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Member of the Oxford Community Garden Buffy Choinski works on digging up weeds in her and her husbands plot in the garden.

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Oxford Commuinty Garden holds annual orientation day

BY CHANING GREEN NEWS WRITER

Saturday morning, the Oxford Community Garden held its annual orientation day. The day served as a chance for new members of the garden to get a rundown of the rules and how everything works before the planting season begins.

Jason Hoeksema has been involved with the garden since its inception in 2009 and has served as president of the garden for the past two years. He is also an associate professor with the Department of Biology at the University of Mississippi.

The garden began when Susan Adams organized a

meeting with citizens of Oxford interested in establishing a community garden. Adams is an aquatic ecologist with the USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station. According to Hoeksema, Adams decided to organize the garden after seeing the benefits of other community gardens in various other cities. The gardens brought members of the community together, got people outside and working with their hands, promoted a healthier lifestyle. Adams wanted to bring that to Oxford.

After there were enough people interested in starting this up, there was red tape to tear through. City hall and the Oxford Parks Commission had

to be willing to work with everyone to make the garden a reality. Hoeksema said that it was never an issue.

“The city of Oxford was really receptive,” he said. “They asked Suzy and her cohort of colleagues to work with the Oxford Park Commission, and they were really open to the idea.

They were able to provide the space and quite a lot of start up forces. It took off from there.”

The garden operates through membership and there are currently about 60 members. There are 50 plots in the garden. Some of the plots are shared between different members and other members are families that all work on the same plot. Other plots are

just operated by individuals.

There’s a $10 membership fee to join the Oxford Community Garden Association. After that, to have a plot for the year, the cost is $10 for a small plot, $20 for the medium plots and then $25 for a large plot. That money goes to the cover the costs of maintaining the garden, which are minimal.

Members are responsible for paying for their own seeds, fertilizer and the like. There are three plots that the garden funds and maintains. What is produced from that garden is donated to the Oxford Food Pantry.

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Trump has momentum heading into state primary

BY JOHN DAVIS OXFORD CITIZEN

Like his style or not, Donald Trump has created major waves in the Republican party and in the race to replace Barack Obama as President of the United States. Trump continued to gain traction with his wins on Super Tuesday, and many expect his momentum to grow this coming Tuesday during other primary elections, including Mississippi.

Trump was scheduled to make a stop in the state at Madison Central High School on Monday night.

The billionaire businessman has been to the state before, stumping in Biloxi where he drew huge crowds. According to poll numbers, Trump will carry Mississippi on his side of the ticket. There were a two handful of state lawmakers that voiced support for the former reality TV star early in the week, which should only benefit him this coming Tuesday.

Lafayette County resident Jason Kent has been supporting Trump ever since he made his decision to seek the presidency. Kent was at the Trump rally held in Millington, Tennessee the weekend before Super Tuesday.

Trump discussed a myriad of topics in front of the estimated crowd of 16,000 people that were able to get close enough to hear him.

One of things Trump has stressed is creating new jobs and keeping jobs in America.

“One of the things he pointed out was the Carrier air conditioning plant in Collierville was shut down and moving to China. Over 1,400 jobs were lost and he said the first thing when he was in office, he was going to call the CEO of Carrier and say ‘Hey, I’m glad you built your new facility in China, I’m sure it’s a nice facility, but we’re going to add 35 percent for exporting it back to the United States’” Kent said. “It takes somebody with the mentality of

Trump to run a country that is as important as this one is. Everybody is scared to say things because of all the political correctness going on in this country right now. He may hurt your feelings, but this is a democracy and majority should rule. That hasn’t been happening in the past, especially the past eight years. Now every little group that wanted something gets it because nobody wants to be politically incorrect and go against them. He really is saying what many people are saying at their dinner tables at night. They’re just not saying it in public.”

Kent felt confident that Trump would be the winner in Mississippi when all the voting comes to an end. “(Marco) Rubio just won’t have a chance here.

And (Ted) Cruz is a Texan but conservative Mississippi, I feel like, is looking for Donald Trump to be the next president,” he said.

“We have a governor, Phil Bryant, who I think is one

of the best ones we’ve ever had. He has taken shape in behind Trump, going against the grain. When the voters decide that’s the way it is, he says that’s the way it should be. With issues coming up with the flag, he stayed stern, he stayed with the people. Obama has done so many executive orders that it’s taken the American people’s voice out of it. I would like to see it go back traditional politics with traditional legislation.”

Trump has used the slogan “Make America Great Again” and it’s been branded on a number of things, including the hat that Kent wears. While America is still great, Kent said, what Trump means by his statement is providing jobs for everyone who wants one.

“It means taking the corrupt out of the government and get everybody on their feet again and let us do it with our own people,” Kent said. “Everybody interprets it a different way, but that’s the way I look at it. He is just looking out for us as a whole. I’m excited about this next Tuesday. I think it’s going to be a good turnout and a good turnout on both sides of the spectrum. I do think you will see a lot of Republican votes in Mississippi this time. We have gone to a Republican governor the past 12, 16 years and I think it’s starting to show at the state and national level that Mississippi is supporting that level of politics that are Republican, keeping conservative values intact.”

And when it comes to comparing Trump to Hillary Clinton, the leader on the Democratic ticket, Kent thought people don’t want to see the same thing.

“It’s the same thing over and over. It’s not a renewal, it’s let’s keep doing because this is how we like it,” Kent said. “If we don’t go far right, we will never get back in the middle. We’ve got to the extreme left now for eight years now and if we don’t go far right, we won’t get back to a medium for everybody. We just want to get everyone on the same page.” john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

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Miss-I-Sippin’ beer festival tickets on sale now

BY CHANING GREEN NEWS WRITER

Tickets have officially gone on sale for Miss-I-Sippin’ , the craft beer festival being organized by the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council in partnership with the Mississippi Brewers Guild.

Tickets are either $25 or $30 for Saturday only and $75 to $80 for a ticket to the Friday night dinner as well as the beer tasting on Saturday. The price differences are because members of the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council, YAC, get a discount to events the group organizes. The new Old Armory Pavillion is hosting the Saturday tasting.

YAC Director Wayne Andrews began the festival eight years ago, partnering with the Department of Nutrition and Hospitality Management at the University of Mississippi. The nonprofit festival began as a fundraiser for the arts council and a way to bring together regional foods and craft beer. It still serves as both.

The Yoknapatawpha Arts Council was founded in 1975 and works to promote and pro-

vide resources to the Oxford arts community. They sponsor programs ranging from art groups to modern dance groups.

The festival has gone through some changes this year. It is now the official beer festival of the Mississippi Brewers Guild and is longer partnered with university. Every Mississippi brewery is invited to the event, as are other regional breweries from outside the state that are interested.

Miss-I-Sippin’ this year is a two-day event. Friday is a special dinner with the brewers and brewmasters from the attending Mississippi breweries. One hundred tickets are available for this dinner, and those buying the tickets can request to be seated at a particular brewer’s table.

Special beer from that brewery will be at their table and will not necessarily be included in what the brewery will be showcasing the following day. Highly acclaimed Memphis chef Kelly English, owner of Second Line, is preparing the food. Live music is planned for the dinner.

Saturday from noon to 6 p.m. is the main festival. Live music will also be at this portion of the

COURTESY OF THE YOKNAPATAWPHA ARTS COUNCIL

The new logo for this year’s Miss-I-Sippin’, the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council’s craft beer festival and now the official beer festival of the Mississippi Brewers Guild. event. Food trucks will be parked close by to provide everyone with convenient and unique food options.

As far as an exact count of how many breweries will be par-

ticipating and the different types of beers that they will be bringing, Andrews said they do not have one quite yet. Breweries are still signing up.

“We’re still getting conforma-

tions in,” he said. “It’s adding every day. We’re staying focused on Southern, regional stuff. As more of the craft brewers are talking to each other, we’re getting more calls saying, ‘Hey, we’re coming.’ We just got a call today from Tin Roof saying that they’d be coming up. It’s great. “ Andrews said that this beer festival is an opportunity to expose more people to the projects and work of the YAC and bring in more funding so that they can continue. The festival also provides a platform to promote Mississippi craft beer and local business.

“It’s our way to try and engage people,” he said. “We try to have a quarterly event that introduces us to a segment of the community and gets us involved. It might not necessarily be seen as art but it is a community enhancement.

Beer festivals build tourism and bring people in from out of state and across the state. Beer fanatics travel.”

Miss-I-Sippin’ kicks off Friday, April 1. chaning.green@journalinc.com Twitter: chaningthegreen

BRIEFING Monday cooking class open to everyone

for Dinner Cooking Class is Monday from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the Oxford Middle School cafeteria.

Oxford Middle School is located at 222 Bramlett An upcoming cooking Boulevard. class hosted by Good Tickets are $10 per famFood for Oxford Schools (GFOS) will teach partici- ily (up to five people per pants how to turn favorite family) or $5 per person, which covers all cooking morning-time recipes into dinner. The Breakfast class supplies. Oxford

School District families and community friends are invited to participate.

Tickets can be purchased online at www.oxfordsd.org.

For more information on the event, contact GFOS Program Director Eleanor Green at ecmgreen@oxfordsd.org or call (662) 234-3541.

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OBITUARIES

COMMENTARY

HAROLD STEVENSON

Open letter from Chancellor Vitter

Harold B. Stevenson passed away Friday, March 4, 2016 at TriLakes Medical Center in Batesville.

Funeral arrangements with Coleman Funeral Home are incomplete at this time.

NORALEE JEAN MICHELLETTI Noralee Jean Michelletti, 63, passed away Wednesday, March 2, 2016 at her home.

She was a veteran of the United States Army. A memorial service was held Saturday, March 5, 2016 at at Coleman Funeral with Bro. Roy Clark officiating.

Coleman Funeral Home is in charge of local arrangements.

Online condolences may be left on the Tribute Wall at www.colemanfuneralhome.com.

VIRGINIA FRENCH PIERCE

Virginia “Jackson” French Pierce, 93, passed away Friday, March 4, 2016 at the Yalobusha General Nursing Home in Water Valley.

Visitation will be held Monday, March 7, from 11 a.m. until noon at Seven Oaks Funeral Home in Water Valley.

Funeral services will follow the visitation in the Henry Chapel of Seven Oaks with Bro. David Floyd and Bro. Allan Pierce officiating.

Burial will be in the Oak Hill Cemetery in Water Valley.

Re: Reinstatement of the Office of University Relations and Appointment of an Interim Vice Chancellor for Research and Sponsored Programs Through the Flagship Forum and other stakeholder interactions over the past two months, we are engaging in important conversations about the future of the university – about key aspects we need to sustain as well as where our best opportunities exist to go from great to greater.

One of the areas coming into sharp focus is research and scholarship across the full spectrum of discovery, creative achievement, and translational research. Our recent first-ever designation as “R1: Highest Research Activity” in the Carnegie classification puts us into the top 2.5% of U.S. institutions, and it challenges us not only to maintain that designation but also to build upon it.

It is becoming equally clear that our efforts to become more successful in these areas will require a careful integration of ability, opportunity, and rela-

tionships. We must ensure that our leadership structure and organizational capacity are aligned with the journey. Thus, today I am making an organizational adjustment to benefit research and to coordinate comprehensive support activities around development and messaging.

I am reinstating the Office of University Relations within the university’s organizational structure and asking Dr. Alice Clark to assume the leadership of this area as interim vice chancellor for university relations, an existing position that is currently unfilled.

Our efforts to excel will require additional resources from both public and private sources. Whether we seek federal or state funds or support from foundations and individuals, our success will depend, in part, upon our ability to engage a wide array of partners in a coordinated and strategic way. A robust and multidimensional university relations effort will be essential to our success.

We will not refill the position of chief communica-

tions officer being vacated later this year by Mr. Tom Eppes in the Office of University Communications.

To fill Dr. Clark’s former role, Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Morris Stocks has named Dr. Josh Gladden to serve as interim vice chancellor for research and sponsored programs, effective immediately, to focus on the full spectrum of research activities. We will conduct a national search for a permanent vice chancellor for research and sponsored programs.

In her new role as interim vice chancellor for university relations, Dr. Clark will report directly to me as chancellor. Her charge will be to “stand up” the Office of University Relations and assure strategic coordination of its important functions of communications, development, federal relations, university events, and economic development. The appointment will take effect immediately with the goal of full transition by May 31 of this year.

University Relations is a well-recognized best practice on university cam-

puses and, in fact, played a crucial role in the success of the University of Mississippi during the time Dr. Gloria Kellum served as vice chancellor for university relations. I believe a more comprehensive and strategic coordination among communications, fundraising, and stakeholder engagement will promote even greater synergies and success.

Dr. Clark brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to this area, gleaned from years of working closely with public and private partners to advocate for investment in research and scholarly activity. In addition, she has a proven record with university special initiatives related to economic development and government relations.

Finally, her knowledge of the university and its stakeholder base will help assure that we make decisions in a contextual and thoughtful manner that respects our existing strengths while encouraging innovation and growth.

Dr. Josh Gladden is currently serving as associate vice chancellor for research

and sponsored programs, director of the National Center for Physical Acoustics, and associate professor of physics and astronomy. He has been principal investigator on a number of major research projects funded by the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, and the private sector. He also is serving in a number of national, elected leadership positions in the Acoustical Society of America, the American Physical Society, and on the Executive Committee of the National Spectrum Consortium, as well as director of the international Physical Acoustics Summer School.

Thank you for our interactions to date. I am highly energized by our goal to enhance achievement across the full spectrum of research and creative achievement. I look forward to the coming components of the Flagship Forum and encourage you to continue the dialogue about our future. Remember, every voice counts.

Sincerely, Jeffrey S. Vitter, Chancellor

OXFORD HIGH SCHOOL TAKES FIRST PLACE AT UMAIT Oxford High School students took home the first place trophy at the 30th annual University of Mississippi Academic Invitational Tournament held Feb. 13 on the Oxford campus.

The students competed among 34 teams from Mississippi,Tennessee, and Arkansas in the quizbowl style tournament for the chance to win UM academic scholarships.

Pictured are OHS faculty and team coach Shaundi Wall, with students Anish Ravishankar, Nitin Ankisetty, Tamjeed Azad, and Lee Brewer all of Oxford.

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W. Wiley passed a way on Monday, Feb. 29, 2016 in Memphis at Baptist Memorial Hospital.

A service was held Saturday, March 5 at River Hills Church of Christ in Oxford. Burial followed at Oxford Memorial Cemetery.

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UM Green Fund still taking proposals to help the environment

BY CHANING GREEN NEWS WRITER

The UM Green Fund will be taking proposals through the end of the day, March 23.

The Green Fund is a pool of financial resources managed by a committee that consists of a combination of faculty, staff and students. Lindsey Abernathy, a project manager with the University of Mississippi’s Office of Sustainability, chairs that committee.

One of the projects the Green Fund does in conjunction with the Office of Sustainability is composting. Every day they collect organic waste from the Rebel Market and The Grill and other on-campus dining locations and add them to a compost pile on the W. Quimby Medicinal Plant Garden. In the 20142015 academic school year, the program registered over 30,000 pounds of compost. The compost that is created is available for purchase. The funds raised from that goes back into the Green Fund.

Every semester, the Green Fund accepts proposals for sustainability projects. Any faculty, staff or student at the university is free to submit a proposal. The committee goes through every proposal and decides which one(s) to sponsor. That sponsorship comes in the form of logistical advice, funding and, sometimes, labor.

Each project that receives funding is provided with a liaison to get any help needed to start the project. The Green Fund also

PHOTO BY ROBERT JORDAN, UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS

Last year’s compost team, UM students, from left, Robert Lucas, Victoria Burgos and Tiara Mabry, working at the W. Quimby Medicinal Plant Garden. Burgos proposed the composting project to the Green Fund. provides planning advice for those interested in submitting proposals.

Since its founding in 2013, the Green Fund has funded an estimated 15 projects around the Ole Miss Campus. The university gives $7,500 to fund those projects every semester. The Green Fund also takes donations. The number of projects they

are able to contribute to depends on a variety of factors that include everything from how many proposals they receive to how costly those projects would be.

In 2014, the fund provided financial resources to the library in order for them to tint their windows with a special film that reduces the amount of heat

coming in through the glass. This reduces the amount of energy required to cool the large building and thus saves the university both money and energy.

One of the most recent projects the Green Fund has sponsored was a pilot project last semester for the South Residential College. The goal of the proj-

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ect was to get recycling bins in the dorm rooms.

Residence halls at Ole Miss do have recycling receptacles, but individual rooms do not. The project’s goal is to provide recycling to every dorm room in the South Residential College while also educating the students who reside there on why recycling is important.

The big factors the committee looks for are visibility, impact and feasibility.

The projects must be possible, create a measurable impact on campus and have an effect that can be seen so that the project can be used as an educational tool throughout campus. chaning.green@journalinc.com Twitter: chaningthegreen

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Saturday, there were several members of the garden digging up weeds and preparing their plots to be planted.

Steven Threlkeld serves as treasurer of the association. He served as president for two years before Hoeksema took over. Threlkeld is also a Professor of Biology with the university. He and his wife, Buffy Choinski, who serves as the Head of the Science Library at the university, have been involved with the garden since its founding. Before the meeting, they working on their plot. The couple said the love having homegrown vegetables when they want it, but that their house gets too much shade to have a proper garden.

“We like having fresh produce,” Threlkeld said. “We like the sense of community that folks growing their own vegetables bring to the garden. It’s a good group to be associated with.” chaning.green@journalinc.com Twitter: chaningthegreen

Oxford Writes workshop set for April 2 OXFORD CITIZEN REPORTS

Publisher and author Neil White, author Julie Cantrell, and songwriter Jim Weatherly are headliners for the first Oxford Writes workshop on April 2.

The workshop, to be held at the Orchard in Oxford at 295 Highway 7 North, is free for participants and is a part of the mission of Oxford Writes.

“Oxford Writes is a mentoring and development venture for aspiring or published writers to interact with others to improve their own skills by learning and sharing their works and ideas,” said Jeff Roberson, founder and director of Oxford Writes.

“The most important aspect is that we want people of all levels of writing to be a part of this.”

The workshop is intended for anyone interested in writing, no matter the stage participants currently view their level of proficiency. It is

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Oxford Writes is a mentoring and development venture for aspiring or published writers to interact with others to improve their own skills by learning and sharing their works and ideas. The most important aspect is that we want people of all levels of writing to be a part of this.

Jeff Roberson, Oxford Writes founder and director

for ages 18 and older. Activities begin with a mix and mingle session at 8:30 a.m., followed by opening remarks at 9 a.m. The sessions move on throughout the day with lunch provided.

There will be a session for participants on blogging, online writing, and social media, and another session on feature writing, magazine writing, and sports writing.

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Cantrell, a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, is the author of two children’s books as well as Into the Free, which received

Christy Awards for Best Debut Novel and Book of the Year 2013 as well as the Mississippi Library Association’s Fiction Award. Cantrell’s sophomore novel, When Mountains Move, is the sequel.

Since its release in 2013, it has been named a 2013 Best Read by LifeWay, and won the 2014 Carol Award for Historical Fiction. The Feathered Bone, Cantrell’s third novel, was released in January.

Weatherly was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in New York in 2014, the highest honor a songwriter can receive.

Jim was an All-SEC quarterback at Ole Miss. Jim’s most recognizable songs were recorded by Gladys Knight and the Pips, including “Midnight Train to Georgia.” Jim was ASCAP’s Country Songwriter of the Year in 1974 and was later inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame.

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Lady ’Dores have a lot to be proud of after this season

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t was clear that Shaniyah Buford wasn’t happy with the end result of Thursday’s meeting with Florence. The Lady Commodores’ nine-game winning streak had just come to an end minutes before. In overtime. In the MHSAA Class 4A state basketball tournament quarterfinals. Buford may have scored 30 points to lead the Lady Commodores, but she would have been happy with zero points if it meant the team was moving on.

Lafayette had a fantastic 2015-16 season on the court. In Shayne Linzy’s first year leading the team, the Lady Commodores finished with the Division 2-4A tournament title and 22 wins. They did more than any team at the school had in five seasons.

And the good news is that everyone is coming back for the most part. Buford and Orianna Shaw are two of the most talented players on the team and both have experienced what it takes to make it this far. It can only help moving forward.

“We worked very hard this summer to get here. We just came up up short at the end,” Buford said. “We lacked experience, but I think now that we’ve been here, we can win a state championship next year.

With this being my first time here, I think it gave me the motivation to get back here again.”

Buford added that it felt good to play in an 8,000 person arena. When the largest gym you have ever played in is around 1,500, the openeness of Jackson State feels large, but in a good way.

“I want to get back here next year,” Buford said.

Linzy has taken three different schools and four different teams down to Jackson.

It’s what he does. He is a winner, and likely always will be. Linzy has been in charge of some very talented teams over the last 15, 16 years. The Oxford team that won the 2012 state title was fantastic from top to bottom. He had some strong players at Water Valley and even if they lacked what TURN TO PROUD PAGE 17

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Oxford's Tiara King walks disappointedly off the court at Jackson State following Friday night's loss to Hattiesburg in the MHSAA Class 5A state quarterfinals.

Just short Hattiesburg holds on to top Lady Chargers

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

JACKSON – Shots that normally dropped through the rim and through the net failed to do so for the Oxford Lady Chargers Friday night.

On a night where effort wasn’t an issue, it was the things that OHS couldn’t control that led to a 49-42 loss to Hattiesburg in the MHSAA Class 5A quarterfinals.

Most everything that allowed the Lady Chargers to win 17 straight games coming into contest came up short against the Lady Tigers (26-4).

The ability to score from an inside-out was put on the shelf when center Kyla Malone picked up her second foul not three minutes into

the contest. Malone finished with just five points and two rebounds in 16 minutes of action as referees called foul after foul on the senior. Not having Malone patrolling the paint, on both sides of the court, allowed Hattiesburg to play zone possession after possession against the Lady Chargers. And while Oxford improved its shooting touch in the second half, not having Malone inside cut down on the amount of chances and touches the Lady Chargers could produce in a comeback scenario.

“Without her on the floor, I thought it did hurt us,” Oxford coach Cliff Ormon said of Malone. “We didn’t have the start we wanted. We got in at TURN TO SHORT PAGE 16

Oxford's Emma Schultz calls out a play during the first half of Friday's game against Hattiesburg.

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Lewis able to lift Florence past Lafayette in 4A quarters

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

JACKSON – Darrin Chancellor, the head coach of the Florence Lady Eagles, only had seven players see action on the court Thursday against Lafayette in the MHSAA Class 4A quarterfinals. Thankfully for him, his top player, Danyelle Lewis played every single minute.

Lewis, who wore No. 3 just like Lafayette’s Shaniyah Buford, led all scorers in the winnertake-all contest with 33 points. Buford finished with 30 points in the overtime game that Florence took 65-63.

Lewis, who averages 20 points per contest, seemed to make every single big shot for her team, and at the time they needed it. Lewis scored the final points of the night for Florence, driving to the goal even when she didn’t really have to as Florence led by a point.

“She has been doing that for us all year. She makes big shots, she makes free throws at crucial times and she isn’t afraid of the moment,” Chancellor said of his 5foot-6 senior. “She is just our go-to player and we expect that from her.”

Lewis took 32 shots in the contest, making 13.

She hit 33 percent of her 3point attempts, and the two she hit from long distance to start the fourth quarter were the ones that really got the Lady Eagles back into the contest.

Lafayette (22-7 overall) had a nine-point lead at the half, but only seven points in the third quarter didn’t allow Shayne Linzy’s team to pull away. Then, when Lewis was really able to settle in and take over, the comfortable lead turned out to be a lot more tight.

“She was tough,” Linzy said of Lewis. “We did a couple of different things trying to stop her. We put a taller player on her, face guarding her. We tried to double and switch and she made some great plays tonight. She was clutch.

She made some shots that a lot of people don’t make.

That’s a credit to her.”

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Lafayette's Shaniyah Buford drives past Florence's Sarah Allen (22) during Thursday's MHSAA Class 4A quarterfinals. Buford finished with 30 points in the 65-63 loss to Florence.

Both Chancellor and Linzy felt like the contest would come down to the end, the last possession even if both didn’t necessarily think it would take overtime to decide things.

“I knew there was going to be a run. Florence isn’t here because they are lucky,” Linzy said. “I was just hoping that we could weather it. I thought that we did. We had an opportunity to win at the end of regulation. You could feel that it was getting closer and some calls were being called a little tighter. That’s part of the game. We weren’t able to adjust enough to some of that.”

With Lafayette being so

talented with Buford on offense, and Linzy knowing how to make adjustments, Chancellor said he was concerned coming into the contest.

“I did think that we would win it in regulation.

We missed a couple of shots and a couple of key rebounds down there they were able to get and put back in,” Chancellor said.

Orianna Shaw finished with 11 points and 10 rebounds for Lafayette. Jayla Williams had 12 points, while Tiyunna Dixon had 10 for Florence. Mikayla Patton of Florence led all players with 17 rebounds.

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Lafayette coach Shayne Linzy congratulates one of his players during the first half.

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Oxford falls to Wayne County in 5A quarters

BY BEN MIKELL SPORTS WRITER

JACKSON – Last season, Oxford lost by a single point against Wayne County in the MHSAA Class 5A state basketball tournament. In December, the football Chargers were a yard shy from winning the title against the War Eagles.

This season on the basketball court, Oxford’s bid at a comeback was once again a play short from advancing to the final four. Wayne County eliminated the Chargers from the 5A playoffs for the second consecutive year with a 46-43 inside Mississippi Coliseum Friday night.

Neither team could buy a field goal throughout the contest. Oxford (20-10 overall) went 28 percent from the field shooting 14-for-49. Wayne County (21-9) didn’t do much better at 34 percent going 17for-50.

Jarkel Joiner finished with a team-high 14 points for Oxford, but

on just 3-for-20 shooting.

He was 7-for-8 from the free-throw line, and didn’t make a 3-point basket until late in the contest when it proved to have minimal impact.

Oxford started slower, trailing by as many as a dozen points at 16-4 early in the second quarter. Oxford just made one of its first 15 shots in the contest.

Coach Drew Tyler did like how his team fought tooth-and-nail defensively so his team would have a chance at the end despite their offensive struggles. The Chargers did out-rebound the War Eagles 39-32 in the contest to stay within range of Wayne County.

“We turned up our man defense,” Tyler said of his team’s defensive effort in the second half. “We started pushing to their left side of their offense. I thought they struggled a little bit when we made them pick the left side to enter into their offense.

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CLASS 4A THURSDAY’S RESULT Florence (G) 65, Lafayette 63, OT Florence 15 12 8 22 8 — 65 Lafayette 14 22 7 14 6 — 63 Leading scorers: Florence – Lewis 33, Williams 12, Dixon 10. Lafayette – Shaniyah Buford 30, Orianna Shaw 11.

Rebounds: Lafayette – Shaw 10. Total Rebounds: Lafayette 42, Florence 41. Assists: Lafayette – Shelbi Buford 3.

Turnovers: Lafayette 18, Florence 22.

Fouls: Lafayette 15, Florence 11.

Records: Florence 23-4; Lafayette 22-7.

FRIDAY’S RESULTS 5A GIRLS Hattiesburg (G) 49, Oxford 42 Hattiesburg 12 11 7 19 — 49 Oxford 4 10 15 13 — 42 Leading scorers: Hattiesburg: Stinson 24, Ulmer 11, Terrell 6, Dunn 4, Crowder 3, Poole 1. Oxford – Herod 15, Hobson 13, King 6, Schultz 5, Malone 3.

Records: Oxford 25-5, Hattiesburg 26-4.

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Lafayette 7, Tunica-Rosa Fort 0 Boys singles: Lafayette, Noah Addy 6-0, 6-0 over Artez Harris.

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Tyler took a moment to reflect on his five graduating seniors in Metcalf, Christopher Sandroni, Cole Cromwell, Will Swindoll, and KeMichael Jordan and what the players accomplished this season surpassed a lot of people’s expectations.

“I really think the five seniors on this squad did a great job leading through their performance and definitely verbally on and off the court,” Tyler said. “I think they surpassed a lot of people’s expectations. We finished fourth in the regular season in our region and we were able to raise the trophy as champions.

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Oxford, down 36-26 early in the fourth quarter, used a 14-4 run to tie the game at 40 with 1:07 left in regulation, capped off with a Joiner layup after a steal by DK Metcalf. On the ensuing Oxford possession, the Chargers lost the ball at midcourt to a steal by Xavier Chambers, who proceeded to make the uncontested layup at the other end.

That gave the War Eagles the lead for good.

They were able to salt the rest of the game away with free throws.

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No. 13 Rebels win Not a lot of drama as Rebels enter spring drills first away contest

CONWAY, S.C. – In its first game away from Oxford, the No. 17 Ole Miss baseball team cruised to a 7-3 victory over Ball State University Friday afternoon at Springs Brooks Stadium.

The Rebels (8-1) used a pair of three-run innings to win the first game of the 2016 Chanticleer Classic, hosted by Coastal Carolina University.

Ole Miss scored seven runs on nine hits. Switch hitter Henri Lartigue went 3-for-3 from the right side of the plate and reaching base all four times he stepped up to the plate.

Cameron Dishon and Colby Bortles each homered for the first time this season, belting bombs in the third inning. Bortles led the Rebels with three RBI on his two hits. Sophomore Will Golsan added a multi-hit day, going 2for-4.

“It was our best offensive day in a while,” Ole Miss coach Mike Bianco said. “I was proud of our guys. I thought we were very business-like. With a long trip here, two flights – going to practice and lifting, dealing with the time change and early morning – I thought our guys responded well. “ Bianco was especially pleased to see Lartigue’s success at the plate.

“He played so well in the spring and fall,” he said. “You can say all you want about quality at-bats, but he needed some hits to feel good.”

On the mound, Brady Bramlett (3-0) earned his third win in as many starts. The redshirt junior went six innings, allowing two runs on four hits and striking out five.

Freshman Dallas Woolfolk pitched the remainder of the game to earn the rare three-inning save.

Alex Maloney and Sean Kenney combined to record four of the six hits for the Cardinals (36). Kevin Marnon (1-2) went 4.1 innings, and

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the Rebels pegged the southpaw for seven runs.

The Rebels struck first, taking advantage of a Ball State error in the second. Lartigue lined a one-out single that went through the legs of the BSU center fielder. The ball rolled all the way to the wall, and the Ole Miss catcher turned on the jets to slide safely into third. With a runner 90 feet away, Ryan Olenek did his job with a sacrifice fly to right field, scoring Lartigue and giving Ole Miss the early 1-0 lead.

Ball State immediately answered with a pair of runs in the third to flip the script. The Cardinals used a single, walk and sac bunt to put two runners in scoring position.

Maloney brought both Cardinals in with a double to left to make it 2-1 in favor of Ball State.

However, the BSU lead didn’t last long. In the bottom half of the inning, Ole Miss decided to play long ball. First, Dishon led things off with a solo homer to left-center field, knotting the contest at 2-2.

Four batters later with a runner on, Bortles decided to join in on the fun with a blast of his own. The two-run home run put the Rebels back on top, 4-2, after three innings of play.

As Bramlett kept BSU off the scoreboard, Ole Miss added three more runs in the bottom of the fifth. With a runner on second, J.B. Woodman and Bortles both plated the Rebel in scoring position with RBI singles. An error later kept the inning alive, and Connor Cloyd drew a bases-loaded walk to make in 7-2 .

Bramlett retired nine of the final 10 batters he faced, and Woolfolk entered the game in the seventh. Ball State scored a run in the ninth, but the flamethrowing freshman finished the job to collect the first save of his career.

Boring can, at times, be underrated.

There are no overly compelling position battles as spring football practice begins for Ole Miss.

The Rebels went through their second workout Thursday, led by a quarterback in Chad Kelly who will likely be the preseason AllSEC choice this summer.

There are spots to fill as Ole Miss, 19-7 and 11-5 in SEC play over the last two years, seeks to remain relevant in the conference race and national conversation.

There are many candidates to fill vacancies at both safety positions.

There are offensive linemen who will likely be starters who either are not here yet – as in five-star

freshman tackle Greg Little – or are recovering from injury as in senior tackle Robert Conyers.

Others are working back from injuries. Nickel back Tony Conner and defensive end Fadol Brown will miss the spring. Wide receiver Damor’ea Stringfellow is expected to be available after spring break.

There may be more drama in August when health is better and the rubber meets the road in position battles.

For now, there is an unquestioned leader at quarterback, and boring is good.

Kelly could have joined three of his teammates from last year’s 10-3 Sugar Bowl champion team and declared early for the NFL draft. He had his reasons for coming back.

“I want to win an SEC

championship and a national championship,” he said. “We really feel like we can do that.” evaluating Patterson Ole Miss coach Hugh Freeze gets to take a long hard look this spring at early enrollee Shea Patterson, who was rated the No. 4 overall recruit and the No. 1 quarterback in the 2016 class by 247Sports.

It’s too early to tell whether Patterson will play or redshirt in the fall, Freeze said.

“I know that he is really, really good. I love his demeanor. I love his leadership qualities. He gets the game. It’s not too fast for him,” Freeze said.

There’s also redshirt freshman Jason Pellerin, 6foot-4, 229 pounds.

“He’s got to continue to work on his foot work. He’s

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silient kids. They didn’t pout, we kept fighting and battled until the very end. I still thought we had a chance because we have some great shooters. It was just one of those nights where it didn’t happen for us.”

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halftime and talked about … it wasn’t that we weren’t playing hard, I think we were a little timid. We weren’t taking the gambles that we had.

And once Kyla did go out in the first half, we did have to change our plan as far as picking up the pressure.”

Oxford was down nine points at the half, but Ormon said his team was never really out of the game.

That was clear coming out of the break as the Lady Chargers turned up the intensity on defense and got to within a point heading into the fourth quarter.

“We weren’t playing well and we missed some easy shots, but the kids were finding ways to stay in the game,” Ormon said. “I was trying to get to the half with them and regroup. I have a tremendous group of kids.

Character, heart, the things it takes to be a great person in basketball and out. I knew we were going to come out and make a run. I think we hit a 3 early in the third quarter. We only made one in the first half and once we saw the ball go through, it got us going.”

The 3-pointer came from Emma Schultz, who ended up getting in foul trouble as well late in the game, hurting the Lady Chargers when it mattered the most.

Oxford continued to fight

got a tremendously strong arm,” Freeze said. “I love him as a runner.”

Kelly passed 4,042 yards with 31 touchdowns and 13 interceptions last year.

That’s a lot of experience to bring back at the game’s most critical position.

While Patterson and Pellerin offer excited potential they offer no game experience at all.

So part of spring for Freeze will include getting work for the young guys while trying to hold off his eager senior starter.

“He’s a baller. He’s an effort guy, a rah rah guy,” Freeze said. “One thing you won’t have to worry about with him is him feeling like he can coast. That’s not his make-up.”

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Aliyah Herod led Oxford with 15 points in Friday's loss to Hattiesburg. through the third to make it a one-possesion contest heading into the final eight minutes. The Lady Chargers’ Maggee Hobson hit a mid-range jumper to tie the game at 31 with just over five minutes left in the fourth. That was as close as they could get as Hattiesburg’s Aaliyah Crowder broke the tie with a 3pointer. An old-fashioned three-point play from the Lady Tigers then gave them a two-possession lead.

“The kids responded well after the half. They didn’t put their heads down. They came out with a plan. We were close,” Ormon said.

“Somewhere in the second half, it never quite finished the way we wanted. We played Kyla a long time in the third and we were looking to get into the fourth with her, where she would be good to guy and she got another one early in the fourth. It kind of change from there. Again, they’re re-

With the season now concluded, Ormon reflected on the success of the year, which included the Lady Chargers winning the regular season and tournament titles in Division 2-5A. “We had a tremendous season and I walked into a talented group with great character. They bought into working,” Ormon said.

“They have great parents and great backgrounds, and that helped. This team, they’re just a fun group. They found ways to win. We had four great seniors and I couldn’t have walked into a better situation. They’re leaders. They’re great Christian kids. I’m hoping that our underclassmen see what it takes and they buy in to this.

We would like for this to become a regularity here. We know how hard it is. Hattiesburg is a great team and we ran into a tough one.”

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Plenty of story lines at NFL Combine

e at Daily Journal World Headquarters began discussing the possibility of covering the NFL Combine some time ago, when it became clear that Ole Miss would have three likely first-round draft picks there.

Turns out we had 12 players there, six from both Mississippi State and Ole Miss, most of them with compelling stories.

Ole Miss players Laremy Tunsil, Laquon Treadwell and Robert Nkemdiche still look like firstround guys.

Tunsil and Treadwell are locks.

Nkemdiche once was. Chances are Nkemdiche’s immense talent keeps him in the first round. It should not be a question, but Nkemdiche – rated the No. 5 de-

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Most of our locals who strode up to the risers handled things fine.

MSU defensive end Chris Jones, the former Houston High School star, warmed the crowd with his bubbly personality. He assured questioners he could turn on the meanness on the field.

Dak Prescott let everyone know he was comfortable in his own skin, not bothered by not being the most discussed quarterback at the combine. He intends to do his talking with his play in someone’s training camp, he says.

fensive lineman at NFL.com – is dealing with character issues.

He was dealing with them alone until he pulled Tunsil into the conversation with him last Friday.

The combine is the first real exposure to pro football media for guys who need to get used to the process. The higher-profile playTABLOID COVERAGE ers are placed on riser’s to accommodate larger groups of media.

Only Nkemdiche carried Players not rated as highly are tabloid coverage with him. He unscattered around tables to the derstood questions about his side for smaller groups. mid-December Atlanta incident,

Seven OM athletes headed to NCAA Indoor meet

Seven Ole Miss Rebels have been accepted to next week’s NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships in four events.

The NCAA announced earlier this week that the top 16 accepted men’s and women’s athletes in each individual event and top 12 accepted entries in each relay event as qualifiers for the national meet.

The championships will be held Friday and Saturday at the Birmingham CrossPlex in Birmingham, Alabama.

The total of seven accepted athletes for the NCAA indoor meet is the third-highest in school history behind the totals of eight in 2010 and 1985.

Five Rebel men will be making their NCAA Indoor Championships debuts – Ryan Walling in the 5000 meters and the distance medley relay quartet of Robert Domanic, Ryan Manahan, Craig Engels and Sean Tobin.

Walling, a graduate transfer from North Carolina, is coming off an amazing SEC indoor meet in which he won conference titles in both the 3,000 and 5,000 meters.

He’s the first athlete in program history to win the SEC 3K/5K double and earned a share of the Cliff Harper Trophy as the male

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high points scorer at the meet last week in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Walling ranks fifth nationally in the 5,000 with a school-record time of 13 minues:39.44 seconds he ran three weeks ago at the Iowa State Classic. The Cary, North Carolina, native will be the first Rebel to compete at nationals in the longest indoor distance event since Pablo Sierra in 1993.

Ole Miss has become known for its men’s distance medley relay, earning a third straight SEC title in the event last week.

The Rebels have raced to new heights in the DMR this year, including a school-record 9:30.48 at the Penn State National meet on Jan. 29 and an SEC meet-record 9:37.14 in Fayetteville. Ole Miss comes into the national meet ranked 12th in the event this year.

This will be the Rebels’ second appearance at nationals in the DMR. The first was in 1985.

A pair of Ole Miss women will be returning to the NCAA indoor meet, but in a different uniform than the last time. Former Southern Illinois Salukis Raven Saunders and Lindsey Murray, both sophomores, will make their Rebel debuts at nationals.

Saunders has put together the best shot put season in NCAA history this year, throwing a collegiate record 63 feet, 1.25 inches at the Iowa State Classic. It was the best throw ever by an NCAA woman, indoor or outdoor. The Charleston, South Carolina, native has the best 12 shot puts in the NCAA this year. She won her first SEC title last week and has set a meet or facility record almost every time out.

As a freshman at SIU last year, Saunders won the NCAA indoor and outdoor shot put titles as well as breaking the all-time U.S. junior records for indoor (61-1.25) and outdoor (602.5).

Murray, a native of Harrisburg, Illinois, is the No. 14 seed in the women’s pole vault after she broke the school record with a clearance of 14-0.75 at the Vanderbilt Invitational.

The first woman in Ole Miss history to clear 14 feet, she returns to the NCAA indoor stage after placing ninth as a freshman last year.

Saunders is the first Ole Miss woman to advance to indoor nationals in the shot put, while Murray is the second to do so in the pole vault joining Neal Tisher in 2012.

the hotel window and the arrest, were coming. Those questions consumed almost half of his nearly nine minutes.

He had been coached to take full responsibility, and he did that for the most part, using words like “rash,” “my mistake” and “blunder.”

It was when he was asked if other teammates were with him in Atlanta that he stumbled. He hesitated then responded with “Ummm ... yeah Laremy was there.”

That seems like a cut-and-dried statement – clear, easy to understand. It won’t be stunning, though, if Nkemdiche walks that back either publicly or privately in the days to come.

At least one veteran of the draft

process doesn’t believe Nkemdiche’s statement endangers Tunsil’s chances of being taken No. 1 overall. After all, there was the oddity of a broken hotel room window in the news reports, but the end result was a possession of marijuana charge.

Tunsil’s sudden inclusion in the conversation does give him more questions to answer in meetings with NFL teams.

Whether he was or wasn’t there, it was a strange way to be outed and no doubt creates more questions for Nkemdiche in his meetings too.

PARRISH ALFORD (parrish.alford @journalinc.com) covers Ole Miss for the Daily Journal. He blogs daily at InsideOleMissSports.com.

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the Lady Chargers had across the board, the starting Blue Devils were very tough to deal with.

This year’s Lady Commodores had some talent, even if the talent is still coming together. Buford is the most polished basketball player. Her ability to drive to the goal, and shoot from the outside, impressed Florence coach Darrin Chancellor, who had to make some quick adjustments during the game in order to have a chance to win.

“To be honest, I knew she was good but I didn’t know she was that good,” Chancellor said. “She can shoot the 3 and she can get to the basket. When we saw she could do all of that, we tried to deny her, we ran two and three girls at her to try and get it out of her hand. She is just one of those special players.

She is going to get 25 or 30 every time.”

On the bus ride home is when Linzy said he was going to really start to think about what he could have done differently.

That’s just him. He always analyzes games, win or lose. The reality of things are the Lady Commodores overachieved. Nobody had them here at the start of the season. They got better and better as the year went on, and really made the last third of the year very enjoyable. The Lady Commodores lost to

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Lafayette's Shaniyah Buford will be back for her senior season in 2017, looking to make it back to Jackson.

Starkville and Jim Hill, two very good teams from Class 6A. They lost to Byhalia, a team that made it to Jackson for the 4A tournament. They lost by two points to Grenada at home on a last-second shot. That would be the only one that got away. Of course, the Lady Commodores did gain revenge on Grenada later in the season, so everything evened out.

The point is Lafayette had a great year and showed a lot of heart. They competed. And they made everyone who supported them proud. Or should have anyway.

“The girls gave every-

thing they had and we ultimately just came up short,” Linzy said. “I have a lot of girls coming back next year and I’m hoping that this game meant something to them and they want to come back and take that next step.

That’s going to be my challenge, in a few days, that’s going to be my challenge to them. We need to go one game further next year. That’s how you progress. We will give them some time off and they’ll get back to work and say this is what we want to do.” john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

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