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Sunday | January 20, 2019

‘I still like the T-38’

Columbus native recalls being the first to land trainer plane at CAFB
T-38 being retired in
2020 after more than five
decades in service
By Slim Smith
ssmith@cdispatch.com

F
or 55 years now, the T-38 jet trainer has
been a familiar sight in the skies over
Columbus.
Used as the primary aircraft for training
U.S. Air Force fighter and bomber pilots,
there have been untold thousands of T-38
takeoffs and landings at Columbus Air Force
Base, which currently has 91 of the T-38s at
its disposal.
Of the hundreds of pilots who trained on
the iconic aircraft, Columbus native Jim Cole
may occupy a unique footnote in the history
of the T-38, which is scheduled to be replaced
See Cole, 6A

Courtesy photo Slim Smith/Dispatch Staff

Lt. James L. Cole prepares to give an airplane Jim Cole, 85, gives an “all set” thumbs up as he prepares for his session in the flight simulator at Colum-
ride to a Delta Democrat Times reporter in bus Air Force Base Wednesday. Cole is believed to be the first pilot to land a T-38 trainer jet at the base
this photo taken around 1958. when he flew the plane into Columbus as part of an airshow in 1965.

Video games: Mississippi’s Inside Today

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new high school sport

The Dis-
patch’s
compan-
ion piece
Starkville High organizes ends, he never imagined he would
end up playing it on a school-sanc-
to the
upcoming
E-Sports team to start tioned team. Smith-
Rader, along with 21 other sonian
Mary Pollitz/Dispatch Staff competing next month Starkville High School students, will Water/
Starkville High School freshman Lucas compete this year in Mississippi’s Ways
Rader, 14, practices League of Legends in BY MARY POLLITZ Exhibition in today’s paper. The
mpollitz@cdispatch.com inaugural video game sports season
the computer lab on Friday. A team of Yellow traveling interactive exhibition runs
Jackets will begin competing in Mississip- with Mississippi High School Activi- from Jan. 25-March 8 at the Tennes-
pi’s newest high school sport, E-Sports or When Lucas Rader, 14, download- ties Association. Like any other sport, see-Tombigbee Waterway Transporta-
video games. ed the video game League of Leg- See E-Sports, 3A tion Museum in Columbus.

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Services
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Sunday
Say What?
Did you hear? “A lot of black folks feel like it diminishes Martin Luther
King’s day to put it on the same day as Robert E. Lee.”
Report: Facebook’s privacy Alabama Rep. John Rogers. Rogers plans to introduce
legislation to split the holiday that jointly honors Martin
lapses may result in record fine Luther King Jr. and Gen. Robert E. Lee. Story, 6A.

FTC is considering hitting Facebook

Ask Rufus
with a penalty that would top its
previous record fine of $22.5 million
The Associated Press book users without their
Ancient Medicine
T
permission.
SAN FRANCISCO — The FTC has been ex-
Facebook may be facing ploring whether that mas-
the biggest fine ever im- sive breakdown violated a he winter
posed by the U.S. Federal settlement that Facebook edition of
Trade Commission for pri- reached in 2011 after American
vacy violations involving government regulators Archaeol-
the personal information had concluded the Menlo ogy has a
of its 2.2 billion users. Park, California, company fascinat-
The FTC is consider- had repeatedly broken its ing article
ing hitting Facebook with privacy promises . titled
a penalty that would top The FTC decree, which “Physi-
its previous record fine cal and
runs through 2031, re- Rufus Ward
of $22.5 million, which it Spiritual
quires Facebook to get
dealt to Google in 2012 Health.”
its users’ consent to share
for bypassing the privacy It is about general health care and
their personal information
controls in Apple’s Safari medical care among Indians in pre-
in ways that aren’t allowed
browser, according to The historic and historic period Amer-
by their privacy settings.
Washington Post. The sto- ica. The article brings to mind the
ry published Friday cited Since the Cambridge
Analytica erupted 10 use of plants by the Choctaw and
three unidentified people Chickasaw and prehistoric Indians
familiar with the discus- months ago, Facebook has
vowed to do a better job in our area.
sions. What first got my attention
In an automated re- corralling its users’ data.
Nevertheless, its controls about the Indians’ use of native
sponse, the FTC said it plants as medicine was the auto-
was unable to comment, have remained leaky. Just
biography of Gideon Lincecum.
citing its closure due to last month, the company
Lincecum moved to Columbus in
the U.S. government shut- acknowledged a software
1818 and his letters and autobi-
down. Facebook declined flaw had exposed the pho-
ographical accounts were pub- Courtesy image
to comment. tos of about 7 million users lished as “Adventures of a Frontier De Bry’s 1591 engraving of Indians drinking the Black Drink during “Pro-
The potential fine stems to a wider audience than Naturalist” by Jerry Lincecum, ceedings of the Floridians in Deliberating on Important Affairs.” The en-
from an FTC investigation they had intended. a descendant. In the mid-1820s, graving was based on a 1564 watercolor painted in Florida by Le Moyne.
opened after revelations The FTC’s five commis- Gideon spent six weeks studying The Black Drink was a ritual beverage made from yaupon holly.
that data mining firm Cam- sioners have discussed fin- herbal medicine with a Choctaw
bridge Analytica had vacu- ing Facebook but haven’t with the state of their bodies, both things (including) liver, heart
doctor. He found the herbal medi- ■ Black Jack - kidneys
umed up details about as settled on the amount yet, physically and mentally, before and
cine practiced by the Indians to be ■ Slick Elm - bleeding bowels
many as 87 million Face- according to the Post. during important ceremonies. The
far more effective than the treat- black drink was considered a ritual ■ Sassafras – a tea for chest
ment provided by Anglo-American beverage to be consumed both pains
doctors in Columbus. before and during councils. Its ■ Single John - prostate
CONTACTING THE DISPATCH A couple of years ago I was consumption was restricted to only ■ Cottonwood – wrap sprained
talking with archaeologist Brad mature men. ankle with inner bark
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into a thick black liquid had the ■ Primrose - asthma
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never seen. It was a coralbean emetic. Those effects, ranging treated leaves could be used for “love
n 662-328-2424 ext. 100 Report a sports score? shrub. A couple of these plants
n 662-241-5000 from a caffeine high to the purging magic”
n Toll-free 877-328-2430 with bright red blossoms were at of the stomach’s contents, were ■ Milkweed – expectorant
n Operators are on duty until Submit a calendar item? the edge of the woods adjacent to considered a ritual purification of ■ Verbena – boil and soak foot in
5 p.m. Mon.-Fri. n Go to www.cdispatch.com/ the old village site. Brad showed the body and spirit. In a far less to cure “spring itch“ or athlete’s foot
Buy an ad? community me the plant which he described concentrated form, it makes a
n 662-328-2424 as an “ancient Saquechuma-Chick- fairly good tea. Some of these natural remedies
Submit a birth, wedding asha medicine plant.” The plant is Two books published by the had a very real basis. We only
Report a news tip? or anniversary announce- not native to northeast Mississippi, University of Oklahoma Press pro- need think of aspirin. Aspirin has
n 662-328-2471 ment? and those at the site appear to be vide detailed information on Indian its origin in willow bark whose use
n news@cdispatch.com n Download forms at www. relic descendants of plants from herbal Medicine. They are “Okla- as a treatment for pain or fever in
cdispatch.com.lifestyles when a large indigenous American homa Seminoles: Medicine, Magic Indian communities can be traced
Indian community resided there and Religion” by James Howard in back more than 1,400 years. The
Physical address: 516 Main St., Columbus, MS 39701 hundreds of years ago. collaboration with Willie Lena, and Indians of America were far more
Though the plant’s red seeds “American Indian Medicine” by sophisticated in their use of herbal
Mailing address: P.O. Box 511, Columbus, MS 39703-0511
are highly toxic to humans, the Virgil Vogel. Both books contain medicine than most people realize.
Starkville Office: 101 S. Lafayette St. #16, Starkville, MS 39759 Indians had processed the plant in descriptions of native plants and As Gideon Lincecum found out,
a such way as to make it a safe and their traditional medical proper- their medical practices were often
effective medicine. The red beans ties. They include the following superior in the early 1800s to those
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The Commercial Dispatch (USPS 142-320) Yaupon is one of the few plants purifier (and) strength Columbus’ 1927 radio station,
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Periodicals postage paid at Columbus, MS native to North America that ■ Red Oak - blood WCOC, placed the station on Fifth
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Mississippi casino revenue up in 2018 with sports betting

Gamblers lost $185 million statewide in
December, up 5 percent from December 2017
The Associated Press
JACKSON — Mississippi
casino revenues rose in 2018,
with patronage noticeably in-
creasing beginning in August,
after the state legalized sports
betting.
Statewide revenue rose 1.7
percent in 2018 to $2.11 bil-
lion, up $44 million from 2017,
according to figures released
Thursday. However, overall
revenue remains far below his-
toric highs, once adjusted for
inflation, reflecting increased
competition for Mississippi ca-
sinos as other states legalized
gambling, as well as the effects
of the recession.
Gamblers lost $185 million
statewide in December, up 5
percent from December 2017.
Casinos raked in $15 million
in revenue sports betting from
August through December. Ca-
sino executives and regulators
also say the lure of sports bet-
ting means more money lost on
other casino games and more
gamblers staying in casino ho-
tels and eating in restaurants.
A May U.S. Supreme Court
decision allowed states nation-
wide to join Nevada in legaliz-
ing sports betting. Mississippi
already had a law in place to
allow betting to go forward if
legalized. Other states that
have legalized betting include
Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsyl-
vania, Rhode Island and West
Virginia. At least one tribal ca-
sino in New Mexico is also tak-
ing bets.
Mississippi collects an 8 per-
cent tax on revenue, including
casino winnings from sports
betting. Local governments
collect a 4 percent tax. State
lawmakers this summer ear-
marked revenue from sports
betting to the Mississippi De-
partment of Transportation.
But tax revenue is unlikely to
amount to more than a few mil-
lion dollars a year.
Overall, the state collected
$169 million in casino taxes
last year. About $1 million came
from taxes on sports betting.
The 12 coastal casinos saw
yearly revenue rise 3 percent
to $1.23 billion, a fifth straight
year of growth. Winnings rose
6 percent in December to $105
million.
The 16 river casinos posted
another year of declining reve-
nue but came close to breaking
even. Winnings fell less than
1 percent in 2018 to $879 mil-
lion. December revenue rose
4 percent to $80 million and
revenue was up five months in
a row to close the year, a sign
the region’s long skid may be
ending. But a casino is sched-
uled to close in Tunica County
this month and casinos there
face the prospect of increasing
competition from expanding
gambling in Arkansas.
Numbers exclude Choctaw
Indian casinos, which don’t re-
port winnings to the state.

92-year-old Eola Hotel being Court: No rehearing

restored, updated in Natchez
Hotel was added to the National
Register of Historic Places in 1979
The Associated Press
NATCHEZ — A noted
hotel in a Mississippi Riv-
er town is undergoing a
transformation, years af-
ter closing.
The Eola Hotel in Nat-
chez shut in 2014 after a
Virginia attorney, Robert
Lubin, bought the build-
ing. It is being remodeled
into a 70- to 80-room ho-
tel, the Natchez Democrat
reports.
The project engineer,
Keyla Carney, said people
ask her to tour the build-
ing or simply peek inside.
The Eola was built in
1927 and has opened and
Around the state
Mississippi officials:
Natural gas causes
fatal home blast
BIGGERSVILLE — outlets the explosion that
Officials say an explosion
that killed a northeast
Mississippi woman in De-
closed several times.
The hotel was added
to the National Regis-
ter of Historic Places in
1979. An application for
the register says the Eola
“entered a period of great
prosperity” in 1932 when
Natchez started its pil-
grimage tours of antebel-
lum homes.
“Not only was the ho-
tel the principal place
of lodging for the many
tourists who visited the
city, but it also became
the social center for the
citizens of the town,” the
application said.
Carney said the hotel
registration desk will re-
cember was caused by a
natural gas line.
The state fire mar-
shal’s office tells news
killed Cynthia Hughey on
the night of Dec. 28, while
destroying her mobile
main the same, as will in-
terior columns and trim.
All the architectural de-
tails will be painted and
repaired. The hotel also
will include several new
features such as a gym, a
café, a bar, and a spa.
Carney said she has
heard from people who
remember playing in the
building when they were
children. She said some
former employees believe
the hotel is haunted by a
woman in a white gown
who walks the fifth floor.
“People like to talk,”
Carney said. “I haven’t
seen anything, though.”
One of the most inter-
esting pieces of the past
Carney said she found
was a letter from a man to
his mistress.
home, was accidental.
The cause is being
described by fire investi-
gators as “an uncovered,
open gas line.”
Hughey was found
dead by firefighters after
they were called because
“The man had to re-
turn to his wife, and he
left his lady friend in his
bed,” Carney said. “He
had a great time but un-
der the circumstances he
had to go and would want
to meet up again, that is, if
they don’t get caught.”
Carney said she didn’t
keep the note, but it was
left on the bed like some-
one had just stepped out.
As anyone who has
walked past the building
since it closed and peeked
through the windows can
attest, it looks as if people
left for lunch and never
came back.
“It really looked like
the rapture had taken
place and people had just
disappeared,” Carney
said.
of the explosion. The Al-
corn County woman had
been employed in the caf-
eteria at a public school
in Biggersville and was
fondly remembered by
many people as a hard
worker and kind person.
for Louisiana
abortion law
By KEVIN McGILL
The Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS — A divided federal appeals
court has refused to reconsider a decision uphold-
ing Louisiana’s law requiring that abortion pro-
viders have admitting privileges at nearby hospi-
tals, despite a dissenting judge’s insistence that
the decision is in “clear conflict” with a Supreme
Court decision striking down a similar Texas law.
A three-judge panel of the New Orleans-based
5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had ruled in
September, in a 2-1 decision, that the Louisiana
law did not impose the same burdens on women
as the Texas law. On Friday, the court said the full
court decided in a 9-6 vote against a rehearing.
Writing for the two-judge majority in Septem-
ber, Judge Jerry E. Smith had rejected arguments
by opponents of the law that it would likely lead to
the closure of one or more of the three clinics now
providing abortions in Louisiana and lead to a loss
of access to safe and legal abortion by 70 percent
of the women seeking the procedure in Louisiana.
The majority opinion then held that the law’s op-
ponents overstated the difficulty abortion doctors
would have in obtaining admitting privileges at
nearby hospitals, and the burden the law would
put on women seeking abortions.
Friday’s decision added nothing to Smith’s
earlier opinion, which overturned an earlier de-
cision by Baton Rouge-based U.S. District Judge
John deGravelles. But Judge James Dennis wrote
a highly critical 20-page dissent.

Sheriff pleads not guilty

to felonies, put on house arrest
E-Sports The Associated Press

Continued from Page 1A GRENADA — A Mississippi sheriff is plead-

SHS will complete a reg-
ular season schedule in
hopes of making it to the
state championship.
“I don’t really know
how good other schools
will be,” Rader said. “But
I don’t really know how
well we will do either. Ev-
eryone on the team I’m
basically going to have to
teach. I thought it would
be pretty cool to play for
school though.”
For the past two years,
Rader said he’s become
virtually addicted to
League of Legends, play-
ing nearly 30 hours a week
on his computer. The vid-
eo game is strategic war
tactic game, where two
teams of five players each
attempt to destroy each
other’s “base.” Each com-
petition day, students will
play two matches, which
could last up to an hour
each.
In 2018, MHSAA an-
nounced its interest in
creating a video game
team sport. The organiza-
tion partnered with Play-
VS, an online video game
provider to connect high
school students through-
out the state.
Starting in February,
teams will begin compet-
ing League of Legends
on Tuesdays and Rocket
League on Thursdays,
the latter of which pits
two teams of three players
each against one another.
The players drive differ-
ent types of vehicles in
the arena, and try to hit a
large ball into a goal.
Rocket League games
last 10 minutes and will
be played in a best-of-five
format, meaning the first
team to three wins se-
cures the match victory.
Practice for the Yellow
Jackets starts next week.
That gives them less than
a month before they gath-
er in the computer lab,
grab their keyboards and
headsets, and compete in
a virtual setting with real
teams.
Rader said, with
League of Legends at
least, learning to com-
municate with your team-
mates is the key to win-
ning a match.
“If you can get the strat-
egy and communication
down, you’re good,” Rader
said. “It’s very complex
and there’s always room
to improve. Every game is
just drastically different.
I’ve probably played 1,000
games and every single
one of them has been dif-
ferent. The complexity is
really what drives me.”
Bridging the gap
between people
SHS finance teacher
Jessica Beaird, stepped
up to volunteer once she
heard SHS Principal Sean
McDonnall wanted to cre-
ate a video game team at
SHS.
‘We might be able to get more
students involved that are not
involved in our normal sports’
Starkville Athletic Director Cheyenne Trussell
“I like video games and
they are played constantly
at my house,” Beaird said.
“It’s kind of a family thing
for us. It’s just something
that I wanted to do here.
To get more students in-
volved, I just felt why not
give them an opportunity
to be involved with school.
“It helps them connect
with other people that
have the same interest,”
she added. “Video games,
it’s something that can
bridge that gap between
people that don’t usually
connect.”
Beaird said she’s not
entirely familiar with the
two video games MH-
SAA and PlayVS decided
to assign this year, but is
currently connecting with
friends for strategies and
gameplay ideas.
McDonnall caught
wind of E-Sports earlier
this school year. He con-
tacted Starkville Athletic
Director Cheyenne Trus-
sell to see if SHS could
create a team at the high
school. With volunteers
and technology depart-
ment staff, Trussell said
SHS founded its team.
It costs approximately
$64 for each student to
compete for the season.
ing not guilty to 12 felony charges accusing him
of stealing guns and drugs, seeking sex with
inmates and threatening employees if they told
about the crimes.
WTVA-TV reports Webster County Sheriff
Tim Mitchell pleaded not guilty Wednesday in
Grenada.
Like any sport, each mem- Mitchell was indicted and arrested in Decem-
ber. He remained jailed until this week, but is now
ber must maintain certain
free on $400,000 bail. A judge has ordered him to
academic standards in or-
remain on house arrest and wear an ankle moni-
der to compete. Though
tor. Mitchell must also avoid contact with Webster
not himself a video gam-
County Sheriff’s Department employees.
er, Trussell said he knows A trial is set for June 24.
many students and teach- Monday, a former sheriff’s investigator and
ers who are excited for jailer accused of committing crimes with Mitchell
this program. were arrested on felony indictments.
“We might be able Mitchell remains sheriff and is still being paid,
to get more students although someone else is running the depart-
involved that are not in- ment.
volved in our normal
sports,” Trussell said.
“At the end of the day, we
just want all our students
to be successful. We are
excited and we want to
be at the cutting edge of
every opportunity. Hope-
fully this right here will
be another avenue for our
students (to excel).”
Beaird also sees the
new league as an opportu-
nity in the high school en-
vironment that can pay off
for students later in life.
“Video games open the
door for students to get
into technology,” Beaird
said. “They can find out
that you can actually get
paid to play video games
or even design them. It
even helps with critical
thinking skills and figur-
ing out how to communi-
cate with each other.”
Opinion
4A Sunday, January 20, 2019
Possumhaw
Here kitty, kitty
“Rob mimicked the sound of an in-
jured mouse…that worked like a charm,
turning the cat on a dime.”
— Brenda Potts-Huntingnet.com
T
here’s the
Bobcat
“One
tough animal”-
advertised as
a compact,
hardworking
construction
machine.
There’s the
Sebastopol bas-
ketball team’s
bobcat mascot; Shannon Bardwell
then there’s
the bobcat that was spotted across the
road from my driveway. I received the
bobcat’s photograph and forwarded it
on to my wildlife biologist brother who
said, “That’s one large bobcat”
We have a lot of wild critters out
here in the Prairie but none have
unnerved me like the report of a bobcat
across the road. A few years back there
was another bobcat sighting nearby.
That bobcat was thought to be roadkill
but on further examination the fellow
had a bullet wound. I thought the
bobcat in the road was a rarity. Perhaps
not.
Bobcats are known to be elusive,
Our View
Roses and thorns
A rose of appreciation
for Sonic Johnson, who
will be retiring this month
after almost 15 years as
public affairs director for
the 14th Flying Training
Wing at Columbus Air
Force Base. Himself a trainer pilot during
his active duty career with the Air Force,
Johnson’s understanding of the base, its
airmen and its mission — along with his
enthusiasm and easy-going nature, made
him a natural for the position. Over the
years, Johnson became the “face of the
base” for many in the community and his
work as liaison between the base and the
community helped nurture a relationship
built on mutual respect and appreciation.
Thanks for your service, Sonic.
A rose to the Starkville
Area Arts Council for
again providing scholar-
ship money for summer
arts programs for kids
ages 11-18. The scholar-
ships are paid directly to
the organization running the program,
covering fees charged to those who
participate. This year, the SA AC has
$9,000 of funds available for summer arts
program where the fees can run any-
where from $85 to $450. For some kids,
these scholarships are the only way they
can participate in summer programs that
range from painting to writing to per-
forming arts.
A rose to all of the
organizers, volunteers
and participants who will
attend Monday’s events
honoring the memory of
Martin Luther King Jr.
Service projects, speeches, a march and
other events are scheduled in Columbus,
Starkville and West Point. These obser-
vations are important, especially for the
emerging generations of young people, as
they learn and model the spirit of charity,
unity and service inspired by America’s
great Civil Rights leaders.
A rose to the Colum-
bus-Lowndes Public
Library System, which
was recognized as one of
12 library systems in the
state recently named as
Mississippi Library Stars for Fiscal Year
2017. The concept of Library Stars comes
from the national professional magazine,
Library Journal. The publication sepa-
rates library systems into categories by
expenditures they report on the annual
Public Library Statistics report submitted
to the Institute for Museum and Library
Services. The star ratings are then calcu-
lated by comparing libraries’ in several
criteria. The Mississippi Library Com-
mission has awarded Mississippi Library
Stars to the best-scoring libraries in this
state, recognizing the three highest-scor-
ing library systems in each of four expen-
diture categories (with Level IV being the
highest expenditure level). We applaud
the staff and patron of our library on this
well-deserved recognition.
solitary and territorial, so I wasn’t con-
cerned for myself but there was Harry
and Wilhelmina. Sam said he didn’t
think bobcats would attack a domestic
cat. I set out to research. The thought
was a bit terrifying.
Sure enough bobcats feast on mice,
moles, rabbits, squirrels, birds, tur-
keys, chickens, fawns and young deer
— not cats or at least rarely. Bobcats
resist tangling with something that will
fight back. This was some relief and
perhaps the reason we’d noticed a de-
cline in the squirrel population of late.
Cartoonist view
Race in America
Three stories and a letter
Our topic for today:
three stories and a letter.
The stories all made
recent headlines. The
first was about the state
of Florida posthumously
pardoning the Groveland
Four, a group of Afri-
can-American men who
suffered torture, prison
and murder after being
falsely accused of raping
a white woman in 1949.
The second concerns
broad Republican condemnation of
one of their own, Rep. Steve King,
for an interview with The New York
Times in which he questioned why
the terms “white nationalist” and
“white supremacist” should be con-
sidered offensive.
The third involves a directive —
since rescinded —NBC News sent its white people, often older, more mod-
writers, reporters and anchors about
King’s words. “Be careful to avoid
characterizing [King’s] remarks as
racist,” it said, suggesting that the re- ciliation. This was 1963, but as the
marks instead be described as ‘what
many are calling racist’.”
As for the letter: It was written by
Martin Luther King Jr., whose 90th
birthday the nation commemorates
Monday. King famously penned the
epistle from a jail cell in Birmingham 70 years for the state to belatedly ad-
in response to a group of white cler-
gymen, eight moderate, principled
men, who had condemned as “unwise
and untimely” his demonstrations
against segregation in their city.
One passage of King’s response
Dispatch
The
Bobcats can go for long periods without
eating at all and then gorge themselves.
The predators of bobcat kittens include
coyotes, eagles, owls, foxes. Human
hunters are a threat to adult bobcats.
Bobcats are not considered nuisance
animals but furbearing and subject
to regulations. Bobcat hunting sea-
son normally runs from November to
the end of February. It’s not easy to
find a bobcat that doesn’t want to be
found; however, they can be called
with a distress signal. Bobcats have
excellent eyesight. They prefer to
seems especially apropos
to this moment. In it, he
confessed that he had
become “gravely disap-
pointed with the white
moderate.” Too often, he
said, they were “more
devoted to ‘order’ than to
justice;” and preferred “a
negative peace, which is
the absence of tension to
a positive peace, which is
Leonard Pitts the presence of justice.”
Added King: “Shallow
understanding from people of good
will is more frustrating than absolute
misunderstanding from people of ill
will.”
Make no mistake: King well knew
that all over the South, liberal white
kids were risking their lives for black
freedom. He was calling out other
erate white people like those eight
men, for the tepidness and flaccidity
of their commitment to racial recon-
stories above suggest, that problem
endures.
It is possible, for instance, to cel-
ebrate that Florida has finally done
right by the Groveland Four — and
yet, to also be disgusted that it takes
mit its crimes and deliver some small
measure of delayed “justice.”
It is possible to consider the
GOP’s condemnation of Steve King
all well and fine, yet also a little ar-
bitrary and affected given that King
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live in farmland or pineland or across
the road from me here in the Prairie.
The average length is 36” and weigh
15-20lbs though some get much larger.
Bobcats can run at about 30mph.
Comparatively, I can run about 3.5mph
on the treadmill. They typically hunt at
twilight prowling just before dark and
at sunrise. Our neighboring Prairie
bobcat was seen around 9am.
After reading bobcats were unlikely
to attack house cats, I saw a post where
a man heard a cat hollering and looked
out the window to see a bobcat carry-
ing off Yoda, his cat, with its head in its
mouth. The daring soul dashed out and
kicked the bobcat that dropped Yoda,
then the bobcat ran into the man’s
garage. Regretfully he had to shoot the
bobcat but turned it in to authorities
who said it was quite unusual as the
bobcat looked healthy.
Oddly enough in Mississippi you can
own your own pet bobcat with proper
licensing and insurance. The internet
advertises businesses selling bobcat
kittens. There are 4 states with no
exotic pet laws at all. Alabama is one
of them. You can also buy “wild game
meats” including bobcat stew meat and
hind legs for $49.99 (16 oz) to $199.99
(5lbs). I’m thinking this might be bor-
dering on too-much-information.
Email reaches Shannon Bardwell of
Columbus at msdeltachild@msn.com.
has a history of racist rhetoric that
passed without his party seeming
to much notice or care — and that
the GOP itself has a long record of
thinly-veiled racism as obvious as
the writing on Barack Obama’s birth
certificate.
It is possible to concede that NBC
has an interest in ensuring its people
remain disinterested observers of
events they report, yet feel that in
asking them to refrain from calling
obvious racism obvious racism, the
network doesn’t embody journalis-
tic rigor so much as it does white
peoples’ too frequent refusal to call
out such racism even when it’s right
in front of them.
We may safely assume most NBC
executives, Republican lawmakers
and Florida officials would say —
and probably believe — all the right
things if you asked about their com-
mitment to racial justice. Yet given
a chance to put force behind that
commitment, they failed. In Florida’s
case, they failed for seven decades.
“The ultimate tragedy,” King
once said, “is not the oppression and
cruelty by the bad people but the
silence over that by the good people.”
He was right.
If you are good, yet silent, may-
be you’re not really as good as you
think.
Leonard Pitts Jr., winner of the
2004 Pulitzer Prize for commentary,
is a columnist for the Miami Herald.
Email him at lpitts@miamiherald.
com.
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CANDLELIGHT VIGIL IN ARTESIA

Deanna Robinson/Dispatch Staff Deanna Robinson/Dispatch Staff

Marquita Cunningham, a friend and family member to the
victims of Tuesday’s triple homicide in Artesia, places photos
and candles during a vigil at the town’s community center
Friday. “Together we stand, divided we fall. When one hurts it
affects us all,” Cunningham said.
More than 100 friends, family, and community members gathered Friday at the Community Center in Ar-
tesia to remember the victims of Tuesday’s triple homicide. Nick Hairston, originally from Artesia, was the
speaker. As the crowd held candles, a friend sang, a poem was read and words and prayers from communi-
ty members were shared. Kind words and prayers for the family of Clark Earl Allen Jr., the suspect arrested
for the crime, were also offered.

Trump offers a ‘Dreamers’ deal

for border-money proposal
President: Senate Majority Leader California Democrat said
Trump’s expected offer
Mitch McConnell would bring the was “not a good-faith ef-
fort” to help the immi-
legislation to a vote this week grants and could not pass
the House.
By JILL COLVIN Trump declared in a Seeking to cast the
and CATHERINE LUCEY statement from the White plan as a bipartisan way
The Associated Press House that he was “here forward, Trump said he
today to break the logjam had support from “rank-
WASHINGTON — In and provide Congress and-file” Democrats, as
a bid to break the shut- with a path forward to end top Democrats made
down impasse and fund the government shutdown clear they had not been
his long-promised border and solve the crisis on the consulted. He also said
wall, President Donald southern border.” Senate Majority Leader
Trump on Saturday of- In advance of Trump’s Mitch McConnell would
fered to extend tempo- remarks, House Speak- bring the legislation to
rary protection for young er Nancy Pelosi said the a vote this week, though
people brought to the expected proposal for Democrats appeared like-
U.S. illegally as children. ending the 29-day partial ly to block it. McConnell
But while Trump cast the government shutdown had previously stated that
move as a “common-sense was “a compilation of sev- no vote should be held in
compromise,” Democrats eral previously rejected the Senate until Trump
were quick to dismiss it at initiatives, each of which and Democrats agreed on
a “non-starter.” is unacceptable.” The a bill.

Special counsel disputes accuracy

of BuzzFeed report on Trump, Cohen
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — the timing of the deal.
Special counsel Robert
Mueller’s office on Friday
issued a rare public state-
ment disputing the accu-
racy of BuzzFeed News’
report that said President
Donald Trump’s former
attorney told Mueller that
the president directed
him to lie to Congress.
BuzzFeed, citing two
unidentified law enforce-
ment officials, reported
that Trump directed Mi-
chael Cohen to lie to Con-
gress about a Moscow
real estate project and
that Cohen told Mueller
the president personally
instructed him to lie about
The report said Muel-
ler’s investigators learned
about Trump’s directive
“through interviews with
multiple witnesses from
the Trump Organization
and internal company
emails, text messages,
and a cache of other doc-
uments.”
The report said Cohen
acknowledged Trump’s
instructions when he was
interviewed by the Muel-
ler team.
The statement by
Mueller’s office on Friday
night doesn’t cite any spe-
cific errors. In it, the spe-
cial counsel’s spokesman,
Peter Carr, said, “Buzz-
Feed’s description of spe-
cific statements to the
special counsel’s office,
and characterization of
documents and testimony
obtained by this office, re-
garding Michael Cohen’s
congressional testimony
are not accurate.”
BuzzFeed spokesman
Matt Mittenthal said the
publication stands by its
reporting and urged read-
ers to “stay tuned” as they
worked to determine what
Mueller was denying.
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Ala. lawmaker seeks to separate MLK, Robert E. Lee holidays

‘A lot of black folks feel like it diminishes
Martin Luther King’s day to put it on the
same day as Robert E. Lee’
By KIM CHANDLER
The Associated Press
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A
Birmingham lawmaker wants
to separate the Alabama holi-
day that jointly honors slain civ-
il rights leader Martin Luther
King Jr. and Confederate Gen.
Robert E. Lee.
Mississippi and Alabama are
the only two states that on Mon-
day will jointly honor King and
Lee with a single state holiday.
State Rep. John Rogers, a
Alabama Rep. John Rogers
Birmingham Democrat, plans
to introduce legislation to split
the two and move Lee’s holiday
to Confederate Memorial Day,
which is held in April.
“A lot of black folks feel like
it diminishes Martin Luther
King’s day to put it on the same
day as Robert E. Lee,” Rogers
said.
Rogers said the state would
still honor Lee but on a different
day. He said he hoped that, and
the fact that it would not alter the
number of state holidays, would
increase lawmakers’ receptive-
ness to the idea. Previous efforts
to eliminate, or consolidate,
Confederate holidays in Ala-
bama have been unsuccessful.
“I think it’s got a fair chance,
but I don’t know. It is Alabama,”
Rogers said of the outlook for
his legislation. The Birming-
ham Democrat joked that nei-
ther man would likely want to be
celebrated with the other.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day is
a federal holiday that was desig-
nated by Congress in 1983. Ala-
bama already had a state holiday
on the third Monday in January
honoring Lee. For decades, Al-
abama has had a single holiday
honoring both men.
King was born Jan. 15, 1929.
Lee was born Jan. 19, 1807.
Alabama has three state hol-
idays honoring Confederate
figures. In addition to King-
Lee Day, the state marks Con-
federate Memorial Day in April
and the birthday of Confederate
President Jefferson Davis in
June.
Legislation filed by Demo-
crats in Mississippi would do
away with the official state hol-
idays honoring Lee and Confed-
erate Memorial Day.
The Mississippi Department
of Revenue this week drew a
backlash on Twitter for a tweet
noting that the office would
be closed Monday “in honor of
General Robert E. Lee’s birth-
day and Martin Luther King Jr.
Day.” The department later de-
leted the tweet.
Wayne Flynt, the author
of several history books on
Southern history, said white
Southerners in the late 1800s
and early 1900s began creating
monuments and memorials to
the Confederacy and soldiers
who died in the Civil War.
Some Southern states have
eliminated or reduced Confed-
erate holidays, seeking to cut
ties with the Old South and slav-
ery.
Arkansas in 2017 ended its
dual holiday for Lee and King.
The state now honors King
alone in January.
Georgia in 2015 struck the
name “Confederate Memorial
Day.” It is now known as “state
holiday.”

Cole
Continued from Page 1A
by a newer training air-
craft in 2020.
Although Air Force
officials cannot confirm
it, Cole is likely to have
been the first pilot to ever
land a T-38 at Columbus
Air Force Base when he
touched down there in
July 1965.
“I’m pretty sure I was,”
Cole said Wednesday, as
he returned to the base,
where he was treated
to a session in CAFB’s
simulator, the base’s way
of acknowledging Cole’s
service.
“I was stationed in
Enid, Oklahoma, and
there was a request for an
airshow and fly-by down
here (in Columbus),” said
Cole, now 85. “We had
the (T-38s) and they were
new. We weren’t even
training in them because
we had to have 75 hours
in them before we could
fly with students.”
Cole, who spent virtu-
ally all of his military and
civilian careers training
pilots, was one of a small
group of training pilots
selected to break-in the
new trainer.
“So we flew the air-
show circuit,” Cole said.
“That’s what we did for a
while, trying to get those
hours in.”
One day, a call went
out for volunteers to fly an
airshow.
“I asked, ‘Where is it?’”
Cole recalled. “They said,
‘Columbus, Mississippi.’ I
said, ‘I’m your guy.’”
Flying home
Cole was born and
raised in Columbus,
where graduated from
Lee High School in 1951.
From there, he went to
The Citadel in South
Carolina for two years
before transferring to his
beloved Ole Miss.
Upon graduation from
Ole Miss, Cole went to
pilot training in Marana,
Arizona.
“I always wanted to
be a pilot, probably since
the first time I saw an
airplane,” he said.
After pilot training, that Jim. “He was already the tarmac, he watched difference, Tom and Jim ty, where he again worked
Cole chose the one open- in the Air Force by the in awe as two F-84 fighter have a close bond. with simulator training.
ing in Greenville, mainly time I came along. I jets, painted in cam- “We like the same “I was supposed to
because he could attend remember my parents ouflage, bristling with things, including flying,” do that for two years,”
football games at Ole talking on the phone to machine guns and two said Tom, who has his he said. “Fourteen years
Miss, just up the road in somebody in Germany. big fuel tanks that Tom commercial pilot’s license later, my wife finally
Oxford. They said it was my broth- mistook for bombs — and had built and flown said, ‘Are you ever going
From there, he was er. They’d put me on the landed and taxied to a two small experimental to retire?’ So I did.”
sent to Germany, an phone and tell me to tell stop before him. aircrafts. “Even though That was six years
assignment he thought him ‘Hi.’ So that’s what I “One canopy came up, Marvin and I were closer ago. When Jim was 79.
might prevent him for did. But, for some reason, then the other,” Tom said. in age, I had more in com- The T-38 will soon
flying the Air Force’s new it didn’t really connect Moments later, Tom mon with Jim. We both be retiring, too, which
trainer aircraft. in my mind. I had one stared up at one pilot, loved flying, but Marvin Jim views with mixed
First introduced in brother, Marvin, who was then the other. (now deceased) wasn’t emotions.
1959, more than 1,100 10 years older than me. “I’ll never forget it,” interested in it at all.” “Well, I know that the
T-38s were delivered He was the only brother I Jim said. “He looked at Jim now lives in airplane deserves it,”
to the U.S. Air Force knew.” me and asked, ‘Are you Montgomery, Texas. Tom he said. “But in terms
between 1961 and 1972,
One day, Tom’s parents my brother?’” stayed in Columbus and of just the airplanes, I’m
the year production of the
told him they were going “For me, it was like owns Columbus Lock and not sure it’s a good deal.
aircraft ended.
to the base to meet his meeting a hero, almost,” Key. I know someone who’s
“They were talking
brother. It was a moment Tom said. “Seeing him After retiring from worked with the new
about getting the T-38s
when I was in Greenville, that Tom would never climb out of that big, bad American Airlines and trainer that Boeing is
but it never happened forget. fighter jet, I was just so the Indiana Air Guard, building and they’re very
while I was there,” Cole As Tom hung on the proud. I was in awe.” Jim went to work for the happy with it. But, for
said. “But when I came short chain-link fence at Despite their age Federal Aviation Authori- me, I still like the T-38.”
back from Germany, they
were just getting them at
Vance Air Force Base. I
ended up being one of the
first ones to go to training
on it.”
Cole said the T-38 was
definite improvement over
its predecessor, the T-33.
“To me, it’s the pre-
miere trainer,” said Cole,
who trained pilots for the
Air Force, the Indiana
Air Guard (where he
retired with the rank of
lieutenant colonel) and
American Airlines. “It
could go as high as I ever
wanted to go and as fast
as I ever wanted to go. It’s
just a great airplane.”
Back in Columbus
Wednesday, Cole
slipped comfortably into
seat of the simulator,
maneuvering through a
series of loops, rolls and
Figure 8s with only minor
prompting from the simu-
lator instructor.
“It was a lot of fun,’”
Cole said. “Very familiar.”
He was accompanied
by his brother, Tom, for
whom CAFB also holds a
special significance: It’s
where he met Jim for the
first time.
“I was about 9 years
old, as I recall,” said Tom,
who is 22 years younger

Woman who hunts deer at age

101 kills 2 with a single shot
The Associated Press
MORGANTOWN —
A 101-year-old hunter in
Mississippi is still at it,
and even dropped two
deer with one shot.
Veteran hunter Bertha
Vickers made the twofer
during her first success-
ful hunt at age 101, the
Clarion Ledger reported.
Getting two in one a few
days after her Jan. 9 birth-
day was a complete acci-
dent, and the first time
she’d ever done it, Vickers
said.
After missing four this
season, the Morgantown
resident said she was de-
termined to bag a deer.
Her shots from the blind
that relatives built her
had missed. She liked
the blind and its location
but not her .243-caliber
rifle, or another gun that
her granddaughter had to
cock for her.
Vickers was back in the
blind days after her 101st
birthday. She spotted one
deer from her hideout, but
she remained patient and
was rewarded.
“I decided to wait for a
bigger one,” Vickers said.
“Before long, a bigger
doe came out and I shot.
Then I saw two deer on
the ground. It shot plum
through both of them.”
Vickers said she helped
clean the animals and
shared the meat with her
family. “I made steaks,
but I gave most of it to my
grandchildren,” she said.
The centenarian also
mows her lawn, raises
vegetables and still enjoys
fishing.

Trump promises March
for Life crowd that he
stands with them
‘As president, I will always defend
the first right in our Declaration of
Independence, the right to life’
By KEVIN FREKING
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — ident Mike Pence, who
President Donald Trump
sought to assure oppo-
nents of abortion rights on
Friday that he stands with
them and would veto any
legislation from a Demo-
cratic-controlled House
that “weakens the protec-
tion of human life.”
Trump spoke via vid-
eo to participants at this
year’s March for Life on
the National Mall. Thou-
sands of people across the
country braved the cold to
attend the event.
“As president, I will al-
ways defend the first right
in our Declaration of In-
dependence, the right to
life,” Trump said.
Lawmakers on both
sides of the political aisle
highlighted legislative ef-
forts on the abortion issue
ahead of Friday’s march.
Some Democratic
lawmakers in the House
held a news conference
last week to note their
support for ending a ban
of Medicaid funding for
abortion services known
as the Hyde Act. The Re-
publican-led Senate failed
to advance a measure that
would permanently pro-
hibit taxpayer funding for
A scaled-down, but still angry,
Women’s March returns
Estimated 100,000 protesters packed
several blocks around Freedom Plaza
By ASHRAF KHALIL
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — of the White House, hold-
Amid internal contro-
versies and a capital city
deeply distracted by the
partial government shut-
down, the third Women’s
March returned to Wash-
ington on Saturday with
an enduring message of
anger and defiance aimed
directly at President Don-
ald Trump’s White House.
The original march
in 2017, the day after
Trump’s inauguration,
flooded the city with hun-
dreds of thousands of peo-
ple. The exact size of the
turnout remains subject
to a politically charged
debate, but it’s generally
regarded as the largest
Washington protest since
the Vietnam era.
This year was a more
modest affair for multiple
reasons. An estimated
Officer who shot black teen
sentenced to nearly 7 years
Laquan McDonald’s family lamented
that the penalty was too light
The Associated Press
CHICAGO — The
white Chicago officer
who gunned down a black
teenager in 2014 was sen-
tenced Friday to nearly
seven years in prison, end-
ing an explosive case that
arose from one of the na-
tion’s most graphic dash-
cam videos and added fuel
to debates about race and
policing and law enforce-
ment’s “code of silence.”
Jason Van Dyke was
convicted last year of sec-
ond-degree murder and
16 counts of aggravated
battery — one for each
bullet fired at Laquan
McDonald. Attorneys on
both sides agreed that if
he behaves in prison, the
40-year-old could be re-
The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com Sunday, January 20, 2019 7A
abortion. Trump said he
supported that effort.
Trump and Vice Pres-
attended the event, listed
actions the administration
has taken over the past
two years to deter abor-
tions.
Trump noted that the
administration has en-
sured foreign aid doesn’t
flow to organizations that
promote abortion. Pence
credited Trump with nom-
inating conservative judg-
es to the federal bench.
Trump also said that he
had just sent a letter to
members of Congress re-
iterating his veto threat
on legislation weakening
abortion restrictions.
“And we have the sup-
port to uphold those ve-
toes,” Trump said.
Isabel Chism, 18, from
the Detroit area, was
among the participants.
She said young women
need to make their voic-
es heard no matter their
political leaning and she’s
concerned that women
with her anti-abortion per-
spective are often ignored.
“A majority of our
group is women, and we
believe in women’s equal-
ity, but we also believe in
the equality of unborn
women,” Chism said.
100,000 protesters packed
several blocks around
Freedom Plaza, just east
ing a daylong rally. The
march itself took about
an hour and only moved
about four blocks west
along Pennsylvania Av-
enue past the Trump In-
ternational Hotel before
looping back to Freedom
Plaza.
Organizers submitted
a permit application es-
timating up to 500,000
participants even though
it was widely expected
that the turnout would be
smaller. The original plan
was to gather on the Na-
tional Mall. But with the
forecast calling for snow
and freezing rain and the
National Park Service no
longer plowing snow be-
cause of the shutdown,
organizers on Thursday
changed the march’s loca-
tion and route.
leased in less than three
and a half years.
McDonald’s family
lamented that the penalty
was too light. His great
uncle said the sentence
reduced Laquan McDon-
ald’s life to that of “a sec-
ond-class citizen” and
“suggests to us that there
are no laws on the books
for a black man that a white
man is bound to honor.”
Moments earlier, Van
Dyke acknowledged the
teen’s death, telling the
judge that “as a God-fear-
ing man and father, I will
have to live with this the
rest of my life.”
The sentence was less
than half of the penalty
that had been sought by
prosecutors, who asked
for 18 to 20 years.
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SOCCER BASKETBALL

Armstrong Bulldogs ease

chosen to
lead MSU
From Special Reports
STARKVILLE – James Arm-
strong has been named the sixth
head coach in the history of the
Mississippi State women’s soc-
cer program, director of athletics
John Cohen announced on Friday.
Armstrong
comes to Starkville
from Auburn where
he spent the last
six years, includ-
ing two seasons as
the Tigers’ associ-
ate head coach. In
Armstrong his tenure on The
Plains, Auburn
made the NCAA
Tournament in five straight years,
advanced to the second round
four times, made two trips to the
Sweet 16 and finished in the Elite
Eight in 2016.
“James is a proven winner not
only internationally but in the
Southeastern Conference,” Co-
hen said. “He has recruited at
the highest of levels and under-
stands what it takes to continue
the momentum our program has
established. His aggressive style
of play and ability to develop stu-
dent-athletes make him a perfect
fit in Starkville. We are excited to
welcome James, Casey and Olivia
to the Mississippi State family.”
Armstrong has coached the
U.S. Region III Olympic Develop-
ment team for the last four years
through international competition
in Argentina and England. From
2011-15, he served as an assistant
with the Olympic Development
program and traveled to Ger-
many, Italy and Costa Rica with
players who have advanced to the
professional and National Team
ranks, including Kala Faulkner
to road win
over ‘Dores
From Special Reports
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – No. 24
Mississippi State scored the first
10 points and set the tone for a 71-
55 victory over Vanderbilt in
Southeastern Conference men’s
basketball action Saturday night
at Memorial Gym.
The Bulldogs made it back-
to-back wins in conference play,
while gaining their first road win
against an SEC foe. Winners in 11
of their last 13 games, the Bull-
dogs are now 14-3 overall and 2-2
in league play.
Quinndary Weatherspoon led a
trio of Bulldogs in double figures
David Miller/ with 17 points. He was followed
Special to The Dispatch
by Aric Holman with 10 points
Mississippi University
and Tyson Carter with 10 points.
for Women split a bas-
ketball doubleheader Quinndary Weatherspoon also
with Morris (South had a team-high eight rebounds
Carolina) College Sat- and four assists.
urday at Pohl Gymna- Holman and Lamar Peters hit
sium.
The MUW won 79-62, 3-point baskets to highlight the
while the men fell in game-opening 10-0 run. The Bull-
the final seconds, dogs would later run the lead to
81-78. 21-7 with 7:41 left in the half on a
In the photo above, layup by Peters.
MUW forward Tenazhia
Quinndary Weatherspoon
Hinkson (13) dribbles
up court against Mor- would later score in the paint to
ris College. run the advantage to 25-10.
At right, MUW guard The Commodores were back
Tavonta jones (12) within six at 29-23. The Bulldogs
attempts a shot along answered with six straight of their
the baseline.
own before leading 35-27 at half-
time.
Things stayed fairly tight
through the early stages of the
second half with the Commodores
eventually finding some offensive
rhythm.
The Bulldogs kept plugging
away, too. An 8-0 run gave the Ma-
roon and White a 49-34 lead with
11:50 left to play. A basket by Rob-

LADY OWLS KEEP GOING

(2013) and Bri Folds (2017) who
were invited to U.S. U20 National
Team training camps.
“I am extremely blessed, excit-
ed and humbled to be considered
for this position,” Armstrong said.
“I want to thank John Cohen, Jar-
ed Benko, Jay Logan and the rest
of the search committee for pro-
viding this opportunity. I would
also like to thank Coach Karen
Hoppa at Auburn for her men-
torship and preparing me for the
next step in my career.”
While at Auburn, Armstrong
oversaw some of the most produc-
tive offensive seasons in program
history while working with the
Tigers’ forwards and midfielders
and serving as recruiting coordi-
nator. In six years, Auburn totaled
215 goals. In that same span, MSU
has collected 134.
Armstrong helped produce
four of the top eight single-season
assist totals and two of the top sev-
en single-season goal and point
totals in program history. He
See SOCCER, 6B
MUW women roll over Morris College; men fall in heart-breaker
By DAVID MILLER
Special to The Dispatch
It took a while for the Mississippi Uni-
versity for Women’s basketball team to
gain its footing Saturday against one-win
Morris College (S.C.), but the Lady Owls
used a dominant fourth-quarter to seal a
79-62 win at Pohl Gymnasium.
The Lady Owls held the Lady Hor-
nets to just six points in the final frame,
ultimately using its edge in athleticism
to shut down the lane and force a pair of
Morris players to foul out of the game.
A defensive switch from zone to man
pressure, combined with added empha-
sis to flash a player in the middle of Mor-
ris’ zone and attack the basket, helped
the Owls turn a four-point halftime lead
into a comfortable gap.
The game, though, shouldn’t have
been within reach; MUW missed 20 free
throws to finish at 43.8 percent. And
the lethargic first-half performance left
MUW coach Howard White, Jr. frustrat-
ed and lamenting a trend that the team is
“living with right now.”
“We’ve been doing that of late – not ex-
ecuting the first half, then, third quarter,
we start making the little chippy layups
and start executing our offense,” White,
Jr. said. “We’ve got to start doing that in
the first and second quarter.
“We didn’t do a good job of rebound-
ing, either. We were bigger, but they were
quicker to the ball. They’ve only won one
game all year, so they’re trying to get
a win. We played complacent because
we’ve got a pretty good record.”
The Lady Owls moved to 13-5, winners
of three of their last four games heading
into a home rematch against Judson Col-
lege (Ala.) on Tuesday night.
See MUW, 6B
ert Woodard II capped that run.
A 5-0 run would then push the
lead to 22 with Holman hitting a
trey at the 6:03 mark for a 65-43
advantage.
For the contest, the Bulldogs
hit 27 of 59 shots from the field
(45.8 percent), 5 of 19 shots from
3-point range (26.3 percent) and
12 of 14 shots from the foul line
(85.7 percent). The Commodores
hit 18 of 49 shots from the field
(36.7 percent), 5 of 19 shots from
3-point range (26.3 percent) and
14 of 26 shots from the foul line
(58.3 percent).
MSU held a 40-30 rebounding
advantage. The Bulldogs had 13
assists and nine turnovers, while
the Commodores had six assists
and 14 turnovers.
Vanderbilt (9-8, 0-5) received
13 points from Saben Lee and 11
points from Aaron Nesmith.
MSU will travel to No. 12 Ken-
tucky for a marquee matchup at 6
p.m. Tuesday on ESPN.

PREP BASKETBALL

Lady Falcons earn signature win at home

By DAVID MILLER
Special to The Dispatch
Columbus High School girls
basketball coach Yvonne Hair-
ston likes to keep the team’s
suffocating press and trap de-
fense in her pocket until its
needed.
Showing it too early, partic-
ularly before halftime, allows
opponents a better chance to
adjust to it, she said. But when
facing district rival Tupelo, a
team built on quickness and
perimeter shooting, it’s a go-to
defense more often than not.
Friday, with both teams tied
atop Class 6A, Region 2 at 2-0,
Hairston applied the pressure
at the start of the second quar-
ter with the Lady Falcons trail-
ing 13-6. Columbus would force
eight Tupelo turnovers in the
quarter, allow just three points
and take a five-point lead into
the break. The Lady Falcons
would take its foot off the pedal
only briefly later in the second
half, en route to a 65-49 win.
“We had to match Tupelo’s
intensity,” Hairston said. “We
had to make sure we didn’t give
them any looks. I just wasn’t
happy with the looks, and we
did what we had to do.”
Hairston took out guards
Jatyler Turner and Berniya Har-
din and rotated players around
Hannah White, Bri Smith and
Deryona Smith. White, who
finished with a game-high 22
points, was the only Columbus
player to play the entire game,
Hairston said.
“That’s my pressing team …
that’s what we call them,” she
said. “I didn’t feel like Tupelo’s
guards were really strong with
the ball tonight, and I knew we
could get some traps in. (DJ)
Jackson and (Aniya) Saddler
finished off some things for
us. We’re kind of tough to beat
when we get in there like that,
and sometimes we don’t get the
chance to because a lot of teams
are bigger than us.”
Columbus continued to
turn its pressure defense into
offense after the break, build-
ing a lead to 42-25 by the end
of the third behind an and-1
from Jabria Snell and fast-break
layups from Saddler. White David Miller/Special to The Dispatch
Columbus guard DJ Jackson dribbles past a Tupelo defender.
See FALCONS, 6B
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Friday Night Fights at Trotter Convention Center

Chris McDill/Special to The Dispatch Chris McDill/Special to The Dispatch

Anthony Stewart jabs at Jake Reeves during Friday night’s main event at Trotter Anthony Stewart swings at Jake Reeves during Friday night’s main event at Trotter
Convention Center. Convention Center.

Chris McDill/Special to The Dispatch Chris McDill/Special to The Dispatch

Anthony Stewart celebrates after earning a unanimous decision over Jake Reeves. Zion Oliver Reed looks to connect to the chin of Taylor Fields in the undercard of
Friday night’s boxing card at Trotter Convention Center.

Chris McDill/Special to The Dispatch Chris McDill/Special to The Dispatch

Carlos Dumas almost loses his mouthpiece after a body punch by Ke’Eric Hinton Carlos Dumas can’t beat the ten count after being knocked down by Ke’Eric Hinton.
during a bout Friday night.

Chris McDill/Special to The Dispatch Chris McDill/Special to The Dispatch

Dustin “Big Worm” Nichols loos to land a right hand against Andre Brewer. Nichols Taylor Fields takes a jab to the head from Zion Oliver Reed.
would earn a first round knockout.
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PREP BASKETBALL

Jim Lytle/Special to the Dispatch Jim Lytle/Special to the Dispatch

Heritage Academy coach Russ Whiteside instructs his team during Friday night’s Heritage Academy’s Moak Griffin (1) pulls down a rebound in front of Starkville Acad-
game at Starkville Academy. emy’s Taylor Ray (1) during Friday night’s game in Starkville.

Heritage Academy rides dominating defensive effort to rivalry win

By Scot t Walters
swalters@cdispatch.com
STARKVILLE — Heritage
Academy junior basketball play-
er Eli Acker had a quick answer
to the question Friday night.
When asked if a victory over
rival Starkville Academy was
sweeter in football or in basket-
ball, he chose the fall sport.
“I am a football guy, so foot-
ball is a little better,” Acker
said. “Have to admit though
this is pretty sweet as well.”
In the latest installment of
the neighborhood academy ri-
valry, Heritage Academy rout-
ed Starkville Academy 38-14
in a Mississippi Association of
Independent Schools (MAIS)
Class AAA, District 2 matchup
at Volunteer Gym.
In the major sports, the Pa-
triots now own a football win
and two basketball win over the
Volunteers.
“It’s always fun to win here,”
Heritage Academy senior Moak
Griffin said. “It’s a great rivalry,
so you want to come out and
play your best. It means more
as a senior to leave their court
with a win,”
Heritage Academy left Ok-
tibbeha County with a win,
thanks to its effort on the defen-
sive end.
After Starkville Academy’s
Tanner Graves gave his team a
4-3 lead on a 3-point basket, the
Volunteers went better than 16
minutes of playing time without
scoring again.
Overall, the Volunteers fin-
ished with four field goals.
“Really proud of the defen-
sive effort,” Heritage Academy
coach Russ Whiteside said.
“We were doing some really
good things with our ball pres-
sure, making them uncomfort-
able.
“We needed to play with
some great effort on the defen-
sive end, because we weren’t
doing anything on the offen-
sive end. That had to be an ugly
game to watch.”
Heritage Academy (20-2, 5-0
district) struggled to find shots
early against Starkville Acade-
my’s 2-3 zone. Eventually, the
Patriots hit to some outside
shots and that opened up the
passing lanes for big man Acker
underneath.
The Patriots led 20-4 at half-
time.
“We really made some good
adjustments during the game,”
Whiteside said. “Can’t say
enough about how well Jack Kiz-
er and Adam Koussih played on Jim Lytle/Special to the Dispatch
the defensive end. They were Heritage Academy’s Carter Putt attempts a shot against the defense of Starkville Academy’s Miller
Wilson during Friday night’s game in Starkville.
getting in passing lanes and
forcing some turnovers. We got to go, Griffin knew the impor- them ball out on defensive end, trying to figure out what works
some great minutes from Gun- tance of denying the Volunteers because the offense is going to one night against a given op-
nar Gale off the bench.” early and shaking their confi- come as you get more playing ponent. The plus side to being
Starkville Academy (9-12, dence level. time.” short-handed is some less ex-
1-4) finally halted its misfor- “This all goes back to the Heritage Academy won the perienced guys get more play-
tune on the offensive end with defense,” Griffin said. “They MAIS Class AAA state cham- ing time. It hasn’t been about a
3-pointers from Tanner Graves run an offense where you have pionship a year ago. With virtu- staring five going out and grow-
and Logan Roch late in the to cut off the passing lanes and ally that entire team back, the
third quarter. By then, the Pa- ing together, it’s been a team
deny the basketball.” Patriots were expected to make
triots had things well in hand. growing together. Overcoming
Acker said a larger plying more noise this year. However,
“Their pressure defense re- adversity and continuing to win
role for reserve players have injuries have forced the squad
ally got to us,” Starkville Acad- helped the Patriots play as a to take a different road to 20-2. will help this team tremendous-
emy coach Bruce Allsup said. more cohesive unit. “Couldn’t be prouder for ly in the postseason.”
“We are a young team and we “Jack (Kizar) and Adam a group of guys for how well Acker was the game’s lone
are still learning how to play (Koussih) have both stepped they have played this season,” double-figure scorer. He fin-
against really good defensive up for us,” Acker said. “They Whiteside said. “We have not ished with 12 points.
teams.” both got to start. Defensively, played a game this season with Follow Dispatch sports writer
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Youth movement continues in Lady Vols’ victory

By Scot t Walters taking better shots. Suc-
swalters@cdispatch.com cess started from 3-point
range.
STARKVILLE — “When we share the
Starkville Academy se- ball, we can be a difficult
nior Mary Peyton Pas- team to beat,” Passons
sons does not need a said. “In this game, we
roster to know how many were sharing the ball
seniors are on her basket- and everybody was get-
ball team. ting a chance to get some
Passons and teammate points. We were strug-
Aubree Campbell are the gling there early but once
lone seniors trying to we made a couple of shots
help this Lady Volunteers it put everybody’s mind to
team grow up in time for ease.”
postseason. Sophomore Lillee Alpe
Another step in the remains the type of play-
right direction took er who can make sure the
place Friday night when shooting slumps are not
Starkville Academy beat prolonged. Even thought
rival Heritage Academy a sophomore, Alpe contin-
43-32 in a Mississippi As- ues to be the team’s lead-
sociation of Independent ing scorer and a major
Schools (MAIS) Class energy boost.
AAA, District 2 matchup
“Every team is look-
at Volunteer Gym. ing for consistency,”
The victory gives Starkville Academy coach
Starkville Academy the Bruce Allsup said. “You
season sweep of their big- just need players who
gest rivals. It also put an won’t get down when they
exclamation point on Se- make a mistake. When
nior Night which featured you face adversity, you
Passons, Campbell and have to keep going. This
the lone senior on the SA team has grow up a lot
boys’ team, Ben Guest.
throughout the season.”
“We knew we had to With only two seniors
get our defense together, and two juniors on the
that was going to be the roster, Alpe will form the
difference in the game,” backbone of a team look-
Passons said. “Some- ing to get back among the
times our shooting is not state’s elite.
on and we have off nights. “Lillee is always in
It’s important that we fo- the gym,” Passons said.
cus on the defensive end “She makes sure she is
and that we keep making always doing extra. Her
shots.” ball handling will keep
Friday night, the Lady getting better. Offensive-
Volunteers missed their ly, she does a great job
first 12 shots from the of creating her own shot.
field. After that, Starkville
Her floor vision is great
Academy slowed the and that will help her
momentum down, by be- emerge as a leader. When
ing more selective and you have floor vision, you
can help your teammates
understand their roles a
little better.”
Three straight 3-point
baskets by Passons helped
the Lady Volunteers wres-
tle the lead away early in
the second quarter. After
Passons’ third three, Alpe
intercepted a pass at mid-
court and hustled to the
basket for a layup and a
21-15 lead.
The Lady Volunteers
(17-8) would later scored
the final four points of the
first half for a 28-21 half-
time lead.
“The biggest challenge
is keeping the confidence
high,” Alpe said. “You just
have to keep playing. As
the year has gone on, we
have done a better of job
Jim Lytle/Special to the Dispatch
of becoming a complete In the photo above,
team.” Starkville Academy’s Mary
Passons has seen the Peyton Passons (23) and
same growth. Meri Laci Archer (25)
“Caroline (Wood) is share an embrace after
really playing well in the Friday night’s win over
post,” Passons said. “Meri rival Heritage Academy.
Laci (Archer) is doing a At right, Starkville Acade-
great job of driving to the my’s Lillee Alpe (1) takes
basket and creating of- a shot against the de-
fense of Heritage Acade-
fense. Since we are close my’s Anna Acker (25) and
to the end of the season, Carson Nichols (12).
we just have to give one
last push. If our shooting
is on, we feel like we can unteers went back to the
compete with anybody.” defense to close out the
Gigi Fields scored
win.
back-to-back baskets as
the Lady Patriots pulled Heritage Academy
within one at 28-27 a cou- scored one point in the
ple of minutes into the fourth quarter.
third quarter. For SA, Passons and
Allsup called timeout Alpe each had 14 points.
and reminded his team to For HA, Anna Acker had
stay focused.
10 points.
Wood answered with a
basket to end a four-min- Follow Dispatch sports
ute scoring drought. writer Scott Walters on
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Gustaf Strom, Sweden, def. Ryoma Matsushita,
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Local Prep Basketball Race Schedule

EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Eliot Spizzirri (16), United States, def. James
Story, Britain, 6-2, 6-2.
Valentin Royer (11), France, def. Eric Vanshel-
Sunday, Feb. 10 — Advance Auto Parts Clash,
Starkville High basketball squads sweep Madison Central Monday’s Games Daytona Beach, Fla. Tampa Bay
Toronto
49 37 10 2 76 199 140
47 29 16 2 60 166 133
boim, Ukraine, 6-2, 6-1.
Giulio Zeppieri, Italy, def. Tyler Zink, United
MADISON — The Starkville High School basketball teams swept Thursday, Feb. 14 — Duel 1 at Daytona, Day-
Columbus boys, Starkville High boys at Rumble tona Beach, Fla. Boston 49 27 17 5 59 143 128 States, 6-4, 6-2.
Peter Makk, Hungary, def. Mann Shah, India,
a pair of Mississippi High School Activities Association (MHSAA) Class Thursday, Feb. 14 — Duel 2 at Daytona, Day- Montreal 50 27 18 5 59 152 148
in the South (St. Andrew’s) tona Beach, Fla. Buffalo 48 24 18 6 54 140 144 4-6, 6-0, 6-2.
6A, Region 3 games Friday night at Madison Central. Florida 46 18 20 8 44 142 166 Jonas Forejtek (8), Czech Republic, def. Dane
The Lady Jackets won 55-39, while the Yellow Jackets took a East Webster at Oak Hill Academy Sunday, Feb. 17 — Daytona 500, Daytona
Beach, Fla. Ottawa 49 19 25 5 43 154 184 Sweeny, Australia, 6-3, 6-0.
Detroit 49 18 24 7 43 140 167 Dalibor Svrcina (7), Czech Republic, def. Natan
78-48 victory. Tuesday’s Games Sunday, Feb. 24 — Folds of Honor QuikTrip
Metropolitan Division Rodrigues, Brazil, 6-0, 7-6.
500, Hampton, Ga. Seon Yong Han, Republic of Korea, def. Fran-
For the Starkville girls (12-3, 3-0), Jalisa Outlaw had 17 points, Sulligent at New Hope Sunday, March 3 — Pennzoil 400, Las Vegas GP W L OT Pts GF GA
cesco Passaro, Italy, 3-6, 6-3, 7-5.
Sunday, March 10 — TicketGuardian 500, N.Y. Islanders 47 28 15 4 60 142 119
while Amaya Ford had 14 points and Amaria Strong had 12 points. Shannon at Caledonia Columbus 47 28 16 3 59 153 144 Wojciech Marek, Poland, def. Joubert Klopper,
Avondale, Ariz. South Africa, 6-1, 6-4.
For the Starkville boys (17-1, 3-0), Tyler Talley had 15 points, while Sunday, March 17 — Auto Club 400, Fontana, Washington 47 27 15 5 59 157 141
Zeke Cook had 14 points and Jamarvis Phillips had 11 points. Nanih Waiya at West Lowndes Calif. Pittsburgh 47 26 15 6 58 166 139 Cannon Kingsley (9), United States, def. Tom
Evans, Australia, 6-1, 6-4.
Sunday, March 24 — STP 500, Martinsville, Va. Carolina 47 22 20 5 49 126 140
n New Hope basketball spilits with Leake Central: At West Point at Starkville High Sunday, March 31 — O’Reilly Auto Parts 500, N.Y. Rangers 48 21 20 7 49 139 164 Harold Mayot (14), France, def. Admir Kalender,
Philadelphia 48 19 23 6 44 139 169 Croatia, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4.
Carthage, the New Hope High School basketball teams split a pair of Aberdeen at Hatley Fort Worth, Texas
Sunday, April 7 — Food City 500, Bristol, Tenn. New Jersey 48 18 23 7 43 140 164 Toby Alex Kodat, United States, def. Ryuhei
MHSAA Class 4A, Region 4 games Friday night at Leake Central. WESTERN CONFERENCE Azuma, Japan, 6-4, 1-6, 6-1.
Heritage Academy at Leake Academy Saturday, April 13 — Toyota Owners 400, Rich-
Central Division Connor Thomson, Britain, def. Chen Dong,
The New Hope boys improved to 10-10 overall and 3-1 in region mond, Va. Australia, 6-3, 6-4.
Carroll Academy at Oak Hill Acaademy Sunday, April 28 — Geico 500, Talladega, Ala. GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Filip Cristian Jianu (4), Romania, def. Matteo
play with a 68-62 victory. Sunday, May 5 — MENCS race, Dover, Del. Winnipeg 48 31 15 2 64 167 134
Arnaldi, Italy, 6-3, 6-4.
The New Hope girls fell to 7-12 overall and 1-3 in region play with Starkville Academy at Winston Academy Saturday, May 11 — MENCS race, Kansas Nashville 49 28 17 4 60 153 129
Juniors Women’s Singles
City, Kan. Colorado 48 22 18 8 52 166 153
a 52-32 loss. Hebron Christian at Columbus Christian Saturday, May 18 — x-Monster Energy Open, Dallas 49 24 21 4 52 126 128 First Round
Sohyun Park (8), Republic of Korea, def. Carol
Minnesota 47 23 21 3 49 131 137
n Columbus Christian squads sweep Starkville Christian: Thursday’s Games Concord, N.C.
St. Louis 47 21 21 5 47 131 144 Youngsuh Lee, Northern Mariana Islands, 6-1,
Saturday, May 18 — x-Monster Energy All-Star 5-7, 6-4.
At Starkville, the Columbus Christian Academy basketball squads Caledonia at Hamilton Race, Concord, N.C. Chicago 49 16 24 9 41 145 183
Manon Leonard, France, def. Taylah Lawless,
Pacific Division
recorded a pair of wins at Starkville Christian Friday night. Sunday, May 26 — Coca-Cola 600, Concord,
GP W L OT Pts GF GA Australia, 1-6, 7-5, 6-3.
CCA took a 45-34 victory in the boys’ game, after taking a 58-37 Starkville Academy at Indianola Academy N.C.
Calgary 49 31 13 5 67 182 141 Veronika Pepelyaeva, Russia, def. Saki Imamu-
Sunday, June 2 — Pocono 400, Long Pond, Pa. ra, Japan, 2-6, 6-3, 6-2.
victory in the girls’ game. Friday’s Games Sunday, June 9 — FireKeepers Casino 400, San Jose
Vegas
50 28 15 7 63 178 155
49 28 17 4 60 147 131 Destinee Martins, Britain, def. Hong Yi Cody
Brooklyn, Mich.
Matthew Phillips had eight points and Will Teague and Jeremy South Panola at Columbus Sunday, June 23 — Toyota/Save Mart 350, Anaheim 49 21 19 9 51 119 145 Wong (10), Hong Kong, 6-4, 6-3.
Marta Custic (15), Spain, def. Maria Krupenina,
Vancouver 49 22 21 6 50 142 154
Emerson had seven each for the Rams. New Hope at Kosciusko Sonoma, Calif.
Edmonton 47 23 21 3 49 136 148 Russia, 6-4, 6-2.
Sunday, June 30 — Camping World 400, Jo-
n Pickens Academy girls basketball team loses: Shelby Lowe liet, Ill. Arizona 47 21 22 4 46 124 136 Lisa Pigato, Italy, def. Lara Walker, Australia,
Caledonia at Mooreville Los Angeles 49 19 26 4 42 110 147 6-2, 6-4.
had 15 points and seven rebounds Friday night, but the Pickens Acade- Saturday, July 6 — Coke Zero Sugar 400, Day-
Moyuka Uchijima, Japan, def. Martyna Kubka,
my girls basketball team lost to South Choctaw Academy 59-33. Starkville High at Northwest Rankin tona Beach, Fla.
Saturday, July 13 — Quaker State 400, Spar- NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for Poland, 6-1, 6-4.
overtime loss. Top three teams in each division Leylah Annie Fernandez (4), Canada, def. Kylie
Audrey Fondren had seven points and five rebounds for the Lady West Point at Lafayette ta, Ky.
and two wild cards per conference advance to Collins, United States, 6-3, 6-2.
Sunday, July 21 — Foxwoods Resort Casino
Pirates (6-9, 0-3 region). Noxubee County at Louisville 301, Loudon, N.H. playoffs. Lulu Sun (7), Switzerland, def. Caijsa Wilda
Hennemann, Sweden, 6-4, 6-3.
Pickens Academy will play host to Southern Academy on Tuesday. Aberdeen at Nettleton
Sunday, July 28 — Gander Outdoors 400, Long
Friday’s Games Amber Marshall, Australia, def. Mana Kawamu-
Pond, Pa.
Sunday, Aug. 4 — Go Bowling at The Glen, Montreal 4, Columbus 1 ra, Japan, 6-4, 7-5.
Nanih Waiya at Hamilton Watkins Glen, N.Y. Florida 3, Toronto 1 Federica Rossi, Italy, def. Kacie Harvey, United
Registration for adult soccer league ends next week Oak Hill Academy at Winona Christian Sunday, Aug. 11 — Consumers Energy 400,
Brooklyn, Mich.
Ottawa 4, Carolina 1
N.Y. Islanders 2, Washington 0
States, 6-4, 6-3.
Thasaporn Naklo (12), Thailand, def. Giulia
Registration for the Columbus Soccer Organization/Columbus Calgary 6, Detroit 4 Morlet, France, 6-1, 6-4.
Canton Academy at Heritage Academy Saturday, Aug. 17 — Bass Pro Shops NRA
Pittsburgh 3, Arizona 2, OT Victoria Allen, Britain, def. Sada Nahimana
Recreation Department adult soccer league will close Jan. 25. The Night Race, Bristol, Tenn.
Vancouver 4, Buffalo 3 (14), Burundi, 4-6, 6-4, 6-1.
league is open to all men and women 19 years and above. Columbus Christian at Calhoun Academy Sunday, Sept. 1 — Bogangles’ Southern 500,
Saturday’s Games Annerly Poulos, Australia, def. Francesca Cur-
Darlington, S.C.
Registration is only $55 and is submitted through the Columbus Saturday’s Games Sunday, Sept. 8 — Big Machine Vodka 400 at Anaheim 3, New Jersey 2
Colorado 7, Los Angeles 1
mi, Malta, 6-1, 0-6, 6-2.
Anastasia Tikhonova, Russia, def. Yasmine
the Brickyard, Indianapolis
United webpage: columbusunitedsoccer.com. Players may register indi- Heritage Academy at New Albany’s Hotbed Sunday, Sept. 15 — South Point 400, Las St. Louis 3, Ottawa 2 Mansouri, France, 7-5, 6-2.
vidually or indicate a team when registering. Registration includes entry Vegas N.Y. Rangers 3, Boston 2 Qinwen Zheng (2), China, def. Chloe Beck,
Classic Saturday, Sept. 21 — Federated Auto Parts Philadelphia 5, Montreal 2 United States, 6-7, 6-3, 6-4.
in the Friendly City Shootout tournament March 23-24 in Columbus. 400, Richmond, Va. Tampa Bay 6, San Jose 3
For full information about the adult soccer league, including rules, Aberdeen at Okolona Sunday, Sept. 29 — Bank of American ROVAL Dallas 4, Winnipeg 2
Transactions
Prep Soccer 400, Concord, N.C. Florida at Nashville, late
go to columbusunitedsoccer.com or contact Tom Velek at tvelek@ Columbus at Minnesota, late
yahoo.com.
Sunday, Oct. 6 — MENCS race, Dover, Del.
Sunday, Oct. 13 — 1000Bulbs.com 500, Talla- Pittsburgh at Vegas, late Saturday’s Moves
Tuesday’s Matches dega, Ala. Calgary at Edmonton, late FOOTBALL
Today’s Games National Football League
Sunday, Oct. 20 — Hollywood Casino 400,
Columbus at Caledonia, 5 p.m. INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Signed TE Gabe
Mississippi State Heritage Academy at Magnolia Heights, 5 p.m.
Kansas City, Kan.
Sunday, Oct. 27 — First Data 500, Martinsville,
Va.
Washington at Chicago, 11:30 a.m.
Anaheim vs. N.Y. Islanders at Nassau Veterans
Memorial Coliseum, 2 p.m.
Holmes to a reserve-future contract.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Re-signed S
Poe wins long jump competition at Vanderbilt Murrah at Starkville High, 5:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 3 — AAA Texas 500, Fort Worth,
Texas
Detroit at Vancouver, 3 p.m.
Arizona at Toronto, 6 p.m.
Jarrod Wilson to a three-year contract.
WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Named Nate
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Nine athletes set personal-best marks on MSMS at New Hope, 5:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 10 — MENCS race, Avondale, Carolina at Edmonton, 8:30 p.m. Kaczor special teams coordinator.
Monday’s Games HOCKEY
Saturday, as the Mississippi State track and field team concluded action Thursday’s Match
Ariz.
Nashville at Colorado, 2 p.m. National Hockey League
Sunday, Nov. 17 — Ford EcoBoost 400, Home-
at the Vanderbilt Invitational. stead, Fla. St. Louis at Los Angeles, 3 p.m. ANAHEIM DUCKS — Recalled C Sam Carrick
In total, 13 personal-bests were achieved on the weekend, includ- Starkville Academy at Indianola Academy, 3 p.m. x-non-points race Minnesota at Vegas, 5 p.m. from San Diego (AHL).
San Jose at Florida, 6 p.m. NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Placed F Miles
ing Alexis Farley doing so in both the long jump and triple jump. Her Friday’s Matches NASCAR XFinity Series Tuesday’s Games Wood on injured reserve, retroactive to Jan. 14.
San Jose at Washington, 6 p.m. Assigned Fs Kevin Rooney and Blake Pietila; D
mark of 12.80m (42-0.0) in the triple jump helped her win the event. Caledonia at Ripley, 5 p.m. Race Schedule Arizona at Ottawa, 6:30 p.m. Egor Yakovlev and G Mackenzie Blackwood to
“I’m really proud of how we competed this weekend,” interim head Saturday, Feb. 16 — Daytona 300, Daytona N.Y. Islanders at Chicago, 7:30 p.m. Binghamton (AHL). Recalled Fs Kurtis Gabriel
Northwest Rankin at Starkville High, 5:30 p.m. Beach, Fla. Detroit at Edmonton, 8 p.m. from Binghamton. Activated G Cory Schneider
coach Chris Woods said. “We had a few ups and downs, and I like how Saturday, Feb. 23 — Rinnai 250, Hampton, Ga. off injured reserve. Recalled and assigned F
Philadelphia at MSMS, 5:30 p.m. Saturday, March 2 — Boyd Gaming 300, Las
Carolina at Calgary, 8 p.m.
we recovered from the downs. We have to continue this upward trend, Nathan Bastian from and to Binghamton (AHL).
because our competition will continue to get tougher. If we can keep that Men’s College Basketball Vegas
Saturday, March 9 — NXS race, Avondale, Ariz.
Saturday, March 16 — NXS race, Fontana,
Tennis American Hockey League
AHL — Suspended Bakersfield D Keegan
upward momentum going, we’re going to be setting ourselves up for Tuesday’s Games Lowe one game for a cross-checking incident
more success the rest of this indoor season.”
Calif.
Saturday, March 30 — My Bariatric Solutions
Australian Open in a Jan. 18 game against Stockton. Suspended
Mississippi State at Kentucky, 6 p.m. Saturday Cleveland D Adam Clendening three games for
Peyton Mickelson continued the hot start to her MSU career in the 300, Fort Worth, Texas Women’s Singles his actions in a Jan. 18 game at Laval.
Ole Miss at Alabama, 8 p.m. Saturday, April 6 — NXS race, Bristol, Tenn. Fourth Round HARTFORD WOLF PACK — Signed D Zach
pole vault, clearing a personal-best 3.84m (12-7.25) and resetting her Friday, April 12 — ToyotaCare 250, Richmond, Petra Kvitova (8), Czech Republic, def. Amanda Tolkinen to a professional tryout agreement.
freshman record. She was just one centimeter shy from tying for second Thursday’s Game Va.
Saturday, April 27 — Talladega 300, Tallade-
Anisimova, United States, 6-2, 6-1. ECHL
Men’s Doubles ECHL — Suspended Wheeling’s Mark Petac-
all-time (Megan Walker, 2013) and four centimeters away from tying Western Kentucky at Southern Miss, 7 p.m. ga, Ala. Third Round cio two games and fined him an undisclosed
the indoor school record (Sydney Rodkey, 2015). Emma Hunt cleared Saturday, May 4 — NXS race, Dover, Del. Leonardo Mayer, Argentina and Joao Sousa, amount and fined Wheeling’s Cedric Lacroix
Friday’s Game Saturday, May 25 — Alsco 300, Concord, N.C. Portugal, def. Maximo Gonzalez, Argentina an undisclosed amount for their actions in Jan.
3.54m (11-7.25) to move into fourth all-time at MSU in the event. Saturday, June 1 — Pocono Green 250, Long and Nicolas Jarry, Chile, 6-3, 6-4. 18 game at Adirondack. Suspended Utah’s
In the women’s 60m, Faith Gilbert notched a fifth-place finish, Champion Christian at Mississippi University for Pond, Pa. Women’s Doubles Tim McGauley one game and fined him an
Saturday, June 8 — LTi Printing 250, Brooklyn, Third Round
running a personal-best 7.51 that bumped her into third all-time in MSU Women, 6 p.m. Mich. Andreja Klepac, Slovenia and Maria Jose Mar-
undisclosed amount for his actions in a Jan.
18 game against Tulsa. Suspended Idaho’s
indoor history. Gilbert cracked the top-5 charts earlier in the prelims, Saturday’s Games Sunday, June 16 — NXS race, Newton, Iowa
Saturday, June 29 — Camping World 300,
tinez Sanchez (5), Spain, def. Asia Muhammad,
United States and Kaitlyn Christian, United
Kale Kessy indefinitely and fined him an undis-
closed amount for his actions and suspended
running 7.53 to tie for fourth in program history. Iowa State at Ole Miss, 11 a.m. Joliet, Ill. States, 6-2, 6-2. Allen’s Curt Gogol five games and fined him
Gralyn Jones finished fourth in the men’s triple jump with a Friday, July 5 — Coca-Cola Firecracker 250, Mixed Doubles an undisclosed amount for leaving the play-
Alabama at Baylor, 11 a.m. Daytona Beach, Fla. First Round er’s bench to begin an altercation in a Jan. 19
personal-best mark of 15.07m (49-5.5). In the shot put, Jeremiah Pierce Friday, July 12 — Alsco 300, Sparta, Ky. Lukasz Kubot, Poland and Iga Swiatek, Poland, game. Suspended Allen’s Emerson Clark five
finished eighth with a personal-best 15.92m (52-2.75). Belhaven at Mississippi University for Women, 4 p.m. Saturday, July 20 — Lake Region 200, Loud- def. Nikola Mektic, Croatia and Alicja Rosolska, games and fined him an undisclosed amount
on, N.H. Poland, 6-1, 2-6, 10-5. for his major penalty for cross-checking; Allen’s
Charles Brockman III posted a personal-best time in the 60m Marshall at Southern Miss, 4 p.m. Saturday, July 27 — U.S. Cellular 250, Newton, Robert Lindstedt, Sweden and Kristina Mlade- Zach Pochiro two games and fined him an un-
hurdles, running 8.13 in the finals to finish fifth. Iowa
Auburn at Mississippi State, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 3 — Zippo 200 at The Glen,
novic, France, def. Johanna Larsson, Sweden
and Dominic Inglot, Britain, 6-2, 6-2.
disclosed amount for his actions in a Jan. 19
game at Idaho. Fined Allen’s Adam Miller an
In the men’s 800m, Daniel Nixon earned a second-place finish,
running 1:49.92. Karson Kowalchuk finished fourth in the men’s 60m at Women’s College Basketball Watkins Glen, N.Y.
Saturday, Aug. 10 — Mid-Ohio 170, Lexington,
Ohio
Juniors Men’s Singles
First Round
undisclosed amount for his major penalty for
spearing at 9:18 of the first period of a Jan. 19
Nicolas Alvarez Varona (6), Spain, def. Louis
6.80, while Okheme Moore held the third-fastest time in prelims at 6.82. Today’s Games Friday, Aug. 16 — Food City 300, Bristol, Tenn. Herman, Belgium, 6-4, 6-2.
game at Idaho.
SOCCER
A trio of top-3 finishes highlighted Mississippi State track and field’s Saturday, Aug. 24 — NXS race, Elkhart Lake,
LSU at Alabama, 1 p.m. Wis.
Rinky Hijikata (5), Australia, def. Lilian Mar-
mousez, France, 6-3, 6-4.
Major League Soccer
first day of action at the Vanderbilt Invitational on Friday. NEW YORK CITY FC — Acquired M Keaton
Florida at Ole Miss, 3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 31 — Sport Clips Haircuts VFW Jiri Lehecka, Czech Republic, def. Christian Parks on loan from Benfica for the 2019 sea-
Freshman Asia Poe captured the long jump title, while Shannon 200, Darlington, S.C. Lerby, Netherlands, 6-3, 6-4. son.
Fair and Milton Harrell notched second and third-place finishes in their Tuesday’s Game Saturday, Sept. 7 — Indiana 250, Indianapolis
Saturday, Sept. 14 — D.C. Solar 300, Las
Juniors Women’s Singles COLLEGE
First Round GEORGIA — Named Charlton Warren defen-
events, respectively. Judson College at Mississippi University for Wom- Vegas Clara Tauson (1), Denmark, def. Anastasia sive backs coach.
Friday, Sept. 20 — GoBowling 250, Richmond, Berezov, Australia, 1-6, 6-3, 6-1. NEW MEXICO — Named Joe Dailey offensive
“We had some solid performances today to open up the meet,” en, 5:30 p.m. Va. Stefania Rogozinska Dzik, Poland, def. Char- coordinator.
interim head coach Chris Woods said. “I thought Asia performed Saturday, Sept. 28 — Drive for the Cure 200, lotte Kempenaers-Pocz, Australia, 6-3, 6-4.
Thursday’s Games Concord, N.C. Valentina Ryser, Switzerland, def. Mariia Tk-
PRINCETON — Suspended men’s senior bas-
ketball G Devin Cannady after being arrested
phenomenally, and her result today puts her in great position for Saturday, Oct. 5 — NXS race, Dover, Del.
Mississippi State at Florida, 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 19 — Kansas Lottery 300, Kan-
acheva (13), Russia, 6-4, 6-4. following a confrontation at a convenience
nationals qualifying. I thought Shannon put together a solid race tonight, Kamilla Bartone (9), Latvia, def. Sasha Wood, store.
finishing in second, and Milton did some good things in the high jump Alabama at Arkansas, 7 p.m. sas City, Kan.
Saturday, Nov. 2 — O’Reilly Auto Parts 300,
United States, 6-0, 6-2.
Friday
TENNESSEE — Named Tee Martin assistant
football coach.
as well. Our distance men closed out a solid day with several huge Ole Miss at Vanderbilt, 7 p.m. Fort Worth, Texas Men’s Singles
personal bests in the 5000m. We’ve got a full day tomorrow, with plenty Southern Miss at Western Kentucky, 7 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 9 — NXS race, Avondale, Ariz.
Saturday, Nov. 16 — Ford EcoBoost 300,
Third Round
Novak Djokovic (1), Serbia, def. Denis
Friday’s Moves
Homestead, Fla. BASEBALL
of opportunities to continue to grow and improve.” Saturday’s Game
Shapovalov (25), Canada, 6-3, 6-4, 4-6, 6-0. Major League Baseball
Daniil Medvedev (15), Russia, def. David Goffin
Poe jumped 6.30m (20-8) to win the women’s long jump. Her mark
moves her into fifth place in the MSU indoor record books, passing Southern Miss at Marshall, Noon Basketball (21), Belgium, 6-2, 7-6 (3), 6-3.
Pablo Carreno-Busta (23), Spain, def. Fabio
OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF BASE-
BALL — Suspended Atlanta minor league
pitcher Carlos Caminero (DSL Braves) 25
All-American Tiffany Flynn’s mark of 6.23m (20-5.25) set in 2017. Alexis Next Sunday’s Games NBA Fognini (12), Italy, 6-2, 6-4, 2-6, 6-4.
Kei Nishikori (8), Japan, def. Joao Sousa, Por-
games and for a violation of the Minor League
EASTERN CONFERENCE Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.
Farley finished seventh in the event, leaping a personal-best 5.91m Alabama at Georgia, 1 p.m. Atlantic Division
tugal, 7-6 (6), 6-1, 6-2. Suspended Cincinnati minor league OF Nate
Alexander Zverev (4), Germany, def. Alex Bolt,
(19-4.75). Ole Miss at Mississippi State, 2 p.m. W L Pct GB Australia, 6-3, 6-3, 6-2.
Scantlin (Dayton-MWL) 50 games following a
Toronto 35 13 .729 — second positive test for a drug of abuse in viola-
Fair notched a second-place finish in the women’s 5000m, running Milos Raonic (16), Canada, def. Pierre-Hugues
17:03.53. In the men’s 5000m race, Chandler Underwood paced the College Gymnastics Philadelphia
Boston
30 17 .638 4½
28 18 .609 6
Herbert, France, 6-4, 6-4, 7-6 (6).
Borna Coric (11), Croatia, def. Filip Krajinovic,
tion of the Program.
American League
TAMPA BAY RAYS — Agreed to terms with OF
Brooklyn 24 23 .511 10½
Bulldogs in the event, finishing sixth at 14:50.48, over a minute faster Friday’s Meet New York 10 34 .227 23
Serbia, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-3.
Avisail Garcia on a one-year contract. Desig-
Lucas Pouille (28), France, def. Alexei Popyrin,
than his previous best. Luke Zacharias finished seventh at 14:57.11, LSU at Alabama Southeast Division Australia, 7-6 (3), 6-3, 6-7 (10), 4-6, 6-3. nated RHP Oliver Drake for assignment.
W L Pct GB National League
while Zach Weaver ran a personal-best 15:31.31 in a 13th-place finish. Women’s Singles
In the men’s high jump, Harrell finished third in his MSU debut Men’s College Tennis Miami
Charlotte
22 22 .500 —
22 23 .489 ½
Third Round
Simona Halep (1), Romania, def. Venus Wil-
PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Re-signed manag-
er Michael Ryan for Altoona (EL). Named Annie
Choiniere social media manager and Michael
Washington 19 26 .422 3½
with a clearance of 2.08m (6-9.75). DeVantre Young came in at sixth, Monday’s Matches Orlando 19 27 .413 4
liams, United States, 6-2, 6-3.
Marcantonini communications & broadcasting
Serena Williams (16), United States, def. Daya-
clearing 2.03m (6-7.75). Charlotte at Alabama, 1 p.m. Atlanta 14 31 .311 8½ na Yastremska, Ukraine, 6-2, 6-1. assistant fro Altoona.
Central Division ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Named Ben John-
n Women’s tennis wins twice: At Starkville, on a stormy and Garbine Muguruza (18), Spain, def. Timea Bac-
North Alabama at Alabama, 6 p.m. W L Pct GB sinszky, Switzerland, 7-6 (5), 6-2. son manager and Jobel Jimenez hitting coach
stuffy January day in the Yellowhammer State, the Mississippi State Milwaukee 33 12 .733 — Karolina Pliskova (7), Czech Republic, def. for Memphis (PCL); Joe Kruzel manager and
women’s tennis team inaugurated the 2019 dual match season by Friday’s Matches Indiana 30 15 .667 3 Camila Giorgi (27), Italy, 6-4, 3-6, 6-2. Brandon Allen hitting coach for Springfield
Detroit 20 25 .444 13 Naomi Osaka (4), Japan, def. Su-Wei Hsieh (TL); Erick Almonte manager of Peoria (MWL);
sweeping a doubleheader indoors. The Bulldogs (2-0) earned a pair of Florida A&M at Southern Miss, 2 p.m. Chicago 10 36 .217 23½ (28), Taiwan, 5-7, 6-4, 6-1. Brian Burgamy hitting coach of Johnson City
Cleveland 9 37 .196 24½ (Appalacian); Jose Leon manager and Cody
impressive 6-1 victories over Chattanooga (0-1) and Samford (1-1) at Northwestern at Alabama, 6 p.m. WESTERN CONFERENCE
Anastasija Sevastova (13), Latvia, def. Qiang
Gabella hitting coach for State College (NYP)
Wang (21), China, 6-3, 6-3.
SU’s Courington Tennis Pavilion. Saturday’s Matches Southwest Division Madison Keys (17), United States, def. Elise and Joshua Lopez manager of the GCL Car-
W L Pct GB dinals; Chris Swauger minor league assistant
“I am proud of the job our girls did, overall, today. There were Mertens (12), Belgium, 6-3, 6-2.
some nerves as expected and we definitely didn’t play our best tennis, Alcorn State at Southern Miss, 10 a.m. San Antonio
Houston
27 20 .574
25 19 .568 ½
— Elina Svitolina (6), Ukraine, def. Shuai Zhang, field coordinator and Johnny Rodriguez minor
league infield instructor.
China, 4-6, 6-4, 7-5.
but it was a solid effort for the first matches of the season,” said head Wichita State at Mississippi State, 1 p.m. New Orleans
Dallas
21 25 .457 5½
20 25 .444 6
Men’s Doubles Frontier League
EVANSVILLE OTTERS — Signed RHP Tanner
Second Round
coach Daryl Greenan. “Both opponents provided solid challenges up Ole Miss vs. San Diego (Los Angeles, California), Memphis 19 27 .413 7½ Frederik Nielsen, Denmark and Marcelo Demo- Cable to a contract extension.
Northwest Division JOLIET SLAMMERS — Signed OF London
and down the lineup in both singles and doubles. It was exactly what 1 p.m. W L Pct GB
liner, Brazil, def. Franko Skugor, Croatia and
Lindley to a contract extension. Signed 3B
Dominic Inglot (10), Britain, 6-3, 6-2.
we needed.” Denver 30 14 .682 — Riley Krane.
Jackson State at Southern Miss, 2 p.m. Oklahoma City 27 18 .600 3½
Michael Venus, New Zealand and Raven
RIVER CITY RASCALS — Signed RHPs Er-
Match 1 – Mississippi State 6, Chattanooga 1 Portland 28 19 .596 3½
Klaasen (6), South Africa, def. Wesley Koolhof,
ick Preciado, Irvin Rodriguez and Juan Pablo
State earned a quick start to the day by making short work of Sunday’s Matches Utah 26 21 .553 5½
Netherlands and Marcus Daniell, New Zealand,
Tellez.
7-6 (4), 6-3.
Chattanooga for a 6-1 victory. The dominating takedown earned the Harvard at Alabama, 1 p.m. Minnesota 21 24 .467 9½
Pacific Division
Bruno Soares, Brazil and Jamie Murray (3), SCHAUMBURG BOOMERS — Signed RHP
Kelvan Pilot.
Britain, def. Jonny O’Mara, Britain and Luke
Bulldogs their eighth straight season-opening victory, a streak dating Opponent TBD at Mississippi State, time TBD W L Pct GB Bambridge, Britain, 3-6, 6-2, 7-5. SOUTHERN ILLINOIS MINERS —: Signed INF
Golden State 32 14 .696 — Bryant Flete.
back to the 2012 season. Ole Miss vs. UCLA or Indiana (Los Angeles, Cali- L.A. Lakers 25 21 .543 7
Malek Jaziri, Tunisia and Radu Albot, Moldo-
BASKETBALL
va, def. Denis Kudla, United States and Steve
In doubles, MSU claimed all three matches with 6-2 decisions. L.A. Clippers 24 21 .533 7½ Johnson, United States, 1-6, 6-2, 6-4. National Basketball Association
On court 1, MSU’s pair of Sara Lizariturry and Tamara Racine gave fornia), time TBA Sacramento 24 22 .522 8 Rajeev Ram, United States and Joe Salisbury ATLANTA HAWKS — Transferred G Jaylen
Phoenix 11 36 .234 21½
the Bulldogs an early advantage, downing UTC’s Delaney Edwards Women’s College Tennis Friday’s Games
(11), Britain, def. Fernando Verdasco, Spain
and Pablo Cuevas, Uruguay, 6-3, 6-2.
Adams to Erie (NBAGL).
FOOTBALL
National Football League
and Emma Van Hee. Moments later, Bulldogs Emma Antonaki and Today’s Matches Boston 122, Memphis 116
Lukasz Kubot, Poland and Horacio Zeballos
CAROLINA PANTHERS — Named Jim Hostler
(7), Argentina, def. Fabrice Martin, France and
Anastasia Rentouli clinched the doubles point for the Maroon and White Brooklyn 117, Orlando 115 Jeremy Chardy, France, 7-5, 4-6, 6-3. wide receivers coach.
at No. 2, ousting Mocs Polina Goloputova and Annie Tarwater. State’s UAB at Alabama, 10 a.m. Detroit 98, Miami 93 Jack Sock, United States and Jack Withrow, CHICAGO BEARS — Named defensive backs
San Antonio 116, Minnesota 113 coach Deshea Townsend and defensive quality
hot start continued as Magda Adaloglou and Janina Braun rounded out Belmont at Alabama, 4 p.m. Utah 115, Cleveland 99
United States, def. Cameron Norrie, Britain and
Taylor Fritz, United States, 6-7 (6), 6-3, 7-6 (8). control coach Ronell Williams. Townsend
Golden State 112, L.A. Clippers 94
the doubles sweep with a win at No. 3 over Lilly Holmes and Bogdana Friday’s Match Portland 128, New Orleans 112
Women’s Doubles CLEVELAND BROWNS — Named Joe Whitt
pass game coordinator/secondary coach; Al
Second Round
Zaporozhets. Jackson State at Southern Miss, 11 a.m. Saturday’s Games Alize Cornet, France and Petra Martic, Croatia, Holcomb run game coordinator/linebackers
Singles played a similar tune for State, with the Bulldogs taking Oklahoma City 117, Philadelphia 115 def. Mihaela Buzarnescu, Romania and Iri- coach; Chris Jones senior defensive assistant;
Saturday’s Matches Charlotte 135, Phoenix 115 na-Camelia Begu (10), Romania, 2-6, 6-3, 6-1. Tosh Lupoi defensive line coach; John Lilly tight
five of six contests. The rookie and 55th-ranked Antonaki made swift Indiana 111, Dallas 99 Barbora Strycova, Czech Republic and Marke- ends coach; John Parrella assistant defensive
work of Chattanooga’s Goloputova, taking a 6-0, 6-4 decision in her Florida A&M at Southern Miss, 9 a.m. Milwaukee 118, Orlando 108 ta Vondrousova, Czech Republic, def. Zarina line coach and Jeff Blasko assistant offensive
Sacramento 103, Detroit 101 Diyas, Kazakhstan and Yulia Putintseva, Ka- line coach. Rehired wide receivers coach Adam
dual match singles debut at the top position. The 56th-ranked Adaloglou Mercer at Alabama, 10 a.m. Boston 113, Atlanta 105 zakhstan, 6-2, 6-2. Henry and defensive backs coach DeWayne
likewise cruised to victory with a 6-2, 6-2 decision on court 2 over the Toronto 119, Memphis 90 Walker.
Purdue at Ole Miss, 11 a.m. Miami 117, Chicago 103
Desirae Krawczyk, United States and Nao Hib-
ino, Japan, def. Alison Bai, Australia and Zoe DALLAS COWBOYS — Fired offensive coordi-
Mocs’ Edwards. Rentouli gave MSU’s Greek trio a trifecta by clinching Mississippi State vs. North Carolina State L.A. Lakers at Houston, late Hives, Australia, 6-2, 6-1. nator Scott Linehan.
the morning affair with a 6-2, 6-2 decision over UTC’s Zaporozhets at Cleveland at Denver, late Aliaksandra Sasnovich, Belarus and Taylor Canadian Football League
No. 3. (Gainesville, Florida), 1 p.m. Today’s Games
Charlotte at Indiana, 5 p.m.
Townsend, United States, def. Alicja Rosolska, EDMONTON ESKIMOS — Re-signed WR Kev-
Poland and Eri Hozumi (11), Japan, 6-2, 7-6 (6). in Elliott and LB Taylor Reed.
MSU continued with newcomer Tamara Racine in the No. 4 posi- Alabama A&M at Alabama, 4 p.m. L.A. Clippers at San Antonio, 6 p.m. Alison Riske, United States and Jennifer Brady, WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Signed LB
Phoenix at Minnesota, 6 p.m. United States, def. Victoria Azarenka, Belarus Jarnor Jones and OL Chauncey Briggs. Re-
tion, as she bested UTC’s Caroline Hall 6-1, 6-1 with moments to spare Next Sunday’s Matches Monday’s Games and Ashleigh Barty, Australia, , walkover. leased LB Ian Wild.
before the senior Braun earned State’s fifth singles win with a 6-1, 6-3 Oklahoma City at New York, 11:30 a.m. Katarina Srebotnik, Slovenia and Raquel Atawo HOCKEY
Southern Miss at Alcorn State, 2 p.m. Chicago at Cleveland, Noon (9), United States, def. Daria Gavrilova, Austra- National Hockey League
triumph at No. 5, downing Chattanooga’s Van Hee. Sophomore transfer Dallas at Milwaukee, 1 p.m. NHL — Suspended Nashville F Ryan Johansen
Mississippi State vs. Opponent TBD (Gainesville, Detroit at Washington, 1 p.m.
lia and Margarita Gasparyan, Russia, 6-2, 6-4.
Meredith Roberts was State’s lone victim in the contest, dropping a tight Orlando at Atlanta, 2 p.m.
Kristina Mladenovic, France and Timea Babos two games for high-sticking Winnipeg F Mark
6-2, 4-6, 1-0(4) marathon to Holmes on court 6. Florida), time TBD Sacramento at Brooklyn, 2:30 p.m.
(2), Hungary, def. Darija Jurak, Croatia and Scheifele during a Jan. 17 game.
DALLAS STARS — Recalled RW Denis Gurian-
Xinyun Han, China, 2-6, 6-1, 6-0.
Match 2 – Mississippi State 6, Samford 1 Opponent TBD at Ole Miss, time TBD New Orleans at Memphis, 4:30 p.m.
Miami at Boston, 5 p.m.
Mixed Doubles ov from Texas (AHL).
First Round NEW YORK RANGERS — Recalled G Marek
The back half of State’s season-opening twinbill mirrored the Today’s Matches Houston at Philadelphia, 7 p.m. Jean-Julien Rojer, Netherlands and Hao-Ching Mazanec from Hartford (AHL). Assigned G Al-
morning, as the Bulldogs earned a rapid doubles point to take a 1-0 Portland at Utah, 8 p.m. Chan, Taiwan, def. Michael Venus, New Zea- exandar Georgiev to Hartford.
UAB at Alabama, 10 a.m. Golden State at L.A. Lakers, 9:30 p.m. land and Danielle Rose Collins, United States, OLYMPIC SPORTS
lead. Once again, the Maroon and White would take all three courts, Tuesday’s Games 6-4, 6-4. USADA — Announced U.S. cyclist Michel
with Lizariturry and Racine earning the clincher on court 3, 6-3 over Belmont at Alabama, 4 p.m. Sacramento at Toronto, 6 p.m. Jessica Moore, Australia and Andrew Whitting- Carrillo received a four-year sanction for an
College Track and Field
Portland at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m. ton, Australia, def. Makoto Ninomiya, Japan anti-doping rule violation.
Samford’s tandem of Arianna Beltrame and Holly Horsfall. L.A. Clippers at Dallas, 7:30 p.m. and Ben Mclachlan (7), Japan, 6-2, 3-6, 10-5. COLLEGE
In singles action, State once again earned five points to seal the Minnesota at Phoenix, 8 p.m. Leander Paes, India and Samantha Stosur, COASTAL CAROLINA — Announced the res-
Friday-Saturday ignation of football coach Joe Moglia, who will
Football
Australia, def. Kveta Peschke, Czech Republic
deal, as Adaloglou, Braun, Lizariturry, Racine and Rentouli each earned and Wesley Koolhof, Netherlands, 6-4, 7-5. stay on as chairman of athletics for the final
straight-set victories to propel the Bulldogs to victory. MSU also earned Alabama at Bob Pollock Invitational (Clemson, Robert Farah, Colombia and Anna-Lena two years of his contract. Promoted offensive
a first-set win in all 12 singles contests on the day. South Carolina) NFL Playoffs Groenefeld (5), Germany, def. Rohan Bopan- coordinator Jamey Chadwell to football coach.
Conference Championships na, India and Zhaoxuan Yang, China, 3-6, 6-3, IOWA STATE — Named Tom Manning offen-
n Calhoun plays in all-star game: At Starkville, one of the top Ole Miss at Indiana Relays (Bloomington, Indi- Sunday, Jan. 20 10-6. sive coordinator and Mario Caponi secondary
NFC Edouard Roger-Vasselin, France and Andre- coach. Fired wide receivers coach Bryan
offensive guards in the Southeastern Conference the last two seasons, ana) ja Klepac, Slovenia, def. Artem Sitak, New Gasser.
L.A. Rams at New Orleans, 2:05 p.m. (FOX)
Mississippi State’s Deion Calhoun played in his final college football Zealand and Ekaterina Makarova (8), Russia, NEW MEXICO — Named Scott Holsopple
game on Saturday. Junior College Basketball AFC
New England at Kansas City, 5:40 p.m. (CBS) 6-3, 6-4.
Juan Sebastian Cabal, Colombia and Abigail
director of athletic performance and strength
coach for the football team.
Calhoun played in the eighth annual NFLPA Collegiate Bowl, which Tuesday’s Games Pro Bowl Spears (6), United States, def. Ivan Dodig, Cro- NORTHERN ILLINOIS — Named Thomas
Sunday, Jan. 27 atia and Latisha Chan, Taiwan, 7-5, 6-2. Hammock football coach.
is played at the historic Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena, California. Women: Itawamba at Coahoma, 6 p.m. Matwe Middelkoop, Netherlands and STANFORD Named Alisha Glass Childress
At Orlando, Fla.
Saturday’s contest culminated a week-long experience during AFC vs. NFC, 3 p.m. (ABC/ESPN) Demi Schuurs, Netherlands, def. Monique assistant volleyball coach.
Men: Itawamba at Coahoma, 8 p.m. Adamczak, Australia and Matt Reid, Australia, WASHINGTON — Signed baseball coach Lind-
which the participants learned about the business of football. Calhoun 6-4, 7-6 (1). say Meggs to a two-year contract extension
will be the fifth student-athlete in MSU history to participate in the game Thursday’s Games Super Bowl
Sunday, Feb. 3 Timea Babos, Hungary and Marton Fucsovics, through the 2025 season.
and the first since offensive lineman Jamaal Clayborn and defensive Women: EMCC at Itawamba, 5:30 p.m. At Atlanta Hungary, def. Shuai Zhang, China and John
Peers, Australia, 6-3, 4-6, 10-7.
WISCONSIN — Signed football coach Paul
Chryst and volleyball coach Kelly Sheffield to
AFC champion vs. NFC champion, 5:30 p.m.
end Johnathan Calvin in 2017. Men: EMCC at Itawamba, 7:30 p.m. (CBS) Juniors Men’s Singles five-year contracts through January 2024; and
First Round women’s soccer coach Paula Wilkins ansd
—From Special and Staff Reports Otto Virtanen (3), Finland, def. Stefan Storch, men’s soccer coach John Trask to three-year
Australia, 6-1, 6-7, 7-6. contracts through January 2022.

WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Mississippi State squad looks to retool after season-ending injury
F
ormer Georgia women’s
basketball Andy Landers
always is a great person to
talk to for insight.
Landers took time out of a
busy broadcasting schedule
that now has him regularly on
ESPN’s family of networks or
the SEC Network to talk to
this reporter about a story. His
answers were thoughtful and
provided an insight that usually
comes with the experience
gleaned from 40 years and 944
victories.
Following a conversation
that stretched nearly 30
minutes, Landers became the
reporter, “How good is Missis-
sippi State?”
We then discussed the
accomplishments of coach Vic
Schaefer’s team prior to its
top-15 matchup against South
Carolina at Humphrey Colise-
um. This reporter said that any
assessment of MSU depended
on the play of senior center
Teaira McCowan, the reigning
national defensive player of the
year. At 6-foot-7, McCowan is
an unstoppable force when she
is engaged and “interested,” as
Schaefer has said several times
in the last few years.
This reporter also posited
that MSU answered challenges
against Kentucky, Marquette,
and Texas in some of its
marquee games, but that it fell
short in perhaps its biggest
test, an 82-74 loss to Oregon on
Dec. 18 in Eugene, Oregon.
That’s when Landers asked
Basketball
Saturday’s Men’s
College Scores
EAST
Army 72, Navy 61
Bucknell 85, Lehigh 83
Canisius 73, Fairfield 68
Colgate 77, Boston U. 56
Cornell 60, Columbia 59
Dayton 89, St. Bonaventure 86, 2OT
Drexel 73, James Madison 68
Hofstra 86, Coll. of Charleston 72
LIU Brooklyn 79, Fairleigh Dickinson 77
Lafayette 84, American U. 79, OT
Loyola (Md.) 67, Holy Cross 65, OT
Mass.-Lowell 76, Hartford 73
Mount St. Mary’s 70, Wagner 56
NJIT 77, Jacksonville 74
Niagara 75, Quinnipiac 72
Northeastern 88, UNC-Wilmington 71
Penn 77, Temple 70
Rhode Island 78, La Salle 67
Robert Morris 79, Bryant 65
St. Francis (Pa.) 80, CCSU 69
St. Francis Brooklyn 92, Sacred Heart 85
Stony Brook 64, Maine 61
Syracuse 74, Pittsburgh 63
Towson 64, Delaware 63
UConn 87, Tulane 71
UMBC 65, Albany (NY) 64, OT
Vermont 78, Binghamton 50
West Virginia 65, Kansas 64
Yale 70, Brown 67
SOUTH
Alabama St. 72, Alabama A&M 54
Alcorn St. 63, MVSU 57
Belmont 92, Tennessee St. 74
Bethune-Cookman 69, Delaware St. 49
Campbell 73, Charleston Southern 72
Charlotte 55, Louisiana Tech 40
Chattanooga 73, The Citadel 71
Coastal Carolina 89, Appalachian St. 72
Coppin St. 64, NC Central 60
Davidson 75, Richmond 62
Duke 72, Virginia 70
Elon 76, William & Mary 71
Florida 62, Georgia 52
Florida Gulf Coast 72, Kennesaw St. 59
George Mason 71, Fordham 68
Georgia Southern 88, South Alabama 86, OT
Howard 71, SC State 67, OT
Kentucky 82, Auburn 80
LSU 89, South Carolina 67
Louisiana-Monroe 99, Louisiana-Lafayette 95
Louisville 79, Georgia Tech 51
Md.-Eastern Shore 60, Florida A&M 58, OT
Memphis 83, SMU 61
Mercer 93, Samford 87
Middle Tennessee 75, UTEP 72
Mississippi 84, Arkansas 67
Morehead St. 85, UT Martin 77
NC A&T 57, Morgan St. 53
Norfolk St. 82, Savannah St. 76
North Alabama 63, Stetson 62
North Carolina 85, Miami 76
Old Dominion 78, Southern Miss. 60
Presbyterian 71, Longwood 64
Radford 71, UNC-Asheville 63
SE Louisiana 74, McNeese St. 71
Southern U. 69, Ark.-Pine Bluff 67, OT
Tennessee 71, Alabama 68
Troy 77, Georgia St. 75
UCF 64, Tulsa 62
UNC-Greensboro 75, ETSU 68
VCU 68, UMass 50
VMI 91, W. Carolina 83
Virginia Tech 87, Wake Forest 71
W. Kentucky 72, FAU 66
Winthrop 82, SC-Upstate 72
MIDWEST
Ball St. 83, Cent. Michigan 72
Bowling Green 79, W. Michigan 48
Butler 80, St. John’s 71
Cincinnati 66, Wichita St. 55
E. Illinois 85, Austin Peay 83
Green Bay 90, Ill.-Chicago 85
Illinois St. 78, Evansville 70
Iowa St. 72, Oklahoma St. 59
Kansas St. 65, TCU 55
Kent St. 78, N. Illinois 68
Loyola of Chicago 75, Indiana St. 67
Miami (Ohio) 68, Akron 61
Milwaukee 64, IUPUI 57
N. Dakota St. 67, North Dakota 65
N. Kentucky 82, Youngstown St. 74
NC State 77, Notre Dame 73
Oakland 79, Detroit 73
Purdue 70, Indiana 55
Valparaiso 75, N. Iowa 66
Wisconsin 64, Michigan 54
Wright St. 89, Cleveland St. 66
SOUTHWEST
Abilene Christian 78, Northwestern St. 69
Baylor 73, Texas Tech 62
Cent. Arkansas 74, Nicholls 68
Missouri 66, Texas A&M 43
North Texas 76, Rice 75
Prairie View 55, Jackson St. 51
Stephen F. Austin 74, Incarnate Word 71
Texas A&M-CC 76, New Orleans 61
Texas State 77, Arkansas St. 64
Texas-Arlington 82, UALR 73
FAR WEST
E. Washington 85, Montana St. 81
Fresno St. 63, Boise St. 53
Loyola Marymount 74, Pepperdine 70
N. Arizona 82, Portland St. 75
New Mexico 83, Wyoming 53
S. Utah 76, Sacramento St. 71
Southern Cal 80, UCLA 67
Stanford 78, Washington St. 66
UC Irvine 74, CS Northridge 68
Washington 71, California 52
No. 24 Miss. State 71,
Vanderbilt 55
MISSISSIPPI ST. (14-3): Holman 4-9
0-0 10, Ado 1-1 2-2 4, N.Weatherspoon 2-7
2-2 6, Q.Weatherspoon 6-12 5-7 17, Peters
3-6 0-0 7, Perry 3-6 0-0 6, Feazell 1-2 0-0 2,
Carter 4-8 0-0 10, Woodard 3-8 3-3 9. Totals
27-59 12-14 71.
VANDERBILT (9-8): Ryan 1-4 0-0 3,
Nesmith 4-10 1-2 11, Shittu 2-7 2-7 7, Lee 4-9
5-8 13, Toye 3-8 0-1 7, Brown 0-2 0-0 0, Moy-
er 2-3 2-2 6, Wetzell 2-5 3-4 7, Evans 0-1 1-2
1. Totals 18-49 14-26 55.
Halftime—Mississippi St. 35-27.
3-Point Goals—Mississippi St. 5-19 (Holman
2-5, Carter 2-6, Peters 1-4, Woodard 0-1, Per-
ry 0-1, N.Weatherspoon 0-2), Vanderbilt 5-19
(Nesmith 2-6, Shittu 1-2, Toye 1-3, Ryan 1-4,
Evans 0-1, Moyer 0-1, Wetzell 0-2). Fouled
Out—None. Rebounds—Mississippi St. 40
(Holman 9), Vanderbilt 30 (Nesmith, Lee 6).
Assists—Mississippi St. 13 (Q.Weatherspoon
4), Vanderbilt 6 (Lee 3). Total Fouls—Missis-
sippi St. 22, Vanderbilt 11. Technicals—Pe-
ters.
No. 18 Ole Miss 84,
Arkansas 67
ARKANSAS (10-7): Chaney 2-3 0-0 4,
Gafford 2-6 5-6 9, Joe 4-11 0-0 11, Jones
another question: “Did the
2017-18 team face a challenge
like that?”
In the past
Looking back, MSU’s
senior-laden squad led by Vic-
toria Vivians, Morgan William,
Blair Schaefer, and Roshunda
Johnson didn’t face a top-10
opponent on its home court in
a raucous environment. MSU
played eight home
games as part of its
non-conference slate.
It also played three
games in Cancun,
Mexico, and two more
in Las Vegas. The
biggest tests at those
tournaments came in
wins against Arizona Minichino
State and Syracuse.
The toughest matchups at
home came in victories against Tate will have to seize the op-
Oklahoma State and Oregon.
Those victories were part of
a 30-0 start to the season that
saw the Bulldogs go 16-0 in the fill the void created by Bibby’s
Southeastern Conference and
win the program’s first regu-
lar-season championship.
MSU didn’t taste defeat until flexibility to go with multiple
a 62-51 loss to South Carolina
in the title game of the SEC
tournament. By then, though,
the Bulldogs had found their
footing and developed into
one of Schaefer’s best offen-
sive teams. MSU regrouped
from the loss to beat Nicholls,
Oklahoma State, North Car-
olina State, and Louisville in
the NCAA tournament before
1-9 3-4 5, Harris 1-4 0-0 3, Ali 0-0 0-0 0,
Osabuohien 5-9 3-4 13, Bailey 2-4 0-0 4, Sills
0-0 2-2 2, Embery 5-8 4-5 16. Totals 22-54
17-21 67.
MISSISSIPPI (14-3): Olejniczak 5-7 3-3
13, D.Davis 3-5 1-1 7, Tyree 7-15 6-6 22, T.Da-
vis 6-11 4-5 18, Hinson 1-5 1-2 3, Buffen 2-8
0-0 4, Naylor 0-0 0-0 0, B.Stevens 6-7 0-0 14,
Shuler 1-6 0-0 3. Totals 31-64 15-17 84.
Halftime—Mississippi 46-35. 3-Point
Goals—Arkansas 6-23 (Joe 3-9, Embery
2-5, Harris 1-3, Jones 0-6), Mississippi 7-22
(B.Stevens 2-3, T.Davis 2-5, Tyree 2-7, Shuler
1-3, D.Davis 0-1, Hinson 0-3). Fouled Out—
None. Rebounds—Arkansas 29 (Gafford 10),
Mississippi 38 (T.Davis 9). Assists—Arkan-
sas 14 (Harris 7), Mississippi 19 (T.Davis 7).
Total Fouls—Arkansas 15, Mississippi 18.
Florida 62,
Georgia 52
FLORIDA (10-7): K.Johnson 3-8 2-3 8,
Hayes 3-6 1-2 7, Allen 4-10 2-3 13, Locke 3-8
2-3 10, Nembhard 2-6 0-1 5, Stone 3-4 1-2 8,
Bassett 1-3 0-0 2, Ballard 1-6 0-0 3, Okauru
1-2 0-0 3, Hudson 1-3 0-0 3. Totals 22-56
8-14 62.
GEORGIA (9-8): Claxton 3-8 2-5 9,
Hammonds 0-4 0-0 0, Ogbeide 2-4 0-0 4,
Hightower 3-7 0-0 7, Harris 2-7 6-8 10, Toppin
1-1 0-0 2, Edwards 0-0 0-0 0, Ngumezi 0-0
0-0 0, Wilridge 2-2 4-4 8, Sargiunas 0-0 0-0 0,
Harrison 0-0 0-0 0, Jackson 2-4 0-0 6, Crump
2-4 1-2 6, Fagan 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 17-43 13-19
52.
Halftime—Florida 33-23. 3-Point
Goals—Florida 10-27 (Allen 3-7, Locke 2-6,
Stone 1-2, Nembhard 1-2, Okauru 1-2, Hud-
son 1-2, Ballard 1-5, K.Johnson 0-1), Georgia
5-14 (Jackson 2-3, Claxton 1-1, Hightower
1-3, Crump 1-3, Hammonds 0-2, Harris 0-2).
Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Florida
25 (Hayes 9), Georgia 37 (Claxton 12). As-
sists—Florida 12 (Nembhard 5), Georgia 10
(Hightower, Jackson, Harris, Wilridge 2). To-
tal Fouls—Florida 18, Georgia 17. A—10,023
(10,523).
LSU 89,
South Carolina 67
SOUTH CAROLINA (9-8): Kotsar 3-9
0-0 6, Bryant 5-10 0-3 10, Silva 2-2 3-4 7,
Lawson 7-15 2-4 18, Campbell 2-6 0-0 4,
Frink 2-4 1-3 5, Haase 4-8 0-0 8, Gravett 3-9
0-0 9, Hinson 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 28-64 6-14 67.
LSU (14-3): Bigby-Williams 5-7 2-2 12,
Reid 4-9 7-8 15, Waters 5-9 0-0 12, Taylor
1-6 8-9 10, Mays 3-9 0-0 6, Days 1-2 2-2 5,
Williams 3-8 9-10 15, Graves 1-2 0-0 2, Smart
4-12 4-4 12, Reese 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 27-64
32-35 89.
Halftime—LSU 48-28. 3-Point Goals—
South Carolina 5-19 (Gravett 3-5, Lawson
2-7, Hinson 0-1, Frink 0-1, Bryant 0-1, Camp-
bell 0-2, Haase 0-2), LSU 3-19 (Waters 2-5,
Days 1-2, Graves 0-1, Taylor 0-1, Williams
0-1, Reid 0-2, Smart 0-3, Mays 0-4). Fouled
Out—Days, Silva. Rebounds—South Car-
olina 27 (Lawson 5), LSU 49 (Williams 13).
Assists—South Carolina 8 (Hinson, Kotsar,
Bryant 2), LSU 12 (Waters 6). Total Fouls—
South Carolina 24, LSU 17.
No. 12 Kentucky 82,
No. 14 Auburn 80
KENTUCKY (14-3): Washington 4-8 4-7
13, Travis 6-7 5-5 17, K.Johnson 7-11 4-7 20,
Herro 6-12 5-5 20, Hagans 2-4 2-3 6, Mont-
gomery 0-2 0-0 0, Richards 0-0 1-2 1, Quick-
ley 1-3 3-4 5, Baker 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 26-48
24-33 82.
AUBURN (13-4): Okeke 5-11 0-0 11,
McLemore 0-3 2-4 2, Harper 5-13 5-7 17,
Brown 8-9 6-6 28, Doughty 1-4 2-2 5, Purifoy
1-4 0-0 3, Spencer 2-3 0-1 4, McCormick 0-2
0-0 0, Dunbar 4-7 0-0 10. Totals 26-56 15-20
80.
Halftime—Kentucky 35-27. 3-Point
Goals—Kentucky 6-15 (Herro 3-6, K.John-
son 2-5, Washington 1-2, Quickley 0-1, Baker
0-1), Auburn 13-30 (Brown 6-7, Dunbar 2-4,
Harper 2-6, Purifoy 1-3, Doughty 1-3, Okeke
1-5, McLemore 0-2). Fouled Out—McLem-
ore, Spencer. Rebounds—Kentucky 32
(Washington, Travis, Hagans 7), Auburn 24
(Spencer 8). Assists—Kentucky 14 (Hagans
6), Auburn 17 (Harper 6). Total Fouls—Ken-
tucky 20, Auburn 25. A—9,121 (9,121).
No. 3 Tennessee 71,
Alabama 68
ALABAMA (11-6): Hall 7-10 2-2 16, In-
gram 1-3 1-4 3, Jones 1-5 0-2 2, Lewis 4-10
1-2 12, Mack 0-4 0-0 0, Reese 0-4 2-3 2,
Smith 0-1 0-0 0, Petty 11-18 2-5 30, A.John-
son 0-0 0-0 0, Norris 1-4 0-0 3. Totals 25-59
8-18 68.
TENNESSEE (16-1): Alexander 3-5 0-0
6, Pons 2-2 0-0 4, Williams 8-17 5-7 21, Scho-
field 4-17 3-3 12, Bone 5-10 0-1 10, Fulkerson
0-2 0-0 0, Bowden 5-7 0-1 12, Turner 1-4 4-4
6. Totals 28-64 12-16 71.
Halftime—Tennessee 44-32. 3-Point
Goals—Alabama 10-26 (Petty 6-10, Lewis
3-6, Norris 1-3, Ingram 0-1, Reese 0-2, Jones
0-2, Mack 0-2), Tennessee 3-12 (Bowden
2-3, Schofield 1-4, Alexander 0-1, Bone 0-1,
Williams 0-1, Turner 0-2). Fouled Out—Wil-
liams. Rebounds—Alabama 36 (Hall 12),
Tennessee 33 (Schofield 11). Assists—Al-
abama 13 (Ingram 5), Tennessee 16 (Bone
7). Total Fouls—Alabama 20, Tennessee 18.
A—21,957 (21,678).
Missouri 66,
Texas A&M 43
MISSOURI (10-6): Puryear 4-8 0-0 8,
Tilmon 5-8 4-4 14, Geist 6-7 1-1 17, Ma.Smith
5-9 0-0 13, Pickett 3-7 1-2 7, Santos 0-1 0-0
0, Nikko 1-3 0-0 2, M.Smith 0-0 0-0 0, Watson
1-6 2-2 5, Suggs 0-3 0-1 0. Totals 25-52 8-10
66.
TEXAS A&M (7-9): J.Walker 1-4 0-0
3, Mekowulu 1-5 1-6 3, Chandler 3-7 4-4 11,
Mitchell 2-9 0-0 4, Flagg 1-7 2-2 5, Nebo 4-5
4-8 12, Mahan 1-5 0-1 3, Starks 0-7 2-4 2,
French 0-1 0-0 0, Collins 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 13-
50 13-25 43.
Halftime—Missouri 36-21. 3-Point
Goals—Missouri 8-20 (Geist 4-5, Ma.Smith
3-7, Watson 1-4, Puryear 0-1, Suggs 0-1,
Pickett 0-2), Texas A&M 4-22 (Chandler
1-2, J.Walker 1-4, Mahan 1-4, Flagg 1-4,
Mitchell 0-4, Starks 0-4). Fouled Out—
None. Rebounds—Missouri 38 (Puryear
10), Texas A&M 32 (Flagg 7). Assists—Mis-
souri 13 (Geist 5), Texas A&M 9 (French 3).
Total Fouls—Missouri 22, Texas A&M 14.
A—6,396 (12,989).
Old Dominion 78,
Southern Mississippi 60
SOUTHERN MISS. (11-8): Rowe 4-9
3-4 11, Harper-Baker 2-3 2-3 6, Holland 1-2
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falling to Notre Dame in the
national title game.
The 2018-19 team hopes to
make it three-straight trips
to the national champion-
ship game. To get there, the
Bulldogs have plenty of work
to do on the defensive end.
They also have to tweak their
rotation and find a player or
players to emerge following the
season-ending injury to sopho-
more Chloe Bibby.
The injury to Bibby
changes the equation
because MSU won’t be
able to rely on her outside
shooting and savvy.
Instead, players like
Bre’Amber Scott, Con-
Adam necticut transfer Andra
Espinoza-Hunter, Xaria
Wiggins, Jessika Carter,
Myah Taylor, and Nyah
portunity to earn more playing
time. Individually, one of those
players likely won’t be able to
absence, but the group can
bolster MSU’s depth and give
Schaefer the confidence and
looks and lineups.
That’s why the game against
Oregon will be a good measur-
ing stick, but it shouldn’t be
used as a means to make a de-
finitive judgment about MSU.
None of the five bench players
who saw action against Oregon
played more than six minutes.
Those players combined to
score four points, which was
0-0 2, Edwards 3-9 1-1 9, Griffin 8-17 2-3
20, Marshall 0-1 1-2 1, Jacdonmi 0-0 1-2 1,
Draine 1-3 0-0 3, Hampton 1-1 0-0 2, Watson
2-5 0-0 5, Daniel 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 22-50 10-
15 60.
OLD DOMINION (14-5): Carver 0-0
1-2 1, Robinson 1-1 0-2 2, Green 4-8 2-2 13,
Caver 8-17 1-5 19, Stith 6-16 1-2 17, Dickens
1-4 3-4 5, Ezikpe 3-8 2-3 8, Wade 5-6 0-0 10,
Kithcart 1-8 0-0 3. Totals 29-68 10-20 78.
Halftime—Old Dominion 40-29. 3-Point
Goals—Southern Miss. 6-20 (Edwards 2-5,
Griffin 2-7, Draine 1-3, Watson 1-3, Rowe 0-1,
Holland 0-1), Old Dominion 10-26 (Stith 4-10,
Green 3-5, Caver 2-5, Kithcart 1-5, Wade
0-1). Fouled Out—Watson. Rebounds—
Southern Miss. 30 (Harper-Baker 14), Old
Dominion 41 (Dickens 9). Assists—Southern
Miss. 14 (Griffin 7), Old Dominion 17 (Caver
8). Total Fouls—Southern Miss. 16, Old Do-
minion 16. A—7,003 (8,472).
Alcorn State 63,
Miss. Valley State 57
MVSU (3-15): L.Allen 5-6 0-0 10, Alli-
son 1-2 1-2 3, Simmons 3-8 0-2 8, Green 3-11
0-0 9, Jones-Rollins 5-12 0-2 11, D.Scott 0-4
2-4 2, Hunt 0-1 1-4 1, Mitchell 0-0 0-1 0, Ejeh
2-6 1-1 5, Eckwood 2-3 0-0 5, Evans 1-7 1-2
3, Rucker 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 22-60 6-18 57.
ALCORN ST. (5-12): Johnson 1-6 1-4
3, Andrews 2-4 0-0 5, Brewer 8-12 2-2 18,
Howard 4-7 3-4 15, Crosby 7-14 1-2 15, Plain
0-0 0-0 0, Smith 0-3 0-0 0, Givens 0-1 0-0 0,
Wilson 0-1 2-2 2, Campbell 0-1 4-4 4, J.Scott
0-0 1-2 1, K.Allen 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 22-51 14-
20 63.
Halftime—MVSU 29-24. 3-Point
Goals—MVSU 7-24 (Green 3-8, Simmons
2-3, Eckwood 1-1, Jones-Rollins 1-4, Hunt
0-1, D.Scott 0-3, Evans 0-4), Alcorn St. 5-16
(Howard 4-6, Andrews 1-2, K.Allen 0-1, Cros-
by 0-3, Johnson 0-4). Fouled Out—None.
Rebounds—MVSU 33 (Ejeh 8), Alcorn St. 38
(Wilson 10). Assists—MVSU 17 (Simmons 6),
Alcorn St. 14 (Crosby 8). Total Fouls—MVSU
18, Alcorn St. 16. A—687 (7,000).
No. 1 Duke 72,
No. 4 Virginia 70
VIRGINIA (16-1): Diakite 1-5 0-0 2, Salt
2-2 1-2 5, Jerome 6-13 1-3 14, Guy 6-12 0-0
14, Hunter 8-14 2-4 18, Key 2-3 7-8 11, Huff
2-2 0-0 4, Clark 1-2 0-0 2. Totals 28-53 11-17
70.
DUKE (15-2): White 2-3 0-0 4, Reddish
3-12 2-4 9, Barrett 11-19 7-11 30, Williamson
10-16 7-14 27, Bolden 0-0 2-2 2, DeLaurier
0-0 0-0 0, O’Connell 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 26-51
18-31 72.
Halftime—Duke 37-32. 3-Point Goals—
Virginia 3-17 (Guy 2-7, Jerome 1-5, Key 0-1,
Diakite 0-2, Hunter 0-2), Duke 2-14 (Reddish
1-6, Barrett 1-6, White 0-1, Williamson 0-1).
Fouled Out—DeLaurier. Rebounds—Vir-
ginia 27 (Key, Guy 6), Duke 30 (Williamson
9). Assists—Virginia 8 (Jerome 4), Duke 6
(Barrett 3). Total Fouls—Virginia 20, Duke 18.
A—9,314 (9,314).
Wisconsin 64,
No. 2 Michigan 54
MICHIGAN (17-1): Brazdeikis 0-5 0-0 0,
Teske 5-10 3-6 15, Matthews 2-5 1-2 5, Poole
6-15 1-1 14, Simpson 5-12 0-2 11, Livers 2-5
0-0 5, Davis 2-2 0-0 4, Brooks 0-0 0-0 0. To-
tals 22-54 5-11 54.
WISCONSIN (12-6): Happ 12-22 2-4 26,
Reuvers 4-8 0-0 9, Trice 2-10 2-2 6, Davison
3-6 2-2 8, Iverson 0-2 0-0 0, Thomas 0-0 0-0
0, Ford 3-5 1-1 9, King 2-4 0-0 6, Pritzl 0-1 0-0
0. Totals 26-58 7-9 64.
Halftime—Michigan 27-25. 3-Point
Goals—Michigan 5-18 (Teske 2-4, Livers
1-3, Simpson 1-3, Poole 1-5, Brazdeikis 0-3),
Wisconsin 5-13 (King 2-2, Ford 2-3, Reuvers
1-2, Pritzl 0-1, Davison 0-2, Trice 0-3). Fouled
Out—None. Rebounds—Michigan 33 (Simp-
son 10), Wisconsin 29 (Happ 10). Assists—
Michigan 11 (Simpson 6), Wisconsin 17 (Happ
7). Total Fouls—Michigan 17, Wisconsin 11.
A—17,287 (17,230).
West Virginia 65,
No. 7 Kansas 64
KANSAS (15-3): D.Lawson 5-11 5-6 15,
Grimes 3-7 0-0 8, Dotson 3-5 2-2 9, Vick 5-12
1-1 13, Garrett 6-12 3-4 15, McCormack 1-1
0-0 2, Lightfoot 0-0 0-0 0, K.Lawson 1-5 0-0
2, Moore 0-1 0-0 0, Agbaji 0-1 0-0 0. Totals
24-55 11-13 64.
WEST VIRGINIA (9-9): Gordon 2-3 0-0
4, Ahmad 3-9 0-0 8, Harris 2-5 0-0 5, Haley
5-5 3-4 13, Harler 3-3 0-0 7, Culver 4-10 3-5
11, West 2-5 1-1 5, Bolden 4-13 3-4 12, Mc-
Cabe 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 25-54 10-14 65.
Halftime—23-23. 3-Point Goals—Kan-
sas 5-16 (Grimes 2-4, Vick 2-6, Dotson 1-1,
D.Lawson 0-1, K.Lawson 0-2, Garrett 0-2),
West Virginia 5-14 (Ahmad 2-3, Harler 1-1,
Harris 1-3, Bolden 1-4, West 0-3). Fouled
Out—None. Rebounds—Kansas 31 (D.Law-
son 11), West Virginia 27 (Culver, Ahmad 7).
Assists—Kansas 6 (Garrett 3), West Virginia
12 (Culver, Ahmad 3). Total Fouls—Kansas
15, West Virginia 14. A—12,657 (14,000).
Kansas State 65,
TCU 55
TCU (13-4): Miller 4-8 1-2 11, Samuel
1-1 0-1 2, Bane 6-14 2-2 16, Nembhard 0-1
1-2 1, Robinson 6-11 5-6 17, Mayen 0-0 0-0
0, Barlow 1-4 0-0 2, Davis 2-8 0-0 6. Totals
20-47 9-13 55.
KANSAS ST. (14-4): Wade 4-9 8-9 16,
Mawien 2-4 4-6 8, Sneed 6-9 5-6 18, Brown
5-12 0-0 10, Stokes 3-7 0-0 8, Love 0-0 0-0 0,
Trice 0-0 0-0 0, Stockard 0-1 1-2 1, McGuirl
1-3 0-1 2, Diarra 1-3 0-0 2. Totals 22-48 18-24
65.
Halftime—Kansas St. 37-30. 3-Point
Goals—TCU 6-24 (Miller 2-5, Davis 2-6, Bane
2-8, Barlow 0-1, Nembhard 0-1, Robinson
0-3), Kansas St. 3-15 (Stokes 2-6, Sneed
1-2, Wade 0-1, McGuirl 0-1, Diarra 0-2, Brown
0-3). Fouled Out—Samuel. Rebounds—TCU
29 (Miller 7), Kansas St. 20 (Brown 5). As-
sists—TCU 10 (Robinson 4), Kansas St. 15
(Wade 6). Total Fouls—TCU 17, Kansas St.
14.
Friday’s Men’s
College Scores
EAST
Buffalo 77, E. Michigan 65
Iona 90, Marist 77
Northwestern 65, Rutgers 57
Villanova 85, Xavier 75
MIDWEST
Maryland 75, Ohio St. 61
Saint Louis 68, Saint Joseph’s 57
Toledo 75, Ohio 52
Southeastern
Conference Men
Conf. Pct. Overall Pct.
Tennessee
LSU
5-0 1.000 16-1 .941
4-0 1.000 14-3 .824
Kentucky
Ole Miss
4-1 .800 14-3 .824
4-1 .800 14-3 .824
S. Carolina 4-1 .800 9-8 .529
Miss. State 2-2 .500 14-3 .824
Auburn 2-2 .500 13-4 .765
Alabama 2-3 .400 11-6 .647
Florida 2-3 .400 10-7 .588
Missouri 1-3 .250 10-6 .625
Arkansas 1-4 .200 10-7 .588
Georgia 1-4 .200 9-8 .529
Texas A&M 1-4 .200 7-9 .438
Vanderbilt 0-5 .000 9-8 .529
Saturday’s Games
Florida 62, Georgia 52
Kentucky 82, Auburn 80
LSU 89, South Carolina 67
Mississippi State 71, Vanderbilt 55
Missouri 66, Texas A&M 43
Ole Miss 84, Arkansas 67
Tennessee 71, Alabama 68
Today’s Games
No games scheduled
Monday’s Games
No games scheduled
AP Men’s Top 25 Fared
Saturday’s Games
1. Duke (15-2) beat No. 4 Virginia 72-70. Next:
at Pittsburgh, Tuesday.
2. Michigan (17-1) lost to Wisconsin 64-54.
Next: vs. Minnesota, Tuesday.
3. Tennessee (16-1) beat Alabama 71-68.
Next: at Vanderbilt, Wednesday.
4. Virginia (16-1) lost to No. 1 Duke 72-70.
Next: vs. Wake Forest, Tuesday.
5. Gonzaga (17-2) at Portland. Next: at Santa
Clara, Thursday.
6. Michigan State (16-2) did not play. Next: vs.
No. 19 Maryland, Monday.
7. Kansas (15-3) lost to West Virginia 65-64.
Next: vs. Iowa State, Monday.
8. Texas Tech (15-3) lost to Baylor 73-62.
Next: at Kansas State, Tuesday.
9. Virginia Tech (15-2) beat Wake Forest 87-
71. Next: at No. 13 North Carolina, Monday.
10. Nevada (17-1) vs. Air Force. Next: vs. Col-
orado State, Wednesday.
11. Florida State (13-4) did not play. Next: at
Boston College, Sunday.
12. Kentucky (14-3) beat No. 14 Auburn
82-80. Next: vs. No. 24 Mississippi State,
Tuesday.
13. North Carolina (14-4) beat Miami 85-76.
Next: vs. No. 9 Virginia Tech, Monday.
14. Auburn (13-4) lost to No. 12 Kentucky 82-
80. Next: at South Carolina, Tuesday.
15. Marquette (15-3) did not play. Next: vs.
Providence, Sunday.
16. Buffalo (17-1) did not play. Next: at North-
ern Illinois, Tuesday.
17. N.C. State (15-3) beat Notre Dame 77-73.
Next: at Louisville, Thursday.
18. Mississippi (14-3) beat Arkansas 84-67.
Next: at Alabama, Tuesday.
19. Maryland (16-3) did not play. Next: at No.
6 Michigan State, Monday.
20. Oklahoma (13-5) lost to Texas 75-72.
Next: at Oklahoma State, Wednesday.
21. Houston (18-1) beat South Florida 69-60.
Next: vs. East Carolina, Wednesday.
22. Villanova (14-4) did not play. Next: at But-
ler, Tuesday.
23. Iowa (15-3) did not play. Next: vs. Illinois,
Sunday.
24. Mississippi State (14-3) beat Van-
derbilt 71-55. Next: at No. 12 Kentucky,
Tuesday.
25. Indiana (12-6) lost to Purdue 70-55. Next:
at Northwestern, Tuesday.
Saturday’s Women’s
College Scores
EAST
Albany (NY) 64, UMBC 44
American U. 61, Lehigh 53
Army 55, Navy 52
Bucknell 90, Colgate 62
CCSU 73, St. Francis (Pa.) 62
Cornell 60, Columbia 51
Duquesne 80, Richmond 54
Fairleigh Dickinson 69, LIU Brooklyn 52
George Mason 64, George Washington 60
Georgetown 68, Villanova 63
Hartford 66, Mass.-Lowell 44
Harvard 56, Dartmouth 46
Holy Cross 75, Boston U. 69
Jacksonville 61, NJIT 56
Maine 68, Stony Brook 54
Robert Morris 60, Bryant 57
Sacred Heart 68, St. Francis Brooklyn 66
Siena 77, Monmouth (NJ) 68
UConn 88, Temple 67
Vermont 58, Binghamton 57
Wagner 92, Mount St. Mary’s 76
SOUTH
Abilene Christian 72, Northwestern St. 63
Alabama St. 60, Alabama A&M 46
Alcorn St. 73, MVSU 63
Appalachian St. 67, Coastal Carolina 53
Belmont 80, Tennessee St. 46
Bethune-Cookman 67, Delaware St. 55
Campbell 52, Hampton 46
Charleston Southern 78, SC-Upstate 75
Chattanooga 73, Furman 53
ETSU 92, Wofford 79
Florida Gulf Coast 69, Kennesaw St. 46
Georgia St. 84, Troy 80
Liberty 69, North Florida 53
Louisiana Tech 88, Charlotte 51
Louisiana-Lafayette 52, Louisiana-Monroe 45
Marshall 86, FIU 58
McNeese St. 62, SE Louisiana 56
Md.-Eastern Shore 68, Florida A&M 36
Memphis 58, East Carolina 46
Mercer 71, UNC-Greensboro 58
Morehead St. 85, UT Martin 75
NC A&T 62, Morgan St. 29
NC Central 62, Coppin St. 57
Norfolk St. 78, Savannah St. 42
North Alabama 71, Stetson 55
Old Dominion 53, Southern Miss. 50
Radford 68, Longwood 34
SC State 72, Howard 63
SE Missouri 52, E. Kentucky 42
Samford 75, W. Carolina 42
South Alabama 69, Georgia Southern 53
South Florida 73, Tulane 46
Tennessee Tech 66, Jacksonville St. 49
UCF 55, SMU 43
UNC-Asheville 67, High Point 56
W. Kentucky 81, FAU 50
Winthrop 64, Gardner-Webb 62
MIDWEST
Austin Peay 73, E. Illinois 60
Buffalo 61, W. Michigan 59
CS Bakersfield 67, Chicago St. 56
Cent. Michigan 82, Kent St. 75
IUPUI 71, Ill.-Chicago 43
Iowa St. 104, Oklahoma 78
Miami (Ohio) 60, Ball St. 57
eight fewer than Bibby, who
logged 40 minutes. McCowan
also scored only five points
and had 11 rebounds. Still, the
Bulldogs were in control of
the game in the third quarter
before Sabrina Ionescu (29
points) asserted herself and led
her team to a signature win.
Time to regroup
To Landers, the loss to
Oregon wasn’t a defining
moment. Rather, it was a
teaching moment in which the
Bulldogs needed to be tested.
Schaefer said after the game
the Bulldogs didn’t have the
toughness, aggressiveness, or
the physicality they typically
possess. The lack of those
qualities played a key role in
Oregon outscoring MSU by
nine points in the second half.
Landers’ point seems more
relevant following No. 7 MSU’s
89-74 victory against No. 15
South Carolina. Granted, the
Bulldogs had the support of a
white-out crowd of 10,006 to
help them more past the injury
to Bibby 35 seconds into the
game. Still, the victory against
one of their most stubborn
opponents showed the Bull-
dogs do have the toughness,
aggressiveness, and physical-
ity Schaefer requires from his
teams. The fact that they were
able to display those qualities
after Bibby’s injury and after
South Carolina went 10-for-15
from 3-point range through
three quarters shows the
Ohio 85, E. Michigan 44
Oklahoma St. 72, Kansas 62
SIU-Edwardsville 71, Murray St. 54
Toledo 79, Bowling Green 65
UMKC 73, Grand Canyon 45
W. Illinois 73, Purdue Fort Wayne 59
SOUTHWEST
Cincinnati 70, Tulsa 50
Grambling St. 75, Texas Southern 67
Kansas St. 66, Texas Tech 62
Middle Tennessee 79, UTEP 49
Nicholls 64, Cent. Arkansas 60
Prairie View 76, Jackson St. 57
Rice 64, North Texas 52
Sam Houston St. 74, Houston Baptist 63
Stephen F. Austin 66, Incarnate Word 56
Texas 73, TCU 67
Texas A&M-CC 57, New Orleans 51
Texas State 85, Arkansas St. 62
UAB 59, UTSA 42
UALR 68, Texas-Arlington 65
FAR WEST
Air Force 79, Nevada 74
BYU 79, Portland 71
Boise St. 72, Fresno St. 60
E. Washington 89, Montana St. 87
Gonzaga 86, San Diego 61
Montana 82, Idaho 79
New Mexico 78, Wyoming 75
New Mexico St. 58, Utah Valley 52
Pacific 85, San Francisco 75
Pepperdine 95, Loyola Marymount 86
Portland St. 72, N. Arizona 55
Sacramento St. 77, S. Utah 76
Saint Mary’s (Cal) 83, Santa Clara 59
UC Davis 80, UC Irvine 57
UC Santa Barbara 60, Long Beach St. 54
UNLV 53, San Jose St. 43
Utah St. 72, Colorado St. 53
Friday’s Women’s
College Scores
EAST
Brown 86, Yale 71
Canisius 53, Fairfield 50
Delaware 78, Hofstra 59
Drexel 61, Northeastern 59
Manhattan 55, Iona 33
Providence 74, Butler 68
Quinnipiac 96, Niagara 55
Rider 60, St. Peter’s 38
SOUTH
Towson 77, Coll. of Charleston 61
UNC-Wilmington 66, James Madison 63
MIDWEST
Cleveland St. 76, N. Kentucky 47
Creighton 66, Xavier 62
DePaul 73, St. John’s 64
Drake 88, N. Iowa 64
Green Bay 65, Detroit 40
Illinois St. 60, S. Illinois 52
Indiana St. 86, Valparaiso 82
Loyola of Chicago 61, Evansville 56
Marquette 96, Seton Hall 60
Milwaukee 79, Oakland 52
Missouri St. 68, Bradley 56
S. Dakota St. 66, North Dakota 48
Youngstown St. 83, Wright St. 68
SOUTHWEST
South Dakota 76, Oral Roberts 72
FAR WEST
CS Northridge 49, Hawaii 29
California 77, Washington St. 63
Oregon 77, Arizona St. 71
Oregon St. 86, Arizona 64
Stanford 91, Washington 54
Utah 78, Colorado 59
SEC Women
Conf. Pct. Overall Pct.
Miss. State 5-0 1.000 17-1 .944
Missouri 4-1 .800 15-4 .789
S. Carolina 4-1 .800 12-5 .706
Kentucky 3-2 .600 16-3 .889
Auburn 3-2 .600 15-3 .833
Georgia 3-2 .600 12-6 .667
Texas A&M 2-2 .500 13-4 .765
Arkansas 2-2 .500 13-5 .722
LSU 2-3 .400 11-6 .647
Alabama 2-3 .400 10-8 .556
Ole Miss 1-3 .250 7-11 .388
Florida 1-3 .250 5-12 .294
Tennessee 1-4 .200 12-5 .706
Vanderbilt 0-5 .000 5-13 .278
Saturday’s Games
No games scheduled
Today’s Games
LSU at Alabama, 1 p.m. (SEC Network)
Florida at Ole Miss, 3 p.m. (SEC Network)
Texas A&M at Georgia, 3 p.m. (ESPN2)
Monday’s Games
Arkansas at Tennessee, 6 p.m. (SEC Net-
work)
Missouri at South Carolina, 6 p.m. (ESPN2)
AP Women’s Top 25 Fared
Saturday’s Games
1. Notre Dame (17-1) did not play. Next: vs.
Boston College, Sunday.
2. Baylor (14-1) did not play. Next: vs. West
Virginia, Sunday.
2. UConn (16-1) beat Temple 88-67. Next: vs.
SMU, Wednesday.
4. Louisville (16-1) did not play. Next: at Wake
Forest, Sunday.
5. Oregon (16-1) did not play. Next: vs. Ari-
zona, Sunday.
6. Stanford (15-1) did not play. Next: vs.
Washington State, Sunday.
7. Mississippi State (17-1) did not play.
Next: at Florida, Thursday.
8. N.C. State (17-0) did not play. Next: vs. Vir-
ginia Tech, Sunday.
9. Maryland (15-2) did not play. Next: vs. Penn
State, Sunday.
10. Oregon State (15-2) did not play. vs. No.
19 Arizona State, Sunday.
11. Texas (15-3) beat TCU 73-67. Next: vs.
Kansas, Wednesday.
12. Syracuse (15-2) did not play. Next: at
Georgia Tech, Sunday.
13. Gonzaga (17-2) beat San Diego 86-61.
Next: vs. San Francisco, Thursday.
14. Marquette (15-3) did not play. Next: vs. St.
John’s, Sunday.
15. South Carolina (12-5) did not play. Next:
vs. Missouri, Monday.
16. Kentucky (16-3) did not play. Next: vs.
Missouri, Thursday.
17. Michigan State (13-4) did not play. Next: at
No. 20 Rutgers, Sunday.
18. Iowa State (14-4) beat Oklahoma 104-78.
Next: at No. 2 Baylor, Wednesday.
19. Arizona State (12-5) did not play. Next: at
No. 10 Oregon State, Sunday.
20. Rutgers (14-3) did not play. Next: vs. No.
17 Michigan State, Sunday.
20. Tennessee (12-5) did not play. Next: vs.
Arkansas, Monday.
22. Iowa (13-4) did not play. Next: at Illinois,
Sunday.
23. Minnesota (13-4) did not play. Next: at
Nebraska, Sunday.
24. DePaul (13-5) did not play. Next: vs. Seton
Hall, Sunday.
25. Indiana (15-3) did not play. Next: at Pur-
due, Sunday.
Sunday, January 20, 2019 5B
potential for another deep run
into the NCAA tournament.
This run, though, will be
different, which is fitting
because Schaefer used that
word in April to describe the
makeup of the 2018-19 squad.
The Bulldogs need more from
their bench. They will have
to be better defensively They
even might have to — gasp —
play more zone defense than
Schaefer can stomach.
The injury to Bibby provides
an opening for multiple players
to make an impression, but
they have to understand that
doesn’t mean scoring. The
Bulldogs need players to take
charges — like Espinoza-Hunt-
er and Scott did against South
Carolina — and to play a team
game. Most of all, the Bulldogs
need to play with a relentless
nature they can make all their
own. That includes domi-
nating rebounding battles,
pushing tempo, and playing
with a toughness that won’t be
denied.
Landers is right that the
loss to Oregon shouldn’t define
MSU’s 2018-19 team. The Bull-
dogs showed who they can be
against the Gamecocks. They
have plenty of time to build that
identity and make toughness
the defining characteristic of
their squad.
Adam Minichino is sports
editor of The Dispatch. You
can email him at aminichino@
cdispatch.com. Follow him on
Twitter @ctsportseditor.
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Men’s College Basketball
Ole Miss bounces back to defeat Arkanas
OXFORD — D.C. Davis played a grand total of 16 minutes last
season, yet there he was on Saturday, leading a fast break opportunity
during a crucial portion of the second half in a key conference game.
The former walk-on spied Terence Davis streaking toward the rim
and let a high pass fly. It was perfectly placed and Davis grabbed it in
midair, slammed it home and the 18th-ranked Rebels were well on their
way to an 84-67 victory over Arkansas at The Pavilion.
The Rebels’ stars had good games against the Razorbacks.
The lesser-known players might have played even better.
Breein Tyree scored 22 points and Terence Davis added 18 in a
game the Rebels never trailed. Ole Miss also got huge production from
role players: Bruce Stevens scored 14 points — including 10 in the
second half — Dominik Olejniczak added 13 points and D.C. Davis had
seven points and four assists in his first start of the season.
The surprising Rebels — winners of 11 of their last 12 — keep
finding new ways to win.
“I’ve got so much love for D.C. and I’m so happy for him because
he puts in so much work,” Tyree said. “He got a great opportunity to
show it tonight and really he’s been playing well the whole season.”
Ole Miss (14-3, 4-1 Southeastern Conference) pushed out to an
11-point lead by halftime and had a comfortable advantage through
most of the second half. The Rebels had a 40-31 rebounding edge
and helped force 17 Arkansas turnovers to bounce back from their first
league loss earlier in the week.
“We’ve had some great wins, but that was probably our best win
of the year,” Ole Miss coach Kermit Davis said. “Just the response after
losing your first league game.”
Arkansas (10-7, 1-4) has lost four straight games since winning
its conference opener. The Razorbacks were led by Keyshawn Em-
bery-Simpson, who scored 16 points. Arkansas coach Mike Anderson
said his team made some good adjustments to get back into the game
early in the second half, but couldn’t keep the momentum.
“Their experience showed and our inexperience showed,”
Anderson said.
Ole Miss was in control from the opening tip, jumping out to an 11-2
lead in the opening minutes. The Rebels got some unexpected early
production from Olejniczak, a 7-footer who poured in 13 points on 5 of 5
shooting from the field before the break.
Terence Davis made a 3-pointer at the buzzer to give the Rebels a
46-35 halftime advantage.
Arkansas shot just 6 of 23 (26 percent) from 3-point range. The
team’s five starters combined for just 32 points.
n No. 3 Tennessee 71, Alabama 68: At Knoxville, Tennessee,
Tennessee did its part with a walk-off win of sorts against Alabama.
Enough for a No. 1 ranking? All the Volunteers can do now is sit
and wait.
Grant Williams scored 21 points, Alabama was called for traveling
with 3.2 seconds left and No. 3 Tennessee rallied past the Crimson Tide
on Saturday for its 12th straight victory and a chance to climb atop the
AP Top 25 .
After No. 1 Duke lost to Syracuse on Monday and No. 2 Michigan
fell at Wisconsin on Saturday, the Volunteers (16-1, 5-0 Southeastern
Conference) could lead the poll Monday for the first time since 2008.
The No. 1 spot likely will go to either Tennessee or Duke, which beat
No. 4 Virginia 72-70 later Saturday to bolster its resume.
“I wouldn’t say our main focus is on that, but it’s definitely some-
thing that we would like,” Tennessee guard Jordan Bone said. “We
would definitely love to be in that position for sure.”
Tennessee won its first four SEC games by an average of 25 points
but had a much tougher time against Alabama (11-6, 2-3)
The Vols blew a 15-point lead and trailed for much of the second
half before pulling ahead for good on Admiral Schofield’s basket with
2:12 remaining.
“I think that we’re going to be in a lot of games like this whether
we’re ranked 1, 21 or 41,” Tennessee coach Rick Barnes said. “I just
think this league’s like that. Everybody’s fighting.”
Tennessee led 69-68 when Williams was called for an offensive
foul after leaning into Alabama’s Donta Hall with 11.3 seconds left.
After a timeout, Alabama worked the ball to John Petty, who matched a
career high with 30 points.
This time, Petty couldn’t deliver. The sophomore guard was called
for traveling as he began a drive around the foul line.
“In my opinion, I felt like I didn’t travel,” Petty said. “But it was the
call, and I guess we’ve got to live with it.”
Lamonte’ Turner made two free throws to extend Tennessee’s lead
to 71-68 with 2.5 seconds left. Alabama had no timeouts remaining, and
the Tide’s Kira Lewis Jr. wasn’t even to midcourt when he launched a
desperation shot that missed.
Petty also had a chance to put Alabama ahead when he lined up
for a 3-pointer with the Tide trailing 67-66. Williams blocked the shot
with 1:22 left. Petty was 6 of 9 from 3-point range until that block.
Schofield had 12 points and 11 rebounds for Tennessee. Jordan
Bowden scored 12 points, and Bone added 10.
Hall had 16 points and 12 rebounds for Alabama. Lewis added 12
points.
n Old Dominion 78, Southern Mississippi 60: At Norfolk,
Virginia, Ahmad Caver had 19 points, eight assists and four steals, B.J.
Stith scored 17 with four 3-poitners and Old Dominion beat Southern
Miss 78-60 on Saturday.
The Monarchs have claimed victory in 12 of their last 14 games.
Xavier Green added 13 points and five assists for Old Dominion
(14-5, 4-2 Conference USA). The Monarchs hit 10 of 26 from 3-point
range, 10 of 20 at the free-throw line and outrebounded Southern Miss
45-32.
The Monarchs ended the first half on a 25-7 run for a 40-29 lead
after connecting on 7 of 16 from distance.
Tyree Griffin scored 20 points and dished out seven assists for
Southern Miss (11-8, 3-4). Tim Rowe added 11 points and Leonard
Harper-Baker grabbed 14 rebounds.
—From Wire Reports
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NFL

Saints, Rams bring idential game plans into NFC title game at Dome
BY BRET T MARTEL
The Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS — One way
or another, the NFC Champion-
ship between the Los Angeles
Rams and New Orleans Saints
will be won by a coach named
Sean — with an Irish surname
— who designs and calls plays
for one of the most innovative
and productive offenses in the
NFL.
The ties between the Saints’
Sean Payton and the Rams’
Sean McVay go well beyond a
shared name.
“We both cut our teeth in
this league under Jon Gruden,”
Payton said. “That (Rams) staff
— there’s a ton of guys that
we’re friendly with and that we
know on that staff. Guys who
we have worked with, and Sean
and I have a real good relation-
ship. He is an engaging guy, a
fun guy to be around.”
Gruden, the current Oak-
land Raiders coach, was the of-
fensive coordinator with the Ea-
gles in 1997 when Payton was
hired as quarterbacks. In 2008,
Gruden was the head coach in
Tampa Bay when he hired Mc-
Vay as a receivers coach.
During the past two seasons
Payton and McVay have led
their teams to the playoffs with
one of the best offenses in foot-
ball, thanks in part to elite quar-
terbacks — Drew Brees with
New Orleans (14-3) and Jared
Goff of Los Angeles (14-3).
Both coaches have acknowl-
edged they watch each other’s
offensive film nearly every
week — not just because of the
possibility of playing against
one another; they’re looking for
good ideas.
And then there are some
connections on the roster and
coaching staff. One of the
Rams’ top receivers, Brandin
Cooks, was Payton’s first-round
draft choice in 2014. Los Ange-
les’ running game coordinator
is Aaron Kromer, a former run-
ning backs and offensive line
coach under Payton, including
on the 2009 Super Bowl-win-
ning squad.
Players on both teams praise
their coach’s intangible feel for
how a game is developing.
Saints Pro Bowl left tackle
Terron Armstead extoled Pay-
ton’s “fearlessness” in his play
calling and said the coach has
“so much believe and confi-
dence in us and the system that
we can go out and make a play
no matter the down and dis-
tance.”
Goff mentioned how McVay
sends in plays “with confidence
and having a good feel for ev-
erything.”
“There’s certain moments in
games where being a good play
caller — you can’t teach it — but
there’s certain moments where
you have to go for that dagger
or you have to pull back a little
bit,” Goff continued. “There’s
just different ebbs and flows in
games. I think he’s got a great
feel for that.”
The main thing that sepa-
rates the two is age and expe-
rience. The 55-year-old Payton
got his first head coaching job
13 years ago, is coaching in his
third NFC title game and try-
ing win his second Super Bowl.
In his second season as a head
coach, McVay, 32, is preparing
for his first NFC title game.
The same goes for their
QBs: the record-setting Brees
turned 40 on Tuesday and Goff
is 24.
“He’s been doing it at really
high level for a lot longer than
I have,” McVay said of Payton.
“He’s an outstanding coach —
clearly referenced by the way
that his team is playing this
year, how they’ve played over
the course of his career when
he’s been leading the Saints.”
Getting to a Super Bowl by
winning Sunday would be a
good start for McVay and the
Rams.

David Miller/Special to The Dispatch David Miller/Special to The Dispatch David Miller/Special to The Dispatch
Columbus forward Gabe Williams tries to readjust his Columbus guard Berniya Hardin shoots a 3-pointer Columbus guard Greg King cuts through the Tupelo
shot against a Tupelo defender. against Tupelo. defense.

Falcons
Continued from Page 1B
capped the quarter by
banking in a 3-pointer.
“The pressure we
bring, it makes teams ner-
vous,” Saddler said. “But
you have to bring at every
spot.”
Hairston said her
team’s defensive perfor-
mance ranked among
the top of games she’s
coached at Columbus (17-
2, 3-0).
“We didn’t do the same
press in the second half
and wanted [Tupelo] to
adjust,” Hairston said.
“We put something else
in so they wouldn’t know
what to do. We were for-
tunate tonight to make
the adjustments, and the
team got it done.”
The win was pivotal to
Columbus controlling the
region, as it will play three
straight region games,
including a road match
at Tupelo on Jan. 29. The
Lady Falcons have won
back-to-back games since
losing to Center Hill on
Jan. 8.
Tupelo was paced by
forward Chemya Ca-
routhers, who finished
with 20 points, includ-
ing nine of the team’s 13
points in the first quar-
ter. The Lady Wave had
won eight straight games
since losing to Starkville
high on Dec. 15.
n Tupelo boys 56,
Columbus 44
Tijah McCrary hit a
pair of free throws to cut
Columbus’ deficit to six
with two minutes left
against Tupelo, but the
Golden Wave closed the
game on an 8-2 run to seal
the win.
Tupelo is now in first-
place in Class 6A, Region
2 with wins against all
three teams.
The Golden Wave (13-
8, 3-0) held a double-digit
lead for much of the sec-
ond half, extending to as
many as 17 points before
the Falcons made their
run.
Columbus (8-12, 2-1)
had won three of its last
four entering Friday’s
game, including region
games against Oxford
and South Panola.
Greg King led the Fal-
cons with 16 points, in-
cluding 13 in the second
half. McCrary finished
with 11.
Tupelo has won six
of its last seven games
since a three-game skid
to Provine, Starkville and
Jesuit (New Orleans).
Columbus will face all
three region opponents in
its next three games be-
tween Jan. 25 and Feb. 1
Soccer
Continued from Page 1B
coached six attacking players to eight
All-SEC honors and four SEC All-Fresh-
man selections. Additionally, three Au-
burn players earned All-America honors
while he was with the program.
Prior to his time on The Plains, Arm-
strong coached at Lonestar SC in Austin,
Texas. He began his tenure with Lone-
star with the club’s inception in 2004 and
advanced throughout its coaching ranks
to level of ECNL Head Coach and Pre-
mier League Girls Director of Coaching.
Lonestar was named one of the top 20
women’s soccer programs in the coun-
try under his leadership, and his teams
placed more than 200 players in colle-
giate soccer programs.
“Mississippi State is a unique place
and I and my family were made to feel
very welcome by everyone we met,”
Armstrong said. “We knew it was the
perfect fit for us. I cannot wait to begin
this exciting adventure with the players,
coaches and support staff to continue
the forward momentum that this pro-
gram has enjoyed recently.”
Before he began coaching, Arm-
strong worked as an equipment manager
for the U.S. Soccer Federation. He joined
the U-19 Women’s National Team as they
won the inaugural FIFA U-19 Women’s
World Cup in 2002. The next season he
worked with the senior national team
that placed third in the Women’s World
Cup hosted on home soil.
A native of Yorkshire, England, Arm-
strong earned his bachelor’s degree in
history and politics from the Universi-
ty of Edinburgh in 2000 and a master’s
in the same fields in 2001. He attended
North Carolina for one year as part of the
school’s study abroad program. He holds
a USSF A License and a National Youth
License.
MSU is coming off its first NCAA
Tournament appearance in school his-
tory. The 2018 squad won nine games
and earned the first ranking in program
history, while setting school records in
shots allowed per game (11.6), shots per
game (18.4) and goals allowed (17). State
has won 18 games in the past two years,
which marks the best two year stretch
since 2003-04 when the Bulldogs also
collected 18 victories.

MUW
Continued from Page 1B
Tenazhia Hinkson, the team’s
lone senior, finished with 16 points,
14 rebounds, five assists and three
steals. Her and-1 in the third quar-
ter gave the Lady Owls an eight-
point lead.
Hinkson is averaging 20.2 points
in her last four games. The former
Dillard University and Co-Lin Com-
munity College forward echoed her
coach’s feelings about the team’s
recent slow starts and sometimes
careless play – she had a game-high
nine turnovers.
“Our defensive intensity … it
takes us a second,” Hinkson said.
“When you play against teams that
aren’t as good, it’s harder because
they’re in all the right spots at the
right time. They’re scrappy and all
over the place. But our focus has to
better.
“The main thing that would help
us in the long run is free throws,
something we’ve been struggling
with the whole season. We work on
it in practice; why we don’t convert
in games, I don’t know.”
White, Jr. said it’s important
Hinkson continue to lead a team
comprised mostly of first-year ju-
nior college transfers.
“I think I play a big leadership
role on this team,” Hinkson said.
“This is my last year – I’m trying to
make something of this.”
MUW forward Qiayon Bailey
scored 18 and pulled down five
boards. Autumn Taylor added 13
and five.
Morris College was paced by
Teondra Bringham and Shanekia
Johnson, who scored 12 each and
combined for nine rebounds and
four assists.
n Morris men 81, MUW 78
Morris College stunned the
MUW Owls on a buzzer-beater to
avoid overtime and snap the Owls’
three-game winning streak.
Morris guard Demetrius Knox,
who sprinted the length of the
court in just 2.8 seconds, launched
the shot at full-speed and banked it
home as the horn sounded. The im-
probable heave capped a talismanic
performance by Knox, who played
a full 40 minutes and finished with
a game-high 25 points and four
3-pointers. He added four assists.
Knox’s game-winner came after
MUW guard Josh Skinner drained
a 3-pointer to tie the game.
“It’s tough,” said Brian Merkel,
MUW coach. “You don’t know what
to say the guys.”
Merkel said the Owls (4-13)
played “zone-tempo” defense on the
last possession, and though Jack-
son was able to get around an Owl
defender, he thought his players
executed and forced a difficult shot.
“[Jackson] is incredibly quick
and got by us a bit, but at the end of
the day, if you shoot that 20 times, I
don’t know if he makes that again,”
Merkel said. “If you asked me if
they’d get a running shot, off bal-
ance, and basically throw it in un-
derhand, we would have taken it.”
MUW will rue blowing an eight-
point lead it had built over Morris
(3-10) with just 6:24 left to play.
Owls Junior guard Tavonta Jones, a
first-year transfer from East Central
Community College, sparked the
13-6 run and lead with nine points.
Jones finished with 16 points, seven
rebounds and four assists. Jones
has scored 15 points or more in five
of the Owls’ last six games. He’s
shot 50 percent or better in four of
their last five games.
“Tavonta has come a long way in
terms of what we want him to do on
the court,” Merkel said. “When he’s
attacking the basket like that, he’s
tough to stop.”
MUW senior center DJ Clark
registered his fifth double-double of
the season, finishing with 15 points
and 11 rebounds. Shon Wright had
13 points and seven rebounds for
the Owls. David Miller/Special to The Dispatch
MUW will host Morris Champi- MUW guard Tre Pinkston puts up a shot in the lane
against Morris College.
on Christian on Friday.
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other governments have
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suits. He explained last
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donations to some of the
world’s great museums
and universities, in part
because they took “tens of
billions” of dollars out of
is a massive consolidated
federal case playing out in
Ohio.
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utors, claiming they are
(Renee); sister, Sue Ferrell (Mike); nephews,
Matthew Ferrell, Benjamin Ferrell (Jenny), and
Douglas Spearman; great-nephew, Luke Ferrell;
and great niece, Josie Ferrell.
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Basil Gill Dishongh, Jr.

hind the company that
makes OxyContin, the
prescription painkiller that
helped fuel the nation’s opi-
oid epidemic, is likely to get
more intense.
The Sackler family
came under heavy scruti-
ny this week when a legal
filing in a Massachusetts
case asserted that family
members and company
executives sought to push
prescriptions of the drug
and downplay its risks.
Those revelations are like-
ly to be a preview of the
claims in a series of ex-
panding legal challenges.
Members of the family
that controls Connecti-
cut-based Purdue Pharma
are also defendants in a law-
Red snapper
study to include
$250 tags on fish
By JANET
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The Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS —
When the red snapper sea-
son begins this summer in
the Gulf of Mexico, some
fish will carry $250 and
even $500 worth of tags, as
part of a study to estimate
just how many of the popu-
lar sport and table fish live
in the Gulf. The fish can
be released as long as the
tags are snipped off.
Scientists plan to tag
3,000 to 5,000 red snapper
during April and May, said
Greg Stunz of Texas A&M
University-Corpus Christi,
who is leading a team of
21 scientists from the five
Gulf states and Virginia.
He said some will use uni-
versity research boats, but
others will go out with an-
glers, charter captains and
commercial boats — and
researchers hope to get
tags back from all three
fishing groups.
Each tag will be worth
$250. Some fish will carry
two tags, to help scientists
learn how many of the tags
fall out. Those are the po-
tential $500 fish.
But Paul Hanly, a lawyer
representing the county,
said he expects to add the
Sacklers to other opioid
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Looming as potentially
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partly culpable for a drug
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sulted in a record 72,000
Mr. Basil Gill Dishongh, Jr., 78, passed away
deaths in 2017.
on January 17, 2019, at North Mississippi Medical
Center in Tupelo. Mr. Dishongh was born October
12, 1940, in New Orleans, LA, at the Touro
Infirmary, the son of the late Mr. Basil Gill, Sr.
(Mr. “D”) and Mildred Huddleston Dishongh. His
father worked for the Corps of Engineers so they
lived in several places in the South throughout
his childhood. The family moved to Columbus
Mississippi in the 1950’s. He graduated S.D. Lee
High School in 1959. Afterwards he attended
Marion Military Institute where he was a Captain
in Morgan’s Raiders. After graduation he finished
his degree at Mississippi State University in 1963,
where he was a member of the Kappa Sigma
Fraternity.
He was President of Valley Construction
Company and built numerous projects for the
Corps of Engineers throughout the south.
Dishongh was a member of First Baptist Church
in Columbus, Mississippi. He was a longtime
member of the Experimental Aircraft Association
(EAA). He was the Chief of the Monroe County
Flyers and an officer in the EAA Chapter 1189.
He learned to fly at a young age and it became
a lifelong passion. He was a member of the
American Bonanza Society and owned many
Beechcraft airplanes. He was a member of the
Mississippi Valley Flood Control Branch of the
Association of General Contractors where he
served two terms on the Board of Directors.
Mr. Basil Gill Dishongh, Jr. married Anne Ruble
Dishongh on December 16, 1962, in West Point.
Funeral services will be Monday, January 21,
2019, at 2:00 P.M. from Calvert Funeral Home
Chapel with Dr. Bobby Douglas officiating. Burial
will follow in Greenwood Cemetery in West Point.
Calvert Funeral Home of West Point is honored to
be entrusted with the arrangements.
Survivors include His Wife Anne Ruble
Dishongh of Houston; Daughter, Julianne Celeste
Dishongh of Atlanta, GA; Two Sons, Basil Gill
Dishongh, III (Phyllis) of Houston and Emmett
Gavin Dishongh (Stephanie) of Birmingham,
AL; four Grandchildren: MaryGrace Dishongh of
Houston, Elizabeth Nicole Dishongh of Savannah,
GA, Emmett Clark Dishongh of Savannah, GA,
and Rivers Gavin Dishongh of Birmingham, AL
and One Great Grandson: Lawson Reid Miley of
Houston; Brother, Dr. Charles Randall Dishongh
of Jackson; Sister-in-Law: Kay Ruble Simmons
(Mike) of West Point.
Pallbearers will be Emery Skelton, Michael
Stone, Greg Andrews, John Prince, Mendy
Mendoza, Aubie Pearman, and Dr. Cecil Boswell.
Memorials may be made to LeBonheur
Children’s Hospital, 848 Adams Avenue,
Memphis, TN 38103 or to Experimental Aircraft
Association Chapter 1189, 5068 Airport Road,
Aberdeen, MS 39730.
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8b Sunday, January 20, 2019
TENNIS: Australian Open
Williams consoles after victory
in fourth-round over Yastremska
By HOWARD FENDRICH
The Associated Press
MELBOURNE, Australia — It was all
a bit overwhelming for the latest oppo-
nent who could do nothing to slow Ser-
ena Williams at the Australian Open. So
Dayana Yastremska, an 18-year-old from
Ukraine, found herself wiping away
tears as she walked to the net.
Williams knows what it’s like to be
the one weeping after a loss. She put
her right hand on Yastremska’s shoul-
der and consoled her by saying, “You’re
so young. You did amazing. Don’t cry.”
Then they embraced, and Williams pat-
ted Yastremska on the back.
“I could tell she was quite upset. I kind
of liked that. It shows she wasn’t just
there to play a good match — she was
there to win. She wanted to win. That
really broke my heart,” Williams said. “I
think she’s a good talent. It’s good to see
that attitude.”
Maybe she will be tested in the fourth
round, because no one has come close to
making her work too hard so far, includ-
ing the 6-2, 6-1 victory on Saturday.
Next up, though, is a far more accom-
plished player, No. 1-ranked Simona Ha-
lep, who took control by reeling off six
consecutive games in one stretch and
advanced by beating Williams’ sister,
Venus, 6-2, 6-3.
After two tough three-set tussles,
Halep had a much easier time of things,
making only 12 unforced errors while
Venus had 33. Halep played with her left
thigh taped, but moved around the court
well.
“She played pretty flawless,” said Ve-
nus, who exits before the fourth round
at a fifth consecutive Grand Slam tour-
nament.
Looking ahead, Halep said: “It’s go-
ing to be a bigger challenge. I am ready
to face it.”
She’s lost eight of her past nine match-
es against Serena.
Might Venus offer her sibling any
tips?
on the air
Today
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3 p.m. — Duquesne at George Washington,
NBC Sports Network
WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL
1 p.m. — Fordham at Dayton,, CBS Sports
Network
1 p.m. — Penn State at Maryland, ESPN2
1 p.m. — Houston at Wichita State, ESPNU
1 p.m. — LSU at Alabama, SEC Network
2 p.m. — Butler at Creighton, FS1
3 p.m. — La Salle at St. Joseph’s, CBS
Sports Network
3 p.m. — Texas A&M at Georgia, ESPN2
3 p.m. — Bradley at Southern Illinois,
ESPNU
3 p.m. — Florida at Ole Miss, SEC Network
4 p.m. — West Virginia at Baylor, FS1
5 p.m. — Minnesota at Nebraska, ESPN2
5 p.m. — Colorado at Utah, ESPNU
WOMEN’S COLLEGE GYMNASTICS
5 p.m. — Arkansas vs. Kentucky, SEC
Network
6:30 p.m. — Alabama vs. Georgia, SEC
Network
8 p.m. — Florida vs. LSU, SEC Network
MEN’S COLLEGE HOCKEY
4 p.m. — Minnesota at Michigan State, Big
Ten Network
6;30 p.m. — Notre Dame at Wisconsin, Big
Ten Network
GOLF
10 a.m. — Latin America Amateur Cham-
pionship, final round, Dominican Republic,
ESPN2
11 a.m. — Web.com Tour Golf: The Ba-
hamas Great Abaco Classic, first round,
Bahamas, TGC
1 p.m. — LPGA Tour Golf: Diamond Resorts
Tournament of Champions, final round, Lake
Buena Vista, Florida, TGC
2 p.m. — LPGA Tour Golf: Diamond Resorts
Tournament of Champions, final round, Lake
Buena Vista, Florida, WTVA
2 p.m. — PGA Tour Golf: Desert Classic,
final round, La Quinta, California, TGC
HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL
6:30 p.m. — IMG Academy (Fla.) at Oak Hill
Academy (Va.), ESPN
NBA G LEAGUE
2 p.m. — Santa Cruz vs. Oklahoma City,
NBA TV
NFL
2 p.m. — NFC Championship, Los Angeles
Rams at New Orleans, WLOV
5:30 p.m. — AFC Championship, New En-
gland at Kansas City, WCBI
The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com
“I don’t know if Serena needs my help
or not,” Venus said. “If she does, I’ll be
there.”
Not only has Serena won every set
she played this week — and 20 in a row
at Melbourne Park, dating to the start of
her 2017 run to the title (she sat out last
year’s tournament after having a baby)
— but Williams has ceded a total of only
nine games through three victories.
Unlike any of Serena’s foes until now,
Halep has won a major title, last year’s
French Open. She’s been to three other
Grand Slam finals, including a year ago
at the Australian Open.
That resume pales in comparison to
Serena’s, of course.
She is bidding for an eighth trophy at
the Australian Open and record-tying
24th Grand Slam title in all.
As for the prospect of playing the Wil-
liams sisters in back-to-back matches,
Halep called it “the toughest draw I’ve
ever had.”
“I just want to try to play my best ten-
nis,” Halep said, “because I have nothing
to lose.”
Other women’s fourth-rounders set
up for Monday: Naomi Osaka, the wom-
an who beat Serena in last year’s chaotic
U.S. Open final, against No. 13 Anasta-
sija Sevastova; 2017 U.S. Open runner-up
Madison Keys against No. 6 Elina Svito-
lina; and two-time major champion Gar-
bine Muguruza against 2016 U.S. Open
runner-up Karolina Pliskova, who beat
No. 27 seed Camila Giorgi 6-4, 3-6, 6-2
on Saturday night.
Men’s matchups Monday with a quar-
terfinal berth at stake will be: No. 1 No-
vak Djokovic against No. 15 Daniil Med-
vedev; No. 4 Alexander Zverev against
2016 Wimbledon finalist Milos Raonic;
2014 U.S. Open finalist Kei Nishikori
against No. 23 Pablo Carreno-Busta; and
No. 11 Borna Coric against No. 28 Lucas
Pouille, who eliminated 19-year-old Aus-
tralian wild-card entry Alexei Popyrin
7-6 (3), 6-3, 6-7 (10), 4-6, 6-3.
Serena complimented Yastremska in
the locker room after their match.
NHL
6 p.m. — Arizona at Toronto, NHL Network
RUGBY
7 p.m. — Heineken Cup: Wasps vs. Lein-
ster, NBC Sports Network
SKIING
4 p.m. — USSA Freestyle Cup: Men’s and
Women’s aerials competition, Lake Placid,
New York, WTVA
5 p.m. — FIS Ski Jumping World Cup: Men’s
individual competition, Poland, NBC Sports
Network
7 p.m. — FIS Alpine World Cup: Men’s down-
hill, Switzerland, NBC Sports Network
SOCCER
7:25 a.m. — Premier League: Huddersfield
Town vs. Manchester City, NBC Sports
Network
8:30 a.m. — FC Nürnberg vs. Hertha Berlin,
FS1
9:55 a.m. — Premier League: Fulham vs.
Tottenham, NBC Sports Network
10:50 a.m. — Bundesliga: Wolfsburg vs.
Schalke, FS2
TENNIS
8 p.m. — Australian Open: Round of 16,
ESPN2
2 a.m. (Monday) — Australian Open: Round
of 16, ESPN2
Monday
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
5:30 p.m. — Maryland at Michigan State,
FS1
6 p.m. — American University at Boston
University, CBS Sports Network
6 p.m. — Virginia Tech at North Carolina,
ESPN
6 p.m. — Jackson state at Texas State,
ESPNU
7 p.m. — Nebraska at Rutgers, Big Ten
Network
7:30 p.m. — Creighton at Georgetown, FS1
8 p.m. — Marshall at Western Kentucky,
CBS Sports Network
8 p.m. — Iowa State at Kansas, ESPN
8 p.m. — Baylor at West Virginia, ESPNU
WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL
6 p.m. — Missouri at South Carolina,
ESPN2
6 p.m. — Arkansas at Tennessee, SEC
Network
WOMEN’S COLLEGE HOCKEY
2 p.m. — Lindenwood at Penn State, Big
Ten Network
GOLF
1 p.m. — Web.com Tour Golf: The Baha-
mas Great Abaco Classic, secound round,
Bahamas, TGC
HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL
10 a.m. — Ranney (N.J.) vs. Federal Way
(Wash.), ESPNU
2 p.m. — Sierra Canyon (Calif.) vs. Mont-
verde Academy (Fla.), ESPNU
4 p.m. — Dematha (Md.) vs. La Lumiere
(Ind.), ESPNU
NBA
11:30 a.m. — Oklahoma City at Atlanta,
NBA TV
2 p.m. — Orlando at Atlanta, NBA TV
4:30 p.m. — New Orleans at Memphis, TNT
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Jan Swoope/Dispatch Staff

The general public, at home and in the workplace, is often the weak link in cybersecurity, too often deceived by phishing emails and other
scams designed to mine sensitive information such as account numbers. Area experts offer some basic advice on strengthening defenses
against increasingly creative cyberthreats.

There’s more than one way to ‘get fit’ in the new year
BY JAN SWOOPE A 2015 McAfee survey revealed that 97 Weak link
jswoope@cdispatch.com percent of 19,000 consumers from around Unfortunately, the weakest wall in de-

T
oday, she has a hard time believing
she fell for it. But four years ago,
Julie — who asked not to use her last
name — accepted an email from her “bank”
at face value. It informed the Columbus
woman that her account information needed
updating. Without thinking, she clicked on
the link conveniently provided in the email
and followed instructions. Most of us know
the rest of story.
Becoming the victim of a phishing scam,
like Julie did, is a painful way to learn
caution. She’s more savvy now, and every
January, her New Year’s resolutions include
reviewing digital defenses, something she
also does throughout the year. She consid-
ers it another form of “getting fit.”
Many people would say they’re wised
up to phishing — attempts to fraudulently
gather sensitive information using decep-
tive emails and websites. But while we may
not be fooled by the “Nigerian prince” scam
any more, criminals continually morph the
game.
the world were unable to correctly identify
phishing emails. In 2018, a study by the
Center for Strategic and International Stud-
ies, in partnership with McAfee, concluded
that close to $600 billion, nearly one percent
of global GDP, is lost to cybercrime each
year. Anyone can be a victim — a CEO, a
grandmother, a veteran banker or a sea-
soned geek. And even if we’re pretty good
at spotting phishing, what about variations
like vishing (scamming via phone), smish-
ing (through text), pharming (directing
consumers to bogus websites) or crypto-
jacking (the secret use of your computing
device to mine cryptocurrency). The list
goes on.
The cyberthreat landscape is too vast —
and rapidly evolving — to address in one
newspaper article, but two area experts do
offer some basic “101” advice for shoring up
the fort against malicious attacks. It begins
with awareness — awareness that almost
everything we do these days leaves a digital
footprint.
fense is often ... us. We click on a link, play
a game online, or respond to emails or texts
without knowing who they’re really from.
“People are the biggest vulnerability we
have in terms of cybersecurity,” said Sarah
Lee, assistant department
head and associate clinical
professor of the Mississippi
State University Department
of Computer Science and En-
gineering. “Obviously, it’s pos-
sible for someone to hack into
your phone or your laptop, but
there is also a lot of software Lee
that helps prevent that as well.
But we can’t install software in people.”
Social engineering is a criminal’s most
potent weapon, Lee said.
“In a nutshell, social engineering is ma-
nipulation, manipulating people into divulg-
ing information about themselves, with ill
intent.” Any form of digital communication
is vulnerable. It’s all about gathering data.
See Cybersecurity, 6C

An homage to history leads to friendships forged

BY JAN SWOOPE interred at Odd Fellows Cemetery for the Texas chapter.
Hellen Polk of jswoope@cdispatch.com in 1933. “And then her husband went
the Hic-A-Sha-

L
When contacted by their Texas to the cemetery and cleaned
Ba-Ha DAR Chap- ight rain fell on a small
ter of Starkville, counterparts, members of the the stone for us,” Muriel Parker
group of women gathered
center, assists Hic-A-Sha-Ba-Ha DAR Chapter of Pflugerville, Texas, told The
in Odd Fellows Cemetery
Susan Gettman, in Starkville stepped up to assist. Dispatch. Parker, registrar of
in Starkville on the second day
lower left, and The shared experience created a the chapter in Texas, traveled to
Kelly O’Shieles of 2019. It didn’t dampen their
sense of purpose. Four of the memorable bond between the two Starkville for the commemoration
of the Andrews chapters. ceremony along with Chapter
Carruthers gathering had traveled more
DAR Chapter of than 600 miles to be there, to “It shows DAR has a huge Regent Kelly O’Shieles, Honorary
Austin, Texas, place a DAR (Daughters of the network of resources and friend- Regent and Historian Susan Gett-
in placing a DAR American Revolution) insignia ships,” said Hellen Polk of Hic- man and Lineage Chair Sharyl
insignia on the on a headstone. The trip was the A-Sha-Ba-Ha. Polk is the DAR Burshnick.
headstone of the culmination of more than two Mississippi state regent-elect. “They were so wonderful,”
Texas chapter’s Answering an appeal from Parker said of the Starkville mem-
founding regent years’ effort by members of the
Andrew Carruthers DAR chapter Hic-A-Sha-Ba-Ha Regent Patsy bers. “They went over and above
at Odd Fellows
Cemetery in of Austin, Texas. The goal, to Stuart, Polk, who is familiar with to get us information and help us
Starkville Jan. 2. honor the chapter’s founding re- the historic cemetery, offered to and make it possible.”
Courtesy photo gent, Asenath Wallace Carothers, locate and measure the headstone See DAR, 6C
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calendar
Monday, Jan. 21
Day of Giving — Following a
breakfast at Trotter Convention Cen-
ter (already at capacity), volunteers
will distribute school supplies to
teachers to help finish the school
year, sponsored by Visit Columbus,
City of Columbus, Board of Supervi-
sors, Sodexo, United Way of Lowndes
County and The W. To volunteer,
email volunteer@uwlc-ms.org or call
662-328-0943.
Unity Breakfast/Day of Ser-
vice — Mississippi State honors
Martin Luther King Jr. with a 25th
annual Unity Breakfast at 8 a.m.
and 9 a.m. program at The Mill, 600
Russell St., Starkville (first-come,
first-served; doors open 7:30 a.m.).
For reserved tables through sponsor-
ship, call Tyrel Jernigan, 662-325-
2493. After the program, volunteers
will help at sites in the community. To
sign up to volunteer, go to mlkday-
starkville.com.
West Point MLK Celebration
— Communities, churches and clubs
are encouraged to join an assembly
of marchers departing East Half Mile
Street and Dr. Martin Luther King St.
(Navastar and the Old B&W parking
lot) in West Point at 9 a.m., ending
at Mary Holmes College Gymnasium
for a program at 10 a.m. For more
information, contact Anna Jones,
662-494-1024 (day) or 662-494-
1173 (evening).
Tuesday, Jan. 22
Lowndes MSU Alumni As-
sociation — Learn more about
spreading the Maroon and White as
this chapter hosts a business and
organizational meeting at 6 p.m. at
the Lowndes County Extension office,
485 Tom Rose Road, Columbus.
Food provided. RSVP to Adrienne
Morris at adriennemorris1999@
gmail.com, or Janet Downey at
jdowney@alumni.msstate.edu, or
662-325-8515.
Thursday, Jan. 24
Exhibit reception — The
Starkville Area Arts Council hosts a
free reception at 5:30 p.m. in The
Partnership lobby, 200 E. Main St.,
Starkville, for “Endangered Missis-
sippi.” MSU architecture students
explore small homes and large
plantation stables in need of revital-
ization.
Jan. 25-March 8
Smithsonian Water/Ways
Exhibition — This traveling
interactive exhibit at the Tennes-
see-Tombigbee Waterway Transpor-
tation Museum, 318 Seventh St. N.,
Columbus, explores how water af-
fects the way we live, work, worship,
create and play, and how to sustain
this resource for the future. A Main
Street exhibition made possible by
the Mississippi Humanities Council.
For more information, call 662-328-
8936.
Tuesday, Jan. 29
GSDP annual banquet — The
Greater Starkville Development Part-
nership hosts its annual banquet at
The Mill at 6:30 p.m. For information
or tickets, visit GSDPBanquet.com.
Thursday, Jan. 31
Exhibit reception — The public
is invited to a reception from 5:30-7
p.m. at The W’s Summer Hall for
“Submerge/Emerge,” an exhibition
by Jenna Fincher Donegan. The show
will remain up through Feb. 8.
Jan. 31, Feb. 1-3, Feb. 5-9
“The Heiress” — Starkville
Community Theater presents this
stirring costume drama about a
young woman in the Victorian Age
challenging strictures placed on her
life by society and a domineering
father. Show times 7:30 p.m. (except
Feb. 3, 2 p.m.) at Playhouse on Main,
108 E. Main St., Starkville. Reserva-
tions for SCT season ticket holders
open Jan. 22. General admission
opens Jan. 25. 662-323-6855.
Friday, Feb. 1
Exhibit reception — The public
Monday, Jan 21
Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service — See the calen-
dar for Golden Triangle commemorations and opportunities to serve
in your community Monday.
is invited to a free reception from 6-7
p.m. opening “Full Circle,” an exhibit
of abstract art by Lillian Murray of
Columbus at the R.E. Hunt Museum
and Cultural Center, 924 20th St.
N., Columbus. Murray’s art will be
displayed through February.
Saturday, Feb. 2
Souper Bowl — A Souper Bowl
lunch benefiting Loaves and Fishes
Community Soup Kitchen and the
Golden Triangle Regional Homeless
Coalition is 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. at St.
Paul’s Episcopal Church, 318 College
St., Columbus. The first 100 people
attending receive a hand-painted
ceramic bowl. Cost is $10. Takeouts
available. For more information, con-
tact Eulalie Davis at eulaliedavis@
gmail.com.
Frostbite Half-Marathon —
This 9 a.m. half-marathon, 10K and
5K begins and ends on Starkville’s
Main Street. Find details and reg-
Courtesy photo
istration info at raceroster.com, or
email starkvillefrostbitehalf@gmail.
com. Awards and post party at noon,
in conjunction with SOUPer Bowl.
SOUPer Bowl — Sample soups
from local chefs and eateries on
Starkville’s Main Street downtown
from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Vote for your
favorite. Advance tickets are $15
adults; $5 children. Get them at
starkville.org, or The Partnership,
200 Main St., Starkville. For more
information, call 662-323-3322.
Friday, Feb. 8
Jembe Den — Bob Damm of
Mississippi State University’s
Department of Music presents
this percussion student ensemble
sharing dance rhythms of Africa
at the Columbus Arts Council’s
Rosenzweig Arts Center, 501 Main
St. More details coming soon. For
more information, contact the CAC,
662-328-2787.

Ready, set, grow: Sign up for Master Gardener training

Deadline is Feb. 10 to register
for classes starting Feb. 19
BY JAN SWOOPE
jswoope@cdispatch.com
to volunteer their time
to help the Extension
scaping at the downtown
post office, the beautiful The Mississippi
Butterfly Garden at the
Riverwalk, or colorful
State University
Extension Ser-
pots and landscaping at vice’s Master Gar-
Lee Park or the entrance dener program
provides horticul-

E
ven in the grip of
frigid temperatures,
Mississippians
know spring will eventu-
ally begin to tease and
tempt. For those eager
to get their hands dirty
in a garden, the calendar
can’t move fast enough.
To cultivate those green
thumbs, the Mississippi
State University Exten-
sion Service is gearing up
to offer Master Gardener
training twice weekly
Feb. 19 through March
26.
“You don’t have to be
a garden pro, just willing
to learn and have fun;
we teach you the rest,”
said Lowndes County
Extension Agent III Reid
Nevins.
The volunteer pro-
gram provides horticul-
tural training at low cost
and a chance to meet oth-
er avid gardeners, share
gardening experiences
and get connected to the
community. In exchange
for training, Master
Gardeners are asked
Service with horticulture
projects that benefit the
local community.
Nevins said the Lown-
des County Extension
office at 485 Tom Rose
Road will offer classes
Tuesdays and Thursdays
from 1-5 p.m. starting
Tuesday, Feb. 19. Other
county Extension offices
will also offer training.
In 40 hours of inter-
active video classwork,
participants will learn
from experts on soils,
botany, invasive plants,
entomology, ornamen-
tals, honeybee care, plant
propagation, weeds and
much more. In exchange,
volunteers will provide
40 hours of volunteer
service on community
projects within a year
after training.
Nevins noted, “You
may have noticed some
of the landscape projects
around Columbus that
have had the hands of
Lowndes County Master
Gardener volunteers on
them — like the land-
at Baptist Memorial tural training for
Hospital.” volunteers. Some
The Master Gardener county Master
program also offers hor- Gardeners hold
ticultural programs and educational
a yearly plant sale to the seminars for the
community. public and host
To maintain certifica- events, like the
tion, volunteers attend 12
2018 Lowndes
County plant sale
hours of advanced train-
pictured.
ing and give 20 hours
Courtesy photo
of service to the county
Extension program
annually.
To register
Deadline to sign up is
Feb. 10. Cost is $100 and
helps cover the training
program, materials, CD
and meeting refresh-
ments. If circumstances
prevent a participant from
attending after regis-
tration, $50 of the fee is
refundable if requested
the first week of class.
To sign up, contact
your county’s Exten-
sion office: in Lowndes
County, 662-328-2111;
Oktibbeha County, 662-
323-5916; Clay County,
662-494-5371.

OUT THERE
Jan. 21 – Harlem Globetrotters, BancorpSouth Arena, Tupelo (2 p.m.) 662-841-6528,
bcsarena.com.

– Holidays on the River (ice skating, music, more), Tuscaloosa Amphitheater. Admis-
sion free; skate pass $15+. 205-248-5280, holidaysontheriver.com

Jan. 25-26 – Northeast Mississippi Championship Rodeo, BancorpSouth Arena, Tupe-

lo. 662-841-6528, bcsarena.com.

Jan. 29 – Ballet Hispanico, Riley Center, Meridian. 601-696-2200, msurileycenter.

com.

Feb. 7 – Aquila Theatre’s “Frankenstein,” Riley Center, Meridian. 601-696-2200,

msurileycenter.com.

Feb. 16 – James Taylor and his All-Star Band (with guest Bonnie Raitt and band),
BancorpSouth Arena, Tupelo. 662-841-6528, bcsarena.com.

– In the Mood: A 1940s Musical Revue, Ford Center, Oxford. 662-915-2787, fordcen-
ter.org.

Feb. 21 – Winter Jam (Newsboys, United, Danny Gokey, Mandisa, Rend Collective,
Ledger, Newsong, more). BancorpSouth Arena, Tupelo ($15 at door). 662-841-6528
or bcsarena.com.

Feb. 26 – Cirque Eloize Saloon: A Musical Acrobatic Adventure, Ford Center, Oxford.
662-915-2787, fordcenter.org.

Know a good cook? Drop us a line.

email: jswoope@cdispatch.com
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Diversity expert to speak at MSU’s Diversity Conference

MSU OFFICE OF PUBLIC Status of Minorities. where he specialized in the of the Journal of Diversity in
AFFAIRS With the theme “Our Voices area of organizational behavior Higher Education. His most
— When Diversity Matters,” and management. recent work is “Voice, Choice,

O
ne of the world’s fore-
most authorities on
diversity, equity and in-
clusion is the featured speaker
for Mississippi State Universi-
ty’s 2019 Diversity Conference
on Jan. 31-Feb. 1 at The Mill at
MSU in Starkville.
Damon A. Williams, one
of the nation’s recognized
experts in strategic diversity
leadership, youth development,
corporate responsibility, edu-
cational achievement, social
impact and organizational
change, is this year’s keynote
speaker on Jan. 31 at 11:30 a.m.
Conference registration is
$25 for students, $99 for faculty
and staff, and can be complet-
ed online at voices.msstate.
edu. Campus departments
are encouraged to sponsor
attendance for faculty, staff
and students. Registration is
Courtesy photo
Damon Williams
open to the public; non-MSU
registrants may register at
ecommerce.msstate.edu/
saffairs/voices/. The confer-
ence is organized by the MSU
President’s Commission on the
the event will address ways
to use one’s voice to create an
environment of inclusiveness
in higher education. Strategies
for building inclusive commu-
nities, engaging the campus
and larger community in diver-
sity, advocacy and recruiting,
and retaining a diverse faculty
and staff are among topics of
discussion.
Williams has worked with
more than 700 colleges and
universities, Fortune 100
companies, foundations and
government agencies. He
earned a bachelor’s degree
in sociology and black world
studies and a master’s degree
in educational leadership
from Miami University. He
also received a doctorate from
the University of Michigan’s
Center for the Study of Higher
and Post-Secondary Education,
In 2013, Williams received
the coveted Inclusive Excel-
lence Award of Leadership
from the National Association
of Diversity Officers in Higher
Education, as well as a lead-
ership commendation from
the 13 research universities
comprising the Committee on
Institutional Cooperation for
his landmark contributions to
diversity, equity and inclusion
strategy on a global level.
For four years, Williams
served as senior vice president
and chief education officer
at the Boys and Girls Clubs
of America, where he led the
program strategy for one of the
most ambitious social impact
plans in the history of the non-
profit world, the Great Futures
Campaign for Impact.
A best-selling author, Wil-
liams was a founding member
Access and Passion: Preparing
the Centennial Generation for
Leadership,” one of the first
publications on the Centennial
Generation that discusses key
strategies required to prepare
youth born after 1997 for lead-
ership in a diverse, global and
interconnected world. He also
is launching a new research
and learning venture, The
Center for Strategic Diversity
Leadership and Social Impact.
For more, see drdamonawil-
liams.com.
Get additional conference
details from MSU’s Office of
Institutional Diversity and
Inclusion, 662-325-2493 or
voices@msstate.edu.
Learn more about the office
at oidi.msstate.edu and the
President’s Commission on the
Status of Minorities at commit-
tees.msstate.edu/pcsm.

The nature of memory is central to unique exhibit at MUW

Public reception is Jan. 31, 5:30-7 p.m.
MUW UNIVERSITY calling past experiences.
RELATIONS The effect is intentional

A
n exhibition by
Jenna Fincher
Donegan entitled
“Submerge/Emerge”
recently opened at the
Mississippi University
for Women Galleries.
The work varies in media
and includes installa-
tions, sculpture, draw-
ings, prints, ceramics
and handmade books.
In all of these works, the
artist explores the nature
of memory. The show
runs through Friday,
Feb. 8, with a reception
Thursday, Jan. 31 from
5:30-7 p.m.
While Fincher
Donegan grew up in
southern Louisiana, her
work speaks to univer-
sal aspects of memory.
Some of the artwork
suggests poetic moments
of fleeting memories. For
example, the installa-
tion entitled “Pursuit of
Happiness” beckons the
viewer to enter its space.
Although the work
consists of papers sewn
together, the viewer can
easily imagine sunlight
passing through leaves
to cast dappled shadows
while simultaneously re-
as Fincher Donegan
equates the construction
of the installation with
the stitching of “expe-
riences and memories
together.”
In “Fabricated Mo-
ments,” leaf forms hang
from gossamer filament
like leaves falling in a
gentle rain. Each leaf
represents one memory.
The effect of the overall
installation is elegant,
but the plastic material
used to create the deli-
cate leaves suggests the
nature of some memo-
ries as fabrications; that
is, synthetic rather than
natural.
Each work in the exhi-
bition is infused with the
artist’s remembrances of
the southern Louisiana
landscape. The work is
thus very personal, but at Courtesy photo
the same time it speaks This installation by Jenna Fincher Donegan at The W Galleries evokes sunlight passing through leaves.
to the viewer’s own expe-
riences. from Louisiana Techni- negan has participated University for Women to 5 p.m., following the
Fincher Donegan no cal University and her in numerous exhibitions Galleries, located on the university calendar. The
longer lives in Louisiana. Bachelor of Fine Arts in Mississippi, Louisiana first floor of Summer Galleries and the recep-
from Nicholls State and Maryland. Hall, are open Mon- tion are free and open to
She moved to Booneville
University. Fincher Do- The Mississippi day-Friday, from 8 a.m. the public.
to teach art at Northeast
Mississippi Community
College in 2015. She
earned her Master of
Fine Arts in studio art

Club note
Northaven Woods
Garden Club
Northaven Woods
Garden Club of Columbus
met Dec. 18 in the home
of Linda Jaynes.
President Elwanda
Pridmore welcomed
members and guests.
She led the group in the
Garden Prayer, Con-
servation Pledge and
Pledge of Allegiance in
the absence of Secretary
Eleanor Ellis. Pridmore
called on Judi Jarrett to
read the minutes and give
the financial report. Both
were approved.
The president thanked
Linda Jaynes and Betty
Swanzy for decorating
the Christmas tree at
the library. The club
received a certificate of
appreciation from the Co-
lumbus-Lowndes Public
Library for participating
in the Festival of Trees,
an annual event.
Pridmore announced
that Master Gardeners
and Galaxy Garden Club
are sponsoring Jason
Powell from Jemison, Al-
abama, who will give the
program “Petals from the
Past” at the MSU Exten-
sion Office, 485 Tom Rose
Road, on Feb. 7 at 2 p.m.
There is no fee involved;
those wishing to attend
should inform Pridmore.
The group enjoyed
a game of Dirty Santa
and refreshments in
Jaynes’ home decorated
inside and outside for the
season.
The January meeting
will be held at the Senior
Enrichment Center, with
Helen Reed and Judi
Jarrett as hostesses.

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Students, educators to celebrate school

choice on the grounds of the State Capitol
SPECIAL TO THE DISPATCH education options available to ly,” said Grant Callen, founder us on the steps of the Capitol As a nonpartisan, nonpolit-
families. and president of Empower Mis- as we rally for school choice in ical public awareness effort,
JACKSON —

M
ore than one thousand
students, educators
and community mem-
bers will assemble for a school
choice rally on the grounds of
the Mississippi State Capitol at
9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 22.
Mississippians from across
the state will be present at
the annual event to raise
public awareness for all K-12
This event is planned to co-
incide with the history-making
celebration of National School
Choice Week 2019, which
will feature more than 40,000
school choice events across all
50 states.
“Empower Mississippi is ex-
cited to celebrate all education
options during National School
Choice Week at our Capitol ral-
sissippi. “This is always a huge
event and we expect this year
to be so big that we are moving
outdoors. Mississippi has made
a lot of progress in empowering
families with school options,
but there is still more work to
do. We believe every Mississip-
pi family should have the ability
to choose the best educational
setting for their children. Join
Mississippi.”
This event is being orga-
nized by Empower Mississippi,
a nonprofit advocacy organi-
zation dedicated to promoting
policy changes that expand
opportunity for Mississippians.
For more information,
contact Joanna Holbert at
601-310-8239 or email joanna@
empowerms.org.
National School Choice Week
shines a positive spotlight on
effective education options for
students, families and com-
munities around the country.
From Jan. 20-26, more than
40,000 independently-planned
events will be held in celebra-
tion of the Week. For more
information, visit schoolchoice-
week.com.

Tickets go on sale for MSU Music Maker’s X Ambassadors show

Concert is Feb. 22 at
the Mississippi Horse Park
MSU OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS
New York-based X Ambassadors has
generated immense interest within
the music community. The album
spawned the group’s platinum single
“Renegades” and double-platinum
single “Unsteady.” “Renegades” was

A
merican rock band X Ambassa-
dors will perform Friday, Feb.
22, at Mississippi State during
an 8 p.m. concert presented by the
university’s Music Maker Productions.
Doors open at 7 p.m. for the event,
which takes place at the Mississippi
Horse Park, 869 East Poor House
Road, Starkville.
General admission tickets for $25
are available at msuconcerts.com or in
person at the Center for Student Activi-
ties office in Colvard Student Union’s
Suite 314. A limited number of $20 dis-
counted tickets for MSU students with
valid MSU student identification have
been made available at the center.
With the 2015 release of a debut
full-length album “VHS,” Brooklyn,
nominated for “Top Rock Song” at the
2016 Billboard Music Awards, and
“Unsteady” received the same nom-
ination in 2017. X Ambassadors has
conducted large-scale tours in North
America and Europe. The band’s
highly anticipated sophomore album
is set for release soon. For more, see
xambassadors.com.
Part of the Division of Student Af-
fairs, Music Maker Productions works
to provide contemporary entertain-
ment for the MSU and Starkville com-
munities. For more information, follow
on Facebook @MSUConcerts, Twitter
@Music_Maker, and Instagram and
Snapchat @msu_mmp.
Bailey Berry, MMP’s publicity Courtesy photo
chair, can be contacted at 662-325- American rock band X Ambassadors will perform Friday, Feb. 22, at the Mississippi
2930 or msummp@gmail.com. Horse Park in Starkville.

SAAC seeks under-40 artists

for annual U40 Exhibit
Deadline to Following the SAAC Art
in Public Places model,
submit artwork is works may be listed for
sale. SAAC will collect
Friday, Jan. 25 and pay sales taxes on
behalf of the artist for any
SPECIAL TO THE
work sold, and the artist
DISPATCH
will keep 80 percent of
University of Mississippi,
is a former teacher for
Washington High School
in Greenville. Works sub-
mitted must be original
(i.e., no craft kits). Artists
may submit up to three
pieces, with no limit on

S
tarkville Area Arts
Council announces
its second annual
U40 Exhibit, a juried art
show for artists aged
18-40. On Feb. 22, at 7
p.m., SAAC will host a
free public reception at
Nine-twentynine Coffee
Bar in Starkville to kick
off U40 with a month-long
display of works there.
the proceeds.
This year’s juror is
Whitney Turnipseed,
executive director of the
Greenville Arts Council.
Turnipseed, who received
a Bachelors of Fine Arts
(emphasis in drawing)
from Mississippi State
University, and a Master
of Fine Arts (emphasis
in painting) from The
genre or medium, al-
though space limitations
may be a factor. Applica-
tion details are available
through the submittable
link on SAAC’s homep-
age at starkvillearts.org​.
Submissions are due
by Friday, Jan. 25.
Additional information
about SAAC can be found
at ​starkvillearts.org​.

MSU’s Mitchell Memorial Library begins

construction of new television studio
MSU OFFICE OF PUBLIC Advanced Vehicular versity, allows users to
AFFAIRS Systems Mixed Reality begin recording a video
Lab, a makerspace, and by only clicking one

M
ississippi State
University Li-
braries is launch-
ing construction this
month on a new digital,
high-definition television
studio capable of filming,
editing and producing
high quality digital media
video projects.
Located in Mitchell
Memorial Library’s sec-
ond-floor Digital Media
Center, the area also will
include a One Button
Studio and flexible class-
room space and group
study space, all available
for reservation by depart-
ments, classes or study
groups this fall.
The addition is part
of an ongoing Digital
Media Center enhance-
ment project funded by
MaxxSouth Broadband,
MSU’s Office of the Pro-
vost, College of Arts and
Sciences, Department of
Communication, Mitchell
Memorial Library and
others. Earlier expansion
to this library center
included the Center for
upgraded multimedia lab
computers.
The center is being
renamed the MaxxSouth
Broadband Digital Media
Center in honor of the
company’s support.
MSU Associate Dean
for University Libraries
Stephen Cunetto said
this new studio will be
used by the Department
of Communication’s
broadcasting program as
its main facility for broad-
casting courses. It also
will be available to all
students and faculty, with
specialized training and
staff assistance required
in advance. The space
will provide the facilities,
tools and expertise need-
ed to develop high quality
videos from concept to
production.
Cunetto said the tech-
nology provides a place
for users to record video
and presentations with
“virtually no learning
curve.” The One Button
Studio, developed at
Pennsylvania State Uni-
button. Patrons may use
the One Button Studio for
recording or practicing
presentations, lectures,
tutorials and auditions,
as well as presenting
research.
This addition is anoth-
er example of academic
and research libraries
providing faculty and
students with access to
the technology, software,
services and expertise
being requested by the
academic community,
Cunetto said. Similar
facilities can be found at
North Carolina State Uni-
versity Libraries, Emory
University, University of
Illinois and University of
Kansas.
“We are very excited
to be moving forward
with this project after
several years of planning,
and we are grateful to our
sponsors,” Cunetto said. Send in your News About Town event.
For more information email: community@cdispatch.com
on the Mississippi State
University Libraries, its Subject: NATS
services and projects, vis-
it lib.msstate.edu/dmc.
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In the garden with Felder

A bit of feng shui can increase ‘happy’ in the garden

T
here
was
some-
thing wrong
about my
new garden.
Couldn’t put
my finger
on it, just
didn’t feel
right. Then I
learned about
feng shui. Felder Rushing
Feng shui
(pronounced
“fung-shway”) isn’t a nas- Installed a water feature
ty word, or a religion, just with a splashy waterfall
a few easy principles used that faces the main deck
to create pleasing, com-
fortable arrangements of
plants and materials. By
taking into consideration
many different elements,
it maximizes good ener-
gies or feelings.
Its aim is to reduce
“unhappy” elements of
design, such as exces-
sive straight lines, sharp
angles, narrow walks
and steps, poor lighting,
clutter, clashing colors,
competing sounds, bad
weather exposure, poor
plant choices and so on,
to improve the overall
feel of a garden.
When I first moved
into my 1940s cottage,
the landscape was totally
angular, from the curb,
drive and sidewalk to
the original green worm
of shrubs hugging the
boxy-looking house itself. gather and relax — a
Nothing for me to do but
mow, edge and prune.
Hated it.
So I redesigned every-
thing, starting by revers-
ing the garden to face
my house rather than the the garden; have small
street, so it welcomes me
when I walk out my door.
This alone made a huge
difference in how I feel
about it.
I curved the walk,
rounded
the lawn
and added
some round
decks, and
hid bad views
with care-
fully-placed
plants and
fence sec-
tions without
blocking good
views and
cool summer
breezes.
plus a fire bowl for cool
evenings, and night
lighting to help getting to
and fro a lot easier while
banishing dark spots.
And gradually the ge-
neric foundation shrubs
gave way to a more
lavish mélange of flora,
including evergreens
of different sizes and
shapes, flowering plants,
and interesting container
collections, all selected
for year-round pleasure
with low maintenance.
While feng shui
experts strongly dislike
“recipes” for bringing
calm into the garden,
here are some easy,
universal concepts worth
considering for your own
landscape:
n Create a roomy
space for people to
deck, patio or a small
lawn area — and place
garden furniture where
you can have your back
to a wall or hedge, with
an unobstructed view of
tables, plants (including
ones in pots), or even
large boulders to one side
like arms on an armchair.
Remove clutter for a pos-
itive feeling for the entire
Something as simple as curving a walkway can in-
crease the good energy in a lawn or garden.
garden space. In other
words, make your guests
and yourself comfortable
and feeling safe and
secure — just as comfort-
able as if you are in your
own indoors living room
or den.
n Redesign straight
walks and edges into
gentle curves, or place
a plant, urn, sculpture
or other impediment to
break up their non-stop
look and feel. Tone down
or round off corners and
break up solid walls,
fences or hedges with an
irregular plant or object.
When selecting garden
art, choose rounded art
forms over pointed ones.
n Replace high-main-
tenance plants and mix
new ones in different
Felder Rushing/Courtesy photo
sizes, shapes and colors,
so none will be over-
whelmed by the others.
Brighten dark areas to
dispel gloom by adding
lights, light-colored
plants, or even a silvery
gazing globe or wall
mirror.
Felder Rushing/Courtesy photo
In a garden redesign, Felder Rushing curved the walk,
rounded the lawn, added round decks and hid bad
views with carefully-placed plants and fence sections.
n Both water and fire Just like a comfy den,
bring excellent feng shui, a good garden will usu-
especially when up close
ally end up feeling good.
in the near center of your
Take your time with
garden, just like camping
these universal ideas.
beside a lake with a nice That’d be good feng shui,
fire going. Add a gentle
too.
wind chime. And make
Felder Rushing is
wildlife comfortable in
your garden, especially a Mississippi author,
birds, butterflies, gentle columnist, and host of the
bees and dragonflies “Gestalt Gardener” on
(which you will have, if MPB Think Radio. Email
you have a decent water gardening questions to
feature). rushingfelder@yahoo.com.

Ask a designer: Small touches

create a great master bathroom
By MELISSA RAYWORTH without taking up extra is no longer a trend —
The Associated Press space in the room. it’s like the norm for

I
t’s easy to design
a gorgeous master
bathroom if you have
a huge budget. But with
the right choices, says
interior designer Gabriel
Anderson, you can have
an exceptional master
bath without overspend-
ing.
“Having huge expans-
es of marble is amazing
and wonderful, but you
don’t have to have that to
have an amazing bath-
room,” says Anderson,
co-founder of the New
York design firm Dean
and Dahl. There are “lit-
tle touches you can incor-
porate that really bring a
master bath to life.”
We’ve asked Anderson
and two specialists in
bath design — Julia Wal-
ter of Boffi Georgetown
in Washington, D.C., and
Nadia Subaran of Aidan
Design in Silver Spring,
Maryland — to tell us
what those little touches
and smart strategies
might be.
Reconsidering
the double sink
When designing a
master bath for a couple,
Walter often asks how
often they actually use
the sink at the same time.
It tends to be pretty rare.
So for clients seeking
a change of pace, she sug-
gests a 4-foot-long wash
basin within a vanity.
“Instead of two sinks,”
she says, you have one
sink with two faucets. So
you can be next to each
other when you want to,
but when one person is
alone they have a large
sink all to themselves
“You can save a little master-bath heat,” says
bit of money there,” Wal- Subraman.
ter says, and still have A heated floor can be
“a beautiful, big, mas- expensive depending
ter-bath vanity.” on the bathroom’s size,
but for a heating splurge
Adding furniture that isn’t costly, consider
heated towel racks.
and special pieces
“You always need
a place to sit down to
take your slippers off, or
whatever the case may
be,” Anderson says. This
is something often shown
in design magazines, and
many homeowners do
have a bit of space for it.
One tip is to buy an
attractive chair or bench
meant for outdoor use,
because it will be mois-
ture-resistant and uphol-
stered with outdoor fab-
ric. Anderson says many
outdoor styles in teak or
metal can look great in a
master bathroom.
And seating isn’t the
only detail you might get
creative with: Try hunt-
ing for a vintage mirror
in a distinctive frame, or
a unique light fixture, he
says.
“This is something
that just takes the time
of going to estate sales
or antique stores or
whatnot,” Anderson
says. “Taking the time to
go and find that spe-
cial piece ... can really
elevate your bathroom,”
and doesn’t have to cost
much.
Increasing
your comfort
No one wants to feel
chilly when they step out
of the shower. So many
people are adding heated
floors to master bath-
rooms.
“Radiant floor heat

Read to your child.

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MSU provost and executive vice president to retire June 30

MSU Office Bonner also works with se- Keenum said he was like- nation and around the world. I State. Her degrees are in hu-
of Public Affairs nior administrators to develop wise “extremely grateful for the am deeply grateful to everyone man nutrition, and her research
budgetary recommendations time Dr. Bonner’s announce- who helped make my time at

M
ississippi
State
Univer-
sity Provost and
Executive Vice
President Judith
L. “Judy” Bonner
has informed the
Bonner
university of her
intention to retire at the end of
the current fiscal year on June
30, MSU President Mark E.
Keenum announced Monday.
The second-ranking univer-
sity administrator reporting
to the president, Bonner is
responsible for all academic
policies, integrity of the aca-
demic mission, and academic
operations of the university.
She provides direct oversight
for eight academic colleges and
two campuses, as well as many
academic and non-academic
support units.
that affect the teaching, re-
search and service missions of
the institution.
Keenum said work already
has begun on formulating an
exhaustive national search like
the one that produced Bonner’s
appointment in 2016 after then-
MSU Provost Jerry Gilbert was
named president of Marshall
University.
“In this vital and challenging
leadership role, Dr. Bonner
served MSU with tremendous
distinction and her accomplish-
ments here have elevated this
university to new academic
heights,” said Keenum. “While
I am saddened over her decision
to retire, I respect Dr. Bonner’s
impeccable vision and judgment
that the time is right for her to
bring to a close what can only
be described as a legendary
career in higher education.”
ment afforded MSU to conduct
a far-reaching national search
for her successor.”
She joined MSU’s leadership
team after a distinguished
career as a longtime senior
administrator and former
president of the University of
Alabama.
“Working with President
Keenum and the incredible
faculty, staff, and administra-
tors at Mississippi State has
been icing on the cake for me
both professionally and per-
sonally,” Bonner said. “When I
retired from Alabama, I wasn’t
planning on another position
but Mississippi State was a
perfect fit. This university is an
academic leader in the State of
Mississippi and a change-agent
for cutting-edge academic and
research programs that are
recognized throughout the
MSU so incredibly rewarding,
and I will always ring true with
my Bulldog family.”
Distinguished career
Bonner served as UA’s 28th
president from 2012 to 2015,
having previously served as
provost and executive vice pres-
ident for almost a decade. Bon-
ner’s UA career also included
positions as professor, depart-
ment chair, assistant academic
vice president, special assistant
to the president, dean and inter-
im president. Prior to this, she
held faculty appointments in the
University of Alabama-Birming-
ham department of pediatrics
and in Ohio State University’s
medical dietetics department.
She holds both a bachelor’s
and master’s degree from
UA. She earned her Doctor of
Philosophy degree from Ohio
focused on nutritional needs
of chronically ill children and
eating disorders.
After completing her service
as the UA president in 2015,
the UA Board of Trustees
created a $1 million endowment
to annually bestow the Judy
Bonner Presidential Prize on an
individual making a significant
difference in the undergradu-
ate experience. Also, the UA
National Alumni Association in
2016 presented her its highest
honor, the Distinguished Alum-
na Award.
She is a two-time recipient of
the Amanda Grace Taylor Wat-
son Distinctive Image Award
for 2007 and 2015 from the
Capstone Men and Women, and
Omicron Delta Kappa national
honor society presented her
with the 2015 Living Legend
Award.

Cybersecurity
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Loose lips
“Do not divulge so
much information,”
warns Brandon Sesser
at East
Mississippi
Community
College,
where he is
information
systems
technology
director
Sesser
and cyber-
security instructor. “Just
because someone sends
you an email doesn’t
mean it’s legitimate.
Never open attachments
from an individual you
don’t know. It can carry
a virus. With a virus, it
takes human interaction
— someone has to double
click to initiate the virus
— but with a worm, no
human interaction is
necessary.”
A computer worm
is a malware program
that replicates itself in
order to spread to other
computers. Malware is
software specifically
designed to disrupt, dam-
age or gain unauthorized
access to a computer
system.
“When people are just
surfing the web, a lot of
ads carry malware, and if
you don’t keep your com-
puter up-to-date, you’re
opening a back door for
that malware to infect
your machine as well as
your entire network,”
Sesser said.
Scammers frequently
phish, vish, smish and
pharm for bank account
or credit card numbers. It
might be through a mes-
sage that a password is
about to expire or needs
to be updated. Contact
the bank or credit card
company yourself to veri-
fy any such request.
“Most of the time
they’re phishing attacks,
sending that out hoping
people will be naive
enough to click on a link
and type in their person-
al information,” Sesser
cautioned.
Social media
Always assume some-
one is watching.
“People are watching
those social accounts to
see what you’re doing,
what your interests are,
and every time anybody
does a search online,
that website is capturing
what you do and what
you look at so they can
target market,” Sesser
said.
“Everything we do —
phone, text, web brows-
ing — it’s all cataloged.
The mindset was, oh,
this will make it easier
for people to get credit
cards and loans, but it
also just opened a big ca-
veat of overload of data;
data miners are con-
stantly creating a profile
about you and selling it
to the highest bidder.”
Lee remarked,
“People can gather a lot
of information about us
from Facebook, Linke-
dIn, Twitter or whatever
social media you’re
using and correlate all
that info and pretend to
be somebody you know
to get you to divulge
more info. ... One of the
worst things is to play
one of those games —
‘What was your first
pet’s name?’ ‘Who was
your first best friend?’
‘What high school did
you attend?’ You’ve just
given somebody a lot of
information.”
Lee also pointed out
that the public should be
aware that digital photos
have metadata stored in
them.
“It’s not just the
picture you see; there’s
data stored that is the
exact GPS coordinates
of where that picture
was taken. All you
need is some software
that can tell you when
and where a photo was
taken.”
Privacy settings are
important, she stressed.
“And remember, when
you delete something, it
is not gone,” Lee said.
In the workplace the bank or credit card Learn more at sites MSU also periodically
Both Lee and Sesser company immediately such as consumer.ftc. conducts workshops for
are involved in helping to and change passwords gov, usa.gov/stop-scam- seniors. The next should
train work forces in bet- on all accounts. Breaches frauds, or fbi.gov. take place this spring.
ter cybersecurity aware- should be reported to For more information,
ness. Lee, for example, the companies and can Up awareness email Lee at sblee@cse.
recently conducted also be reported to law In addition to course msstate.edu.
webinars for a banking enforcement as well as study for students, Mis- EMCC will offer a
system. other appropriate agen- sissippi State and East cybersecurity awareness
“In days gone by, if cies, including the FBI. Mississippi Community course in March, con-
you watched an old west- A few additional tips College both offer the ducted two nights a week
ern, you’d see the masked from the Federal Trade public opportunities to for three to four weeks.
man ride up on a horse Commission and other learn more about com- For more information,
and go into the bank to resources include to puter skills and security. contact the Center for
rob it,” she said. Modern use complex passwords Through its Bulldog Manufacturing Technolo-
thieves try robbing banks and periodically change Bytes program, MSU gy Excellence at 662-243-
and businesses on a digi- them; regularly update offers summer camp for 2686, or email Sesser at
tal horse. your system; initiate K-12 students. It also of- bsesser@eastms.edu.
One common social two-factor authentication fers teacher professional A new year is as good
engineering attack is for accounts wherever development. a time as any to commit
“pretexts” that pose as possible; don’t believe “It’s not so different to getting “cyber-fit” with
an internal employee or your caller ID; hang up from teaching children every device we use. Data
someone hired by the on robocalls; don’t pay don’t get into a car should be a private and
company, perhaps to con- up front for a promise; because someone wants protected asset. Even
duct an audit or survey. don’t ever deposit a check to show you a puppy; it small changes can be
Emails purportedly from and wire money back; has to become part of our effective in thwarting
a boss or big customer and sign up for free scam educational culture,” Lee someone who wants to
instructing an employee alerts from the FTC. said. steal it.
to transfer money can be
made to look legitimate.
A phishing email scam
warning an employee
about an open enrollment
deadline for healthcare
could lure in enough
clicks to do damage. Em-
ployees may feel both the
fear of missing the dead-
line and the need to obey
the command to sign
up before the deadline
has passed, potentially
clicking on the link and
entering personal infor-
mation or downloading
malware before realizing
the mistake, cites com-
paritech.com.
Lee herself noted a re-
cent rash of bogus emails
that appear to be from
colleagues, but aren’t.
“If I’m a hurried pro-
fessional and get an email
initiating a conversation
... that’s what they’re
hoping for, that you’re
frazzled, you’re busy and
that we kind of see what
we want to see,” she said.
The best defense in
such a situation is to
cease communication. If
there’s reason to believe
account or banking
information has been
compromised, contact

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Asenath Wallace
Carothers was born in
1859 in New London,
Arkansas. Orphaned at
5, she was raised by an
aunt in Mississippi and
became an honor grad-
uate of the Starkville
Seminary for Women. In
1882, she married Neil
Carruthers of Starkville.
The family later moved to
Chattanooga, Tennessee,
and then Fayetteville,
Arkansas. At some point,
the spelling of the last
name became Carothers.
After her husband’s
death in 1901, Carothers
became head librarian at
the University of Arkan-
sas. In 1903, she accept-
ed a position as the first
director of the Woman’s
Building, a residence
hall at the University
of Texas in Austin. She
founded the Andrew
Carruthers DAR Chapter
in 1909, naming it for her
husband’s patriot ances-
tor, using the colonial
spelling. Charter mem-
bers were exclusively UT
students.
Because Carothers
had seen so many girls
leave university burdened
with debt, the chapter,
under her leadership,
established a scholarship
for females at UT.
Carothers remained
as head of the Woman’s
Building until retirement
in 1928. It still stands as
Carothers Dormitory.
A plaque in her honor
is displayed in the main
hall. After her death Feb.
25, 1933, at her daugh-
ter’s home in Michigan,
Carothers was buried
in Starkville, alongside
her husband. That fact
eventually brought DAR
members from Austin
and Starkville together
on a damp January day.
Stuart, of Starkville,
said, “Hellen Polk and I
enjoyed being with them
so much. It was like
having instant friends. ...
We stood in the rain for
the ceremony and did not
mind a bit.”
O’Shieles, of Austin,
remarked, “Our chap-
ter was so grateful and
amazed at the help they
provided us. It touched
our hearts.”
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Lynn Thompson, Debbie Sanders Sierra Rhodes, Dianne Rockwell, Tytiana Young

GOING TO
THE DOGS
A Golden Triangle
Kennel Club show
drew plenty of four-
legged contestants
and their humans
to the Mississippi
Horse Park in
Starkville Jan.
12-13.

Cathy Couture, with Karson April Argo, Belinda Troconis, with Legend

Philip Hughes, Kelsy Hughes Sarah Lee, Cathy Sims

RELAY FOR LIFE

A kickoff meeting for the Lowndes County Relay for Life took place Tuesday at the Columbus Fire &
Rescue training facility in Columbus. The Lowndes Relay event is set for April 27 at the Columbus
Soccer Complex.

John Ballard, Kimberly Washington, Mevela Andrews Pam Price, Mary Moore

Jeremiah McDaniel, Jeremiah Miller Kara Price, Tabitha Barham Teresa and David Howell
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Southern Gardening

Blue My Mind evolvulus is Mississippi Medallion winner

M
any home
garden-
ers look
forward to this time
of year to browse
catalogs in search
of great new plants
to enjoy in their
2019 landscapes.
The group of
plants I get excited
about each year
are the Mississippi Gary Bachman
Medallion selec-
tions. Every year, I promote
this group of plants through
Southern Gardening so you
will look for them at local gar-
den centers.
The Mississippi Medallion
winners for 2019 are Whopper
Begonia, a collard green, Blue
My Mind Evolvulus, Nyssa
sylvatica and Sweetie Pie black- in 1996. Blue Daze has fantas-
berry. I’m going to highlight
each plant individually this
year.
Since it was established in
1996, Mississippi Medallion
has recognized more than 70
great landscape and vegeta-
ble plants. The program was
established by the Mississippi
Nursery and Landscape Asso-
ciation in cooperation with the
Mississippi State University
Extension Service and the
Mississippi Department of
Agriculture and Commerce. It
increases awareness of plant
materials and promotes the
sale and production of orna-
mental plants in Mississippi.
Compared to
national campaigns
such as All-Ameri-
can Selections and
Perennial Plant of
the Year, Missis-
sippi Medallion
focuses on plants
adapted to Missis-
sippi’s environment
to benefit both
consumers and the
green industry.
This year marks
the second time in Mississippi
Medallion history that an evol-
vulus has been chosen. This
year it is Blue My Mind.
The first evolvulus was Blue
Daze, which has been around
for a long time and was one of
two plants chosen as the first
Mississippi Medallion winners
tic, true-blue, funnel-shaped
flowers. I like the fast-spread-
ing growth rate that makes
Blue Daze a good ground cover
in front of an Indian hawthorn Gary Bachman/MSU Extension Service
planting in my front landscape. Blue My Mind evolvulus is a prolific bloomer, with sky-blue flowers above downy foliage.
As good as Blue Daze is,
there’s an even better evolvulus one day. They are brilliant blue reduces total flowering. garden center now to make
choice for 2019. Blue My Mind in the morning but look quite Blue My Mind and Blue sure they will have these plants
is a fantastic improvement of spent by afternoon, especially Daze need to be planted in available for your landscape.
Blue Daze evolvulus. The indi- in planting beds that face west well-drained soil that is consis- Gary Bachman is an Ex-
vidual flowers continue to be and receive a high heat load tently moist. Be sure to main- tension and research professor
funnel-shaped, and they always each afternoon. tain fertilization to keep the of horticulture at the Missis-
form near the shoot tips. Blue I’ve grown Blue My Mind in flower production at its peak. I sippi State University Coastal
My Mind is a prolific bloomer. my landscape as an evaluator like using water-soluble fertiliz- Research and Extension Center
Its foliage has a downy appear- for the past three years. I can er along with the irrigation. in Biloxi and hosts Southern
ance, and the 1-inch flowers are attest that a little afternoon As you shop this spring, be Gardening television and radio
sky blue. shade helps ease the summer on the lookout for this great programs. Contact him at south-
The flowers only open for heat load, but too much shade plant. You can ask your favorite erngardening@msstate.edu.

US Border Patrol Museum opens a world on the evolving agency

By RUSSELL CONTRERAS illegally or were hiding attempts to piece together Museum visitors learn resembling the mythic ing to land in Florida.
The Associated Press drugs. its history as the nation’s about some of the chal- Old West lawman to to- (Interestingly, the raft’s
To some Latinos, the views on immigration, lenges agents faced over day’s heavily armed agent exhibit is called “Voyage
EL PASO, Texas — work of the U.S. Border travel and border security the years, from rudimen- in a post-Sept. 11 world to Freedom,” while ex-

F
or many Mexi-
can-Americans
living near the
U.S.-Mexico border,
the U.S. Border Patrol
was viewed as a federal
government agency to be
feared. Its agents might
raid the factory where
you worked, question
your citizenship status at
checkpoints, and detain
you if an agent thought
you were in the country
Patrol seemed racialized.
A museum dedicated
to the history of the U.S.
Border Patrol seeks to
give a more complex view
of a once unknown agen-
cy that rose from obscu-
rity to become one of the
nation’s most powerful
arms of law enforcement.
The privately funded
museum in El Paso, Texas
— near one of the busiest
U.S. ports of entry —
have changed.
Using photos, artifacts,
newspaper clippings
and even movie posters,
the U.S. Border Patrol
Museum explores the
story from the agency’s
formation — to fight
Chinese immigration and
enforce Prohibition — to
its current role at a time of
massive migration, cartel
drug smuggling and polit-
ical skirmishes.
tary equipment to lack
of jurisdiction. Mounted
horsemen and poorly
assembled vehicles gave
way to high-tech helicop-
ters and surveillance ac-
cessories as expectations
of the agency increased.
Visitors can even jump
into a retired helicopter
and an all-terrain vehicle.
The evolution of the
border-patrol uniform
alone — from something
— shows how the agency
became professionalized
over a century.
Also on display are
a rope ladder used by
an alleged smuggler to
climb over a border wall,
and tools from an under-
ground tunnel discovered
in San Luis, Arizona.
There’s a raft made out
of scrap metal, tire tubes
and blue canvas used by
Cuban migrants attempt-
hibits about immigration
from Mexico focus on bor-
der enforcement).
Congress created
the U.S. Border Patrol
in 1924, and the agency
slowly grew as its mission
transformed. Emmanuel
Avant “Dogie” Wright and
a handful of others were
some of the first agents
hired to guard nearly
2,000 miles of the south-
ern border.

Dear Abby

D
EAR ABBY: Thirty
years ago, I went
out for a night
of social drinking with
friends. After consum-
ing several drinks, I
made the mistake of
thinking I could drive
home. The result was
I was arrested for
DUI. As it was my first
offense, the charges
were dismissed after I
completed a diversion
program. Although not
considered a convic-
tion, the arrest is still
accessible through
open records in my state. This was,
and is, a source of embarrassment
to me.
I no longer drink alcohol. I want
your readers to know could access my open records and tion drugs because it once happened wall decoration, and plan on continu-
they need to think twice see my DUI arrest. Should I tell her to you — and unless she’s aware, it ing to use your ex-husband’s name
before drinking and about my past, or keep it to myself? could also happen to her. in your career, put that name on the
driving. That one night Although we have a good father/ DEAR ABBY: I’m 54 and finally diploma. If not, using your maiden
changed my life forever, daughter relationship, I’m concerned finishing my bachelor’s degree. It has name as a sentimental tribute to your
and it will change theirs if I tell her it could have a negative been a very long journey, and I’m ex- parents is a lovely idea.
if they’re involved in an impact going forward. — LEARNED cited to finally attain it. My question Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van
accident and hurt or THE LESSON is: Which last name should I put on Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips,
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pened to me. practice empathy. While I don’t think didn’t change it. 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
Now I have a con- the odds are great that your daughter My educational goal was a per- What teens need to know about
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age daughter. She’s has a record, I do think you should for finishing it. I wanted to use my with peers and parents is in “What
Dear Abby at an age where she’s have another discussion with her maiden name on my degree because Every Teen Should Know.” Send your
aware of the dangers about the repercussions of driving this degree is also for my parents, name and mailing address, plus
of drinking and driving. under the influence. And when you although both have since passed. So, check or money order for $8 (U.S.
She has little respect for people do, emphasize that this kind of error which last name should I use for my funds) to: Dear Abby, Teen Book-
she has heard about who have been in judgment can happen to ANYONE degree? — UNSURE IN TEXAS let, P.O. Box 447, Mount Morris, IL
arrested for DUIs. She doesn’t know who gets behind the wheel after DEAR UNSURE: If you plan to use 61054-0447. (Shipping and handling
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Horoscopes
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Jan.
20). You’ve the secret to
perpetual youth. You simulta-
neously live in the year and
the moment, your finger on
the pulse of the generation
and the heartbeat of the
second hand. Because of this,
you’ll be promoted at work
and considered very cool by
your friends, and you’ll make
savvy investments, too. Libra
and Gemini adore you. Your
lucky numbers are: 8, 43, 3,
39 and 10.
ARIES (March 21-April
19). You’re probably not in
the mood to operate in a big
group, and you definitely need
your alone time. Still, sharing
a meal with someone you love
will be a precious opportunity
to connect today, not to be
missed.
TAURUS (April 20-May
20). Stay keen. You have to
be looking for the opportunity
to see it. But because you
are, you’ll get the chance to
slide right into the position
you’ve had your eye on.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21).
You give a high-quality grade
of attention to others. You’re
engaged. You ask fantastic
questions. You’re warm and
accepting. In short, you’re a
soft place for others to land
their ideas. Don’t you deserve
the same from others?
CANCER (June 22-July
22). A big change isn’t nec-
essary. What you want is your
life, only happier. And if you
can describe that, even just to
yourself, you’ll be on the road
to making it happen.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22).
Your realizations are rapid-fire.
You’ll process so much in
your sleep that when you
awaken tomorrow, you’ll be
quite changed. In other words,
wherever the sunset leaves
you, the sunrise won’t find you
there.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.
22). How are you going to
make yourself happy? Get on
that. The rest of the problems
seem more pressing than they
really are. You wouldn’t want
to be accused of taking things
too seriously, would you?
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).
Questions aren’t always inno-
cent. They can be invasive,
prying and downright hostile.
Thankfully, the ones you field
today will be merely annoying
-- and easily defused with
vague answers. Keep private
things private.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.
21). It’s impossible to be
present in the current moment
at the same time you’re
running mental movies of the
past on the projector of your
mind. Pause that tape, and
step out of the theater. It’s a
brand-new day.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-
Dec. 21). You’ll have to play
parent to yourself today in
that “eat your vegetables, no
devices until the homework is
done” sort of way. Otherwise,
unhealthy distractions will
keep you from all you need to
accomplish by sundown.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.
19). Remember that thing
that stressed you out a little
while back? You’ve finally
made it to the day when you
call that a “learning experi-
ence” or “funny story.” Con-
gratulate yourself for making it
to the other side!
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18). It feels as if you’ve been
collecting clues for a very long
time, and now you’re starting
to see how they might fit
together. Play with them as
you would any puzzle piece,
turning them to see how they
fit.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
20). It’s weird how you can
feel a person out there, far
away, thinking of you. You
don’t know what the thoughts
are exactly, but you really can
feel the general emotion of
it, as though you’re totally
connected.

Where the Spirit of the Lord is
“There is Liberty”
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ASSEMBLIES OF GOD
CALVARY ASSEMBLY OF GOD — Lehmberg Rd. and
Bennett Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6
p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Eric Crews, Pastor.
FIRST ASSEMBLY OF GOD — 2201 Military Road.
Christian Education 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Nursery
Church (2-3 yrs.) Super Church (children)10:30 a.m.
Worship 6 p.m. Wednesday 7 p.m. Nursery provided for all
services. Jody Gurley, Pastor. 662-328-6374
NEW LIFE ASSEMBLY OF GOD — 4474 New Hope Road.
Worship 10:30 a.m., Children’s Church 10:30 a.m., Jack
Medley, Pastor. 662-664-0852
BAPTIST
ANTIOCH BAPTIST CHURCH — Hwy. 45 N. Sunday
School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Discipleship Training 5
p.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Mitch McWilliams,
Pastor. 662-328-4765
ARMSTRONG BAPTIST CHURCH — 1707 Yorkville
Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Bible Study
Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. William Vaughn, Pastor. 662-
328-0670
ARTESIA BAPTIST CHURCH — Sunday School 10 a.m.,
Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Pastor Jeff
Morgan.
BETHEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 3232 Military Road.
Sunday School 10:00 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.,
Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m. Walter Butler, Pastor.
BETHESDA BAPTIST CHURCH — 2096 Bethesda
Rd, Crawford. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.,
Discipleship Training 6:00 p.m., Worship 7 p.m., Wednesday
7:00 p.m. Allan Dees, Pastor. 662-272-8734
BORDER SPRINGS BAPTIST CHURCH — 12771 Hwy.
12 E., Caledonia. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30
a.m., Kids for Christ 5 p.m., Discipleship Training 5:15 p.m.,
Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday Bible Study – Adults, Children,
and Youth classes 7 p.m. Dan Louman, Pastor. 662-386-
0541. Brad Creely, Minister of Music and Youth, 662-312-
LLC
8749. www. borderspringsbaptistchurch.com
BROOKSVILLE BAPTIST CHURCH — Main Street,
Brooksville. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 10:55 a.m.
and 6 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m.
CALEDONIA BAPTIST CHURCH — 7840 Wolfe Road,
Caledonia. Sunday Men’s Prayer Service 9:30 a.m.,
Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Bible Study 4
p.m., Worship 5 p.m., Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m. Bob
Burch, Pastor.
CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH — 295 Dowdle Dr. Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Adult Choir
rehearsals and Discipleship Training 5 p.m., Worship 6
p.m., Wednesday 6:15 p.m. Rev. Ralph Windle, Interim
Pastor. 662-328-6741
CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH — 385 7th St. SW, Vernon,
Ala. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 5 p.m.
(6 p.m. - Daylight Savings Time), Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Wil
Corbett, Pastor. 205-270-1845
CANAAN BAPTIST CHURCH — 1008 Lehmberg Rd.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Service and Children’s Church
10:30 a.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Paul
Shaw, Pastor. 662-327-3771
CANAAN MB CHURCH — 2425 Bell Ave. Sunday School
8:15 a.m., Worship 9:30 a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 6
p.m. Jimmy Pounds, Pastor. 662-327-1226
COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH — 2490 Yorkville
Rd. East Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m.,
Wednesday Bible Study, Children & Youth Classes 6:30
p.m. Matt Moehring, Pastor. Edward Rhinewalt, Music
Director. 662-327-5306
CORNERSTONE BAPTIST CHURCH — 844 Old West
Point Rd., Starkville. Sunday 10:30 a.m. Greg Upperman,
Pastor. 662-323-6351 or visit www.cornerstonestarkville.
com
EAST END BAPTIST CHURCH — 380 Hwy. 50 W. (Hwy.
50 and Holly Hills Rd.) Sunday School 9:15 a.m., Worship
We unlock 10:30 a.m., Worship 5 p.m. followed by Discipleship
Training, Mission Friends and GAs 5 p.m., Sanctuary Choir
cars
6:30 p.m., Wednesday Prayer Meeting, Youth Worship,
Preschool & Children’s Choirs 6:30 p.m. Bryon Benson,
Pastor. 662-328-5915
EASTVIEW BAPTIST CHURCH — 1316 Ben Christopher
p.m. Junior Eads, Pastor. 662-329-2245
RESIDENTIAL FAIRVIEW BAPTIST CHURCH — 127 Airline Rd.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:15 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.,
Wednesday 6 p.m. Dr. Breck Ladd, Pastor. 662-328-2924
FAITH CHRISTIAN BAPTIST CHURCH — 1621 Mike
Parra Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Rev.
Michael Love, Pastor. 662-434-5252
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH — 7th St. and 2nd. Ave.
N. Sunday Worship 8:45 a.m., Sunday School 10 a.m.
(Worship televised at 10 a.m. on WCBI-TV, Columbus
Cable Channel 7), Contemporary Worship 11 a.m.; Sunday
5 p.m. Worship at 3000 Bluecutt Road, Midweek Prayer
Service Wednesday 6:00 p.m. located downtown. Dr.
Shawn Parker, Pastor. 662-245-0540 columbusfbc.org
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF STEENS — 40 Odom Rd.,
Steens. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6
p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m.
FRIENDSHIP BAPTIST — 125 Yorkville Rd. W. Sunday
School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7
p.m. John Gainer, Pastor. 662-328-6024 or 662-328-3183
GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH — 708 Airline Rd. Sunday
School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m. & 6 p.m., Wednesday 6 p.m.
Charles Whitney, Pastor.
GRACE COVENANT BAPTIST CHURCH — 912 11th Ave.
S. Sunday 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. Pastor Sammy Burns. 662-
328-1096
GREENWOOD SPRINGS BAPTIST CHURCH — 278
East between Gattman & Amory. Sunday School 10 a.m.,
Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7:15 p.m. Rev.
John Walden, Pastor. 662-356-4445
IMMANUEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 6342 Military Rd.,
Steens. Bible Study 10:30 a.m., Worship 9:15 a.m. and 6
p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. 662-328-1668
KOLOLA SPRINGS BAPTIST CHURCH — Caledonia.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., AWANA
4:45-6 Ages 2-12th grade (Sept. - May), Worship 5 p.m.,
Choir Practice Wednesday 6 p.m., 252 Basics Children’s
Ministry an Cross Training Youth Wednesday 7 p.m.,
Wednesday Bible Study 7 p.m. Rev. Don Harding, Pastor.
LONGVIEW BAPTIST CHURCH — 991 Buckner Street,
Longview. Sunday School 10:00 a.m., Worship 11:00 a.m.,
Discipleship Training 5:15 p.m., Evening Worship 6:00 p.m.;
Wednesday Prayer Meeting 6:30 p.m. Pastor Larry W.
Yarber, or email ynyministry@yahoo.com, 662-769-4774
MCBEE BAPTIST CHURCH — 2846 Hwy. 50 E. Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Discipleship Training
5 p.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Rev. Jimmy
Ray, Pastor. 662-328-7177
MIDWAY BAPTIST CHURCH — Holly Hills Rd. Sunday
School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m.,
Prayer Service every Saturday 6 p.m. Rev. Denver Clark,
Pastor.
MOUNT PISGAH BAPTIST CHURCH — 2628 East Tibbee
Rd., West Point. Sunday Worship each week 8 a.m., 1st,
3rd and 5th Sunday Worship 11:30 a.m., Sunday School
9:30 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Donald Wesley, Pastor.
MOUNT ZION BAPTIST CHURCH — 1791 Lake Lowndes
Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:15 a.m. and 6 p.m.,
Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Steve Lammons, Pastor. 662-328-
2811
MT. VERNON CHURCH — 200 Mt. Vernon Rd. Sunday
Worship 9 a.m. and 10:30 a.m., Service Life Groups for
all ages 9 a.m. and 10:30 a.m., Connection Cafe 10 a.m.,
Discovery Zone. 662-328-3042 mtvchurch.com
MURRAH’S CHAPEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 9297 Hwy.
69 S. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and
6:30 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m.
NEW COVENANT BAPTIST CHURCH — Highway 50 E.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Service 10 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m.
Ed Nix, Pastor.
NEW JOURNEY CHURCH — 3123 New Hope Rd. Sunday
Worship 10:30 a.m., Small Groups 5:30 p.m., Kevin Edge,
Pastor. 662-315-7753 or thenewjourneychurch.org
NEW SALEM BAPTIST CHURCH — 7086 Wolfe Rd., 3
miles south of Caledonia. Sunday Worship 8:00 a.m. & 10:30
a.m., Sunday School 9:15 a.m., Sunday Evening - AWANA
4 p.m., Discipleship Training, Youth & Adult 5 p.m., Evening
Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday - Adults, Youth & Children 6:30
p.m. 662-356-4940 www.newsalembaptistcaledonia.com
Bro. Mel Howton, Pastor.
NORTHSIDE FREE WILL BAPTIST — 14th Ave. and
Waterworks. Sunday School 10 a.m., Sunday Worship 11
a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Pat Creel, Pastor.
OPEN DOOR M.B. CHURCH — Starkville Sportsplex, 405
Lynn Lane, Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. 1st
2nd and 4th Sundays. Donnie Jones, Pastor. 662-263-7102
PLEASANT GROVE MB CHURCH — 1914 Moor High
Road, Crawford. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11
a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Riley Forrest, Sr., Pastor.
662-272-8221
PLEASANT HILL BAPTIST — 1383 Pleasant Hill Rd.
Sunday Worship 10 a.m. & 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Bill
Hurt, Pastor. 662-329-3921
PLYMOUTH BAPTIST CHURCH — 187 Plymouth Rd.
Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Randy
Rigdon, Pastor. Neil Shepherd, Music.
SOVEREIGN FAITH BAPTIST CHURCH — 7852 Hwy.
12 E., Steens. Sunday Worship 10 a.m., Service 5 p.m.,
Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Charles Young, Pastor.
SOVEREIGN GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH — 12859 Martin
Road Spur, Northport, Ala. Worship 11 a.m., Sunday Bible
Study noon. Todd Bryant, Pastor. sovereigngrace.net
STATE LINE BAPTIST CHURCH — 7560 Hwy. 1282 E.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Wednesday
Night small group 6:30 p.m. Robert Gillis, Pastor. 662-
329-2973
TEMPLE OF DELIVERANCE BAPTIST CHURCH —
4307 Sand Rd., Steens. Maurice Williams, Pastor. Sunday
School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 7 p.m., Wednesday 7
p.m. 662-327-2580
UNITED CHRISTIAN BAPTIST CHURCH — 2 blocks east
of Hwy. 69 on Yorkville Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship
10:15 a.m. Steven James, Pastor.
UNIVERSITY BAPTIST CHURCH — 1104 Louisville St.,
Starkville (located in Fellowship Hall of St. Luke Lutheran
Church). Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Bert
Montgomery, Pastor. www.ubcstarkville.org
VICTORY FREE WILL BAPTIST CHURCH — Victory Loop
off of Mill Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and
6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Pastor, Al Hamm.
WOODLAND BAPTIST CHURCH — 3033 Ridge Rd.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Worship 6
p.m., AWANA Wednesday 6:30 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m.
Shelby Hazzard, Senior Pastor. Brad Wright, Director of
Student Ministries.
10TH STREET FAIRLAWN BAPTIST CHURCH — 1118
7th St. S. Sunday School 8 a.m., Worship 9:30 a.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m., Youth Ministry Wednesday 4:30 p.m.
Rev. Brian Hood, Pastor.
INDEPENDENT BAPTIST
BETHESDA CHURCH — 1800 Short Main. Sunday School
9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Nathaniel
Best, Pastor. E-mail: bethesdambchurch@yahoo.com
BIBLE BAPTIST CHURCH — 5860 Hwy. 50 E., West
Point. Sunday School 10 a.m., Service 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m.
FELLOWSHIP BAPTIST CHURCH — 1720 Hwy. 373.
Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m. Martin “Buddy” Gardner, Pastor.
LIGHTHOUSE BAPTIST CHURCH — 5030 Hwy. 182 E.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m. 662-327-1130
SHINING LIGHT BAPTIST CHURCH — 957 Sunset Drive,
Starkville in the Comfort Suites Conference Room, Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Pastor
John Harvey. slbcstarkville.org 662-648-0282
MISSIONARY BAPTIST
ANDERSON GROVE MB CHURCH — 1853 Anderson
Grove Road, Caledonia. Sunday School 9:20 a.m., Worship
11:00 a.m., Bible Study Wednesday 6:20 p.m. David O.
Williams, Pastor. 662-356-4968.
ANTIOCH MB CHURCH — 2304 Seventh Ave. N. Sunday
School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Kenny
Bridges, Pastor.
BETHLEHEM MB CHURCH — 293 Bethlehem Road,
Caledonia. Sunday School 1st and 4th Sundays 8 a.m., 2nd
& 3rd Sundays 9:30 a.m., Worship 1st & 4th Sundays 9:30
a.m., 2nd & 3rd Sundays 11 a.m., Wednesdays 6 p.m. Rev.
Willie James Gardner, Pastor. 662-356-4424
BLESSING MB CHURCH — Starkville Sportsplex, Activity
Center 405 Lynn Lane Road. Sunday Worship 2nd, 4th &
5th Sundays 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. Pastor Martin. 662-744-0561
BRICK MB CHURCH — Old Macon Rd. Sunday School
9:30 a.m. each Sunday, Worship 2nd and 4th Sundays only
11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Everett Little, Pastor.
CALVARY FAITH CENTER — Hwy. 373 & Jess Lyons
Road. Sunday Worship 8:00 a.m., Sunday School 9 a.m.,
Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Pastor Robert
Bowers, Pastor. 662-434-0144
CEDAR GROVE MB CHURCH — 286 Swartz Dr. Worship
Services 11:15 a.m., Sunday School 10 a.m., Wednesday
6:30 p.m. Johnnie Richardson, Pastor. 662-434-6528
CHRISTIAN HILL MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH
— 14096 MS Hwy. 388, Brooksville, MS 39739, Sunday
School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11:00 a.m., Wednesday 6:30
p.m. Bobby Bowen, Pastor. 662-738-5837/549-6100
CHRIST MB CHURCH — 110 2nd Ave. S. Sunday School
10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m., B.T.U.
Program every 1st & 3rd Sunday 6 p.m.
ELBETHEL MB CHURCH — 2205 Washington Ave.
Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday
7:00 p.m., Rev. Leroy Jones, Pastor.
FAITH HARVEST MB CHURCH — 4266 Sand Road.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Bible class
Tuesday 6 p.m. Hugh L. Dent, Pastor. 662-243-7076.
FOURTH STREET MB CHURCH — 610 4th St. N. Sunday
School 9 a.m., Worship 10:45 a.m., Wednesday Bible
Study 7 p.m. Rev. Jimmy L. Rice, Pastor. 662-328-1913
FRIENDSHIP MB CHURCH — 1102 12th Ave. S. Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Dr.
Stanley K. McCrary, Pastor. 662-327-7473 or 662-251-4185
GREATER MT. OLIVE M.B. CHURCH — 1856 Carson Rd.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:15 a.m., Wednesday 7
a.m. Donald Henry, Pastor.
HALBERT MISSION MB CHURCH — 2199 Halbert Church
Rd., Ethelsville, Ala. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11
a.m. Ernest Prescott, Pastor.
HOPEWELL MB CHURCH — 4892 Ridge Rd. Sunday
School 8 a.m., Worship 9 a.m., Minister Terry Johnson,
Interim Pastor.
JERUSALEM MB CHURCH — 14129 Hwy 12 E.,
Caledonia. Sunday School 8:30 a.m., Worship 9:30 a.m.,
Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m. Rev. Willie Petty, Sr., Pastor.
MAPLE STREET BAPTIST — 219 Maple St. Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:45 a.m. and 6 p.m.,
Wednesday 6 p.m. Joseph Oyeleye, Pastor. 662-328-4629
MILLERS CHAPEL MB CHURCH — 425 East North
St. Macon. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.,
Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Ron Houston, Pastor.
MISSIONARY UNION BAPTIST CHURCH — 1207 5th
Ave. N. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Baptist
Training Union 5 p.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 6 p.m.
Rev. Tony A. Montgomery, Pastor.
MOUNT ZION M.B. CHURCH — 2221 14th Ave. N. Sunday
School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Tuesday Bible Study 7
p.m. Jesse J. Slater, Pastor. 662-328-4979
MT. ARY MB CHURCH — 291 S. Frontage Rd., Lot #4.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m.
Rev. Erick Logan, Pastor.
MT. AVERY BAPTIST CHURCH — 12311 Nashville Ferry
Rd. E. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m. every
Sunday except 5th Sunday. Rev. John Wells, Pastor.
MT. OLIVE MB CHURCH — 2020 Atkin Rd., Millport, Ala.
Sunday School 9 a.m. Worship Service 10 a.m. Pastor
Benny W. Henry. 205-662-3923
NEW HOPE MB CHURCH — 271 Church St., Artesia.
Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6
p.m. Thomas E. Rice is Pastor. 662-494-1580
NEW BAPTIST TEMPLE MB CHURCH — 5937 Nashville
Ferry Rd. E. Sunday School 9 a.m. each week except 5th
Sunday, Worship 10 a.m. each week except 5th Sunday,
5th Sundays: Ushers Board Fellowship. Rev. L.A. Gardner,
Pastor. 662-329-3321
NEW ZION PILGRIM MB CHURCH — 5253 New Hope
Rd. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship Services 11 a.m.,
Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Rev. Christopher Wriley, Pastor.
NEW ZION STEENS MB CHURCH — 3301 Sand Rd.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m.
Pastor Rev. Billy D. Hill. 662-329-5224
OAK GROVE MB CHURCH — 1090 Taylor Thurston Rd.
Sunday School 9:00 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., 5th Sunday 8
a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 6:15 p.m. Pastor Therman
Cunningham Sr., 662-798-0179
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OAKLAND MB CHURCH — 18 Fairport Road, Crawford.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday
Bible study 7 p.m., Mass Choir Rehearsal - Wed. before 1st
and 2nd Sun. 6 p.m., Male Chorus Rehearsal - Wed. before
3rd Sun. 6 p.m., Junior Choir Rehearsal - Wed. before 4th
Sun. 6 p.m. Rev. Sammy L. White, Pastor.
PLEASANT GROVE ROBINSON MB CHURCH — 9203
Hwy. 389 N., Starkville. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship
11:15 a.m., Wednesday Prayer Service/Bible Study 7 p.m.
Pastor George A. Sanders. 456-0024
PLEASANT RIDGE MB CHURCH — Ridge Rd. Sunday
School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. A.
Edwards, Sr., Pastor.
PROVIDENCE MB CHURCH — Old Hwy. 69 S. Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev.
Gilbert Anderson, Pastor.
SAINT MATTHEWS MB CHURCH — 1213 Island Rd.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday
6:30 p.m. Curtis Clay, Sr., Pastor.
SALEM MB CHURCH — Hwy. 86, Carrollton, Ala. Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Rev.
David J. Johnson, Jr., Pastor.
SECOND JAMES CREEK MB CHURCH — 4898 Baldwin
Rd., Brooksville. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.
Pastor Michael Tate. 662-738-5855
SOUTHSIDE MB CHURCH — 100 Nashville Ferry Rd. E.
Sunday School 8:30 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday
6:30 p.m. Rev. Rayfield Evins Jr., Pastor.
SIXTH AVENUE MB CHURCH — 1519 Sixth Ave. N.
Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Sunday 11 a.m., Bible Study
Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. W.C. Talley, Pastor. 662-329-2344
SPRINGFIELD MB CHURCH — 6369 Hwy. 45 S. (1st & 3rd
Sunday) Sunday School 10:30 a.m., Worship 11:30 a.m.,
(1st & 3rd Wednesday) 7 p.m. Robert Gavin, Pastor. 662-
327-9843
STEPHEN CHAPEL MB CHURCH — 514 20th St. N.
Sunday School 9:15 a.m., Worship 8 a.m. & 11 a.m. B.T.U. 5
p.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Rev. Joe Peoples,
Pastor.
St. James MB CHURCH — 6525 Hardy-Billups Rd.,
Crawford. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and
6:15 p.m. Rev. Chad Payton, Pastor.
St. JOHN MB CHURCH — 3477 Motley Rd., Sunday
School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 7
p.m. Joe Brooks, Pastor. 327-7494.
ST. PAUL MB CHURCH — Robinson Rd. Sunday School
10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Rev. Willie
Mays, Pastor.
ST. PAUL MB CHURCH — 1800 Short Main St. Disciple
Training/Sunday School 8 a.m., Worship 9:00 a.m. Rev.
John F. Johnson, Pastor. 662-241-7111
STRONG HILL MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH — 325
Barton Ferry Rd., West Point. Sunday School 9:30 a.m.,
Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m.
UNION BAPTIST MB CHURCH — 101 Weaver Rd.
(Hwy. 69 S) Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.,
Wednesday 6 p.m. Pastor McSwain.
TABERNACLE MB CHURCH — Magnolia Drive, Macon.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6
p.m.
UNION HOPEWELL MB CHURCH — 150 Spurlock Rd.
Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6
p.m. Carlton Jones, Pastor.
WOODLAWN LANDMARK MB CHURCH — 8086 Hwy.
12. East, Steens. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.
and 5 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. David Retherford, Pastor.
THE WORD CHURCH INTERNATIONAL — 366
Carson Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11:15 a.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m. John Sanders, Pastor.
ZION GATE MB CHURCH — 1202 5th St. S. Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Worship 8 a.m. and 10:45., Children’s
Church 10:15 a.m., Worship 5 p.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Dr.
James A. Boyd, Pastor.
PRIMITIVE BAPTIST
ABERDEEN PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH —
Washington St. & Columbus St., Aberdeen. Sunday 10:30
a.m. and 2 p.m. Herb Hatfield, Pastor. 662-369-4937
HAMILTON PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH — Flower
Farm Rd., 2 miles South of Hamilton, just off Hwy. 45.
Sunday 10:30 a.m. Jesse Phillips, Pastor. 662-429-2305
MAYHEW PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH — 842 Hwy.
45 Alternate, Starkville. Sunday Service 10:30 a.m. Herb
Hatfield,Pastor. 662-315-4937
SPRINGHILL P.B. CHURCH — 3996 Sandyland Road,
Macon, MS. Walter Lowery Jr., Pastor. Sunday School 9:00
a.m., Worship 10:00 a.m., Tuesday Bible Study 6 p.m. 662-
738-5006.
SULPHUR SPRINGS PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH —
North of Caledonia on Wolf Rd, Hamilton. Sunday 10:30
a.m. & 1st Sunday Night at 6:30 p.m. Elder Joseph Mettles,
Pastor. 662-369-2532
ANGLICAN CATHOLIC
SAINT DAVID’S AT MAYHEW — 549 Mayhew Rd.,
Mayhew. Holy Eucharist - Sunday 10 a.m. 662-244-5939
or anglicancatholic.org
CATHOLIC
ANNUNCIATION CATHOLIC CHURCH — 808 College
St. Mass Schedules are as follows: Sunday 8 a.m. & 10:30
a.m., Monday, Wednesday & Friday 8 a.m., Tuesday 5:30
p.m., Thursday 8:30 a.m., and Annunciation Catholic
School (during the school year). Father Jeffrey Waldrep,
Priest.
CHRISTIAN
FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH — 811 N. McCrary. Jerry
Mitchell, Pastor. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30
a.m. and 6 p.m. Wednesday, 7 p.m.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH — 720 4th Ave. N. and
8th St. N. Sunday Service 10:30 a.m.
CHURCH OF CHRIST
CALEDONIA CHURCH OF CHRIST — Main St.,
Caledonia. Sunday Bible Study 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m.
and 5 p.m., Wednesday 6 p.m.
CHURCH OF CHRIST — 4362 Hwy. 69 S. Sunday Worship
9:30 a.m. , Wednesday 6 p.m. Loviah Johnson 662-574-
0426 or E-mail: jtychicus00@gmail.com
CHURCH OF CHRIST — 437 Gregory Rd. Sunday Bible
class 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7
p.m. Richard Latham, Minister. 662-328-4705
CHURCH OF CHRIST DIVINE — 1316 15th St. S. Morning
Worship (3rd & 5th Sunday) 8:30 a.m., Sunday School
9:45 a.m., Morning Worship 11:30 a.m., Wednesday Night
Bible Study 7 p.m. 662-327-6060 Bishop Timothy L. Heard,
Pastor.
COLUMBUS CHURCH OF CHRIST — 2401 7th St. N.
Sunday Bible Class 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Sunday
Bible Study 5 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Lendy Bartlett,
Minister of Community Outreach; Paul Bennett, Family Life
Minister; Billy Ferguson, Minister of Discipleship.
EAST COLUMBUS CHURCH OF CHRIST — Highway
182 E. at Gaylane. Sunday Worship 9 a.m., Bible Study
10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. http://
eastcolumbuschurch.com
HWY. 69 CHURCH OF CHRIST — 2407 Hwy. 69 S. Sunday
Bible Study 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:15 a.m. and 6 p.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m. www.highway69coc.com
LONE OAK CHURCH OF CHRIST — 1903 Lone Oak Rd.,
Steens. Bible Study 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m.
MAGNOLIA CHURCH OF CHRIST — 161 Jess Lyons
Rd. Bible Study 9:15 a.m., Worship, 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m. Minister David May, Pastor. 662-769-
5514.
NORTH HILLCREST CHURCH OF CHRIST — 900 North
Hillcrest, Aberdeen, MS 39730, Sunday Worship 10:00
a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 6:00 p.m., Bro. Arthur
Burnett, Minister, 662-304-6098. Email: nhill crestcoc@
gmail.com
STEENS CHURCH OF CHRIST — Steens Vernon Rd. 9:15
a.m. Bible Study, Worship 10 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday
7 p.m. Larry Montgomery, Minister.
10TH AVE. N. CHURCH OF CHRIST — 1828 10th Ave. N.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Bible Class
5 p.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Willie McCord,
Minister.
WOODLAWN CHURCH OF CHRIST — Woodlawn
Community. Sunday 9 a.m., Worship 9:45 a.m., Worship 6
p.m., Wednesday 7:30 p.m. Willis Logan, Minister.
CHURCH OF GOD
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CORNERSTONE WORSHIP CENTER — 7840 Wolfe Rd.
Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m., Wednesday
6:30 p.m. Tony Hunt, Pastor. 662-889-6570
LATTER RAIN CHURCH OF GOD — 721 7th Ave. S.
Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Wednesday 6
p.m. Brenda Othell Sullivan, Pastor.
NORTH COLUMBUS CHURCH OF GOD — 2103 Jess
Lyons Rd. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m.
and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Clarence Roberts, Pastor.
YORKVILLE HEIGHTS CHURCH — 2274 Yorkville Rd.,
Sunday Connect Groups 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m.,
Wednesday Worship 7 p.m.; Nursery available for all
services (newborn-4). Scott Volland, Pastor. 662-328-1256
or www.yorkvilleheights.com
ZION ASSEMBLY CHURCH OF GOD — 5580 Ridge Road.
Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 10:45 a.m. and 6 p.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m. Byron Harris, Pastor.
CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST
BIBLE WAY PROGRESSIVE CHURCH OF GOD IN
CHRIST — 426 Military Rd. Sunday School 8 a.m.,
Worship 9 a.m., Monday Prayer 6 p.m., Wednesday Bible
Study 6 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday Prayer Noon. Tommy
Williams, Pastor.
FIFTEENTH ST. CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST — 917
15th St. N. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and
6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Marion C. Bonner, Pastor.
GREATER PENTECOSTAL TEMPLE CHURCH OF GOD
IN CHRIST — 1601 Pickensville Rd., Sunday School 9:30
a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Monday 6 p.m., Tuesday 7 p.m.,
Friday 7 p.m., Saturday 8 a.m. Ocie Salter, Pastor.
MIRACLE TEMPLE CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST —
5429 Hwy. 45 N. Sunday Prayer 8 a.m., Sunday School
8:30 a.m., Worship 9:30 a.m., 4th Sunday Fellowship
Lunch, Youth Sunday 4th Sunday, Wednesday Bible Study
6 p.m. Elder Robert L. Brown, Jr., Pastor. 662-327-4221.
Email: mr.endure@aol.com
NOW FAITH CENTER MINISTRIES — 425 Military Road,
Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11:30 a.m., Tuesday Night
Bible Study 7 p.m. Elder Samuel Wilson, Pastor.
OPEN DOOR CHURCH OF GOD — 711 S. Thayer Ave.,
Aberdeen. Sunday School 10:30 a.m., Worship 11:30 a.m.,
Tuesday Bible School 10 a.m. & 6 p.m., 2nd & 4th Thursday
Evangelist Night 6 p.m. Johnnie Bradford, Pastor. 662-574-
2847.
PETER’S ROCK TEMPLE CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST
— 223 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr., Starkville. Sunday
Worship 7:45 a.m., 10 a.m., 6 p.m., Sunday School 9 a.m.,
Wednesday Bible Study 7 p.m.
VICTORY TEMPLE CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST —
Minnie Vaughn Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 12
p.m., Tuesday 7 p.m. Donald Koonch, Pastor. 662-243-
2064
COLUMBUS AIR FORCE BASE
CAFB CHAPEL — Catholic - Sunday: Catholic
Reconciliation 4:00 p.m., Mass 5 p.m. Catholic Priest
Father Paul Stewart. Protestant - Sunday: Adult Sunday
School 9 a.m., Worship 10:45 a.m. Wing Chaplain Lt. Col.
Steven Richardson. 662-434-2500
EPISCOPAL
GOOD SHEPHERD EPISCOPAL CHURCH — 321
Forrest Blvd. Sunday Bible Study 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m.,
Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m. Rev. Sandra DePriest. 662-
574-1972
ST. PAUL’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH — 318 College St.
Sunday 8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Sunday School 9:15 a.m.
Rev. Anne Harris. 662-328-6673 or stpaulscolumbus.com.
FULL GOSPEL
BREAD OF LIFE FELLOWSHIP — New Hope Road.
Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Wednesday
6 p.m. Jack Taylor, Pastor.
BEULAH GROVE FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH —
8490 Artesia Rd., Artesia, MS. Sunday Service 8:30 a.m.,
Tuesday Bible Study 6:30 p.m. Timothy Bourne, Senior
Pastor.
CHARITY FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 1524
6th Ave. S. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m., Saturday 6 p.m. Charles Fisher, Pastor.
CHARITY MISSION FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH
— 807 Tarlton Rd., Crawford. Sunday School 9:40 a.m.,
Worship 11:15 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m., Prayer Hour Mon.-
Fri. 10 a.m., Saturday 8 a.m., New Membership Class 9:30
p.m., 5th Sunday Worship 6:30 p.m. 662-272-5355
COVENANT LIFE MINISTRIES CHURCH — W. Yorkville
Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Evening 6:30
p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m.
Fairview Full Gospel BAPTIST CHURCH — 1446
Wilson Pine Rd., Crawford. Sunday School 9:30 a.m.,
Worship 10 a.m., Tuesday 7 p.m. Bobby L. McCarter 662-
328-2793
GREATER MOUNT ZION CHURCH — 5114 Hwy. 182 E.
Sunday Corporate Prayer 8 a.m., Sunday School 9 a.m.,
Worship 10:15 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m., Bible Study 7
p.m. Doran V. Johnson, Pastor. 662-329-1905
GOD’S ANNOINTED PEOPLE MINISTRY FULL GOSPEL
FELLOWSHIP — 611 Jess Lyons Rd. Sunday School 9
a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Jerome Gill,
Pastor. 662-244-7088
HARVEST LIFE CHURCH — 425 Military Rd. Sunday
Service 10:30 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. F. Clark Richardson,
Pastor. 662-329-2820
NEW BEGINNING FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH —
318 Idlewild Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.,
Wednesday 6 p.m., Saturday 8 a.m. 662-327-3962
NEW LIFE FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 426
Military Rd. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10a.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Michael Love, Pastor.
PLUM GROVE FULL GOSPEL CHURCH — Old Macon
Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11:30 a.m., Tuesday
6:30 p.m., Thursday 7 p.m. Samuel B. Wilson, Pastor.
SHILOH FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 120
19th St. S. Sunday School 8:30 a.m., Worship 10 a.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m., Missionary Service every 2nd
Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Freddie Edwards, Pastor.
JEWISH
B’NAI ISRAEL — 717 2nd Ave. N. Services Semi-monthly.
Friday 7:30 p.m. 662-329-5038
Universalist
UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST — Meeting at Temple B’nai
Israel, 1301 Marshall, Tupelo, every 1st & 3rd Sunday. 662-
620-7344 or uua.org
LUTHERAN
FAITH EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH (WELS) —
Hwy. 45 N. and 373. Sunday School/Bible Class 3:45 p.m.,
Worship 5 p.m. 662-356-4647
OUR SAVIOR LUTHERAN CHURCH (L.C.M.S.) — 1211
18th Ave. N. Sunday School 9 a.m.. Worship 10 a.m. Stan
Clark, Pastor. 662-327-7747 oursaviorlutheranms.org
MENNONITE
FAITH MENNONITE FELLOWSHIP — 2988 Tarlton Rd.,
Crawford. Sunday Worship 10 a.m., Sunday School 11 a.m.,
2nd & 4th Sunday Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 7:30 p.m.
Kevin Yoder, Senior Pastor.
METHODIST
ARTESIA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 50 Church
Street, Artesia. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.
Gene Merkl, Pastor.
CALEDONIA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 811 Main
Street, Caledonia. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.
Charity Gordon, Pastor.
CLAIBORNE CME CHURCH — 6049 Nashville Ferry Rd.
E. 2nd and 4th Sundays - Sunday School 10a.m., Worship
11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m., 1st and 3rd Sundays - 3 p.m.,
Geneva H. Thomas, Pastor.
CONCORD INDEPENDENT METHODIST CHURCH —
1235 Concord Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.
Robert L. Hamilton, Sr., Pastor.
COVENANT UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 618 31st
Ave. N. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Eugene
Bramlett, Pastor.
CRAWFORD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — Main St.,
Crawford. Sunday School 9:30 a.m. and service 10 a.m.
Kathy Brackett, Pastor. 662-364-8848
CROSSROAD CHAPEL C.M.E. CHURCH — Steens.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6
p.m. Rev. Carl Swanigan, Pastor.
FIRST INDEPENDENT METHODIST — 417 Lehmberg Rd.
Sunday bible study at 10:15 and morning worship at 11 a.m.
Minister Gary Shelton.
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 602 Main St.
Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 8:45 & 11 a.m., Vespers &
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Lead Pastor. Rev. Anne Russell Bradley, Associate Pastor.
Rev. Aislinn Kopp, Associate Pastor. 328-5252
FLINT HILL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 80 Old
Honnoll Mill Rd., Caledonia. Sunday Worship Service 9:30
a.m. Sunday School 10:30 a.m. Charity Gordon, Pastor.
GLENN’S CHAPEL CME CHURCH — 1109 4th St. S.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m. Rev. Raphael
Terry, Pastor. 662-328-1109
HEBRON C.M.E. CHURCH — 1910 Steens Road, Steens.
Meets first, second and third Sundays, Bible class each
Wednesday at 7 p.m. Earnest Sanders, Pastor.
MILITARY CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH —
Hwy. 12, Steens. Sunday School 9:45, Service 11 a.m..
Meet on 2nd and 4th Sundays. Wednesday Bible Study
6:00 p.m. Rev. Antra Geeter, Pastor. 662-327-4263
NEW HOPE CME CHURCH — 1452 Yorkville Road East,
Columbus. Sunday School 10:00 a.m., Worship service
first, third and fourth Sunday (Youth Sunday) 11:00 a.m.,
Wednesday Bible Study 5:00 p.m. Rev. Cornelia Naylor,
Pastor. 662-328-5309
NEW HOPE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 2503 New
Hope Road. Sunday Worship 8:45 a.m., Sunday School 10
a.m., Tuesday Bible Study 6:30 p.m. Rev. Sarah Windham,
Pastor. 662-329-3555
ORR’S CHAPEL CME CHURCH — Nicholson Street,
Brooksville. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m.,
Saturday 9 a.m.
PINEY GROVE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 102
Fernbank Rd., Steens. Sunday Worship 9:30 a.m., Sunday
School 10:45 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Andy Tentoni.
SANDERS CHAPEL CME CHURCH — 521 15th St. N.
Sunday School 8 a.m., Sunday 9 a.m., Tuesday 11:45 a.m.
Rev. Dr. Luther Minor, Pastor.
SHAEFFERS CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
— 1007 Shaeffers Chapel Rd., Traditional Worship Service
9 a.m., Rev. Curtis Bray, Pastor.
ST. JAMES UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 722
Military Rd. Breakfast 9:20 a.m., Sunday School 9:40 a.m.,
Worship 11 a.m., Sunday Evening Worship 6 p.m., Adult/
Children Bible Study Wednesday 6 p.m., Young Adult Bible
Study Thursday 7 p.m. Rev. Paul E. Luckett, Pastor.
ST. PAUL INDEPENDENT METHODIST CHURCH —
Freeman Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Sunday Services 11
a.m. and 5 p.m. Youth activities 5 p.m. John Powell, Pastor.
ST. PAUL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 307 South
Cedar Street, Macon, Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship
10:30 a.m. , Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m. Demetric
Darden, Pastor.
ST. STEPHEN UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 800
Tuscaloosa Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.
and 6 p.m., Thursday 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. Ron McDougald,
Pastor.
TABERNACLE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — Rt. 2,
6015 Tabernacle Rd., Ethelsville, AL. Sunday School 10
a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. Wednesday 6:30 p.m.
Rickey C. Green, Pastor. 205-662-3443
TRINITY-MT. CARMEL CME CHURCH — 4610 Carson
Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Pastor Lizzie
Harris. 662-329-3995
TURNER CHAPEL AME CHURCH — 1108 14th St. S.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 5
p.m. Yvonne Fox, Pastor.
WESLEY UNITED METHODIST — 511 Airline Rd. Sunday
School 9:45 a.m., Worship 10:55 a.m., Wednesday 5:15
p.m., Chancel Choir 7 p.m., Youth Monday 6:30 p.m. Rev.
Sarah Windham.
WRIGHT CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
— Hwy. 45 Alt. S., Crawford. Sunday School 9:30 a.m.,
Worship 10:15 a.m., Tuesday 6 p.m. Kori Bridges, Pastor.
662-422-9013.
MORMON
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS
— 2808 Ridge Rd. Sacrament Meeting 9 a.m., Sunday
School 10 a.m., Priesthood & Relief Society 11 a.m., Youth
Activities Wednesday 6 p.m. Bishop Eric Smith. 662-328-
3179.
CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
FIRST CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE — 2722 Ridge Rd.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m.,Worship 10:40 a.m. and 6 p.m.
Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Stephen Joiner, Pastor.
NON — DENOMINATIONAL
A PREPARED TABLE MINISTRY — 1201 College St.
Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:10 a.m., Wednesday 6
p.m. Timothy J. Bailey, Pastor. 662-889-7778
ABUNDANT LIFE CHRISTIAN CHURCH — 611 S.
Frontage Road. Sunday 9:30 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Craig
Morris, Pastor.
ALL NATIONS CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP CHURCH,
INC. — 1560 Hwy. 69 S., Sunday 9 a.m., Wednesday 6:45
p.m., Friday Corporate Prayer 7 p.m. Pastor James T.
Verdell, Jr. crosswayradio.com 9 a.m., 11 a.m., & 7 p.m. on
Fridays only.
COLUMBUS CHRISTIAN CENTER — 146 S. McCrary
Rd. Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m., Kid’s Church 10:30 a.m.,
Wednesday 6:30 p.m., Kenny Gardner, Pastor. 662-328-
3328
CONGREGATIONAL WORSHIP CENTER — 109 Maxwell
Lane. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11:15 a.m.,
Wednesday Prayer 6 p.m., Wednesday Bible Band 7 p.m.
Grover C. Richards, Pastor. 662-328-8124
CORNERSTONE WORSHIP CENTER — 98 Harrison Rd.,
Steens. Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m., 1st Sunday Evening
6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Marion (Bubba) Dees, Pastor.
662-327-4303
EL BETHEL — 3288 Cal-Vernon Rd. Sunday School 9
a.m., Worship 10 a.m. and 5 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Wes
Andrews, Pastor. 662-855-5006
EMMANUEL CIRCLE OF LOVE OUTREACH — 1608
Gardner Blvd. Services every Friday, Saturday and Sunday
at 7 p.m. J. Brown, Pastor.
FAITH COVENANT CHURCH — 1133 Northdale Dr.
Sunday Worship 5:30 p.m. Lee Poque, Pastor. 662-889-
8132
FINDING YOUR WAY THROUGH CHRIST MINISTRIES
— 1472 Blocker Rd., Starkville. Sunday School 10 a.m.,
Worship 11 a.m., 2nd Sunday Morning Worship 9 a.m.
Pastor Kenyon Ashford.
FIRST CALVARY FAITH AND FELLOWSHIP CHRISTIAN
CENTER — 247 South Oliver St., Brooksville. Prayer
Saturday 5:30 p.m., Bible Study 6 p.m., Sunday School
9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. Pastor David T. Jones,III.
601-345-5740
FULL GOSPEL MINISTRY — 1504 19th St. N. Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Tuesday 6:30 p.m. Rev.
Maxine Hall, Pastor.
GENESIS CHURCH — 1820 23rd St. N., Sunday School
9 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Darren
Leach, Pastor.
HOUSE OF LIFE FREEDOM MINISTRY — 1742 Old West
Point Rd. Worship 8 a.m. and 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m.
Donnell Wicks, Pastor.
HOUSE OF RESTORATION — Hwy. 50. Sunday School,
9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7
a.m., Pastors, Bill and Carolyn Hulen.
JESUS CHRIST POWERHOUSE OF THE APOSTOLIC
FAITH CHURCH — 622 23rd St. N. Sunday School
10:30 a.m.; Service 11:45 a.m., Tuesday 7:30 p.m., Friday
7:30 p.m., Prayer Mon., Wed. and Fri. noon. For more
information call Bishop Ray Charles Jones 662-251-1118,
Patricia Young 662-327-3106 or 662-904-0290 or Lynette
Williams 662-327-9074.
KINGDOM VISION INTERNATIONAL CHURCH — 3193
Hwy 69 S. Sunday 8:30 a.m. and 11 a.m., Sunday School
10 a.m., Tuesday 7 p.m. Pastor R.J. Matthews. 662-327-
1960
LIFE CHURCH — 419 Wilkins Wise Rd. Sunday Worship
10 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. For more information, call 662-
570-4171
LOVE CITY FELLOWSHIP CHURCH — 305 Dr. Martin
Luther King Drive, Starkville. Sunday Worship 11 a.m.,
Pastor Apostle Lamorris Richardson. 601-616-0311
LIVING WATERS LIFE CHURCH INTERNATIONAL — 113
Jefferson St., Macon. Sunday Service 10 a.m., Wednesday
Bible Study 6:30 p.m. Johnny Birchfield Jr., Senior Pastor.
662-493-2456 E-mail: livingwaterslifechurch@gmail.com
NEW BEGINNING EVERLASTING OUTREACH
MINISTRIES — Meets at Quality Inn, Hwy. 45 N. (Every 1st
and 3rd Sunday) Sunday School 10 a.m., Bible Study 10:30
a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Pastor Robert Gavin, 662-327-9843
or 662-497-3434.
NEW COVENANT ASSEMBLY — 875 Richardson.
Worship Service Sunday 10:30 a.m. Bruce Morgan, Pastor.
NEW HORIZONS GOSPEL ASSEMBLY — 441 18th St. S.
Sunday 10 a.m. Dr. Joe L. Bowen, Pastor.
PLEASANT RIDGE HOUSE OF WORSHIP — 2651 Trinity
Road. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Every
2nd and 4th Sunday Intercessory Prayer 9 a.m., Wednesday www.memorialgunterpeel.com
6:30 p.m. Pastor Donna Anthony. 662-241-0097
716 Second Ave. N. • Columbus, MS • 662-328-4432
THE LORD’S HOUSE — 441 18th St. S. Thursday 7 p.m.
903 College St. • Columbus, MS • 662-328-2354
Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.
THE RIVER CHURCH — 822 North Lehmberg Rd., Sunday
Worship 10 a.m., Children’s Church 3&4 yr. old, 5-12 yr. old.
Wednesday Worship 6:45 p.m. Pastor Chuck Eubanks.
THE SHEPHERD’S CARE & SHARE MINISTRY CHURCH
— 312 N. Lehmberg Rd., Sunday Prayer Time 9:50 a.m.,
Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Thursday Bible
Study 6 p.m., Annie Hines, Planter and Pastor. 662-570-
1856
TRIBE JUDAH MINISTRIES — 730 Whitfield St., Starkville.
Sunday Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday Bible School 7 p.m.
Rev. Greg and Rev. Michelle Mostella, Pastors. 662-617-
4088
TRUE GOSPEL EVANGELISTIC MINISTRY — 2119
7th. Ave. N., Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m.,
Tuesday Bible Study 6:30 p.m. Clyde and Annie Edwards,
Pastors.
TRUE LIFE WORSHIP CENTER — 597 Main St.,
Caledonia. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 5
p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Eugene O’Mary, Pastor.
SHELTON’S TOWING, INC.
TRUEVINE CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER MINISTRIES
Since 1960
— 5450 Cal-Kolola Rd, Caledonia. Sunday School 9:30 24 Hour Towing
a.m., Worship 10:45 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Pastor
Francisco Brock, Sr. 662-356-8252
1024 Gardner Blvd.
UNITED FAITH INTER-DENOMINATIONAL MINISTRIES 328-8277
— 1701 22nd Street North, Columbus. Sunday Worship
8:30 a.m. -10 a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m.-7 p.m.
Rone F. Burgin, Sr., Pastor/Founder. 662-328-0948
VIBRANT CHURCH — 500 Holly Hills Rd. Sunday 9 a.m.,
10:15 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. The Grove Coffee Cafe 8 a.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m. The Grove 6:30 p.m. Nursery provided
through age 3. Jason Delgado, Pastor. 662-329-2279
WORD IN ACTION MINISTRY CHRISTIAN CENTER —
2648 Tom St., Sturgis. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship
11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Curtis Davis, Pastor. 662-230-
3182 or mdavis43@hotmail.com
ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN
ST. CATHERINE ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHURCH —
725 4th Ave. N. Visit www.stcatherineorthodox.com for
schedule of services and updates on this Mission.
APOSTOLIC PENTECOSTAL
APOSTOLIC OUTREACH CHURCH — 204 North McCrary
Rd., Prayer/Inspiration Hour Monday 6 p.m. Danny L.
Obsorne, Pastor.
DIVINE DESTINY APOSTOLIC CHURCH — 2601 14th
Ave. N. Sunday School 10:30 a.m., Worship 12 p.m.,
Tuesday Bible Class 7:30 p.m. Pastor Easter Robertson.
JESUS CHRIST POWERFUL MINISTRY OF LOVE —
1210 17th St. S., behind the Dept. of Human Resources.
Sunday School 10:30 a.m., Friday 7:30 p.m. Gloria Jones,
Pastor.
SPIRIT OF PRAYER HOLINESS CHURCH — 267 Byrnes
Circle. Sunday Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m.,
Saturday 11 a.m. Terry Outlaw, Pastor. 662-324-3539
THE ASSEMBLY IN JESUS CHRIST CHURCH — 1504
19th St. N. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11:45 a.m. and
7 p.m., Wednesday and Friday 7 p.m.
THE CHURCH OF THE ETERNAL WORD — 106 22nd St.
S. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11:30 a.m., Tuesday
Bible Study 7 p.m., Thursday Prayer 5 p.m. District Elder
Lou J. Nabors Sr., Pastor. 662-329-1234
THE GLORIOUS CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST — Billy
Kidd Road, Caledonia. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship
11:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.. Tuesday 7 p.m., Friday 7 p.m.
Ernest Thomas, Pastor.
VICTORY APOSTOLIC FAITH CHURCH — 6 6 Boyd Rd.,
Starkville. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship Noon, Tuesday
Prayer 7 p.m., Wednesday Bible Study 7 p.m. Mildred
Spencer, Pastor. 662-341-5753
ONENESS PENTECOSTAL
NEW HOPE PENTECOSTAL CHURCH — 875 Richardson
Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., 6 p.m.,
Tuesday 7 p.m. Jared Glover, Pastor. 662-251-3747 E-mail:
nhpccolumbus@yahoo.com
PENTECOSTAL
FAITH AND DELIVERANCE OUT REACH MINISTRIES —
118 S. McCrary Road, Suite 126. Sunday 10 a.m. and 11
a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Christian Women Meeting Friday
7 p.m.
LIVING FAITH TABERNACLE — Shelton St. Sunday
School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Youth
Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Rev. James O. Gardner, Pastor.
LIVING WATER MINISTRIES — 622 28th St. N. Elder
Robert L. Salter, Pastor. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship
11 a.m., Wednesday 7:30 p.m., Friday 7:30 p.m.
SPIRIT OF PRAYER HOLINESS CHURCH — 922 17th St.
N. Sunday 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m., Saturday 11 a.m.
Terry Outlaw, Pastor,
VICTORY TABERNACLE P.C.G. — 548 Hwy. 45 North
Frontage Rd. (1/4 mile past the CAFB entrance on the
right) Sunday Bible Class 10:15 a.m., Worship 10:45 a.m.,
Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m. G. E. Wiggins, Sr., Pastor.
662-251-2432
1721 Hwy 45 N
UNITED PENTECOSTAL ® Columbus, MS
CALEDONIA UNITED PENTECOSTAL CHURCH — 5850 662.848.0919
Caledonia Kolola Rd., Caledonia. Sunday 10 a.m., 6 p.m.,
Monday-Saturday 10am-8pm
Wednesday 7 p.m. Grant Mitchell, Pastor. 662-356-0202
In Style. In Reach. Sunday 1pm-5pm
FIRST PENTECOSTAL CHURCH — 311 Tuscaloosa
TRINITY PLACE
Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Sunday Evangelistic 6p.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Steve Blaylock, Pastor. 662-328-
RETIREMENT COMMUNITY
1750
PRESBYTERIAN
BEERSHEBA CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN Offering independent living apartments, personal
CHURCH — 1736 Beersheba Rd., New Hope Community. care/assisted living suites, and a skilled nursing home
Rev. Tim Lee, Pastor. Sunday Worship 10 a.m., Church 300 Airline Road • Columbus, MS • 327-6716
School 11:15 a.m., Wed. Mid Week 6 p.m. 662-327-9615 “Our Bottom Line Is People”
COVENANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (EPC) — 515
Lehmberg Rd., East Columbus. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Hunting • Fishing
Working Or Stepping Out — We Have A Complete
Worship 10:30 a.m., Wednesday Prayer Meeting 4 p.m. Line Of Clothing For You And Your Family
John Richards, Pastor.
FIRST CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — Oktibbeha County Co-Op
Check Out Our Boot & Cap Section
2698 Ridge Rd. Sunday School 9:15 a.m., Worship 10:30
a.m., Adult Choir 4 p.m. Youth Group 5 p.m., Bible Study 5 662-323-1742
p.m.; Monthly Activities: CPW Circle #2 (2nd Tue. 4 p.m.), 201 Pollard Rd., Starkville
Ladies Aid (3rd Tue. 2 p.m.); Weekly Activities: Exercise
Class Tuesday and Thursday 8 a.m. Rev. Luke Lawson,
Pastor. 662-328-2692
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — 3200 Bluecutt Rd.
Worship 10 a.m., Youth Group Sundays 11 a.m., Adult Choir
Wednesdays 6 p.m., Fellowship Suppers-3rd Wednesdays
6 p.m. Rev. Wayne Bruchey, Pastor.
MAIN STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (PCA) — Main
and 7th St. N. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:40
a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday Fellowship Supper 5:30 p.m.,
Bible Study 6 p.m. Rev. Todd Matocha, Pastor.
MT. ZION CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH —
3044 Wolfe Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.
SALVATION ARMY CHURCH
THE SALVATION ARMY CHURCH — 2219 Hwy. 82
East. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship Service 11 a.m.,
Wednesday Men’s Fellowship, Women’s Fellowship 5:30
p.m., Thursday Character Building Programs 5:30 p.m.,
Majors Alan and Sheryl Phillips, Commanding Officers.
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST
COLUMBUS SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH —
301 Brooks Dr. Saturday Service 9 a.m., Sabbath School
The McBryde Family
10:30 a.m., Wednesday Prayer Meeting 6:30 p.m. Ray
Elsberry, Pastor. 662-329-4311
SALEM SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST — 826 15th St. N.
1120 Gardner Blvd. • 328-5776
Saturday Sabbath School 9:30 a.m., Divine Worship 11
a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Roscoe Shields, Pastor. 662-
327-9729
APOSTOLIC CHURCH
TRUE FAITH DELIVERANCE MINISTRIES APOSTOLIC
CHURCH — 3632 Hwy. 182 E. Sunday School 10:30 a.m., • RECYCLING SINCE 1956 •
Sunday 11:30 a.m., Tuesday 7:30 p.m., Wednesday Prayer Specializing in industrial accounts
Noon, Wednesday 7:30 p.m., Friday 7:30 p.m. 662-328-8176 973 Island Rd. 1-800-759-8570
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Chief Marshal
with Truck & Lowboy
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truck. 17". $100.
662-364-2498.
shelf. 4 shelves. Light
color wood. $30 neg. or services?
removal. Offering spe- load, haul, & unload Lg. rectangle oak dining

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priced solicitations for washing and mobile sure washing & sheet Chief Marshal to work travel required. Only ALL WOOD King size
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underpinning. No job
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Free Estimates
Call 435-6528
needed, and is respons- clean MVR, current
ible for supervising all
marshal department
medical examiner’s
certificate and no acci-
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ceived until 9:00 a.m. metal roofing, painting the daily activities of the masters@yahoo.com
officers while providing Kubota Bush hog avail.
on Wednesday, January & all home repairs. 205-329-1790.
30, 2019, at the Admin- 662-242-3471 for the protection of MICHELIN TIRES, 2,
istration Office, Stu- lives and property, pre- Shop 235/50, 17". Good
dent Union Building, vention of crime and en- condition. $80.
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Mordecai) or by elec- Restoration, Remodel- ALLSTUMP GRINDING town limits. The Chief
tronic submission at ing, Repair, Insurance SERVICE Marshal will be held ac-
www.centralauction- claims. 662-364-1769. GET 'ER DONE! countable to the Mayor
house.com. Submis- Licensed & Bonded We can grind all your and Board of Alderper-
sions will be evaluated, stumps. Hard to reach sons for the effective
places, blown over delivery of police ser-
and vendors submitting General Services 1360 vices to the town.
acceptable proposals roots, hillsides, back-
will be invited to parti- yards, pastures. Free
EXPERIENCED Submit applications,
cipate in the Electronic CAREGIVER estimates. You find it,
we'll grind it! complete with resume
Reverse Auction to be in need of work. and salary require-
held on Thursday, Janu- *Day/Night 662-361-8379
ments to:
ary 31, 2019, at Contact 662-574-5181.
www.centralauction- Ref. on Request. Town of Caledonia
house.com. Tree Services 1860 Attn: Lindy Thomason
A&T Tree Service PO Box 100
Information about the FREE TRAINING for Caledonia MS. 39740

Grow
specific items in the re- Bucket truck & stump
JOB SEEKING WOMEN; removal. Free est. townhall@cableone.net
verse auction may be COMPUTER TRAINING, fax: 662-356-4117
obtained by contacting Serving Columbus
RESUME WRITING, & IN- since 1987. Senior
Brandon Sesser at
(662) 243-1946 or
TERVIEW SKILLS; citizen disc. Call Alvin @ Deadline for applica-
bsesser@eastms.edu.
Tues & Thurs Evening 242-0324/241-4447 tions is January 23,
This information will
classes start February "We'll go out on a limb 2019.
5th. Enroll now at Chris- for you!"
also be made available tian Women's Job Medical / Dental 3300
online by visiting our Corps. Min H.S. Dip-
website at loma or Equivalent re- HELP WANTED
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quired. Call 662-722-
/bids or www.centralbid- SERVICE, LLC CARE CENTER OF
3016 or 662-597-1030
ding.com. Tree trimming and re- ABERDEEN
moval. Fully insured.
For questions relating to PAINTING/CARPENTRY Free estimates. RN SUPERVISOR

your business
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cess, please contact & Debit Cards*
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810-4814. or 662-549-2902 LPN 11P - 7A
“A cut above the rest”
The East Mississippi RETAINER WALL, drive- Apply in person at
Community College way, foundation, con- Care Center
Board of Trustees re- General Help Wanted 3200 505 Jackson St,
crete, masonry restora-
serves the right to re- tion, remodeling, base- Aberdeen
ject any or all bids and PART TIME OFFICE EOE
ment foundation, re- ADMIN/SECRETARY
to negotiate with the pairs, small dump truck
lowest/best bidder. EM- hauling (5-6 yd) load & needed for
small church. Professional 3500
CC reserves the right to demolition/lot cleaning.
award the bid as a Monday & Wednesday,
Burr Masonry 16 hours per week. MS NOTARY seeks an
whole or by individual
line item.
662-242-0259. Tech and social media attorney to collect her
personal files, notes,

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skills required.
For more info, call and court orders. Addi-
East Mississippi Com- WORK WANTED: tional tasks may be
munity College is com- 662-574-1972
Licensed & Bonded-car- needed. Respond:
mitted to assuring that pentry, painting, & de- ATTORNEY
the College and its pro- molition. Landscaping, HEAVY EQUIPMENT
PO Box 2031
grams are free from dis- gutters cleaned, bush SERVICE MECHANIC
Columbus, MS 39704
crimination and harass- hogging, clean-up work, with verifiable experi-
ment based upon race, pressure washing, mov- ence, own tools and
color, ethnicity, sex, clean MVR. Submit
ing help & furniture
pregnancy, religion, na- repair. 662-242-3608 resume by fax to Let your
tional origin, disability, 662-492-4490
age, sexual orientation, or email to: jm.site fingers do the
Lawn Care / Landscaping masters@yahoo.com
gender identity, genetic
information, status as a 1470 walking.
U.S. veteran, or any oth-
er status protected by JESSE & BEVERLY'S CONTRACTOR SEEKING
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state or federal law. The LAWN SERVICE. Mow- experienced carpenter dream job in
following person has ing, cleanup, landscap- with lots of experience.
been designated to ing, sodding, & tree cut- Please call:
handle inquiries regard- ting. 356-6525. 662-570-9464 for info.
the classifieds! What do you need to plant the seeds
ing the non-discrimina-
tion policies: Theresa
Harpole, Director of Hu-
man Resources, P.O.
Medical / Dental 3300 for a successful business — ofce space, equipment,
Box 158, Scooba, MS
39358, Telephone:
(662)-476-5274, E-mail:
transportation, employees, CUSTOMERS?
tharpole@eastms.edu.

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General Merchandise 4600
APPLE COMPUTERS
Two 2009 iMac com-
puters available. Good
working condition.
Would be good for ba-
sic web browsing or
word processing. 2Ghz;
2 GB RAM; 250 GB HD.
Computer and built-in
monitor only; mouse
and keyboard not in-
cluded. $50 each.
Call 662-574-1561
H&H tool box for stand-
ard size truck. $195.
Call 662-889-2116.
BASS BOAT, 15ft, 70hp
Yamaha.
Riding mowers - 2.
Garden Tiller.
662-418-8984 or 662-
552-1400.
Lawn & Garden 4630
RED OAK & White Oak
Firewood For Sale. Pull
behind leaf rake for
$150. 662-242-7455.
Sporting Goods 4720
ED SANDERS Gunsmith
Open for season! 9-5,
Tues-Fri & 9-12, Sat.
Over 50 years experi-
ence! Repairs, cleaning,
refinishing, scopes
mounted & zeroed,
handmade knives.
Located: Hwy 45 Alt,
North of West Point,
turn right on Yokahama
Blvd, 8mi & turn left on
Darracott Rd, will see
sign, 2.5mi ahead shop
on left. 662-494-6218.
Business Opportunity 6050
HISTORIC DOWNTOWN
Columbus: 411 Main
St. Office, Retail, Res-
taurant Space available.
Call 423-333-1124.
Apts For Rent: Northside 7010
520 11TH Street North-
2BR/1BA, updated,
brick, central H&A, ap-
pliances, flooring, paint.
$450/month. NO pets.
NO HUD. Credit check.
Call Long & Long, Re-
altors @ 662-328-0770.
Available NOW.
FOX RUN COMPANY LLC
1 & 2 BR near hospital.
$595-645/mo. Military
discount offered, pet
area, pet friendly, and
furnished corporate
apartments available.
ON SITE SECURITY.
ON SITE MAINTENANCE.
ON SITE MANAGEMENT.
24-HOUR CAMERA
SURVEILLANCE.
DOWNTOWN: 2BR/1BA,
Benji @ 662-386-4446 CH&A, 1 story, W/D,
Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm.
historic district, 1 block
Sat/Sun by appt only. from downtown, $625/
mo. + $625 dep. NO
PEAR ORCHARD APTS PETS. 662-574-8789.
2BR Townhouse - $585, Peaceful & Quiet area.
W/D incl. Great loca-
tion. $200 processing
fee & $50 application
FIRST FULL MONTH
fee. 662-328-9471 or RENT FREE! 1 & 2 Bed-
662-889-7565.
room Apts/Townhomes.
Stove & refrigerator.
Apts For Rent: West 7050 $335-$600 Monthly.
Credit check & deposit.
VIP
Coleman Realty,
662-329-2323.
Rentals
Apartments
& Houses
1 Bedrooms
2 Bedroooms
3 Bedrooms
Furnished &
Unfurnished
1, 2, & 3 Baths
Lease, Deposit
& Credit Check
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327-8555
Apts For Rent: Other 7080
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Apts For Rent: Caledonia 7060 Apts For Rent: Other 7080 Houses For Rent: Northside Houses For Sale: West 8350
7110
3BR/1BA Duplex. No FSBO: 3BR/2BA in May-
Smoking. No Pets. 1 yr.
lease. $550/month +
COLEMAN HOUSE WITH APART- hew, 1551 Garth Rd.
Close to Columbus,
deposit. 662-356-4958 RENTALS MENT NEAR MUW.
Starkville & West Point.
TOWNHOUSES & APARTMENTS 323 13th St. N. 3 Blks
or 662-574-0227. from MUW. L/r, d/r, New HVAC, 1.7 acres,
1 BEDROOM b/r, kitchen, large f/r large metal bldg incl.
$139,000. 662-418-
w/ fireplace, 2BR/3BA.
Apts For Rent: Other 7080 2 BEDROOMS Laundry room, outside 8984 or 662-552-1400.
1BR/1BA Apts for rent. 3 BEDROOMS fenced patio, screened
Investment Property 8550
College Manor Apts, dir- side porch & work room
WITH ATTACHED APART-
ectly across from MUW. LEASE,
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MENT B/r, d/r, kitchen GRAVEL FOR SALE on
Completely renovated, private property. Approx
incl granite countertops, DEPOSIT & bathroom. NO HUD.
6 acres. Will sell or
SS appls & W/D. 12 mo Ref. req. Dep. req.
lease, dep req, $650/ AND Pets allowed w/ extra lease property located
dep. $1075/mo. in NE Noxubee County.
mo. 662-425-3817. CREDIT CHECK 662-386-7506. 601-405-3717.
Lots & Acreage 8600
2BR/1BA located in 662-329-2323 Mobile Homes for Rent 7250
Historic Downtown 1.7 Acres on Hwy 12.
Columbus. 2,000 sqft. 3BR/2BA Trailer, New Excellent building site,
Hardwood floors 2411 HWY 45 N Hope school dist. cleared. Close to gas
throughout. Open floor. $500/mo & $500 dep. plant, Caledonia school
Very nice. Incl W&D.
COLUMBUS, MS Call between 10a-7p. district. $15,000.
$1200/mo. Call 662-386-4292. 662-356-6035.
662-328-8655. NO TEXT MESSAGES.
Commercial Property For 2.28 +/- Acre Lot.
Rent 7100 149 Tanyia Lane. Off of
NICE 3BR/2BA MH in Lake Lowndes Road.
COMMERCIAL PROPER- Has asphalt drive &
West Lowndes school
TIES/Retail/Office district. $485/mo + parking, 1200 ft. shop
Spaces starting @ w/ living area, septic
$485 dep. 662-242-
$285/mo. Downtown & 7653 or 662-308-7781. tank & water meter. No
East Columbus loca- trailers. $45,000. Call
tions. 662-435-4188. 662-574-0345.
RENT A fully equipped LAMAR CO. 99+/-
OFFICE FOR RENT. camper w/utilities & acres. Near Kennedy.
30x15. Separate air cable from $145/wk - Paved Rd. Small creek,
$535/month. Colum-
conditioner & bathroom. timber. $198,000.
$400/mo. Located in bus & County School 662-327-2656.
locations. 662-242-
Caledonia. Call 662-
7653 or 601-940-1397. LOWNDES COUNTY 45
574-0082.
acres on Sobley & Dav-
is Rd. Excellent hunting.
Rooms For Rent 7450 1 mile west of Hwy. 69.
OFFICE SPACE: 2,000
Small creek runs thru
square feet. 294 WEST POINT:
Chubby Dr. Flexible leas- property. $1375 per
Room - $120/wk. acre. 205-799-9846 or
ing terms. Available Furnished w/ furn., 205-695-2248.
1, 2, 3 BEDROOM apart- now. 662-328-8254.
ments & townhouses. appl, utilities & cable.
Call for more info. 662-295-4701. WINTER SPECIAL
662-328-8254. HISTORIC DOWNTOWN 1.95 acre lots.
Columbus Office, Retail, Houses For Sale: Northside
Good/bad credit.
10% down, as low as
DOWNTOWN LOFT.
Restaurant Space avail-
able. Call 662-328- 8150 $299/mo. Eaton Land.
Very big, nice 1 bed- 8655 or 662-574-7879.
CONVENIENT 3BR/2BA
662-361-7711
room. Wood floors, lots 512 Lincoln Rd. New Mobile Homes for Sale 8650
of windows. $700 per Houses For Rent: Northside paint, flooring, brick
month. Call Stewart, 7110 shop, fenced backyard NEW 2017, 16x80 MH
662-364-1610. & patio. Zoned commer- @ The Grove, Colum-
2BR HOUSE. Stove, ref., cial, can be home/of- bus. 3BR/2BA, never
w/d hookup, window fice. Call 662-328-9634 lived in, can be moved.
NEWLY RENOVATED a/c, heat electric. for more information. New Hope Sch. Dist.
3-4BR/1.5BA. Large $485/mo. Lease- $29k. 662-769-2565.
backyard, HUD accep- dep.+credit check. Cole-
ted duplex apartment man Realty. 329-2323. Houses For Sale: Southside Autos For Sale 9150
at 1010 6th Ave. N.
Call 662-425-0332.
COLONIAL TOWN-
8300
2BR/1BA Gas stove &
1965 MUSTANG, Red,
Automatic, 6cyl, A/C &
HOUSES. 2 & 3 bed- heat. Move-in ready. 1 power steering. ACROSS
room w/ 2-3 bath town- BR Apt. attached that $16,000.
houses. $600 to $695. needs work. $21,000. 662-386-2367. 1 Hoosegow
662-549-9555. Ask for 417 17th St. S.
1991 MERCEDES 500
5 Swirly prints
Glenn or text. Call 662-327-8712.
SL. Serviced as re- 10 Lucy’s brother
Houses For Sale: Other 8500 quired. 106k miles, 12 Scrooge, for one
2 tops. Excellent buy!
$12,500. 662-356- 13 Saw
6035. 14 Biscotti flavor
2013 CHEVY Cruze. 15 Quick taste
Good condition. 100k
miles. Black, 4-door. 16 Mess up
$5,450. Call Ed @ 18 Chess piece
662-574-0082.
19 Asian entertainer
SUPER CHARGED 2004
Monte Carlo SS. Dale
21 Battery unit
Jr. Signature Edition. 22 Spade, for one
$3500. 662-570-2601. 24 Provinces
Campers & RVs 9300 25 Faulty
TOMBIGBEE RV Park,
29 Driving sport
located on Wilkins Wise 30 Duds
Rd & Waverly Rd. Full 32 Band blaster
Hookups available.
$300/mo. 662-328- 33 Sis’s sib 5 Poet Khayyám 27 Llama’s cousin
8655 or 662-574-7879. 34 Fare carrier 6 Sewing aid 28 Pencil part
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