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Lauren Green wins state Cross County title - pages 6, 7 Taylor Heavener, Zack Shawl win state tennis title - page 9

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Kossuth bowling teams roll for state championships - page 11

EDITORIAL Publisher Reece Terry

Alcorn Central golfer Dillon Sartain swings his way to the state tournament - page 13

Editor Mark Boehler

Corinth Cross Country teams sweep state titles - Pages 14, 15 Cover story: Kossuth baseball brings home the Golden Glove pages 18-29

Contributors Bruce Ingram Keith Jackson Kent Mohundro Robert Smith Randy J. Williams Special thanks to everyone who helped submit group photos.

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Kossuth wins division slow pitch softball title - page 35 Corinth boys, Kossuth girls win Alcorn Co. Tourney - page 36, 37 Alcorn Central tennis team wins division - page 39 On the Cover Kossuth baseball players celebrate their 3A state title in 2016. Photo by Robert Smith

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Lauren Green shows her form during the state Cross Country meet.

Green earns distinction as Cross Country

STATE CHAMPION

BY KENT MOHUNDRO For Crossroads Magazine

Not only did the Kossuth girls Cross Country team snare the division title in the fall of 2016, but one of its youngest members captured the state title and was widely considered the best runner in the state of Misissippi in Class 3A. Eighth-grader Lauren Green smoked the competition all season long as she ran her way to the Division 1-3A title and culminated her championship jaunt at Choctaw Trails in Jackson with a finals finishing time of 19:44.

The closest competition behind her finished in 19:51.

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“Lauren is such a natural runner and she wants to be the best,” said her head coach, Jackie Hill. “I try to push her in practice by staggering the start times and keeping her until last so she doesn’t get so far ahead of everyone else.”

Prior to division competition at Saltillo, Green took part in seven Cross Country races and no runner challenged her down to the wire with the exception of one meet.

“My closest race was at Hickory Flat and I was pretty tired that day because I had done some extra physical work just before race day,” Green remembered. “There was a girl from TCPS that was right behind me the entire race pushing me, but I was able to barely hold her off in the end.”

Green finished that race in a time of 21:36.60 with the TCPS participant clipping her heals at 21:36.96.

“That taught me to not work her so hard and have her do extra things that require her strength just before a race,” Hill said with a sheepish grin.

Before the competition at Hickory Flat, the opening race of the season was held at Tupelo Veteran’s Park and Green was on top of her game for that one.

She finished in a time of 20:28 that day, which is higher than she ran later in the year.

The second place finisher at Tupelo logged a time of 21:05, over a half minute behind Green.

Following her close call at Hickory Flat in the

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Photo by Bruce Ingram The Kossuth High School girls Cross Country team (top left) captured the division title. Runners include (from left) Elizabeth Ingram, Lauren Green, Grace Stanford, Ashley Newcomb, Isabella Duncan and Alana Hilliard. Kossuth High School 8th grader Lauren Green (bottom left) finishes all alone in first place in the 3A state Cross County meet.

second competition, the Lady Aggies traveled to Saltillo and Green was once again the first to cross the finish line in a time of 20:11 while the second-place runner finished 24 seconds behind at 20:35.

The streak just kept rolling the next meet at New Albany for the Southertees Challenge.

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her that day finished in 20:44.

Kossuth returned to Lee County next to participate in the TCPS meet.

Green clocked a finish time of 20:49 to easily outdistance the second place runner, who finished in 21:16.

The next-to-last regular season meet took place at New Site, where Green blew the competition away with a time of 21:29. It was not her best time of the year, but it easily outdistanced the second place runner, who finished over two full minutes behind her with a time of 23:35.

The Pontotoc meet was the final regular season meet and Green once

again claimed first with a time of 19:42, her best time of the year in competition.

The division tournament at Saltillo pitted classes 1A-5A and Green smoked the field with a time of 19:44.

Second place went to a runner from 5A who finished almost a full minute behind her in a time of 20:31.

Green then capped her perfect year with the win at the state meet.

“I’m not sure how fast Lauren can run or how fast she can become, but she never overexerts herself or seems to get rattled at any time and that’s very uncommon in someone her age,” Hill said.

“I do know she is one of the most dedicated runners I have ever been around. If she keeps it up and keeps working at it, the sky is the limit for her,” added the coach.

Lauren’s goal is fairly simple as she prepares to enter high school in the fall and has four full years to improve her times and her skills.

“I wanna make it into the low 18’s,” she said. “I had a low this year of 19:42 in competition, but I know if I just keep working hard I can make that mark.”

People have four more years of watching Lauren Green run and win against top competition from all across the state. Perhaps there are more state titles in the future.

Green wants to run on the highest collegiate level after she completes her high school career - a goal which appears within reach.

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Heavener, Shawl win mixed doubles state crown

BY KENT MOHUNDRO For Crossroads Magazine

Tennis is such a popular sport that it’s played by millions around the world and top pro players earn hundreds of millions of dollars -enough to live the life of luxury.

In high school though, players get involved for the love of the game.

Not for money.

Two local players who play for pleasure, competition -- and of course, championships -- collected gold as state titleists last spring.

Kossuth High School tennis players Taylor Heavener and Zack Shawl teamed up to win the state mixed doubles title in Oxford to give the Aggies four individual and team state championships in a calendar year, tops of any county school.

Then-head coach Creighton Nelms knew that if he needed two sure victories in any given match, he could put Heavener and Shawl in singles competition and it was a done deal.

They are two extremely talented players.

“They were my best players,” said Nelms.”Whenever we needed a pair of wins, I knew they would win in singles, but they were really good together in mixed doubles.”

The latest state championship was nothing new to Taylor as she and Zac Harbin won it all the year before.

Even Shawl was in familiar territory as he had been a state finalist as a singles player.

By teaming with Heavener, he won his first state title.

The state champs posted a regular season mixed doubles record of 2-0 before stringing together an unbeaten 6-0 run through the playoffs to nab the gold.

The duo swept regular season matches against South Pontotoc (61, 6-3) and Corinth (6-2, 7-6) before reaching the division tournament.

The team of Heavener and Shawl then had an easy path through the division tournament, taking care of Belmont and New Site: both by 6-0, 6-0 counts.

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would be seeded first because they win state nearly every year,” Nelms remembered. “But they were seeded second while we were seeded third, so we met them in the third round.”

Heavener and Shawl took care of the St. Andrews team in a match that went three sets before they pulled it out.

“I credit that to Taylor and Zack’s mothers,” Nelms remarked musingly. “We lost the first set and were down halfway thru the second when their mothers called them over and gave them a sort of pep talk, saying they had spent too much time and money on lessons, clinics, equipment and blood, sweat and tears.

They lit a fire under those kids and they rallied to win the second and third sets to advance.”

The Aggie duet advanced to take on North Pontotoc in the finals where they won in a 2-set sweep to claim the title.

“I’m really proud of those two,” said the tennis coach. “The amount

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Both the Kossuth boys and girls won the state bowling championships.

AGGIE BOWLERS sweep state titles

BY KENT MOHUNDRO Crossroads Magazine

High school bowling has grown into a highly competitive sport over the past few years and Kossuth has taken advantage to establish one of the best Division 1 teams in Mississippi.

The Aggies and Lady Aggies bowling teams accomplished a feat this season that no other local school has ever done on the lanes. They swept the state titles and brought the gold back to Alcorn County.

Coach Michael Lee cheered and watched as both his squads went for the sweep, the girls over Richland and the boys over East Union.

But before they could claim a state crown, the Aggies and Lady Aggies had to bowl their way throught the regular season and take care of business at district.

No sweat.

Lee’s bowlers both won their respective district matches at Southaven where the girls outdistanced TCPS 2,922-2,686 in total pinfall. They also won the baker rounds 3-1 against the Lady Eagles.

The Aggies followed suit, outrolling the field and topping the second place Urchins 3,642-3,485. Kossuth also topped East Union 3-1 in the baker round.

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is scored quite differently than the total pinfall method.

Upon reaching the state tournament in Jackson, Kossuth faced off against seven other schools for the title. When the last pin had fallen and the final frame had been bowled, the Aggies found themselves atop the eight-team field with a total pinfall of 3,664. East Union was once more the runner-up to the crown as it bowled a total of 3,502.

There are four games bowled by each school in the championship series and the Aggies placed first in the first and last games.

They placed second in the middle two games, both to the Urchins.

The Lady Aggies’ journey to their second state championship in three years ended joyously as they outrolled Richland. Kossouth’s total pinfall in the finals series was 2,994.

The Kossuth girls also topped the Lady Rangers 3-2 in the baker round.

Both squads won preliminary matches against Mantachie prior to the state championships.

“This makes three straight years for both teams in the finals and the girls won it two years ago,” said head coach Michael Lee, who has quietly maintained a powerful program at KHS after Creighton Nelms literally got it rolling four years ago.

Nelms is still at Kossuth, but is now coaching the Blue Mountain College bowling team, quite a testament to his

knowledge and ability in the sport.

Members of this year’s Lady Aggies championship team were sophomores Kerissa Beth Martin, Marlee Mask and Alison Patton, juniors Avery Mullins and Ashley Winters, along with seniors Macy Mask and Kaitlin Stagner.

Freshman Hank Gardner, sophomores Peyton Lee and Rope Inman, and seniors Nik Wilcher, Kaden Cooper and Cody Weaver formed the boys title team.

Peyton Lee, son of the head coach, paced the boys squad with a 202 average for the season, which led the team. Cooper was second with his 178 average.

Macy Mask and Martin were the seniors who led the girls squad to their second championship in three years.

Martin’s 148 average led the girls team.

“Creighton did a great job getting the program rolling and establishing a championship mentality,” said head coach Michael Lee. “I knew what I had when I took over this year. I let the seniors know they needed to step up and lead. They did just that and they also got everyone else pumped up.”

“The last few years bowling has had a boost in understanding the game and it’s a very competitive sport. It’s growing and is very big, especially in the South,” said the coach.

“Kossuth bowling is about family.

We’re a close knit group,” he added.

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Alcorn Central golfer Dillion Sartain

ALCORN CENTRAL’S SARTAIN

seeks elusive state golf championship

BY KENT MOHUNDRO For Crossroads Magazine

Hitting a little white ball into a small hole in the ground 400 yards away doesn’t seem that difficult to the human brain.

That’s until an individual gets out on a golf course and finds out it isn’t as easy as it sounds.

Golf pros such as Master’s champions Dustin Johnson, Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer make golf look so incredibly simple.

But when one thinks about how much time, practice, effort and more practice goes into being a top golfer, people realize just how special it is to have someone as talented as Alcorn Central senior Dillon Sartain. www.mycrossroadsmagazine.com

He recently signed to play collegiately at Northeast starting this fall. The golfer is currently working on making a return trip to the state tournament.

But this time he hopes to bring home the championship trophy.

Sartain recently lost his first match against Walnut’s number one player on his home course by a single stroke.

Losing a match is one thing, but losing by a single stroke when you know you should have won will drive a golfer crazy.

However, Sartain is a level-headed, cool-calm-and-collected young man who tries not to let those kinds of situations give him headaches.

And he’ll do well at the next level

if he just keeps doing what he’s been doing for several years now -- seeking ways to improve his game that will allow more success while keeping a calm demeanor.

The leader of the Golden Bear golf team has been the medalist twice already this season at Red Bay, Ala. and Pickwick. Last year he simply dominated division play, but what was even more impressive is the way he competed and won against the best golfers around the region on the summer tour.

Sartain qualified fifth in the Come Tour and advanced to the championship round where he finished ninth overall. A majority of the golfers in the tournament will play collegiately and many will likely make a career on the links.

Sartain also played in a pair of Coke tournaments last summer, winning one championship while finishing third in another.

Just like baseball players count everything -- ERA’s, batting averages, pitch counts, hits, etc.- golfers also count. They count driving distance, greens in regulation, birdies, bogeys and scoring average.

Sartain, as does every player who picks up a golf club, seeks to lower his scoring average and raise his driving distance and fairways and greens in regulation. And so far he’s been pretty successful at it.

His best round in tournament play was a 73 at Hillandale Country Club.

Sartain’s best overall round for 18 holes is a 66, while his low round on nine holes is a 30.

He’s been featured on local news and media outlets due to his superlative play in the past, but he’s just gonna get better and better as he continues to pursue his dreams of earning a living hitting a little white ball into a small hole in the ground 400 yards away.

Dillon Sartain is certainly one young golfer to keep an eye on down the road.

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2016 Class 4A Girls Cross Country State Champions Corinth High School.

WARRIORS, LADY WARRIORS are state Cross Country champions

BY KENT MOHUNDRO For Crossroads Magazine

Corinth High School has a long and proud tradition when it comes to track and field and Cross Country.

It’s nothing new for the Warriors.

Neither is sweeping the state titles, which they accomplished for the fifth time during the fall of 2016.

The Corinth boys were expected to win the championship based on how they finished the 2015 season. The girls were expected to be contenders as well, but maybe not championship level.

They proved to everyone along the way they were for real as they edged Senatobia by a single point in the state finale to claim their latest trophy.

“The expectations were high for both teams because they had both

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finished second the year before,” said first-year Lady Warrior coach Deb Parker. “The boys were heavily favored more than my girls and that just made them work that much harder to get there.”

Senior runners Kelsey Fulghum and Yvette Evans were the pacesetters for the Corinth girls with Evans placing fourth (21.33.1) in the championship round. She was the high placer for CHS, although all seven Lady Warrior runners placed in the top 24, allowing them to nip the Senatobia crew 65-66.

The Corinth boys clipped Senatobia 48-49 with state champion Rhett Robinson finishing in 17:09.2.

“We progressed gradually throughout the year,” said first year boys coach Nathan Hall, who was assisted

by Ken Williams. “And that showed as

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16 of our 18 kids ran their best times at the end of the year.”

“We have a lot of tradition here that we are proud to live up to and do our best, and to have both teams sweep and win state titles was astounding even though we’ve done it five times now,” said Hall.

Both Corinth Cross Country squads won state titles in the same years of 2003, 2005, 2006 and 2008.

It was the first state title for the boys since 2010 and the first for the girls since 2014.

“I was really proud of the team spirit, heart and passion for each other the girls displayed,” Parker said.

“They never gave up and showed a lot of tenacity.”

The Corinth Cross Country teams won seven regular season meets, took

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2016 Class 4A Boys Cross Country State Champion Corinth High School. the division title and then swept the state gold.

Following Evans on the girls side was Holly Ross in ninth place with a time of 22:06.2. Macy Moore finished 12th at 22:13.4. All three made all-state. Rounding out the girls state title event were Sadie Strickland in 19th (22:44.2), Brooks Milligan in 21st (22:50.9), Kelsey Fulghum in 22nd (22:52.1) and Shelby Reed in 24th (22:57.9) For the boys, Thomas Ratliff finished seventh overall behind Robinson with a time of 17:46.1. Peyton Marshall placed 11th (18:06.4) while Joel Parker was 14th (18:13.5).

Those four were named all-state.

The final three Warrior finalists were Morgan Toomer in 15th

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“The boys were heavily favored more than my girls and that just made them work that much harder to get there.”

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(18:20.8), James Shea in 16th (18:23.9) and JC Requena in 17th (18:27.2).

Robinson was also named the boys 4A runner of the year.

“The sport of Cross Country has

definitely progressed over the last few years,” Hall continued. “The state of Mississippi as a whole is much more competitive than it was around 10 years ago.”

Parker said her team’s unity was one of the important elements that garnered CHS another title.

“The boys were expected to win, but they still had to go out and earn it. They worked really well together and encouraged each other even when things got tough. We went through some illnesses and injuries but the girls always had each others backs, just like the boys did,” said Parker.

The Warriors will have another chance in the fall to win and possibly sweep the Cross Country state titles again.

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2016 state 3A baseball champions Kossuth High School.

Cover Story

AGGIES EARN THIRD STATE 3A championship on the diamond

BY KENT MOHUNDRO For Crossroads Magazine

Traditions aren’t born.

They’re earned.

And at Kossuth, the Aggies have established the foundation for a tradition of excellence on the baseball diamond.

Kossuth has appeared in every Class 3A state championship baseball series over the past five seasons and have won three of those, including a sweep of St. Andrews in 2016.

Second-year head coach Josh Dowdy inherited a lineup loaded with next-level players, many of them seniors who are now playing collegiately.

“I inherited a group where the expectations from day one was to be playing at Trustmark Park in May,” said Dowdy. “I knew they were hard workers, great competitors and hated to lose. This year’s group is just as hungry and they love competing at the highest level.”

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Burcham.

Wilcher inked with Mike Bianco’s Ole Miss Rebels but eventually decided to transfer back to Northeast where he is now playing for coach Richy Harrelson. Swindle and Potts are also on this year’s Tigers squad.

The 2017 edition of the Aggies features Jacob’s younger brother, Nik Wilcher, who was a key contributor to the 2016 title run and is a Dandy Dozen selection and the Aggies ace on the mound this year.

Kossuth won its first title in 2013 afer falling a game short in 2012. They followed that up in 2014 with their second consecutive championship before finishing as runners-up again in 2015.

Dowdy came to Kossuth with a proven track record on the diamond, winning a 2A state title at Bruce in 2012. Bruce is known primarily for being a football powerhouse with a strong basketball tradition.

Baseball normally takes a backseat to those two sports, but the current Aggie skipper changed all that during his run there.

“As a coach you have to adjust to the

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players you inherit. With the team we had here at Kossuth last year, I basically just sat back and pushed them when they needed it,” explained the coach.

“Everybody sees the name on the jersey now and there are high expectations for us everywhere we go,” added Dowdy. “We’re at the point now -where if we don’t win a state title -- it’s a huge disappointment.”

The Aggies navigated their 2016 schedule like they were supposed to, disposing of larger and traditionally more powerful teams along the way. Among Kossuth’s victims were traditional big school powers New Hope, Southaven, Pontotoc, Corinth, 4A champion Houston, Tishomingo County, Alabama 3A champion Gordo and a sweep of Tupelo.

Kossuth also beat division foes Mooreville and Alcorn Central. The Central series took three games, but the Aggies bounced back after a game two 6-1 loss to knock then-Golden Bear ace and power pitcher Justin Pickle out early in a 19-6 victory at KHS Field that propelled them to the state championship series. www.mycrossroadsmagazine.com

Kossuth continued its journey with a 9-2, 6-1 sweep of Mooreville to advance to Pearl.

It capped its championship season with a 3-2, 7-1 sweep of St Andrews and continued the winning tradition they established back in 2012. It’s a championship run the likes of which Aggie fans have never experienced in any sport.

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fans are experiencing these days.

“When I took the job here last year, they told me ‘welcome to Kossuth and we’ll see you in Pearl,’” mused Dowdy.

“Parents are now planning their vacations the week of the state championship. That’s a lot of pressure, really but it’s the kind of pressure I enjoy.

I’d rather be winning championships than the other way around.”

As a team in 2016, the Aggies batted .360 with 29 home runs and two pitchers who ranked second and third in the state in strikeouts in Nik Wilcher and Hunter Swindle. Kos-

suth’s 29 round-trippers placed them second in the state.

Kossuth finished its 2016 championship season at 31-8, which might seem like a high number of losses for a title team, but many of those losses came early.

However, one loss came on Mother’s Day weekend. Dowdy saw something in his players that told him they might not lose another game.

“After we lost that game, I told the guys to take Sunday off to be with their families for Mother’s Day,” explained the baseball coach. “We

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“When the boys look up in the stands and see the large crowds there to support them, it drives them to be better and want to win every game.”

Josh Dowdy Head coach

normally would have been out on the field practicing hard, but I thought it was best to give them a day to collect their thoughts, rest and be with their mothers and grandmothers.”

“But on that Sunday they took it upon themselves to practice anyway and you could hear the bats cracking and the mits popping over at the field.

When I saw that, I knew something special was about to happen,” he said.

The success the Aggies have experienced over a five-year period also bodes well for future Kossuth players. Excellence is now

rubbing off on the KHS junior varsity and junior high squads, planting hope the championship tradition will continue for years to come.

And the fans continue to pack the stands which drives the will to win for current and future Kossuth players.

“When the boys look up in the stands and see the large crowds there to support them, it drives them to be better and want to win every game,” Dowdy added. “And that’s our goal -- to win every game.

Not that we will, but that’s what we expect. And it’s also what our fans expect.”

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Alcorn County now owns 77 state titles

BY KENT MOHUNDRO For Crossroads Magazine

It was a good year for Alcorn County schools as five more state titles were added to the trophy cases, making it 77 state championships and counting.

The former Easom High School is also included in the championship count.

One year ago, county teams claimed four titles to move the trophy count from 68 to 72.

Over the past 12 months more hardware has been won. Here’s a look at who won what: • Kossuth won their third state baseball championship in four years with a two-game sweep of St. Andrews.

• The Corinth boys and girls Cross Country squads swept the state championships by a single point each against Senatobia after finishing second the year before.

• The Kossuth boys and girls bowling teams paralleled what Corinth did and swept the state titles in Jackson.

It was the second bowling title in

three years for the Lady Aggies while the boys won their first trophy after finishing as runners-up last year.

With Kossuth winning three of the five county titles, it moved their overall championship count to 13, passing Biggerville’s 11. However, noone is close to Corinth’s overall total of 51 now that they swept the Cross Country titles.

Following is a list of state championships won by sport:

Baseball 1949- Corinth 1956- Corinth 1988- Alcorn Central 1994- Biggersville 2013- Kossuth 2014- Kossuth 2016- Kossuth

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Corinth High School captured the 4A division volleyball title.

LADY WARRIOR VOLLEYBALL wins 1-4A division again

BY KENT MOHUNDRO For Crossroads Magazine

The Corinth Lady Warriors volleyball squad did it again.

It breezed past the competition in district play to claim yet another division title without losing a single division game for the fifth straight year.

With an experienced core of six seniors, head coach Kelly Wright was able to sit back and enjoy the ride as her squad surfed through the schedule and capped every wave that stood in its way.

“These girls were just a joy to coach,” said Wright. “They take a lot of pride in what they do on the court and they practice hard every day.

They want to be the best and it shows in their performance.”

“And they are extremely proud of that winning streak in division. These girls love wearing the red and black,” added the coach.

The Lady Warriors volleyed their way to six straight match wins to open the 2016 season, disposing of Choctaw County, Caledonia, Alcorn Central, Pisgah, Senatobia and Cleveland in straight 2-0 shutouts.

The latter three victories came during the “Set It Off Classic.”

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sic,” taking set three to claim a 2-1 win after CHS had shut it out 2-0 a week earlier in tournament play in Pontotoc.

Following the loss to the Confederates, the Lady Warriors dropped a heartbreaking and tremendously close 3-2 match to Tupelo at home.

But they would rebound by winning 14 of their next 17 matches with their losses coming to eventual state champion Oxford, Lexington, Tenn., and Ocean Springs, the latter two coming at “Volleyfest” at Tupelo High School.

Five more consecutive wins would follow, including district matches over New Albany, Tishomingo County and Ripley before a pair of match losses at the Brooks, Ala., Tournament against highly ranked Alabama teams Brooks and Central.

They finished another strong season with three consecutive regular season wins, before beginning play in the Mississippi Class II Volleyball playoffs.

Entering postseason, Wright prepared her team to face a Lake Cormorant squad they had not faced during the regular season but knew they were tall and athletic and would be a tremendous challenge.

“We’re gonna have to play our

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best to win,” she said before the first round shwodown.

Lake Cormorant rallied to force a fifth and deciding set that the Lady Warriors eventually won in dramatic fashion to take a 3-2 win and advance to face Oxford for the third time.

Corinth had dropped the previous two matches 3-1 and 2-0 to the Lady Chargers, who were the favorites to win the state title.

For the second consecutive year, Wright’s squad fought valiantly but didn’t have enough in the tank, dropping a 2-0 decision and ending its season at 26-9.

It was also once again undefeated in district play, going 8-0.

A group of six seniors — Caroline Sleeper, Bailee Essary, Miller Carlton, Madison Mayhall, Sadie Mitchell and Colby Cox — will be sorely missed next season, but the Lady Warriors will return a good mix of experienced veterans with new and talented up-and-comers.

Will Corinth continue its winning ways and take the next step toward that elusive state title in 2017?

Will it make it seven straight years without a district loss?

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BUILDING WINNING PROGRAMS Alcorn Central earns another division track championship

BY KENT MOHUNDRO For Crossroads Magazine

Coaches like Bobby Purvis come along only so often.

He has made a career of building winning track and field traditions and programs in Alcorn County.

In fact, Purvis has built winners at each of the four county schools, something no one else can claim. And now he’s in his second stint at Alcorn Central High School doing it again.

“Track and field is probably the hardest sport to advance in,” said the veteran and current Alcorn Central mentor. “In sports like basketball and football you play one team at a time and there aren’t individual things you can advance in like in track. You can make a critical shot in a basketball game and the whole team advances.

But in track it gets really tough because there are several districts that combine at once to advance with all the kids on those teams facing the kids on every other team in numerous events like the relays, high jump or shot put.”

Only the top four advance at each level from a combination of all those schools, so one can see how hard it is for a kid at a single school to advance as far as state, he said.

To put those numbers in perspective, Alcorn Central had a combined 33 boys and girls athletes on its team last season when it won its third straight division championship. Just a handful of those made it past the district level and even fewer to the state level.

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“Track and field is probably the hardest sport to advance in. In sports like basketball and football you play one team at a time and there aren’t individual things you can advance in like in track.”

Bobby Purvis

Alcorn Central coach to 25-5 and reaching North State again, where they finished in second place in a field of 17 schools. They had a few who qualified for 13 entries at the state tournament, where they finished fourth among 17 other high schools.

That’s impressive at any level.

The girls team, though not as experienced and plentiful in numbers as the boys, also won another division title with a record of 19-10. They were unable to advance past that point in 2016, but have already won an event in 2017 in which they were not supposed to win.

They outdistanced second-place Corinth at the Tishomingo County meet in late March to the surprise of even Purvis.

Trey White and Ben McCoy placed second and fourth at north half last

year in the discus, while Josh and Joe Harbor swept first and second in the pole vault. Trevor Godwin was the high finisher in the high jump and third in the 1600 run while the 4x800 relay team of Austin Settlemires, Blake Burnett, Luke Jolley and Blake McIntyre took third.

Joe Harbor won the 400-meter dash ad Godwin and Holley were second and third respectively in the 800-meter run. The 4x400 team of the Harbor twins, Burnett and McIntyre also won the 4x400 relay.

The high boys finishers at state included Josh Harbor at second in the pole vault, Trey White placed third in discus, while the aforementioned 4x400 and 4x800 teams each finished third.

For the girls, Kolby Mynatt took first in the discus during the division championship run, while also placing second in the shot put. Taylor Derrick won the pole vault and Lauren Walker finished first in the high jump as well as trimple jump. Phoenix Clark and Alexis Riggs took second and third in the long jump.

The 4x800 team of Autumn Hindman, Edye Ross and Emilee and Ashlee Manahan claimed second place, while the 4x400 team of Ella Mask, Riggs, Walker and Clark placed third.

Clark also placed first in the 300-meter hurdles.

Clark and Walker took second and third in the high hurdles. Mallory Wigginton and Derrick earned the top two spots in the 100-meter dash.

Clark and Walker also finished first and third in the 300-meter hurdles while Wigginton and Derrick were 1-2 in the 200-meter dash. Ashlee Manahan wrapped it up with a third place finish in the 1600-meter run.

It was another highly successful season at Alcorn Central. If Purvis has his way, that trend will continue for years to come.

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The Lady Lions won their second consecutive Division 1-1A fast-pitch title in the spring of 2016.

BIGGERSVILLE

claims 2nd consecutive softball division crown

BY KENT MOHUNDRO For Crossroads Magazine

High School fast-pitch softball is all the rage these days and Biggersville has succeeded quite well at it the past couple of seasons.

The Lady Lions won their second consecutive Division 1-1A fast-pitch title in the spring of 2016 and hope to make it three in a row this season.

“We (Biggersville) had never won two straight division championships before last year,” said current head coach Karrie Beth Stevens.

Stevens was an assistant last year to previous head coach Rick Lawson.

“Our season began late last year because our girls basketball team was in the state tournament and four of those players were part of our regular starting lineup,” said Stevens Biggersville not only captured a second straight division title, it did it with only three seniors. Over 50 percent of the lineup and roster consisted of girls who were sophomores or younger.

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most valuable player Ali Settlemires was just a freshman last season.

“When we finally got the girls from the basketball team, it took us a little time to get the wrinkles out. But we finished strong and went undefeated in the division,” Stevens remembered.

“We only lost three regular season games last year to George County, Booneville and Sheffield, Alabama.”

The Lady Lions later defeated Booneville to avenge the earlier loss. They also had a single tie game against Waterloo, Ala. The Sheffield and Waterloo games came earlier in the season in an Alabama tournament.

Biggersville finished the regular season at 17-3-1 (8-0 in Division 1-1A) and received a first-round playoff bye.

For whatever reason, maybe it was possibly thinking ahead to a possible matchup with nemesis Smithville, Biggersville was shockingly swept out of the post-season 2-0 by Vardeman.

“I think we possibly had a mental block going into the Vardeman series because we had that first round bye

and they might have had Smithville on the brain.”

Due to their outstanding season on the diamond, and by virtue of sweeping through Division 1-1A, Biggersville was well-rewarded on the alldivision teams. Settlemires, Aunesty Dilworth, Jada Tubbs, Taylor Durham and Caitlin Bascomb all made first team while Ashleigh Brooks and Callie Estes earned second-team.

Dilworth was also named the division’s most valuable offensive player.

“We had the talent, so it was no surprise we won our division, but the girls also played with a lot of heart and determination,” Stevens said.

“They’re very coachable and it’s more than a team here. It’s a family.” “‘One team, one family’ is our motto at Biggersville. These young ladies are all friends. Sometimes there’s drama, but they are always there for one another and have each other’s backs,” said the coach.

The Lady Lions will try to make it three consecutive championships this year.

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The Aggies powerlifting team won the division and North Half titles.

KOSSUTH POWERLIFTING earns 7th consecutive division title

BY KENT MOHUNDRO For Crossroads Magazine

The success Kossuth football and baseball teams have enjoyed in recent seasons can be traced to a common denominator.

The Aggies boast one of the most successful 3A powerlifting programs in the state and have the track record to back it up. They finished the 2016 season by claiming their seventh consecutive division title along with their fourth North Half championship during that span.

Powerlifting is serious business at Kossuth and the team members consistently place high at meets throughout the year.

Sixth-year head coach Brian Kelly has overseen the continued success he inherited when he returned to Aggieland. He has taken it to another level.

“Every sport we play here is based on our weighlifting and strength and conditioning programs,” he said.

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“Lifting serves as both an individual sport as well as a team sport. The guys put a lot of time and effort into being successful in the weight room and it shows when we participate in meets.”

The individual student athletes involved at Kossuth have been highly successful as a group and many have won their weight class and advanced to state in many cases.

“We have a great group of guys here,” Kelly continued.”We won North Half again last year and nearly won state.”

The Aggies fell by a single point in the championship round, losing 3433 to state campion Velma Jackson.

Leading the Kossuth powerlifting brigade in 2016 was Hunter Switcher, who won the state championship in his weight class by breaking a state record.

“Hunter competed in the 148-pound class and had a bench

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press of 300 pounds to win the title.

The previous state record in that class was 290 pounds. He actually could have pressed 310.”

From the time he was a sophomore, Switcher never lost a match. He set the standard for the team and his teammates followed his lead.

During their 2016 North Half champiosnhip and state run, the Aggies were represented in strong fashion in numerous weight classes.

Hunter Brooks finished first in the 181-pound division while Blake Arnold won the super-heavyweight class. Jose Ruiz placed second in the 132-pound division and Jaley Adams was the runner-up in the 220-pound division.

The Aggies recently finished the 2017 campaign, falling just short of their eighth straight division and North Half title.

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The Aggie football team won another division title in 2016.

GRIDIRON AGGIES

Aggies win second consecutive 1-3A crown

BY KENT MOHUNDRO For Crossroads Magazine

Kossuth head football coach Brian Kelly played for the Aggies. Now he has taken the program to new heights.

The maroon and white won yet another Division 1-3A crown this past fall as they held off a serious challenge from Benton County to claim the title and home field advantage once again for the first two rounds of the playoffs.

Kossuth ended the season in disappointing fashion, dropping a 40-6 decision to Cleveland East Side at home, but it didn’t take long for Kelly and crew to recall the successes that the 2016 team created and look to 2017 as a season with lots of potential.

“Anytime you have a chance to win

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“This is a team and every player is a part of the team and has his own role. Our seniors were a big part of our success, but every player made contributions.”

Brian Kelly

Kossuth head football coach a division championship, it’s huge and we’ve done that two years in a row now,” Kelly said. “We’ve won a lot of games and were able to beat Corinth

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twice.”

It was a season filled with question marks in many areas from the beginning as Kossuth had lost four starting linemen in addition to veteran quarterback Elijah Potts.

But it was also a season filled with known commodities such as recordsetting and all-state running back Jaley Adams, wide receiver and punter Beau Lee, Charlee Bonee and Sam Mathis just to name a few. Kelly refers to Mathis as a quiet leader on the field as he wasn’t flashy, but was a steady three-year starter and primary blocker at tight end.

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Aggies’ sustained success shouldn’t be surprising.

“We had several question marks, but we also knew what we had coming back,” Kelly remembered. “We had well over 20 seniors this past fall that had played and won a lot of games. This group of seniors was part of a group that won 31 games over the past three years.”

This is a feat believed to have never been accomplished before at Kossuth.

As for the season itself, the Aggies began the way they had in 2015 by winning their opener before dropping a contest to Pontotoc for the second consecutive year. But the question in 2016 was -how would this team answer the bell?

The answer came resoundingly over the following 10 weeks as Kossuth went on to win their next 10 games, including an opening round 27-12 home playoff win over M.S. Palmer.

Along the way, the Aggies won by 36 over Tishomingo County, 42 over Nettleton, 43 over New Site, 36 over Alcorn Central, and a surprsingly easy 49-16 win against Benton County in a game that was moved up a night due to weather.

The win over the Pirates was huge as they were a serious threat to take the division title away from Kossuth. Benton County had a very successful year themselves and the manner in which Kossuth disposed of them was a testament to the Aggie tradition of success on the gridiron.

“I thought we competed well and we had different guys step up in key sitauations,” said Kelly.

Adams suffered an early-season injury that lingered throughout the fall, causing him to miss a couple of games. He still managed over 1,600 rushing yards and 16 touchdowns and made the Mississippi All-Star team. First-year starting quarterback Matthew Bobo amassed 1,800 combined yards and 34 total touchdowns as he took over for Potts.

Lee had almost 900 receiving yards and was on the receiving end of 12 of Bobo’s scoring passes.

Bobo also had a receiving TD to exemplify what it is to be a part of the Kossuth football program.

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a part of the team and has his own role,” Kelly continued. “Our seniors were a big part of our success, but every player made contributions.”

Kossuth will look to make it three division titles in a row in 2017 and

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Corinth High School won the 4A girls fast pitch division title.

LADY WARRIORS

fast pitch softball wins Division 1-4A

BY KENT MOHUNDRO For Crossroads Magazine

Corinth High School graduate and current softball head coach Maggie Vonderstein couldn’t recall the last division title the Lady Warriors had won in fast pitch.

The program isn’t very old to begin with.

But there’s no doubt when it comes to the present as CHS topped the Division 1-4A standings in the spring of 2016 to win the fast pitch division title over perennial favorite Houston.

“Obviously, we had experience and I knew we had what it took to win the division,” said the thirdyear coach, who played collegiately at Northeast and later for Southern Miss. “I wasn’t sure we would go undefeated with Houston being in there as a force every year, but we accomplished that. It was one of our goals for the season.”

“Last year we did exceed a lot of people’s expectations of how we would do in division play. When we lost in the first round of the playoffs it was definitely disappointing, but PA G E 3 2

it left us motivated for better results this year,” added the coach.

The Lady Warriors swept the division last spring, going 10-0 and ousting the Lady Hilltoppers from their perch atop the 4A landscape.

They had only two seniors on the roster who played in Anna Kayte Webb and Allie Jacobs. Webb captured the Defensive Player of the Year Award in Division 1-4A, while Jacobs was a member of the AllDivision team. Colby Cox claimed the Pitcher of the Year Award and overall division Most Valuable Player.

Others Corinth girls named to the All-Division team included McKenzie Patterson, Lily Null and Maddy Oaks. Kh’ierra Taylor and Emilshawua Blair were named honorable mention.

The Lady Warriors didn’t start the season like gangbusters, but were a solid 6-4 entering division play. And that was even more impressive given the level of competition they played early on.

After sweeping home-and-home series with division foes Shannon,

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Houston, Itawamba AHS, Tishomingo County and Amory, Corinth moved into the first round of the Division 1-4A tournament with hopes of at least making the finals.

But it wasn’t meant to be.

“Houston was our toughest competition and we beat them by one run each time during the regular season,” Vonderstein continued. “And Amory gave us a run for our money. But we lost a 2-1 series with West Lauderdale in the first round of the playoffs that ended our season a little earlier than we had planned.”

The West Lauderdale series began on a sour note as they won the first game on their field. But the Lady Warriors had the second two games at home with still a lot of confidence.

They won game two but dropped game three to bring an end to an otherwise highly successful season.

Corinth finished the season at 17-8 overall, but still claimed perfection in division play.

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earn another basketball division title

BY KENT MOHUNDRO For Crossroads Magazine

Corinth was so close to a return trip to the 4A state basketball tournament on Feb. 25 at Leake Central -- it could literally almost reach out and touch it.

After leading by as many as 19 points in the third quarter, the Warriors saw their lead disappear as the homestanding Gators made a comeback for the ages to pull out an everso-narrow 68-67 victory and went on to appear in the state championship game. They lost to Raymond, 52-46.

Leake Central notwithstanding, coach Keith Greene’s 11th Corinth edition made a major statement that they are still the team to beat in 1-4A as they claimed their second straight division title and finished 21-10.

But it was that No. 10 in the loss column that will drive the Warriors and fuel their hunger for another possible state tournament appearance in 2018.

“It was disappointing to see our season end the way it did after the guys had worked so hard to get to that point,” Green said .”But we had another solid season and I’m extremely proud of all our players for the way they fought.”

“And winning another division title

was huge for us. Our guys have a lot of pride and believe it’s something special to wear that Corinth jersey,” added the coach.

The Tribe has a long-standing tradition of excellence on the hardwood and has six gold balls in their trophy case to prove it. That’s why anything short of a championship, or at least getting to that point, is considered a kind of disappointment.

Corinth has virtually the entire roster returning next year that will once again make it the favorites in Division 1-4A and serious contenders to capture their seventh overall state championship.

Point guard Tameric Perry is the only player not returning next season.

Perry played a tremendous role on this year’s squad.

The 2016-17 Warriors began 2-0 with wins over 6A Horn Lake and county rival Alcorn Central, before a three-game losing streak. That streak included a pair of tight losses in the Lighthouse Classic and a frustrating 54-50 decision at Southaven on a night the starters were benched for a major portion of the contest.

The Warriors rebounded to win

15 of their next 17, including a win in the Caldwell, Ky., Holiday Hoops Classic. Their lone losses during that stretch were a two-point defeat at the hands of 2A champion Ashland and Christian County, Ky., in the Kentucky Tournament.

Booneville surprisingly dealt CHS a 57-52 loss on the Warriors home floor, before Shannon handed Corinth its only division loss 69-66 at Shannon.

Corinth wrapped up division play with wins at Amory and Tishomingo County, sandwiched around a close 65-58 loss to top-10 ranked Tupelo at home before defeating Itawamba in the first round of the division tournament in Fulton.

Shannon shocked the Warriors in the finals on a last-second tip-in, relegating them to the second seed in the North Half. Corinth took care of a pesky Yazoo City squad at home in the first round before the controversial loss at Leake Central that ended the Warrior’s season prematurely.

Leading scorers Tada Stricklen and Jon D. Warren will return next season, giving CHS hope for a return to the Big House for a shot at another state title.

Corinth High School captured another division title during the 201617 season.

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Kossuth High School captured the slow pitch softball division title in 2016.

LADY AGGIES

claim first division crown in five years

BY KENT MOHUNDRO For Crossroads Magazine

High school slow pitch softball will be eliminated after two more years of competition.

But while it’s still here, teams might as well have fun and win as much as they can ... right?

At Kossuth, head coach and athletic director Steve Lyles has fielded countless championship teams in both fastpitch and slow-pitch. And the Lady Aggies have qualified for the playoffs year-after-year for a while now.

But it had been five seasons since KHS claimed the division title. And it took a monumental rally during the final regular season contest to nail down the latest title.

“We were down to Booneville by eight runs in the bottom of the seventh inning and scored nine times in our last at bat to win the game and the division championship,” Lyles recalled.

The final score was 22-21 Lady Aggies.

The very next week Kossuth won a best-of-three series from North Pontotoc, also a very solid ballclub, to advance to round two.

They swept that series 2-0.

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the Lady Aggies’ otherwise highlysuccessful season in a 2-0 sweep.

The 2016 KHS season started with four straight wins before a five-game losing streak reared it’s ugly head to place the Lady Aggies at 4-5 heading into division play.

After losing five in a row, Kossuth won seven straight contests to improve to 11-5. After another single loss, KHS put together eight more consecutive victories that included the Booneville triumph and the North Pontotoc playoff series.

“The thing I think I’m the proudest of from last year’s team was the way they stayed together and just kept fighting,” Lyles said. “They never quit.

They put in extra practice time, even when it rained. They didn’t let anything stand in their way.”

The Lady Aggies finished their division-winning season at 19-8 and lost only two seniors.

“We had Macy Mask and Kaylee Jones as our only two senior players, but we also had a solid core of underclassmen. So we knew we had a good chance to finish the season strong and possibly win a division title and even qualify for state if the cards fell right,” said Lyles.

“Winning 15 out of 16 games over the second half of the season was huge, but we knew we were capable of

it,” added the coach.

Post-season superlatives rolled in after the season had concluded with juniors Abby Lyles and Avery Mullins being named Division 1-3A co-most valuable players along with all-division honors.

Junior Jade Barnes was named the defensive player of the year from her shortstop position.

Ten Lady Aggies were ultimately placed on the all-division team and honorable mention list. Besides the aforementioned players, Mason Drewery, Lexi Fiveash, Arlie Ozbirn, Katie Meeks and Kaylee Jones were also on the all-division teams while Zoe Essary and Ava Meeks were named honorable mention.

“These are fantastic young ladies we have here at Kossuth,” Lyles said.

“I’m extremely proud of the way they worked together through the summer workouts. They were always picking each other up and winning division again was big.”

Lyles, the 19-time coach of the year, also mentioned how much the hitting and batting averages improved across the board that led to them winning division.

There’s two more years of slowpitch left before the MHSAA shuts it down, giving the Lady Aggies at chance at two more division titles.

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Alcorn County Tournament champions Kossuth High School.

WARRIORS, LADY AGGIES WIN ACT TITLES

BY KENT MOHUNDRO For Crossroads Magazine

The 67th Alcorn County basketball tournament was staged Jan. 5-8 at the Crossroads Arena.

It was the 13th consecutive year the arena has hosted the annual event and this year the weather played a part once more in the completion of the tournament.

The tournament tipped off as planned on Thursday evening with the junior varsity girls semifinal game between Alcorn Central and Corinth as the Lady Bears won to advance to face Kossuth in the finals. With BiggersPA G E 3 6

ville not having a JV entry, the No.1 seed Lady Aggies received the bye.

But the finals wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come until Monday this time due to winter weather that blanketed the area Friday, prompting the tournament committee to play all semifinal contests Saturday, moving the finals back two days.

In varsity action, the Kossuth girls defeated Biggersville 34-12 and the 10-time defending champion Corinth Warriors easily disposed of Alcorn Central 91-27 to move into Mondayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s finals.

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Corinth JV boys topped Kossuth to move on to face top-seed Alcorn Central in the championship round.

Immediately following that, the No. 2 seed Alcorn Central varsity girls eased past Corinth 67-50 for the right to face Kossuth for the title. Lady Bear guard Malory Wigginton torched the nets for 40 against the Lady Warriors.

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Alcorn County Tournament champions Corinth High School.

Not only did their latest ACT win over Biggersville earn Corinth their 11th straight county title, it also marked their 18th tournament championship in the past 19 years and 43rd overall.

They have never lost a game in the Crossroads Arena, and have now won 39 consecutive ACT games without a loss.

varsity girls final between Kossuth and Alcorn Central, which the Lady Aggies won going away. The second contest matched the top seed Alcorn Central JV boys against the No. 2 seed Corinth Warriors. The Golden Bears built a double-digit lead by halftime but Corinth charged all the way back to take a brief fourth quarter lead before coach Trae Bain’s troops regained their composure and pulled out a narrow win over the Warriors to hand Bain the county title in his first year as the Alcorn Central JV coach.

After a short break, coach Chris Byrd’s Lady Aggie’s faced off against the Lady Bears of coach Charlette Foster.

After a relatively low-scoring first quarter Kossuth and standout guard Coach Keith Greene led the Warriors to another ACT championship.

Devonte Spears went wild during the fourth quarter and overtime to lead the comeback as Biggersville won 64-61 with two starters fouled out.

After taking Sunday off, the tournament resumed on Monday for a day and night full of finals action.

First on the menu was the junior

Morgan Hodum began to pull away and frustrated Wigginton after her record-setting semifinal performance.

Central’s Alexus lainez and Brianna Barnes tried their best to take up the slack, but the Lady Aggies were the better team on this night. They won 61-49.

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It was Kossuth’s first county championship since 2013. They were runners-up in 2014, falling 53-32 to Corinth in the finals.

Their latest title was also their 29th overall, the most of any county girls team. The Lady Bears have won the gold ball 19 times.

The finale was a highly-anticipated showdown between the Warriors and Lions. Both squads were filled with speed and high-risers that were more than capable of filling up the nets on a given night.

Coach Cliff Little’s team kept it close for a while, but eventually Corinth’s depth and pressure defense took their toll in a 77-61 victory as coach Keith Greene stayed undefeated in the ACT at the Warriors helm.

Not only did their latest ACT win over Biggersville earn Corinth its 11th straight county title, it also marked its 18th tournament championship in the past 19 years and 43rd overall. They have never lost a game in the Crossroads Arena, and have now won 39 consecutive ACT games without a loss.

The 68th Alcorn Tournament will be played the weekend of Jan. 4-6 at the Crossroads Arena.

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ALCORN CENTRAL BEARS

claim fourth tennis division title in five years

BY KENT MOHUNDRO For Crossroads Magazine

Alcorn Central High School has made a habit in recent years of being the best tennis team in Division 1-3A. They did it once again in the spring of 2016, winning their fourth division championship in five seasons.

They eventually sent three doubles teams and a boys single to the state tournament, where one ended up playing for a state championship.

The coach who guided the Bears to this level of success is now-retired teacher/librarian Nancy Lambert, who served the last 12 seasons as head coach after a single season as an assistant.

The Alcorn Central program is indeed on solid ground. Lambert played a huge part in helping build it to the level of success they now enjoy.

“I really enjoyed coaching this team,“ she said. “They have been great to work with. But I also had great parents that supported me as a coach and supported the kids as players. When you have that kind of atmosphere over the years it makes for great teams.”

The Golden Bears won the North Half Title in 2015 and were on the doorstep of another last season.

Central not only won the division title, it occupied four courts at the state tournament where No. 1 singles player Brendan Jobe faced off against St. Andrews’ Larry Qu and came up just short.

Others who advanced to the state level were the No. 1 girls double team of Abbey Hollowell and Meredith Murphy, No. 2 girls doubles team Allie Hughes and Brooke McCoy, and No. 1 boys doubles team Nathan Hodum and Tayton Smith.

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phy advanced to the second round.

“The kids did everything I asked of them and more. They worked

hard and I can say now, as I retire, that being the head tennis coach at Alcorn Central was the highlight of my career.”

Current head coach Andrea Hardin takes over a hihly-successful tennis program that expects big things every year. The parents and studentathletes have a commitment to each other and to being the best.

The Bears can look for bigger and better things in the future as they work their way toward a possible state championship down the road.

“Alcorn Central has great parents and students and a great tradition. I hope to see them continue to perform well at the highest level,” added Lambert.

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Photo by Keith Jackson Alcorn Central High School won the division volleyball title in 2016.

LADY BEARS

claim 2nd straight district volleyball crown

BY KENT MOHUNDRO For Crossroads Magazine

Head coach Eric Lancaster has his Alcorn Central volleyball squad positioned to take the next step after conquering their second consecutive division championship in the fall of 2016.

But the last one didn’t come easy as Lancaster adjusted the offensive game plan from the 5-3 they ran in 2015 to a more effective 6-2 last year.

“It took a little time for the girls to get used to the new offensive formation, but after a rough start, we got rolling. It was quite a ride,” said Lancaster. “The setters are set up differently in the 6-2 and it takes some getting used to.”

The AC volleyball program is only in its fourth year of existence and more and more high schools across the nation and the region are beginning to start programs.

The season got off to a rocky start as the Bears lost four of their first six matches against teams from Caledonia, Corinth, New Albany and Tishomingo County.

“Those first four losses came to teams who ended up winning more than 20 games apiece and made the playoffs, but also came as we were adjusting to the new offense,” said PA G E 4 0

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After the 2-4 start, Central won a pair of matches against Ashland and Ripley to move back to .500 (4-4) and then came up on the short end of a Saturday match in West Memphis, Ark., when it lost 2-0 to a very talented Northpoint Christian team out of the Memphis area.

Three days later, it was playing at Ripley when something peculiar and ultimately special happened.

“We were at Ripley and they had won a set from us,” said Lancaster.

“Their student section started getting on us pretty hard and our girls came together and decided they were gonna show these folks who the better team was.”

And they did, moving past the Lady Tigers for the second time in a week, this time by a 3-1 score.

That match served as the catalyst for what turned out to be a 16-match win streak for the Lady Bears -- a streak that didn’t end until a second-round playoff loss to St. Andrews Episcopal in Ridgeland.

In addition, the first five matches in the streak were on the road.

“We won 28 straight sets during the streak because our girls just refused to lose a match,” said the coach.

When breaking the season down

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into set wins and losses, Central enjoyed a 59-21 advantage over the opposition. That’s roughly a 3-1 advantage against every team it faced and there were 15 shutouts during that time, many coming during the winning streak.

After going 8-0 and winning their second consecutive division crown, the Lady Bears hosted East Side in the first round of the playoffs and won handily, 3-0. The closest game in the match was 25-11 and AC outscored the Lady Trojans 75-25 overall in a dominant performance.

Then came St Andrews again and once more the Lady Saints took down the Lady Bears 3-0 in a match that was tight throughout and where Central had a real chance to win beginning in the second set.

But a couple of unfortunate bad breaks spelled the end to the season for Lancaster’s team as it lost the match 21-25, 26-28, 19-25.

“We were ahead at around the 13-point mark in both the last two sets, but we just couldn’t finish,” said Lancaster.

St. Andrews went on to win the state title.

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CORINTH GOLF TEAM wins 2016 district title

BY KENT MOHUNDRO For Crossroads Magazine

Corinth High School is no stranger to success on the golf course and has eight state championships to back that up.

The title-winning tradition began back in 1984 when it won its first modern-day state title while it earned its last state championship in 2011.

Coach Justin Parsons, who also doubles as coach Keith Green’s assistant on the boys high school basketball team and the head coach of the junior varsity, has the Warriors headed in the right direction again.

The red and black came oh-soclose to a return to state last year as they won the district title again with a relatively young and inexperienced team.

According to Parson’s assessment, CHS fielded a very young team in 2016. To put it in perspective, the five-man golf team consisted of

senior Ethan Bain, sophomore Braddock Brawner, freshman Jake Burns, and eighth-graders Davis Brawner and Adam Davis.

That combination of youth and inexperience ended up nearly making a state appearance.

The season started fairly rough for the Warrior golfers, but “as each tournament came and went we started to improve each time,” said Parsons. “Our young team started gaining confidence in themselves.”

He also mentioned that the ultimate goal all season was just to make it out of district because the year before they were even younger and finished fourth.

Corinth produced one of its best performances of the 2016 season by

topping perennially powerful Pontotoc by a single stroke to win district title.

It was a day that certified the Warriors as a serious contender for district and state titles for several years to come.

More district and state titles are absolutely possible for CHS boys and girls over the next several years, and even beyond that if the up-and-coming golfers who now are just beginning junior golf continue to develop.

And at Corinth, they will definitely receive the training and encouragement necessary to attain higher levels of play.

Plus, they will be a part of a long and proud Warrior tradition of success on the links.

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