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Sunday, January 10, 2016

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Oxford aldermen will host a public hearing Jan. 19 to consider input about proposed regulations that would govern people operating food trucks and food or beverage pushcarts.

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PETRE THOMAS

Students in the Oxford School District returned to classes Tuesday following a two-week Christmas break.

OSD returns from holiday break

BY CHANING GREEN NEWS WRITER

The Oxford School District resumed classes Tuesday after a two-week holiday break. The holidays can be a stressful time for everyone but for school district students and employees, the days between Dec. 21 and Jan. 5 are a chance to recuperate from a busy fall semester and prepare for a successful spring.

Students are in class for 85 days in the fall and 95 in the spring, and many educators and students consider this break to be much needed downtime to prepare everyone for the second half of the school year.

Sam Lewis is a fourth grader in the Insights gifted program at Della Davidson Elementary School. Though he and his classmates enjoyed their break from the classroom, most are excited to be back.

“I just like school in general,” Lewis said.

“I like math and reading and seeing all of my friends.”

Lewis’s classmates agreed that their favorite part of returning to school from the break was getting to see their friends and teachers again. Fourth grade Insights teacher Laurie Beth Ellis said that her favorite part of getting back was being able to get back into a routine and see all of her students again. District Communications Coordinator Kelly Graeber believes that the holiday break is important for everyone involved in the school district.

“We tend to focus only on the students

coming back from break, but it’s also important to remember the teachers,” Graeber said. “These are the people that hold our children’s education in their hands on a daily basis and it’s almost like a rebirth for them. It gives teachers the chance to recharge and start the spring semester with a clean slate and a sharper mind.”

Oxford School District is composed of eight schools and caters to over 4,100 students. The various schools in the district serve different groups of students. Della Davidson, for example, only teaches third and fourth grades students. The other schools follow a similar method of organization in order to ensure that each school is best equipped to serve individual groups of students.

Oxford Intermediate School was founded two years ago and serves fifth and sixth grade students. Steve Hurdle has been the principal with the school since its founding and loves his job.

“I enjoyed the break and it’s always nice to spend time with family,” Hurdle said. “I do, however, love being able to get back to work and do this job. The kids here are all so sweet and receptive to new ideas and learning methods. It’s really just a great place to be.”

The Scott Center and Oxford Learning Center are also a part of the Oxford School District but are a little different from the other schools. The Scott Center caters to students with physical and developmental disabilities while the Oxford Learning Cen-

ter is designed to provide an environment conducive to learning and development for students with behavioral issues.

Kathy Howington is the principal for both the Scott Center and the Oxford Learning Center. She has been with the Oxford School District for 12 years and is in the third year of her current position. Howington said that she enjoys working with the dedicated staff of the school and the unique challenges that her job can present.

“All the students have come back from the break with good attitudes and seem to be refreshed after some time at home,” Howington said. “We’re looking forward to a strong finish for the school year.”

Despite the occasional complaint about more strictly enforced bedtimes or Accelerated Reader, teachers, administrators and students across the school district seemed happy to be back to their daily schedules.

“Coming back from Christmas break allows the teachers and school district officials to get back into their routine and see the light at the end of the tunnel, so to speak,” Graeber said. “We can come back with a second wind and finish the school year being the best we can be for students, which is who we’re all here for in the first place.”

The next break for the school district that lasts longer than a day is Spring Break, which comes in the middle of March. chaning.green@journalinc.com

Quentin Whitwell, owner of O Towners, an electric golf cart taxi service, proposed to the Downtown Parking Commission a 90day trial period in which his company provides two carts and drivers shuttling people between the “water tower” parking lot and the Square area.

6 Lifestyle

Photos from the first game in the Pavilion against Alabama.

11 Sports

Close games have defined the Lady Chargers (12-4) this season, but that wasn’t the case against West Point

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Heather Thomas Peters of Oxford pled guilty to embezzlement and was sentenced to seven years in custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections, five years suspended, and two years to serve. Additionally, she was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $25,981.43.

Peters was arrested in March 2015 by Special Agents from the State Auditor’s Office on charges of embezzling public funds.

She was also served with a civil demand in the amount of $8,002.97.

According to the State Auditor’s Office, Peters embezzled almost $1,800 from the District Attorney’s Bad Check Unit and charged another $2,000 on a government Wal-Mart credit card.

“I’d like to thank Lafayette County District Attorney Ben Creekmore for referring this case to us after an internal audit, and DeSoto County District Attorney John Champion for handling the prosecution,” said State Auditor Stacey Pickering. “Both attorneys have handled this case in the utmost professional manner.”

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The workshop will be taught by Shelley Miller and Petrecia Williams for a fee of $105 with the textbook included. It will be held in the Math and Science Building in Room 308 on the Senatobia campus.

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Chandra’s wife, Hemant Lata, is also a senior research scientist at NCNPR. They have a daughter, Riddhi, who is 6, and a son, Rishi, 9.

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Northwest offers Eudora Welty study and tour class for educators

When senior research scientist Suman Chandra first came to the University of Mississippi’s National Center for Natural Products Research in 2001, he had no idea that he would be involved in one of the most pivotal programs in the School of Pharmacy’s history.

Chandra, who has extensive training in medicinal plant physiology and biotechnology, carries out a variety of research activities dealing with cannabis as part of the Marijuana Project.

Funded by a competitive contract through the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the project is led by Mahmoud ElSohly, research professor in the Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences and professor of pharmaceutics. As part of the project, the NCNPR supplies high-quality marijuana and its constituents to the NIDA Drug Supply Program. The drug supply program then provides the marijuana to licensed researchers across the country.

“I’m very proud to work for the Marijuana Project,” Chandra said. “It is very well-known across the country, and I’m honored to work for Dr. ElSohly.”

A few of Chandra’s duties are indoor and outdoor cultivation of Cannabis sativa that includes growing, harvesting and processing cannabis biomass under Good Agricultural Practices and Good Manufacturing Practices compliance, as well as maintaining production records, supervising and training personnel, and supervising overall field activities.

“It is extremely important that we keep good security and up-to-date inventory when we are growing,” he said. “We document everything we do and make sure that all the Drug Enforce-

The division of Continuing Education at Northwest Mississippi Community College is offering an Author Study and Tour featuring the works of Mississippi Author Eudora Welty.

“Educators can add zing to their English, Mississippi studies or history classes by providing inside knowledge of our state’s humblest Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Eudora Welty, as gathered from stories she wrote, photographs she took while traveling the state, and people she knew,” said Maggie Moran, director of Learning Resources, who will co-lead the class.

The class will meet on Saturdays, Feb. 27 and March 19 from 9 a.m.- noon at the R.C. Pugh Library on the Senatobia campus and will take a tour of Jackson on April 9 from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. The cost of the course is $75, and registration deadline is Jan. 25. Participants can earn 1.5 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) from the class. Participants will be expected to read two books and nine short stories prior to the meeting dates, then discuss readings as a group with emphasis on incorporating information into future classroom discussions.

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City to consider food truck ordinance

BY ERROL CASTENS OXFORD CITIZEN

Oxford aldermen will host a public hearing Jan. 19 to consider input about proposed regulations that would govern people operating food trucks and food or beverage pushcarts.

“This request is to establish a Mobile Food Vending Ordinance within the city limits of Oxford,” said Assistant City Planner Ben Requet as he introduced the proposed ordinance at Tuesday’s Board of Aldermen meeting.

“Currently, Mobile Food Vending operations are regulated under a transient vendor’s license with minimal regulation. As interest increases for food trucks in Oxford, the intent of this ordinance is to establish basic regulations for the industry.”

Food trucks are an increasing trend, particularly in larger cities.

Typically they park at a rotating schedule of sites where a large mealtime or snacktime crowd might gather, such as a construction site, a factory parking lot or a lot along a major street.

In the proposed ordinance, a mobile food vendor is defined as one who sells food and/or beverages from a mobile pushcart or

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motorized mobile food prep vehicle for more than 15 days in a calendar year.

Mobile food vendors would be required to have a City of Oxford Privilege License, a Mobile Food Vendor Permit, a food vending permit from the Mississippi Department of Health, a state tax number designating them as a City of Oxford business, approval from the City Fire Inspector and City of Oxford Property Owner Consent Form for each proposed location of operation. They must operate under an existing licensed restaurant within the City

of Oxford or have a central kitchen approved by the Mississippi Department of Health for food service.

Also required are a list of products to be sold and proof of a valid insurance policy with at least $500,000 per food truck or pushcart, with the City of Oxford named as an additional insured party, and a written indemnity agreement for each location that will “hold harmless” the city for its use or misuse.

Food truck and pushcart operators will have to inform city officials of felony convictions or

pending charges as well as any misdemeanors related directly or indirectly to food, food prep, permits and business operations.

Annual mobile food vending permits are proposed to cost $250 annually per vehicle or cart, and the city will not be limited in the number of food vending permits it can issue.

Pushcarts and food trucks may operate only on non-city property – primarily privately owned property in areas zoned Downtown Business (DB), General Business (GB), Shopping Center (SC), Professional Business (PB), Neighborhood Business (NB) and Planned Unit Development (PUD). A Special Exception could be granted by the Oxford Planning Commission to operate in Multi-Unit Residential (RC) Districts.

Board Attorney Pope Mallette added that the ordinance could be written to allow mobile food vendors on city-owned property leased to private organizations – for example, the Powerhouse and the Old National Guard Pavilion, which are controlled by the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council.

Vending on state and county property would also not be controlled by the city.

The City Clerk’s Office, Department of Planning, Department of Public Works and the Code Enforcement Officer would have continuing review authority.

Proposed permissible hours for food trucks and pushcarts would go from early commuting hours to shortly after the close of bars – starting at 6 a.m. and extending to 1 a.m. Saturday through Wednesday, and until 2 a.m. on Thursday and Friday nights.

Other proposed regulations include bans on locking food carts and food trucks to trees, garbage receptacles or street furniture, and minimum distances from bus stops, traffic signals, traffic signs, and fire hydrants. Further, operators must be present at all times, must not sell anything but food and beverages, and may not sell alcohol. Operators will be responsible for removal and proper disposal of trash.

Fines for violations of the ordinance will range up to $150 for a first violation, up to $250 for second one within 12 months and up to $500 for a third or subsequent violation within 12 months, with all fines going to Oxford’s general fund. errol.castens@journalinc.com

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Escue death investigated as accident

BY ERROL CASTENS OXFORD CITIZEN

What is being investigated as an accidental shooting Tuesday at the home two cousins shared in southwest Oxford left one of them dead.

At 5:05 p.m. Tuesday, officers of the Oxford Police Department were dispatched to 110 Old Taylor Road (County Road 303) for an ambulance assist.

It was reported to 911 that a white male, later identified as Hunter Blake Escue, 18, of Oxford, had been shot and was unresponsive. When medical staff arrived Escue was taken to Baptist Memorial Hospital where he was later pronounced deceased.

On scene, officers spoke with Austin McLarty, 20, of Oxford, who called 911. It was determined that both young men were handling firearms when a shot was fired from McLarty’s weapon, striking Escue.

As of Friday no charges had been filed. Oxford Police investigating the case were still awaiting the results from the autopsy as well as items that were sent to the Mississippi Crime Lab for analysis.

“Everything is still leading us to believe it was an accident.

Terrible accident,” said Oxford Police Chief Joey East.

Lafayette County Coroner Rocky Kennedy said preliminary results of the autopsy had not been received as of Friday evening, but echoed East’s observation.

“Everything so far is consistent with an accidental shooting,” Kennedy said.

Austin McLarty is the son of Lafayette County District 4 Supervisor Chad McLarty, and Escue was Austin’s first cousin.

Jeff Busby, president of the Board of Supervisors, said he and his fellow board members was trying to support all involved in the tragedy.

“We as a board are going to be there for Chad. He’s like a brother to all of us,” he said.

“We love his family, and we’re praying for them all. We ask for prayers from the community for both families that have suffered this tragedy.”

Escue’s funeral was scheduled for Saturday in Hernando. errol.castens@journalinc.com

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Golfcart taxi owner proposes parking shuttle

BY ERROL CASTENS OXFORD CITIZEN

One entrepreneur is proposing a commuter shuttle of a different sort for downtown Oxford.

Quentin Whitwell, owner of O Towners, an electric golf cart taxi service, proposed to the Downtown Parking Commission a 90day trial period in which his company provides two carts and drivers shuttling people between the “water tower” parking lot and the Square area.

“What we’re proposing that we have a 7:30 to 9 a.m. and 4 to 5:30 p.m. regular hours, along with the lunch hour,” he said. The water tower lot, situated between 14th and 15th Streets, is the least-used of all the city-owned lots near downtown. The lot is only about a five-minute walk to the Square, but it requires going down one set of stairs or a steep incline and up another steep hill.

“The main reason (for the service) is for convenience of people downtown,” he said. “The parking lot where the water tower is has been estimated at 20 percent of capacity. I drove that this morning; it’s a little bit of a haul.”

Whitwell said the convenience of the proposed service would ideally move all-day workers such as those in banks or retail shops from the closest lots to the more distant one, given its carside-to-frontdoor rides, with each run serving up to five passengers.

“Our thought is that we would run a regular route with two of the shuttles,” he said. “We’d have one person at that parking lot, essentially, at all times” during the early morning, lunchtime and late after-

noon commuting hours.

“We have a fleet of five vehicles,” he said, noting that the three not on commuter duty would still be available for passengers using OTowners’ regular service, which operates more like a conventional taxi service in the downtown area and between the Square and the University of Mississippi campus as well as an occasional delivery service. As with most taxis, however, O-Towners tend to be busiest at night, bringing diners and the late-night crowd to and from the Square.

“We’re starting to get a lot of that early-hour dinner crowd,” Whitwell said. “We take them straight from their house to the door of where they’re going to eat, and then they text us when they’re ready to return.”

Each full charge of the batteries is good for about 30 miles of driving. The vehicles are enclosed during cold or rain and open-sided when the weather allows.

Whitwell said the commuter shuttles would be aimed at getting downtown workers from their cars to their workplaces efficiently and pleasantly. The extra activity at the Water Tower parking lot, he said, would be a bonus.

“It’d also be a little bit of a security advantage – people moving around in those areas,” he said.

Whitwell’s business proposal included two vehicles and two drivers during the stated commuting hours, with no fare charged to passengers. Under the proposal, the city would pick up the tab for the service, possibly paying for it from parking revenue since it would be aimed at better using of Oxford’s parking lots.

“We would work this out with the city. We’re talking about doing a 90-day test run to see if it would do the anticipated transition to the empty parking lot,” Whitwell said.

“The proposal that we have is set at $50/day for the unit and $15/hour for our drivers. The 90day total was $6,175.”

Parking Commission Chairman Tom Sharpe agreed that the service would have its best advantage to people parking all day but questioned whether they would be willing to change their habits.

“Human nature is going to take the most convenient approach,” he said. “How are you going to convince them to park up at the water tower parking lot if they can park in a lot closer to their building? If there were a charge for those lots, you’ve got both issues at play – convenience and price.”

Commissioner Brum Elliott said, “The incentive is you get a ride from your car to the door of your workplace.”

“We want to help,” Whitwell said. “I think long-term this could be a way to make money for the city, but what we’re trying to do is to get the people who are taking up parking spots all day to go somewhere so they can create more convenience for people who are going to be downtown for a shorter time.”

Asked how downtown workers would catch the shuttle back to their parked cars, Whitwell said it would work much as it does when people summon O-Towners for a paid taxi ride.

“We have a text service. You put in your number, your location and where you’re going,” he said, adding that a driver shows up a

few minutes later.

The fact that the six-person vehicles (one driver and five passengers) can fit into smaller spaces than conventional taxis, which are often vans or SUVs, would be another bonus, Whitwell said.

“The great other thing about the O-Towner is that we can get six people in at a time,” he said. “We can slip around in alleys when traffic is tied up on North or South Lamar.”

Commissioners expressed interest in Whitwell’s proposal but did not commit to it.

“It’s an interesting proposal. It needs consideration … but I would rather measure twice and cut once,” said Commissioner Mike Mitchell. “It seems we might want to fold this into a larger strategy.

“It’s helpful and positive; I’m just concerned about just how would all these pieces and parts fit together.”

Commissioner Kevin Frye reminded the commission that such a contract as Whitwell was proposing would have to go through a competitive process, according to state law.

“Anything over $500 requires a bid,” he said.

Whitwell was confident that he would win any such bid.

“I think we’re the only owners of electric vehicles in town,” he said.

If the Parking Commission at some point recommends OTowners’ proposal, even if it wins the competitive bid process, final approval of the contract would have to come from the Board of Aldermen. errol.castens@journalinc.com

Oxford School District holds annual Spelling Bee

BY CHANING GREEN NEWS WRITER

Oxford School District held their annul, district-wide Spelling Bee Thursday night at the Oxford Intermediate School cafeteria.

The competition began with around 20 kids from across the school district competing for the title of District Champion. Students were seated on stage and when it was his or her turn to spell a word, that student would step to the front of the stage and approach a microphone. Kathy Howington, principal of the Oxford Learning Center and the Scott Center, would call out a word that the student would then repeat back to her and make their spelling attempt. If you misspell a word, you must exit stage left.

Candy Mize is the Director of El-

ementary Curriculum and Professional Development for the Oxford School District and she officiated the Spelling Bee. She said the Spelling Bee has been in the school district for a long time and that she thinks it’s a wonderful program to have.

“It’s a great opportunity for our kids who excel in spelling,” Mize said. “It gives them the opportunity to increase their vocabulary and work on their spelling. Some of our students are really passionate about it. There are football kids and theater kids and there are also Spelling Bee kids. We just try to make it as fun for everyone as we can. We don’t want the kids getting nervous. A lot of them just love it.“ As the competition progressed, the words the participants were asked to spell aloud became more difficult. Many of the students

confidently approached the microphone and articulated each letter without hesitation.

Occasionally there would be a surprisingly difficulty word thrown into the mix. A kid would be asked to spell the word “ocean” and then a competitor would be saddled with the word “naysayer.” A lot of it seemed to come down to the luck of the draw.

In the end it came down to two participants spelling word after word in the hopes that the other would make a mistake. The pair were friendly on stage and congratulated each other for right answers.

In the end, the winner was Fawaz Ahmad, a Spelling Bee veteran and seventh grader from Oxford Middle School. He claimed the title of District Champion after his competitor misspelled the

word “pomposity.” Ahmad spelled it correctly and the cafeteria erupted in applause. Ahmad walked off stage and was immediately congratulated by his family.

“It was good,” Ahmad said, referring to the competition he had just won. “I’ve been practicing since early November and I want to go to the national competition.”

Ahmed, along with four of the competitors that placed behind him in rank, will go on to compete in the Lafayette County Spelling Bee on Jan. 16. The winners of that competition will go on to participate in the Mid-South Spelling Bee in Memphis. The champion speller from that event will go on to represent the region in the 2016 Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. chaning.green@journalinc.com

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Planning – methodical, thorough, but visionary Errol Castens

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afayette County officials will spend much of this year focusing on the county’s comprehensive plan. By state law, whenever it’s overhauled, the plan must address overall goals, objectives and policies along with facilities, transportation and land use.

Land use is easily the most widely discussed of these issues. The dreaded Zword – “zoning” – for a long time was viewed as political kryptonite for those holding or aspiring to Lafayette County offices. Rural residents largely didn’t want more government control over what they could and couldn’t do with their property, and the farther from Oxford, the more pronounced the opposition was.

But Lafayette County is no longer Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha, a North Mississippi Hill Country patchwork of forests and fields and hamlets and haunts surrounding a quiet, quaint county seat and college town.

Lafayette County is the fastest-growing county in Mississippi. Between 2013 and 2014, the Census Bureau ranked Oxford and Lafayette County as the 15th-fastest-growing micropolitan area in the nation.

Thousands of “rural”

Lafayette County residents are relative newcomers.

Most of them live not on the farms or wooded properties that commonly constituted home in the past, but in subdivisions and apartment complexes that form a tight ring around the City of Oxford, with a few that have been built up farther out – especially where the gerrymandered Oxford School District reaches out several miles from town.

Their expectations often conflict with people whose time here is measured in generations instead of years.

Neither oldtimers nor newcomers are necessarily right nor wrong in their expectations, but someone has to referee the inevitable conflicts, and the county’s two new supervisors and their three one-term-veteran colleagues all probably recognize that zoning is going to be necessary.

In Lafayette County’s land use planning, attention should be paid to likely target areas for Oxford’s annexation reaches. One might hope that conflicts between the county and city would not arise, but one must not assume that they will not. A ready example is that annexation of existing subdivisions won’t deprive the county of most tax revenues, but it will involve the loss of garbage and fire protection revenues on homes that are much less costly to serve than those in more rural areas.

Zoning and land use were major focuses during recent conversations with firms vying to lead the county’s

comprehensive plan update, but supervisors would be wise to give equal focus to the other two required tangible elements of the plan as well.

The transportation plan will obviously concentrate on roads – where expansions and upgrades of existing routes are needed, where development patterns indicate new roads should go to serve more people, and even where new roads might be spur economic development beyond residential construction. It should consider plans for a complete loop route around Oxford, even if economics dictates that the road be a decade or more in the making.

It must not overlook the dire need to preserve or acquire right-of-way by requiring setbacks along roads that likely will need to be expanded even decades from now. (The bottleneck of buildings along Highway 30 between the Oxford city limits and Campground/Woodson Ridge Roads would be cautionary evidence of such a need.)

(Planners might well consider such a need along the extension of West Oxford Loop that is yet to begin.)

On the other hand, the plan must not succumb to habit and assume roads are the only transportation need. New ideas in transit and expansions of existing public transportation should be explored, perhaps to serve core commuter groups from surrounding communities or to enable

Oxford Civic Chorus will begin rehearsing for the Spring season on Monday, January 11, 2016 at 7pm in Wesley Hall at OU Methodist. Auditions for new members will be held on the 11th and 18th at 6:30. This only requires you to match pitch for placing purposes. A prepared piece is not required.

Rehearsals are Monday evenings 7:00 to 8:30 pm with one concert in late April.

This semester we will be singing American choral music from the 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s. Some are show tunes from musicals as well as standard pieces of choral repertoire.

elders to live better and longer in their own homes after they can no longer safely drive.

As Oxford expands its bike and pedestrian transportation infrastructure, Lafayette County’s comprehensive plan should also consider the practicality and potential benefits of tying in certain close-in communities to the city’s pathways.

Lafayette County’s facilities plan must necessarily take in not only current needs, such as a new Justice Court facilities and more room for the Sheriff’s Department but take as educated a look as possible at future needs – both in the county seat and in diverse areas of the county. It should consider what ripple effects each new development will have, including how a move of government offices from one area to another will affect the area vacated.

Lafayette County leaders, in choosing a direction for the comprehensive plan up-

date, must necessarily weigh costs and timelines projected by the firms competing for the job.

Price and quickness, however, must not rank high among deciding factors.

This comprehensive plan will serve Lafayette County directly for the better part of a decade, and some decisions it directs could impact the county’s finances and quality of life for many decades. It would be false economy to save money on the front end if such thrift deprives county leaders of the use of experts in diverse disciplines who will ask vital questions no one else might have thought of.

Familiarity with the area may be a plus and may reduce both the cost and the time involved in the planning process a bit, but it must be compared to the value of fresh eyes and added objectivity.

This plan, to be the best investment the county can make in money, time and

opportunity, must be thorough, covering a wide variety of issues.

It must be methodical and detailed to provide political, business and civic leaders as much information as can be useful in identifying needs and directing policies and actions.

But it must also be visionary and unbiased.

Lafayette County’s Board of Supervisors will meet at 1 p.m. Friday at the Chancery Building with representatives of two planning firms – Slaughter & Associates and A2H/Clarion – to hear more about their proposals for the county’s comprehensive plan.

Citizens might well want to attend to form their own opinions about the competing firms. Perhaps more important, it might trigger ideas they’ll want to share with their respective supervisors later on what issues they consider most important to Lafayette County’s future.

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The Pavilion at Ole Miss is even better than advertised

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right spotlights could be seen for miles leading up to The Pavilion at Ole Miss. A line of traffic, in several different directions, made the area of campus right around the new basketball arena look like New York City at rush hour.

Or like that line of cars headed to the corn field turned baseball diamond at the end of Field of Dreams.

Thursday’s opening of The Pavilion was even better than words could describe. The atmosphere was electric. The venue looked just as impressive packed as it had been empty. Students were in their seats, on time, and everything electrical worked, at least once everything really got going. (The new scoreboard didn’t have the score, points etc until about 6-7 minutes into the game).

And what topped the overall experience was the fact that the Rebels defeated Alabama. Let’s be honest, the night was going to be special and memorable without a win

by Andy Kennedy’s bunch. But it was so much more fun for the fans to get the entire package.

Kennedy took to the public address system just as the game came to a close. He thanked the capacity crowd for their part, their voices, there clapping, their enthusiasm. It was spur of the moment, Kennedy told the media following the game when asked. It was delightful even if it was planned.

For a man that has coached at Ole Miss for 10 years and been around basketball ever since he could dribble a ball, Kennedy was as happy as he as ever has been on a court. Not to say that AK wears a sour face each time he steps up to the microphone to talk to the press, he doesn’t, but there was definite volume to his voice, in a positive way. And his jokes were even more witty following the victory over the Crimson Tide.

“I leaned on the acoustics of this building.

We gave it a good test at the half. The lockers held up, the chairs were pretty sturdy,” Kennedy said about what he told his team when the trailed Alabama after the first 20 minutes.

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Road Warriors Herod, Oxford take down West Point

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

WEST POINT – Aliyah Herod drove past a bevy of defenders on the court Friday night. She also stopped and pulled up for jumpers. She even went to the free-throw line on a regular basis, showing her touch. Her ability to do so many things from her position only enhanced the great defensive effort by the Oxford Lady Chargers in their Division 2-5A opener against the Lady Green Wave.

Herod finished with 21 points in the 72-51 victory that gave the Lady Chargers a second big road win this past week. On Tuesday night, Oxford held off a talented New Site team to capture a victory.

“We have three guards who I would put the ball in their hands, but Aliyah is the one that has a few more things that she can do,” Oxford coach Cliff Ormon said. “She can pull up, she can drive to the rim and finish. She’s very strong. I love all of our players, but she does have some things that allow us to do some different things offensively with her at the point.

She had a great game tonight and she had to stay on the floor a lot of minutes and through some big moments.”

Close games have defined the Lady Chargers (12-4) this season, but that wasn’t the case against West Point as Herod, Jordan Freeze, who came off the bench to score 15, and Kyla Malone, who finished with 16, never let off the gas from a defensive standpoint. Ormon added that it was great to pull out a division win on the road in the fashion that they did with a lot of players stepping up.

“We have a great record, but this is the one they’re going to look at when it gets to the end of the season when it comes to the playoffs,” Ormon said.

“I thought we needed to stay with our pressure to make them play fast. We had given up 31 points at the half and we had only been averaging only 42 or 43 per game for opponents. It hadn’t locked them

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Oxford's Aliyah Herod shoots over two West Point defenders during Friday night's game. Herod led the Lady Chargers with 21 points in the 72-51 win. down, but we were able to make shots and we 45 and only averaging 52. There were a lot of possessions and we were going to the free-throw line a lot. That kind of dictated the game was going.”

With Herod’s ability to drive through to the rim, and then make the extra pass, a spot-up shooter like Freeze can really thrive. Ormon said that Freeze is shooting with a lot of confidence.

“She only hit one at New Site and it looked like she had a layoff. I think she enjoyed that Sugar Bowl,” Ormon joked. “She is really coming into her own as a shooter.

When I took the job, that’s one of her things that she can do for us. We have to work on some other things, but I love what she is bringing to our team right now.”

Herod said Freeze making her shots means a lot to the team, and that she was getting better and better as the year goes on from a shooting standpoint.

“She is really helping us out with the wins and her doubledigit games are amazing,” Herod said. “And having

Jordan Freeze drives past a Lady Green Wave defender during the second half.

Magge (Hobson) scoring and out, especially when the main more people other than me people are fouling. We have helps a lot. It builds up our more people than last year.” team even more than it has in the past. We have some peojohn.davis@journalinc.com ple off the bench that helps us Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

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Insell, Rebels looking to bounce back against Florida today

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

A 30 percent shooting effort is something that Ole Miss needs to avoid when they host Florida today at The Pavilion. The Rebels lost 76-57 to LSU Thursday night after shooting just 30.2 percent from floor. Of course, head coach Matt Insell wasn’t pleased with how his Rebels (9-6 overall, 1-1 in the SEC) played on defense against the Tigers either.

“Our defense wasn’t even close to what it’s been in the last several games. We didn’t guard from the post position, we didn’t guard from the guard position. We allowed them to catch the ball wherever they wanted to catch it,” Insell said. “I can’t explain that because we work on it. We gave up 76 points to a team that averages 57, that’s on us and we have to go back and figure that out and get better from it and we will.

It’s a long season, we’ll figure things out and get better from it and get ready for a tough Florida team.”

This will be the first time that the women’s basketball team has played in the new arena.

Insell was hoping for a good

overall showing.

I hope it brings some momentum for us playing for the first time at the Pavilion at Ole Miss on Sunday or else I’m going to have to dress Armintie (Herrington) out. You look at Alissa Alston, who had a good night, Bretta Hart who continues to hustle even though she missed some chip-ins,” Insell said. “Our shooters have to make shots and if you cant rely on shooting we need to go to the rim. Shandricka Sessom is our go-to scorer and the last two games she’s been taken out of what she does so she needs to own up and understand her role and until she does folks will continue to do what LSU did tonight.”

Sessom was held to just five points in the loss to LSU, breaking a streak of 14 straight games in double figures. Today’s game with Florida, which just defeated Tennessee Thursday night, is set for a start at 1 p.m. The contest can be seen on the SEC Network with Brenda VanLangen and Candace Parker calling the action.

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Leading the way Calhoon ready to help Chargers any way possible

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

Cole Calhoon had a feeling that the Oxford Chargers were on the verge of turning things around before they played Center Hill. While the rest of the community headed to the Pavilion to watch the Ole Miss Rebels play, the Chargers defeated the Mustangs 3-1 Thursday night. It was a significant win in that Center Hill had always been a thorn in the Chargers’ side.

After not playing well in matches just before Christmas in the Oxford Showcase, Calhoon, a junior midfielder, was ready for something positive to happen for the team.

“We’ve had a lot of people injured and we’ve had to have people step it up.

We just have to deal with,” Calhoon said before talking about his individual play. “I have to work hard with all the losses and get what I can done with all the people out.”

In the match with Lafayette this past December, Calhoon had to step up and score even though that’s not his primary role.

Extra motivation came when the Chargers did not fare well against Oak Grove, Jackson Academy and Starkville in the Showcase. Until Thursday’s win over Center Hill, the Chargers had only defeated St. Joseph’s out of in eight Greenville matches. They also tied St. Joe Catholic out of Madison, but there hasn’t been much room for celebration.

“I think we’re going to carry that into district play,” Calhoon said about the recent results. “And into the first round of the playoffs. We talked a lot about what we needed to do differently and what we needed to do to step it up during the break.”

While getting back the injured players would definitely help the Chargers, better overall effort is something Calhoon thought would also help.

“We were undefeated for

a good bit of the season, but after the first loss, the vibe got killed,” he said.

“I’m trying to bring it back.

I’m talking to the younger kids that are having to play and tell them to not be nervous out there and to have fun. And to move the ball and let’s get it done.”

Soccer has been a part of Calhoon’s life since he was 4. He played for the Flood and the Lobos out of Memphis from a travel standpoint. The Lobos matches up with a number of other teams across the Southeast.

“That really helped me.

You get really good training there. I like to go over there and play and get better,” Calhoon said. “Ever since I was young, I’ve had fun playing it. Even at practice, I have a good time out there.”

The two things that Calhoon likes the best about playing soccer is 1) scoring and 2) having the ball at his feet. Assists are something Calhoon really provides for the Chargers from his position, and he does like to see his teammates score. Heading into the weekend, he had four goals and five assists.

“A really good through ball is really the same as scoring a goal to me,” Calhoon said. “If you’re in a close game, and you get a really good pass for an assist, I’m happy with that.”

There is little doubt to Calhoon that the Chargers can make a run in the MHSAA Class 5A playoffs and win a second championship in school history.

The team opened up Division 2-5A play against New Hope and West Point Saturday, and then host Saltillo on Tuesday night at Bobby Holcomb Field.

“I was in the eighth grade when they won the title and I really looked up to those guys. They were just fantastic,” Calhoon said of the Chargers that did win the 5A title three years ago. “A couple of them went on to the next level in college, and I want that back this year. I want the younger guys to look up to us and remember

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Oxford junior Cole Calhoon is one of the hardest workers on the soccer team, and a player that coach Jonathan Branch counts on to help in several different spots. what a great season we had. That team barely had any losses that year, two or three at the most. They weren’t scared of anybody.

They knew they were the best and that’s what I want us to be in the playoffs.”

Oxford coach Jonathan Branch said he was “on the fence” with what he was going to do with Calhoon when he first arrived to coach the team. Back then, Calhoon was younger, and a little slower, and not as skilled as some others right around his age.

“We were really on the verge of not knowing what

to do with him and then the kid just emerged. He has something you just can’t teach. He’s got the want to, the heart,” Branch said. “He plays so hard. He just wants to get better.

From his ninth grade year, after hardly ever seeing the field, that summer, when he went into 10th grade, he just exploded. He wanted to get so much better. He worked so hard. And he got so much faster and more skill. As a sophomore, he played more minutes than anybody else on the team. A lot of guys took notice about that. We

love his work ethic and he became one of our top players and somebody everybody looked up to even as a sophomore.”

Branch has even overheard other parents tell their underclass children that they could be this year’s Cole Calhoon.

“I think that is such a complement. The guy has a great work ethic. He was voted by his teammates as captain as a junior and that says it all,” Branch said. “The other thing about Cole is he is versatile. He was one of our better defenders as a

sophomore last year and he’s one of our better center midfielders right now.”

Against Center Hill, Branch moved Calhoon to the outside midfield area.

Branch said he played well there also.

“It really doesn’t matter where we put him, he does a great job,” he added.

“He’s got a really high soccer IQ and just does a lot of things for us. He doesn’t just always lead vocally, he’s more by example.

There’s nothing wrong with that because he does a lot for our team.”

Ups, downs Branch has seen his team play well, and then not play as well the next match. The most complete showing of the season was against Center Hill, even if the Chargers are still without three players.

“And those are three important parts that we assumed were going to be starters,” Branch said. “We weren’t having a lot of fun early in the season and the guys were kind of down on themselves. Soccer was something they had to do rather than something they wanted to do. I think it was a mixture of a lot of things that led to how we were doing. We just weren’t playing to the ability that we needed to.”

Oxford lost to Southaven 5-1 this past Tuesday, but Branch thought his team played much harder than they have.

“I told them that I was actually as happy as I could be with a 5-1 loss because what I saw was them starting to play a lot harder and for each other,” he said. “I told them is was something we could build off because it was something we had not done. I told them that we had to keep it going. I saw them starting to enjoy themselves Wednesday in practice and the tempo starting to pick up. I even told my wife after that practice that we were about to pound on some people, that it was all about to come together.” john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

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Oxford's Terry Williams gets set to shoot a free throw. He finished with 17 points.

Oxford basketball coach Drew Tyler gives instruction to his players during Friday night's game with West Point.

Green Wave gains revenge on Oxford's Chargers

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

WEST POINT — With a little more than two minutes left in the third quarter, Oxford’s Chargers looked like they were going to win yet another game on the Green Wave’s home court. Up nine points is not a place opposing teams have ever liked to be against the Chargers, especially in a Division 2-5A contest.

A year after seeing the Chargers win the 2-5A tournament title on their home court, the Green Wave gained a measure of revenge Friday night, defeating the Chargers 62-52.

An 11-0 run to end the third quarter erased Oxford’s lead, while 26 points in the fourth quarter cemented the victory for West Point. Oxford coach Drew Tyler wasn’t happy

with the 17 turnovers his team committed against a 2-3 zone and he wasn’t pleased with how his team has consistently given up points in bunches throughout the course of the year.

“I will say that even though we are after Christmas and in the second part of our season and in district play, I found out something new about my team everyday,” Tyler said adding he was real direct with his team following the loss. “We have seniors that are making sophomore mistakes and when you do that in an opposing gym, you give up a ninepoint lead with an 11-0 run. Not only have you brought that team back, they have the momentum and they’re feeding off it.”

West Point (7-9 overall) won both of its 2-5A home games this past week, de-

feating Saltillo by a point this past Tuesday night.

Coach Brad Cox was complementary of the Chargers’ ability before the game and then after.

“They beat us here regularly and they ran us out of our own gym twice last year,” Cox said. “In our district, with it being so competitive and so close, and more balanced than it has been, it’s big to win your home games. I felt like Oxford was far and away the best team in the district last year. I felt like two years ago we were. This year, I don’t feel like there is anybody that is that much better. So you have to win all your home games in our district. You have to take care of your home court.”

Cox felt like Oxford not having DK Metcalf available for the matchup was an advantage for his team.

Metcalf changes the game on both ends of the floor, Cox said, adding that Tyler can do so many things on defense alone when he is playing.

“Metcalf being out for them was a huge factor.

He’s a super athlete who kills us on the boards,” Cox said. “Defensively, it changes them a lot because he likes to put Metcalf at the top of that 1-2-2 zone and he can cut the whole court sideways when he turns.”

Tyler agreed that Metcalf changes things for his defense, but he also pointed out that his team had played several games early in the season without him, and against teams with athletes similar to West Point.

Another important subplot in the loss revolved around West Point’s strategy on Jarkel Joiner. The

junior point guard led the Chargers with 20 points, but he didn’t make some of the shots he has made recently. Joiner scored 11 points in the first quarter, and Cox went to a Boxand-1 defense to slow that production down.

“He was beating us by himself in the first quarter.

I felt like (Shanderrius) Westbrook chased him around pretty well and he still ended up hitting a back door,” Cox said. “We were zoning everybody else and playing him man.

When he caught, we were going to trap him and try to make him give the ball up. He still found a way to score even when we had five guys worried about him. He’s very talented.”

Friday’s game was decided on the boards as West Point turned the tables with that part of the game as well.

“I think we bowed up a lot better in the second half as far as rebounding. I think we gave them a few extra shots in the first half and I think we were able to limit them in the second half a little bit better,” Cox said. “They did start the third quarter off with some put backs and very well, but our guys did play with a lot of energy. And then free throws have been our Achilles’ heel for us and struggled in the first half. When it came down to it, we made them at the end. It helps to have the right people on the line.”

Terry Williams finished with 17 points for Oxford, while Cole Cromwell had 10. Four West Point players scored in double figures led

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SPORTS IN DEPTH HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL Friday's Results OXFORD (G) 72, WEST POINT 51 Oxford 17 28 13 14 – 72 West Point 13 18 8 12 – 51 Leading scorers: Oxford – Aliyah Herod, Kyla Malone 16, Jordan Freeze. West Point – Qiayon Bailey 12, Amari Heard 11.

Records: Oxford 12-4, 1-0; West Point 11-4, 1-1.

WEST POINT (B) 62, OXFORD 52 Oxford 13 11 10 18 – 52 West Point 13 10 13 26 – 62 Leading scorers: West Point – AJ McFarland 18, Randall Johnson 11, Kelly Martin 10, Qua Brownlee 10. Oxford – Jarkel Joiner 20, Terry Williams 17, Cole Cromwell 10.

Records: Oxford 10-4, 0-1; West Point 7-9, 2-0.

Tuesday's Results OXFORD (G) 49, NEW SITE 47 Oxford 9 16 11 13 – 49 New Site 6 14 11 16 – 47

Leading scorers: Oxford - Aliyah Herod 15, Kyla Malone 10.

New Site - Sydney Presley 10, Jordyn Clark 10 Records: Oxford 11-4, New Site 14-2 OXFORD (B) 63, NEW SITE 45 Oxford 15 21 15 12 = 63 New Site 7 20 3 15 = 45 Leading scorers: Jarkel Joiner 27, Terry Williams 16, Will Hopkins 10 Records: Oxford 10-3, New Site 11-5.

LAFAYETTE (B) 74, SOUTH PONTOTOC 50 Leading scorers: Lafayette – Quin Jones 28, Mack Bishop 14.

HIGH SCHOOL SOCCER Tuesday's Result LAFAYETTE (B) 4, SENATOBIA 1 Lafayette 1 3 – 4 Senatobia 0 1 – 1 Goals: Lafayette – Brian Leyva, Yusha Patton-Bey, Carlos Barhona, Bryce Hertl. Assists – Jason Reveles 3, Patton-Bey.

OPC BASKETBALL

Monday's Results 7-9 Girls League LAKERS 16, NUGGETS 14 Offense: Lakers – CeCe Frierson. Nuggets – Timiyiah McCarty.

Defense: Lakers – Madison Shum. Nuggets – Taylor Bradley.

Game Hustle: Lakers – Breanna Hobson.

Nuggets – Madison Smith.

10-12 Girls League BULLS 14, NUGGETS 11 Offense: Bulls – Jaida. Nuggets – Madison.

Defense: Bulls – Ella Beth. Nuggets – Holly Game Hustle: Bulls – Molly. Nuggets – Kateleyn.

9-10 Boys League CLIPPERS 29, WARRIORS 21 Offense: Clippers – Zahir. Warriors – Everett.

Defense: Clippers – Jackson. Warriors – Sharpe.

Game Hustle: Clippers – Wilder. Warriors – Dye.

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Walton left a positive mark on OM football program

BY PARRISH ALFORD DAILY JOURNAL

Some serious star power left the Ole Miss football program this past week.

Then there’s Jaylen Walton.

His name didn’t come up in conversations last week that wondered aloud if juniors Laquon Treadwell and Laremy Tunsil would return for one more year.

Treadwell announced through the school on Monday that he will enter the NFL draft. Tunsil quickly followed suit the same afternoon.

The deadline for underclassmen to apply is Jan. 18.

Defensive tackle Robert Nkemdiche, suspended for the bowl game, declared for the draft in late December.

Walton, a senior, was a member of Hugh Freeze’s first Ole Miss recruiting class, the 2012 group that was put together on the run after Freeze was hired in late December of 2011 and began assembling a staff too.

“People have underestimated because of my size all of my life,” said Walton, who is listed at 5-foot-8,

172 pounds. “It’s given me a lot more fire to go into games, make plays and prove people wrong.”

Walton had a few SEC offers coming out of Ridgeway High School in Memphis. He also had Group of Five schools like Arkansas State, Middle Tennessee State and hometown Memphis pushing hard.

He arrived at an Ole Miss program working to rebuild its talent base and immediately found a key role as he returned a kickoff 100 yards for a touchdown against Texas.

He became the starting running back in 2013 and ends his Ole Miss career with 51 games plays, 31 starts and 5.1 yards per carry with 17 rushing touchdowns on 384 carries.

Ole Miss offensive coordinator Dan Werner will most remember Walton for his last two performances against rival Mississippi State.

Walton rushed for 148 yards and a 91-yard touchdown on 14 carries when Ole Miss upset No. 4 MSU in Oxford in 2014.

Walton narrowly missed another 100-yard game against the Bulldogs this

season when he had 93 yards on 16 carries in the Rebels’ 38-27 win in Starkville.

There’s no denying Walton’s size, but there’s also no denying his muscular build with a near-complete absence of body fat.

“Last year against State, obviously there was the long run that he had to reverse his field,” Werner said, “but he had a bunch of short runs where it looked like there was nothing there. He’s 175 pounds running over guys and breaking tackles, and he’s done that for four years. It’s amazing to see what he’s done in a league like the SEC … the SEC West.”

Walton rushed for 40 yards on eight carries in the Sugar Bowl and finished his senior year with a career-high 730 rushing yards on 142 carries with five touchdowns.

He hopes to continue playing football.

JOHN DAVIS “Whatever is God’s plan Jaylen Walton wrapped up his senior season with over 700 yards rushing. He his hoping to get for me is definitely going a chance to still play football in the NFL. to happen,” he said. “I’m just going to let Him do his work, and I’ll follow his steps.”

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Ole Miss opened The Pavilion Thursday night.The Rebels defeated Alabama in front the largest crowd in school history. Sebastian Saiz (11) scored 21 points and had 16 rebounds. Stefan Moody (shooting) also had 21 points. Ole Miss' Rasheed Brooks (14) puts up a shot.

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“I actually saw students running to the game, not away from the game,” Kennedy quipped later.

Kennedy added that it was “everything” to open the building with a win. It was his 329th game coaching the Rebels, and yet, it was like his first in a lot of ways.

“It’s such an honor for me to be the head coach in the SEC in my home state for the flagship university,” Kennedy said. “I honestly felt more pressure tonight than when we were in the SEC Championship or than when we were in the NCAA Tournament. I didn’t feel it until we were up there standing on the sideline. I did not want to let these people down. We’ve never had a game like this at Ole Miss. This is historic, so I did not want to let them down and I would have felt terrible if we had not gotten it done.”

One thing is for sure, when the crowd is going, The Pavilion is loud. Very loud. Sebastian Saiz, who was the key to victory with 21 points and 16 rebounds, said the atmosphere was like nothing Tad Smith Coliseum provided.

There was a time when the “Tad Pad” gave the Rebels a great home court advantage. It had to be packed, however, and the

Rebels needed to fuel that with good play. One game doesn’t make a season, but it seems like things will be different in the Rebels’ new home. Fans will flock to see the new arena, and new always sells. If the Rebels continue to play well, then that just adds fuel to the fire.

Stefan Moody is a very exciting player to watch, he’s just needed another player or two to come along for the ride. Saiz playing the way he did is very encouraging for the Rebels now that the SEC slate is here. Tomasz Gielo finished with 12 points and four assists. He scored the first points in the new arena, a 3-pointer, one of the two he made in the win. Gielo averaging double figures the rest of the way, and dishing out great passes for assists, will also go a long way to keeping people in their seats.

Kennedy said his bench is short when it comes to crunch time. Eight players saw action Thursday, while only six of those eight were actually on the court longer than 10 minutes.

“We’re going to kind of play our dudes. And I like my dudes,” Kennedy said. “I wish we could develop a little bit more, but I think the energy in the crowd allowed us to play the way we did down the stretch. It’s very difficult for me, though, because eye contact isn’t very big in this generation. I was having a hard time to get

them engaged with me because usually, I can talk in this tone in Tad Smith and everyone in the building can hear me. Those days are over as well. I have to work on that as well so I can get the message sent.”

It was clear that Ole Miss wanted to be even more relevant in basketball when the plans were drawn up for the new arena. Kennedy has made things work with less, and now, an arena isn’t something he has to worry about. There was a time when basketball was the top sport, or most popular sport, on campus. A new building, and atmosphere like we saw Thursday night, may just vault it back to that point. At the least, Ole Miss basketball means a whole lot more than it has to the fans. The Rebels and Lady Rebels are a main item instead of a side dish, or a layover between football and baseball. That’s got to feel good to the coaches, and the players who put the ball through the baskets.

Even if the weather gets frightful, January and February should be fun months. There was so much light inside The Pavilion, it almost felt like being out in the sun. Well, that’s a bit of a stretch, but the point remains valid that Ole Miss basketball is all about having fun.

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SPORTS BRIEFS Soccer sweep Oxford's Lady Chargers and Chargers defeated Center Hill Thursday night.

Morgan O'Connor scored two goals to lead the Lady Chargers in their 5-1.

Madysn Longnecker, Anna Dennis and Kaitlyn Rock each scored one goal. The Chargers won 3-1. Keaton Calhoon had two goals, while John Owen Yoste scored one goal and had two assists. On Friday night, Oxford's junior varsity defeated North Pontotoc 1-0. Phillip Simpson scored the goal for Oxford. Wilkes Davis had the assist.

Griffin O'Neill had two big saves in goal. Both varsity teams will return to action Tuesday night against Saltillo at home.

He listed offers from Arkansas, Florida State and Alabama.

Wallace in action Former Ole Miss football standout Mike Wallace will be in action in the NFL playoffs later today.

Wallace plays for the Minnesota Vikings, who host the Seattle Seahwaks in one of two NFC Wild Card games. Wallace heads into the game with 39 catches for 473 yards and two touchdowns this season.

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Ole Miss baseball will host two winter camps the next two weeks. A hitting speciality camp will be Jan. 16-17 and open for grades 1-12. Cost is Abraham to $240. Parents can save visit La. Tech $20.00 per sibling.

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When the dead peolemiss.edu prior to riod comes to an end this next week, former registering to receive your promo code. All Oxford High quarterof the camps will be back Jack Abraham hosted at Oxford-Uniwill be in Ruston, versity Stadium.

Louisiana to vistt La. Check in will between Tech. Abraham, who 8 and 8:30 a.m. won the Gatorad The camp offers exPlayer of the Year tensive instruction on award in Mississippi this past fall, had been the specific skill of hitting for campers. committed to play at Some of the skills Tulane until head learned will be stance, coach Curtis Johnson was let go from his job. swing mechanics, mental side, bunting, Abraham helped lead base running, weight the Chargers to three training and video straight appearences evaluation. Campers in the MHSAA Class 5A state title game. He will need to provide a glove, cleats or spikes, finished his career with over 12,000 yards cap, tennis shoes for indoor workouts. A bat passing and over 120 and baseball pants are touchdowns, includoptional. Spending ing 57 coming this money is also needed pastseason. for concessions or White picks LSU souvenirs. Lunch will be provided for campers at the 1810 Louisiana's Devin Grille at the Manning White, one of the naCenter. tion's top-rated lineA pitching speciality backers, decided to camp will be held Jan. stay close to home to 23-24 also at a cost of play his college ball, $240. It is also open for picking LSU over grades 1-12. other schools in the For more informaSEC West. Ole Miss tion on the camps, was after the 6-foot, visit http://college258-pound White, who decided to enroll baseballcamps.com/r ebelbaseball. in school this month.

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Bishop paces Commodores in victory Grenada tops Lady ‘Dores on last-second shot

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

Too many unforced errors, especially late, prevented the Lafayette Lady Commodores from pulling out a win over Grenada in the Commodore Challenge Saturday afternoon.

Grenada’s Emily Bush hit a 3-pointer with two seconds left to lift the Lady Chargers to the 48-46 win.

Lafayette, which defeated New Albany Friday night, led 46-45 but committed a turnover with 15 seconds left, giving Grenada new life.

Bush said the call from her coach was 5 Out, which meant everyone on the perimeter. She didn’t expect to have the final shot, but knew she had to hit it when she got the look.

“We wanted to run the clock down and then get one final shot off,” Bush said. “I found the place at the right time. This is a pretty big win.

It makes us 11-2 now. I knew (Lafayette) was a good basketball team, but we were pretty much like them. We just had to go in and what we do.”

Shayne Linzy felt his Lady Commodores (11-4) playing back-to-back nights wasn’t the reason his team failed to pull out the win.

“The starters today didn’t play the fourth quarter (Friday) and Grenada had a game (Friday),” Linzy said.

“We kind of reverted back to some of the mistakes we were making earlier in the year. I don’t know why, don’t have the answer. The only thing I can look at is going back to work on Monday and see if we can fix some of these issues that we’re having like ball control. When we’re in the lead, we don’t need to do certain things.

Tonight, for whatever reason, we were doing the things that can cost us a game. And against a good team, they did.”

Linzy thought Grenada would drive to the basket rather than pull up for a shot. He said everything was covered in the sequence, until right at the end.

“A trap was set and there wasn’t supposed to be any

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Lafayette’s Tay Tay Owens drives to the basket past Ingomar’s Cade Hall in Saturday’s game in the LHS gym. trap. The girl that had the ball did a fine job, and we left their best 3-point shooter open and you’re not supposed to do that,” Linzy said. “Their girl hit the shot like she was supposed to.

Credit goes to Grenada for capitalizing on our unforced mistakes.”

Lafayette, which returns to action against TunicaRosa Fort on Tuesday night, was led by Shaniyah Buford’s 22 points. She also led Lafayette in the 77-33 win over New Albany with 19 points. Shelbi Buford had 12 points against New Albany, while Chelsea Allen had 12 against the Lady Bulldogs.

Shaniyah Buford (3) is cut off by a Grenada player.

‘DORES BEAT INGOMAR Mack Bishop pumped his fist after hitting the gameclinching shot for Lafayette in a 74-69 win over Ingomar.

It was the fourth win of the year for the Commodores, who lost earlier in the season to the Falcons on the road. Bishop scored 23 points to lead Lafayette.

Quin Jones chipped in 19 for the Commodores. Jay Pickens had 26 to lead Ingomar.

Cade Hall was the other Falcon in double figures with 19. Lafayette led 38-32 at the half. john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

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