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Kids explore science, skill trades

MSMS Science FORGE Foundation exposes teens to construction jobs
Carnival shows
elementary students
science experiments
BY TESS VRBIN
tvrbin@cdispatch.com

Students from Joe Cook Elementary

School lined up around the table in the
Pohl Gymnasium on Mississippi Univer-
sity for Women’s campus Wednesday,
watching a machine that resembled a
Ferris wheel rotate to conduct electric-
ity.
William Sutton, a Monticello native
and a senior at the Mississippi School
for Mathematics and Science, put one
hand on the machine, and one of the
children agreed to do the same. Sutton
told the rest to step away from the table.
“It’s not going to hurt, but we’re try-
ing to focus as much electrical energy
between this circuit,” Sutton said.
The elementary students watched
with rapt attention as the boy that vol-
unteered felt a sudden electric shock
by touching fingertips with Sutton as
the machine turned. He and his fellow
students laughed and
hollered as he shook the Jennifer Mosbrucker/Dispatch Staff

feeling out of his hand.
The girl who went next
laughed even harder when
the shock popped between
her and Sutton.
The static electricity
station was one of eight Odom
science-related stations
at the annual MSMS Science Carnival
on MUW’s campus Wednesday morn-
ing. Others included demonstrations
of inertia, the metric system, chemical
compounds and how to interact with an-
imals.
The event hosted second- and third-
grade students from nine area schools.
Seven came from within Lowndes
County: Joe Cook, Fairview Elementa-
ry, Stokes-Beard Elementary, Sale Ele-
mentary, Columbus Christian Academy,
Heritage Academy and Franklin Acade-
my. Students also came from West Clay
Elementary School in Cedarbluff and
Reform Elementary School just across
the border in Alabama.
MSMS is a public boarding school
on the MUW campus for juniors and
seniors in high school from all over the
state who show particular skill and in-
terest in the areas of science, technolo-
gy, engineering and math (STEM). The
school has held the science carnival for
the past two decades, and between 800
and 1,300 elementary school students
attend every year, MSMS biology teach-
er Bill Odom said.
The entire student body of about 230
See MSMS, 3A
New Hope Middle School students Skyler Bell, 13, left, and Jazmin Ross, 13, learn about welding from West Point
Career Technical Center student Wesley Gaskin, 17, during the FORGE Foundation’s career expo Wednesday at East
Mississippi Community College’s Communiversity. Gaskin is in his third year of welding classes.
By Slim Smith
ssmith@cdispatch.com
Down the hall to-
Inside
ward the back of East n OUR VIEW:
Mississippi Community Job skills train-
College’s Communiver- ing for children
sity, a group of young can make ed-
ucation more
teens rushed toward a relevant.
man holding a big bowl Page 6A
filled with small orange
objects.
“Is that candy?” shouted one of the
kids, among the more than 1,000 Gold-
en Triangle eighth-graders who de-
scended on the new vocational skills
center as part of the first FORGE Foun-
dation Career Expo.
It wasn’t candy, but earplugs.
Even so, Wednesday’s event, fea-
turing booths and activities from 10
construction-related companies and a
half-dozen technical schools and sup- Jennifer Mosbrucker/Dispatch Staff
port organizations, was a treat on Hal- Jahmyah Jones, 14, sketches at the JBHM Architecture booth during the FORGE
loween Eve. Foundation career expo on Wednesday at East Mississippi Community College’s
“This is pretty cool,” said Curtis Mc- Communiversity. Jones is in the eighth grade at Columbus Middle School.
Donald, a student from New Hope Mid-
dle School. “I like hanging the drywall bles where they were exposed to a wide Each organization had representa-
and it was cool learning about how to range of jobs. Waters Truck and Trailer tives on hand to talk about the types of
drive the road grader. That was a lot of brought a tow truck, and Burns Dirt a jobs their companies provided, but the
fun. I could probably do something like road grader — a piece of equipment most popular were those that featured
this as a job when I get out of school. ” used to level roads before paving them. hands-on activities.
Students filed through the halls of Students took turns climbing into the Students drew blueprints at a table
the Community Center, stopping at ta- cab of the massive machine. See FORGE Foundation, 3A

98 Halloweens and Miss Myrtle is still having fun

By Slim Smith
ssmith@cdispatch.com
Only a few of the resi-
dents at Trinity Place Per-
sonal Care wore costumes
at its Halloween party
Thursday afternoon, but
you better believe Myrtle
Waldrop was one of them.
“I love Halloween,”
she said softly. “I always
have.”
For Miss Myrtle, “al-
ways” covers almost a
century. She is 98 years
old.
She was sitting in the
dining room, enjoying
a visit from her niece,
Martha Waller, who had
driven down from Amory
to join the festivities. At
any given time, 20 or so
of the 57 residents sat in
the dining room, nibbled
on snacks provided by the
Lowndes County Repub-
lican Women, listened to
music that played through
the P.A. system and chat-
ted among themselves.
“I like everything
about Halloween,” Wal-
drop said, as lights
blinked from her wig,
which appeared to be
something like a Medusa,
although Waldrop wasn’t
entirely sure.
“I don’t know what it
is,” she said. “Do you like
it?”
The consensus was
yes. Waldrop won the
prize for “Best Costume.”
She also won the prize
for “Sweetest Resident.”
Neither was much of a
surprise.
“She’s just the sweet-
est person,” Waller said.
“She’s been that way all
See Award, 3A

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A weekly photo exploration of life

FOCAL POINT inside the Golden Triangle

64 cents per pound

From the field to the gin: A look at cotton’s journey
Written and photographed by Jennifer Mosbrucker/Dispatch Staff

TOP: Clark Blaine reaches underneath

a cotton picker to unclog the spindles
that grab cotton in one of Matt Brignac’s
fields on Oct. 18 off Plymouth Road near
Columbus. The cotton picker bales cot-
ton in round modules. ABOVE: Cotton
on the exposed side of a round module
starts to sag from recent rain. This fall’s
weather has slowed down some cotton
farmers’ attempts to harvest their crops.
RIGHT: Kenton Mast keeps an eye on
the gin’s main control board at Bogue
Chitto Gin Inc. near Brooksville. As the
gin separated cotton, Mast sprayed
compressed air near the teeth to ensure
lint and seeds were able to separate.

5,000
Number of round modules Bogue Chitto
Gin will process every two weeks

500 lbs.
Weight of a ginned bale of cotton

110
Number of regional farmers who use
Bogue Chitto Gin

ABOVE: The Bogue Chitto

Gin Inc office and a portion
of the modules in inventory
can be seen in this photo.
RIGHT: Jerel Yoder checks
the weight of the seed truck
before driving it to Aberdeen
where the seeds will be put
on a railcar. The truck must
weigh less than 84,000
pounds. FAR RIGHT: After
being separated from the
lint, cotton seeds are piled in
another building. The seeds
are later sold to be used in
cattle feed.
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Award
Continued from Page 1A
her life. She spent most of her
life in Greenwood Springs, Al-
abama, in a house on a hill. It
was the place all the kids went.
She’d make popcorn balls for
them or peanut butter and jel-
ly sandwiches. Everybody just
loved her.”
Waldrop likely inherited
that sense of joy from her
mom, who never wasted an op-
portunity to have fun.
“On Halloween, oh, we did
everything,” she said. “We had
so much fun.”
As a child growing up on a
farm near Reform, Alabama,
Waldrop said store-bought can-
dy that is now a staple of Hal-
loween was a rarity. Instead,
her mother made the candy
she would distribute each Hal-
loween.
“Mama would be in the
kitchen, making candy and she
would squirt stuff all over the
floor, all over the place,” Wal-
drop remembered. “She didn’t
care. She was having fun. Dad-
dy would try to help her, but he
couldn’t stand the mess.”
Across the way, Madge Ivie,
88, sat along the wall, visiting
with Elaine Smith. Smith is
a caregiver for one of the res-
idents, Mary Ann Cole, who
was napping, so she sat with
Ivie and the two watched the
scene before them.
Miss Madge didn’t bother
to wear a costume, though. It
was never much of a part of her
Myrtle Waldrop,
Halloween celebrations when
98, enjoys a visit
she was growing up in Monroe with her niece,
County, she said. Martha Waller
“We didn’t really dress up all of Amory, during
that much,” she said. “But we Thursday’s Hallow-
did have fun. You know what een Party at Trinity
we did? We went around to all Place Personal
Care. Waldrop won
the houses and soaped the win- prizes for both
dows. That was the thing back “Best Costume”
then. That was the fun part.” and “Sweetest
Smith seemed to enjoy the Resident” during
festivities as much, if not more, the afternoon par-
than the residents. ty. The Lowndes
“They’re just wonderful,” County Republican
Women provided
she said. “I’m a caregiver for snacks for the 57
just one of the ladies, but I have residents of the
to tell you, they’re all just as facility.
sweet as they can be.” Slim Smith/Dispatch Staff

MSMS
Continued from Page 1A
participates in the event,
whether they interacted
directly with the children
at each station, serve as
greeters and guides for
the visiting teachers and
students, or set up and
clean up the gym before
and afterward, Odom
said. The students that
worked the stations took
shifts during the five-
hour event.
The school instructs
its students on how to ef-
fectively teach the kids,
and many already MSMS
students volunteer at
Boys and Girls Club or
tutor Franklin Academy
students, Odom said. He
also recruits students to
help put on the Missis-
sippi Regional Middle
School Science Bowl ev-
ery year.
“It helps for them to
be involved in trying to
talk to these younger
kids and realize the chal-
lenges of that directive,”
Odom said.
Sutton also showed
the younger students
a magnet composed of
a nail wrapped in wire
and attached to batter-
ies at both ends, which
he used to pick up paper
clips. Giving children a
foundational explanation
of scientific processes
like electricity earlier
in their lives will make
it easier and less intimi-
dating for them to learn
those things down the
road, Sutton said.
“It creates an educa-
tion system where kids
learn as they grow, which
is what we need,” he said.
‘Something that will
spark an interest’
At the microbiology
station, the kids were
told to touch small pom-
poms covered in lotion
that glows under ultra-
violet light, represent-
ing germs on dirty sur-
faces. They used hand
sanitizer and saw under
the UV light that not
all of the “germs” were
gone, MSMS senior and
Starkville native Linda
Arnoldus said.
Arnoldus was a guide
at last year’s carnival but
wanted to facilitate a sta-
tion in order to interact
with the children more
directly this year, she
said.
Another station
showed how the chem-
ical compound sodium
polyacrylate absorbs wa-
ter to become waterlock
gel, and another demon-
strated the difference
between hydrophilic and
hydrophobic materials,
which determines how
they react to contact with
water.
Unsurprisingly, the
children were most excit-
ed to visit the veterinary
station, where fourth-
year Mississippi State
University vet student
Anne Elise Hertl had
brought her two dogs, a
black terrier mix named
Ginger and a golden lab-
rador mix named Bjorn.
The children were taught
how to safely approach
an animal and gauge its
demeanor, Hertl said.
The MSU vet station
became part of the Sci-
ence Carnival a few years
Jennifer Mosbrucker/Dispatch Staff
ABOVE: Jasmine Van Velkinburgh, 16, and Claire
Justis, 16, watch Bernie, a California Kingsnake,
move around his enclosure during the MSMS Science
Carnival Wednesday at Pohl Gymnasium on Missis-
sippi University for Women’s campus. Bernie belongs
to Mississippi State University vet student Savannah
Matthews who brought him for students to look at.
LEFT: From left, Kameron Kidd, 9, KeJuan Jackson,
9, teacher Danza Thomason and Jacoby Edwards, 9,
Jennifer Mosbrucker/Dispatch Staff react to an inertia activity taught by Mississippi School
for Mathematics and Science students Tejus Kotika-
ago, clinical instructor
Cooper Brookshire said.
lapudi and Chandler Bryant, both 16, during the MSMS
Science Carnival Wednesday at Mississippi University
“We’re really inter- for Women. The activity demonstrated inertia as the
ested in mentoring at metal pan was moved from underneath plastic eggs.
the vet school, and right Although the pan moved in one direction, the eggs fell
now vet students teach straight down.
MSMS students about
veterinary medicine, and
MSMS students teach the
elementary students,” he
said.
Cook Elementary’s
science curriculum in-
cludes “a lot of hands-
on activities,” but the
Science Carnival expos-
es them to things they
wouldn’t see in their own
classrooms, third-grade
teacher Tamra Harrison
said.
“They would never get
to do this, so it’s definite-
ly something that will
spark an interest if they
didn’t already have one,”
she said.

FORGE Foundation
Continued from Page 1A
operated by JBHM Archi-
tecture, pedaled station-
ary bicycles to generate
power to light a bulb at the
Mississippi Construction
Education Foundation ex-
hibit, competed with oth-
er students to drive nails
into a 2x4, helped build a
brick wall at the Colum-
bus Brick exhibit, drove
screws into sheet rock at
the Graham Roofing sta-
tion and tried their hands
at a dozen other activities
that kept them engaged.
“It’s going really well,”
said FORGE Foundation
member Katie McCrary,
who owns McCrary West
Construction with her
husband Lu. “The kids
are having fun. They’re
loving the masonry wall
or finishing concrete be-
cause they’ve never seen
it. Today was all about ex-
posure.”
The need for skill trade
The FORGE Founda-
tion, an acronym for Fam-
ily Organizations Recruit-
ing Great Employees, was
founded in early 2018 by a
group of eight local busi-
hire so we were stealing
them from one another,”
McCrary said. “So we all
decided to sit down and
work together. Small busi-
nesses can offer this next
generation a lot.”
Christee Holbrook,
co-owner of Graham Roof-
ing, said that common is-
sue wasn’t the only factor
in bringing the group to-
gether.
At the time, the Lown-
des County School Dis-
trict was putting the fin-
ishing touches on its $11
million Career Tech Cen-
ter while the $42 million
Communiversity was well
on its way to completion.
“We were raising our
hand, saying don’t forget
us,” Holbrook said. “We
all love having all this big
manufacturing, so our
message was, ‘Hey, we’re
struggling to find employ-
ees. Where can we fit into
this?’ That’s what brought
us together. This wouldn’t
have happened 20 years
ago.”
McCrary said the
FORGE Foundation
doesn’t consider itself a
Mississippi kids will get Wednesday’s event
a two-year or four-year was a collaboration be-
degree of some kind. tween the FORGE Foun-
So our question is, what dation, EMCC and The
happens to the 73 per- Mississippi Construction
cent who don’t? Who are Education Foundation.
these kids? What are they
doing? Next year, there
will be over a million skill
trade jobs open in the
United States and 97 per-
cent of construction firms
are currently hiring. If we
don’t start changing these
kids now, who is going to
work for us? That’s basi-
cally where we are. Skill
trade-wise, it’s becoming
a lost art.”
While Wednesday’s
event was primarily about
exposing kids to the skill
trades, it was also useful
for the FORGE Founda-
tion.
“We’re going to sit
down after this is over
and talk about what we’ve
grasped from all this,”
McCrary said.
Part of that effort came
from the Mississippi Sec-
retary of State’s Office,
which set up six voting
booths allowing students
to cast ballots. SOLUNAR TABLE
The solunar period indicates

nesses in construction-re- competitor of large-scale McCrary said the bal- peak-feeding times for fish and game.
Sat. Sun.
lated fields — APAC of industry and manufactur- lot was used to collect Major
Minor
5:28a
1:12p
6:20
1:59p
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Minor 10:42p —
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of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks
Roofing, McCrary West In its two years, the gauging their interests

Construction, Thomp-
son Welding Services,
TRONOX, Waters Truck
and Tractor and West
Brothers Construction.
“We came together be-
cause all of us are small
businesses and we could
not find employees to
FORGE Foundation has
hammered that message
home and McCrary said
she’s beginning see the
fruits of that effort.
“We are starting to
see that mindset change,”
McCrary said. “The latest
data shows 27 percent of
in five skill trades — and
whether they planned
to stay in the state upon
graduation.
“This was the first
time doing this, so we
think we’ll get a lot of
good information,” Mc-
Crary said.
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Joanne Henderson
COLUMBUS — Jo-
anne Smith Henderson,
60, died Oct. 23, 2019.
Services
will be at 3
p.m. today
at New
Beginning
Full Gospel
Church.
Burial
will follow Henderson
at Union
Cemetery. Visitation
is one hour prior to
services at the church.
Lee-Sykes Funeral
Home of Columbus is
in charge of arrange-
ments.
Mrs. Henderson was
born July 16, 1959, in
Columbus, to the late
Beatrice Stovall Smith
and Hal Davis.
In addition to her
parents, she was
preceded in death by
her sister, Faye Denise
Smith; and brothers,
John Arthur Smith and
Hal Davis Jr.
She is survived by
her husband, Willie
Henderson; daughters,
Tisha Smith, Laisha
O’Neal, Kashuna
Butler, Joanne Smith
and LaKeydra Gor-
don; brothers, Howard
Smith and Dennis
Smith, both of Co-
lumbus, and Kenneth
Smith of California;
sister, Delcenia Da-
vis of Columbus; 10
grandchildren; and five
great-grandchildren.
Mildred Capella
STARKVILLE —
Mildred E. Capella, 75,
died Oct. 31, 2019, at
OCH in Starkville.
Arrangements are
incomplete and will be
announced by Lown-
des Funeral Home of
Columbus.
Brenda Bradley
COLUMBUS —
Brenda Evans Bradley,
50, died Oct. 24, 2019,
in Columbus.
Services will be at
2:30 p.m. Saturday at
Christ Deliverance Cen-
ter, with Joe Eggleston
officiating. Burial will
follow at Union Cem-
etery. Visitation is
from 4-6 p.m. today at
Carter’s Funeral Ser-
vice. Carter’s Funeral
Service of Columbus is
in charge of arrange-
ments.
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born Oct. 6, 1969, in
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Columbus, to Nathaniel ployed as a seamstress Zenofia McNeil, Patri-
Evans Sr. and Elizabeth with United Furniture cia Moore, and Missou-
Binion. She was a grad- Company and was a ri Henry, all of Birming-
uate of Caldwell High member of New Pros- ham, Alabama, and
School and was former- pect Baptist Church. Charles Ester Hall of
ly employed with Well’s In addition to her Chicago, Illinois; three
Cleaners. She was a mother, she is survived grandchildren; and six
member of Friendship by her husband, James great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers will
M.B. Church. Sanderson of Aberdeen;
She was preceded in sons, Dwight Chism of be Sylvester Bluitt,
death by her brother, Athens, Adam Chism Edward Lee, Eddie
Kenneth Evans. of Quincy and Daniel Jethrow, Donnell Smith,
In addition to her Sanderson of Macon, Melvin Smith and Rob-
parents, she is sur- Georgia; sisters, Patsy ert Tate.
vived by her husband, Little of Hamilton, June
James Bradley of Simmons of West Point, Patricia Poole
Columbus; children, Dale Malone of Lackey STARKVILLE —
Tofarius Evans, Den- and Ruth Hartman of Patricia Ann Poole, 62,
nis Evans II, James Hatley; brother, Perry died Oct. 23, 2019, in
Evans II, Debra Evans Roebuck of Caledonia; Starkville.
and Erica Evans, all and seven grandchil- Services will be at
of Columbus; siblings, dren. 11 a.m. Saturday at
Calvin Binion of Me- New Zion U.M. Church.
ridian, Donell Evans of Moroline Allen Burial will follow at
Killeen, Texas, Lydell COLUMBUS — Mo- New Zion Cemetery.
Evans, Nathaniel Evans roline Henry Allen, 83, Visitation is from 1-6
Jr., Priscilla Evans, p.m. today at West Me-
died Oct. 25, 2019, at
Deborah Thompson Baptist morial Funeral Home.
and McArthur Evans, Memorial West Memorial Funeral
all of Columbus; and 15 Hospi- Home of Starkville is
grandchildren. tal-Golden in charge of arrange-
Pallbearers will be Triangle. ments.
Calvin Binion, Calvin Services She is survived by
Cortez Wilson, Donell will be at her children, Rochelle
Evans, James Bradley, 2:30 p.m. Wilson and Mentoria
James Evans and Lydell Allen Wilson; sister, Della
at Tenth
Evans. Street Blair; and brother, West
M.B. Church, with the Brown.
Ruby McCoy Rev. Brian Hood offici- See Obituaries, 5A
NOXUBEE — Ruby ating. Burial will follow
McCoy, 93, died Oct. at Memorial Gardens
30, 2019, at Hospice Cemetery. Visitation is
Ministries in Jackson. from 4-6 p.m. today at
Arrangements are Carter’s Funeral Ser-
incomplete and will be vice. Carter’s Funeral
announced by Carter’s Service of Columbus is
Funeral Service of in charge of arrange-
Macon. ments.
Mrs. Allen was
Sandra Sanderson born Dec. 3, 1935, in
ABERDEEN — San- Columbus, to the late
dra Roebuck Sander- Charlie Henry and Alice Randall
Maggie James. She was Visitation:
son, 67, died Oct. 31,
formerly employed as a
Saturday, Nov. 2 • 10:30-12:30 PM
2019, at North Mis- 2nd Ave. North Location
supervisor for the Co- Graveside Service:
sissippi Medical Cen-
lumbus Air Force Base Saturday, Nov. 2 • 1 PM
ter-Gilmore in Amory. Pine Grove United Methodist
Services will be at 2 Commissary and was a Church Cemetery
p.m. Sunday at Tis- member of Tenth Street
dale-Lann Memorial M.B. Church. Juanita Hooks
Visitation:
Funeral Home Chap- In addition to her
Monday, Nov. 4 • 10-11 AM
el, with Robert Earl parents, she was Welch Funeral Home
Fowlkes officiating. preceded in death by Starkville, MS
Services:
Burial will follow at her husband, James
Monday, Nov. 4 • 11 AM
New Prospect Ceme- Allen; and siblings, Welch Funeral Home Chapel
Starkville, MS
tery. Visitation will be Mary Alice, Ida Henry,
Graveside Committal
from 4-8 p.m. Saturday Brunzetta Collins and Monday, Nov. 4 • 2 PM
at the funeral home. Gussie Richey. Memorial Gardens of Columbus
2nd Ave. North Location
Tisdale-Lann Memo- She is survived by
rial Funeral Home of her children, Damon
Mullins and Dondi
William Bartowick
Aberdeen is in charge Incomplete
of arrangements. Mullins, both of Colum- College St. Location
Mrs. Sanderson was bus, and Tameka Allen
born Feb. 18, 1952, of Cordova, Tennessee;
in Aberdeen, to Ruby siblings, Rosetta Follins
Boyd Roebuck and the and Mattie B. Burnette, memorialgunterpeel.com
late James Roebuck. both of Columbus, Earl
She was formerly em- Henry, William Henry,
Alice Randall
Mrs. Alice Eaton Randall, 94, died Wednesday
night, October 30, 2019, at her home in the Pine
Grove community of Ethelsville, AL.
Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to
Memorial Gunter Peel Funeral Home & Cremato-
ry, 2nd Avenue North location. Visitation will be
from 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM Saturday, November
2, 2019, at Memorial Gunter Peel’s 2nd Avenue
North location. A graveside service will follow at
1:00 PM at Pine Grove United Methodist Church
Cemetery with Rev. Linda Shelton officiating.
The daughter of the late Robert Earle and Mary
Virginia Burgess Eaton, Mrs. Randall was born
March 19, 1925, in the Pine Grove Community,
Pickens County, AL. She graduated from high
school in Pickens County and attended Business
College in Tuscaloosa, AL. She was a longtime
member of Central United Methodist Church,
now Covenant United Methodist Church. She
was a devoted wife, mother and grandmother to
her husband, children and great-grandchildren.
In addition to her parents, she was prede-
ceased by her brother, Robert Eaton; her sister,
Mary Randall; a great-grandchild, Brantley Bo-
bitt; and her husband, John Louis Randall.
She is survived by her son and daughter-in-
law, Mark and Debbie Randall, and daughter,
Jane Randall, all of the Pine Grove Community;
and daughter and son-in-law, Robbie and Jesse
Gonzalez of Columbus; and a sister-in-law, Mabel
Randall of Birmingham, AL. She is also survived
by two grandchildren, Brian Bobitt (Angela) and
Lauren Davidson (Chris); five great-grandchil-
dren, Ali, Emily and Ashley Simmons and Kaylee
and Brianna Bobitt; and several nieces and neph-
ews.
Mrs. Randall’s family would like to express
their deep appreciation to Alabama Hospice Care
of Tuscaloosa for their love and care.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St.
Jude Place, Memphis, TN, 38101 or to the donor’s
church or favorite charity.
Sign the online guest book at
www.memorialgunterpeel.com
716 Second Avenue North • Columbus, MS
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Obituaries
Continued from Page 4A

Victor Summerville employed as a con- Starks, Frankie Starks, son, William Smith Jr., In addition to his par- Jimmy Lee Crowell
OLIVE BRANCH struction worker. D’wayne Starks, Shery Vonsee’, Evelyn ents, he was preceded and Earlene Smith; 18
— Victor Earl Sum- In addition to his Derrick Starks, Dar- Smith, Sharon Smith in death by his daugh- grandchildren; and 11
merville, 53, died Oct. parents, he was pre- mar McQuiller, Willie and Fredrick Smith, all ters, Gloria Griffin and great-grandchildren.
22, 2019, ceded in death by his Keith Starks and Casey of Columbus, and Max- Annie Thomas; and Pallbearers will be
at Baptist brother, Butch Madi- Coleman. ine Golden of Akron, siblings, James Win- Terrell Green, James
Memorial son. Ohio; siblings, Sallie ston Crowell, Oralean Miller, Gary Griffin
Hospital in He is survived by Annie Smith Knight of Chicago, Loggins and Robert Jr., Kyle Miller, Rob-
Memphis, his sisters, Melissa COLUMBUS — An- Illinois, Edith Martin, Lee Crowell. ert Green and Jarion
Tennessee. McDaniel and Tracy nie Virginia Fenton Celeste Fenton and He is survived by his Griffin.
Services Madison; brother, Stan Smith, 80, died Oct. 27, Ann Treadwell, all of wife, Caroline Miller of
will be at Madison; and step- 2019, at her residence. Columbus, and Freddie Columbus; daughters,
11 a.m. Summerville mother, Ann Madison. Services Fenton of West Point; Lillie Green, Laura T.
William Bartowick
Pallbearers will be will be at 19 grandchildren; and Miller, Mary F. Allen COLUMBUS — Wil-
Saturday
Mark Madison, Brent 11 a.m. 34 great-grandchildren. and Hattie Rush, all of liam V. Bartowick, 77,
at New Beginning Full
Gospel Baptist Church, Hartley, Luke Madison, Saturday at Pallbearers will be Columbus, and Tom- died Oct. 31, 2019, at
with Demario Jefferson Caleb Madison, Tye Oak Grove Johnny Collins, Jason masina Grant of San Vineyard Court Nurs-
officiating. Burial will Madison, Tanner Purs- M.B. Collins, Larry Web- Antonio, Texas; sons, ing Home.
follow at Memorial er and Sam Rogers. Church, ber, Bobby Webber, Mitchell L. Thomas Arrangements are
Gardens Cemetery. Memorials may be with Tony Webber and Don and Tommie L. Miller incomplete and will be
Smith
Visitation is from noon- made be made to Chan- the Rev. Sanders. Jr., both of Columbus, announced by Memori-
6 p.m. today at Carter’s dler Funeral, c/o the Therman and Andre Rush of Al- al Gunter Peel Funeral
Funeral Service. Car- Steve Madison Memo- Cunningham officiat- Tommie Miller Sr. exandria, Virginia; sib- Home and Crematory,
ter’s Funeral Service of rial Fund, 8901 AL-18, ing. Burial will follow COLUMBUS — lings, Ethel B. Hughes, College Street location.
Columbus is in charge Vernon, AL 35592. at Memorial Gardens. Tommie Lee Miller Rubye Jean Turner, See Obituaries, 7A
of arrangements. Visitation is from 3-8 Sr., 85, died Oct. 25,
Mr. Summerville Joeann Durrah p.m. today at Carter’s 2019, at Baptist Memo-
was born Nov. 23, 1965, COLUMBUS — Jo- Funeral Service. Car- rial Hospi-
in Columbus, to Julia eann Durrah, 75, died ter’s Funeral Service of tal-Golden
Summerville and the Oct. 26, 2019, at Bap- Columbus is in charge Triangle.
late Johnny Lashley. He tist Memorial Hospi- of arrangements. Services
was a graduate of Lee tal-Golden Triangle. Mrs. Smith was will be at
High School and a U.S. Services will be at 1 born April 19, 1939, in 10 a.m.
Army veteran. He was p.m. Saturday at Faith Columbus, to the late Saturday
formerly employed with Harvest Church, with King Fenton Sr. and at Shiloh
the Columbus Police the Rev. Nabors offici- Mary Ann Fenton. She Full Gos- Miller Sr.
Department and as ating. Burial will follow was a 1960 graduate of pel M.B.
truck driver for Prax- at Union Cemetery. R.E. Hunt High School Church, with the Rev.
air. He also served as a Visitation is from noon- and was formerly em- Denvil Clark officiat-
licensed minister. 5 p.m. today at Centu- ployed with Cedarcrest ing. Burial will follow
In addition to his ry Hairston Funeral Farms and Baptist Me- at Memorial Gardens.
father, he was preceded Home. Century Hair- morial Hospital-Golden Visitation is from noon-
in death by his siblings, ston Funeral Home of Triangle. She was a 6 p.m. today at Carter’s
Stacy Summerville Pet- Columbus is in charge member of Oak Grove Funeral Service. Car-
ty and Jimmy Bernard of arrangements. M.B. Church. ter’s Funeral Service of
Summerville. Mrs. Durrah was In addition to her Columbus is in charge
In addition to his born Dec. 24, 1943, to parents, she was of arrangements.
mother, he is survived the late Joe Willie Gore preceded in death by Mr. Miller was born
by his wife, Katina and Augusta Gore. She her siblings, Dan King Nov. 13, 1933, in Alicev-
Summerville of Olive was formerly employed Fenton, King Fenton ille, Alabama, to the
Branch; children, as a housekeeper. Jr., Emma Fenton and late Queen Ester Miller
Brianna Parker of She is survived by Lucille Collins; and
and Pete Crowell. He
Olive Branch and her daughters, Bobbie three grandchildren.
was formerly employed
Sierra Davis of Co- Ann Jordan of Millport, She is survived by
with Phillips Construc-
lumbus; stepchildren, Alabama, and Geshia her husband, William
tion Company and was
Kendrick Parker and Durrah-Brown of Smith Sr. of Columbus;
Courtney Parker, both a member of Midway
Tupelo; sisters, Marg- children, Brenda Wil-
of Atlanta, Georgia, M.B. Church.
gie Thomas and Willie
Kieristan Humphries,
Mae Smart; six grand-
Torian Holder and
Jequinton Holder,
children; and a host of Is Estate or
great-grandchildren.
all of Olive Branch; Long Term Care
siblings, Vanessa
Summerville-Griffin of Harold Starks
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Steve Madison
SULLIGENT, Ala. —
Steve Madison, 50, died
Oct. 30, 2019, at North
Mississippi Medical
Center Hospice in
Tupelo.
Services will be at 2
p.m. Saturday at Chan-
dler Funeral Home
Chapel, with James
Godsey and Lynn God-
sey officiating. Burial
will follow at the Cele-
bration Worship Center
Church Cemetery. Visi-
tation will be two hours
prior to services at the
funeral home. Chan-
dler Funeral Home of
Vernon is in charge of
arrangements.
Mr. Madison was
born May 6, 1969,
in Amory, to the late
Jacob and Linda Mad-
ison. He was formerly
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Our View

Job skills training for children can make education more relevant
There was a time, not so
long ago, that a child’s path
from school to the workplace
was pretty simple and uni-
form.
From kindergarten to high
school graduation, students
studied the same basic
language, history, math and
sciences classes. For high
achieving students, there were
higher level courses in math
or science that could be taken.
Students who struggled in ac-
ademics as they entered high
school were shuttled off to
vocational training involving
a few courses — carpentry,
wood-working, auto body, etc.
It was only until the stu-
dent’s senior year that any
thought was given to what
would be next, almost as
if there was no connection
between what they studied in
school and what would come
next. Kids went to college or
to a factory job, maybe.
Fortunately, that old way of
thinking is evolving, as noted
by events held in the Golden
Triangle just this week.
If a kid is told what kind of
things an engineer does and
what skills an engineer needs,
those otherwise tedious math
courses suddenly become
relevant, important. A kid that
wants to be a doctor under-
stands the importance of those
chemistry and science class-
es. A child that wants to be a
teacher will approach those
language and history classes
with far more enthusiasm.
These classes are taking them
a step closer to their dream
job.
Kids need to know there is
a world full of different kinds
of jobs and that the classes
they take provide the founda-
tion for pursuing them.
It’s for that reason it’s never
too early for a child to be ex-
posed to job skills.
As an example. When Fred
Gregory was a kid, he didn’t
dream of becoming NASA’s
first black deputy director. He
just wanted to fly helicopters.
He fulfilled that dream,
then took it further, becom-
ing a NASA astronaut, then
moving up the NASA hierar-
chy. Gregory now travels the
country presenting university
scholarships for the Astronaut
Scholars Foundation, as he did
at Mississippi State on Tues-
day.
It’s no stretch to say if Greg-
ory never dreamed a child’s
dream of flying a helicopter,
he would never have found his
way to his important role with
NASA.
On Wednesday, the FORGE
Foundation, a group of Golden
Triangle companies in the
construction industry, held a
career expo at EMCC’s Com-
muniversity, exposing 1,000
local eighth-graders to a wide
range of job possibilities in the
construction skills industry,
where demand for workers is
high.
As the FORGE Founda-
tion noted, only 27 percent
of Mississippi kids will earn
2- or 4-year degrees. For the
remaining 73 percent, the
construction industry is a path
to meaningful employment.
Among those thousands,
there are kids for whom the
expo was their first exposure
to a career they never thought
of or knew existed. For them,
that window into the working
world may well translate into
the classroom.
On Wednesday, while
eighth-graders were learning
about construction jobs, nine
Columbus area second- and
third-graders were being
provided a look into the won-
ders of science at Mississippi
University for Women in a
science carnival conducted
by students from Mississippi
School for Math and Science.
As it was with the older stu-
dents, the elementary kids got
to try their hand at “science in
action,” through a variety of
experiments. When you take
any subject off the pages of a
book and make it something
tangible, the wheels of imagi-
nation begin to turn.
That really is what it’s all
about.
Capture a child’s imagina-
tion and the world opens to
them.
That should include the
work world, too.

Mississippi Voices Cartoonist View

State elections will

be held Nov. 5
State general elections
will be held this Tuesday,
November 5.
Because Mississippi has
so many electoral districts
where one party domi-
nates, most elections were
effectively decided in the
primary.
The race for agricul-
ture commissioner could
be interesting: Neither
Republican Andy Gipson Wyatt Emmerich
nor Democrat Ricky Cole
had opponents. Gipson
gained publicity as a Bible-thumping conservative
in the House before he was appointed by Gov. Phil
Bryant to be ag commissioner when Cindy Hyde-
Smith was appointed to the U.S. Senate. Neither one
has run for statewide office, although Cole was the
Mississippi Democratic Party Chairman from 2001
to 2004.
Cole promises to cut the sales tax on Mississip-
pi-produced food. He wants Mississippians eating
more locally produced food and hopes to expand
local food supply networks.
Gipson promises to battle wild hogs and promote
food exports abroad. He’s promoting a food brand-
ing campaign called “Genuine MS.”
Expect Republican Mike Chaney to win again
as insurance commissioner. Everybody likes Mike,
who is about as pleasant and affable as it gets. He’s a
clear-headed, calm moderate. Business
The race for Central District highway commis-
sioner will be a tight one between Democrat Willie
Simmons and Republican Butch Lee. Simmons, a
three-term member of the state Senate, is currently
head of the Senate transportation committee, so he
Betting billions on bizarre entrepreneurs
What can you say one of us but inside all the business types in New York
comes with experience. He represents the Delta. about “sophisticated” of us.” were putting together the initial
His district includes Indianola and Cleveland. His investors who would Eventually, investors public offering document. Refus-
website promises to increase transportation infra- pile billions into a began figuring all this ing to cut his vacation short to join
structure funding by $3,000,000,000 annually. Let’s startup whose 40-year- out. And they started them, he instead had a lower-level
hope that’s a typo. old founder walks the fleeing. WeWork employee join him in the
Butch Lee, Brandon’s mayor, doesn’t list any streets of Manhattan The amazing thing, Maldives to brief him.
positions or issues on his website. Listening to him barefooted and says his though, is that they The prospectus disclosed the
on the radio, he acknowledge MDOT needs an addi- company’s mission is took this guy seriously company’s ugly losses and its
tional $350 million a year for maintenance but won’t to “elevate the world’s for so long. How could questionable path for making a
clearly come out in favor of the gas tax. Looks like consciousness”? Did I allegedly smart money profit. It also revealed how much
he’s got the makings for a good politician. mention that his enter- people put so much of a fortune the founder was
Which brings us to the big races: Expect Repub- prise has yet to turn a Froma Harrop faith in an exhibitionist siphoning off, one area in which
lican Delbert Hosemann to be our next lieutenant penny of profit? whose history and be- Neumann was quite focused.
governor, despite his talented and formidable Dem- We speak of Japan-based Soft- havior suggested he is a crackpot, This story happens again and
ocratic opponent Jay Hughes from Oxford. Hose- Bank and other investors who be- con artist or both? For starters, again. Elizabeth Holmes raised
mann should make an excellent lieutenant governor. lieved in WeWork after swallowing Neumann had already chalked hundreds of millions from inves-
Democrat Jim Hood versus Republican Tate much of its “yoga babble.” They up a string of business failures — tors for Theranos without ever
Reeves. So tight. Are the tort wars far enough thought that its creator-pitchman, among them a company marketing having issued an audited financial
behind us to allay the fears of businessmen? The Adam Neumann, was touched by collapsible high heels. report. Scott Galloway, a market-
governor makes a lot of appointments. How is Hood the eccentric genius of a Steve Then there were his six extrav- ing professor at New York Univer-
going to fund all his promises? Jobs. Why was never clear. agant homes, some almost next sity who coined the term “yoga
Yet Reeves doesn’t have the political guts to In actuality, WeWork is in the door. They included two superpri- babble,” cited the Peloton fitness
make the hard decisions that our state so desper- mundane business of subletting cy homes in Manhattan, a large bicycle phenomenon.
ately needs. He won’t get behind the no-brainer gas office space. You or I could gain farm in the nearby Westchester Peloton called itself “an inno-
tax, which just about every state in the nation had control of an office area and divide exurbs, two fancy mansions in the vation company transforming the
managed to adjust except Mississippi. He turns his it into sections to rent it out. Hamptons and a large estate in lives of people around the world.”
nose up at a billion a year in federal Medicaid mon- What Neumann did was offer California’s Marin County. Most of “No,” said Galloway in re-
ey that the working class desperately needs while communal seating where freelanc- them underwent expensive renova- sponse, “You sell exercise equip-
our rural hospitals struggle to survive. And the ers could hug one another over tions. Neumann and his wife were ment.”
Republican boondoggles over the past decade have cups of excellent coffee. Popcorn said to be recently scouting prop- SoftBank is now bailing out
made the Democrats look naive. could be ordered as well as medita- erties on Kauai island in Hawaii. what’s left of WeWork. Neumann
Given that so many elections are decided in the tion sessions. Thus, WeWork be- The money for all this luxury has been relieved of his duties,
primary, you would think the turnout for the gen- came one of Wall Street’s storied presumably came from investors although not before arranging a
eral elections would be lower. But that was not the unicorns. A unicorn is a privately believing in his visionary powers. $184 million consulting contract
case in 2015 when 576,775 Mississippians voted in held startup valued at over $1 The magic started fading when and the right to sell nearly $1
the primaries and 718,185 voted in the general. billion. WeWork attempted to raise bil- billion of his WeWork shares to
It’s all about the turnout. Are Mississippians Of course, you or I also could lions more by issuing stock to the SoftBank.
happy with the state of affairs? If so, Reeves wins. have designed hip working spaces public. The problem with public SoftBank’s investors are now
Are voters tired of Republican monopoly and want and portrayed them as a revolution offerings is that they require worried about SoftBank. They
to send a message like they did in Louisiana? If so, in 21st-century work-life-whatever. companies to share certain unflat- would seem to have reason.
Hood wins. We also could have issued a pro- tering information heretofore kept Froma Harrop, a syndicated
Wyatt Emmerich is the editor and publisher of The spectus that opened, as WeWork’s secret. columnist, writes for the Providence
Northside Sun, a weekly newspaper in Jackson. He did, with “We dedicate this to the Let’s set the scene. Neumann (Rhode Island) Journal. Her e-mail
can be reached by e-mail at wyatt@northsidesun.com. energy of we — greater than any was surfing in the Maldives when address is fharrop@gmail.com.
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AP-NORC poll: Most Americans

dislike twice-a-year time flops
The Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS — Most people
across the country will see their
clocks roll back an hour this week-
end as nearly eight months of day-
light saving time come to an end. It
is part of a twice-a-year ritual that
most want to stop.
Seven in 10 Americans prefer not
to switch back and forth to mark
daylight saving time, a new poll
shows. But there’s no agreement on
which time clocks ought to follow.
According to the new poll by The
Associated Press-NORC Center
for Public Affairs Research, 4 in 10
Americans would like to see their
clocks stay on standard time year-
round, while about 3 in 10 prefer to
stay on daylight saving time. About
another 3 in 10 prefer what is the sta-
tus quo in most of the United States,
switching back and forth between
daylight saving time in the summer
and standard time in the winter.
At least seven state legislatures
have backed asking Congress to al-
low year-round daylight saving time
in the past few years — and about
60 percent of California voters sup-
ported a ballot proposition last year
calling for such a move.

Obituaries
Continued from Page 5A

Robert Alexander Columbus, to the late T. Juanita Hooks Sykes Funeral Home of
CARROLLTON, Ala. C. Humphries and Mary STARKVILLE — Columbus is in charge
— Robert Alton “Bob” Louise Everson Hum- Juanita M. Hooks, 92, of arrangements.
Alexander, 64, died Oct. phries. He was formerly died Oct. 31, 2019, at Mrs. Hunter was
30, 2019, at his resi- employed with General the Beehive Assisted born May 29, 1962, in
dence. Tire and was a member Living. Tucson, Arizona, to
Services will be at 2 of Missionary Union Services will be at 11 Johnnie Hunter and the
p.m. Sunday at Marvin Baptist Church. a.m. Monday at Welch late Mattie P. Hunter.
Chapel U.M. Church, In addition to his par- Funeral Home Chapel. She was a member of
with Trey Reece officiat- ents, he was preceded Mt. Olive M.B. Church.
A graveside committal
ing. Burial and grave- in death by Otis Tubbs In addition to her
will follow at 2 p.m. at
side services will follow Jr.; siblings, Billy Lanier mother, she was pre-
Memorial Gardens of
at the church cemetery. Humphries Sr., Tyrone ceded in death by
Columbus. Visitation
Visitation will follow Humphries and Kelly her sisters, Elizabeth
will be one hour prior to
the graveside service. Tubbs-Stewart; and an Redmond and Theresa
services at the funeral
Skelton Funeral Home infant brother. Hunter; and brothers,
home. Memorial Gunter
of Reform is in charge of He is survived James, Joe and Lonnie
Peel Funeral Home and Redmon, and Duane
arrangements. by his wife, Pamala;
daughters, Erica L. Crematory, Second Ave- Parker.
Mr. Alexander was nue North location, is in
born Nov. 1, 1954, in Humphries Brown of In addition to her fa-
Birmingham, Alabama, charge of arrangements. ther, she is survived by
Cincinnati, Ohio, to the
late Clarence William L. Michelle Edinburgh her daughters, Shamika
Alexander and Marga- of Columbus, Geor- Debra Hunter Hunter Johnson and
ret Elizabeth “Peggy” gia, and Oshaunda Q. COLUMBUS — Deb- Kelly R. Hunter, both of
Redley Alexander. He McKinney of Columbus; ra Rena Hunter, 57, died Columbus; son, Johnny
was formerly employed sons, Michael Joseph Oct. 27, 2019, at her Hunter of Columbus;
with Lowe’s in North- Humphries and Shancy residence. sisters, Betty Redmond
port and was a member Edinburgh, both of Co- Services of Tucson, Rose Maben
of Marvin Chapel U.M. lumbus, and Michael C. will be at of Denver, Colorado,
Church. McKinney of Birming- 2:30 p.m. Carol Hunter Graves of
He is survived by ham; brothers, Dexter Saturday Clarksville, Tennessee,
his wife, Gail Sutton Humphries of Panama at Mt. Patricia Tuggle and
Alexander of Carrollton; City, Florida, Frederick Olive M.B. Diane Hunter, both of
daughter, Amy Lynne Humphries of Columbus Church in Columbus; brothers,
Hunter
Purdy of Panama City, and James Humphries Millport, Stephen Hunter of Tuc-
Florida; son, Robert Joel of Murfreesboro, Ten- Alabama. son and Darrin Hunter
Alexander of Fayette; nessee; sisters, Donna Burial will follow at of Maben; nine grand-
sisters, Carol Fields Humphries and Kayun- the church cemetery. children; and three
and Betty Webb, both dra Tubbs, both of St. Visitation is from 1-7 great-grandchildren.
of Carrollton; brothers, Louis, Missouri; and 12 p.m. today at Lee-Sykes
Bill Alexander and grandchildren. Funeral Home. Lee-
David Alexander, both
of Carrollton; and one
grandchild.
Pallbearers will be
Joel Alexander, Logan
Alexander, Bill Alexan-
der, David Alexander,
Terry Pate, Ricky Hicks,
Johnny Noland and Roy
Hughes.
Memorials may be
made to the American
Cancer Society, Mid-
South Division, 1100
Ireland Way, Ste. 300,
Birmingham, AL 35205
or to St. Jude Children’s
Hospital, 501 St. Jude
Place, Memphis, TN
38105.

Infant Levi Good

NOXUBEE — Infant
Levi Christian Good
died Oct. 31, 2019, at
Baptist Memorial Hospi-
tal-Golden Triangle.
Services will be at
2 p.m. Sunday at Cor-
nerstone Community
Church in Macon. A
private family grave-
side service will follow.
Visitation will follow the
services at the church.
Cockrell Funeral Home
of Macon is in charge of
arrangements.

Michael Humphries
COLUMBUS — Mi-
chael Humphries, 65,
died Oct. 25, 2019, at
Baptist
Memorial
Hospi-
tal-Golden
Triangle.
Services
will be at
11 a.m.
Saturday at Humphries
Missionary
Union Baptist Church.
Burial will follow at Oak
Grove M.B. Church
Cemetery. Visitation
is from noon-6 p.m.
today at Lee-Sykes
Funeral Home. Lee-
Sykes Funeral Home of
Columbus is in charge
of arrangements.
Mr. Humphries was
born March 17, 1954, in
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TRICK-OR-TREAT Starkville man arrested

for domestic assault
DISPATCH STAFF REPORT

A Starkville man was arrested

Thursday on a domestic violence
charge, according to a press re-
lease from the Starkville Police De-
partment.
Brandon Jefferson, 25, has been
charged with domestic violence ag-
gravated assault after he allegedly
tried to choke the victim at a Lynn Jefferson
Lane apartment complex Wednesday night, said
SPD Public Information Officer Sgt. Brandon
Lovelady.
The victim is not in the hospital and has not
been as far as police are aware, Lovelady said.
In Mississippi, attempting to choke a victim in
a domestic violence case is an automatic felony.
Jefferson is being held in the Oktibbeha Coun-
ty Jail. His bond has not been set.

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Sports
So far, both Mississippi State head coach Joe Moorhead and Arkansas head coach Chad Morris have had SEC tenures that have been anything but prolific.
How Joe Moorhead and Chad Morris found themselves at the bottom of the SEC
BY BEN PORTNOY
bportnoy@cdispatch.com
STARKVILLE — As
Joe Moorhead sat behind
the podium in the under-
belly of Kyle Field last
Saturday, a look of defeat
graced his face.
Rather than a fiery
sermon or an anecdote
regarding fans’ choice
words toward him or his
family, Moorhead was
calm, almost stoic. One
by one, he fielded ques-
tions regarding Missis-
sippi State’s 49-30 loss to
Texas A&M in College
Station.
In short, he was tired.
Tired of losing.
“At the end of the day
PREP BOYS BASKETBALL
Starkville reloads in quest for second straight state title former NBA forward
BY BEN PORTNOY
bportnoy@cdispatch.com
STARKVILLE — As
Greg Carter walked
into the Starkville High
School gym Wednesday
afternoon, a handful of
scattered chairs and bas-
ketballs graced its floor.
Just seven months af-
ter clinching the Missis-
sippi High School Activi-
ties Association Class 6A
boys state basketball title,
Carter took a seat in one
of the logoed seats and
peered out onto the court.
The season has almost ar-
rived.
Saturday, the Yellow
Jackets begin their 2019-
2020 season at the Caledo-
nia Tip Off Classic against
Horn Lake. For Carter,
this year’s challenges re-
main the same as so many
prior — a plethora of de-
parted starters, new faces
needing to step up and a
championship tradition he
A TALE OF TWO COACHES
we didn’t get the thing
done,” Moorhead said.
“It’s the same thing we
talk about all the time
— not the ability, but the
consistency, explosive
plays and turnovers —
and you’re not going to
beat a team like that giv-
ing up explosive plays de-
fensively.
In the matter of five
weeks, the MSU football
program has gone from
a dark horse New Year’s
Day bowl bid-stealer to a
team on the precipice of
a nightmare. Stumbling
through the middle por-
tion of the year, a string of
injuries and suspensions
coupled with failing to live
up to lofty expectations in
With New Hope visit,
expects to maintain.
keeps giving back
“Maybe we’re just a lit-
tle different here with the
culture of it,” Carter said.
“Once one season ends
we’ll celebrate the wins
for about a week — may-
be not that long. But once
we get started back prac-
ticing it’s a new year and
we’re starting to prepare
to win for the next year.”
With Terry Tate, Tyler
Talley, Jamarrion Brown
and Atavius Jones (foot-
ball) off to the college
ranks, the Yellow Jackets
already had to replace
four major pieces on pa-
per. Further complicating
the matter, senior Zeke
Cook suffered a broken
foot in the offseason that
could hold him out the
entire year. But no matter,
Carter remains confident.
“What that is is an op-
portunity for somebody
else to step up,” he said. Starkville High School’s Eric Green (21) shoots the
“Everyone has got to pitch ball in the second half of his team’s Class 6A playoff
See STARKVILLE, 5B game against Southaven on Feb. 25 in Starkville.
2018 have put Moorhead
squarely on the hot seat
heading into Saturday’s
contest against Arkansas.
Conversely, Razor-
backs coach Chad Morris,
now in his second year on
the job in Fayetteville,
finds himself in a similar-
ly precarious situation.
He boasts an 0-13 record
against Southeastern
Conference competition
and losses to San Jose
State and North Texas.
Both standout coor-
dinators at past stops,
Moorhead (Penn State)
and Morris (Clemson)
have noticeably failed to
live up to fan base expec-
tations as they both near
the end of their second
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campaigns in charge.
But how have two ace
offensive minds sudden-
ly stumbled in SEC head
coaching roles? The num-
bers begin to tell the full-
er story.
Upon their respective
arrivals in Starkville and
Fayetteville, both Moor-
head and Morris were
billed as luminary offen-
sive talents.
Moorhead headed into
his first season at the
helm at MSU having guid-
ed Penn State to historic
offensive output numbers
— including the nation’s
19th most prolific unit at
460.3 yards per game in
2017.
As for Morris, he had
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SECTION
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taken an SMU program didn’t fit the system, the
from the depths of FBS Bulldogs were expected
football and closed out his to improve on last year’s
tenure with a 7-5 season No. 71 national ranking
— helping the Mustangs in total offense with grad-
to the No. 15-ranked total uate transfer Tommy Ste-
offense at 478.5 yards per vens under center.
game. But after injuries and
And while both coach- inefficiency forced Moor-
es’ résumés backed up head to replace Stevens
their billing as offensive with freshman Garrett
gurus, their respective Shrader — a player he
SEC tenures have been spent over three years
anything but prolific. recruiting — the offense
In Moorhead’s case, has yet to find its stride,
the one-time Nittany as it sits at No. 88 in the
Lion and former Fordham country in total offense
head coach has watched and No. 90 in scoring of-
his offense sputter for two fense nationally.
straight seasons. Chalk- “Part of it is trying to
ing up last year’s defi- do too much, and a lit-
ciencies to a quarterback tle bit of it is the defense
— Nick Fitzgerald — who See COACHES, 5B
By Theo DeRosa male students at New
tderosa@cdispatch.com Hope, stressing the im-
portance of positive male
Most charity founda-
role models on young
tions focus on one cause, men in urban communi-
but Josh Powell just
ties in order to resist the
couldn’t limit himself to
attraction of gangs and
that.
other poor influences.
In 2009, during his
“I’m coming from a
two-year stretch playing
place of love,” Powell told
for the Los Angeles Lak-
New Hope juniors and se-
ers that resulted in two
straight NBA titles, Pow- niors in the Trojans’ mul-
ell started the 21 Reasons tipurpose room. “There’s
to Give Foundation, with gonna be a lot of times
21 guiding principles in in life when we’re gonna
honor of his jersey num- have to do a lot of things
ber. that we don’t necessarily
“My heart just works want to do but we have to
that way,” the former do. That comes with the
professional forward said sacrifice.”
after a speaking event Powell’s foundation re-
Wednesday at New Hope searches what the youth
High School. Powell and in urban communities
Gary Davis, the founder lack and works hard to
of Next Level Boys Acad- bring it to them. That
emy in the Atlanta area, includes financial litera-
spoke to two groups of See POWELL, 5B
2B Friday, November 1, 2019
Still clinging to playoff hopes, Columbus
prepares to host fourth-ranked Lafayette
West Point defensive end Donte Smith (32) tracks down Columbus ball carrier Joshua McCrary (15) in Friday
night’s rain-filled game.
By Theo Derosa
tderosa@cdispatch.com
For the Columbus High
School football team, each
Wednesday is a “fun day”
on the practice field.
Outside of their nor-
mal schedule, the Falcons
wrap up the day with a
competitive drill. It can in-
clude one-on-one tackling
drills pitting an offensive
player against a defen-
sive player with up-downs
on the line for the losing
side, as was the case this
Wednesday. Or it can be
a wide receiver and a de-
fensive back battling for a
jump ball deep downfield.
No matter the drill,
Columbus coach Joshua
Pulphus said, the com-
petitions are designed to
teach the Falcons about
winning. With two games
left in the regular season
— both must-win contests
for Columbus to overcome
long odds and reach the
MHSAA Class 5A playoffs
— the fun but competitive
drills have become even
more important.
Friday’s home game
against No. 4 Lafayette
(7-2) starts the two-game
stretch that closes the Fal-
cons’ regular season, and
Pulphus knows how good
PREP FOOTBALL
Yellow Jackets hoping
to clinch region title
By Ben Portnoy
bportnoy@cdispatch.com
A fter 10 wild
and winding weeks,
Starkville controls its
own destiny.
A fter a disheartening
1-2 start with losses to
Brandon and West Point,
the Yellow Jackets have
found their groove as
they ride a seven game
win streak into Friday
night’s contest against
Warren Central.
Following a 52-0 throt-
tling of Murrah on the
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an opponent his team is
set to face.
“They’re a good playoff
team,” he said. “They’ve
played in big ballgames.
They know what it takes
to win.”
The Commodores
have a dynamic offense
led by “shifty” sopho-
more quarterback Tyrus
Carmichael-Williams, but
perhaps their biggest mis-
match against the Falcons
is up front.
Lafayette has a talent-
ed defensive line of most-
ly seniors, while Colum-
bus has just two seniors
on its offensive line. Only
one of the two has played
football for more than two
years, Pulphus said.
“It’s gonna be a learn-
ing experience for our
young guys, but had a
great week of practice,
and I’m excited to see
the guys compete and get
after it,” Pulphus said.
“They know the task
that’s at hand, and I think
they’re ready for the chal-
lenge.”
A win is doubly import-
ant for Columbus to erase
the sting of last week’s
35-6 home defeat at the
hands of rival West Point,
the top team in Class 5A.
road, the Yellow Jacket
offensive contingent of
junior quarterback Luke
Altmyer, senior receiver
Rufus Harvey and junior
running back Amariyon
Howard are clicking on
all cylinders.
Altmyer lead the trio
last week, finishing the
game an impressive 17-
of-22 for 151 yards and
two touchdowns before
handing things over to
backup quarterback and
classmate NyJal John-
son. As for Harvey and
Howard — they com-
bined for 39 yards on
just 12 touches in lim-
ited action, but now sit
at 1,358 yards and 15
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“We feel like we need
to redeem ourselves after
the loss last week,” junior
quarterback Ethan Con-
ner said. “Come out here
and get it back.”
Conner said he’s close
to all 10 Falcons seniors,
for whom Friday night’s
contest is their final home
game — and that moti-
vates him further to try
for an upset.
“We just want to get
the win for the seniors,”
he said. “We want to send
them out with a bang.”
Pulphus knows a sup-
portive community will
do just that for the team’s
seniors, regardless of the
final score.
“Friday’s gonna be
their moment,” he said.
“They deserve it. It’s good
to see them with their
family and friends one
last time in front of a good
home turnout.”
So when kickoff comes
at 7 p.m. Friday, Conner
and the Falcons will be fo-
cused. They know what’s
at stake. They’ll be ready.
“We want to make the
playoffs,” Conner said.
“We want to do something
great.”
touchdowns between
them this year.
With a potent offense
finding its footing, and
a chance to wrap-up the
MHSA A 6A Region 2 ti-
tle, coach Chris Jones’
squad isn’t lacking for
confidence heading into
this week’s matchup in
Vicksburg.
“I’ve always felt like
this is a players game,”
Jones said. “Our job (as
coaches) is to prepare
them for the game, but
come Friday night it’s
about who’s going to
make plays and hopeful-
ly our guys are going to
make a lot of plays and
give us a chance to win.”
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briefly COLLEGE FOOTBALL: MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY

Women’s College Golf Three matchups to watch as MSU takes on Arkansas
MSU closes fall season with 10th-place finish
The Mississippi State women’s golf team finished BY BEN PORTNOY recall that happen- rett Shrader, Arkansas On the MSU side of looked the past few
10th in the White Sands Invitational in Paradise Island, bportnoy@cdispatch.com ing,” Moorhead said has taken it to the next things, the Bulldogs’ weeks, the MSU pass
Bahamas, after Wednesday’s final round. of whether any of his level. defense has gone from rush has been notice-
The Bulldogs, who were tied for eighth after STARKVILLE — previous teams have Seeking an answer feared to floundering in ably better of late.
Tuesday’s round, actually had their best day of the Saturday’s contest
tournament Wednesday, a 1-under par team total. But struggled starting road under center, sec- a matter of weeks. More After putting signif-
MSU still fell two spots in the team standings, finishing against Arkansas (2-6, games as much as this ond-year head coach pressing, the unit could icant pressure on LSU
with a total team score of 10-over 874 to crack the top 0-5 SEC) has proven to year’s squad. “But it Chad Morris has used be without as many as quarterback Joe Bur-
10 in the 14-team invitational. be do-or-die for Missis- is making sure we are a combination of SMU five starters this week- row — highlighted by
The event was the Bulldogs’ final tournament of the sippi State as it heads
fall season. making the right calls transfer Ben Hicks, end as freshman cor- senior defensive end
“We finished up just a few shots out of a top-five into the matchup at 3-5 and, when we do, mak- Texas A&M import nerback Jarrian Jones Chauncey Rivers’ “butt
finish in a top collegiate field,” head coach Ginger and 1-4 in SEC play with ing sure the kids are Nick Starkel and, most has already been ruled sack” — the Bulldogs
Brown-Lemm said in a news release from MSU. “We four games remaining. executing. recently, redshirt fresh- out after suffering an encore performance in
definitely played better today as a team and certainly While Joe Moorhead
were able to see some areas we will address for Previous games man John Stephen upper-body injury and College Station brought
improvement in the offseason.”
skeptics have grown aside, MSU faces an Jones — the grandson it remains to be seen five quarterback hur-
Freshman Ashley Gilliam led the way for the louder by the loss this Arkansas team that has of Dallas Cowboys own- whether junior corner- ries — tied for their
Bulldogs with her third straight top-10 finish. Gilliam shot year, the reality is MSU been relatively solid er Jerry Jones. back Cam Dantzler (up- most in a game this sea-
2-under 70 for the second straight round and finished still has a legitimate Of the three passers,
the tournament at 5-under to tie for sixth place. early in home games per-body injury), junior son.
“Overall, our freshman Ashley Gilliam has had a
chance to finish this this year. The Razor- Starkel has received free safety C.J. Morgan With an added mix
stellar season,” Brown-Lemm said. “We need the four season with six wins to backs are an even 41-41 the bulk of the snaps. (upper-body injury), of defensive back and
and five positions to pick up some shots, and we will be become bowl eligible in first quarter points Through seven appear- and senior defensive linebacker blitzes, MSU
just where we need to be.” for the 10th straight allowed vs. first quarter ances, the one-time tackle Lee Autry (sus- has finally found ways
Junior Aubree Jones matched Gilliam with a
2-under round Wednesday, ending up in a tie for 34th
season. That starts in points scored at home Aggie has completed 93 pension) will play. to get to the quarter-
at 5-over. Fayetteville. Taking on this season — though of 169 passes for 1,118 Should Dantzler not back after struggling to
Senior Clara Moyano shot 1-over Wednesday to a Razorback team that those numbers include yards, seven touch- be able to go, it will be do so in the early going
finish tied for 41st at 6-over. Freshman Abbey Daniel’s has one FBS win this games against FCS downs and 10 intercep- junior Tyler Williams —
2-over round tied her for 51st overall at 8-over. Senior this year. Saturday, it
season, the Bulldogs Portland State, Colora- tions. who has dealt with inju-
Blair Stockett shot 5-over and tied for 74th at 15-over for will have to do so once
opened as seven-point By contrast, Hicks is ries of his own all sea-
the tournament. do State, San Jose State more against a less-
Playing as an individual, sophomore Lauren Miller favorites despite hav- 60-of-119 for 692 yards, son — and freshman
and Auburn. than-stellar Arkansas
also shot 5-over Wednesday, finishing 11-over in total ing lost four straight two touchdowns and Martin Emerson Jr.
to tie for 68th. This isn’t to say the offensive line.
games. one interception, while holding down the start-
Mississippi State will return to play on Feb. 23 at Razorbacks have been For one, senior of-
Here are three Jones was 6-of-7 for 49 ing cornerback slots.
the Westbrook Spring Invitational in Peoria, Arizona. an offensive juggernaut fensive lineman Colton
matchups to watch Sat- yards and a touchdown For what it’s worth,
— they rank 98th of 130 Jackson announced
Women’s College Soccer urday: teams nationally in total
in mop-up duty against junior linebacker Er- his retirement from
With win at Missouri, MSU makes SEC Alabama last week. roll Thompson let slip
offense — but they have Speaking with the football Monday fol-
Tournament for first time in 15 years Mississippi State vs. been noticeably more media Monday, Mor-
Wednesday that class- lowing a back surgery
Four different players scored for Mississippi State the first quarter efficient at home. mate and Starkville na- he endured last sea-
soccer in Thursday’s 4-2 win at Missouri, and the Bull- ris wouldn’t commit to tive Willie Gay Jr. will
dogs earned a berth in the Southeastern Conference It’s no secret MSU Should MSU hope to any of his three quar- son. Shane Clenin and
has struggled on right its sinking ship of play this week — offer- Brady Latham are ex-
Tournament for the first time since 2004. terbacks, though he ing MSU at least one
MaKayla Waldner opened the scoring with a head- the road during the a season, it can’t afford did concede he was pected to fill Jackson’s
er off a corner kick in the eighth minute. Onyi Echegini to play from behind added playmaker in the place at left tackle.
Joe Moorhead era. impressed with what
tapped in her own rebound in the 21st minute to give
again in Fayetteville. equation. Beyond Jackson, the
MSU a 2-0 lead. After Julissa Cisneros scored the first Through parts of two Jones had to offer in his Facing a must-win Razorbacks rank 48th
of her two goals for the host Tigers in the 23rd minute, seasons, the Bulldogs limited opportunity. situation this week as
Monigo Karnley scored for MSU off an assist from Olivia are 1-6 in SEC games Ben Hicks/Nick “John Stephen Jones they chase bowl eli-
nationally in sacks al-
Hernandez in the 30th minute. Hailey Farrington-Bentil away from the friendly lowed and 82nd in tack-
had the Bulldogs’ fourth and final goal off her own
confines of Davis Wade
Starkel/John Stephen did some good things
and opened up some
gibility, a banged-up/ les for a loss allowed
rebound in the 49th minute, and Cisneros had a late
goal in the 82nd. Stadium. Jones vs. Mississippi new dimensions in our
suspended Bulldog de-
this season — good for
fense doesn’t bode well
The victory earns MSU (8-7-3, 3-4-3 SEC) the No. That said, it’s how State secondary run game — we want to regardless of how inef-
fifth and 12th in the
9 seed, and the Bulldogs will play No. 8 Ole Miss at 3:30 MSU has lost those For those allergic to build on that,” he said. SEC, respectively.
p.m. Sunday in Orange Beach, Alabama. Whichever fective Arkansas’ quar-
games that has been quarterback controver- “He gave us a spark and The MSU defense
team wins that matchup will face top-seeded Arkansas terbacks have been this
on Tuesday. particularly concern- sy, avert your eyes. did some good things has plenty of issues to
season.
“I couldn’t be happier for the girls,” head coach ing. In the team’s three While MSU’s sig- for us. All of his reads sort through in its in-
James Armstrong said in a news release from MSU. “I road losses this year, nal caller situation were right on. We’ve jured secondary, but a
couldn’t be more proud. All the hard work that they’ve
put in this season all came to fruition tonight. Obviously,
the Bulldogs have been has been a revolving got to put together the MSU pass rush vs. competent pass rush
it was a massive game for everyone and a must-win outscored 42-6 in the door between graduate plan that benefits this Arkansas O-line could mask some of
game. Really proud of the girls.” first quarter. transfer Tommy Ste- football team moving For as bad as the those flaws this week in
“I can’t say that I vens and freshman Gar- forward.” MSU defense has Fayetteville.
SOURCE: From Special Reports

CALENDAR Baseball
Dallas
East
W L T Pct PF PA
4 3 0 .571 190 124
Utah
Minnesota
Denver
4 1 .800 —
3 1 .750 ½
3 2 .600 1
Chicago at Los Angeles, 9:30 p.m.
Sunday’s Games
Calgary at Washington, 6 p.m.
option on RHP Yusmeiro Petit. Declined their 2020
option on LHP Jake Diekman. Activated CF Luis
Barrera and RHP Daniel Gossett from the 60-
MLB Playoff Wrap-Up Portland 3 2 .600 1 Chicago at Anaheim, 7 p.m. day IL.
Today WILD CARD
Tuesday, Oct. 1: Washington 4, Milwaukee 3
Philadelphia
N.Y. Giants
Washington
4 4 0 .500 202 199
2 6 0 .250 158 218
1 7 0 .125 99 195
Oklahoma City 1 4 .200 3
Pacific Division
SEATTLE MARINERS — Declined their 2020 club
option on LHP Wade LeBlanc.
Prep Football
Lafayette at Columbus, 7 p.m.
Wednesday, Oct. 2: Tampa Bay 5, Oakland 1
DIVISION SERIES
South
W L T Pct PF PA

L.A. Lakers
L.A. Clippers
W L Pct GB
3 1
4 2
.750 —
.667 —
Prep Football TEXAS RANGERS — Activated LHP Jesse Biddle
from the 60-day IL and assigned him outright to

American League
(Best-of-5) New Orleans 7 1 0 .875 195 156
Carolina 4 3 0 .571 179 184 Phoenix 3 2 .600 ½ Mississippi Poll Nashville (PCL). Assigned OF Zack Granite out-
right to Nashville. Acquired C Welington Castillo
Noxubee County at Aberdeen, 7 p.m. Houston 3, Tampa Bay 2 Tampa Bay 2 5 0 .286 196 212 Golden State 1 3 .250 2 Overall and international slot compensation from the Chi-
Friday, Oct. 4: Houston 6, Tampa Bay 2 Atlanta 1 7 0 .125 165 250 Sacramento 0 5 .000 3½ School W-L Pts Prv cago White Sox for INF-OF Jonah McReynolds.
New Hope at West Point, 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5: Houston 3, Tampa Bay 1 North Wednesday’s Games 1. Starkville (6) (8-2) 104 1 National League
Cleveland 117, Chicago 111 2. West Point (3) (9-1) 98 2 ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Named Matt
Starkville at Warren Central, 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 7: Tampa Bay 10, Houston 3
Tuesday, Oct. 8: Tampa Bay 4, Houston 1

Green Bay
W L T Pct PF PA
7 1 0 .875 215 163 Orlando 95, New York 83 3. South Panola (1) (9-1) 85 5 Herges pitching coach. Declined their 2020 club
IAHS at Caledonia, 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 10: Houston 6, Tampa Bay 1 Minnesota 6 2 0 .750 211 132 Philadelphia 117, Minnesota 95
Boston 116, Milwaukee 105
4. Picayune (1) (9-0) 83 4 options on INF Wilmer Flores and LHP T.J. Mc-
Farland. Assigned OF Abraham Almote and LHP
N.Y. Yankees 3, Minnesota 0 Detroit 3 3 1 .500 180 186 5. Petal (8-1) 58 6
Hebron Christian at Kemper Academy, Friday, Oct. 4: N.Y. Yankees 10, Minnesota 4 Chicago 3 4 0 .429 128 122 Indiana 118, Brooklyn 108 6. Madison Central (7-2) 42 3 Robby Scott outright to Reno (PCL).
Saturday, Oct. 5: N.Y. Yankees 8, Minnesota 2 West Toronto 125, Detroit 113 7. Oxford (8-1) 40 7 CINCINNATI REDS — Acquired OF Travis Jan-
7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 7: N.Y. Yankees 5, Minnesota 1 W L T Pct PF PA Houston 159, Washington 158 8. West Jones (9-0) 33 8 kowski from the San Diego Padres for Internation-
National League San Francisco 8 0 0 1.000 235 102 Portland 102, Oklahoma City 99 al Cap Space.
College Volleyball Washington 3, L.A. Dodgers 2 Seattle 6 2 0 .750 208 196 Charlotte 118, Sacramento 111
9. Greenwood
10. South Pike
(9-0) 20 T10
(10-0) 19 T10
LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Selected LHP Vic-
Thursday, Oct. 3: L.A. Dodgers 6, Washington 0 L.A. Rams 5 3 0 .625 214 174 Utah 110, L.A. Clippers 96 tor Gonzalez from Oklahoma City (PCL).
Mississippi State at Auburn, 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 4: Washington 4, L.A. Dodgers 2 Arizona 3 5 1 .389 195 251 Phoenix 121, Golden State 110 Others receiving votes: Corinth 5, Lafayette 3, PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Named Bryan Price
Thursday’s Games Columbia 3, Heritage Aca. 3, Oak Grove 2, Pearl pitching coach.
Men’s College Basketball Sunday, Oct. 6: L.A. Dodgers 10, Washington 4
Monday, Oct. 7: Washington 6, L.A. Dodgers 1
Monday’s Games
Pittsburgh 27, Miami 14 Miami 106, Atlanta 97 2, North Side 2, West Marion 1, Greenville St. Jo- PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Traded RHP Parker
seph 1. Laurel 1.
Blessed IJN Prep at East Mississippi Wednesday, Oct. 9: Washington 7, L.A. Dodgers Thursday’s Games New Orleans 122, Denver 107
L.A. Clippers 103, San Antonio 97 Class 6A
Markel to the Los Angeles Angels for cash con-
siderations.
3, 10 innings San Francisco 28, Arizona 25
Community College, 1 p.m. St. Louis 3, Atlanta 2 Sunday, Nov. 3 Friday’s Games School W-L Pts Prv SAN DIEGO PADRES — Declined their 2020
Thursday, Oct. 3: St. Louis 7, Atlanta 6 Houston vs Jacksonville at London, UK, 8:30 a.m. Cleveland at Indiana, 6 p.m. 1. Starkville (10) (8-2) 109 1 club options on LHP Aaron Loup and RHP Adam
Women’s College Basketball Friday, Oct. 4: Atlanta 3, St. Louis 0 N.Y. Jets at Miami, Noon Houston at Brooklyn, 6 p.m. 2. South Panola (1) (9-1) 90 3 Warren.
Sunday, Oct. 6: Atlanta 3, St. Louis 1 Washington at Buffalo, Noon Milwaukee at Orlando, 6 p.m. 3. Petal (8-1) 85 4 BASKETBALL
Clark Atlanta at Ole Miss, 7 p.m. (exh.) Monday, Oct. 7: St. Louis 5, Atlanta 4, 10 innings Tennessee at Carolina, Noon New York at Boston, 6:30 p.m. 4. Oxford (8-1) 74 5 National Basketball Association
Wednesday, Oct. 9: St. Louis 13, Atlanta 1 Minnesota at Kansas City, Noon Detroit at Chicago, 7 p.m. 5. Madison Central (7-2) 73 2 NBA — Suspended Philadelphia 76ers C Joel Em-
LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES Chicago at Philadelphia, Noon L.A. Lakers at Dallas, 8:30 p.m. Others receiving votes: Southaven 9. biid and Minnesota Timberwolves C Karl-Anthony

on the air (Best-of-7) Indianapolis at Pittsburgh, Noon Utah at Sacramento, 9 p.m. Towns have two games without pay for their roles
San Antonio at Golden State, 9:30 p.m.< Class 5A in an on-court altercation and for their continued
American League Tampa Bay at Seattle, 3:05 p.m. School W-L Pts Prv
Houston 4, N.Y. Yankees 2 Detroit at Oakland, 3:05 p.m. Saturday’s Games escalation following the incident.
New Orleans at Oklahoma City, 4 p.m. 1. West Point (8) (9-1) 106 1 GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS — Exercised the
Saturday, Oct. 12: N.Y. Yankees 7, Houston 0 Green Bay at L.A. Chargers, 3:25 p.m.
2. Picayune (3) (9-0) 101 2
Today Sunday, Oct. 13: Houston 3, N.Y. Yankees 2, 11
innings
Cleveland at Denver, 3:25 p.m.
New England at Baltimore, 7:20 p.m.
Brooklyn at Detroit, 6 p.m.
Denver at Orlando, 6 p.m. 3. West Jones (9-0) 90 3
third-year contract options on G Jacob Evans III
and F Omari Spellman.
Minnesota at Washington, 7 p.m. 4. Lafayette (7-2) 76 4 SACRAMENTO KINGS — Exercised its 2020-21
COLLEGE FOOTBALL Tuesday, Oct. 15: Houston 4, N.Y. Yankees 1
Wednesday, Oct. 16: Houston at N.Y. Yankees,
Open: L.A. Rams, New Orleans, Atlanta, Cincin-
nati Phoenix at Memphis, 7 p.m. 5. Laurel (7-2) 67 5 options on F Marvin Bagley III and G De’Aaron
5 p.m. — Princeton at Cornell, ESPNU ppd. Monday, Nov. 4 Toronto at Milwaukee, 7 p.m.
Charlotte at Golden State, 7:30 p.m.
Others receiving votes: none.
Class 4A
Fox.
NBA G League
Thursday, Oct. 17: Houston 8, N.Y. Yankees 3 Dallas at N.Y. Giants, 7:15 p.m.
7 p.m. — Navy at Connecticut, ESPN2 Friday, Oct. 18: N.Y. Yankees 4, Houston 1 Philadelphia at Portland, 9 p.m. School W-L Pts Prv MEMPHIS HUSTLE — Waived G Shaqquan Aaron
Saturday, Oct. 19: Houston 6, N.Y. Yankees 4 Sunday’s Games 1. South Pike (6) (10-0) 104 1 and F Jamal Rodgers.
NBA BASKETBALL National League 49ers 28, Cardinals 25 Chicago at Indiana, 4 p.m. 2. Greenwood (4) (9-0) 101 2 FOOTBALL
Washington 4, St. Louis 0 San Francisco 7 14 7 0 — 28 Houston at Miami, 5 p.m. National Football League
6 p.m. — Houston at Brooklyn, ESPN Friday, Oct. 11: Washington 2, St. Louis 0 Arizona 7 0 7 11 — 25 Sacramento at New York, 5 p.m.
3. Corinth (1)
4. Louisville
(8-2) 85 3
(8-2) 77 4 GREEN BAY PACKERS — Signed TE Evan Baylis
Saturday, Oct. 12: Washington 3, St. Louis 1 L.A. Lakers at San Antonio, 6 p.m. and WR Darrius Shepherd to the practice squad.
8:30 p.m. — LA Lakers at Dallas, ESPN Monday, Oct. 14: Washington 8, St. Louis 1
First quarter
Ari_Drake 4 run (Gonzalez kick), 12:11. Dallas at Cleveland, 6:30 p.m. 5. Itawamba AHS (10-0) 73 5 Released WR Keon Hatcher from the practice
Saturday Utah at L.A. Clippers, 8 p.m. Others receiving votes: none. squad. General Manager Brian Gutekunst an-
Tuesday, Oct. 15 Washington 7, St. Louis 4 SF_Kittle 30 pass from Garoppolo (Gould kick), Class 3A
WORLD SERIES :04. nounced the transactions Thursday.
(Best-of-7) School W-L Pts Prv PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Announced LB
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
11 a.m. — Michigan at Maryland, ABC
Washington 4, Houston 3
Tuesday, Oct. 22: Washington 5, Houston 4
8:58.
Second quarter
SF_Bourne 7 pass from Garoppolo (Gould kick), Pro Hockey 1. Columbia (11)
2. West Marion
3. Senatobia
(9-0) 110 1
(9-1) 97 2
(7-2) 69 NR
Anthony Chickillo was activated from the commis-
sioner’s exempt list.
TENNESSEE TITANS — Signed OL Hroniss Gra-
11 a.m. — Northern Illinois at Central
Wednesday, Oct. 23: Washington 12, Houston 3
Friday, Oct. 25: Houston 4, Washington 1 SF_Sanders 1 pass from Garoppolo (Gould kick), NHL Glance 4. Magee (8-2) 37 3 su. Waived WR Darius Jennings.
:00. EASTERN CONFERENCE 5. Booneville (7-2) 32 NR HOCKEY
Saturday, Oct. 26: Houston 8, Washington 1 Atlantic Division
Michigan, CBSSN Sunday, Oct. 27: Houston 7, Washington 1 Third quarter
GP W L OT Pts GF GA Others receiving votes: Choctaw County 28, National Hockey League
Tuesday, Oct. 29: Washington 7, Houston 2 Ari_K.Johnson 9 pass from K.Murray (Gonzalez Winona 27, Yazoo County 15, Water Valley 13, ARIZONA COYOTES — Assigned D Kyle Capobi-
11 a.m. — North Carolina State at Wednesday, Oct. 30: Washington 6, Houston 2 kick), 9:01. Boston 12 9 1 2 20 41 25
Buffalo 13 9 2 2 20 44 33 North Panola 12. anco to the Tucson (AHL).
SF_Pettis 21 pass from Garoppolo (Gould kick), TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Reassigned F Cory
Wake Forest, ESPN 5:55.
Montreal 13 7 4 2 16 50 41 Class 2A
Conacher to Syracuse (AHL).
11 a.m. — Houston at Central Florida, Nationals 6, Astros 2 Fourth quarter
Florida 13 6 3 4 16 47 51
Toronto 14 6 5 3 15 49 49
School
1. Philadelphia (9)
W-L Pts Prv
(9-1) 108 1
American Hockey League
AHL — Suspended Rockford IceHogs F Dylan
ESPN2 World Series Game 7 Ari_FG Gonzalez 36, 9:24.
Ari_Isabella 88 pass from K.Murray (Drake pass
Tampa Bay 12 6 4 2 14 42 42
Detroit 13 4 8 1 9 30 46
2. Taylorsville (1) (9-1) 99 2 Sikura one game for a high-sticking incident vs.
3. Scott Central (7-2) 83 4 San Antonio.
11 a.m. — Buffalo at Eastern Michigan, Wednesday from K.Murray), 4:53. Ottawa 11 3 7 1 7 29 37 4. East Webster (8-1) 63 5 SAN DIEGO GULLS — Acquired D Ryan Johnston
Washington Houston A_60,986. Metropolitan Division 5. North Side (1) (9-0) 37 NR from the Toronto Marlies for future considerations.
ab r h bi ab r h bi SF Ari GP W L OT Pts GF GA
ESPNU Turner ss 4 0 0 0 Springer cf-rf 4 0 0 0 First downs 21 19 Washington 14 9 2 3 21 54 46
Others receiving votes: Bay Springs 31, Calhoun East Coast Hockey League
City 19. ECHL — Suspended Florida’s Jack Nevins one
11 a.m. — Nebraska at Purdue, FOX Eaton rf 4 1 1 2 A ltuve 2b 5 0 1 0
Rendon 3b 5 1 1 1 Brantley lf 4 0 1 0
Total Net Yards 411
Rushes-yards 31-101
357
23-153
Carolina 12 8 3 1 17 39 30
N.Y. Islanders 11 8 3 0 16 34 27
Class 1A game and fined an undisclosed amount as a result
School W-L Pts Prv of his actions at Cincinnati.
11 a.m. — UTSA at Texas A&M, SEC Soto lf 4 1 2 1 Bregman 3b 3 0 0 0 Passing 310 204 Pittsburgh 13 8 5 0 16 46 31
1. Nanih Waiya (10) (8-2) 109 1 LACROSSE
Kendrick dh 3 1 2 2 Gurriel 1b 4 2 2 1 Punt Returns 3-25 3-17 Columbus 12 5 5 2 12 31 43 National Lacrosse League
1:30 p.m. — Virginia Tech at Notre Cabrera 2b 3 0 1 0 A lvarez dh 3 0 1 0 Kickoff Returns 4-70 3-55 Philadelphia 11 5 5 1 11 36 38 2. Noxapater
3. Lumberton
(8-2) 96 2
(8-2) 88 3 BUFFALO BANDITS — Signed F Josh Byrne to a
Zimmerman 1b 3 0 1 0 Correa ss 4 0 2 1 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 0-0 N.Y. Rangers 10 4 5 1 9 33 35 one-year contract.
Dame, NBC Gomes c 4 1 0 0 Chirinos c 4 0 0 0 Comp-Att-Int 28-37-0 17-24-0 New Jersey 10 2 5 3 7 28 43 4. Smithville (7-2) 55 4 SOCCER
Robles cf 4 1 1 0 Reddick rf 2 0 1 0 Sacked-Yards Lost 1-7 3-37 WESTERN CONFERENCE 5. Biggersville (7-1) 43 5
2:30 p.m. — Miami at Florida State, a-Marisnick ph 2 0 1 0 Punts 5-46.2 5-50.6 Central Division Others receiving votes: West Lowndes 27, West
Major League Soccer
SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES — Signed Ms Eric
Totals 34 6 9 6 Totals 35 2 9 2 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 0-0 GP W L OT Pts GF GA Bolivar (1) 22.
ABC Washington 000 000 312—6 Penalties-Yards 8-75 9-65 Colorado 12 8 2 2 18 47 34 Private Schools
Calvillo and Gilbert Fuentes to multiyear contracts.
COLLEGE
2:30 p.m. — Rutgers at Illinois, BTN Houston 010 010 000—2
E_Marisnick (1). DP_Washington 1, Houston 1.
Time of Possession 34:31 25:29
Individual statistics
Nashville 13 8 3 2 18 53 40
St. Louis 13 7 3 3 17 39 40
School W-L Pts Prv NCAA — Announced national coordinator of col-
1. Heritage Aca. (10) (11-0) 109 1 lege football officials Rogers Redding will retire
2:30 p.m. — Georgia vs. Florida, Jack- LOB_Washington 7, Houston 10. HR_Rendon (2), RUSHING: San Francisco, Breida 15-78, Coleman Winnipeg 13 6 7 0 12 36 44 2. St. Joseph, Greenville (10-0) 95 2 after the season.
Kendrick (1), Gurriel (1). SB_Eaton (1). S_Cabrera 12-23, Garoppolo 3-2, Mostert 1-(minus 2). Arizo- Dallas 14 5 8 1 11 31 39 3. Madison-Ridgeland (1) (9-2) 91 3 BIG TEN CONFERENCE — Declared Michigan
sonville, Fla., CBS (1). na, Drake 15-110, K.Murray 5-34, Kirk 1-8, Morris Chicago 11 3 6 2 8 25 34 4. Jackson Prep (8-2) 76 4 State LB Joe Bachie ineligible after testing positive
IP H R ER BB SO Minnesota 13 4 9 0 8 30 45 for a banned supplement.
2:30 p.m. — Army at Air Force, CBSSN Washington
1-4, Zenner 1-(minus 3).
PASSING: San Francisco, Garoppolo 28-37-0- Pacific Division 5. Pillow Aca. (8-2) 69 5
Scherzer 5 7 2 2 4 3 GP W L OT Pts GF GA Others receiving votes: none.
2:30 p.m. — ­ TCU at Oklahoma State, 317. Arizona, K.Murray 17-24-0-241. All Associated Press members in Mississippi
ESPN
Corbin, W, 1-1 3 2 0 0 0 3
Hudson
Houston
1 0 0 0 0 2 RECEIVING: San Francisco, Sanders 7-112, Kittle
6-79, Samuel 4-40, Dwelley 4-29, Breida 2-14,
Edmonton 14 9 4 1 19 42 37
Vancouver 12 8 3 1 17 47 30
Vegas 14 8 5 1 17 46 41
are eligible to participate in the high school foot-
ball poll. Those who voted for this week’s poll
Auto
2:30 p.m. — Arkansas State at Louisi- Greinke 6 1-3 2 2 2 2 3 Coleman 2-13, Pettis 1-21, Bourne 1-7, Wilson 1-2. Anaheim 14 8 6 0 16 39 35 are: Boswell Media, Kosciusko; The Commer-
cial Dispatch, Columbus; Bolivar Commercial,
NASCAR Monster Energy
Harris, L, 0-1 0 2 1 1 0 0 Arizona, Drake 4-52, Fitzgerald 4-38, K.Johnson Calgary 15 7 6 2 16 43 46
ana-Monroe, ESPNU Osuna 1 1-3 2 1 1 2 0 2-22, Cooper 2-15, Kirk 2-8, Isabella 1-88, M.Wil- Arizona 12 7 4 1 15 35 28 Cleveland; The Daily Corinthian, Corinth; Delta Series Glance
Pressly 1-3 0 0 0 0 0 liams 1-12, Clay 1-6. San Jose 13 4 8 1 9 32 48 Democrat-Times, Greenville; Hattiesburg Impact,
2:30 p.m. — Kansas State at Kansas, Smith 1-3 2 2 2 1 0 MISSED FIELD GOALS: None. Los Angeles 13 4 9 0 8 34 54 Hattiesburg; Enterprise-Journal, McComb; The
Natchez Democrat, Natchez; Northeast Missis-
Sunday, Aug. 11 — Consumers Energy 400,
Urquidy 2-3 1 0 0 0 0 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime Brooklyn, Mich. (Kevin Harvick)
FS1 Harris pitched to 2 batters in the 7th. loss. Top three teams in each division and two wild sippi Daily Journal, Tupelo; The Vicksburg Post, Saturday, Aug. 17 — Bass Pro Shops NRA Night
2:30 p.m. — UTEP at North Texas, NFL Umpires_Home, Jim Wolf; First, Doug Eddings;
Second, Gary Cederstrom; Third, James Hoye;
Right, Sam Holbrook; Left, Lance Barksdale.
Pro Basketball cards per conference advance to playoffs.
Wednesday’s Games
Tampa Bay 7, New Jersey 6, OT
Vicksburg; WTVA-TV, Tupelo. Race, Bristol, Tenn. (Denny Hamlin)
Sunday, Sept. 1 — Bojangles’ Southern 500, Dar-
lington, S.C. (Erik Jones)
3 p.m. — Tulsa at Tulane, ESPN2
3 p.m. — Utah at Washington, FOX
T_3:42. A_43,326 (41,168). NBA Glance
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
Edmonton 4, Columbus 1
St. Louis 2, Minnesota 1
Transactions Thursday’s moves
Sunday, Sept. 8 — Big Machine Vodka 400 at the
Brickyard, Indianapolis (Kevin Harvick)
Florida 4, Colorado 3, OT Playoff Races
BASEBALL
3 p.m. — Mississippi State at Arkan-
sas, SEC
Pro Football

NFL Glance
6 p.m. — Cincinnati at ECU, CBSSN AMERICAN CONFERENCE
East
6 p.m. — Ole Miss at Auburn, ESPN W L T Pct PF PA
New England 8 0 0 1.000 250 61
6 p.m. — UAB at Tennessee, ESPNU
Buffalo 5 2 0 .714 134 122
N.Y. Jets 1 6 0 .143 78 185
6 p.m. — Northwestern at Indiana, FS1 Miami 0 6 0 .000 63 211
South
6:30 p.m. — SMU at Memphis, ABC W L T Pct PF PA
6:30 p.m. — Vanderbilt at South Caro- Indianapolis 5 2 0 .714 158 151
Houston 5 3 0 .625 212 188
lina, SEC Jacksonville 4 4 0 .500 173 163
Tennessee 4 4 0 .500 148 135
7 p.m. — Oregon at USC, FOX North
W L T Pct PF PA
9 p.m. — BYU at Utah State, ESPN2
Baltimore 5 2 0 .714 214 156
Pittsburgh 2 4 0 .333 123 131
9:30 p.m. — Boise State at San Jose Cleveland 2 5 0 .286 133 181
Cincinnati 0 8 0 .000 124 210
State, CBSSN West
NBA BASKETBALL W L T Pct PF PA
Kansas City 5 3 0 .625 226 181
6 p.m. — Denver at Orlando, NBA Oakland 3 4 0 .429 151 192
L.A. Chargers 3 5 0 .375 157 157
9 p.m. — Philadelphia at Portland, NBA Denver 2 6 0 .250 125 151
NATIONAL CONFERENCE
Toronto
W L Pct GB
Philadelphia 4 0 1.000 —
4 1 .800 ½
Boston 3 1 .750 1
Brooklyn 1 3 .250 3
New York 1 4 .200 3½
Southeast Division
W L Pct GB
Miami 4 1 .800 —
Orlando 2 2 .500 1½
Atlanta 2 3 .400 2
Charlotte 2 3 .400 2
Washington 1 3 .250 2½
Central Division
W L Pct GB
Milwaukee 2 2 .500 —
Cleveland 2 2 .500 —
Detroit 2 3 .400 ½
Indiana 1 3 .250 1
Chicago 1 4 .200 1½
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Southwest Division
Houston
W L Pct GB
3 1 .750 —
Dallas 3 1 .750 —
San Antonio 3 1 .667 1
Memphis 1 3 .250 2
New Orleans 1 4 .200 2½
Northwest Division
W L Pct GB
Montreal 4, Arizona 1
Vancouver 5, Los Angeles 3
Thursday’s Games
Calgary 6, Nashville 5, OT
Montreal 5, Vegas 4, OT
Today’s Games
Tampa Bay vs. N.Y. Islanders at Nassau Veterans
Memorial Coliseum, 6 p.m.
Philadelphia at New Jersey, 6 p.m.
Buffalo at Washington, 6 p.m.
Detroit at Carolina, 6:30 p.m.
Columbus at St. Louis, 7 p.m.
Dallas at Colorado, 8 p.m.
Vancouver at Anaheim, 9 p.m.
Winnipeg at San Jose, 9:30 p.m.
Saturday’s Games
Edmonton at Pittsburgh, noon
N.Y. Rangers at Nashville, 1 p.m.
N.Y. Islanders at Buffalo, 6 p.m.
Ottawa at Boston, 6 p.m.
Detroit at Florida, 6 p.m.
Calgary at Columbus, 6 p.m.
Montreal at Dallas, 6 p.m.
New Jersey at Carolina, 6 p.m.
Toronto at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.
St. Louis at Minnesota, 7 p.m.
Colorado at Arizona, 8 p.m.
Winnipeg at Vegas, 9 p.m.
Vancouver at San Jose, 9 p.m.
American League
BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Sent OF Mason Wil-
Sunday, Sept. 15 — South Point 400, Las Vegas
(Martin Truex Jr.)
Saturday, Sept. 21 — Federated Auto Parts 400,
liams outright to Norfolk (IL), Williams has elected Richmond, Va. (Martin Truex Jr.)
free agency.
BOSTON RED SOX — Promoted Dave Bush to
Sunday, Sept. 29 — Bank of American ROVAL
400, Concord, N.C. (Chase Elliott)
pitching coach, Kevin Walker to assistant pitching Sunday, Oct. 6 — Drydene 400, Dover, Del. (Kyle
coach. Named Peter Fatse assistant hitting coach Larson)
and Rey Fuentes mental skills coordinator. Acti-
Monday, Oct. 14 — 1000Bulbs.com 500, Tallade-
vated LHP Chris Sale and 2B Dustin Pedroia from ga, Ala. (Ryan Blaney)
the 60-day IL. Sunday, Oct. 20 — Hollywood Casino 400, Kansas
CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Acquired INF-OF Jo-
nah McReynolds from Texas for C Welington Cas-
City, Kan. (Denny Hamlin)
Sunday, Oct. 27 — First Data 500, Martinsville, Va.
tillo and an international signing bonus pool slot.
Reinstated RHPs Ryan Burr and Michael Kopech,
(Martin Truex Jr.)
Sunday, Nov. 3 — AAA Texas 500, Fort Worth,
LHP Carlos Rodon and OF Jon Jay from the 60-
day IL. Announced LHP Josh Osich was claimed
Texas
Sunday, Nov. 10 — Bluegreen Vacations 500,
off waivers by Boston. Avondale, Ariz.
CLEVELAND INDIANS — Exercised 2020 club Sunday, Nov. 17 — Ford EcoBoost 400, Home-
option on RHP Corey Kluber. Declined 2020 club
stead, Fla.
options on 2B Jason Kipnis and RHP Dan Otero. Points Leaders
DETRIOT TIGERS — Activated RHP Michael Ful- Through Sunday
mer, OF JaCoby Jones, RHP Tyson Ross and LHP
Matt Moore from the 60-day IL.
1. Martin Truex Jr., 4102
2. Denny Hamlin, 4082
KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Named Mike Metheny
manager.
3. Kyle Busch, 4075
4. Joey Logano, 4072
NEW YORK YANKEES — Declined their 2020
club option for 1B-DH Edwin Encarnacion.
5. Kevin Harvick, 4058
6. Ryan Blaney, 4057
OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Named Eric Martins 7. Kyle Larson, 4048
assistant hitting coach. Exercised their 2020 club 8. Chase Elliott, 4028
4B Friday, November 1, 2019
EMCC women’s basketball enters season with
promising freshmen, three key returning pieces
By Theo Derosa
tderosa@cdispatch.com
Coach Sharon Thomp-
son knows this year’s
East Mississippi Com-
munity College women’s
basketball team will be
another puzzle she’s got
to solve.
The Lions will be led
by three key sophomore
“pieces,” as Thompson
dubbed them: guard Tye
Metcalf, forward Aamiya
Rush and center Mad-
die Riley. They’ve got
intriguing new options,
too, including freshman
center Ja’Mia Hollings
from West Point and
freshman point guard
Vantasia Duncan from
Forest.
With EMCC coming
off last season’s 11-13 re-
cord with an 8-4 MACJC
North mark, Thompson
believes the Lions can
finish at the top of their
division again. She’ll just
have to hold out hope
that the pieces in her box
are the right ones. Her
players sure think so.
“We’ll be able to man-
age working together
and put all the pieces to-
gether,” Metcalf said. “I
think we’re gonna be a
great fit.”
The 5-foot-5 guard
from Southaven led the
Lions in scoring with
14 points per game her
freshman year, and
she’ll be perhaps the
biggest contributor of
the seven sophomores
on the roster. Riley, who
led the team in rebound-
ing with 9.1 boards per
game last year, will
make her presence felt
on the glass again. And
Rush, who averaged 10.4
points and 8.3 rebounds
in her freshman season,
will help out in both ar-
eas — after she returns
from a broken thumb she
suffered a couple weeks
ago in practice.
Royals hire ex-Cardinals skipper
Mike Matheny as manager
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo.
— The Kansas City Roy-
als hired Mike Matheny
on Thursday, bringing in
a manager who took the
cross-state Cardinals to
the World Series six years
ago before a three-season
swoon cost him his job.
The 49-year-old
Matheny went 591-474 with
the Cardinals and was the
first manager to reach the
postseason his first four
seasons. The Cardinals
reached the World Series
in 2013, losing to the Red
Sox, but Matheny was fired
in July 2018 with the team
in jeopardy of missing the
playoffs.
Matheny was hired last
November by the Royals as
a special adviser for player
development, and the be-
lief among many was that
he was being groomed to
take over when Ned Yost
retired.
That happened shortly
before the Royals finished
another 100-loss campaign
last month.
“Our entire organiza-
tion is delighted to an-
nounce and celebrate the
hiring of Mike Matheny,”
general manager Dayton
Moore said in a statement.
“Every department has
had the pleasure to work
and interact with him this
past season. Through this
interaction, it became very
clear to our leadership
team that Mike is the ob-
vious person to lead our
baseball team.”
The Royals are in the
midst of a massive retool-
ing effort after their back-
to-back World Series ap-
pearances in 2014-15, a run
of success that culminated
with their first champion-
ship since 1985.
That team’s foundation
reached free agency short-
ly after beating the New
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Jennifer Mosbrucker/Dispatch Staff
The East Mississippi Community College women’s basketball team lines up on the half court line as each player is announced during Late
Night with the Lions on Monday night at EMCC’s Currie Coliseum. During the event, students watched their men’s and women’s basketball
teams participate in 3-point shooting and skills contests. Students were invited to attempt the same skills contests after the teams showed
off their abilities.
“We still have some wants to go get a buck- minutes at point guard. state tournament after practice, and we try to tell
great post players com- et, she’s gonna go get a “We’re expecting showing promise in con- them how to do it or cor-
ing in behind her that bucket, and that’s what good things out of her,” ference play. rect them so they don’t
can pick up the slack, we need.” Thompson said. “She “Our whole goal last keep on making the same
so I think it’ll be good,” Thompson knows the handles the ball well.” year was to be ready for mistakes,” Metcalf said.
said sophomore guard potential the 6-foot-1 for- While Thompson division play,” Thompson Thompson’s been im-
Alaysha Jennings, a New ward/center has in the knows how critical re- said. “I believe last year pressed with how her
Hope product. “But we’ll post, saying Hollings turning sophomores we were so young and sophomores have an-
definitely be ready to get would likely be in the can be in junior college inexperienced that it was swered the call just a year
her back.” starting lineup come basketball, the potential gonna take us a while to removed from their own
Jennings and guards Monday’s season opener. freshmen offer is always get things going.” freshman jitters.
Tia Daniels, Taylor Lat- “Of all the freshmen, exciting, too. Jennings remembers “They’re real leaders
timore and Topazia Haw- she’s probably the one “The best thing about having to adjust to cer- on the court this year and
kins round out a solid I’ve been most pleased a freshman is she be- tain major aspects of the doing big things for us so
sophomore class, and with,” Thompson said. comes a sophomore,” college game: an elevat- far, so we’re expecting
plenty of potential lies “Great attitude about Thompson said. ed pace and, for the first bigger things from them
in the freshman class as everything. It doesn’t Walk-on freshman time, a shot clock. this year,” she said.
well. change her demeanor. Keayra Hughes from Co- “That is a big adjust- What kind of bigger
The Lions have been She’s one of those kids lumbus High rounds out ment,” she said of the things, exactly?
nothing but compli- you can coach hard. She the Lions’ crop of five shot clock. “You don’t “Getting that ring,”
mentary of Hollings, accepts hard coaching. players from the Golden think about it as much as Metcalf said.
whose tall, thin frame And that’s why to me Triangle area: Rush and you should.” As the season begins,
earned her the nickname she’s ahead of all our Hollings went to West Now Jennings is a sea- she’s confident that while
“Sticks” long before she other freshmen: because Point, and Jennings and soned sophomore, part of this season may be anoth-
joined the team. she can accept the tough freshman center Julia a group trying to get EM- er puzzle, the Lions hold
“She has great foot- coaching.” Franks attended New CC’s freshman class in the solution.
work,” Metcalf said. In the backcourt, Dun- Hope. game shape as the start “We can come out un-
“She’s a hard worker. can’s quickness, speed They’ll provide depth of the season nears. defeated,” Metcalf said.
She’s always hustling, and scoring ability have to a roster that lost in the “For us to be sopho- “We’ve got all the pieces
and we love her. If she her well suited to see first round of last year’s mores, we see them in we need.”
York Mets for the title,
forcing the small-market
organization to dismantle
and rebuild. Wins have
been hard to come by, but
the team showed progress
this past season as a wave
of young position players
reached the majors.
The fact that Matheny
spent the past season
evaluating the progress of
those players, along with a
batch of talented pitchers
still in the minors, gave
him a leg up in the compe-
tition for the job.
Matheny was a Gold
Glove-winning catcher
who succeeded Tony La
Russa as Cardinals man-
ager after St. Louis won
the 2011 World Series.
But after some immediate
success endeared him to
plenty of Cardinals fans,
Matheny was just 216-
201 in his final two-plus
seasons, culminating in
the club’s first in-season
managerial change since
Joe Torre was replaced by
Mike Jorgensen in 1995.
The Royals can only
hope Matheny has as much
success in Kansas City as
Torre had in his next stop:
He led the New York Yan-
kees to four World Series
championships in a five-
year span.
While Matheny brings
postseason experience
— he managed 43 playoff
games in St. Louis — his
real value beginning next
season will be developing
the young talent on the
roster.
Talented shortstop Adal-
berto Mondesi had shoul-
der surgery but should
be back next season, and
outfielder Jorge Soler set
a club record with 48 hom-
ers last season. Third base-
man Hunter Dozier added
26 in a breakthrough sea-
son while Whit Merrifield
had another 200-hit sea-
son at second base.
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showing us new stuff that
they hadn’t done all year,”
Shrader said of what has
caused the offense’s re-
cent struggles. “So we’re
just having to adjust to
what they’re running.”
And while Moorhead’s
offenses have been defi-
cient at best, Morris’ of-
fensive prestige at SMU
has turned to dust at Ar-
kansas. The Razorbacks
are ranked a meager No.
98 in total offense this
season — though they’re
up from No. 118 last sea-
season.
Like Shoop, Arkansas
defensive coordinator
John Chavis entered his
tenure at Arkansas with
past SEC experience at
Tennessee, LSU and Tex-
as A&M. And also like
Shoop, his defenses have
left plenty to be desired
heading into this week-
end’s matchup.
In Chavis’ two seasons
leading the Arkansas
defense, the Razorbacks
ranked No. 79 and No. 89,
respectively, while allow-
a 3-5 start with losses to
middling Tennessee and
Texas A&M teams while
sitting at 1-4 in the SEC
and 0-3 on the road.
Morris hasn’t fared
much better. After fin-
ishing last season 2-10,
his squad sits at 2-6 with
wins over FCS Portland
State and Mountain West
opponent Colorado State
and a 13-game SEC losing
streak still alive.
Perhaps more press-
ing, reinforcements are
not necessarily on the
ten the ball rolling in a
way his predecessor did
not this early in his time
in Starkville.
“I think in the past
two years we have really
demonstrated how com-
mitted we are to recruit-
ing in the state of Missis-
sippi and the surrounding
states and our footprint
with having the willing-
ness and the ability to go
nationally for a player that
has a reason to come to
Mississippi State,” Moor-
head said of next year’s
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Moorhead or Morris con-
siders himself a defensive
coach, their respective
defensive coordinators
haven’t exactly helped the
offenses this season.
Moorhead was handed
the keys to perhaps the
best defense in program
history following Dan
Mullen’s move to Florida.
With future first-round
NFL draft picks Jeffery
Simmons, Johnathan
Abram and Montez Sweat,
the Bulldogs ranked No. 1
in the nation in total de-
fense.
MSU defensive coor-
dinator Bob Shoop, who
struggled during his pre-
vious stop at Tennessee,
looked to have found a
groove in Starkville — un-
til this season.
With the vacuum of tal-
ent and leadership leaving
the room, MSU has stum-
bled to the No. 73-ranked
defense in the country —
one that is allowing 402.3
yards per game, up from
263.1 yards per game last
2019 recruiting class
No. 20
2020 recruiting class
head and Morris were
expected to bring stout
defenses when signed,
but the poor-performing
units have exacerbated
their offensive issues.
Beyond the offensive
and defensive numbers,
the staunch realities of
SEC head coaching ten-
ures come down to wins
and losses.
In both cases, neither
coach has been particu-
larly successful in the win
column.
Riding last season’s
widely acclaimed defense,
Moorhead finished his in-
augural campaign at 8-5
with a loss to Iowa in the
Outback Bowl — though
doubters remain steadfast
the Bulldogs should have
been a 10-win team.
Lacking last season’s
defensive stars, the Bull-
dogs have stumbled to
2019 recruiting class
No. 44
2020 recruiting class
formed admirably on the
recruiting trail by MSU
standards.
Piecing together the
first recruiting class of
his tenure, he secured the
nation’s No. 24-ranked
2019 class per 247Sports.
com’s rankings — good
for eighth in the SEC.
Moorhead’s 2020 class
also currently sits at No.
20 nationally. For context,
Mullen’s second class at
MSU in 2010 sat at No. 30
nationally.
Morris, who was
brought to Arkansas for
his recruiting roots —
particularly in Texas —
as much as his on-field
exploits, boasts classes
ranked No. 23 and No. 44
for 2019 and 2020, respec-
tively.
Recruiting rankings
only tell so much, but for
MSU, Moorhead has got-
mors connecting him to the same number only once. The difficulty level
the vacant head coaching increases from Monday to Sunday.
job at Rutgers.
As for Morris, a win
over an SEC foe would do
wonders in maintaining
some kind of upward tra-
jectory heading into the
offseason.
But regardless of the
lingering uncertainties
of hot seats and buyouts,
the sentiment remains
— Moorhead and Morris
are far from the hot-shot
coaching commodities
they were just 18 months
ago.
“You understand what
you sign up for when you
become a head coach in
this league — the good,
the bad and the ugly,”
Moorhead said Wednes-
day. “People are entitled
to their opinions and what
they think is reality, and
I’m entitled to mine as
well. So I’m excited about
what we did last year, I’m
excited about the current
state, and I’m excited
about the future.”

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in a little more, do a little
more, but it’s an opportu-
nity for someone else to
step in and get some play-
ing time. We’ve got to de-
velop some depth as the
season goes along.”
This isn’t to say Cook
won’t make his presence
known on the court this
season. Carter, who is
hopeful Cook could re-
turn at the end of January,
explained how he adds an
added assistant coach of
sorts to the bench.
“I think I probably have
the best coaching staff in
the state,” he said. “And to
add him to it doesn’t hurt
any.”
With Cook sidelined,
it will be the experienced
contingent of Forte Prat-
er, Trey Jackson, Coltie
Young and Eric Green
leading the Yellow Jackets
this year.
Prater, a 5-foot-11 se-
nior guard, will run the
show at point, while Jack-
son, Young and Green are
all capable playmakers in
the backcourt.
Bringing back a pleth-
ora of experienced, albeit
untested, players, Carter
is steadfast in his belief
that this year’s team will
go as far as its offense
carries it — at least in the
early going.
“Most of the time, this
time of year, the defense
is ahead of the offense,”
he said. “But the last two
or three years our offense
has been ahead of our de-
fense to start the year and
that’s where we are this
year.”
With less than 48
hours until the season
tips off, it will be a wait
and see game for Carter
and his staff as they sort
out a new set of players.
But as is always the case
in Starkville, expecta-
tions remain high.
“It’s become an expec-
tation from year to year
that once one class moves
on it’s time for that next
class to step up,” he said.
“We don’t linger and talk
about what happened last ACROSS
year. It’s all about now 1 Petty argument
and what you’re going to 5 Racket
9 Voice, in slang
do now.”
11 Polite refusal
“We see what we see
13 Push out
in practice,” he contin- 14 Usher’s place
ued. “But you never know
15 Trouble
what’s going to happen 16 Baby baldies
when the lights come on 18 Finders, they
and the popcorn starts say
popping and we put peo- 20 Cinch
ple in the stands.” 21 Burner setting

Powell
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cy programs, feeding the
homeless, educational re-
sources, health and well-
ness programs and much
more.
“There’s so many
things that we’re all do-
ing,” he said. “There’s
so many ways to impact
lives.”
While 21 Reasons to
Give is based in Atlanta,
it’s done work around the
country — even around
the world when Powell
played professional bas-
ketball internationally.
He’s proud of that.
“It’s not just one spot,”
Powell said. “We’re mo-
bile.”
The foundation works
everywhere, but it was
back in Atlanta when Pow-
ell first met Davis, around
two years ago at a charity
project in College Park on
the south side of the city.
Since then, Powell has
helped Davis grow Next
Level Boys Academy, a
nonprofit aimed at provid-
ing male role models to
young men at risk. The or-
ganization serves roughly
200 people per year, Pow-
ell said.
On Wednesday, Da-
vis told his own story of
a poor upbringing in a
small town in Alabama,
warning about the draw a
gang can have on vulnera-
ble young men.
Next Level Boys Acad-
emy, Davis said, is about
having somebody looking
out — so gang violence
and criminal activity don’t
seem quite so appealing.
“My biggest gang in-
tervention program that
we have is that we take
young men that we think
are in a gang, and we just
love them on the same lev-
22 Proofing note
23 Try out
24 “Fifth Beatle”
Sutcliffe
el as the gang,” he told the else is doing instead of 25 Tabloid Spot Polaris
assembled students. “We moving on.” fodder 2 Sprites 24 Sales pitches
do everything the gang Being a father of four, 27 Ship poles 3 Bakery buy 25 Harrow
does but give you a gun.” too, has helped Powell in 29 Roadhouse 4 Kickoff aid blades
To Powell, having his advocacy. His “crew” 30 Snood 5 Sailing haz- 26 Unbroken
a positive role model consists of two boys and 32 Attic use ards 27 Slump
around is a critical factor two girls, and Powell said 34 Mine matter 6 Spring part 28 Peaceful
in keeping young men on they do everything to- 35 Bat abodes 7 Ratio of net 30 Rash
the right path. gether. 36 Cherishes
“It’s just putting your-
sales to property 31 Irritable
“They’re really good 38 Bloodhound’s 8 Berle nick- 33 City on the
self in their mind space kids,” he said. “We’re all
and just trying to get an
clue name Truckee
growing together.” 39 Used up 10 Jacket part 37 Be decisive
understanding and just
Speaking with stu- 40 Hector’s 12 Stopwatch
help them any way you
dents not much older than home button
can to get them to take a
his eldest daughter, who 41 Low card 17 “— we there
different route,” Powell
said. is 13, Wednesday’s talk yet?”
Powell said he could had a personal connec- DOWN 19 Fence part
have stood up and told the tion for Powell. He knows 1 Command to 22 Sirius or
Trojans about the fights what his future must hold.
and the trouble he got into “I think the main thing
as a young man, but he for me is being an amaz-
chose not to bring it up. ing father and just living
“At the end of the day, my purpose,” he said. “I
we all make choices,” he feel God has put a lot on
said. “I think sometimes my plate, and I just want
the easy way out is to fall to be able to serve in
in and do what everybody whatever way possible.”

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6B Friday, November 1, 2019
Ionescu, Cox headline AP women’s preseason All-America team
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Sabri-
na Ionescu decided to
come back for her senior
season at Oregon instead
of heading to the WNBA.
The NCAA career
leader for triple-doubles
was honored Thursday
as a member of The As-
sociated Press preseason
All-America team. Iones-
cu, who averaged 19.9
points, 7.4 rebounds and
8.2 assists last season, is
joined on the All-Ameri-
ca team by Baylor’s Lau-
ren Cox, Texas A&M’s
Chennedy Carter, Mary-
land’s Kaila Charles and
Miami’s Beatrice Mom-
premier.
Ionescu has 18 tri-
ple-doubles in her career
and is poised to add more
Comics & Puzzles
DILBERT
ZITS
GARFIELD
CANDORVILLE
BABY BLUES
BEETLE BAILEY
MALLARD FILLMORE
for the No. 1 team in the
country, which lost to Cox
and Baylor in the Final
Four last season.
Ducks coach Kelly
Graves said he has seen
a new determination from
his star guard this fall,
but also the ability to re-
lax and enjoy her final col-
lege season.
“I’ve seen tremendous
focus, but also I’ve seen a
young lady having some
fun,” Graves said. “I don’t
think she put a burden on
herself or anyone else. I
think she’s been a lot of
fun this fall. She’s having
a great time.”
Cox averaged 13
points, 8.3 rebounds and
2.6 blocks last season as
a junior in helping the
Lady Bears win the na-
tional championship. The
FAMILY CIRCUS
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6-4 post was having an
incredible evening in the
title game before going
down with a knee injury.
She is back to 100% for the
start of this season.
“Lauren Cox is the
epitome of what a stu-
dent-athlete should be,
academically one of the
finest students that Bay-
lor has ever had. On the
floor she’s one of the most
talented players we’ve
ever had in our program,”
Baylor coach Kim Mulkey
said.
Mompremier had a
great year for the Hur-
ricanes, averaging a nior season.
double-double with 16.7
points and 12.2 rebounds.
She was part of USA Bas-
ketball’s training camp
in Florida last month and
really uses 6-4 frame well.
“She’s worked very
hard and I think that she
has really expanded her
game to where she can
play at every spot on the
floor,” Miami coach Katie
Meier said. “Her versatil-
ity makes her one of the
top players in the country
so I think this honor is
well-deserved.”
Mompremier became
the first Miami player
since 2011-12 to earn pre-
season AP honors, joining
Hurricane great Shenise
Johnson. Like Ionescu,
Mompremier decided to
stay in school for her se-
Carter was one of the
most dynamic scorers in
college basketball last sea-
son averaging 23.3 points.
She went over the 40-point
mark three times in the
Dear Abby
D
EAR ABBY:
I work and
have a
family and live
five hours from
where I grew up.
My mom isn’t in
the best health
and neither is her
husband. While
I try to visit as
often as I can,
she always wants
me to visit more
often, which I
understand.
The problem
is, she keeps
Dear Abby
asking us to
leave our 5-year-old son with
her for long weekends or to
spend a week with her and
her husband. They are good
people, but both have physical
limitations.
Would I let my son stay
with them if one of them was
still in good health? Yes. It is
hard for me to explain to her
my concern that my son would
be too much for them to deal
with at this point. If she has a
series of good days, great. If
she doesn’t, we would have a
problem, and I’d have to drive
back to deal with it.
I have tried explaining
nicely, and then other times
more directly, that it isn’t that
I don’t want her to spend time
with her grandchildren. I’m
Horoscopes
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Nov.
1). One of your cosmic talents
is a sensitivity to the pain of
others. You could make money
alleviating it. With a deft com-
bination of risky and sensible
moves, you’ll create future
stability for you and yours. The
important part is that you trust
yourself and don’t let anything
get in the way of acting on your
intuition. Gemini and Pisces
adore you. Your lucky numbers
are: 8, 39, 45, 16 and 22.
ARIES (March 21-April
19). Your present will play
out according to how you see
your past. It’s never too late to
change that story. Of course,
the facts will remain, but what
they mean to you can always
change to better support you.
regular season and came
close many other times.
She had 35 points in the
Aggies’ season-ending
loss to Notre Dame in the
Sweet 16. The 5-7 guard
is the only junior on the
All-America team.
“She’s playing as good
of basketball as she’s ever
had going into the year.
This is a young lady who
has lived up to her hype
in high school, USA Bas-
ketball, and her first two
years in college,” Texas
A&M coach Gary Blair
said. “The ability to have
potential is something,
but to continue to keep
living up to it every night,
in USA Basketball and
in the SEC — it’s hard to
stay at the top. That’s what
she lives for. She loves to
compete against the best
tired of the guilt
trips she tries
to put on me.
I’m also tired of
her telling my
son to ``talk to
your mom about
staying with me
for a week.”
As a child, I
was in my son’s
position, and
I know how it
affected me. I
just wanted to
see ``Sara,” and
I thought Mom
and Dad were
mean for not
letting me. I do not want my
son to feel that way. He’s a
child, not a pawn in a game.
Can you help me explain to
my mom that my concern is
for the safety of everyone
involved? — SAFETY FIRST
DEAR SAFETY FIRST: Have
a series of talks with your
little boy. He needs to under-
stand that, although Grandma
loves him and wants him to
visit, she is not always well
enough to look after him prop-
erly if he does, which is why
you won’t allow it. It isn’t his
fault, it isn’t your fault, and
it isn’t Grandma’s. If Grand-
ma could come to visit you
occasionally for a few days, it
might give her more time with
your boy and be good for both
TAURUS (April 20-May 20).
Suffering is caused by overiden-
tifying with some part of your
experience. This could come in
the form of clinging too tightly
to a role or letting an activity
define you. Try to see yourself
as separate from what you are
doing.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21).
You have certain expectations
of yourself. Love yourself
whether or not you reach them.
The more unconditional love you
give, the more you’ll attract. And
unconditional love is high-oc-
tane spiritual power.
CANCER (June 22-July 22).
Part of being proud of what
you do is showing it in its best
light. It’s worthwhile to put time,
thought, effort and money into
to be one of the best, she
lives for the moment. The
preseason hype is good
for all of us, but I’m more
concerned about earning
awards in the postseason.”
Maryland senior Kaila
Charles is a huge reason
the Terrapins have high
expectations this year and
are No. 4 in the presea-
son poll. She averaged 17
points, 6.7 rebounds and
2.3 assists last season and
is the Big Ten preseason
player of the year.
“Kaila Charles has
been a leader since she
stepped on campus. She’s
a matchup nightmare,”
Maryland coach Brenda
Frese said. “Kaila has led
this team through the bat-
tles and she’s a relentless
competitor every night on
her floor.”
of them.
DEAR ABBY: I am a
46-year-old, single gay man.
Although I’ve had a few crush-
es, I have never been deeply
in love. I don’t like going out
to the bars and, because my
town is extremely Catholic,
there are only a couple of
gay-friendly ones.
Is it OK to not be actively
looking for love? Everyone
I know keeps asking me if I
have found someone, and
I keep telling them I don’t
believe in love. I’m content. I
don’t do anything but work, so
I always say I never have time.
Is there something wrong
with being single all your life
and not having a significant
other? I have my cat to love,
as well as my sisters. Does a
person have to be with some-
one if they are content being
alone? Yes, I would like to go
out, but why does it have to
be with a partner? — CON-
TENT LONER IN MONTANA
DEAR LONER: If you are
comfortable flying solo, it is
perfectly acceptable to live
your life that way. The people
who are telling you otherwise
may mean well, but you do not
have to take it to heart. Live
your life the way you want, do
not second-guess yourself
and don’t allow yourself to be
pressured. If you are content,
you are doing fine.
the presentation because this
helps others understand both
the work and you.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Peo-
ple should know when they’re
happy, but somehow they
don’t always. That’s why it’s so
important to notice it, point to it,
talk about it, exclaim it, dance
it, or just whisper it to yourself.
Life is mighty fine.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).
It’s uncomfortable to know
that someone has given more
than they intended to give you.
Maybe they didn’t know it would
take so long or cost so much.
Regardless, you would do the
same in those circumstances,
so just relax.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).
When you give a recommen-
dation and the other person
doesn’t take it, does that feel
like a slight? A disappointment?
This is why you need to take
your own advice. It’s a self-re-
spect and self-love thing.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.
21). It does seem you have to
unlearn in order to learn today,
to clear before you can build,
to change the water before you
can clean, to drop your beef with
someone before you can love.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.
21). Silence will be the social
skill you’ll find most useful. It’s
not that other people will think
you’ve misspoken or said too
much; it’s just that you might,
and your re-play of conversa-
tion could trigger unnecessary
self-criticism.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.
19). To force things is not only
ineffective; it’s a bad look. Take
a breath. To let the true value of
a thing show itself to you, all you
have to do is stand by and wait
for it to emerge.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18). It’s tempting to go on as
if nothing happened. However,
even just a half-hour spent
processing the past will make
a world of difference. Think of
it as a spiritual stretch to keep
you limber and open to life.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
20). People tend to ask you the
wrong questions because they
want to be close to you and
they’re not sure how. Decide
what you’d like them to have
asked and then answer that way
regardless of what they really
asked.
Forgive and forget
SOLUTION:

Fall Bazaar
First Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
2698 Ridge Road, hosts its Fall Bazaar
from 7 a.m.-1 p.m. Nov. 2. Catfish dinner,
$10 per plate. Crafts and bake sale. To
place an order or for more information,
call 601-328-2692.
Pastor’s Appreciation
Piney Grove Baptist Church, 545
Robinson Road, hosts its 21st Pastor’s
Appreciation Service at 11:30 a.m. Nov.
3. Guest speaker will be Dr. Donyea
Hargrove of IROC in Jackson. The public
is invited to attend.
Church Anniversary
Canaan M.B. Church, 2425 Bell Ave.,
hosts its 149th Church Anniversary Pro-
gram at 9:30 a.m. Nov. 3. Guest speaker
will be Min. Donald HowaRoad The public
is invited to attend.
Worship Service
Victory Center Church, 280 Linden Cir.
in Starkville, will have Worship Service
from 9:30-11 a.m. Nov. 3. Guest speaker
will be Pastor James Bolton of the world
renown Bolton Brother’s. For more infor-
mation, call Bishop Boyd, 662-425-8443.
Holy Convocation Week
Charity Full Gospel Baptist Church,
1524 6th Ave. S., hosts its Annual Holy
Convocation Week with prayer at 6 p.m.
nightly Nov. 4-5 and service at 7 p.m.
nightly Nov. 6-8. Different speaker each
night. The public is invited to attend. For
more information, call 662-328-6751.
Mass Choir Anniversary
Friendship M.B. Church, 1102 12th
Ave. S., hosts its Mass Choir Anniversa-
ry Program at 3 p.m. Nov. 10. All area
church choirs and the public are invited
to attend. For more information, call 662-
327-7473.
Church Anniversary
Pleasant Grove Pools M.B. Church,
3000 Waverly Road in West Point, hosts
its 130th Church Anniversary Program at
2:30 p.m. Nov. 10. Guest speaker will be
the Rev. Alphonso Bowen of Greater New
Heights Baptist Church in Birmingham,
Alabama. For more information, call662-
494-8652.
Pastor Anniversary
Charity Full Gospel Baptist Church,
1524 6th Ave. S., hosts its 30th Pastor
Anniversary Program for Pastor Charles
Fisher at 3 p.m. Nov. 10. Guest speaker
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Religious briefs
will be Pastor Samuel Wilson. The public
is invited to attend. For more information,
call 662-328-6751.
Usher Program
Hopewell M.B. Church, 4892 Ridge
Road, hosts its Annual Usher Program at
3 p.m. Nov. 10. Guest speaker will be the
Rev. Tyrone Cole. The public is invited to
attend.
Church Anniversary
Cedar Grove Baptist Church, 286
Swartz Dr., hosts its 150th Church Anni-
versary Program at 3 p.m. Nov. 10. Guest
speaker will be Pastor Christopher Wriley
of New Zion Pilgrim M.B. Church. The pub-
lic is invited to attend. For more informa-
tion, call Mr. Hamilton, 662-497-2702.
Spiritual Cake
Providence M.B. Church’s Women’s
Ministry, 1406 Nashville Ferry Road E.,
hosts its 2nd Annual Spiritual Cake at
2 p.m. Nov. 10. There will be 14 guest
women speakers from various churches
throughout Lowndes County. For more in-
formation, call First Lady Dollie Anderson,
662-241-6866 or 810-288-8433.
Forgive and Live
Forgive and Live meets from 6-7 p.m.
every 1st and 3rd Monday of each month
in the downtown YMCA Board Room.
Inquire and seek information to succeed
spiritually, physically and financially and
be eager to be a blessing to the com-
munity, churches and families through
the Word of God. The public is invited
to attend. For more information, call Pat
Fisher Douglas, 662-251-5899.
Fellowship Dinner, Youth Service
Pleasant Ridge Faith Center, 923
Ridge Road, Columbus, hosts a fellow-
ship dinner and youth service every 3rd
Sunday.
Gospel Book Club
Friendship M.B. Church, 1102 12th
Ave. S., invites the public to join its Com-
munity Gospel Book Club from 6-7 p.m.
the last Friday of each month to study
and share views of the Holy Bible. Open
to all ages and ethnicities. For more infor-
mation, call Lillian Murray, 662-570-1974.
Grief Support Group
The Oil of Joy for Grief and Mourning
offers a grief support group at 6 p.m.
every 2nd Thursday of the month at
United Christian Baptist Church, 232
Yorkville Road East. “Making your grieving
journey easier.” For more information, call
Friday, November 1, 2019 7B
662-327-0604 or e-mail unitedchristian@
cableone.net.
Celebrate Recovery
The Assembly Church, 2201 Military
Road, and Meadowview Church, 300
Linden Circle in Starkville, host Celebrate
Recovery at 6 p.m. every Sunday at The
Assembly Church (next to Lowe’s) and
at 6 p.m. every Tuesday at Meadowview
Church. Get help, healing and support
for any habit, hurt or hang-up using the
Christ-centered 12 steps.
Prayer for Youth
Every 2nd and 3rd Saturday, Pleasant
Ridge Faith Center hosts a prayer for the
youth from 2-3 p.m.
Prayer, Free Coffee
Mount Zion Missionary Baptist
Church, 2221 14th Ave. N., hosts free
coffee and a prayer community outreach
service from 8-9 a.m. every 5th Saturday.
For information, contact Jesse Slater,
662-328-4979.
Radio Program
Apostles Patrick Perkins invites the
public to tune in to WTWG, radio 1050
AM for Perfecting the Saints Broadcast,
Wednesdays 8:30 a.m.
Women Prayer, Worship Service
Church of the Eternal Word, 106 22nd
St. S., holds a prayer and worship service
every Thursday from 5-6 p.m. Call Marie
Nabors, 662-549-4322 or 662-329-
1234, for prayer requests.
Prayer Ministry
New Beginning Everlasting Outreach
Ministry invites the public to call in with
their prayer requests at 662-327-9843.
Prayer Service
Church of the Eternal Word, 106
22nd. St. S., Columbus, holds prayer
service Thursday nights 5-6 p.m. Contact
Marie Nabors, 662-549-4322. Church
service times: Sunday school 10 a.m.;
Sunday worship 11:15 a.m.; Tuesday
Bible study 7 p.m. For information, call
Pastor District Elder Lou Nabors, 662-
329-1234.
Fitness Transformations
The Transformational Church, 2301
Jess Lyons Road, hosts boxing lessons
Mondays and Wednesday from 5-7 p.m.,
weight-loss boot camp Tuesdays and
Thursdays 5-7 p.m. and both on Satur-
days 9-11 a.m.
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The following vehicle has been Required: Master’s in Lib-
abandoned at Three Star Tire & rary Science from ALA ac-
Auto, 1625 Gardner Blvd.,
Columbus, MS.
2006 CHRYSLER 300C
VIN# 2C3KA6H96H489825
IF NOT CLAIMED THIS VEHICLE ector Search, Starkville-Okt-
WILL BE PUT UP FOR PUBLIC
SALE ON THE 22ND DAY OF
NOVEMBER 2019 AT 10:00
A.M. AT THREE STAR TIRE AND
AUTO, 1625 GARDNER BLVD., 39760 or Email (preferred)
COLUMBUS, MS 39702.
PUBLISH: 11/1, 11/8 &
11/15/2019
IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF
LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
SIPPI
IN THE MATTER OF THE ES-
TATE OF BENJAMIN G. REID
SR., DECEASED
CAUSE NO.: 2019-0164-RPF
BENJAMIN G. REID JR., ADMIN-
ISTRATOR
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
COUNTY OF LOWNDES
Letters of Administration have
been granted and issued to the chinery, adhering to tight
undersigned upon the Estate of deadlines and must have
Benjamin G. Reid Sr., de-
ceased, by the Chancery Court
of Lowndes County, Missis-
sippi, on the 15th day of Octo- Must pass drug test. Email
ber 2019. This is to give no-
tice to all persons having
claims against said estate to
Probate and Register same
with the Chancery Clerk of
Lowndes County, Mississippi,
within ninety (90) days from the No phone calls please.
first publication date of this No-
tice to Creditors. A failure to so
Probate and Register said
claim will forever bar the same.
This the 17th day of October
2019.
/s/ Benjamin G. Reid Jr., Ad-
ministrator
PUBLISH: 10/25, 11/1,
11/8/2019
IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF
LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
SIPPI
IN THE MATTER OF THE ES-
TATE OF HERBERT LLOYD MAR-
TIN
DECEASED
JEANNE MARCANTEL,
PETITIONER
CAUSE NO. 2019-0161
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
COUNTY OF LOWNDES
Letters Testamentary have
been granted and issued to the
undersigned upon the Estate of
Herbert Lloyd Martin, De-
ceased, by the Chancery Court
of Lowndes County, Missis-
sippi, on the 9th day of
September 2019. This is to
give notice to all persons hav-
ing claims against said estate
to probate and register same
with the Chancery Clerk of
Lowndes County, Mississippi,
within ninety (90) days from the
first publication date of this No-
tice to Creditors. A failure to so
probate and register said claim
will forever bar the same.
This the 24th day of Septem-
ber 2019.
/s/ Jeanne Marcantel
JEANNE MARCANTEL, Executrix
PUBLISH: 11/1, 11/8, &
11/15/2019
IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF
LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
SIPPI
IN RE: THE ESTATE OF MAR-
ILYN HARRIS THOMPSON DE-
CEASED
SHERRY DIANE EADS, ADMIN-
ISTRATRIX
NO. 2019-0186-JNS
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
LOWNDES COUNTY
Letters of Administration have
been granted and issued to the
undersigned upon the estate of
MARILYN HARRIS THOMPSON
deceased, by the Chancery
Court of Lowndes County, Mis-
sissippi, on the 10th day of Oc-
tober A.D., 2019. This is to
give notice to all persons hav-
ing claims against said estate
to Probate and Register same
with the Chancery Clerk of
Lowndes County, Mississippi,
within ninety (90) days from
this date. A failure to so Pro- and CAFB. No pets. No
bate and Register said claim
will forever bar the same.
This the 14th day of October,
2019.
/Sherry Diane Eads
SHERRY DIANE EADS
PUBLISH: 10/18, 10/25, &
11/1/2019
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BA, Central H&A, new
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lease at 822 2nd Ave. N.
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yard. Investors welcome,
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Garage Sales
Two free signs
Auctions
Garage Sales: Southside
400 19TH ST. S. Fri: 8:30a
& Sat: 6:30a−2p. Mens/
womens clothing (new &
used), h/h, cleaning supp,
lots of everything!
Garage Sales: East
3 FAMILY SALE @ 806
REMUNDA DR. Sat 11/2,
7a−12p. Clothing, shoes,
ear pods, jewelry, h/h, etc!
811 REMUNDA Dr. Fri. 2− General Merchandise
6, Sat. 6−9. Mens,
women’s, & teen clothing, Starkville Habitat ReStore
home decor, etc. Cancelled ReStore is a thrift store
if rain. benefiting Starkville Area
Habitat for Humanity. 206
GARAGE SALE South Jackson Street in
REDUCED PRICES! Starkville. 662−324−7008
Pictures, houseware,
Christmas items & more!
801 Skylark Dr. Saturday
Nov. 2nd from 6 am until.
General Services
DUMP TRUCK HAULING.
Slag − $350
Clay Gravel − $250
Driveway & Trailer Park
Grating. Columbus. Call
Walter, 662−251−8664.
WORK WANTED:
Licensed & Bonded−
carpentry, painting, &
demolition. Landscaping,
gutters cleaned, bush
hogging, clean−up work,
pressure washing, moving
help & furniture repair.
662−242−3608.
Lawn Care / Landscaping
JESSE & BEVERLY’S
LAWN SERVICE.
Mowing, cleanup,
landscaping, sodding,
& tree cutting.
662−356−6525
To place ads starting at only $12,
Garage Sales: North General Merchandise
1232 MERRY VALLEY DR.
(Off of Ridge Rd.) Sat. Nov.
WANTED FREON R12.
We pay CA$H.
2 from 7a−1p. Lots of kids R12 R500 R11.
toys, including an electric Convenient.
2−seater jeep, h/h items, Certified professionals.
books & much more. refrigerantfinders.com/ad
312−291−9169
LAST RUMMAGE SALE
Sporting Goods
FOR SEASON. 517 15th
St. N. Fri. & Sat. 9:30a−
7p. Everything Must Go! ED SANDERS GUNSMITH
OPEN FOR SEASON!
Garage Sales: New Hope 9−5: Tues−Fri &
9−12: Sat.
55 JONES DR. in New Hope Over 50 years experience!
Park. Sat 11/2, 6−11am. Repairs, cleaning,
Women/kids clothes, toys, refinishing, scopes
shoes & h/h items. mounted & zeroed,
handmade knives.
Located: Hwy 45 Alt, North
ESTATE−RUMMAGE SALE
Sat, Nov. 2nd. 7am−Noon. of West Point, turn right on
Indoors @ 1426 6th Street Yokahama Blvd, 8mi & turn
left on Darracott Rd, see
North, Columbus, MS.
sign, 2.5mi ahead, shop on
Garage Sales: Caledonia left. 662−494−6218.
5850 CAL KOLOLA RD.
Vehicles
Caledonia United
Pentecostal Church,
Inside Gym Yard Sale.
Friday, Nov. 1, 7am− 4pm.
Sat, Nov. 2, 7am− 12pm. Ads starting at $12
Liquidation Estate Sale @ Autos For Sale
127 Lee Road, Columbus,
MS. Everything must go! 1986 CHEVROLET
Oak table & chairs,
CORVETTE. Low mileage
entertainment center, (107k), lots of documen−
household items, furn, tation/receipts since
fridge, linens, home decor 1992. Lots of recent high
& lots more! Deals to get it dollar repairs completed.
gone! November 2, 8−5. This is a must see!!
127 Lee Road, Columbus.
$7,500. Clear MS title in
Garage Sales: Other hand. 662−329−1252.
343 GREENFIELD RD.,
Community
BROOKSVILLE (off of Lynn
Creek Rd). Hardware, h/h,
plumbing/electrical, mantle
heater, fireplace insert,
wall unit heater, door, Ads starting at $12
screen, headboards &
more! Everything must go! Pets
SAT & SUN: 8a−4p.
GERMAN SHEPHERD
592 ROBINSON RD. (Off of PUPPIES FOR SALE.
Hwy. 45 S.). Sat. Nov. 2 12 weeks old. Blk & cream,
from 8a−until. H/h items, blk & brown. First shots
construction tools & more. given & wormed, family
friendly and guard dog
stock. Mother onsite.
662−251−7940.
Merchandise Looking for
Ads starting at $12
a new pet?
Firewood / Fuel
FIREWOOD FOR SALE.
Various lengths.
662−295−2274.
Furniture
EXCELLENT CONDITION.
READY TO PICK UP!
1−sofa, 90"L x 34"W,
teal/cream/grey, $325.
1−Lane recliner, cream,
low back, $75. 1−Leather,
burgundy wingback recliner,
$75. Glass−top coffee
table, 40" x 40", $75.
2−Cream, wooden bar−
stools, bar height, $40ea.
601−918−0855.
Five Questions
Two Piece Living Room Set
A loveseat and chaise for 1 Kevin, Joe,
sale. Brown and blue.
New!!! Leave a message.
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