision. Each spring,
the nonprot Habitat agency
and Lowes invite women to
volunteer to work on a Habitat
home for a local family. This
year, the format will be just a
bit different.
On Tuesday, May 6 vol-
unteers who have signed up
before Tuesday morning will
assist with disaster cleanup at
the site of the most recently
completed Habitat home on
Kidder Lane. The homeowner
partners have been in resi-
dence only since December.
There are lots of trees
down there, said CLHFH Ex-
ecutive Director Kathy Arind-
er. We need some men who
have chainsaws, too. If there
are some men willing to chain-
saw that would be wonderful.
The Women Build will
move into construction mode
Wednesday, May 7 with work
at the current Habitat home un-
derway at 376 Thaxton Road,
beginning at 8:30 a.m.
Everybody needs to sign up
beforehand by calling 662-329-
2501 Monday, said Arinder.
Space may be limited due to
safety precautions.
What is Women Build?
Columbus-Lowndes Habitat
for Humanity is one of more
than 300 Habitat afliates
nationwide hosting Women
Build projects with the support
of Lowes, Habitats longtime
partner in the event. The effort
challenges women to devote
at least one day to building
simple, decent and affordable
housing in their local commu-
nities. More than 52,000 wom-
en volunteers from all 50 states
have participated in previous
years.
We are excited to partici-
pate in National Women Build
Week, said Arinder. This is a
great opportunity for women of
all skill levels to come together
to help a family in need. No
construction skills are neces-
sary.
To date, women volunteers
have helped construct more
than 2,200 Habitat houses na-
tionwide. Locally, CLHFH has
participated in eight Women
Build events.
To volunteer or donate to
this project, call 662-329-2501
or email clhfh@cableone.net.
We hope to see you at our
Women Build event Tuesday,
May 6, and Wednesday, May
7, from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Women interested in participat-
ing can call our ofce or email
to sign up or ask questions,
Arinder explained.
Since it was established
in 1989, CLHFH has built 41
homes and served more than
45 families.
Our mission is to put
Gods love into action by
bringing people together to
build homes, communities and
hope, the director said.
Visit Habitat.org/wb for
more information on National
Women Build Week.
Lowes involvement
Lowes helped launch Na-
tional Women Build Week in
2008, and each year provides
the support of Lowes Heroes
employee volunteers and con-
ducts how-to clinics at stores
to teach volunteers construc-
tion skills. This year, Lowes
contributed $1.75 million to
National Women Build Week as
part of a new ve-year part-
nership with Habitat that will
bring Lowes total contribu-
tions to more than $63 million
since 2003. To learn more, visit
Habitat.org/Lowes.
Habitat for Humanity
Internationals vision is a world
where everyone has a decent
place to live. Anchored by the
conviction that housing pro-
vides a critical foundation for
breaking the cycle of poverty,
Habitat has helped more than
4 million people construct,
rehabilitate or preserve homes
since 1976. Habitat also ad-
vocates to improve access to
decent and affordable shelter
and supports a variety of fund-
ing models that enable fami-
lies with limited resources to
make needed improvements on
their homes as their time and
resources allow. Read more at
habitat.org.
Habitats Women Build looking for volunteers
Dispatch le photo
Beth Conner and Cami Martz work on a Habitat for Humanity home along 10th Avenue South in Columbus in this 2012 Dispatch le photo.
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participate
Courtesy photo
Eva Egger greets retired Caledonia High math teacher Mack Sonny Egger at a past
Caledonia High Alumni Banquet. Until her death in February, Eva Egger had attended
all but one of the annual banquets dating back more than 80 years. Her family will
present a scholarship in her memory at this years banquet May 9.
Grant
Read to your child.
Transitions: Area Weddings, Engagements and Anniversaries
Leslie Ann Franklin and Dr. Justin Taylor Gorrell
Miriam Clark Pryor and Robert Cole McCoy
Nicholas Alan Parish and Sara Raylynn Goldberg
Betsy Michelle Reed and Jonathan Miles Guerry
Hannah Flora Martin and Ryan Shadrach Bostick
Franklin/Gorrell
Ronnie and Marty Franklin of Roswell, Georgia,
announce the engagement of their daughter, Leslie
Ann Franklin of Roswell, to Dr. Justin Taylor Gorrell
of Smyrna, Georgia, son of Nena Gorrell of Columbus
and the late Jim Gorrell.
The bride-elect is the granddaughter of James
Rorex of Huntsville, Alabama, and the late Ruth Rorex,
and the late Billy and Rozell Franklin.
She is a 2011 graduate of the University of Alabama
and a 2014 graduate of Mercer University in Atlanta.
She is currently employed as a registered nurse in
Atlanta.
The prospective groom is the grandson of Doyle
and Frances Sims of McGehee, Arkansas, and Jesse
and Jean Gorrell of Rogersville, Alabama.
He is a 2003 graduate of New Hope High School
and a 2007 graduate of the University of Alabama. He
is also a 2011 graduate of the University of St. Augus-
tine, Florida, where he earned a doctorate degree in
physical therapy.
He is currently employed as a physical therapist in
Atlanta.
Vows will be exchanged July 12, 2014, at 6 p.m. at
Roswell United Methodist Church in Roswell.
Pryor/McCoy
Mr. and Mrs. James White Pryor Jr. of Columbus
announce the engagement of their daughter, Miriam
Clark Pryor of Birmingham, Alabama, to Robert Cole
McCoy of Birmingham, son of Mr. and Mrs. Christo-
pher Howard McCoy of Empire, Alabama.
The bride-elect is the granddaughter of Mrs. James
White Pryor of Tupelo and the late Mr. Pryor, the late
Mr. and Mrs. Shannon Guy Clark of Kosciusko, and
the late Mrs. Carolyn Wenzey of Hot Springs, Arkan-
sas.
She is a graduate of Heritage Academy and the Uni-
versity of Mississippi, where she received a bachelors
degree in applied sciences and was a member of Delta
Delta Delta sorority.
She is currently employed with Johnson Develop-
ment in Birmingham.
The prospective groom is the grandson of Mrs.
Robert Howard McCoy and the late Mr. McCoy of
Empire, and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kenneth Bland of
Dora, Alabama.
He is a graduate of Hayden High School and the
University of Alabama, where he earned a bachelors
degree in business management and marketing, and
was a member of Alpha Kappa Lambda fraternity.
He is currently employed with Coyote Logistics in
Birmingham.
The couple will exchange vows at noon May 31,
2014, at St. Pauls Episcopal Church in Columbus.
Goldberg/Parish
Janice and David Bozyk of Mesa, Arizona, an-
nounce the engagement of their daughter, Sara Ray-
lynn Goldberg, to Nicholas Alan Parish, son of Laura
Burns Parish of Caledonia and Randy Parish of Grove
City, Ohio.
The bride-elect is the granddaughter of the late
Mr. William and Mrs. Joan Ochs of Mesa, and Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Jones of Avondale, Arizona, and Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Bozyk of Milford, Michigan.
She is 2012 graduate of Red Mountain High School
in Mesa and attended Arizona State University. She
is currently an ofce clerk at Columbus Orthopaedic
Clinic.
The prospective groom is the grandson of Mr. and
Mrs. Kenneth Burns of Columbus, and Mr. and Mrs.
Jerry Parish of Somerton, Tennessee.
He is a 2011 graduate of Queen Creek High School
in Queen Creek, Arizona. He attended Arizona State
University and is currently pursuing a degree in busi-
ness administration at Mississippi State University.
He is currently employed as an estimator and project
manager at Burns Dirt Construction in Columbus.
Vows will be exchanged May 25, 2014, at 6:30 p.m.
at Lake Norris in Columbus.
Reed/Guerry
Butch and Margaret Reed of Columbus announce
the engagement of their daughter, Betsy Michelle
Reed of Hattiesburg, to Jonathan Miles Guerry of Hat-
tiesburg, son of Paul and Patti Guerry of Columbus.
The bride-elect is the granddaughter of Lona H.
Southerland of Columbus, the late C.L. Hutcherson
Jr. and Dan W. Southerland, and Nancy M. Reed of
Amory and the late Wayne Reed.
She is a 2011 graduate of New Hope High School
and is currently a student at the University of Southern
Mississippi, where she is pursuing a degree in child
and family studies with an emphasis in child develop-
ment. She is a member of Delta Delta Delta Sorority.
The prospective groom is the grandson of the late
Billy Walton, Leola Walton, and Helen Walton. He
is also the grandson of the late Walker and Muriel
Guerry.
He is a 2009 graduate of New Hope High School and
a 2012 graduate of the University of Southern Missis-
sippi, where he earned a bachelors degree in history
and played for the Golden Eagles football team for
four years and lettered for three years. He is currently
pursuing a Master of Divinity degree at New Orleans
Baptist Theological Seminary. He is also employed
with Temple Baptist Church in Oak Grove.
The couple will exchange vows May 31, 2014, at 5
p.m., at Fairview Baptist Church in Columbus.
Martin/Bostick
Mr. and Mrs. Randy Martin of Shuqualak announce
the engagement of their daughter, Hannah Flora
Martin, to Ryan Shadrach Bostick, son of Bennie
Bostick of Madison and Karen Young of Amelia Island,
Florida.
The bride-elect is the granddaughter of Florence
Strait of Macon and the late Jack Martin of Scooba,
and Mildred Higginbotham and the late Lamar Hig-
ginbotham of Shuqualak.
She is a 2009 graduate of Central Academy and a
2013 graduate of Itawamba Community College, where
she earned an Associate of Applied Science degree in
occupational therapy. She is currently employed with
Mid-South Rehab in Macon
The prospective groom is the grandson of Mr. and
Mrs. Keith Bostick of Philadelphia, and Dr. William S.
Young and Amelia Dassinger of Amelia Island.
He is a 2007 graduate of Philadelphia High School
and 2013 graduate of the University of Mississippi
Medical Center, where he earned a Bachelor of Ra-
diologic Sciences degree and a certicate of nuclear
medicine. He is also a member of the Mississippi
Army National Guard. He is currently employed with
Alliance Imaging.
The couple will exchange vows on May 31, 2014, at
Calvary Baptist Church in Macon.
Weddings, engagements
and anniversaries
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BEING BEAUTIFUL
David Creel
BY GEORGE HAZARD
Special to The Dispatch
T
he last word small
takes three different
notes, 26 seconds and
discreet breathing.
Thats the challenge the
Columbus Girlchoir will
meet May 9 when it sings the
world premiere of Miracles
by Memphis composer J.D.
Frizzell.
He wrote this three-minutes
setting of Elizabeth Rooneys
poem by that name for the Girl-
choirs 10th anniversary. The
premiere is part of the choirs
free spring concert in Missis-
sippi University for Womens
Poindexter Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Founding Director Dr.
Cherry Dunn will conduct
the 41-member senior choir,
accompanied by Rachel Delk.
The annual spring concert
also features the 28-member
junior choir, conducted by Tina
Morgan. Andrew Miller and
The YMCA handbells, Drastic
Measures, are on the pro-
gram, too.
Dunn said Frizzells piece
illustrates the choirs improve-
ment since 2004.
We are
denitely singing
harder music
now than we
did when we
started. We
started in 2004
with unison and
two-part music,
she said. Now
we are singing in four parts
and singing pieces in Latin,
French, Spanish, English and
Third World dialects. Our
goal is to develop girls vocally
while introducing them to
quality music that is different
from what we hear in the pop
culture.
That progress has seen the
choir sing at festivals in New
Orleans and North Carolina,
capped off by a performance in
Carnegie Hall last May just
after the Girlchoir returned
to Poindexter Hall after its
renovation.
For that reopening, Frizzell
composed The Choir Invis-
ible for the MUW choirs
beautiful, sing-able music,
Dunn said. So for the 10th
anniversary, I told J.D. we
wanted a three-to-four-minute
piece that was joyful and had a
message. Frizzells wife, Em-
ily, was a member of the rst
Girlchoir 10 years ago.
Dr. Doug Browning, choir
director at First United Meth-
odist Church, had recommend-
ed Frizzell for the Poindexter
piece, and Columbus native
Kenneth Bozeman introduced
Dunn to Rooneys poetry.
Last June, Dunn sent
Rooneys poem to Frizzell, who
started the piece right away
and nished Miracles on Jan.
1. The poem served as a me-
lodic and thematic inspiration
to me, he said.
Frizzell called the Colum-
bus group a group with a
tradition of excellence and a
great director.
I work with high school
womens choirs every day,
he said, so I am familiar with
their abilities and limitations
and try to keep those factors
in mind while composing.
He hopes to be at the May 9
anniversary concert.
Bozeman heads the voice
department at Lawrence Con-
servatory in Appleton, Wiscon-
sin, and was in town for some
anniversary concert practices.
The Girlchoir
is singing excel-
lent, challenging,
appealing reper-
toire, said Boz-
eman. Whether
or not the young
ladies pursue
music in college
or professionally,
they will reap lifelong pleasure
from their singing as a result
of this experience.
And they will be ale to offer
music beautifully performed to
future audiences, he added.
Singers perspectives
Choir members are enjoy-
ing Frizzells commissioned
piece.
I like the changes in
volume as we sing, said
soprano Anna Reed Hairston.
The words are
dynamic and
powerful.
Soprano Hope
Bassett added,
In everyday life
people forget
how big the
universe is, how
cool, how awe-
some it is. Then
in this piece,
even the little
things matter
as shown by the
word small at
the end.
Said Director
Dunn, This piece uses dis-
sonance effectively, the chord
colors are beautiful. Rhyth-
mically, it is tricky and a good
challenge with its metrical
changes.
Dunn noted that 10 years
with the Girlchoir has benet-
ed her, too.
It is gratifying to me to
watch these singers grow in
their self-condence, mental
focus and discipline. I enjoy
fostering a sense of communi-
ty among the members.
Thanks to our board and
great community support we
can give them new experienc-
es like singing in Carnegie
Hall last year, she said.
The anniversary concert
will open with Mary Light-
foots A Festive Alleluia and
include a junior choir medley
from The Sound of Music.
Choir favorite Taylor, the
Latte Boy, by Marcy Heisler,
will be the nal number.
Girlchoir celebrates 10 year milestone with concert
Commissioned piece
is a highlight of free
program
The score of Miracles by J.D. Frizzell is ready on the Columbus Girlchoirs piano as Dr. Cherry Dunn
conducts rehearsal. The commissioned score will be heard for the rst time May 9 when the choir
presents its free Spring Concert at Mississippi University for Womens Poindexter Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Dunn
Bozeman Hairston
Bassett
I
love wom-
en. As far
back as I
can remem-
ber, I have
always adored
them.
It began
with little girls
in kindergar-
ten when I
found comfort
on the seesaw
or monkey
bars with my
friends who were donning
pigtails and plaid dresses
with their giggles. The
middle school years were
no different. I sat on the
grassy hillside with all
my girlfriends Chrissy,
Sonya, Kimberly, Row-
eena spraying bangs
with hairspray and watch-
ing the boys play football.
I was that guy, the one
right smack dab in the
middle of all the girls all
the time.
My very best friend
from as early as I can
muster up a memory
has always been Tracey
Annette. She taught me
to dangle from Mawmaw
Belles Sycamore tree by
my knees with no hands
and was there for every
milestone growing up
my rst wine cooler, the
parachute pants phase,
prom, skipping class,
high school graduation,
midnight pizza
rolls, and even
frosting caps.
My apologies
for some of
that!
We grew
up, grew older,
but never
grew apart. In
fact, I suspect
we are closer
now than
ever before.
Friendships
are so much like owers
in a garden. Some are
annuals, but if you are
lucky the best ones are
like old-fashioned roses
that return year after
year. Tracey Annette
and I found each other
as curious children who
lived on the same country
road, but what we found
in each others hearts has
never been by chance. Its
destiny.
Rarely in life does any
other soul get you like a
best friend, a bosom bud-
dy, and when it happens,
well, its a gift. We had
sleepovers surrounded by
as many stuffed animals
as my twin bed would
hold. Our favorites were
the Smurfs. A few years
ago, I tore into a box Trac-
ey mailed me and found
vintage plush Smurfette
and Papa Smurf toys
from our days of play-
ing together on Dykes
Chapel Road. Those are
the things I consider a
blessing.
Days sometimes pass
without a single word
exchanged between us,
but with a smiley face
text message or throw-
back Thursday picture on
Facebook, we are remind-
ed that ours is a timeless
language all our own.
On a random Sunday, we
might ring each other
and talk for hours about
nothing. Last year, on the
morning I said goodbye
to my mama, the rst
voice I needed to hear
was hers, and likewise
when her Mawmaw Belle
passed onto Heaven the
year before, I was that
voice she longed for.
Sorry, guys, but its the
women I adore, women
like Mrs. Watts, that
teacher who never gave
up on me; my friends
Hope, Lyn, and Lucy;
icons like Madonna, and,
of course, my other half,
the Ethel to my Lucy,
Tracey Annette.
Happy birthday, dear.
Former Columbus
resident David Creel owns
Beautiful With David sa-
lon in Ridgeland. Contact
him at beautifulwithda-
vid@gmail.com.
Remembering the Ethel
to Your Lucy
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M
y week
started
with happy
announcements
and plans for
celebrations. Our
dear friends Clare Mallory and
Meagan ONan announced
that they will be married
this month. This news made
me more excited than when
planning my own wedding. We
were also thrilled to learn that
Amanda and Casey Bareeld
are expecting twins (!) in late
August. So many joyful reve-
lations gave me an emotional
high that could
never be produced
by any sort of drug.
All this, while pre-
paring for the event
celebrating the
release of my sec-
ond book, Witch
Ball, created in me
the sense that all
was right with the
world.
I suppose I
deserved a bit of a
reality check. Sir
Isaac Newtons Third Law of
Motion jumped up and slapped
me in the face. The popular
version, as explained by Steven
Holzner (Physics I For Dum-
mies, second edition), is For
every action, theres an equal
and opposite reaction.
Well, in my world it mani-
fested as For every thrilling
emotion is a let-down so dra-
matic that I almost crash onto
the oor. (If we had a base-
ment, then I would have gone
even further down.)
Monday, the tornado sirens
with their banshee wails
pierced our hearts with the
fear than comes from the
knowledge of natures power.
As long as the television was
working we watched the maps
with wide, twitching lines of
reds and greens and yellows
that symbolize the angry
storms.
Suddenly, all local stations
went blank. My friend, Jyl,
phoned and said, Go into your
safe place now!
Chris and I huddled in
the bathroom with our three
pets and the phone. Later, Jyl
called to give us the all clear
message.
Thunder continued to rattle
the walls and windows for
hours. My two doggie-daugh-
ters trembled and panted, hid-
ing under furniture. Nothing
could comfort them. Finally,
the storms moved east, and the
house became still.
We were lucky. So many
others were not. Parts of Mis-
sissippi were devastated. Our
neighbors in nearby states also
suffered huge damage. (As I
write this, the nal accounts of
loss of life are incomplete.)
It is so hard to look at pho-
tos of destruction. No matter
that we do not personally know
the victims. Their suffering
is infectious. It is crushing,
because we are all connected.
Every sort of disaster leaves
its ugly wake. Floods, hurri-
canes, earthquakes all are
horrible. But tornadoes may be
the worst. They are unexpect-
ed and swift, an abrupt attack.
Gone in seconds, they leave the
accruement of precious lives in
splinters.
There is nothing left to do
but to clear the debris and
try to begin again. We send
prayers and donations to those
who were hurt, secretly grate-
ful that this time the tragedy
was not ours.
People like to say that we
are not sent more than we can
endure. I do not agree. Some-
times we crumble, unable to
continue. At these times we
can take some small comfort
in the news of happy marriage
plans and the births of new
babies, even if they are not our
own, because, as I said before,
we are all connected.
Adele Elliott, a New Orleans
native, moved to Columbus
after Hurricane Katrina. Email
reaches her at adeleelliott@
bellsouth.net.
Maintaining balance
Adele Elliott
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Through the lens
Feng, originally from
Taipei, Taiwan, and her
husband, Eric, were both
international students
at Mississippi State in
the mid-1980s. They are
now business owners
and parents of two grown
children Jonathan, a
medical student in Jackson,
and Catherine, currently a
sophomore at MSU.
The whole family shares
a love of travel.
The remote and some-
times melancholy wildness
in regions of Scotland and
Iceland are among Candy
Fengs most memorable
locations.
We love nature, and the
more we travel, the more
we go back to nature, the
photographer said. When
I travel it inspires me so
much to take more and
more photographs. ... I love
art, but Im not an artist.
But I pick up the camera,
and like an artist does, you
compose ... you see a lot of
things through the camera
that you dont normally
see.
Ironically, Feng is
reluctant to have her own
portrait publicized. She
prefers attention to be on
the work instead.
Photographs, she said,
are a way to remember a
moment forever.
Thats why I love pho-
tography; it communicates
feeling. Sometimes its only
relevant to the person tak-
ing the picture, but I always
connect. I will never forget.
We are strongly connected
with what we photograph; it
becomes part of our lives.
Go to the Photos link
at smithsonianmag.com to
view a high quality version
of Fengs glacier photo-
graph and other striking
photo nalists in the con-
test categories. Scroll down
the page to cast a Readers
Choice vote.
Candy Feng/Courtesy photo
Starkville resident Candy Fengs photograph of her son, Jonathan, next to an imposing glacier in Iceland is
one of 10 nalists in the People category of Smithsonian magazines annual photo contest. I was told the
glacier is receding each year and more and more ice is breaking off. The image of him in front of the glacier
will always remind me of the scale of man to nature. Men can never replace the landscape. We are only part
of it, said Feng.
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to spend at the music
store in Leigh Mall.
It always went toward
something good, like a
deluxe edition of Bruce
Springsteens Born to
Run album. Precocious
and talented, the boys
soon got much better
than mildly. They
began writing songs and
booking shows, origi-
nally calling themselves
The Motions all while
getting an education in
Columbus public schools
and later Heritage Acad-
emy.
Its a story not unlike
a thousand other kids in
bands in garages across
the country. And for
most of them, growing
up, graduations, jobs or
new relationships usually
bring a natural end to
what soon becomes just
a good memory. Or, the
decision is made to stick
with it, to see where
things go.
Hartle Road made the
decision a while back.
Theyre still young, mind
you 19 to 24 but
most of them have been
playing gigs since before
they had drivers licens-
es.
So what makes a
young band push for the
next level? What compels
them to rehearse and
collaboratively write at
night after getting home
from a job, or taking care
of a 10-month-old son, in
Tobys case?
What do we attribute
it to? I dont know
probably, like, being too
stubborn to quit, grins
Max.
Good things
Hartle Roads music
has been called psyche-
delic rock, space rock,
head-bobbing rock and
roll, The Beatles meet
Muscle Shoals. Theres
melody, washed in reverb
and jangling guitars rem-
iniscent of groups like
Big Star, with Pink Floyd
and Sgt. Peppers thrown
in. And just when the
listener thinks hes got
them pegged, he doesnt.
The sound evolved
when Toby got real
heavy into all the Phil
Spector stuff. What he
saw, though, was that
the often layered, dense
production didnt always
translate to the stage.
I wanted to somehow
do that sound and still
harness it live, said the
frontman.
Today, Miles Smith on
guitar and Tyler Carter
on keyboards and guitar
round out the group as
it plays throughout the
region from Nashville,
Tennessee, to Athens,
Georgia, New Orleans to
San Antonio, Texas. (Its
a paradox that Golden
Triangle audiences dont
get many opportunities
to see them live, thanks
in part to limited venues,
especially for original
music. When they do
play locally, its most
often at the Elbow Room,
Daves Dark Horse or
Princess Theater.)
Things are happening.
In late February, the
band released a self-ti-
tled EP produced by
Matt Patton for Big Legal
Mess Records, a subsid-
iary of the Oxford-based
Fat Possum Records,
says Toby. Patton is
probably best known for
his bass playing with
the Drive By Truckers
and Dexateens, and his
work with Fat Possum.
A full-length album, the
brothers say, is already
in the wings.
This summer marks
another rst. The band
will hit the road for their
most extensive tour to
date, to Chicago and New
York City, to the East
coast and Mid-West.
They are ready,
pumped, one might say.
We just need a van.
If someone would be
willing to donate a van,
that would be awesome!
says Max, only half-jok-
ingly. His energy visibly
thrums beneath the
surface. Hes the driving
force, Toby contends.
And every band needs a
driving force. Its not so
easy, nurturing a signa-
ture sound, growing a fol-
lowing, booking shows,
traveling, dealing with
real life.
Its such a hard thing
to do, to make music and
make money, says Toby
realistically. Were only
just getting to where we
can do that.
You have to pay your
dues for a while, Max
concurs.
But the tour should
be fun, and Im really ex-
cited about it ... a bunch
of kids from Columbus
going up to play in New
York that cracks me
up.
When they go, theyll
take their inspirations
with them, all the Spring-
steen, Beach Boys, AC/
DC, Costello and other
artists who have inu-
enced them. Theyll take
their Southern roots, too.
Were proud to be
from Mississippi, and it
took us a long time for
me to say that, Toby
told an interviewer in
a YouTube video, ac-
knowledging a music
scene that doesnt always
immediately embrace
pathnders doing their
own thing.
Their hopes for the
future, at least according
to Max, arent so far-
fetched: for people to
listen, to feel like some-
one is out there, to have
a connection through
music.
I think it would be
cool if people listen and
it liberates them, if some
kid is really affected, if
someone thinks, Wow,
this is incredible, he
says.
Whats the most
important thing to know
about Hartle Road, some
of the band members are
asked.
We care, says Max,
a bit self-consciously.
Were all in. Were try-
ing hard ... and a van, a
van would be nice.
Editors note: Get Har-
tle Roads EP in digital
format at hartleroad.
bandcamp.com or in CD
form at their shows. Listen
to them on YouTube or
biglegalmessrecords.com.
Or contact them at 256-
318-4152.
Courtesy photo
Hartle Road, fronted by Toby Hartleroad, performs at
Secret States in Birmingham, Alabama.
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TIME
Division baseball
playoffs began with
a win for Heritage
Academy in Co-
lumbus when they
hosted Oak Forest
Academy of Louisi-
ana Wednesday.
JEANS &
JEWELS
The Columbus
Arts Council Jeans
& Jewels fundrais-
er was held April
26 at Town Creek
Pavilion.
TODAYS BIRTHDAY (May
4). Over the next 10 weeks,
youll use your augmented
charisma and considerable
powers of diplomacy to create
a change that the world needs.
A mentor will help you choose
the alliances that will best
serve you, and by June, youll
be well on your way to a big
bonus. A personal goal will
be met in August. Aquarius
and Pisces people adore you.
Your lucky numbers are: 3,
24, 33, 29 and 15. ARIES
(March 21-April 19). Dont be
so quick to dismiss situations
that look stressful or difcult.
The best things will be hard
won. Tension and friction are
precursors to exciting move-
ment and change.
TAURUS (April 20-May
20). It may take a while to
make up your mind today, but
once its made up, youre high-
ly unlikely to change course.
Therefore, you are wise to
let every little consideration
count.
GEMINI (May 21-June
21). You admire someone
who will later come to admire
you. Once this person feels
accepted and reassured, he or
she will open up. Later devel-
opments start in the spirit of
reciprocation.
CANCER (June 22-July
22). Just because the clock
is ticking and you cant turn it
back doesnt mean that time
is an enemy. Try to think of
the long and short hands as
gently nudging you toward new
adventures.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22).
Youll be a king or a queen,
changing the rules of the land
to suit your moral stance or
t your needs. You have every
right to control your immediate
environment. If you stretch
further, boundary issues will
come into play.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).
There is often a very ne line
between friends and enemies.
An ill-informed friend who
means well could persuade
you to do something that is
not in your best interest. Stay
alert and check the facts.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).
You are open to a new per-
spective on the old scenery,
but youd prefer to witness
new scenery and then let that
experience marinate a while
to see where it leads your
perspective.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.
21). You dont get hunches
every day, so when you get
one now, you should denitely
follow through. By honoring
your instincts, you invite them
to chime in more often.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov.
22-Dec. 21). Curiosity kills
boredom and leads you to
new environments. If you hang
out there too long, though,
overexposure kills curiosity,
and then its back to square
one: boredom. Youre happiest
when you keep moving.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.
19). Why shouldnt humor and
amusement be something
sacred? Laughter is essential.
Finding a reason to laugh is
important. Whatever time you
spend on the lighter side of
life is time well spent.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-
Feb. 18). At work, you will
experiment with new ways
of handling problems. You
also will change your style of
communication and model the
behavior you would like to see
in others.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
20). Trust yourself to navigate
your own love life. You dont
need directions to nd the
way to someones heart. Youll
guratively put out your arms
and feel your way there.
Horoscopes
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EAR ABBY:
My husband
tends to be
a major clutter-
bug. We had an
argument last
night about him
storing a set of
encyclopedias.
My argument is
that we have nev-
er used them and
never will, since
they are dino-
saurs in todays
modern world.
Any information
can be looked up
digitally.
He was given these
encyclopedias by his grandpar-
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deeper meaning. Although he
has never once used them, he
says they make the bookshelf
look nicer. We recently got rid
of the bookshelf and now he
wants to store them in our
already cluttered attic.
His plan is to pass them
on to our child or grandchil-
dren. I dont think they would
want to inherit them, as they
take up so much space and
there are more efcient ways
to nd information. Please
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DEAR WIFE: The ency-
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meaning for your husband that
almost surely has less to do
with looking nice on a book-
shelf than their sentimental
value. They symbolize the love
his grandparents had for him,
as well as the idea that he can
pass an heirloom down to the
next generations.
Please relent about boxing
them up and making room
for them in the attic. At some
point, your husband will
probably arrive at the same
conclusion that you have
after they have been refused
by the progeny for whom he
has been saving them. And
try to hang on to your sense
of humor, because this isnt
worth arguing over.
DEAR ABBY: What should
someone do when gifts
received via mail or UPS have
been damaged in transit? We
have received some ceramic
objects for Christmas in the
last two years. Both were
packed and sent
by the givers.
My wife would
rather remain
silent about
the damage
to avoid the
appearance that
a replacement
is expected. I
contend that the
damage should
be mentioned
and that no
replacement is
necessary when
writing the thank-
you note, or
even that certain
gifts should be avoided in
the future. Otherwise, the
sender has no way of knowing
that a better packaging job is
necessary. Also, there may
be some (insurance) recourse
with the carrier. BUSTED
IN PENNSYLVANIA
DEAR BUSTED: I agree
with you to a point. The giver
should be thanked, and the
fact that the gift arrived dam-
aged should be mentioned.
Its smart to insure packages
before sending, so if the con-
tents are damaged, there will
be compensation. But even if
they werent insured, the send-
er should be informed that the
gift arrived broken, so the next
time precautions can be taken
before the item is shipped.
However, I do not agree
with stating that in the future
such gifts should be avoided
because it would imply the gift
was unwelcome or inappro-
priate.
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F
lowers
are
always
high on the
gift list for
Mothers
Day, and rose
plants for the
garden are a
great way to
remember the
day year after
year.
There are
lots of roses from which
to choose. Shrub roses
are really popular and
pretty easy to grow and
maintain in the land-
scape. Knockouts may be
the most well-known of
this group.
Knockout roses
produce ower clusters
nonstop in huge num-
bers. Flower colors range
from red to pink and
yellow; blooms can be 3
1/2 inches in diameter.
This plant has multisea-
son interest. The foliage
is a dark, glossy green
in the spring
and summer,
and it puts
on a deep
maroon-pur-
ple show in
the fall.
Knockouts
can grow into
large shrubs
that need to
be cut back
for the best
landscape
performance. Prune
them early each spring,
cutting them back by
about 50 percent. Cut
the canes at a 45-de-
gree angle facing out
to prevent them from
holding water. In late July
or early August, prune
again by about one third.
This pruning stimulates
vigorous growth the next
spring and maintains
abundant owering
through the rst hard
frost.
If your Mom is an
experienced gardener,
then she may appreciate
receiving a hybrid tea
rose. Unlike the shrub-
type roses, hybrid tea
roses typically produce a
single ower at the end of
each stem and are perfect
for cutting and enjoying
in a vase. One of the most
attractive features of
these roses is the number
of petals on each ower.
Some selections can have
up to 60 petals per ower.
There is a dizzying
array of tea rose colors to
bring home from the gar-
den center. In Mississip-
pi, hybrid tea roses can
suffer from soil-borne
problems, but there is a
solution. Hybrid tea roses
that have been grafted
onto a fortuniana root-
stock display improved
vigor and survivability.
Hybrid tea roses are
susceptible to leaf diseas-
es such as black spot and
Cercospora leaf spot in
the spring and fall. Con-
trolling these diseases is
essential for high-qual-
ity roses. Commercial
formulations with either
propiconazole or chlo-
rothalonil can provide
effective control. Always
follow label instructions.
For successful plants
Plant roses in a loca-
tion that receives at least
ve hours of full sun each
day. Morning sun is most
benecial. Incorporate
good organic matter into
the landscape bed at
planting, raising the bed
above the normal grade
to improve drainage
around the plant crown.
Keep the soil moisture
consistent using drip ir-
rigation or soaker hoses,
and try to avoid overhead
watering.
Dr. Gary Bachman is
an associate Extension
and research professor of
horticulture at the Mis-
sissippi State University
Coastal Research and Ex-
tension Center in Biloxi.
Treat mom to Knockout, hybrid tea roses at home
Gary Bachman
SCHOOL NEWS
Heritage Academy
Honor Roll 3rd Grade: Lilly
Grace Black, Laura Grace Broocks,
Perry Mercure-Colville, Jacob
Crocker, Brileigh Glidewell, Mack
Howard, Myles McCoy, Catherine
Moore, Julia Moore, Joshua Tedford
and Garrett Vaughn. 4th Grade:
Hayden Anderson, Jayden Glasgow,
Ayden Mitchell, Elizabeth Nichols,
Gabrielle Richard and Taylor Wheel-
er. 5th Grade: Jackson Conn, Nick
Hairston, Sam Hannon, Stephanie
Madison, Evans Rhett, Owen Riley,
Seth Swain, and Haven Tuggle.
6th Grade: Gunnar Gale, Sean
King, Madison Pankey, Mackenzie
Parker, Sophie Rector and Jonathan
Swartz. 7th Grade: Ainsley Betcher,
Georgiana Brown, Thomas Chain,
Chapman Cooper, Emily Howard
and Macy Nordquist. 8th Grade:
Caroline Bedwell, John Henry Fields,
Lanie Thomas and Cam Williams.
9th Grade: Jeb Brown, Claudia
Davis, Douglas Glenn, Garrett
McArthur and Kayne Whittle. 10th
Grade: Rachel Bell, Leah Boiardi,
Emma Rose Davis, Mary Earrey,
Jack Ellis, Andrew King, Katlin Rus-
sell, Hunter Short and Jacob Swartz.
11th Grade: Madison Betcher,
Walker Brown, Nicholas Ellis, Mary
Gardner, Natalie Hardy, Mattox
Heredia, Emily Markham, Chatham
Phillips, PJ Ridilla, Harli Sesser and
Foster Wiygul. 12th Grade: Joshua
Foxworthy, Douglas Kilarski and
Rachel Stukenborg.
Academy Honors 3rd Grade:
Collin Adair, Collin Atkins, Chloe
Barr, Ethan Buss, Laina Holder,
Jacob Loe, Trey Naugher, Carter
Newell, Andrew Salyer, Maggie
Sansing, Lexi Schmidli, Lucy Sharp,
Meg Waits and Mallory Ward. 4th
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Carlton Hardy, Sara Hutchinson,
Drew Knittig, Coen Mooney, Todd
Sharp and Luke Sneed. 5th Grade:
Sarah Curtis, Emma Hardy, Hanna
Hardy, Kendall Kelly, William Laws,
Kate McElhinney and Blake Ward.
6th Grade: Sydney Adair, Abby
Amos, Sterling Bailey, Sam Baker,
Hannah Brady, Connor Chitmon,
Lydia Dyson, Jack Hiller, Grayson
Jones, Andrew Kelly, Gray Moore,
Carson Nichols, Taylor Phillips, Lau-
ren Short, Alden Wiygul and Allison
Yingst. 7th Grade: Peyton Allen,
Haley Barker, Jackson DiCicco,
Mary Virginia Fields, Layne Gerber,
Moak Grifn, Jamie Parker, Lores
Sharp, Shea Stender, Kayla Thorn-
ton and Clay Walters. 8th Grade:
Abby Akins, Mallory Amos, Car-
rington Bain, Rachel Brady, Anna
Russell Earrey, Stormy Gale, Stella
McShan, Courtney Myers, Stella
Nichols, Erin Wallace, Caroline
Weathers and Shannon Zalesky. 9th
Grade: Jackson Billingsley, Hannah
Britt, Emery Brown, McKenzie
Bumgarner, Dalton Ford, Anna
Reed Hairston, Jack Hannon, Calvin
Hu, Allie Kerby, Blair Madison,
Shelby Phillips, Payton Riley, Logan
Sneed, Emmie Waits and William
Yingst. 10th Grade: Jude Alnas,
Anna LeBrun, Ethyn Loreno, Evie
McIntyre, Andrew Mock, Lauren
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and Macy Walters. 11th Grade:
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Glenn Brown, Riecher Denmark,
Grant Farmer, William Hardy,
Leah Howard, Kat Kerby, Jackie
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Allie Rhett, Margaret Ann Street,
Laura Sundman, Georg Vaquero and
Carrie Westmoreland. 12th Grade:
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Sallie Gardner, Hannah Hawkins,
Megill Imes, Mary Douglass Kerby,
Anna Kilarski, Margaret LeBrun,
Quint Lemmers, Graham McCain,
Caitlin McLain, Kristen Phillips,
Paige Pilkinton, Lizzie Sansing, Katy
Whitman and AK Weathers.
Moore selected
Sabrina Moore, a graduating se-
nior at Mississippi School for Mathe-
matics and Science from Starkville,
has been selected
as a seminalist for
the US Department
of Education - US
Presidential Scholars
Program. She is one
of 565 seminal-
ists chosen out of
4,000 candidates,
based on superior
achievements, leadership qualities,
personal character, and involvement
in community and school activities.
Final selection will include only two
students from the State of Mississip-
pi for the program, of which those
selected will be invited to Washing-
ton, D.C. in June of his year to receive
the Presidential Scholars medallion
at a recognition ceremony and to
participate in various activities and
events held in their honor.
Moore
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520 Horses/Cattle/Livestock
525 Pet Boarding/Grooming
530 Supplies/Accessories
535 Veterinarians
540 Wanted To Buy
600 Financial
605 Business Opportunity
610 Business Opportunity Wanted
612 Check Cashing
615 Insurance
620 Loans
625 Mortgages
630 Stocks & Bonds
635 Business for Sale
700 Rentals
705 Apartments
710 Commercial Property
715 Houses
718 Hunting Land
719 Land for Rent/Lease
720 Mobile Homes
725 Mobile Home Spaces
730 Ofce Spaces
735 Resort Rentals
740 River Property
745 Rooms
750 Storage & Garages
752 Vacation Rentals
755 Wanted to Rent
760 Waterfront Property
800 Real Estate
805 Commercial Property
810 Farms & Timberland
815 Houses - Northside
820 Houses - East
825 Houses - New Hope
830 Houses - South
835 Houses - West
845 Houses - Caledonia
850 Houses - Other
852 Hunting Land
855 Investment Property
860 Lots & Acreage
865 Mobile Homes
870 Mobile Home Spaces
875 Resort Property
880 River Property
885 Wanted to Buy
890 Waterfront Property
900 Transportation
905 Auto Accessories/Parts
910 Auto Rentals & Leasing
915 Autos for Sale
920 Aviation
925 Boats & Marine
930 Camper/R.V.s
935 Golf Carts
940 Motorcycles/ATVs
945 Trailers/Heavy Equipment
950 Trucks, Vans & Buses
955 Wanted to Buy
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LEGAL NOTICE
I, the member of
Hanuman 14, LLC,
intend to make ap-
plication for a
transfer of a Pack-
age Retailer permit
under the provi-
sions of the Local
Option Alcoholic
Beverage Control
Laws 67-1-1 et.
Seq., Mississippi
Code of 1972. If
granted a transfer
from Shreenathji,
Inc. doing business
as Tandoori Oven
who is now operat-
ing at 506 Highway
45 N., Columbus, I
propose to operate
under the trade-
name of Tandoori
Oven at 506 High-
way 45 N, of Lown-
des County. The
name, title and ad-
dress of the mem-
ber of the above is
as follows: Ruchit
Raval, Member,
506 Highway 45 N,
Columbus, MS
39701. If any per-
son wishes to re-
quest a hearing to
object to the is-
suance of this per-
mit a request for a
hearing must be
made in writing
and received by
the Department of
Revenue within
(15) fifteen days
from the first date
this notice was
published. Re-
quests shall be
sent to: Chief
Counsel, Legal Di-
vision Department
of Revenue P. O.
Box 22828 Jack-
son, MS 39225
Date of First Publi-
cation: 05/02/2014
This the 2nd day of
May, 2014.
Publish: 5/2 &
5/4/2014
IN THE CHANCERY COURT
OF LOWNDES COUNTY,
MISSISSIPPI

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE
OF WALSA L. POOLE a/k/a
WALTER L. POOLE, DECEASED

ANNIE POOLE JACKSON,
PETITIONER

CAUSE NO. 2013-0205

SUMMONS

THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI

TO: All Unknown Heirs at-law
of Walsa L. Poole a/k/a Walter
L. Poole, Deceased

You have been made a
Defendant in the suit filed in this
Court by Annie Poole Jackson,
Plaintiff seeking to Determine
Heirs of Walsa L. Poole a/k/a
Walter L. Poole in the above ref-
erenced cause. Other Defen-
dants in this action are the un-
known heirs at-law of Walsa L.
Poole a/k/a Walter L. Poole, De-
ceased.

You are summoned to
appear and defend against the
complaint or petition filed in this
action at 9:30 o'clock a.m. on
the 3rd day of June, 2014, in
the courtroom of the Lowndes
County Courthouse in Columbus,
Mississippi, and in case of your
failure to appear and defend a
judgment will be entered against
you for the money or other
things demanded in the com-
plaint or petition.

You are not required
to file an answer or other plead-
ing, but you may do so if you de-
sire.

Issued under my
hand and the seal of said Court,
this 21st day of April, 2014.

Lisa Younger Neese
Lowndes County Chancery Clerk
Post office Box 684
Columbus, Mississippi 39703

Shantrell W. Granderson
Deputy Clerk
Publish: 4/27, 5/4 &
5/11/2014
NW, Washington, DC 20006-
1806; Kenneth Klee, Klee,
Tuchin, Bogdanoff & Stern LLP,
1999 Avenue of the Stars, 39th
Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90067;
and Robert Yalen, AUSA, U.S.
Attorney's Office - SDNY, 86
Chambers St., 3rd Floor, New
York, NY 10028, so as to be so
filed and received by no later
than May 15, 2014 at 4:00
p.m. (Prevailing Eastern Time).
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE
that only those responses or ob-
jections that are timely filed,
served and received will be con-
sidered.
that the Honorable Allan L. Grop-
per of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court
for the Southern District of New
York has scheduled a hearing to
address this matter on MAY 28,
2014, AT 11:00 A.M., ONE
BOWLING GREEN, NEW YORK,
NY, 10004-1408.
that any objecting parties are re-
quired to attend the hearing and
that failure to appear may result
in relief being granted upon de-
fault.
FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO
ACCESS THE SETTLEMENT
AGREEMENT AND RELATED
DOCUMENTS, please call (from
the U.S. and Canada) (877)
709-4747, or call (for remaining
international callers) (424) 236-
7228 or visit http://www.kccl
lc.net/TronoxKerrMcGeeSettle
ment.
[1]Provided, however, that as it
relates to Kerr-McGee Stored
Power Company LLC, subpart
(vii) is applicable only to the ex-
tent that such liability, if any, re-
lates to or arises from the
stored power or battery busi-
ness." It corresponds to "Power
Company LLC" in the final bold-
ed paragraph of the notice (first
line of the last page of the no-
tice PDF).
Publish: 4/20 5/5/2014
Legal Notices 001
Debtor who filed or could have
filed a claim in the Chapter 11
Cases, (iii) any other Person
whose claim (A) in any way aris-
es from or is related to the Ad-
versary Proceeding, (B) is a
Trust Derivative Claim, or (C) is
duplicative of a Trust Derivative
Claim, and (iv) any Person acting
or purporting to act as an attor-
ney for any of the preceding is
hereby permanently enjoined
from asserting against any
Anadarko Released Party (I) any
Trust Derivative Claims or (II)
any claims that are duplicative
of Trust Derivative Claims,
whether or not held or controlled
by the Litigation Trust, or
whether or not the Litigation
Trust could have asserted such
claims against any Anadarko Re-
leased Party. The injunction
herein shall not apply to or bar
the following: (i) any criminal lia-
bility; (ii) any liability arising un-
der Title 26 of the United States
Code (Internal Revenue Code) or
state tax laws; (iii) any liability
arising under federal or state se-
curities laws; (iv) any action to
enforce a covenant not to sue,
release, or agreement not to
seek reimbursement contained
in the Settlement Agreement; (v)
any liability that an Anadarko Re-
leased Party might have that
does not arise from or through a
liability of a Debtor; (vi) any lia-
bility of an Anadarko Released
Party due to its status or acts or
omissions since November 28,
2005 as a/an (A) owner, (B) op-
erator, (C) discharger, (D)
lessee, (E) permittee, (F) li-
censee, (G) person in charge,
(H) holder of a right of use and
easement, (I) arranger for dis-
posal or treatment, (J) trans-
porter, or (K) person who gener-
ates, handles, transports,
treats, stores or disposes of sol-
id or hazardous waste; (vii) any
liability relating to the E&P Busi-
ness or the stored power or bat-
tery business (including, but not
limited to, as owned or operated
by U.S. Avestor LLC and Kerr-
McGee Stored Power Company
LLC ); and (viii) any liability that
any Anadarko Released Party re-
tained, received or assumed pur-
suant to the Assignment Agree-
ment or Assignment, Assump-
tion, and Indemnity Agreement.
For the avoidance of doubt, to
the extent that a liability of an
Anadarko Released Party exclud-
ed from the injunction herein by
the preceding sentence would
be a liability for which such
Anadarko Released Party would
be jointly and severally liable
with others, including but not
limited to one or more Debtors
or Reorganized Debtors, under
applicable law, nothing in this in-
junction is intended to alter any
such applicable principles of
joint and several liability where
otherwise provided by law. The
injunction herein does not apply
to the Litigation Trust and the
United States, which are provid-
ing releases and covenants not
to sue in the Settlement Agree-
ment.
that objections to the Motion, if
any, shall be in writing, shall
conform to the Federal Rules of
Bankruptcy Procedure and the
Local Rules of the Bankruptcy
Court for the Southern District of
New York, shall set forth the
name of the objecting party, the
basis for the objection and the
specific grounds thereof, shall
be filed with the Bankruptcy
Court electronically in accor-
dance with General Order M-242
(which can be found at www.nys-
b.uscourts.gov) by registered
users of the Bankruptcy Court's
case filing system and by all oth-
er parties in interest, and shall
be served upon: Jeffrey J.
Zeiger, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, 300
N. LaSalle, Chicago, IL 60654;
John C. Hueston, Litigation
Trustee, Irell & Manella LLP,
1800 Avenue of the Stars, Suite
900, Los Angeles, CA 90067;
Thomas Lotterman, Bingham
McCutchen LLP, 2020 K Street
continued next column
Legal Notices 001
LTA, and Environmental Settle-
ment Agreement assigned, as
provided in the Confirmation Or-
der and the LTA, all of the
Debtors' respective rights and
interests in the Adversary Pro-
ceeding (excluding the Com-
plaint-in-Intervention), which in-
cludes any claims or causes of
action of the Debtors related to
the Adversary Proceeding,
whether or not asserted in the
Adversary Proceeding, to the Liti-
gation Trust for the benefit of
the entities listed in Section 1(d)
of the LTA, which include the
Tort Claims Trust, the Cimarron
Environmental Response Trust,
the Multistate Environmental Re-
sponse Trust, the Nevada Envi-
ronmental Response Trust, the
Savannah Environmental Re-
sponse Trust (collectively, along
with the West Chicago Environ-
mental Response Trust, the En-
vironmental and Tort Trusts),
and certain governmental enti-
ties that had asserted Bankrupt-
cy Environmental Claims against
the Debtors (collectively, Litiga-
tion Trust Beneficiaries).
Pursuant to the Plan, LTA, Envi-
ronmental Settlement Agree-
ment, and Environmental and
Tort Trust Agreements (other
than the West Chicago Environ-
mental Response Trust Agree-
ment), the Litigation Trust Bene-
ficiaries and beneficiaries of the
Environmental and Tort Trusts
(together with the Litigation
Trust Beneficiaries, the Benefi-
ciaries) are entitled to have
paid, on account of their
Bankruptcy Environmental
Claims and Bankruptcy Tort
Claims, specified allocations of
a share of the net proceeds of
any recovery from the Adversary
Proceeding.
On December 12, 2013, the
Bankruptcy Court issued its
Memorandum Opinion, After Tri-
al, finding the Anadarko Trial De-
fendants liable under the Sec-
ond Amended Adversary Com-
plaint for actual and constructive
fraudulent conveyances, but not
liable for breach of fiduciary du-
ty. The Decision is not a final
judgment and the Bankruptcy
Court did not enter final judg-
ment.
On April 3, 2014, the Parties en-
tered into the Settlement Agree-
ment that resolves the Adver-
sary Proceeding and provides for
releases, covenants not to sue,
and the issuance of an injunc-
tion by a U.S. District Court en-
joining certain persons from as-
serting Trust Derivative Claims
and any claims that are duplica-
tive of such Trust Derivative
Claims (as defined in the Settle-
ment Agreement).
On April 3, 2014, the United
States lodged the Settlement
Agreement with the Bankruptcy
Court. On approximately April
14, 2014 the United States will
publish a notice for public com-
ment thereon in the Federal Reg-
ister. On April 9, 2014, the Liti-
gation Trust and Anadarko filed
a motion (the 9019 Recom-
mendation Motion) with the
Bankruptcy Court, seeking the
Report and Recommendation.
The Settlement Agreement set-
tles, compromises, resolves and
closes the Adversary Proceeding
and settles, compromises, re-
solves, and extinguishes the
Trust Derivative Claims, any
claims that were asserted or
that could have been asserted in
the Second Amended Adversary
Complaint, and the claims as-
serted in the Complaint-in-Inter-
vention and the claims that
could have been asserted in the
Complaint-in-Intervention relating
to the subject matter of the Ad-
versary Proceeding, together and
on a global basis to the extent
provided in the Settlement
Agreement. Pursuant to the Set-
tlement Agreement, within two
Business Days after the Effec-
tive Date, Anadarko shall cause
to be paid to the Litigation Trust
$5.15 billion plus Interest. The
Litigation Trust shall cause the
Settlement Proceeds to be allo-
cated and distributed to the Liti-
gation Trust Beneficiaries con-
sistent with the LTA. The Litiga-
tion Trust succeeded to, as of
and after the Plan Effective
Date, any and all claims against
the Anadarko Released Parties
related to the claims, issues
and subject matter of the Adver-
sary Proceeding which were
held, owned and/or controlled
by one or more Debtors before
the Plan Effective Date. Since
the Plan Effective Date, the Liti-
gation Trust has not sold, as-
signed, transferred, encum-
bered, hypothecated, aban-
doned, conveyed or otherwise
disposed of any claims received
by the Litigation Trust from
Debtors pursuant to the Plan.
Proposed Permanent Injunction:
The movants have requested
that the following permanent in-
junction be issued by the District
Court: Pursuant to 28 U.S.C.
1367 & 1651, 105(a) of the
Bankruptcy Code and Bankrupt-
cy Rules 7001 and 7065, (i) any
Debtor(s), (ii) any creditor of any
Legal Notices 001
UNITED STATES
BANKRUPTCY COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF
NEW YORK
In re: Chapter 11 TRONOX
INCORPORATED, et al., Jointly
Administered Reorganized
Debtors.
Case No. 09-10156 (ALG)
NOTICE OF MAY 15, 2014
DEADLINE FOR FILING OBJEC-
TIONS TO TRONOX/KERR-
MCGEE SETTLEMENT AGREE-
MENT
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that, on
April 9, 2014, the Anadarko Liti-
gation Trust (the Litigation
Trust), as successor to Debtors
Tronox Incorporated, Tronox
Worldwide LLC, and Tronox LLC
in the above-captioned adversary
proceeding, and Anadarko
Petroleum Corporation, Kerr-
McGee Corporation, Kerr-McGee
Oil & Gas Corporation (n/k/a
Anadarko US Offshore Corpora-
tion), Kerr-McGee Worldwide Cor-
poration, KM Investment Corpo-
ration (improperly named as
Kerr-McGee Investment Corpora-
tion), Kerr-McGee Credit LLC,
Kerr-McGee Shared Services
Company LLC and Kerr-McGee
Stored Power Company LLC (col-
lectively, Anadarko), filed a
motion with the U.S. Bankruptcy
Court for the Southern District of
New York (the Bankruptcy
Court) seeking a report and rec-
ommendation (A) recommending
approval of the Settlement
Agreement between and among
the Anadarko Litigation Trust,
the United States of America,
and Anadarko resolving the
above-captioned adversary pro-
ceeding, and (B) recommending
issuance of an injunction enjoin-
ing certain persons from assert-
ing against any Anadarko Re-
leased Party (i) any Trust Deriva-
tive Claims, or (ii) any claims
which are duplicative of Trust
Derivative Claims (all capitalized
terms not otherwise defined
herein shall have the meaning
as defined in the Settlement
Agreement).
PURSUANT TO THE MOTION
FILED WITH THE COURT:
THE DEADLINE TO FILE OBJEC-
TIONS TO THE TRONOX SETTLE-
MENT AGREEMENT IS MAY 15,
2014, AT 4:00 P.M. EASTERN
A HEARING ON THE MOTION
(AND ANY OBJECTIONS TIMELY
FILED) HAS BEEN SCHEDULED
FOR MAY 28, 2014 AT 11:00
A.M. EASTERN AT THE U.S.
BANKRUPTCY COURT FOR THE
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW
YORK (SEE ADDRESS BELOW)
Brief Recitation of Facts: On Jan-
uary 12, 2009, Tronox Incorpo-
rated and certain of its affiliates
(collectively, the Debtors) com-
menced chapter 11 cases (the
Chapter 11 Cases) in the
Bankruptcy Court. On November
30, 2010, the Bankruptcy Court
confirmed the Debtors' Plan. On
February 14, 2011, the Plan be-
came effective. In the Chapter
11 Cases, the United States,
other governmental entities, and
other Persons filed Proofs of
Claim against the Debtors on ac-
count of, among other things, al-
leged environmental claims, obli-
gations, and/or liabilities at cer-
tain of the Covered Sites. Vari-
ous tort claimants filed Proofs of
Claim against the Debtors on ac-
count of alleged tort liabilities,
including for personal injury and
property damage. Those claims
were or will be resolved pursuant
to the Plan, related tort and envi-
ronmental agreements, the Liti-
gation Trust Agreement (LTA),
and other prior proceedings of
the Bankruptcy Court.
There are two complaints
against Anadarko currently being
jointly litigated in Tronox Inc., et
al. v. Kerr-McGee Corporation, et
al. (In re Tronox Inc.), Adv. Proc.
No. 09-01198 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y.):
1. the Second Amended Adver-
sary Complaint [which is filed at
Case No. 09-01198 (ALG), Dkt.
No. 233]; and
2. the Complaint-in-Intervention
filed by the United States [which
is filed at Case No. 09-01198
(ALG), Dkt. No. 5-2]. The Plan,
Legal Notices 001
OF LOWNDES COUNTY,
MISSISSIPPI

OF SUSIE A. BARNETT,
DECEASED

LILLIE W. BRIDGES, PETITIONER

CAUSE NO. 2013-0222

SUMMONS


TO: The Unknown Heirs at-law
of Susie A. Barnett, Deceased

You have been made a
Defendant in the suit filed in this
Court by Lillie W. Bridges, Plain-
tiff seeking to Determine Heirs
of Susie A. Barnett in the above
referenced cause. Other Defen-
dants in this action are the un-
known heirs at-law of Susie A.
Barnett, Deceased.

You are summoned to
appear and defend against the
complaint or petition filed
against you in this action at
9:30 o'clock a.m. on the 28th
day of May, 2014, in the court-
room of the Lowndes County
Courthouse in Columbus, Missis-
sippi, and in case of your failure
to appear and defend a judg-
ment will be entered against you
for the money or other things de-
manded in the complaint or peti-
tion.

You are not required to
file an answer or other pleading,
but you may do so if you desire.

Issued under my hand
and the seal of said Court, this
17th day of April, 2014.

Lisa Younger Neese
Lowndes County Chancery Clerk
Post Office Box 68
Columbus, Mississippi 39703

Shantrell H. Granderson
Deputy Clerk
Publish: 4/27, 5/4 &
5/11/2014
OF LOWNDES COUNTY,
MISSISSIPPI
OF FLORENCE LITTLE MCCULLY,
DECEASED
CAUSE NO. 2014-0012-B
RULE 81 SUMMONS (SUM-
MONS BY PUBLICATION to UN-
KNOWN HEIRS)
TO: All known and unknown
Heirs of FLORENCE LITTLE MC-
CULLY, Deceased You have
been made a defendant in the
suit filed in this Court by Admin-
istrator DARNELL MCCULLY, Pe-
titioner, seeking a Determination
of Heirship in the Estate of FLO-
RENCE LITTLE MCCULLY, De-
ceased.
You are summoned to appear
and defend against said Deter-
mination of Heirship at 9:00 o'-
clock on the 20th day of May,
2014 in the Courtroom of the
Chancery Court of Webster
County in Eupora, Mississippi,
and in case of your failure to ap-
pear and defend a judgment will
be entered against you for the
relief demanded in this petition.
You are not required to file an
answer or other pleading but you
may do so if you desire. Issued
under my hand and the seal of
said Court, this the 15
th
day of
April, 2014.
Lisa Younger Neese,
Clerk of Lowndes County, Mis-
sissippi
BY: Shantrell W. Granderson
D.C.
Presented by:
Jeffery Harness
MSB 103757
P. O. Box 565
Natchez, Mississippi 39121
Telephone: 1-800-708-0180
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room, DR, great room,
lots of storage & energy
efficient. 18 min. from
Severstal. Call Kimberly
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Golf Course. In ground
pool. $289,000. 662-
550-5095. For more
info & pics go to:
forsalebyowner.com.
Listing#23980405
3BR/2BA. LR, formal
DR, kitchen, breakfast
rm, lg. den, fireplace, lg.
Sun room, 1 yr. old cen-
tral unit, new fridge,
beautiful hw floors,
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completely remodeled.
2540 sf. 331 5
th
St NW
Vernon, AL. $159k. Call
662-574-2820
3-4BR/3.5BA, 2900 sf.
plus full basement, nice
wooded lot. $164k.
Neg. Vernon, AL. Call
205-695-5070
Houses For Sale:
Other 850
ALL AREAS. 3BR/2BA.
Low down pmt. WAC.
Call Randy 1-855-847-
6808
Houses For Sale:
Starkville 846
2BR HOUSE for sale
w/mother-in-law suite.
Vacant for several
years. $28,500. Call
251-3352
Houses For Sale:
East 820
LOVELY UPPER side
home. Very cozy & nice
older home in Bunker
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schools & entertain-
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areas, breakfast area &
dining room. Large
shop/storage building
w/drop shed. Lots of
storage. Owner is an
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Houses For Sale:
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Rd. @ reduced prices.
3BR/2BA/2200 sq ft. &
3BR/1BA/1400 sq ft. &
1.5 acres. Call Dean
662-328-8679
Houses For Sale:
Northside 815
OFFICE BUILDING for
rent. Great loc. on Blue-
cutt Rd. Lg. front recept.
area, 3 off. & conf. rm,
w/ ample parking. 662-
242-7547 for more info
Commercial
Property 805
COMPLETELY FURN.
West Point. Furn, appli-
ances, utilities & cable.
$145/week or $550/
mo. No dep. 295-6309
Rooms 745
1100 SF, corner of
Bluecutt Rd. & Chubby
Dr. Call 662-327-2020
1100 SF, corner of
Bluecutt Rd. & Chubby
Dr. Call 662-327-2020
Office Spaces 730
Houses For Sale:
Other 850
RENT A fully equipped
camper w/utilities & ca-
ble from $135/wk -
$495/month. 3 Colum-
bus locations. Call 601-
940-1397
MOBILE HOMES. By the
wk/mo. 2BR start @
$100/wk or $325/mo.
$99 move in special for
monthly rentals! Call
Shawnie 662-315-8595
Mobile Homes
For Rent 725
328-1124
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APARTMENTS & TOWNHOUSES
HOUSES (OVER 100 MANAGED)
DOWNTOWN LOFTS
COMMERCIAL PROPERTY
3BR/2 BA, Double-
wide, wall air condition-
ing, natural gas heat;
Refrigerator, stove &
dishwasher provided.
Front porch & added
back storage room. Lo-
cated on one acre of
land on Wolf Rd. CMSD.
662-364-2799
2BR/1BA. Front porch,
walking distance to
Caledonia schools.
$300/mo. plus dep. &
lease. Call 352-4776
2BR/1BA, 3BR/2BA
Bill Walker Dr. 3BR/
2BA Jess Lyons Rd.
2BR/1BA Gunshoot Rd.
$350-$500/mo. Lease
& Dep. No Pets. Open 8-
5 Mon-Fri. Weathers
Rentals 662-327-5133
Mobile Homes
For Rent 725
3BR. SEC. 8 accepted.
Ref. req. Call 662-425-
4491 or 327-6802 after
4pm
Houses For Rent:
Other 718
1/2BR. IDEAL for 2
people. Lg LR, dining
room carport, & kit/util.
rm w/ washer/dryer
hookup. Call 662-352-
1261
Houses For Rent
West: 715
3BR/1.5BA Near Lake
Lowndes. CH/A, private,
x/nice. No smoke, HUD
or pets. $700/mo. +
dep. Call 549-3329
House For Rent:
New Hope 713
EAST EMERALD Es-
tates. 3BR/2BA, double
carport, outside
storage, fenced back
yard. RENOVATED.
$850 mo. Lease, de-
posit, references. Avail-
able June 1. Call Long &
Long, 328-0770. NO
HUD
Houses For Rent:
East 712
2 & 3 BR. No HUD ac-
cepted. Call 662-617-
1538 for more info
HOUSE/APT. House:
2BR/3BA, c h/a, lg.
family rm. w/f. pl, DR,
LR, d/washer, fridge,
freezer, icemaker,
bkfast rm, lndry rm, sc.
porch, o/side storage,
fenced patio. Connected
Apt: kitch, BR/BA,
dinette. 323 13
th
St N.
Ref/app. req. No pets.
No HUD. 386-7506
COLONIAL TOWNHOUS-
ES. 2 or 3 bedroom w/
2-3 bath townhouses.
$575/$700. 662-549-
9555. Ask for Glenn or
leave message
5BR/3BA, 2 living
room. Large fully wired
shop. Available June 15.
$1000/month. Call for
sale price. 662-364-
6532
3BR/2BA BRICK home
CH/A, fenced bk. yd.,
very nice neighborhood
No animals inside, no
HUD. $800/mo + dep.
662-328-4719
2BR/2BA. Private loca-
tion convenient to CAFB.
$750/month. 1
St
& last
month payment. $500
dep. Ref. req. 574-1621
2BR/1BA. Central heat
& air. Call 228-234-
6848
Houses For Rent:
Northside 711
EAST COLUMBUS.
30'X60' glass front
building. Formerly bar-
ber/dress/beauty shop.
Could be church or day-
care center. Good park-
ing lot. 301 North Mc-
Crary. Call 425-6505
OFFICE OR retail proper-
ty available in East
Columbus. Call 386-
7694 or 364-1030
Commercial
Property For Rent
710
Rivergate
Apartments
Quiet Country Living
Studio,
1&2 Bedrooms
Executive Units
Water
Furnished
Monday - Friday
8a-5p
327-6333
300 Holly Hills Rd.
Columbus
Commercial Dispatch
Apartments For
Rent: Other 708
Chateaux
Holly Hills
Apartments
102 Newbell Rd
Columbus
Mon-Fri 8-5
328-8254
Central Heat & Air
Conditioning
Close to CAFB
Onsite Laundry Facility
All Electric/Fully Equipped
Kitchen
Lighted Tennis Court
Swimming Pool
Where Coming
Home is the
Best Part of
the Day
UPTOWN HISTORIC
Columbus. Large 1BR
apt. Secure, quiet & pri-
vate. No pets. Ref req.
$320 mo + $100 dep.
Call 662-386-6671 be-
fore 7pm
SPRING SPECIAL. No
deposit req. 2BR/1BA.
North & Southside loca-
tions. Call 662-798-
4194
1, 2 & 3 BEDROOM
APARTMENTS &
TOWNHOUSES.
1BR/1BA Apt. $300
2BR/1BA Apt. $350-
$400. 2BR/2BA 3BR /
2BA Townhouses $550-
$800. No HUD allowed.
Lease, deposit, credit
check required. Cole-
man Realty. 329-2323
1 & 2BR apts. in North
& East. CH&A, all elec,
water & sewer furn, con-
venient to shopping.
$350/mo. Call 352-
4776
Apartments For
Rent: Other 708
NORTHSTAR PROPER-
TIES. 500 Louisville St.
1, 2 & 3BR avail. 662-
323-8610. 8-5pm, M-F.
northstarstarkville.com.
Basic cable included
Apartments For
Rent: Starkville
707
2BR/2BA Apts for rent.
Stove, fridge & dish-
washer. $750/mo. 356-
4700 or 386-4180
Apartments For
Rent: Caledonia
706
VIP
Rentals
Apartments
& Houses
1 Bedrooms
2 Bedrooms
3 Bedrooms
Unfurnished
1, 2 & 3 Baths
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& Credit Check
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327-8555
307 Hospital Drive
Furnished &
Apartments For
Rent: West 705
2BR/1BA, newly remod-
eled, credit check, back-
ground check & rental
history required.
$750/mo. Call 662-
341-5664
Apartments For
Rent: South 704
1, 2, 3 BEDROOMS &
townhouses. Call for
more info. 662-549-
1953
Apartments For
Rent: East 702
NORTHWOOD TOWN-
HOUSES 2BR, 1.5BA,
CH/A, stove, fridge,
DW, WD hookups, &
private patios. Call
Robinson Real Estate
328-1123
***$99 1st Month***
Feels like home to me.
Clean 1-4BR remodeled
apts. Stove, fridge, w/d
hookups, mini-blinds.
HUD accepted. Call Mar-
lene. 662-630-2506
Apartments For
Rent: Northside
701
NEW HOPE
GARDEN APARTMENTS
58 Old Yorkville Road 327-8372
Monday & Wednesday 3pm-6pm
1 & 2 Bedroom Apartments
Next to New Hope Schools
Stove, Refrigerator, Central Heat & Air
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Going On Now!!!
1.0 4:78 | Monday - Friday 8:00 am - 5:00pm
NICE RESTAURANT in
Bartahatchie Community
w/4 ac. of land &
ponds. Call 662-369-
0231 for more info
Business
For Sale 635
OWN YOUR OWN busi-
ness whether a busi-
ness or franchise oppor-
tunity...when it comes to
earnings or locations,
there are no guaran-
tees. A public service
message from The Dis-
patch and the Federal
Trade Commission
Business
Opportunity 605
AKC GERMAN Shep-
herd puppies. Exc. ped.
Blk, sable, blk/silv &
blk/red. Vet checked,
wormed & shots. Call
662-213-4609
Pets 515
YELLOW LAB mixed
puppies free to a good
home. Ready Now. Call
386-9518
Free Pets 510
TITAN 8500 high perfor-
mance industrial gener-
ator $1250. Call 662-
242-0259
MATCHING WHIRLPOOL
washer & dryer set
$150, no separation.
New Lowe's BBQ grill w/
cover $125. Call
662-251-6661
4X8 UTILITY trailer.
Good for mower or 4
wheeler. Nice. $400.
Call 356-6413 or 241-
5003
12 X 20 METAL storage
shed, insulated, wired
for elec, ceiling fan, win-
dow unit, plywood
floors/walls & built in
tables. $2500 obo.
662-574-3027
General
Merchandise 460
ESTATE SALE:
Starkville, MS. Mrs. Kay
Hardy. Fairfield Com-
mons. 100 Fairfield Dr.
Original art work, vin-
tage furnishings, unique
items from military trav-
els, 2 tv cabinets, nice
screen, Ducan Phyfe ta-
ble, 6 chrs, 2 brk. tbls &
chrs, patio set, tea ser-
vices, sets of china, BR
furnishings, electronics,
hhold items, acces-
sories & smalls. 5/2 &
5/2 8am-5pm, 5/4
1pm -5pm. Antiques &
Collectibles 570-5686.
View at:estatesales.net
Estate Sales 449
LIVING ESTATE Sale.
548 Hwy 45 N. Frontage
Rd. 25-50% off. Tue.-
Sat. 10a-6p. After hours
appointments avail.
352-4460
Estate Sales 449
GORDO INDOOR Flea
Market. Something for
everyone. Over 20 ven-
dors. Antiq. furn, jugs,
churns, glassware, vinyl,
knives, antiq. washing
machine, appliances,
bird houses. You name
it, we got it. Every Fri.
7a-4p & every Sat. 7a-
12p. 205-712-0465
Flea Markets 446
SPRAY LIQUID FERTIL-
IZER. STARTING @ $35
/AC. CHICKEN LITTER
$45/AC/ WAY MORE
EFFICIENT THAN GRAN-
ULAR FERTILIZER.
WORKS ALL SEASON
LONG. 662-386-9122
4230 JOHN Deere trac-
tor w/a 1210A grain
buggy. Gattman, MS.
Call 662-256-0951
Farm Equipment &
Supplies 442
LEGACY VINTAGE
HEART PINE
Buy a piece of MSU his-
tory. Heart pine flooring
& ceiling joint salvaged
from original mess hall.
Bulk orders only.
662-435-2305
Building
Materials 424
THOR DRUM set $95.
Call 662-708-0268.
Leave msg. if no answer
NEW LADIES shoes,
Earth Origins, 6.5, blk
suede slip-ons $20.
343-8370
BRIDAL REGISTER bks,
pic. album, garter, fl. girl
bskt, toasting glasses &
decor. $25. 343-8370
BOX OF girls, winter, 20
pcs, sz. 4, pants &
tops,ex. cond. $30.
343-8370
ANTIQUE PIANO $50.
Leave msg. if no an-
swer. 662-726-5400
Bargain
Column 418
5 PIECE green & black
marble bedroom set.
Full/queen size. $100.
Call 574-8688
40 WESTERN paper-
back books $40. Call
386-1859
4 QUEEN size air mat-
tresses with air pump
$75. Call 386-1859
4 MSU vehicle window
flags $20. 343-8370
Bargain
Column 418
WE SELL used appli-
ances & haul off your
old ones. CALL 662-
549-5860 or 662-364-
7779
Appliances 409
SMALL MANUFACTUR-
ING business seeking a
full time truck driver.
Day only, driving our
trucks. Class A CDL,
clean driving record, 2
years truck driving expe-
rience, positive attitude,
flexible. Job is located
in Macon, MS. Call 662-
726-5224
ROUTE DRIVER/sales
person wanted for ice
distribution company.
Must have a neat &
clean appearance &
deal well with the pub-
lic. Class A license. Ap-
ply in person at Fairway
Ice 802 Moss St.
Columbus, MS 39701
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Truck Driving 370
RN SUPERVISOR. Wind-
sor Place has a full time
position available for a
RN to work night shift
Monday through Friday
& 7P - 7A on weekends.
Apply at Windsor Place
81 Windsor Blvd Colum-
bus 39702. 662-241-
5518
Medical &
Dental 330
PHLEBOTOMY w/EKG
Training/Certification
May 24, 9am-6pm
Fee $400
Ph: 877-741-1996
www.medical2.com
MEDICARE NURSE
CASE MANAGER. Req:
RN w/at least 2-3 yrs.
clinical exp, in acute
care, skilled or LTC set-
ting, MDS 3.0 exp. Pri-
or Medicare/Medicaid
exp. a +. Send resume
to: 505 Jackson St, Ab-
erdeen, MS 39730.
Attn: Abra Richardson,
RN DON. EOE
DENTAL OFFICE looking
for dental assistant.
Prefer experience & cur-
rent radiology permit.
Please submit resume
to Box 522 c/o The
Commercial Dispatch,
PO Box 511, Columbus,
MS 39703
Medical &
Dental 330
SHEET METAL Installer
needed in the Colum-
bus, MS trade area.-
Must have at least 2 yrs
exp. Salary commensu-
rate with experience. A
drug test will be admin-
istered. Send resume &
references to: Box 521
c/o The Commercial
Dispatch, PO Box 511,
Columbus, MS 39703
Company: Airbus
Helicopters, Inc.
Job title: Engineering
Supervisor - LUH (Light
Utility Helicopter) Liai-
son
Seeks candidates in
Columbus, MS to super-
vise the engineering de-
sign & liaison support
function for the UH-72A
aircraft production line.
MS in Aeronautical or
Mechanical Engineering
& 3 yrs exp in sheet
metal and/or fiber rein-
forced plastics (compos-
ite) airframe & heli-
copter structures in the
field of structural de-
sign/MRB/liaison,
stress calculations, sys-
tem integration, and/or
certification, or BS in
Aeronautical or Mechan-
ical Engineering & 5 yrs
exp. Apply at http://air
bushelicoptersincms.i
applicants.com/searchj
obs.php.
No calls. Principals only.
EOE
General Help
Wanted 320
REFRIGERATION TECH
needed. 5 yrs. exp. or 2
yrs. trade school & EPA
cert. req. Salary based
on exp. Benefits: 401k,
health/dental/vision &
pd. time off. Must pass
drug test. Send
resume/ref. To Box 521
c/o Commercial Dis-
patch, PO Box 511,
Columbus, MS 39703
ANIMAL SHELTER
POSITION. FT. Oktibbe-
ha Co. Humane Society
is accepting applica-
tions for Director of Op-
erations/Shelter Manag-
er for the Starkville City
Shelter. Mail cover let-
ter & resume to: Person-
nel, PO Box 297,
Starkville, MS 39760
General Help
Wanted 320
REWARD: LOST female
mostly black dog Babe,
from Gaylane Dr. Part
lab. Had a green collar.
Takes meds. Call 435-
1132 or 497-2900
LET US HELP find your
lost pet. Email, fax, mail
or bring your information
by the office and we will
run your lost & found ad
in the Pet Finder for 6
days FREE!
Lost & Found 230
~Fully Insured ~Big
trees ~Small trees
~Trees over house
~Storm cleanup ~
~Brush clearing~ FREE
QUOTES. Call today.
662-801-7511
TREE REMOVAL, trim-
ming, excavation &
stump grinding. Carl@
RutherfordContracting
LLC.com. Text/call 662-
251-9191
J.R. BOURLAND
Tree & Stump
Removal. Trimming
w/bucket truck
Licensed & Bonded
Firewood 4 sale LWB
$100. 662-574-1621
J&A TREE REMOVAL
Work from a bucket
truck. Insured/bonded.
Call Jimmy for a
free estimate
662-386-6286
Tree Service 186
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36 Sense of taste
37 Atlas section
38 Electric eels
home
39 Heavy metal
40 Maroon
DOWN
1 Deep gorge
2 Dutch city, with
the
3 Turn aside
4 NHL team
5 In the past
6 Veto vote
7 Students aide
8 Served over toast,
in diner lingo
9 Well-wishers wish
10 In the closet, say
16 The Stranger
author
18 Betting groups
20 Heeds
22 Abelards love
23 Tropical worry
24 Interstellar
clouds
25 Casual shoe
28 In the future
30 Stun
31 Glades creature
32 Perfume
34 Matching
36 Jotting spot
Five Questions
1 Golf
2 Dutch elm
disease
3 Arabesque
4 Martin
Luther King
Jr.
5 Volga
PROPERTIES UNLIMITED
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662-328-1150 - 41?0 Rwy. 45 Nerth
TOP PRODUCERS FOR
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574-3379
TOP CLOSED
Kendra Dismukes
386-9750
Top Lister
Kendra Dismukes
386-9750
Cl assi fi ed
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Response
Theres one thing you can count on when you advertise your unwanted
goods in The Dispatch Classifieds-Response!
Hundreds of people shop classified daily. And theyre ready to buy. We
guarantee many of them will be interested in what you have to sell.
Remember: interest generates response; response activates sales.
Interest. Response. Sales. With classified, its as easy as 1-2-3
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328-2424
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662-328-2427
www.cdispatch.com
2009 ROCKWOOD Sig-
nature Series Ultra
Light. 2 slide-outs (BR &
kitchen), 29 ft.
$14,000. Call 356-
6149 or 574-1280
2006 HONDA 1300
(Harley style) 38,974
mi. Black & Silver,
w/lots of chrome, 2
sets of saddle bags.
$5,000 Call 328-4355.
Motorcycles &
ATV's 940
RV CAMPER & mobile
home lots. Full hookup
w/sewer. 2 locations
W&N from $75/wk -
$260/mo. 662-251-
1149 or 601-940-1397
Campers &
RV's 930
REPOS
FOR SALE
2011 Flagstaff V-Lite
5th Wheel $30,000
2006 BMW 750
LI Sedan, miles
177,749, $20,000
2006 Mercedes Benz
C280, miles 152,381,
$11,000
2007 Chrysler 300,
miles 175,359,
$8,000
2005 Chevrolet
Impala LS Sedan,
miles 190,600,
$5,000
2006 Suzuki GSX-
R600K6 Motorcycle,
mileage unknown,
$5,000
1996 Honda Shadow
Motorcycle, miles
54,000, $1,800
All vehicles are
located at branch
on Highway 45.
See our website at
www.trianglefcu.com
For further info or
call Carla or Alisa at
662-434-6052.
2002 FORD Tarus. Real
nice cond. Loaded w/ex-
tras, new tires, perfect
cond. $2850. Call 356-
6413 or 241-5003
1999 FORD Mustang
GT. Some body damage.
Good drive train.
$2000. Call 662-570-
3493
Autos For Sale 915
TRIPLEWIDE 3BR/2BA
for sale. Vinyl siding/
shingle roof, liv. room &
den, F.P., new carpet &
lino T/O. Delivered &
setup for $36,900. Call
662-296-5923
QUIET COUNTRY living.
1792 sq. ft. 3BR/2BA
mobile home on 20
acres in New Hope.
Needs repairs. As is.
$45,000. All offers con-
sidered. Call or text
662-574-8421
NICE 2005 16x80
3BR/2BA for sale. All
appliances included,
CHA, delivered & set up
for $21,900. Call 662-
760-2120
I PAY top dollar for
used mobile homes.
Call 662-296-5923
28X80 DOUBLEWIDE.
5BR/3BA. Home needs
few repairs, but tons of
space & ready to sell.
Home has fireplace, big
kitchen, & rooms every-
where. $23,500 for
home as is. Call 662-
397-9339
16x80 3BR/2BA. Vinyl
siding, shingle roof, very
nice kitchen w/plenty of
cabinets, larger master
bath. $19,900. Cash
ONLY. Includes delivery
& set up. Call 662-401-
1093
Mobile Homes
For Sale 865
RIVERFRONT
PROPERTY
Camp Pratt
Call 574-3056
Ray McIntyre
Blythewood Realty
LOCATED IN desirable
Caledonia School Dis-
trict. 27.5 ac. +/-. Beau-
tiful land w/stream,
hardwoods, agriculture
& pasture land. Lg. barn
on property in good
cond. Ideal hunting
property or home-place.
Priced to sell.
$119,900. 662-574-
9190. Serious inq. only
SPRING SPECIAL. 2
acre lots. Good/bad
credit. $995 down.
$197/mo. Eaton Land.
662-726-9648
BANK
APPROVED SALE
Smith Lake, AL. Deep
Water Dockable Year
Round! Very Gentle
Slope $69,900. Buy
pennies on the dollar,
open & wooded parcel
at the end of a cul de
sac. Surrounded by a
Natural Forest. Call
866-221-3747
Lots &
Acreage 860
Autos For Sale 915
SPRING SPECIAL. 2
acre lots. Good/bad
credit. $995 down.
$197/mo. Eaton Land.
662-726-9648
Lots &
Acreage 860
Autos For Sale 915
68.5 ACRES close to
city limits. Timber, red
dirt, road frontage.
$550,000. Realtor
owned. 662-312-5184
Lots &
Acreage 860
Autos For Sale 915 Autos For Sale 915
39.5 AC. Mature pines.
Great hunting land. 5
min. East of MS line in
Pickens Co. AL. $88k.
Call 327-1402
35 ACRES in N.H. w/24
yr. old pines. $3500/
ac. Will divide into 10
ac. plots. 915 6
th
St. S.
$3500. 2.7 ac. on
Tiffany Ln. $13k. Owner
fin. avail. 386-6619
35 ACRES for sale
in Caledonia. Priced at
$110,000. Call Kimber-
ly Reed with Crye-Leike
662-364-1423 or 662-
328-1150
120 ACRES $2000/ac
off Wolf Rd. 80 Monroe
40 Lowndes. All timber
other than power line.
Green fields, creek,
deer & turkey. Nice for
home site. 662-549-
4014
1.5 & 2.5 ACRES on
Ponderosa. Reasonably
priced. Call 662-328-
2207
Lots &
Acreage 860
WANTED TO BUY. All
types of real estate. In-
vestors pay CASH. Sell-
ers pay no fee. Call
Long & Long 662-328-
0770
Houses For Sale:
Other 850
1522 Higbway 45 AIt. N. West Point, M5 3?773 (2) 4?4-4344

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Let Me Earn Your
Business For Your
New & Used Car Needs!
Ask for Robert
or call me at 708-955-3085.
jamersonrobert@gmail.com
NEED A CAR?
Guaranteed Credit Approval!
No Turn Downs!
We offer late model vehicles with warranty.
Call us, we will take application by phone.
We help rebuild your credit!
Tousley Motors
2-329-4221 4782 Hwy. 45 h., 0o|umbus
by Shell Station at Hwy. 373 intersection
www.tousleymotors.net
This adorable 3 bedroom 2 bath home
has been completely remodeled. The home
offers a large kitchen, spacious family room
with . .s ur pl.c, br.kl.st .r. .nd
a glassed in sun room. Located in a quiet
location next to bypass. A few of the updates
include nice colors, beautiful hand scraped
wood foors .nd til throuhout th hous.
Hom would b prlct lor th urst tim
home buyer.
KIMBERLY
REED
Cell: 662-364-1423
Ofce: 662-328-1150
109 Shelton Street
Columbus, MS
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