WEATHER Gabriel Johnson Fourth grade, West Lowndes High 82 Low 59 Mostly sunny Full forecast on page 2A. FIVE QUESTIONS 1 What decade saw the National Hockey League form, with five teams? 2 What future megastar’s first movie role was as Glen Lantz, one of the victims in A Nightmare on Elm Street? 3 What portable ice cream treat did a candy maker from Youngstown, Ohio, invent? 4 What French artist was only 4 feet 11 inches tall due to injuries and a genetic disorder? 5 What does a dirty ablutophobiac fear? Answers, 6B INSIDE Classifieds 5B Comics 4B Obituaries 5A Opinions 4A DISPATCH CUSTOMER SERVICE 328-2424 | NEWSROOM 328-2471 ESTABLISHED 1879 | COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI CDISPATCH.COM FREE! T UESDAY | OCTOBER 28, 2014 LOCAL FOLKS Dixon Tomlinson works at Mitchell Distributing. CALENDAR Wednesday, Oct. 29 ■ Noxubee Refuge Artists in Residence: Join paint- er Caetlynn Booth and photographer Tyson Washburn on a walk from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. to explore scenic Noxubee Refuge. 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PUBLIC MEETINGS November 3: Lowndes County Board of Supervi- sors, courthouse, 9 a.m. November 4: Columbus City Council, municipal complex, 5 p.m. November 10: Columbus Munici- pal School District Board meeting, Brandon Central Office, 8 a.m. November 14: Lowndes County School meeting, Central Office, 11 a.m. Fine day for soccer Zach Odom/Dispatch Staff Mississippi State junior Efrem Egede enjoys the weather while practicing with a soccer ball on the Drill Field on campus Monday afternoon. Clouds are expected to increase today, with rain possible tomorrow. BY SARAH FOWLER [email protected]What started as a dispute over a wandering cow left two people shot Monday, including a Noxubee County Sheriff’s Department depu- ty and woman accused of opening fire on law enforcement. Noxubee Sheriff Terry Grassa- ree said Deputy Eddie Franklin was not seriously hurt and was treated and released from a local hospital. Grassaree says 53-year-old Eliz- abeth Guyton of Brooksville was wounded and taken to a Jackson hospital. Guyton is listed in a regu- lar room at University of Mississip- pi Medical Center in Jackson. Calls to her room this morning went unanswered. Her condition is not known. Bill Randall, a Noxubee County farmer, has been renting a piece of land next to Guyton’s home along Fairview Road for several years. Randall, in an interview with The Dispatch this morning, said he was penning cattle Sunday, preparing the steer to be shipped to Kansas. A calf got loose from the herd and ran through a fence onto Guyton’s property, Randall said. As Randall and several men tried to catch the calf, Guyton came out of her home and began yelling and shooting at the men, telling them they were trespassing, Randall said. COW DISPUTE LEADS TO NOXUBEE SHOOT-OUT BY SARAH FOWLER [email protected]Testimony in the trial of a Starkville man ac - cused of murder begins today in Oktibbeha Coun- ty Circuit Court. Dennis Thompson, 22, is accused of fatally shooting Curtis “C.K.” Randle, 25, after a gradua- tion par- ty in May 2010. The incident occurred near Club 124 on D.L. Conner Drive inside the Starkville city lim- its. Prosecutors allege Thompson shot into a crowd with a .40 caliber weapon, fatally wounding Randle and injuring three others. In addition to the murder charge, Thomp- son is also charged with three counts of aggravat- ed assault in the incident. Assistant District At- torney Mark Jackson is prosecuting the case. Thompson is represent- ed by Starkville based attorney Mark William- son. Judge Lee Coleman is presiding. Thompson is also charged with aggravat- ed assault for his role in a November 2012 shoot- ing in a Starkville trailer park that left one man in- jured. Thompson is in the custody of the Clay Coun- ty Jail on a $100,000 bond for the 2012 incident. Testimony in Starkville murder trial begins today Dennis Thompson accused of fatally shooting victim after party Thompson Lynn Creek Road N 45 Crawford Brooksville 45 ALT Deputy, 53-year-old alleged shooter injured in Monday afternoon incident See SHOOTING, 6A 1236 Fairview Road, Brooksville Oktibbeha’s comprehensive plan nearing completion Supervisors waiting for more public comments before taking action BY CARL SMITH [email protected]Oktibbeha County supervisors will wait at least a month before taking ac- tion on their long-awaited and often-de - layed comprehensive plan in an effort to yield more public discussion on the matter. The board heard an update on the doc- ument Monday from Mike Slaughter, of the Oxford-based Slaughter and Associ - ates, who said the guiding document for future growth is completely written, but supervisors tabled its passage, instead opting to publish it for county constitu- ents in order to draw more feedback. Officials will place an electronic ver- sion of the plan on the county’s website — www.oktibbehacountyms.org — and provide hard copies of the document at the county’s administrative home within the Oktibbeha County Courthouse An- nex. With projected population and retail growth looming, supervisors began a process to develop a comprehensive plan in 2007. The county originally con- tracted for such services with the Gold- en Triangle Planning and Development District, but logistical issues moved that responsibility to Slaughter and Asso - ciates after GTPDD workers finished mapping the county in preparation for a transition to a new addressing system. A draft of the document includes calls Manning lawyers to court: Witness lied BY JEFF AMY The Associated Press JACKSON — Lawyers for a Missis- sippi death row inmate told state Su- preme Court justices Monday that he deserves a new trial because evidence that defense lawyers did not obtain the first time shows that a key state witness lied Willie Jerome Manning is appealing an Oktibbeha County judge’s denial of his post-conviction challenges. Man- ning came within hours of being put to death last year on separate charges be- fore the state high court halted it. Monday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments over the 1993 slayings of 90-year-old Emmoline Jimmerson and her daughter, 60-year-old Alber- ta Jordan. Police and prosecutors say the women were beaten and had their throats slashed. They were killed during a robbery attempt at their Starkville apartment. Manning was con- victed and sentenced to death in the case in 1996, but lawyers argued Monday that the convic- tion should be overturned because of questions about a witness who put Manning at the scene. Current See PLAN, 6A Man was convicted and sentenced to death in 1996 Manning See MANNING, 6A
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FIVE QUESTIONS1 What decade saw the National Hockey League form, with five teams?2 What future megastar’s first movie role was as Glen Lantz, one of the victims in A Nightmare on Elm Street?3 What portable ice cream treat did a candy maker from Youngstown, Ohio, invent?4 What French artist was only 4 feet 11 inches tall due to injuries and a genetic disorder?5 What does a dirty ablutophobiac fear?
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Wednesday, Oct. 29■ Noxubee Refuge Artists in Residence: Join paint-er Caetlynn Booth and photographer Tyson Washburn on a walk from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. to explore scenic Noxubee Refuge. Bring a camera and/or drawing materials and snack. Stops will be made to photograph and draw. Artists’ talks Oct. 30 at 6 p.m. will also be presented. For more information, call 662-323-5548.
Thursday, Oct. 30■ Superhero 5K Walk/Run/Relay: This family fundraiser for the Columbus Boys & Girls Club by Mississippi University for Women’s Mortarboard Senior Honor Society begins at Stark Recreation Center at 6 p.m. Door prizes and costume and team contests. Free to enter ($10/adults, $5/children is a suggested donation). Sign up at facebook.com/mbmuw. Click the sign-up button on the left side of the page. Race is followed at 8 p.m. by the W Leadership Halloween Party and Haunted House.
PUBLIC MEETINGSNovember 3: Lowndes County Board of Supervi-sors, courthouse, 9 a.m.November 4: Columbus City Council, municipal complex, 5 p.m.November 10: Columbus Munici-pal School District Board meeting, Brandon Central Office, 8 a.m.November 14: Lowndes County School meeting, Central Office, 11 a.m.
Fine day for soccer
Zach Odom/Dispatch StaffMississippi State junior Efrem Egede enjoys the weather while practicing with a soccer ball on the Drill Field on campus Monday afternoon. Clouds are expected to increase today, with rain possible tomorrow.
What started as a dispute over a wandering cow left two people shot Monday, including a Noxubee County Sheriff’s Department depu-ty and woman accused of opening fire on law enforcement.
Noxubee Sheriff Terry Grassa-ree said Deputy Eddie Franklin was not seriously hurt and was
treated and released from a local hospital.
Grassaree says 53-year-old Eliz-abeth Guyton of Brooksville was wounded and taken to a Jackson hospital. Guyton is listed in a regu-lar room at University of Mississip-pi Medical Center in Jackson. Calls to her room this morning went unanswered. Her condition is not known.
Bill Randall, a Noxubee County
farmer, has been renting a piece of land next to Guyton’s home along Fairview Road for several years. Randall, in an interview with The Dispatch this morning, said he was penning cattle Sunday, preparing the steer to be shipped to Kansas. A calf got loose from the herd and ran through a fence onto Guyton’s property, Randall said. As Randall and several men tried to catch the calf, Guyton came out of her home and began yelling and shooting at the men, telling them they were trespassing, Randall said.
Testimony in the trial of a Starkville man ac-cused of murder begins
today in Oktibbeha Coun-ty Circuit Court.
Dennis Thompson, 22, is accused of fatally shooting Curtis “C.K.”
R a n d l e , 25, after a gradua-tion par-ty in May 2010. The i n c i d e n t o c c u r r e d near Club 124 on D.L.
Conner Drive inside the Starkville city lim-its. Prosecutors allege Thompson shot into a crowd with a .40 caliber weapon, fatally wounding Randle and injuring three others. In addition to the murder charge, Thomp-son is also charged with
three counts of aggravat-ed assault in the incident.
Assistant District At-torney Mark Jackson is prosecuting the case. Thompson is represent-ed by Starkville based attorney Mark William-son. Judge Lee Coleman is presiding.
Thompson is also charged with aggravat-ed assault for his role in a November 2012 shoot-ing in a Starkville trailer park that left one man in-jured. Thompson is in the custody of the Clay Coun-ty Jail on a $100,000 bond for the 2012 incident.
Testimony in Starkville murder trial begins todayDennis Thompson accused of fatally shooting victim after party
Thompson
Lynn Creek Road
N
45
Crawford
Brooksville
45ALT
Deputy, 53-year-old alleged shooter injured in Monday afternoon incident
See SHOOTING, 6A
1236 Fairview Road, Brooksville
Oktibbeha’s comprehensive plan nearing completionSupervisors waiting for more public comments before taking actionBY CARL [email protected]
Oktibbeha County supervisors will wait at least a month before taking ac-tion on their long-awaited and often-de-layed comprehensive plan in an effort to yield more public discussion on the matter.
The board heard an update on the doc-ument Monday from Mike Slaughter, of the Oxford-based Slaughter and Associ-ates, who said the guiding document for future growth is completely written, but supervisors tabled its passage, instead opting to publish it for county constitu-ents in order to draw more feedback.
Officials will place an electronic ver-sion of the plan on the county’s website — www.oktibbehacountyms.org — and provide hard copies of the document at the county’s administrative home within the Oktibbeha County Courthouse An-nex.
With projected population and retail growth looming, supervisors began a process to develop a comprehensive plan in 2007. The county originally con-tracted for such services with the Gold-en Triangle Planning and Development District, but logistical issues moved that responsibility to Slaughter and Asso-ciates after GTPDD workers finished mapping the county in preparation for a transition to a new addressing system.
A draft of the document includes calls
Manning lawyers to court: Witness liedBY JEFF AMYThe Associated Press
JACKSON — Lawyers for a Missis-sippi death row inmate told state Su-preme Court justices Monday that he deserves a new trial because evidence that defense lawyers did not obtain the first time shows that a key state witness lied
Willie Jerome Manning is appealing
an Oktibbeha County judge’s denial of his post-conviction challenges. Man-ning came within hours of being put to death last year on separate charges be-fore the state high court halted it.
Monday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments over the 1993 slayings of 90-year-old Emmoline Jimmerson and her daughter, 60-year-old Alber-ta Jordan. Police and prosecutors say the women were beaten and had their
throats slashed. They were killed during a robbery attempt at their Starkville apartment.
Manning was con-victed and sentenced to death in the case in 1996, but lawyers argued Monday that the convic-
tion should be overturned because of questions about a witness who put Manning at the scene. Current
See PLAN, 6A
Man was convicted and sentenced to death in 1996
Manning
See MANNING, 6A
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Singer apologizes for botching national anthemTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Aaron Lewis has apolo-gized for botching the lyr-ics of “The Star-Spangled Banner” during his perfor-mance before Game 5 of the World Series.
The lead singer of the metal band Staind turned country singer published a note on his website Mon-day after stumbling during his rendition of the national anthem the night before in San Francisco.
“All I can say is I’m sor-ry and ask for the Nation’s forgiveness. My nerves got the best of me and I am completely torn up about what happened,” he wrote.
“America is the greatest country in the world.
“The Star-Spangled Ban-ner means so much to so many, including myself. I hope everyone can under-stand the intensity of the situation and my true in-tent of this performance. I hope that the Nation, Major League Baseball and the many fans of our national pastime can forgive me.”
After starting with “O say can you see by the dawn’s early light, what so proudly we hailed,” Lewis diverted from the lyrics. Instead of singing “at the twilight’s last gleaming” he sang “were so gallantly streaming,” words that ap-pear later in the song.
AP Photo/Matt SlocumRecording artist Aaron Lewis performs the national anthem before Game 5 of baseball’s World Series between the Kansas City Royals and the San Francisco Giants on Sunday in San Francisco.
BY BECKY BOHRERThe Associated Press
BARROW, Alaska — Three chil-dren whiz by on a snowmobile as Gabe Tegoseak, crunching through icy streets in the town that’s as far north as you can go and still be in the United States, is hunting for votes.
He’s tired after a late night spent butchering one of three bowhead whales that subsistence hunters towed in from the pewter-colored waters of the Chukchi Sea. Slabs of blubber cover front yards all over town, and Tegoseak has some whale of his own to cut up and cook at home.
But not yet. There is an election coming soon, and doors await his knock. Harold Snowball answers one of them.
“Are you a Republican or Dem-ocrat, do you mind if I ask?” says Tegoseak. Snowball thinks he’s a registered Democrat but says he votes for who he believes will do a better job. In this case, that will probably be Alaska’s Democratic U.S. senator, Mark Begich.
“Yeah!” Tegoseak says with a fist pump, and later makes a note of this on a spreadsheet.
It takes 22 hours and four con-nections to get from Washington to Barrow, a place where the sun will set two weeks after Election Day and not rise for two months. Gas is $7 a gallon, off-brand milk nearly $11. Polar bears sometimes prowl the edge of town. The roads are dirt, because pavement won’t make it through the cold of winter, and the shortcut to downtown is a path across a frozen lagoon.
This is the Alaska bush, home to
the hardest political ground game in America. And this election sea-son, Republicans need to pick up six seats to win control of the U.S. Senate. They like their chances in Alaska. So, too, do Democrats, who are investing in an unprecedented effort in rural Alaska to get out the vote.
Though independent voters make up the largest voting bloc in the state, Republicans have expand-ed their edge over Democrats in registered voters since 2008, when Begich carried rural Alaska on his way to defeating Sen. Ted Stevens by less than 4,000 votes.
This time Begich faces former state Attorney General Dan Sul-livan, who has largely focused his get-out-the-vote efforts in the state’s more populated areas, such
as Anchorage, Fairbanks and Ju-neau. Sullivan, nevertheless, visit-ed Barrow and its 4,700 residents as part of a recent rural swing, and has won the endorsement of lead-ers of the locally based Arctic Slope Regional Corp., with 11,000 share-holders primarily of native Inupiat descent.
“Begich doesn’t have rural sup-port sewn up,” said Kyle Kohli, a spokesman for the Republican Na-tional Committee.
Begich has racked up endorse-ments from Alaska Native and fishermen’s groups, key constitu-encies. But in places like Barrow, it’s the door-to-door, face-to-face interactions that can make the dif-ference, and why the ground game — no matter how arduous — mat-ters so much.
Hunting for whale and votes above the Arctic Circle
ELECTION SEASON IN AMERICA
AP Photo/Gregory BullIn this Oct. 7 photo, Molly Pederson, right, and daughter Laura Patkotak take a picture as a bowhead whale caught by Alaska Native subsistence hunters from their family is brought ashore in Barrow, Alaska. Whaling is a community event in Barrow, as family members and town residents race to the beach to congratulate the hunters and help to butcher the catch.
AP Photo/Gregory BullIn this Oct. 8 photo, a shopper looks at bananas near a display of small watermelons selling for $19.59 at the main general store in Barrow, Alas-ka. In the northernmost town in the U.S., remoteness comes at a price — grocery staples that most take for granted, like a gallon of off-brand milk and loaf of white bread, total nearly $19.
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MARYSVILLE, Wash. — A popular student re-sponsible for a shooting at a Washington state high school invited his victims to lunch by text message, then shot them at their table, investigators said Monday.
Snohomish County Sheriff Ty Trenary said at a news conference that the five students were at a lunch table Friday when they were shot by 15-year-old Jaylen Fryberg. Fry-berg then committed sui-cide.
Detectives are digging through reams of text mes-sages, phone and social media records as part of an investigation that could take months, Trenary said.
Sheriff: School shooter invited victims to lunch
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were made by Oktib-beha County Sheriff ’s Office:
■ Artavaus R. Davis, 22, was arrested by OCSO and charged with circuit court order.
■ Daquarian Mon-tret Stinson, 20, was arrested by OCSO and charged with circuit court order.
■ Brandy M. Duck, 27, was arrested by OCSO and charged with circuit court order.
■ Odell Willie Robin-son, 33, was arrested by OCSO and charged with circuit court order.
■ Dennis G. Howell, 45, was arrested by OCSO and charged with aggravated DUI.
■ Brady K. Hindman, 22, was arrested by OCSO and charged with sale of marijuana more than 30 grams.
■ Victor Lamar Nich-ols, 54, was arrested by OCSO and charged with burglary of a residence and domestic.
■ Vincent D. Lucious, 35, was arrested by OCSO and charged with circuit court order.
■ Gabriel Petty, 34, was arrested by OCSO and charged with false pretense.
■ Melvin Bishop, 37, was arrested by OCSO
and charged with voy-eurism.
■ Erica Shantay Hill, 33, was arrested by OCSO and charged with embezzlement and two counts-contempt of court.
■ Joe M. Gillespie, 28, was arrested by OCSO and charged with circuit court order.
■ Deven Derell Jones, 23, was arrested by OCSO and charged with burglary of a residence, burglary of a vehicle and racketeering.
■ Joseph Alan Fami-glio, 22, was arrested by OCSO and charged with circuit court order.
■ John F. Hogan, 50, was arrested by OCSO and charged with circuit court order.
■ Devierre Deunte Outlaw, 21, was arrested by OCSO and charged with circuit court order.
■ Benjamin N. Taylor, 37, was arrested by OCSO and charged with circuit court order.
■ James H. Wordlaw, 44, was arrested by
OCSO and charged with circuit court order.
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PEARL — A man has been sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to killing a fellow inmate inside the Central Missis-sippi Correctional Facility.
Tyler James Smith pleaded guilty to first-de-gree murder in the slaying of Clifton Majors.
Rankin County District Attorney Michael Guest announced the plea and sentencing Monday.
Guest says Smith got into Majors’ cell on Sept. 1, 2013, and struck, stomped, choked and beat Majors until the 35-year-old in-mate stopped breathing.
Guest says Smith was a member of the Simon City Royals gang.
A wireless provider seeking more favorable location guide-lines for cell tower sites in Colum-bus will have to wait until next month to find out if its request will be granted.
C Spire has asked the Colum-bus Planning Commission to rec-ommend to the city council that the city amend its cell tower code, which prohibits towers from be-ing constructed in residential and neighborhood commercial districts. The ordinance, as it stands, only allows a tower to be placed in a commercial, agricul-tural or industrial zoning district.
Four of six members present for this month’s planning com-mission meeting voted in support of the request. That’s not enough
votes to give a formal recommen-dation to the city council, how-ever. The commission cannot approve or deny requests. It can only recommend that the council deny or approve a request.
The council last week chose to send the matter back to the plan-ning commission. The matter will again go before the planning commission next month.
The commission’s vote on another amendment to the ordi-nance, which would mandate tow-ers to be separated from homes by a minimum of 150 percent of the tower’s height, was also 4-2. That request will be heard once more by the commission as well.
Commission members Chuck Bigelow, Wythe Rhett, Larry Fuller and Quinn Brislin voted to recommend council approval of eliminating the restriction.
Annette Savors and MacArthur Inge voted not in favor.
Rhett said he voted in favor of eliminating the prohibition of towers in residential areas be-cause the fact that applications must still require the approval of both the commission and the council is enough of a buffer to prevent a tower being placed in a location that would compromise safety or become a nuisance.
“If a tower was 200 feet high, you’d have to have a 300-foot clearance on all sides,” Rhett said. “You would give very few places inside the city limits (where a tower would be allowed). We felt like under that scenario, if the neighborhood came out in oppo-sition of it, we would be able to not allow it. It’s not a blanket type deal. They would have to come back and make an application for anywhere they wanted to go in a residential district.”
Not just towers C Spire Media Relations Se-
nior Manager Dave Miller said the company has looked at po-tential sites in residential zones. However, this does not mean they would seek to locate towers in those areas.
“Everyone looks at cell sites and they say, ‘It’s a tower,’” Mill-er said. “There’s no foregone conclusion that this would be a tower. If you look at how most cell sites are designed today, they’re not towers at all. They’re usually some type of a monopole or something that’s friendly to the environment and to the area that’s surrounding it. It needs to be compatible with that. It de-pends on what the circumstanc-es are.”
Miller declined to discuss where those locations are, say-ing that requesting the amended ordinance language was the first
hump the company had to jump through to get to that point.
“It would be premature to talk about that until we get the broader policy issue dealt with, which is right now the way the ordinance is written, it precludes even applications being submit-ted in residential areas,” Miller said. “We’ve looked at sites in other areas where they’re cur-rently allowed. Right now, based on what the demand is and where our customers are telling us they need service, there’s no com-patibility there. We determine very carefully when and where we decide to make requests for additional cell sites because it is not inexpensive to do it. We also want to minimize any potential impact, so in Columbus, we look at commercial areas first to see if that will work. If that doesn’t work, then we have to look at other alternatives.”
C Spire looks to Columbus residential areas for cell towersCurrent rules ban towers in residential areas
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It is generally true deci-sions made closest to home have the most impact on our every-day lives. In that sense, what happens in Jackson often has more impact than what happens in Washington.
On Nov. 4, voters will go to the polls to determine who will represent the state in the U.S. Senate and chose a circuit court judge. But the race that may have a greater impact on our daily lives is the special election for District 17 state senator.
District 17 includes all of Lowndes County. Four men —
Bill “Doc” Canon, Bill Gavin, Bobby Patrick and Chuck Younger — are competing to fill the unexpired term of Ter-ry Brown, who died on Sept. 4 after a battle with cancer. The winning candidate will serve out the remaining year of that term and will likely be the odds-on choice to retain that seat when next year’s election is held.
Unlike the candidates in the other races, voters will have the chance to hear each of the four state senate candidates make his case in a debate format. Mississippi
University for Women will host a candidates debate to-night at 7 at Poindexter Hall. Candidates will be allowed to make a brief opening statement, address questions from the audience and close with a statement. Members of The W’s student newspa-per will serve as moderators for the event.
It is important voters take advantage of this opportunity because making an informed decision at the polls may influence the decisions that are made in Jackson when the 2015 legislative session
begins in January.The Legislature is expect-
ed to consider some matters of vital importance to our state, among them education funding, Medicaid expansion and, possibly, tax cuts.
We need legislators who will carefully consider each bill put before them and make decisions that truly represent our best interests. Often the popular choices are not the wise choices. Our next District 17 senator needs to be a thoughtful, courageous, well-informed voice for the people whose
votes put him in office.To achieve that, voters
must be well-informed as well.
That is why we encourage voters to attend tonight’s debate. Listen carefully and, if you have questions — the tougher, the better — be sure to take advantage of the opportunity to present them to the candidates.
The decisions our next state senator will make di-rectly affects us all.
Nov. 4 is the test. To-night’s debate is the home-work.
The value of debateElection day is at our doorsteps. That’s the day
when approximately two-thirds of free American voters allow the other one-third to elect people to govern them, people that the indecisive two-thirds probably know very little about and will do nothing but complain until the next election day.
One of the things missing in our U.S. Senate race that would increase turnout and give voters more knowledge about candidates is something called “debate.” It didn’t happen in the primary elections and not even for the general election which is next Tuesday. Why hasn’t the entire state demanded at least two debates among the candidates in this race?
There should have been one for sure in the Republican primary and two for the general. Why hasn’t this healthy form of campaigning been done in this race to give voters a better look at the ones who want to represent them for the next six years? I hope I’m not alone in asking this question.
Debate is done everywhere else, even down to high school class president. We needed to see some debate to help make decisions about whom to cast our vote. It’s very disappointing and makes me mad at the same time.
Thank you to The Dispatch for information printed about the District 17 candidates and thanks to all who made tonight’s debate possible at The W.
Raymond GrossColumbus MISSISSIPPI VOICES
OXFORD — Robin Hood would be proud.
The nonconformist of Nottingham — who 800 years ago attract-ed the attention of the shire reeve (or sheriff) for harvesting royal deer (among other trespasses) — would smile upon Mississip-pians who stand ready, all these years later, to vote on making hunting and fishing a fundamental right of the people.
There will be other matters on the Mississippi’s Nov. 4 ballot.
Topping them will be the con-test for one of the state’s two U.S. Senate seats. Having survived one of the more bizarre primaries in state history, Thad Cochran, the Republican nominee, will face former U.S. Rep. Travis Childers, the Democrats’ nominee.
The general election Senate campaign has been exponentially quieter than the primaries, most-ly because the national Demo-cratic Party allocated its cash elsewhere. It’s simply impossible to be a viable candidate these days without major infusions of cash, so Cochran, barring the unforeseen, will be returned to Washington to start another six-year term.
Mississippi’s four seats in the U.S. House of Representatives are also on the ballot, just as they are every 24 months. But as much as folks may complain about Con-gress as a whole, the systemic fix is in. Three Republicans — Alan Nunnelee, Gregg Harper and Ste-ven Palazzo in districts 1, 3 and 4 respectively — and one Demo-crat — Bennie G. Thompson of District 2 — will win new terms without much heavy lifting.
Money is, again, a big part of the reason. Incumbents have
it and challengers rarely do. Also, today’s extremely early qual-ifying deadlines are off-putting to people who can’t stop their lives and campaign for a year. But a third factor — perhaps the most constricting — is that district lines are drawn to mirror ideo-logical groups. There’s not even a Republican candidate in District
2. It “belongs” to the Democratic Party just as the other three, at least for the time being, “belong” to the Republican Party.
Back to hunting and fishing.Thanks to state Rep. Lester
“Bubba” Carpenter, R-Burnsville, the resolution for which he was lead legislative sponsor will be put to the people for a thumbs up.
It reads: “This proposed constitutional amendment estab-lishes hunting, fishing, and the harvesting of wildlife, including by the use of traditional methods, as a constitutional right subject only to such regulations and restrictions that promote wildlife conservation and management as the Legislature may prescribe by general law.”
Given the South’s affinity for woods and wildlife, one might think this proposal is strictly regional. It is not. Mississippi is actually a bit late getting in on the, er, game.
The Associated Press reports Vermont has had a right to hunt and fish in its constitution since 1777 and that 16 other states, mostly in mid-America, have add-ed provisions since 1996.
While the proposal isn’t sud-den or regional, it is reactionary — at least in part.
There has been scuttlebutt that forces fighting animal cruelty,
generally, were starting to add trapping and other methods of capturing and killing wild ani-mals to their ongoing campaigns against beating, starving or sim-ply neglecting domestic animals.
This was enough to get hunt-ing groups, er, up in arms.
And it’s certainly true that just as legions of farmers are the planet’s best conservation-ists, legions of hunters respect wildlife tremendously and work to preserve habitat and promote animal health. Non-hunters don’t believe it, but other than meeting a somewhat violent end, deer lucky enough to live on a hunting camp’s land are healthier and better fed — leading happier lives — than deer who have to rough it.
Anyway, the proposed amend-ment to the Mississippi Consti-tution of 1980, has no organized or vocal opposition. Its point is simply to stake a claim on higher legal ground. Where any state legislature could up and pass a statute in any yearly session making harvesting wild ani-mals totally illegal, that couldn’t happen if a state’s constitution ensconced hunting and fishing as fundamental rights. Amendments can be repealed, but the process is arduous and lengthy.
If the amendment passes in Mississippi (and it will), the Leg-islature will still have the power to set seasons, control limits and enact all the game laws it wants to enact. It could even outlaw trapping. But no total bans. Not now, not ever.
Too bad Robin Hood is not around.
He’d be happy to see a bit more power guaranteed to the people.
Charlie Mitchell is an assistant dean of journalism at the Univer-sity of Mississippi. Write to him at Box 1 University, MS, or [email protected].
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Carl Toersbijns: Totally believable but nobody wants to hear this. They are the “out of sight, out of mind “ culture who think this is the answer to crime rates. They have no clue what this does to the inmate before they get out and are forced to adjust for release without the tools available but denied by a vengeful society. Good enough to sac-rifice to fight wildland fires and perform medial work for local governments while incarcerated but not good enough to educate, provide sub-stance abuse treatment and meaningful vocation-al skills. Always double standards when it comes to prisons. This article rings true.
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FORT KENT, Maine — A nurse who treated Ebola pa-tients in West Africa agreed to be quarantined at home in Maine upon her return from a weekend of confinement in New Jersey, but her lawyer dis-agrees with officials over how long she’ll have to stay in seclu-sion.
Nurse Kaci Hickox left a New Jersey hospital on Mon-day and headed toward home in northern Maine, where her partner is a nursing student at the University of Maine at Fort Kent.
Maine health officials an-nounced that she’d be quaran-tined at home for 21 days after the last possible exposure to the disease under the state’s health protocols.
But one of Hickox’s lawyers, Steve Hyman, said he expect-ed her to remain in seclusion
for the “next day or so” while he works with Maine health of-ficials. He said he believes the state should follow the Centers for Disease Control and Pre-vention guidelines that require only monitoring, not quaran-tine, for health care workers who show no symptoms after treating Ebola patients.
“She’s a very good person who did very good work and deserves to be honored, not de-tained, for it,” he said.
Hickox, who was expected home Tuesday morning, volun-teered in Africa with Doctors Without Borders. She spent the weekend in a quarantine tent in New Jersey despite having no symptoms other than a slight-ly elevated temperature she blamed on “inhumane” treat-ment at Newark Liberty Inter-national Airport.
She was the first person forced into New Jersey’s man-datory quarantine for people ar-riving at Newark Liberty from three West African countries.
Hickox said she never had symptoms and tested negative for Ebola in a preliminary eval-uation. She left New Jersey in a
private vehicle on Monday.New Jersey Gov. Chris Chris-
tie and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo were sharply criticized for ordering mandatory quaran-tines. But Christie said Monday that his priority is protecting the health of people in his state.
In Maine, state officials also
announced a quarantine.“Upon the healthcare work-
ers’ return home, we will follow the guidelines set by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control for medical workers who have been in contact with Ebola pa-tients,” Gov. Paul LePage said in a statement.
Maine’s Ebola protocols mean quarantine for nurseNurse’s lawyer believes she should be monitored, not quarantined
Hickox
Governors, Army go own way on Ebola quarantines
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NEWARK, N.J. — The fed-eral Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday rec-ommended new restrictions for people at highest risk for coming down with the Ebola virus and symptom monitoring for those at lower risk, but some state gov-ernors and even the Army are carving their own paths.
As contradictory state poli-cies proliferate in response to Ebola fears, the CDC’s recom-mendations mark an effort to
create a national standard, one that would protect public health without discouraging people from helping fight its spread overseas.
The CDC now says even if people have no symptoms and are not considered contagious they should stay away from com-mercial transportation or public gatherings if they have been in direct contact with the bodily fluids of someone sick with Eb-ola.
Absent that direct contact,
simply caring for Ebola patients or traveling in West Africa doesn’t warrant quarantine con-ditions, the public health agency said.
But quarantines are deter-mined state by state in the U.S., and the CDC is empowered only to issue guidelines. And even within the federal government, authorities were improvising Monday: A U.S. Army com-mander in Italy said he and his troops returning from Liberia would remain in isolation for 21 days, even though he feels they face no risk and show no symp-toms.
CDC trying to create a national standard
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Betty SmithVERNON, Ala. —
Betty Sue Smith, 67, died Oct. 26, 2014, at DCH Regional Medical Center in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Services are 2 p.m. Wednesday at Oakes Chapel MB Church with Billy Carl Sullivan and Scotty Stovall offici-ating. Burial will follow at the church cemetery. Visitation is today from 6-9 p.m. at Chandler Funeral Home.
Mrs. Smith was born in Fayette, Alabama, on Mar. 4, 1947, to the late Pete and Dean Elliot.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by one sister, Linda Carol Smith; and two broth-ers, Leslie Paul Elliot
and Perry Franklin Elliot.
She is survived by her husband, Stanley Riley Smith of Vernon; daughters, Tammy Overton of Coldwater and Lisa Marie Smith of Vernon; son, Spencer Smith of Millport, Ala-bama; three grandchil-dren; sister, Nina Ellen Perkins of Millport; and brother, Dennis Roy Elliot of Millport.
Edward WinstonNOXUBEE COUN-
TY — Edward Winston, 67, died Oct. 27, 2014, at Noxubee General Hospital in Macon.
Services are in-complete and will be announced by Carter’s Funeral Services of Macon.
Orangelean BrownCOLUMBUS — Or-
angelean Brown, 52, died Oct. 27, 2014, at her residence.
Services are in-complete and will be announced by Carter’s Funeral Services of Columbus.
John AshcraftGREENWOOD —
John D. “Tad” Ashcraft III, 62, died Oct. 15, 2014, at his residence.
Arrangements are entrusted to Wilson and Knight Funeral Home.
Mr. Ashcraft was born in Missouri on Apr. 19, 1952, to Joanna Gilliam Ashcraft and the late John Dunklin Jr. He was formerly employed as a courier with FedEx.
In addition to his mother, he is survived by his wife, Susan Ashcraft of Greenwood; daughter, Janie Eliza-beth Hardin Ashcraft of Columbus; son, John Dunklin Ashcraft IV of Ridgeland; sisters, Mary Joanne Ashcraft Austin of Grenada, Josephine Thompson Saunders Ashcraft Austin of Winona and Margaret Frances Redding Ashcraft of Pope; and brother, John Edwin Gilliam Ashcraft of Greenwood.
Gregory HollisSULLIGENT, Ala. —
Gregory Hollis, 53, died Oct. 24, 2014, at his residence.
Graveside services are 2 p.m. Tuesday at McKinney Family Cem-etery with Bud Glass officiating.
Mr. Hollis was born in Sulligent on Dec. 11, 1960, to Dezzie Lee McKinney and the late Gladie Gene Hollis. He was a member of Rising Star Baptist Church and formerly employed in construction. He was
a former member of the Alabama Army National Guard.
In addition to his mother, he is survived by his children, Bri-an A. Hollis, Sharita L. Jenkins-Stewart, Sabrina D. Hollis, Roza’ D. Jenkins and Josten J. Stewart; brother, Gladie Joe Hollis of Cuba, Alabama; and sister, Sandra Hollis of Sulligent.
Amy RichardsCALEDONIA —
Amy Dell Richards, 40, died Oct. 26, 2014, at her residence.
Services are 2 p.m. Wednesday at Lowndes Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will follow at Living Faith Tabernacle Cemetery. Visitation is today from 6-8 p.m. at the funeral home.
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SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean prosecu-tors on Monday demand-ed the death penalty for the captain of a ferry that sank earlier this year, kill-ing more than 300 people, blaming his negligence and failure to rescue passengers in need for the massive loss of life, a court official and news re-ports said.
Prosecutors also re-quested life sentences for three other key crew members during a trial at the Gwangju District Court in southern South
Korea, a court official said on condition of ano-nymity because he wasn’t authorized to speak to the media about the sentence requests. He said prose-cutors asked for sentenc-
es of up to 30 years for 11 other crew members.
The 15 crew members tasked with the ship’s navigation were among the first people rescued from the ship when it be-
gan badly listing, a source of the fierce public anger directed at them. Most of those who died in the disaster were students from a single high school who were en route from Incheon, west of Seoul, to the resort island of Jeju on April 16.
“The captain made no rescue efforts after issuing a broadcast ask-ing passengers to stay in their cabins. ... He didn’t organize any rescue op-erations after leaving the ship,” Yonhap news agen-cy quoted prosecutors as saying during the trial on Monday. Other South Korean media also car-ried the comments, but the court official said he couldn’t confirm them.
South Korea seeks death penalty for ferry captain
AP Photo/Yonhap, Park Chul-hongLee Joon-seok, the captain of the sunken South Korean ferry Sewol, second from right, arrives at Gwangju Dis-trict Court in Gwangju, South Korea, on Monday.
More than 300 perished in sinking
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nie Coleman Peyton was unveiled at Mississippi University for Women on Friday. A photograph’s caption on the Dispatch front page Monday con-tained an inaccuracy. We regret the error.
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“She came out raising hell at us, shooting at us,” he said.
Randall said he yelled back, telling Guyton they were trying to catch the lost calf and would soon be off her property. How-ever, Guyton kept shoot-ing, according to Randall.
The men then ran the calf into another neigh-bor’s property to avoid be-ing shot, Randall said. He called 911.
Noxubee County Sher-iff’s Department deputies came to the property but by then, Guyton had gone back inside her home and would not answer the door, Randall said. Depu-ties left the scene.
Randall said deputies returned to Guyton’s home Monday morning. Randall described the home as a “shack” with-out electricity or running water.
“The deputies came back with us, they went back up trying to talk to her, trying to reason with her,” he said. “She still had the gun with her and it escalated from there. They couldn’t get her out.”
After an hours-long standoff Monday, depu-ties left the home, Randall
said. Grassaree said dep-uties left, hoping Guyton would turn herself in, but they returned when she allegedly threatened to shoot another neighbor.
When deputies left, Guyton emerged from the home, armed with a weap-on, according to Randall.
When deputies re-turned to the home, they got into a face-off with Guyton, according to weekly Macon newspa-per, The Macon Beacon.
Grassaree says when a deputy tried to shoot her with a stun gun she opened fire. The sheriff said an unidentified depu-ty shot Guyton.
According to the Bea-con’s Facebook page, deputies approached Guy-ton from behind. Guyton grabbed a rifle and began firing at the officers. Dep-uty Eddie Franklin, who was hit in his shoulder area, returned fire, along with other law enforce-ment. Guyton was struck at least three times in the legs and torso, according to The Macon Beacon.
Lowndes County Sher-iff’s Department Com-mander Archie Williams, who was at the scene Monday, confirmed this morning that Franklin
was released from Baptist Memorial Hospital-Gold-en Triangle Monday night.
The Mississippi De-partment of Agriculture and Commerce is the lead agency in the case, ac-cording to Warren Strain, spokesperson with the Mississippi Bureau of In-vestigation.
“The department of agriculture is the lead on that deal because there is livestock involved in it,” Strain said this morning. “MBI is acting in a sup-porting role. It started with someone trying to retrieve cattle from the property and it escalated.”
Guyton maintains a website that is critical of the U.S. government.
“The GOP is pushing social welfare policies that can only be described of as genocidal, a post Civ-il Rights Era white back-lash,” she wrote on the website in August.
She also wrote: “Si-lence, patience and wait-ing are over. Target the defense contractors and energy extraction cor-porations as they have targeted democracy, and remove the extremists right from political office as they have removed mil-
lions of Americans from living productive lives, and disrupt national secu-rity as they have disrupt-ed us all.”
Les and Shelia Decker live across the street from Guyton. Sheila Decker said Guyton came over and introduced herself when she moved in. Then, her behavior took a turn. Guyton, Decker said, claimed the family was “watching her and that we shot at her.”
The couple ignored those incidents.
“I can’t say we ever felt threatened by her, but when we saw some of the notes she posted on her gate, we started to be a little cautious,” Decker said. “She would post anti-government things, notes about not trespass-ing on her property, some anti-Ku Klux Klan stuff. There weren’t any notes directed at us, but it was enough to make us a little leery.”
The state Department of Agriculture and Com-merce was unable to con-firm Guyton’s condition this morning.
Dispatch reporter Slim Smith and The Associated Press contributed to this story.
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lawyers also argued that either the state concealed evidence from Manning’s original lawyers or the de-fense was too ineffective to find it.
“Not only was Mr. Man-ning denied a fair trial, but his case has all the charac-teristics of a wrongful con-viction,” said lawyer David Voisin.
The attorney general’s office disputed the claims, saying the testimony should stand and the re-cords wouldn’t have affect-ed the outcome.
Voisin zeroed in on the testimony given by Kevin Lucious, who said he lived in the Brookdale Gardens
complex at the time and saw Manning approach the apartment door. Lu-cious also testified that Manning later twice dis-cussed the killing with him. He has since recant-ed.
Voisin said notes from when police knocked on doors at the complex showed the apartment where Lucious claimed to live was vacant at the time of the shooting.
Special Assistant At-torney General Melanie Thomas said just because no records showed Lu-cious lived at Brookdale Gardens doesn’t mean he wasn’t living with some-
one else or squatting. Jus-tice David Chandler noted that others testified that they saw Manning at the complex on the day of the killings.
Voisin said the police records, as well as a state crime lab report showing a bloody size 8 shoe print were improperly withheld. Manning’s feet are size 11.
Thomas said defense lawyers didn’t have the ex-act report of the shoe print at trial, but did discuss it in testimony.
Justice James Kitchens questioned what proof there is that the state suppressed the evidence, saying lawyers could have
found the reports if they had tried. Voisin said that the lawyers should have been able to rely on pros-ecutors to turn over evi-dence, or alternately said justices should rule the trial team had been inef-fective.
In May 2013, Manning had been set for lethal in-jection in a separate case — the December 1992 slayings of Mississippi State University students Jon Steckler and Tiffany Miller. The state Supreme Court blocked the execu-tion hours before it was scheduled. Voisin said af-ter the hearing that DNA test results are pending.
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for the county to pave all of its gravel roads, up-grade its jail capacity and construct a public storm shelter for times of emer-gencies. It also sets vari-ous land uses for all of Ok-tibbeha County’s outlying property, but it does not implement a zoning ordi-nance.
Roy Carpenter, the one public speaker that weighed in on the doc-ument’s status Monday, said he was disappointed in the fact that supervi-sors would not consider setting stringent land control rules or building codes.
Slaughter’s plan would serve as guideposts for a zoning ordinance, but su-pervisors are not expect-ed to push the issue after the document’s comple-tion. During the planning process, a majority of the five-person board has spoken out against such new laws.
“All the time, I see how people get agitated about zoning issues in the city,” said District 4 Supervisor Daniel Jackson in refer-ence to Starkville Plan-ning and Zoning meet-ings. “I’m sorry you’re disappointed, but we can’t please everyone.”
Slaughter advocated for such controls if super-visors are serious about controlling future land uses in Oktibbeha Coun-ty.
“There’s a better way to think about it than, ‘People live in the county because they don’t want to be told what they can do with their land.’ (With-out true land-control poli-cies), their neighbors can do whatever they want to, and they can’t stop them,” Slaughter said after his presentation. “Any public entity, whether that is a city or county, that wants to control land uses in
Mississippi can only do so by adopting a zoning ordinance. A comprehen-sive plan is just a guide, but it is a basis for zoning required by state legisla-tion. There are no teeth or legal enforcement as-sociated with just a com-prehensive plan.”
In other business, su-pervisors agreed to al-locate a $5,000 donation to the Mayor’s Youth Council for its work in the community. The county will give the money to the community outreach group once it is deter-mined how to formally do-nate the funding stream.
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STARKVLLE — While Starkville High School is enjoying its deepest run in the school’s vol-leyball history, the Lady Jackets are having fun with it.
Starkville (22-10) plays at DeSoto Central (34-8) today for the Mississippi High School Activities Association Class III North State championship.
Match time is set for 4:30 p.m. It is Starkville’s first-ever appear-ance in the North State finals.
Ironically, Starkville makes this round one year after New Hope also played in its first-ever North State championship.
“We are excited because this is the deepest we have ever gone in the playoffs,” Starkville junior middle blocker April Reese said. “There is a lot of pressure but we are just trying to have fun. At the beginning of the season, we thought we could play for the championship. Now, we are a match away, so everybody is ex-cited.”
Starkville finished the regular
season as the Region 1 runner-up to DeSoto Central. In the post-season, Starkville has breezed to a pair of victories — 3-0 over Region 2 third-place team Clinton and Region 2 champion North-west Rankin.
“It is a testament to the girls and how hard they have worked,” Starkville sixth-year coach Lau-ren Love said. “They have com-mitted themselves to being one of the top programs. What they have done is left a legacy that teams in the future will benefit from. Each team in the future will know how
to achieve this kind of success.”Starkville’s first-round win
over Clinton was the first post-season victory under Love. With some of the nerves jettisoned, Starkville could play free and easy in its win over Northwest Rankin.
The Lady Jackets were rarely threatened in the 25-14, 25-19, 25-17 victory.
“It is all about teamwork and communication,” Starkville se-nior outside hitter Khris Carr said. “We have communicated really well in the playoffs. Every-body knows their role and we
have been working hard to get to the state championship. There is always a little doubt at first, but once we had the success against Clinton, it really picked every-body up.”
Carr leads the team with 321 kills, while Reese is second with 221. Senior Vicky Vo leads the team with 483 assists, while Carr and Reese are one-and-two in digs with 177 and 175 respective-ly. Senior Courtney Wilson is next with 140.
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STARKVILLE — Techni-cally, Kendra Grant’s shooting form ranks with the best play-ers in the Southeastern Confer-ence.
As Mississippi State women’s basketball coach Vic Schaefer puts it, Grant has a “pro shot,” or one that has the potential to help her earn a living playing basketball in the United States or overseas.
Despite having a sweet stroke, Grant enters her senior season with a career shooting percentage under 40 percent from the field. And one season removed from seeing her min-utes decrease by nearly 13 min-utes a game, you get the sense Grant wants to add something to her game that she hopes will help her and the Bulldogs have a season to remember.
“It seems like everything went by so fast,” Grant said. “Just knowing what it takes to beat major teams, what it takes to defend, and what it takes to make certain shots, I feel like I have a different mind-set. Knowing how much I was in the gym last year and how much more I could have been in the gym, everything I have learned I am taking that into account. I am just doing a lot more than what I used to, so hopefully that will pay off.”
With the addition of a fresh-man class that was ranked No. 20 nationally, MSU has depth at every position and plenty of go-to players who are accustomed to taking shots with games on the line. That’s why Schaefer said the ability to make shots is the key for Grant and any of the other players.
“There is more to it than just the shot,” Schaefer said. “You
have to spend the time in the gym and work at it and develop that consistency. She has the tools. Hopefully, she will get back in the flow of practice this week and has a good week.”
Schaefer said Grant missed the past two weeks due to a concussion. He said she played well Sunday and made some shots in the first half, but her inactivity means other players have stepped into her spot and assumed her minutes. Still, he said he hopes to send Grant and her classmates out with a bang after the team went 22-14 last season and returned to the postseason.
The 5-foot-11 guard from Richland helped fuel that run by averaging 14.3 points per game in the final six games of the season. She was the team’s leading scorer in four of those games, including the final two,
Ole Miss has no time to reflect on Saturday night’s loss to LSU.
The Rebels fell from third to seventh and ninth in the national rankings after being upset 10-7 on national television Saturday night in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. For Ole Miss, it was the season’s first loss after seven straight wins.
Still, Ole Miss controls its own destiny and remains alive for the Southeastern Conference West-ern Division championship and a spot in the first College Football Playoff.
Ole Miss (7-1, 4-1 conference) will face Auburn (6-1, 3-1) Satur-day night. The 6 p.m. kickoff will be televised nationally by ESPN from Vaught-Hemingway Stadi-um in Oxford.
“It was obviously disappoint-ing to not get it done on the road with LSU,” Ole Miss coach Hugh Freeze said. “Anytime the game is that close and competitive, when you watch the film, everything is magnified. We did not play our
STARKVILLE – When Missis-sippi State wrapped up its 45-31 victory over Kentucky on Satur-day in Lexington, the Bulldogs walked off the field with a slice of school history in tow.
Not only did the Bulldogs suc-cessfully defend their No. 1 rank-ing, given two weeks ago by the USA Today Coaches Poll and As-sociated Press Top 25, but MSU also won its 10th straight game, good for the second-longest streak in program history and the longest under current head coach Dan Mullen.
This Saturday, the Bulldogs will meet the team that started the streak.
Nearly one year ago, late last November, MSU was 4-6 and hurt-ing from a 20-7 loss to Alabama. Wounded and without sophomore quarterback Dak Prescott, the Bulldogs traveled to Little Rock and survived a war, emerging with a 24-17 overtime victory over the Razorbacks.
Adam Minichino/Dispatch StaffColumbus Christian’s KC Cunningham, far right, looks on as teammate Chris Randazzo signs a football from 2007 that was signed by the school’s first 11-man football team. That team, which was coached by Billy Thomas, went 0-9. On Friday, Columbus Christian made history when it beat Deer Creek Academy to win the school’s first 11-man football title. Thomas brought the football by the school Monday to have the players on this year’s team sign the football.
STEENS — When you have been at a school for as long as KC Cunningham, it’s natural to have left a trail of accomplishments.
But most of the special athletic honors Cunningham
has been a part of have in-volved the Columbus Chris-tian boys basketball teams. It is only recently that Cun-ningham and the Rams have made their presence known on the football field.
On Friday, Cunningham helped Columbus Christian signal its arrival as more
than a basketball school when he played a key role in a 39-0 victory against Deer Creek Academy. The victory allowed Columbus Christian to wrap up the Mississippi Association of Independent Schools Class A, District 2 title, its first district crown in
Cunningham helps lead Columbus Christian to first 11-man district title in football
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MSU hasn’t lost since.On Saturday, Arkansas, in its
second season under the guidance of coach Bret Beilema, will look to finish a streak it helped start.
“We are moving on to a very dif-ficult Arkansas team,” said Mullen. “They are a very physical football team, they can certainly run the ball and they are big, strong on the defensive line. It is going to be a challenge.”
Mullen’s victory over the Razor-backs last season was MSU’s first in the state of Arkansas, and the Bulldogs are aiming for their third straight win for the first time in se-ries history.
Arkansas (4-4 overall, 0-4 in league play) visits Starkville for Sat-urday night’s 6:15 kickoff in search of its first conference win under Beilema, who has started his Ra-zorbacks’ tenure 0-for-12 in league games. But the Razorbacks took then No. 6 Texas A&M to overtime on Sept. 27, and two weeks later dropped a 14-13 home decision to No. 7 Alabama, showing signs of improvement in Bielema’s second season.
“This is a legit football team,” said Mullen of the Razorbacks, who need two wins in the season’s final
four games to earn bowl eligibility. “They are a big, physical outfit, and they have two of the best tailbacks in the country. They have a quarter-back who can really throw the foot-ball and is very efficient. Because of how well they run the ball they get some pretty good looks for him in one-on-one coverage. That presents a huge challenge for us this week.”
A win over Arkansas would stretch MSU’s winning streak to 11 games, two short of the school’s longest streak, a 13-game run from Oct. 17, 1942 to Nov. 11, 1944. More importantly, it would strengthen the Bulldogs’ grip on the country’s No. 1 ranking. This week, the Bull-dogs remained on top of the college football world for the third-straight week, and at 7-0, the Bulldogs are one of just three unbeaten FBS teams, joining Marshall and de-fending national champion Florida State.
The Bulldogs have done much of their damage this season offen-sively, as the Bulldogs will enter Saturday leading the league in total offense (531.4 yards per game) and are second in the league in scoring (42.3 points per game). Addition-ally, tailback Josh Robinson, who was named the league’s offensive
player of the week for his 198-yard, two-touchdown showing at Ken-tucky, leads the SEC in rushing yards with 887, while he and quar-terback Dak Prescott are tied for the league lead in rushing touch-downs with 10 each.
“I think it has been pretty good for us,” said Mullen of the Rob-inson-Prescott duo. “We want to make people defend all 11 guys on the field. When the running back is putting up big numbers and hitting explosive plays he draws a lot of at-tention. That takes a lot of the pres-sure and attention off of (Prescott), which will allow him to make big-ger plays.”
In Fayetteville, Bielema, who is now 8-12 at Arkansas after a suc-cessful run at Wisconsin, seemed to relish the challenge of visiting the No. 1 team in the country.
“We played Mississippi State great last year and we are looking forward to playing them as the No. 1 team,” said Bielema. “They are a great team, they run the ball ex-tremely well. Our team is excited to play this game.”
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CunninghamContinued from Page 1B
11-man football.Cunningham, a 5-foot-
8 1/2, 196-pound senior, had seven carries for 122 yards and three touch-downs in the victory that pushed the Rams to 6-4.
For his accomplish-ments, Cunningham is The Dispatch’s Prep Play-er of the Week.
“It felt pretty good to win a district champion-ship,” Cunningham said. “I have been here since third grade. To get the first one in my senior year, it feels like I am leav-ing with a legacy.”
The latest victory avenged a 28-26 loss to Deer Creek Academy in Steens that denied Colum-bus Christian a chance at its first district title. The team’s season then ended with a loss to top-seeded Natchez Trinity Episcopal in the first round of the Class A playoffs. This sea-son, Columbus Christian secured the No. 5 seed in the playoffs and will play host to DeSoto School at 7 p.m. Friday in its first home playoff game in the school’s 11-man history.
Columbus Christian will celebrate the accom-plishments of this sea-son’s team with a pep rally at 6 p.m. Thursday at the school. On Friday, it will welcome back players and cheerleaders from the 1988 and 1992 teams that were National Associa-tion of Christian Athletes runners-up. Both squads played for national titles in Dayton, Tennessee. The trophies for both teams are on display in the lobby of the school’s gym.
This year’s team will have to find a piece of prime real estate to show-case its championship hardware. Whether it has been football, basketball,
baseball, or track and field, Cunningham has been a part of many of the school’s biggest athletic achievements in recent years. Last school year, he played point guard on the boys basketball team that won a district title. This year, he hopes he and his teammates can continue to make history on the football field.
“I think it will be our first 11-man playoff game here, so it is going to be pretty intense,” said Cun-ningham, who plans to go to East Mississippi Com-munity College and hopes to play football for the nation’s No. 1 program. “I think we are going to feel kind of pressured to win because we have ac-complished so much and they kind of expect us to win since we are a higher seed. That is going to be a little pressure, but I think we’re going to handle it and we will go out there and play our best game and get another win and go to round two.”
Cunningham has done more than his share in the historic season. He leads the team with 1,199 rushing yards and 19 touchdowns (an average of 9.08 yards per carry). He also has 21 catches for 429 yards and four more touchdowns. Figure in 122 yards as a kick return-er, 105 yards and a touch-down as a punt returner, and 31 solo tackles and two interceptions on de-fense and it’s safe to say Cunningham has done a little of everything.
Greg Watkins has coached Cunningham for the past four years. He said his senior leader has matured into a lead-by-ex-ample performer who is more comfortable as a vo-
cal leader this season.“I tell my seniors to be
a leader before you can be vocal you have got to lead by example,” Wat-kins said. “If you don’t lead by example, they’re not going to respect you when you do get on to somebody or you do try to get them to work harder. KC has done a real good job of doing that. He has worked a whole lot hard-er. When you do get out and work harder and per-form in games, the young-er guys listen to him. He has grown up a whole lot in the past year in that as-pect.”
Watkins said Cunning-ham also has shouldered the responsibility of be-ing the team’s go-to back. He said many teams list Cunningham at the top of their game plan when they formulate their defenses. But he said players like B.J. Shirley, Kimarri Whitfield, and Dawson Shaw have done a good job of capitalizing on their chances when teams key on Cunningham.
Even when teams con-centrate on Cunningham. Watkins said he has been able to have success be-cause he has improved his vision from last sea-son. Watkins said the maturation comes from experience in the system.
“Last year and at the beginning of the year, he didn’t see those open spots,” Watkins said. “He has done a lot better job of getting up there and read-ing the defense before the play is run to know where to look for those cuts.”
That leadership is sim-ilar to the role Cunning-ham plays on the basket-ball court as the team’s point guard. Cunningham admits winning the foot-
ball title has been special. Watkins agrees because Columbus Christian has been known more for its accomplishments in boys basketball. He credits players like Cunningham and classmates Shirley, Chris Randazzo, Grant Wyatt, and Koby Bailey for helping the football team make a name for it-self and, in the process, make history.
“We have come a long ways, and we still have a long ways to go to get to where we want to be,” Watkins said. “Last year’s team playing for the dis-trict put the taste in these guys mouth to want it even more. Next year’s team, it puts a little more on them where you have started something and y’all keep it going.
“We have five seniors and not any juniors and a big sophomore class. They are a pretty tight group. I think it started last year in basketball, building that team chem-istry and that many parts, one body. They didn’t look at each other as seniors or juniors or sophomores. They look at each other as equal. Some stepped up and were leaders. If I had to pick my two big-gest leaders, I would say KC and B.J. They didn’t miss any of the summer workouts. They kept ev-erybody fired up and helped keep that desire to be the first district cham-pion alive and it filtered through everybody.”
That’s a legacy any player can be proud of.
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STARKVILLE – Two days after helping No. 1 Mississippi State remain undefeated with a 45-31 road win at Kentucky, a pair of Bulldogs earned honors from the South-eastern Conference Mon-day night for their perfor-mances in Lexington.
Junior tailback Josh Robinson, who rushed for a career-high 198 yards and two touchdowns on 23 carries, was named the SEC’s Offensive Play-er of the Week while fifth-year senior Kaleb Eulls, who led MSU’s de-fensive attack with two sacks of Kentucky quar-terback Patrick Towles, was named the league’s Defensive Lineman of the Week.
With the wins by Rob-inson and Eulls, MSU has now earned 10 in-dividual weekly awards this season, the most in the conference. The rec-ognition of Eulls gives the Bulldogs their fourth SEC Defensive Lineman of the Week nod, with the first three going to senior defensive end Preston Smith.
n McKinney chosen Butkus Award semifi-nalist: Already named a Midseason All-American by ESPN.com, Mississip-pi State linebacker Be-nardrick McKinney add-ed another accolade on Monday morning, as the MSU junior was named a semifinalist for the But-kus Award, given annual-ly to the nation’s top line-backer.
McKinney is one of five
of the award’s 15 semifi-nalists from the South-eastern Conference, join-ing Jordan Jenkins and Ramik Wilson of Georgia; A.J. Johnson of Tennessee and Reggie Ragland of Al-abama.
n Mullen discuss-es return from injury for Lewis: After missing Mississippi State’s wins over Auburn and Texas A&M with a leg injury, MSU senior WR Jameon Lewis returned to action in Saturday’s 45-31 win over Kentucky, but the Ty-lertown native appeared to be limited due to the lingering injury.
Against the Wildcats, Lewis played frequently, but never touched the ball for an offense that rolled up 542 total yards.
On Monday, MSU coach Dan Mullen was
asked about his senior wide receiver.
“Hopefully this week he’s closer to 100 per-cent,” said Mullen. “He played in the game, but as soon as he got sore, we wanted to pull him. The trainers have said he’s moving Ok, but as a senior, he is desperate to get back on the field, and that’s the type of attitude we want him to have.”
“You like when a guy is desperate to play foot-ball, but at the same time, we don’t want to put him in harm’s way. We loved having him in the game, hopefully this week we will see him more.”
n Homecoming game time announced: MSU’s Homecoming game with UT-Martin will start at 3 p.m. on Nov. 8 and shown on the SEC Network.
Top-ranked Bulldogs rake in weekly honors
Prep BasketballToday’s Games
Central Academy at Kemper Academy Preseason TournamentColumbus Christian, Heritage Academy, Oak Hill Academy at Oak Hill Tournament
Thursday’s GamesCentral Academy at Kemper Academy Preseason TournamentStarkville Academy at Leake AcademyColumbus Christian, Heritage Academy, Oak Hill Academy at Oak Hill Tournament
Saturday’s GamesStarkville High, New Hope at New Hope Jambo-reeColumbus Christian, Heritage Academy, Oak Hill Academy at Oak Hill Tournament
Prep FootballThursday’s Games
Winfield at Lamar County, 7 p.m.Gordo at Pickens County, 7 p.m.South Lamar at Sulligent, 7 p.m.
Friday’s GamesMurrah at Columbus, 7 p.m.New Hope at West Point, 7 p.m.Warren Central at Starkville High, 7 p.m.Houston at Noxubee County, 7 p.m.Caledonia at Leake Central, 7 p.m.Aberdeen at South Pontotoc, 7 p.m.Corinth at Amory, 7 p.m.East Webster at Eupora, 7 p.m.Hamilton at Smithville, 7 p.m.Louisville at Nettleton, 7 p.m.Pelahatchie at East Oktibbeha, 7 p.m.Ethel at West Oktibbeha, 7 p.m.Heritage Academy at Magnolia Heights, 7 p.m.Calhoun Academy at Hebron Christian, 7 p.m.Jackson Academy at Starkville Academy, 7 p.m.Kemper Academy at Central Academy, 7 p.m.Sumter Academy at Pickens Academy, 7 p.m.Mississippi Association of Independent Schools
Class AA Playoffs – First RoundOak Hill Academy at Canton Academy, 7 p.m.
Class A Playoffs – First RoundDesoto School at Columbus Christian, 7 p.m.
Christian Football AssociationPlayoffs – First Round
New Life Academy at Victory Christian, 7 p.m.
Prep SoccerSaturday’s Matches
Amory, Corinth, Starkville High at Amory Tourna-ment
Prep VolleyballMississippi High School Activities Association
Class III North State tournamentStarkville vs. DeSoto Central, 4:30 p.m.
College FootballSaturday’s Games
Auburn at Ole Miss, 6 p.m.Arkansas at Mississippi State, 6:15 p.m.Southern Miss at UTEP, 7 p.m.
Men’s College GolfToday’s Match
MSU, Southern Miss at The Grove Intercollegiate (College Grove, Tenn.)
Women’s College GolfToday’s Match
Southern Miss at UAB Fall Beach BashSaturday’s Match
Ole Miss at Jim West Challenge (Boerne, Tex.)Sunday’s Match
Ole Miss at Jim West Challenge (Boerne, Tex.)
College RowingSaturday’s Meet
Alabama at Head of the Hooch Regatta (Chatta-nooga, Tenn.)
Sunday’s MeetAlabama at Head of the Hooch Regatta (Chatta-nooga, Tenn.)
College SoccerWednesday’s Match
Alabama at Kentucky, 6:30 p.m.Thursday’s Matches
Mississippi State at South Carolina, 6 p.m.Tennessee at Ole Miss, 7 p.m.Southern Miss at UTSA, 7 p.m.
College Swimming & DivingSaturday’s Meet
LSU, Auburn at Alabama
Women’s College TennisFriday’s Match
Roberta Alison Invitational (Tuscaloosa)Saturday’s Match
Roberta Alison Invitational (Tuscaloosa)Sunday’s Match
Roberta Alison Invitational (Tuscaloosa)
College VolleyballFriday’s Matches
Auburn at Mississippi State, 5 p.m.Texas A&M at Alabama, 7 p.m.Southern Miss at UTEP, 8 p.m.
Sunday’s MatchesSouth Carolina at Ole Miss, 1 p.m.Southern Miss at UTSA, 1 p.m.
TodayMAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
7 p.m. — World Series, game 6, San Francisco at Kansas City, WLOV
NBA7 p.m. — Dallas at San Antonio, TNT9:30 p.m. — Houston at L.A. Lakers, TNT
NHL7 p.m. — Minnesota at Boston, NBC Sports Network
WednesdayGOLF
2 a.m. — LPGA, Taiwan Championship, first round, at Taipei (delayed tape), GC10 p.m. — PGA Tour, CIMB Classic, first round, at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, TGC
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL7 p.m. — World Series, game 7, San Francisco at Kansas City (if necessary), WLOV
NBA7 p.m. — Chicago at New York, ESPN9:30 p.m. — Oklahoma City at Portland, ESPN
STARKVILLE — Fans can get their first look at Vic Schaefer’s 2014-15 Mississippi State basketball team Thursday during the annual Maroon-White scrimmage at Humphrey Coliseum.
The scrimmage tips at 6 p.m., and admission is free. An on-court autograph session will be held immediately following the event.
There is tremendous excitement entering the campaign, as the Bulldogs are coming off a stellar 22-14 season and a thrilling run to the quarterfinals of the WNIT.
Mississippi State returns nearly 90 percent of the offense from that team, including Preseason All-SEC selection Martha Alwal, who averaged 14.9 points and an SEC third-most 8.8 rebounds last season.
The reigning SEC Co-Defensive Player of the Year enters her final MSU campaign the league leader and second among active NCAA Division I players in career blocks (257). She is also the conference’s top returnee with 824 career rebounds and 31 double-doubles.
State also returns SEC All-Freshman Team selection Breanna Richardson, who looks to build on a standout rookie season that saw her average 9.5 points, including a 10.7 average in SEC play that was fifth highest among league rookies.
In addition to a solid nucleus of returnees, this year’s squad also features the debut of a Top 20 signing class comprised of Victoria Vivi-ans, Blair Schaefer, Kayla Nevitt, LaKaris Salter and Morgan William.
Mississippi State hosts Arkansas-Fort Smith in a Nov. 9 exhibition before beginning the regular season Nov. 14 at home against Mercer in the Preseason WNIT. Tip for that contest is set for 8 p.m.
n Dick leads men’s golf team: At College Grove, Tennessee, a strong back nine put Jackson Dick in third place and Mississippi State in ninth after two rounds at The Intercollegiate At The Grove.
After being 3-over-par at the turn, Dick birded three of his last seven holes to salvage an even par 72. The strong finish put him at even par for the tournament, five shots back of Lipscomb’s Dawson Armstrong heading into Tuesday’s final round.
“We seem to take one step forward and two steps back. Today was an example of the conditions being a little tougher, and those marginal shots that we got away with yesterday bit us today,” MSU coach Clay Homan said.
T.J. Morgan shot a six-over-par 78 to land in a tie for 33rd.Sunday’s team leader Ben Follett-Smith carded a 9-over-par 81,
giving him a sole possession of 36th place.Tim Walker is tied for 42nd after shooting a second round 8-over
80.Ben Wood rounds out the Bulldog scorecard with a 10-over-par 82
that ties him for 58th.
AlabamaVolleyball’s Rivers earns weekly honor from SEC
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Redshirt sophomore Krystal Rivers has been named the SEC Offensive Player of the Week after earning a team-leading 34 kills and .431 hitting percentage over two wins last week.
Rivers 34 kills were spread between a three-set victory at Auburn last Wednesday and a four-set victory over Arkansas at home on Sunday, giving her an average of 4.86 kills-per-set. She hit .431 over the two matches with just three errors on 72 swings. Her .409 clip against the Tigers was her highest total in SEC play this season before she surpassed that on Sunday with a .440 hitting percentage against the Razorbacks. Her 28.0 points against Arkansas is her highest total in SEC play and her second-highest total overall, while her 25 kills in the match are her second-highest total against conference opponents.
n Football pair make watch list: At Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Landon Collins and Reggie Ragland were both named to national award semifinalist lists on Monday as the Butkus Award tabbed Rag-land and the Jim Thorpe Award identified Collins.
The Butkus Award is annually given to the nation’s top linebacker while the Thorpe Award honors college football’s best defensive back. Ragland is one of 15 semifinalists in 2014 for the Butkus while Collins is one of 15 semifinalists for the Thorpe Award.
Alabama has had three winners of the Butkus Award, C.J. Mosley (2013), Rolando McClain (2009) and Derrick Thomas (1988). The Tide’s Antonio Langham won the school’s only Thorpe Award in 1993, although Mark Barron was a finalist in 2011 and Dee Milliner in 2012. Collins was also a semifinalist for the Thorpe Award last season.
Ragland, from Madison, Ala., has a team-high 56 tackles on the season with 6.5 tackles for loss (18 yards), 1.5 sacks (-12 yards), one interception (12 yards), three pass breakups, a force fumble, two fumble recoveries and a quarterback hurry.. Collins is second on the team in tackles with 54 with a team-best five pass breakups, a team-best two interceptions (12 yards) and two quarterback hurries.
The Thorpe Award is named after history’s greatest athlete, Jim Thorpe, and is presented by the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame and Jim Thorpe Association in Oklahoma City.
The Butkus Award honors outstanding linebackers at three levels of play, while spreading the word about the I Play Clean™ initiative, which encourages teens to eat well, train hard, and play smart, instead of resorting to performance-enhancing drugs.
In other football news, six Alabama players were recognized by the coaching staff following Saturday’s 34-20 victory at Tennessee. Amari Cooper, Blake Sims and Ryan Kelly were honorees on offense, while Jonathan Allen represented the defense. Landon Collins and JK Scott made the special teams list.
Southern MissWomen’s golf in seventh place at UAB Fall Beach Bash
BIRMINGHAM — The Southern Miss women’s golf team is tied for seventh-place heading into the final round of the UAB Fall Beach Bash, played at the par-72, 6,050-yard Peninsula Golf & Racquet Club.
The Lady Eagles shot a 304 to sit 16-over par, tied with UAB.Freshman Belen Abrile and MacKenzie each shot a career-best 75
to sit in a 15th-place tie at three-over par.Sophomore Devon Spriddle and junior Jennifer Nguyen are tied for
28th-place at five-over par after each carding a 77.Senior Charlotte McLoughlin is tied for 52nd-place at 10-over par
after shooting an 82 and freshman Nicola Callander is in 55th-place with a 13-over par 85. Sophomore Emily Ross withdrew from round one.
Western Kentucky leads the team competition at seven-over par, one shot ahead of Houston Baptist and Sam Houston State.
Sam Houston State’s Alisa White is two-under par to lead the individual tournament.
n Weathersby shares lead: At College Grove, Tennessee, Hayes Weathersby is tied for fourth-place heading into the final round of the Grove Intercollegiate, hosted by Middle Tennessee and played at the par-72, 7,368-yard Grove Country Club.
Weathersby shot a 73 to sit one-over par, six shot behind individual leader. Dawson Armstrong of Lipscomb. His 36-hole score of 145 is also a season-best.
The Golden Eagles are 17-over par after shooting a 304, tied with Ohio State and 10 shots behind team leader Troy.
Sophomore Ryan Argotsinger is tied for 16th-place at four-over par after carding a 75. Freshman Vasili Kartos is tied for 21st-place at five-over par after posting a 78.
Junior collegesEMCC rodeo teams place fourth in Kentucky
MURRAY, Ky. — Highlighted by sophomore Kelsey Kennemer earning All-Around women’s honors, the East Mississippi Community College rodeo teams placed fourth in both men’s and women’s competi-tion this past weekend at the 39th Annual Murray State University Racer Roundup College Rodeo. The three-day event concluded Saturday night at the William “Bill” Cherry Agricultural Exposition Center.
In their third rodeo event of the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association’s Ozark Region schedule, the EMCC men scored a fall-best team showing by placing fourth at Murray State. The EMCC women posted a second straight fourth-place finish after opening the fall slate by claiming a program-first women’s team title at the Missouri Valley College event.
The University of Tennessee at Martin swept the Murray State team titles, totaling 610 points in men’s competition to beat Missouri Valley along with earning 340 points on the women’s side to edge runner-up Arkansas-Monticello.
For the EMCC women, Kennemer tallied all 200 of the team’s points to garner All-Around women’s accolades. The Troy University transfer by way of Anderson, Ala., placed second in the barrel racing event with a composite time of 31.03 seconds in addition to finishing fifth in the goat tying competition with a combined clocking of 18.0 seconds.
In men’s competition for the Lions, sophomore Palmer White, of West Point’s Oak Hill Academy, collected 90 points for a third-place tie (12.9 seconds) in steer wrestling. Freshman Cooper Christensen, from North Pontotoc High School, also earned 90 points for his fourth-place effort (20.1 seconds) in the calf roping event. Fellow freshman cowboy Dustin Egusquiza also scored for the Lions in calf roping as well as in team roping with partner Ivan Holliday to round out the team’s 205-point performance.
In addition, the EMCC men also featured excellent showings from two other team roping tandems during the Murray State-hosted rodeo. Dale Chancellor (Winston Academy) and Tyler Spears (Neshoba Central HS) teamed to finish second in the event, followed close behind in third place by teammates Ty Holder (Bayou Academy) and Weston Pender (Poplarville HS).
—From Special Reports
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BaseballPlayoff glance
WORLD SERIES(Best-of-7)
All games televised by FoxSan Francisco 3, Kansas City 2
Tuesday, Oct. 21: San Francisco 7, Kansas City 1Wednesday, Oct. 22: Kansas City 7, San Fran-cisco 2Friday, Oct. 24: Kansas City 3, San Francisco 2Saturday, Oct. 25: San Francisco 11, Kansas City 4Sunday, Oct. 26: San Francisco 5, Kansas City 0Tuesday, Oct. 28: San Francisco (Peavy 6-4) at Kansas City (Ventura 14-10), 7:07 p.m.x-Wednesday, Oct. 29: San Francisco at Kan-sas City, 7:07 p.m.
BasketballNBA
Today’s GamesOrlando at New Orleans, 7 p.m.Dallas at San Antonio, 7 p.m.Houston at L.A. Lakers, 9:30 p.m.
Wednesday’s GamesPhiladelphia at Indiana, 6 p.m.Milwaukee at Charlotte, 6 p.m.Washington at Miami, 6:30 p.m.Atlanta at Toronto, 6:30 p.m.Brooklyn at Boston, 6:30 p.m.Minnesota at Memphis, 7 p.m.Chicago at New York, 7 p.m.Detroit at Denver, 8 p.m.Houston at Utah, 8 p.m.L.A. Lakers at Phoenix, 9 p.m.Golden State at Sacramento, 9 p.m.Oklahoma City at Portland, 9:30 p.m.
FootballNFL
AMERICAN CONFERENCEEast
W L T Pct PF PANew England 6 2 0 .750 238 177Buffalo 5 3 0 .625 178 165Miami 4 3 0 .571 174 151N.Y. Jets 1 7 0 .125 144 228
South W L T Pct PF PAIndianapolis 5 3 0 .625 250 187Houston 4 4 0 .500 185 166Tennessee 2 6 0 .250 137 202Jacksonville 1 7 0 .125 118 218
North W L T Pct PF PACincinnati 4 2 1 .643 161 164Baltimore 5 3 0 .625 217 131Pittsburgh 5 3 0 .625 205 196Cleveland 4 3 0 .571 163 152
West W L T Pct PF PADenver 6 1 0 .857 224 142San Diego 5 3 0 .625 205 149Kansas City 4 3 0 .571 176 128Oakland 0 7 0 .000 105 181
Sunday’s GamesDetroit 22, Atlanta 21Kansas City 34, St. Louis 7Houston 30, Tennessee 16Minnesota 19, Tampa Bay 13, OTSeattle 13, Carolina 9Cincinnati 27, Baltimore 24Miami 27, Jacksonville 13New England 51, Chicago 23Buffalo 43, N.Y. Jets 23Arizona 24, Philadelphia 20Cleveland 23, Oakland 13Pittsburgh 51, Indianapolis 34New Orleans 44, Green Bay 23Open: N.Y. Giants, San Francisco
Monday’s GameWashington 20, Dallas 17, OT
Thursday, Oct. 30New Orleans at Carolina, 7:25 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 2Arizona at Dallas, NoonPhiladelphia at Houston, NoonN.Y. Jets at Kansas City, NoonWashington at Minnesota, NoonTampa Bay at Cleveland, NoonJacksonville at Cincinnati, NoonSan Diego at Miami, NoonSt. Louis at San Francisco, 3:05 p.m.Oakland at Seattle, 3:25 p.m.Denver at New England, 3:25 p.m.Baltimore at Pittsburgh, 7:30 p.m.Open: Atlanta, Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit, Green Bay, Tennessee
Monday, Nov. 3Indianapolis at N.Y. Giants, 7:30 p.m.
FCS coaches pollSPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) — The top 25 teams in the Coaches Football Championship Subdivision poll, with first-place votes in pa-rentheses, records through Oct. 26, points and previous ranking: Record Pts Pvs1. North Dakota State (26) 8-0 650 12. Coastal Carolina 8-0 617 33. Villanova 7-1 594 44. New Hampshire 6-1 569 55. Jacksonville State 6-1 541 76. Illinois State 7-0 501 97. Eastern Washington 7-2 495 28. McNeese State 5-2 460 109. Montana State 6-2 437 1110. Fordham 7-1 384 1211. Montana 5-3 354 612. Chattanooga 5-3 344 1413. Youngstown State 6-2 343 1614. Richmond 6-2 324 1715. Southeastern La. 6-3 313 816. Eastern Kentucky 7-1 234 1817. William & Mary 5-3 225 2018. Harvard 6-0 197 2119. South Dakota State 5-3 162 1620. Bethune-Cookman 6-2 149 1321. Indiana State 5-3 162 1622. Northern Iowa 4-4 98 2323. Stephen F. Austin 6-2 71 NR24. Bryant 6-1 56 2525. Southern Illinois 5-4 42 19Others Receiving Votes: Cal Poly 30, Alcorn State 22, Sacred Heart 20, Northern Arizona 13, Albany 12, Liberty 11, North Carolina A&T 10, Western Carolina 8, Bucknell 5, Presbyte-rian 5, Central Arkansas 3, Dartmouth 2, Idaho State 2, Charleston Southern 1, Missouri State 1, South Carolina State 1, Yale 1.
TSN FCS pollPHILADELPHIA (AP) — The top 25 teams in the Sports Network Football Championship Subdivision poll, with first-place votes in pa-rentheses, records through Oct. 25, points and previous ranking: Record Pts Pvs1. North Dakota State (157) 8-0 3925 12. New Hampshire 6-1 3616 3
3. Coastal Carolina 8-0 3582 44. Villanova 7-1 3516 55. Jacksonville State 6-1 3254 66. Eastern Washington 7-2 2996 27. Illinois State 7-0 2924 98. Montana State 6-2 2708 109. McNeese State 5-2 2534 1110. Fordham 7-1 2433 1211. Youngstown State 6-2 2058 1712. Montana 5-3 2025 713. Richmond 6-2 1986 1614. Chattanooga 5-3 1848 1515. Southeastern Louisiana 6-3 1758 816. Eastern Kentucky 7-1 1472 1917. William & Mary 5-3 1453 1818. South Dakota State 5-3 1160 1319. Indiana State 5-3 1044 2220. Harvard 6-0 887 2121. Bethune-Cookman 6-2 738 1422. Northern Iowa 4-4 504 2323. Albany 6-2 393 2524. Stephen F. Austin 6-2 320 NR25. Bryant 6-1 249 NROthers receiving votes: Southern Illinois 247, Northern Arizona 245, Cal Poly 203, Liberty 191, Western Carolina 160, James Madison 58, North Carolina A&T 54, Sam Houston State 53, South Carolina State 51, Central Arkansas 47, Dartmouth 44, Alcorn State 33, Bucknell 32, Grambling State 31, Jacksonville 29, Sacred Heart 26, Charleston Southern 23, Presby-terian 20, Missouri State 16, Idaho State 16, Wofford 13, Eatern Illinois 8, Samford 7, Yale 6, Lamar 4, Delaware 4, Duquesne 1.
Record Pts Pvs1. Wis.-Whitewater (34) 7-0 1040 12. M.H.-Baylor (Texas) (4) 7-0 998 23. Mount Union (Ohio) (4) 7-0 985 34. Wesley (Del.) 8-0 914 45. Linfield (Ore.) 6-0 883 56. Wartburg (Iowa) 7-0 823 67. John Carroll (Ohio) 7-0 799 78. Hobart (N.Y.) 7-0 727 89. Johns Hopkins (Md.) 7-0 699 910. Wabash (Ind.) 7-0 662 1011. Wheaton (Ill.) 7-0 634 1112. Widener (Pa.) 7-0 552 1313. Bethel (Minn.) 6-1 530 1514. Wis.-Platteville 6-1 529 1415. Wash. & Jefferson (Pa.) 7-0 450 1616. St. John Fisher (N.Y.) 6-1 360 1817. Wittenberg (Ohio) 6-1 357 2018. Delaware Valley (Pa.) 7-0 324 2119. Wis.-Stevens Point 6-1 273 2220. Concordia (Minn.) 7-1 244 2321. St. John’s (Minn.) 6-1 236 2422. Hampden-Sydney (Va.) 6-1 168 2523. North Central (Ill.) 5-2 140 1224. Carroll (Wis.) 7-0 87 NR25. Centre (Ky.) 7-0 70 NR
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a victory against Auburn and a last-second loss to South Florida in the quarterfinals of the Women’s National Invitation Tournament.
As well as Grant played in those games, that stretch also epitomized her struggles last season. After leading the team in scoring in a victory against Missouri and a loss to Florida in the SEC tournament, Grant shot only 4 of 20 from the field in the next two games — victories against Tulane and Southern Mis-sissippi in the WNIT — before lead-ing the way in the next two games.
Grant said she was “pretty in-consistent” for the whole season. She said the “play-hard-or-go-home mentality” kicked in in the post-season in part because she and the Bulldogs realized they were playing well and were capable of winning WNIT. She hopes to carry that mind-set over to this season and continue to be a go-to player her teammates can count on.
“I don’t know what changed, but I guess during that run I was just playing. I was free and I wasn’t thinking too much,” Grant said. “I think when I think too much that is when I try to get too critical and I may make more mistakes. When I just play free, listen to what coach says, and feed off my teammates, I am like a totally different player. I think that is what I need to do.”
Grant finished the season second on the team in scoring (11.4 points per game) and first on the team in 3-pointers (30).
Her 39-percent shooting effort from the field was a significant im-provement from her sophomore year when she shot 32.9 percent from the field. She shot that per-centage in 34 minutes per game, which ranked among the most in the SEC. Last season, she started 16 of 36 games and averaged 21.6 minutes per game, which was sixth on the team.
Schaefer hopes Grant is going to put that new mind-set into action.
“She has to focus more in games on playing smarter,” Schaefer said. “She checked into the game yester-day and didn’t know who she was guarding and that girl made a layup on the press. I think (she needs to improve) the mental approach to the game and the mind-set of I have to find time in my life, if this is import-ant to me, if basketball is important to me and I am going to have a great senior year, if I even want to play be-yond my senior year, I have to have the mind-set I want to do that, I am going to do everything I can to en-sure that is going to happen.”
Grant said she hopes to play bas-ketball at the next level, whether it is in the WNBA or overseas. To re-alize that goal, she knows she will have to become more consistent and build off the “loser-go-home” mentality and play with urgency.
“This last year is very important for me,” Grant said. “I’ve got to do whatever I’ve got to do.
“People are going to have expec-
tations for you, but it is up to you to meet them for yourself or for them, and if you them for yourself, you are going to meet their expectations. Having my attitude change, I feel I will be that player.”
n Closed scrimmage at UAB goes well: Schaefer was pleased with his team’s performance Sun-day in a closed scrimmage against Georgia Tech at Alabama-Birming-ham.
Schaefer said MSU played its best basketball in the first half as it built a 22-point halftime lead. Despite playing without starters Martha Alwal and Savannah Car-ter, Schaefer said MSU played well against a team that advanced to the NCAA tournament last season.
“I thought we looked really good,” Schaefer said. “I thought we competed. We played awfully well in the first half. In the second half, we had some lulls and probably got a lit-tle tired. But to be without two start-ers, including a first-team All-SEC player (Alwal), and play the way we did, I was certainly encouraged. It is by far the best we have looked two weeks into a season in the years I have been here.”
Schaefer praised the efforts of Georgia Tech coach MaChelle Jo-seph and a young team that includes six freshmen. He said the Yellow Jackets hurt his team rebounding, especially in the second half. But he also was pleased with the way his freshmen played, including Victoria Vivians and Morgan William, who were two of the team’s double-digit scorers.
“Rebounding is always going to be a point of emphasis, and af-ter Sunday it will continue to be,” Schaefer said.
n Upcoming events: Fans will have their first chance to watch MSU at 6 p.m. Thursday in the team’s Maroon-White Scrimmage at Humphrey Coliseum. Admission is free for the scrimmage. There will be an on-court autograph ses-sion immediately after the event.
On Saturday, Schaefer said his team will hold an open practice for fans who are in town to see the foot-ball team’s game against Arkansas. He said the team likely will practice from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
On Nov. 4, MSU will play host to the first Hail State Hoops 101 in Mize Pavilion. The event will run from 5:30-8:30 p.m. and will include dinner, a gift, and the opportunity to learn the game from Schaefer and his coaches.
The cost of the event is $25. Stu-dents in grades 9-12 are unable to attend due to NCAA rules. Fans in-terested in attending should RSVP by today at 662-325-0198.
MSU will take on Arkansas-Fort Smith on Nov. 9 in an exhibition game before it plays host to Mercer at 8 p.m. Nov. 14 in the Preseason WNIT.
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DEAR ABBY: My hus-band’s best
friend gave us a very generous gift for our toddler. However, it arrived with the news that the baby he and his girlfriend are expecting may have serious complications, which could result in termination of the pregnancy. Abby, I am also expecting.
I know I should send them a thank-you note, but I don’t want to sound overly cheerful when someone is obviously suffering. Is there a way to appropriately express our thanks in writing while still being sensitive? I want to show my concern without overstep-ping my boundaries. — LOST FOR WORDS
DEAR LOST: My advice is to stay on message. Thank the man for his generous gift and say how much it is appreciated. If you wish to express concern for the difficult time they are going through, do so without going into detail. It’s sufficient to say that he and his girlfriend are in your thoughts and
prayers. Make no reference to your own pregnancy because in this communication it’s not relevant.
DEAR ABBY: I work with the public and make small talk all day long. At the end of a busy day, I like to go to a neighborhood restaurant by myself for a quiet dinner. My prob-lem is the owner, “Giovanni.” He’s
a very nice man, and he’ll sit down at my table to chat, often for the entire meal. To compli-cate matters, he speaks limited English and conversation with him is a chore.
I can’t think of a polite way to ask that I be left alone without hurting his feelings and making future visits awkward. Any suggestions? — HUNGRY AND TIRED IN THE EAST
DEAR H AND T: A polite way to do it would be to say, “Giovanni, I like you very much. But I have had a hard day. All I want to do is sit down, eat my food and stare into space. Please understand.” Unless he is very new to the hospitality,
business he should regard that as his cue to back off.
DEAR ABBY: I live with my parents and when my mom does laundry, she always asks me if I want to throw any of my clothes in with hers and vice versa. The problem is, when the cycle is finished, she throws everything into the dryer — even items that will shrink or wrinkle. I’ve asked her not to do it, but she persists.
Now, I know what you’re going to say: “Do your own laundry.” I have tried. But if Mom hears the wash finish before I do, she goes out and chucks everything into the dryer. Last week she shrank half my socks.
I can’t think of a solution aside from doing my laundry when she is out of the house, which would be difficult be-cause she’s retired. I’m starting to get frustrated. Any ideas? — FRUSTRATED IN COLUMBUS
DEAR FRUSTRATED: If your mother is also forgetting other things, it’s possible she may be in the early stages of dementia. However, if that’s not the case, then your solution is practical — or consider taking your things to a laundromat. It would be less expensive than constantly having to buy new socks.
Dear Abby
HoroscopesTODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Oct.
28). You’ll mature into a new stage of life in which you feel more powerful and indepen-dent. The special events that pepper the end of the year (concerts, parties, family gath-erings) will make it so memo-rable. A dear friend will open professional or social doors for you in November. There’s a windfall in May and August. Cancer and Libra people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 50, 2, 43, 19 and 16.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). Unexpected additions and requests are bound to make this day busier than expected. When the choice is between waiting and hustling, hustle. If you go at the suggested pace, you’ll already be behind.
TAURUS (April 20-May
20). They might not talk open-ly about it because it’s hard to explain, but you might be sur-prised by how many successful people rely on intuition every day. Rely on yours to avoid potential unpleasantness this afternoon.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Someone who wants to know what you know will shadow, research or interview you. It’s flattering to receive this kind of attention, though you’re compelled toward privacy.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). You know that how you see yourself is more import-ant than how others see you, and yet today it’s practically impossible to get an accurate self-image. Better to forget yourself and get lost in a project.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Keep up with your social life even though you may not feel like it. One of your friends or loved ones needs to talk to you more than he or she lets on. Don’t let anyone go lonely on your dime!
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Painful thoughts usually have something to teach you, so try to lean into them instead of rejecting them as negativity. Let those thoughts inspire you to act, resolve things or escape them.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Showing up is enough today. If you can show up strong, all the better, but you don’t have to. Take the pressure off, be-cause you’ll make a difference by simply checking in where you’re supposed to.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Even the most skeptical person can benefit from some kind of faith. Think of your faith as a muscle that needs exer-cise. There is no shortage of unknowable things to believe in. Choose a few of your favor-ites and invest some faith.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Overgeneralization is a dangerous habit to watch out for in yourself and others. Nothing is all one way. Nuzzle up to life’s ambiguities today because they will help you understand the very thing that will enrich you.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Your rational mind leads the way for most of the day, but by evening this side of your brain is ready to take a break. That’s when the emotional person inside will call out for comfort and security.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). It’s pointless to antici-pate the next cycle of life or the one after that, because the cycle you’re in requires so much attention. Don’t let yourself rush ahead in fear or excitement. Stay here. Here needs you.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You have incredible pow-ers of discipline in a certain area of your life and practically none in others. You’ll have willpower to apply elsewhere when you stop needing so much of it to keep up with your regular life.
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best game. I certainly don’t mean that to take anything away from LSU.
“They played with great passion and played a really, really physical brand of football. Coach (Les) Miles had his guys ready. They deserve credit. From watching the film, we did not play our best game. That’s always disappointing. However, that’s life in the SEC.”
Ole Miss enters the week a half-game behind Mississippi State for the West-ern Division leader. However, the Reb-els play three of their final four game at homes, including No. 4 Auburn and No. 1 MSU.
“The great thing is we have an op-portunity to bounce back this week at home and get our kids ready for another very difficult task with Auburn coming,” Freeze said. “They’re a special team. They’re as good or better interior defen-sively as anyone we’ve seen. No one has rushed the ball on them, other than one team, for 150 yards. They’re very athlet-ic on the backend.
“Offensively, their receiving core is
one of the top in the nation. The quarter-back and running backs do an excellent job of reading their zone game. They’re dangerous when they pull it at quarter-back. They’re physical, and they get it at running back. Their offensive line is solid. They’re a solid team all the way around.”
Auburn presents quite the offensive challenge. The Tigers rushed for 395 yards in a 42-35 home win over South Carolina. Auburn has scored 41 or more points in five games this season.
“The quarterback runs, which are dif-ficult, and they have big receivers that are making plays on the offensive side,” Freeze said. “Defensively, they believe strongly in their man coverage. They’re athletic enough to get up and challenge you and make it very difficult. They’re so big and physical in their front, inte-rior guys that they’re able to stop most people’s runs. They’ve created quite a few turnovers on the defensive side, sort of like how we have down there. They’re a good team with good players.”
In Saturday’s loss to LSU, Ole Miss held the lead for a majority of the con-test. The Rebels stopped the Tigers twice in the red zone in the first quarter and were able to use that early defensive prowess to take a 7-3 halftime lead.
Still, LSU rallied to the victory with a 13-play, 95-yard drive midway through the fourth quarter. The drive included 12 straight runs before Anthony Jennings hit Logan Stokes on a 3-yard touchdown pass with 5:07 remaining.
Ole Miss had one more chance. How-ever, the Rebels had a critical delay of game penalty on third-and-2 from the LSU 25 yard-line with nine seconds re-maining. Ole Miss bypassed the field goal try and Bo Wallace threw an inter-ception on the edge of the end zone.
Freeze admitted the play did not go as designed and the Rebels were instead looking for a short gainer and hopefully a shorter distance on the field goal.
“I’ve got to communicate better to him (Wallace),” Freeze said. “We didn’t get done what we hoped to get done on
that play, obviously. That’s something in critical moments you have to get done. I’ve got to coach and communicate with him better and make sure there’s no doubt in his mind what we’re trying to get accomplished.”
While Saturday’s defeat was gut-wrenching and took Ole Miss out of the national spotlight for now, a series of wins can help the bounce return to the step in Oxford.
“Gus (Malzahn) and his staff have done a wonderful job,” Freeze said. “We have our hands full. We have to hope-fully get healthy and get ready to go at home. We’ll need our crowd here. We’ll need them to give us a little extra ener-gy. The stretch that we have is a difficult stretch without a break. We can’t control that. We can control being ready to play Saturday.”
n The Nov. 8 Ole Miss home game against Presbyterian will start at 11 a.m. and be televised on the SEC Network.
