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Volume 2 | Issue 97

Thursday, March 24, 2016

Inside 4 Lifestyle

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Stout’s Carpet celebrates 30 years in Oxford.

Brian McClellan, the plant manger at Caterpillar, is excited about this year's Double Decker Arts Festival.

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Caterpillar enjoys sponsoring Double Decker

BY JOHN DAVIS OXFORD CITIZEN

Community involvement is the biggest reason why Caterpillar decided to remain the main sponsor of the annual Double Decker Arts Festival

this year. Even when there was an economic downturn on the type of jobs the construction manufacturer performs, not being a big part of Double Decker wasn’t an option.

Brian McClellan is the local plant manager. He said being

the main sponsor was “a pretty natural fit” when it came time to renew.

“There are two sides of it.

The numbers side of it. We have a lot of engineers and that’s a large part of our backgrounds and you think about

the numbers of people you can reach,” McClellan said.

“You just start doing the math on how many people are going to see your name, see your logo and hopefully TURN TO GIVING, 8

Redshirt freshman Michael Fitzsimmons made a huge impact for the Ole Miss Rebels this past weekend against Tennessee at the plate.

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Education, safety go hand in hand for UPD’s Kellum

BY JOHN DAVIS OXFORD CITIZEN

Education and safety go hand in hand with Jeffrey Kellum of the University Police Department. Kellum is the Crime Prevention Coordinator for the UPD, and as he said it best, campus law enforcement has a different strategy and a different expectations in regards to how they both relate to the peaceful learning environment of the campus.

“We enforce the law a little bit different on campus.

The other expectation that is different is we have the Department of Education and the Department of Justice,” Kellum said. “The Department of Education sets all the rules and the federal laws that colleges have to go by. The Department of Justice, and specifically the bureau of justice assistance, they put down the how to’s and the why’s and they check on you through audits and federal registry.”

There are a number of programs under the federal

ON THE BEAT Jeffrey Kellum registry that universities are required to give the staff, faculty and students, Kellum said. There is no requirement that schools have to have a police department, but when there is one, some of the conversations are led by officers.

“Campus safety, personal safety, and in some cases, risk management,” Kellum said about the specific subjects he helps educate on.

“All of those federally mandated things that you have

JOHN DAVIS | OXFORD CITIZEN

Jeffrey Kellum is the Crime Prevention Coordinator for the University Police Department. to do, I would say about 80 percent of that is the role of the crime prevention coordinator. We do over 500 classes a year. Our officers are trained by certain standards.”

Campus safety officers report nightly findings to

Kellum, and he looks at them in order to correct any problems and coordinate with the proper departments on campus to get things addressed.

Kellum got his first taste of law enforcement in the 1980s when he did an in-

ternship with the sheriff’s department. He left the area to serve the country in the armed forces. He returned in 2007 and went to work with the Oxford Police Department. He joined the UPD in 2012. Kellum has a master’s degree in religious

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education and he was a student minister for 12 years. His position with the UPD allows Kellum to use both his undergraduate degree in law enforcement as well as his master’s degree.

“It turned out to be a very good role for me because I do format all the classes,” he said. “I would consider myself uniquely prepared for this role because the education that I have fit this perfectly. We were able to raise the standards and articulate in a manner that the higher education understands because it’s a different verbiage that they use.”

Getting back into law enforcement was a clear way for Kellum to serve the community he cares so much about.

“I went to talk with the sheriff first when I got back because I had known him from the 80s. He told me to go talk with Steve Bramlett over at the OPD since he was still the chief,” Kellum TURN TO KELLUM, 7

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Marsha McLarty named LMS Teacher of the Year

BY CHANING GREEN NEWS WRITER

Marsha McLarty has been named as Lafayette Middle School’s Teacher of the Year.

She grew up in Lafayette County and attended the same school she now teaches at. Her husband is a history teacher at the school and her two young sons attend Lafayette County Schools. During the school day, her entire nuclear family is on the same campus.

After graduating from the University of Mississippi’s School of Education in 2005, McLarty taught sixth grade science and social studies in at North Panola for two years before coming to the Lafayette County School District.

She ties her interest in teaching to her fifth grade reading teacher. McLarty said that throughout her school career, she had wanted to be a teacher.

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Marsha McLarty stands by the skeleton in her eighth grade science room at Lafayette Middle School. She was named the school’s Teacher of the Year.

Her fifth grade teacher was just one of the many teachers that played a huge role in McLarty’s life and influenced her to be where she is now. She said

she has had too many great teachers to count.

Throughout high school, however, McLarty performed moved away teaching. She wanted to

be on Broadway. She would sing and act and perform whenever she got the opportunity. She performed operas. Whatever she could do to act and

sing on stage, she was doing it.

“That really helped me be able to speak in front of people,” McLarty said remembering her interest in musical theater. I think that’s why I went that way, to help me get prepared for what I was really supposed to do.”

As a senior in high school, McLarty said she realized that she still belonged in a classroom, not on a stage. Upon graduating, she entered the School of Education at Ole Miss and never looked back.

“It’s hard to put my finger on why,” she said when asked about why she loves teaching. “Just getting to see students grow and knowing that I am, hopefully, making an impact on their lives. I want to show them that science isn’t about just writing everything down; it’s about doing too. I try to do a lot of that in my classroom.”

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reader. Her large classroom is decorated with images from Doctor Who and Star Wars. The ceiling of the room has dozens of quotes attached to the tiles by pushpins. Students who simply look up from their seats, gazing at the rectangular pieces of paper as if they were stars, can read the wisdom of everyone from Yoda to Albert Einstein in snippets.

She said that her loves teaching science because it gives her a chance to explore the reasons why everything works the way it does.

“I love to find about the world,” McLarty said. “It’s just neat to know how it works and why it works and why is it there. I always tell my students that we’re all scientists, even if we don’t have that title, we’re still scientists in our own way. My way is just passing along knowledge, I guess.” chaning.green@jouranlinc.com Twitter: chaningthegreen

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Gregory only wants a safe range at TGC

THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 2016

Living Music Resource produces engaging interviews with music professionals

BY CHANING GREEN OXFORD CITIZEN

BY JOHN DAVIS OXFORD CITIZEN

Safety is paramount to Josh Gregory, the owner of TGC Outdoors. Those were the first words out of his mouth at Monday’s Lafayette County Board of Supervisors meeting when talking about his shooting range.

Before Gregory made his way to the meeting to discuss a safety concern, he had already shut down the rifle lane on the range voluntarily. The closing stems from the week prior when Timmy Pruitt, a deputy with the sheriff’s department, said a live round left the range and ended up in his residence.

Gregory discussed the matter with the supervisors, and addressed questions about the range and the protocol on how members use the range. Gregory felt the best way to address any issue was to temporarily shut down the rifle lane until further improvements can be completed.

“The Range at TGC Outdoors takes safety concerns very seriously. The only complaints filed against the range up until this point have been noise related - no safety complaints have been filed against the range,” Gregory said in a statement. “However, this past Monday we received a claim that a round had left the range. The range was immediately shut down and we are currently investigating this claim. This is a serious concern and we are working on improvements that will further ensure the safety of our range. Our contractor has already been contacted and improvements for additional safety as well as the addition of two other bermed areas have been approved by the Board of Supervisors and will start in the coming weeks.”

There was no action taken by the board on the matter other than to stress to Gregory their desire for parts of the range to receive enhanced safety measures. The pistol lane at the range is still in operation, and the hours remain the same. john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

The Living Music Resource, LMR, is an entity created by Ole Miss Associate Professor Nancy María Balach through the University of Mississippi’s Music Department.

Balach founded the LMR in 2012 because of her interest in composers and the little attention they were receiving from the academic community.

“I had a real interest in living composers,” she said. “In classical music, yes, the standard repertoire is by deceased composers, but we still have living artists among us. So why are continuing to collect the information in a secondhand format? Not that I’m opposed to books, but when you’re reading something, you’re getting someone else’s take on the situation, as opposed to watching someone talk about his or her work. I’m getting insight into their personality, their demeanor.”

Balach then set out to interview living composers, record the interviews and then have them available for students as a multimedia lecture recital. As word spread of her project, she kept getting the same question: “How can I access this information?”

She applied for sabbatical for the spring semester of 2012. After explaining her vision to the department chair at the time Charlie Gates, he was completely on board. Balach was able to use that semester to lay the groundwork for this project. The website for the Living Music Resource went online in September of 2013.

The LMR has a live stream interview series called “Beat” conducted in partnership with the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council.

The interviews are filmed in front of a live audience on the Powerhouse stage and broadcasted through YouTube. Top music professionals are brought in from around the country to Oxford. Balach hosts the segment and interviews the guests about their work.

PHOTO BY ROBERT JORDAN, COURTESY OF OLE MISS COMMUNICATIONS

Nancy María Balach with author Matthew Hoch playing "Tri-Quest" (a musical version of Jeopardy) with UM student Claudia Saucedo and UM alumnus Thomas Ardrey as a part of the Living Music Resource show "Beat."

The shows are studentproduced, which was not originally part of Balach’s plan. As students learned about what she was working, they asked Balach if there was anyway they could be involved and she eventually found places for them. Live streaming the interviews allows anyone watching to Tweet or email the show and interact with the Balach and the person being interviewed in real time. Viewers have the opportunity to ask questions and have them immediately answered by experts in their field.

Balach also plays a different game with each guest she interviews. Each game they play is created or shaped specifically for the guest that plays it. They have played and adapted versions of Jeopardy and that game where one person holds up a card and tries to guess what’s on it without looking at it.

“It’s like ‘Inside the Actor’s Studio’ meets latenight television, meets music,” she said. “That’s the best way to put it.”

The funding for the project comes primarily from private donors, but is also sponsored by the university foundation and business sponsors like ACE

"LMR Dream Team" of Students with Balach (red hair, black top) after recoding an episode of "Beat."

Hardware. So far the live streams have had viewers from all 50 states and over 70 countries. The shows average about 100-150 live-

For details, contact Nancy audience members.

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Orgone plans to bring California soul to Double Decker

BY CHANING GREEN NEWS WRITER

California soul collective Orgone will be performing at the Double Decker Arts Festival on Saturday, April 23 at 5:30 p.m.

Based out of Los Angeles, the band has been together for 10 years now. Guitarist Sergio Rios and keyboard player Dan Hastie founded the group. The pair grew up together in the San Fernando Valley. Rios said that there was never really an “aha moment,” so to speak, in founding the band. After making music together their whole lives, creating Orgone was just a natural progression of their musical collaboration.

Orgone has several members.

Over the years, those members have changed out a few times.

Four members of the band have been together since the founding the founding, building and alternating instrumentalists around that core, as Rios describes it.

The current ensemble has been performing together for 2 and a half years.

One of those newer members is lead vocalist Adryon de León.

She has been with the band since

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From left, Dale Jennings, bass, Sam Halterman, drums, Dan Hastie, keys, Adryon de León, lead vocals, Will Phillips, percussion, Sergio Rios, guitar.

September of 2013. At the time, Orgone was in need of a lead singer. Hastie found a video of de León singing on YouTube, got her name and reached out to her.

She checked out the band and their sound and decided it was something she could really get

behind. She said that more than anything, the music the band puts out resonates with her and how she likes to perform. Joining Orgone seemed like the natural thing to do.

After their stop in Oxford, the band is heading even further

south to perform at this year’s Jazz Fest.

Orgone has been touring nationally for about five years now and has passed through Oxford once or twice when they performed at Proud Larry’s. The band only came through and stayed for a night but Rios does remember being impressed with the downtown area.

So far the group has put out seven albums to date. Their most recent record is titled “Beyond the Sun.” It was released digitally last year, but was put on vinyl and officially released last month. Rios said this album is their best work to date.

In a time when digital music dominates the industry, Orgone keeps going back to vinyl. Most of the records they have put out over the years are available on vinyl. Rios credits this to the style of the band and past era their music calls to.

“So much of the music we do, the aesthetic, the vibe, what we represent and what we love, is music that we originally discovered on vinyl records,” he said.

“It’s definitely a part of our identity, in terms of the fact that we love records. We want to make

big, beautiful, physical records. A lot of our fans are record collectors and DJs and crate diggers.

It’s definitely part of our culture.”

The tack “People Beyond the Sun” on their latest album really captures the sound the band strives for. Adryon de León’s voice carries the song in a classic way that hasn’t been seen in the mainstream for decades. This is undeniably feel-good music. It’s impossible not to, at the very least, tap your feet and groove your shoulders to the music.

Whether sitting in a crowded coffee shop or standing at an outdoor venue with hundreds of people, listening to this track without dancing is not an option.

Everything about this song, even the gradual fade out of the music at the end of the track, screams ’60s and ’70s soul. This band is exactly as advertised: soul music with a California twist that evokes images of sunshine, palm tress and rollerblading in bell-bottoms. Orgone’s music belongs on vinyl like a tree belongs in a forest; it is the most natural place it could possibly be. chaning.green@journalinc.com Twitter: chaningthegreen

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Stout’s Carpet celebrates 30 years in Oxford

BY JOHN DAVIS OXFORD CITIZEN

Lisa Stout remembers driving around different towns in the winter of 1986, looking for a new place to call home, both from a personal and business standpoint. The Union County native, and her husband, Mitchell, were at a figurative crossroads in their lives.

Mitchell’s family owned a flooring store in New Albany. It opened when he was 10-years old, and it had been a success for his parents. The two knew each other from high school and they were set to get married. Mitchell was at Ole Miss, and on the verge of securing his degree in engineering. That’s when things really started to take a different turn.

“He just came home one day and he was like ‘If I’m going to finish engineering, we’re going to have to move, that he was going to have to go somewhere to really make it in the profession.’ Then he asked me what I thought about opening a carpet store?’”

Stout said. “I hadn’t really thought about it because I didn’t think that’s really what I wanted to do. I saw what his parents had to do and how they worked a lot of hours. Their business was right next door to their house and it could be 7 o’clock at night and we could be eating dinner and somebody wanted to look at flooring. And they would go out there because the customer is always right.”

A carpet/floor store is what the couple ended up establishing, and it’s been 30 years, this month, since the shingle was placed out front of the store located on Highway 30.

“We went to other towns and Oxford was probably the second or third town we went to. We liked Oxford. He went to school here and we would go out to eat here,” Lisa recalled. “We were coming up in town on Highway 30 and this big sign comes up ‘For Sale, this lot.’ There wasn’t nothing out here but Northeast Power and Eddie Bonds, and he was the first person we met with him being

Stout, but she and Mitchell were the only workers. Mitchell installed flooring for customers, while Lisa took care of the store.

Ever since the beginning, taking care of the customer is something Stout’s has stressed, and done well with. Oxford was a tough town to get established, Lisa said, and mainly because the couple was younger.

“We set our minds that this is what we wanted to do and at that point, really, this is all we knew how to do,” she said. “I worked for another company doing accounting and I knew how to do all that stuff, but I didn’t know some other stuff. I learned a lot of different things.”

Being a people person also helped Lisa Stout and the company as area started to grow.

JOHN DAVIS Slowly, the couple added people Lisa Stout of Stout's Carpet and Flooring went into business with her hus- to the staff like Bobby Messer as an installer. band 30 years ago this month.

“Now we add people as we can next door. He was in the metal building and we were open for and we don’t have a big turnover,” Lisa said. building business at that time, business that March.”

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Kellum FROM PAGE 2

said. “Mike Martin was getting ready to take over and he said that he would love to have me. Vested interest in the community was the key term that Mike saw.”

As a patrol officer with the OPD, Kellum engaged in a lot of community oriented policing. Kellum said he came into the force at just the right time.

“The expectations were changing community police wise in the city. A few years later, they had new leadership at the city and that really strengthened the community policing program,” Kellum said. “That gave me an opportunity to really work with the community and I transferred that over here.

There are different expectations for the officers of the UPD. Kellum said members of the UPD have a strong foundation of what the basic skills are, and then to see where improvement can be made.

“In a world where there is constant criticism, and there needs to be, at looking

what law enforcement does, you need to reflect your community and you need to be able to do those skills and see what you need to work on,” Kellum said.

“What do we do well, what do not do well and what do we need to do better. That professional growth, when you have a performance based system, is a huge thing here. It’s important to us. If there was one thing I could invest more time in it would be the personal development of our instructors.”

Most of the classes that Kellum teaches take place across from the UPD in Kinard Hall. Most of the classes are geared towards freshmen and completed in the fall, and the summer when students first arrive in town. Kellum said it was mandatory that students take part in the active shooter response class.

“There are also a number of decision making classes they take from us. Alcohol and drug education is a big one in the fall,” Kellum said.

“The dean of students’ office that runs all the orientations is where all that starts.

The first time that they see

us and the OPD is during their orientation. When they get done telling them how it really is at Ole Miss, we come in and talk about community expectations.

We also talk to the parents.

We do two sessions. We talk to them about our expectations and how we address those things. It’s important because a good many of them listen. If you tell them what the expectations are, a good many of them get on board.”

Kellum also helps coach students on risk management issues. For example, a group that has a house party has a completely different risk than an organization that contracts a venue.

“We lead them through the process of effective planning and making sure you have security like you need to,” Kellum said. “Any time they are inviting people to a venue and they some liability, that’s risk management. That’s a big deal. Alcohol, drugs, sexual misconduct are all seriously addressed at Ole Miss from the leadership on down.” john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

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Stout’s FROM PAGE 6

The showroom at Stout’s is approximately 4,500 square feet. The warehouse is another 8,000 which brings it up to around 13,000 square feet. The company offers a large selection of flooring, including tile for bathrooms and other parts of the house.

“We do some commercial work. We just finished the children’s clinic and the women’s clinic. We did Coulter Hall and the elevators at the new parking garage at Ole Miss,” Lisa said. “We are capable of doing anything. What we have to be careful of is the size of the job.”

Floors can be purchased from Stout’s and people can install it themselves. Or a contractor can purchase the floors and install during the building process.

The inventory is extensive and if there is something that a customer needs or wants, it can be ordered.

“We have all the setting materials, pretty much everything a do-it-yourself person would need,” she said. “A lot of people think that the big box stores are less expensive but that’s not always the case. It’s like I told somebody the other day, if you tell me where I need to be, if I can do it, I’ll do it. If I can’t do it, I’ll tell you that I just can’t. We will work with anybody. We tell people that they don’t have to go to Memphis to look. We don’t want to give Tennessee any more money than we have to. We want to try

to keep it all local as much as we can. If you have a problem, I’m going to be here. If I see you in the grocery store, I’m going to hold my head up high and speak to you. I’ve raised two kids here and I live right down the road.”

All the current trends is something that Stout’s keeps up with. If an installer needs to learn something, Stout’s makes sure they are on top of it.

“We work with the National Wood Association. As far as the instillation parts, we stay on top of that with all of our guys. They know what to use, the right kind of glue to use,” Lisa said.

“There is a lot of product knowledge you have to know in this business because there are so many different products.”

Looking back, Lisa Stout said opening the business 30 years ago was the perfect time, and that the entire time has been great.

“Oxford has been good to us. We love Oxford. We wouldn’t want to go anywhere else even if I had a chance to go somewhere else tomorrow,” Lisa said.

“You feel like you’re a part of the community when you can work with the people and do things with them. When you’re in their house, it feels like you know them more personally. It’s been a good 30 years. It was hard at first, but we just fought tooth and nail. We held our own and we just have to continue to take care of our own.” john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

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they inquire more. In general, we want to fund a family type of event like that.

People see our name and remember that so it’s a good connotation for the company. As for the actual fit, we have five values in action: integrity, commitment, excellence, team work and the fifth one is sustainability. I think sustainability is where this fits in for Caterpillar.”

Being able to contribute to the community from an economic benefit to Oxford is stressed. Caterpillar sees this event as an obligation to the places where employees work and do business to help the local economy.

“We want a strong local economy because this is where we’re going to draw our resources from in terms of people,” McClellan said.

Caterpillar’s plant has been located in the Max D. Hipp Industrial Park since March, 1998. Hydraulic couplings is what the plant manufacturers for the company. From here, they are sold and distributed across the world. Construction,

hauling and mining equipment are the new homes for the couplings. McClellan said that Oxford is the only extrusion facility located within the company. There are five different presses that form steel into the couplings.

“It’s a complicated process but it gives us an advantage over some other methods of forming that product,” he added. “We’re approaching 20 years here and if you go up on Highway 7, the bridge they worked on, they had a good bit of Cat equipment up there. Some of that product is on there and we do a lot of service parts business as well. It is a product that wears out over time. About 40 percent of our business is service parts out of here.

Any equipment in the area would get service out here.”

Besides being a title sponsor for Double Decker, McClellan said Caterpillar hosts tours for students who are in the vocational arts. There are two different production shifts, Monday through Thursday. Production shifts are 10 hours long, starting at 6:30 in the morning. For 20 hours out of 24 on those

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My big thing is that it is a family-type event. You feel safe there. It’s not over crowded even though there are a lot of people.

You can just see how big of an impact it is for the vendors.

Brian McClellan, Caterpillar Plant Manager on why he likes Double

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days, the plant is busy. In a typical week, 75,000 couplings are produced.

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Clellan said. “One of the big complements that I get is how clean they say it is.

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“The second thing I hear from people, the thing that I’m personally proud of, is we have a very engaged work force. We spend a lot of time developing our people,” he continued. “We have re-trained our facility the last four years. We give our people an opportunity to train in different areas of the shop to where they can move up and make more money eventually. I take a lot of pride in the fact that we have built a very positive and very engaged and safe work force here.”

For McClellan, who is married to Rachael and has a daughter, Ella, Double Decker means a lot of fun, and good memories.

“The first time I went I was shocked as to how many people were in a small town like Oxford.

You’re not expecting that,” he said. “I think Ross (Bjork) made a comment that Oxford has a different feel to it when it’s hosting an event.

It’s a really fun, positive vibe.

I think that’s another easy reason for us to get involved and to stay involved. We want people to see our

name at a good, positive event like that.”

A lot of the Caterpillar’s 220 employees take part in the festival. McClellan said that the banners hung around the Square are always in high demand with them.

“My big thing is that it is a family-type event. You feel safe there. It’s not over crowded even though there are a lot of people. You can just see how big of an impact it is for the vendors,” McClellan said. “It makes you feel good to be a part of something that is so good for so many people. I think the other thing that makes it unique is that it’s in the spring and you usually have great weather. A lot of other communities do something that focuses on the fall.

Double Decker is unique and it’s right in the heart of baseball season and I love to go to Swayze and it always seems like you can get crawfish or the tail end of it. You get great music and great food and it’s just a great time to be outside. It makes for a great time.” john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

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2092 Old Taylor Rd., Oxford, 662.234.5344 210 East Main St., Tupelo, 662.842.3844

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$110,000

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2092 Old Taylor Rd., Oxford, 662.234.5344 210 East Main St., Tupelo, 662.842.3844

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245 CR 164

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Oxford - Wooded rolling hills with 10 year to mature timber. Road frontage on two sides, former home site, with some county utilities present. Possible development or single family home site. Your own piece of country living just 15 minutes from Oxford.

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Joy in Mudville

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pring roared in like the proverbial lion this week, complete with a raging north wind, below-freezing temps, frost warnings and even brief snow showers on the infernal equinox. We survived the gray, rainy slog of February and early March only to be cruelly teased

by Moms Nature with a flashback to winter. The equinox weekend was so cold and blowy, I sought the indoor shelter of the remote control. As I scrolled through the trash heap of dreck, channel after channel of faux celebs, cooking contests, cops, cranky commentators, and commercials, commercials, commercials, the screen suddenly filled with blue skies and green grass and I stopped to take it in. It turned out to be a spring training baseball game from Florida between the Yankees and the Twins.

Thanks to high-definition, the crowd can be studied in detail and this group appeared to be mostly retirees with the time and income to laze away a fine Florida afternoon watching baseball. In my book, there’s no surer sign of success in life than wearing shorts during business hours.

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coaches such as Tom Swayze, Jake Gibbs, Don Kessinger, Mike Bianco and the home stadium, Jim Dees old Swayze Field. I recall how it was a short trek from almost anyTales of the Town where in town to the funky old stands. From my roommate-filled house on College Hill Road, you could hear the Swayze crowd roar. Flipping on the radio, if the have to admit as sleet showers score was close, you had time to blew across my front yard and the walk over and see the end of the rushing north wind rattled the game. I remember heading over trees, I felt a twinge of envy for these snowbirds sitting in the COURTESY on a raw, blustery day in February stands. They were watching the "It was a short trek from almost anywhere in town to the funky old wearing such a large overcoat that campus security frisked me. I storied New York Yankees on the stands." remember seeing Bo Jackson first day of spring enjoying an fled titters, like the Elephant Man. steal third and the sight of his baseball are mostly of terror (undoubtedly, over-priced) cold That memory is somewhat re- thunderous thighs heading beer letting the hours roll by, time mixed with the odd moment of deemed by recalling the panicked straight toward us was almost triumph. I remember being measured by innings, all the frightening. I also recall listening while wearing loud shirts, shorts, forced to go to Sunday School – in day I simply stuck the bat out against Jack Turcotte, a hardto the Rebel broadcast in 1987 a strange town no less – as an 8tube socks and loafers. This is throwing bully in Greenville Little when David Kellum announced year-old after suffering a black how spring should be. there had been an accident on As I watched, in just a matter of eye due to a muffed grounder in a League. The brute force of his pitch hitting wood sent the ball Highway 7 involving Chi Omegas sandlot game. Took a bad hop to minutes, my stress level receded, participating in a charity walk. the face on Saturday, drove down over the fence for not only a and soon I was lulled into the Baseball is welcomed back. The home run, but a grand slam. (In slow, thoughtful pace of baseball. to Jackson to visit my aunt and game is a part of our lives, a flesh the interest of modesty, let the woke up Sunday morning with a After days of hectic hoops with and blood loved one. As the days March Madness, baseball felt like deep shiner of purple and orange. record also show, I came to bat warm, we’ll be happily reminded later in the game against Jack, I begged my parents to let me sit a vacation. Sunny, slow, even reof the object of this simple child’s AGAIN with the bases loaded, flective. There is so much time be- out as all the cousins raced game: to get home. and struck out.) tween pitches that baseball seems around tying bowties, but they Here in Oxford, baseball memforced me to go. I was introduced to spring from another time and to the class and sat there seething ories center around the Rebels place. Childhood perhaps.

Jim Dees has lived in Oxford for over 30 with humiliation, amid the mufand their great teams and My childhood memories of years and lived to tell the tale.

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Game changer

John Davis Sports Editor

Pole vault champion Kendricks still connected to his roots

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ess than a week after winning the silver medal in the 2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Portland, Oregon, Sam Kendricks was back on the track where he got his standout pole vault career going. Oxford’s Bobby Holcomb Field was filled with young high school athletes Tuesday afternoon, but Kendricks was there, ready to train like he hadn’t made a name for himself yet, and definitely not like an athlete who just won the USA Championships two weeks prior.

For the past year and a half, Kendricks and his father, Scott, have been traveling all over the world competing in meets. The goal is to make it to the 2016 Olympics in Brazil, and so far, all the hard work, and leaving Ole Miss early, has paid off.

“I get asked the question a lot: ‘What’s your job?’ I’m an athlete but what is the criteria for which I say I’m successful?”

Kendricks said. “Is it that I’ve made money, that I’ve won championships. I always thought you represent well for what people expect of you. As a USA athlete, my showing is always at the USA Championships.

So this was my fifth championship to compete in, and my fourth one to win. My goal is to always be in the medal range for that championship. It was lucky that this time around, the world championships was at the same venue the very next week.”

Kendricks and the rest of his U.S. teammates garnered a bit of a home advantage by staying over to train. At the USA Championships, Kendricks jumped a personal record of 19 feet, 4.5 inches. At the World meet, he jumped 5.8 meters or 19.02 on his first attempt. It was the first time that he competed in the World Indoor Championships, and he felt good about his place.

In order to make it to the Olympics, Kendricks still has to qualify at the Olympic trials July 2-4. He is the reigning American champion in the same competition for the past four years.

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Fitzsimmons thriving for OM Rebels

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

This time last season, Michael Fitzsimmons was sitting in the Ole Miss dugout, watching other Rebels make plays. Less than a third of the way through the 2016 campaign, the redshirt freshman from Eads, Tennessee has become a solid contributor for coach Mike Bianco, and his teammates.

The 6-foot-1, 222-pound first baseman is one of two designated hitters in the lineup for the No. 8 Rebels, and the top pinch hitter when a left-handed pitcher is on the mound. Heading into the week’s games, which included Tuesday’s matchup with Tennessee-Martin, Fitzsimmons was hitting .435 with two home runs, six RBIs and four doubles. Not bad for someone who is still getting used to pitching at the SEC level.

In the Rebels’ win over Tennessee on Saturday, Fitzsimmons hit a two-run home run, an at bat after striking out. It was a very important moment not only for Fitzsimmons, but for the Rebels, who had lost the opener to the Volunteers the night before.

“My first ab, (Tennessee’s Andy Cox) threw me a lot of sliders in the dirt and Coach (Carl) Lafferty just told me to shorten my swing so I was able to lay off the slider,” Fitzsimmons said. “That second at bat, he hung a slider and I did what I was supposed to do with it. I knew it was gone right off the bat.

Just the flight of the ball, it looked pretty far.”

As for it being the biggest hit of the year for the Rebels, Fitzsimmons only said that the team had to respond on Saturday.

“That’s a swing day, whether you win on Friday or lose Friday, it’s all about the momentum on Saturdays and we had to respond,” he said. “Going into the game, you always have to have that mindset that you

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paying attention to every pitch, have mental at bats, all that kind of stuff.”

Fitzsimmons ultimately went 2-for-3 at the plate last Saturday, with the other hit being a double.

“You have to learn the good from the bad and you have to flush it right away, and that’s what I tried to do,” he said about getting over the strikeout to start his day at the plate. “It was huge for us to get the series. Ten-

nessee has a great team, some great pitchers, great hitters. I think it’s huge for our confidence. I think this is the closest team I’ve been on where everyone just loves each other. Good or bad.

Even though we should have won the Friday night game, no one was pointing fingers.

We knew that we would come out and give them a run for their money on TURN TO FITZSIMMONS, 20

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Roth keys Chargers in 2-5A win over New Hope

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

It was another typical night at the office for Oxford’s Houston Roth even if he didn’t command the fastball like he normal does. A less than perfect start for the Ole Miss signee is still better than almost every start from any other pitcher in the state. Fifteen strikeouts against four hits and two runs allowed in seven innings. Against the Chargers’ biggest rival in New Hope. It was plenty good for Oxford in an 8-2 win over the Trojans.

“When most people don’t pitch good, you walk nine guys and give up nine runs,” Oxford second baseman Drew Bianco said with a laugh. “When you’re that good and you don’t have all your stuff and you still find a way to win, that’s what he does.

He only has two losses in his whole career. He just puts us in a good spot.”

Roth did have his velocity and he did have the off speed pitches even if the command with his fastball wasn’t like it has been in other starts. For Oxford coach Chris Baughman, Roth was more than good enough.

“I think having the extra week off may have hurt him a little bit even though he was sore,” Baughman said. “I think it may have played into that because he hasn’t thrown a pen or thrown to the plate since the Thursday in Atlanta.

He was still sore last week so we sat him out of his start. We like our guys to go on five to seven days of rest, but I thought he was great tonight. He was great at times, he would struggle at times and then he would find it again and get back in it.”

Baughman added that when Roth isn’t as good as he can be, he is savvy enough to battle through an inning, and get the Chargers back into the dugout.

“When he’s not 100 percent or not all the way locked in and feel like he’s locked in, he knows how to pitch and he’s learned that over the last four years,” Baughman said. “He does

JOHN DAVIS

Oxford's Houston Roth delivers a pitch during Tuesday night's win over New Hope. Roth finished with 15 strikeouts in the 8-2 win. a great job with that and he did that (Tuesday) night.”

Earning a win was all that really mattered to Roth once everything was said and done.

“I could say I didn’t have my best performance but I was good enough to win and that’s all the matters, to get this team going off on the right foot in district play,” Roth said. “Like the coaches say, everyone is 00 in district play. Everything restarts. It doesn’t matter if you were 0-10 or 10-0 before. To come out and start 1-0 is a big deal.”

Roth gave up a solo home run to New Hope in the top of the first inning, but the Chargers (11-4) rallied with four runs in the bottom of the frame.

Bianco had a solo home run to spark the rally.

“I thought it was deja’ vu of our game with them from last year, game three, and I thought that put that thought in their head,” Baughman said. “The

Drew Bianco points to the Oxford dugout as he rounds third base after hitting his solo home run in the first inning. same kid was on the mound that started that game three and he didn’t make it out of the first in-

ning last year. Then all of a sudden when we answered their one run with four, I really felt like they

tightened up and we were able to put some pressure on them. I think it put that seed of doubt in their head, that deja’ vu in their head.”

“We’re getting the key hits that we’ve been missing earlier in the year,” said Roth, who collected a double. “They say hitting is contagious and it really is.

Once one person starts hitting, than everyone starts hitting. It’s great that our offense is starting roll.

Drew Bianco, I don’t know where all this came from, but he is knocking the heck out of the ball right now. That’s awesome to have.”

Playing the first Division 2-5A contest at home really helped the Chargers against their biggest rival, Baughman said.

“We’re going to have to go and play really well (today). I thought we played real well,” Baughman said. “I want us to find some sustainability in

that we were locked in and playing with some enthusiasm and great focus and great passion in the first three innings. And then we get a little lax, a little less focused. Not to the extent that we’ve been doing it, but I still think we lost some of that enthusiasm and some of that energy. At some point, we’re going to have to figure a way to keep it at a certain level.

I’m not sure what its going to take. I was proud of all of our kids tonight. I was proud of our JV kids and the way they played and battled back. We were down 3-0 and they put a seven spot on the board. It was a real good night for us.”

Thomas Dillard led Oxford with three hits, including a solo home run, in the victory. Jason Barber also finished with two hits and two RBIs. john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

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Confidence has been key for senior pitcher

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

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Ever since he has played baseball, Reed Robinson has been a pitcher. As a senior member of the Lafayette Commodores, Robinson has emerged as a reliable starter. He is the ultimate competitor when he hits the mound. A bulldog is how coach Greg Lewis describes Robinson, who added that he knew someone had to step up to help Mack Bishop on the bump.

“Our arms, starting off the season, we kind of dropped off some, so we had to have someone step up,” he said. “I got it into my mind that I was going to be No. 1. When coach told me that I had moved up to No. 1, I was happy with that. My mindset, that first game pitching, was to just dominate.”

Robinson’s first game on the mound was against Lewisburg in the opener in relief of Bishop. Lewis orig-

Reed Robinson inally thought Robinson would be the pitcher to close out contests. After he had success in closing out that win, Robinson knew he was going to be set from a confidence standpoint.

“My fastball is moving well. Sometimes my change is alright and my curveball, I’m happy with that,” Robinson said adding he agreed with Lewis that he was a bulldog. “I go out there and compete. I want to win, bad. I just go out there and give my best and give us a chance to win. Once I start feeling good and doing good, I just get ready to go.”

There are number of

current Commodores that Robinson played with growing up. Baseball has always been his sport, his favorite sport to be even more exact. What Robinson wants to do the rest of the season is to give the Commodores a chance to win, regardless of who they may be squaring off against.

“I like getting the ball. I liked the way I pitched against Oxford. After that first inning, I felt like I did pretty well from then on out,” Robinson said about starting against the Chargers last week at Edwin Moak Field.

The game that Robinson has pitched the best in all

season was against Saltillo in Pontotoc.

“My changeup was working well then. We had three or four runs the first inning. I gave up two runs in five or six innings,” Robinson said. “I felt pretty good about it.”

When it comes to offense, Robinson said he is ready to contribute there if needed.

“If coach wants me to go up there and bat, I’ll go up there and do my best and do what I can,” he said before talking about the team again. “We’ve had our ups and downs. If we just play solid defense, I think we’ll be fine. If we play good defense, we’re going to win some games.”

Lewis noticed early in the season that Robinson really believes in his skills.

“He is a guy that thinks he’s going to throw 88. He has that kind of mentality, so we liked him in that save role,” Lewis said.

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Junior DeDe Mathis is doing a great job in center field and at the plate for the Oxford Lady Chargers.

Leading by example Mathis has been steady for Oxford

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

A grand slam is just one of the highlights turned in so far this season for Oxford’s DeDe Mathis.

The junior, who has been a member of the varsity softball team since seventh grade, is enjoying the season so far. She’s delivered at the plate — in Tuesday night’s 3-2 loss to Cleveland she had two hits and an RBI — and improved greatly in the outfield for coach Steve Blackmon.

She’s also taken on a bigger leadership role even if she still isn’t the most vocal player on the team. Mathis felt the second game of the season, against Olive Branch, was her best of the season. The early success stems from a lot of work put in during the summer, she said.

“I worked more over the sum-

mer with fielding and batting, more than I have worked in the years before,” said Mathis, who has a goal of playing softball in college. “I knew I had to keep my position and to stay strong. I really didn’t know I would have success this early. It feels good.”

With an improved Mathis, the Lady Chargers have been able to make more strides as a program.

She’s not the only one. Amber Pettis is doing her part at the plate, and in the pitching circle.

Madison Crosby also had two hits and drove in a run in the most recent action.

“We’re a lot different. It’s like we have more people that is into the game and not just out there to have fun. It’s more competitive than last year,” Mathis said adding her leadership comes by the way she hits. “I’m not that vocal. I don’t speak a lot. I don’t

really yell or scream. Since I play outfield, I talk to the other outfield players. I miss the infield sometimes.”

Blackmon said he would love to have even more players like Mathis, who always willing to help lead in a positive manner.

“She works on and tries to do what we ask her to do,” Blackmon said. “She is one that we don’t have to ask to do it. You will find her helping do something after practice like picking up a bag of equipment, doing the simple things around the play of the game. That’s leading by example, the kind of kid you like to have around.”

First base was the position that Mathis played prior to this season. Blackmon originally had her slated to play in left field, but she was shuffled around after Kaytlon Pegues suffered a shoulder

injury.

“It’s a lot different because you have to run for more balls and you have to make sure you back up everything,” she said about the differences in positions. “It’s a lot of running. My arm is better than last year, but it’s starting to hurt because I’m not used to throwing from the outfield. I have to get it stretched every now and then.”

Offense has always been a strong point for Mathis, who was 5 when she first started to play the game. After the 2017 season, she wants to still be playing for a team. Coahoma Community College has started to scout her, while another college from Kentucky has shown interest. Mathis said she had to finish her college profile to really get more attention from recruiters to look at her.

College can wait for the mo-

ment. Mathis’ goal is to make the playoffs after missing last season.

“That gives us more motivation to win more games and to get to the playoffs,” Mathis said. “It really was painful, it was heartbreaking, not to be in the playoffs.”

OHS-CLEVELAND The Lady Chargers collected nine hits compared to three for Cleveland, but they left five runners in scoring position. The tying run was thrown out at the plate in the fifth inning, while runners were stranded on second and third in the sixth inning. Pettis went the distance in the circle.

She finished with six strikeouts.

Oxford is back in action at West Point tonight. john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

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Lafayette earns two division tennis wins

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

Lafayette returned from spring break with two important wins on the tennis courts to start the week.

The Commodores defeated Ripley 7-0 Monday, and then defeated Senatobia on Tuesday. The two wins not only gave them confidence heading into a critical match with New Albany, but garnered a spot in next month’s MHSAA Class 4A playoffs.

In the 6-1 win over Senatobia, Noah Addy defeated Jack Merceir 6-3, 6-0 in singles. The No. 1 and No. 2 boys doubles teams both won. Dawson Welch and Barrett Childress won 6-0, 6-0 over Eli Inman and Ethan Baker. Foster Roush and Will Carter also won 60, 6-0 over Levi Perkins and Trey Vanvelsor. Both girls doubles won their matches. Halle Moore and Emma Wilson teamed up

to win 6-1, 6-0 over Madison Shaw and Caroline Coleman. Abby Arrington and Rachel Reed dispatched Olivia Jones and Riley Robison 6-0, 6-2. In mixed doubles, Lee McLarty and Sadie Wilson won 7-6, 6-3 over Camille Rowan and Dylan Hope.

Senatobia’s lone win came in girls singles as Melody Pei defeated Alley Bowen 6-1, 6-1.

LHS-RIPLEY Bowen won her match 60, 6-0 over Giovanni Rangel, while Addy won his match, 6-3, 6-2 over Francisco Romero 6-3, 6-2. Childress and Welch won 6-0, 6-0, while Carter and Roush won 6-0, 6-2.

Wilson and Moore won their match 6-1, 6-0. Arrington and Reed won 6-0, 6-0. Wilson and McLarty took their match 6-1, 6-1.

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Lafayette's Barrett Childress returns a shot during his doubles match with partner Dawson Welch Tuesday. The Commodores defeated Senatobia 6-1 to earn a spot in the upcoming MHSAA Class 4A playoffs.

OHS Chargers roll over Saltillo

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

Oxford remained undefeated in tennis action Tuesday with a 7-0 win over Saltillo at the FNC Tennis Complex. The victory improved the Chargers to 4-0 in dual matches, and 10-4 in all formats. Bo Nash won his singles match 6-1, 6-0 over Ben Dyer. Grace Anne Jones defeated Anne Claire Priest 6-0, 6-0 in girls singles.

Sarah Nash and McClellan Davis won at No. 1 doubles, 6-0, 6-0, over Savannah Alley and Andi Herring. At No. 2 girls doubles, Amanda Lowery and Olivia Williams won 6-0, 6-1 over Alex Herring and Katie Flowers.

At No. 1 boys doubles, Will Swindoll and Max Mauney beat Andrew Walker and Chase Reeves 6-0, 6-0. Ryan Mounce and Gordon Whitwell defeated Stone Martin and Zach Turba 6-0, 6-0. In mixed doubles, Abbie Vaughn and Gus Morgan topped Alan Rivera and Beth Brinkley 6-0, 6-0.

In extra junior varsity matches, Claire Stevens and Anne Hardy won 6-0, 6-0.

Hailey Lowery and Savannah Nagle won their doubles match. Chris Le and Eli Abel won 6-0, 6-0, while Josh Morgan and Jimmy Green won a fourth doubles contest.

Oxford will return to action Friday against Lafayette at 1 p.m.

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Oxford's Bo Nash returns a shot during Tuesday's match with Saltillo at FNC Tennis Center.

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been going and who we’ve jumping against. In every meet now, he’s going up FROM PAGE 15 against guys that can jump higher than 19 feet “I’m in the best standing and that forces him to acto make the team, but I cept the fact that he has still have to go and comto compete at a higher pete. I still have to get over level,” Scott Kendricks the bar, and get first, secsaid. “He has a huge adond or third,” he added. vantage here in the “In order to get there, I United States because he’s can’t get hurt and continue jumped 19 feet at least 12 to do what I have been times in the last year. doing. That’s not the goal Mentally, and actually in when everyone else will be performance, he’s got a at their most competitive tremendous advantage. level come the Olympic We can see all that prepagames. The goal is to conration is really showing up tinue to build through the the way we thought it championships and on to would. He can jump 19 August for the Olympic feet a lot now. It’s easier championships. You want because of the training to be peaking, at your best he’s done and half of this at a certain time. You can’t sport is mental. If you feel live on the mountain top. like you can do it, then There’s not enough oxygen up there. You have to come COURTESY OF SAM KENDRICKS the chances are you’re down to train and then Former Oxford High standout Sam Kendricks won the USA Championships in pole vault two going to do it.”

Still, with all the travelclimb back up when it’s weeks ago and the silver medal last week in the World Indoor Championships. ing, Sam likes getting back time to compete. That’s the home, in the town where thing every jumper in the and Antarctica. (There struggle of a USA athlete.” their age group and then NCAAs gets. They don’t get people know who he is. aren’t a lot of track meets Training, and competgo one step higher of the “Oxford is a lot more to compete against the held on ice.) His best trip ing, on the international competitiveness of the charming. When we drive so far? Last summer when Greek champion or the and professional circuit world,” Kendricks said. down from the airport on German champion, the has proven to be very ben- “It’s great for USA athletes he and his coach, and faHighway 7 headed south ther, went to Europe for 18 guys that have competed eficial to Kendricks. He because they have a lot of and there are no lights on for medals in the past. I days. knows what it like to be a backing for that.”

“That was our first foray have that experience now.” the side of the road at 1 traveling vaulter as well as In order to get to the a.m., it’s kind of nice,” he Scott Kendricks said into traveling, and comOlympics, Kendricks has what it’s like to be a highwhen Sam came out of Ole said. “Rather than the big envisioned himself in Rio. peting, at the same time,” level, competitive vaulter. lights and the people and Miss early, the mission He has all the skills neces- Kendricks said. “We call it “I had the good fortune the big sights and the big was to get into the toughsary to vault there, and the the Diamond League in of jumping in the NCAAs, ideas, you come back to track & field, like the World est competitions, the biggest thing is to not which I called the CruOxford and you say this is Grand Prix. We got to learn fastest. cible. That’s where athletes doubt himself. After his our little slice of paradise “The NCAAs is tough what we could do against departure from Ole Miss, either make it or break right here. It’s a place but it’s not nearly as the best jumpers in the Kendricks has traveled to and the can compete where you can wake up in tough as where we’ve every continent but Africa world. That’s not someagainst all their peers in

Fitzsimmons FROM PAGE 15

Saturday and Sunday.”

Sitting in the dugout, rather than getting a few swings here and there, ultimately helped Fitzsimmons when he arrived in Oxford.

“I really needed to grow physically and mentally. I had to grow stronger, I had to get better defensively. It just helped a lot,” he said. “I had to learn to hit the ball the other way and stay in to at bats.”

Fitzsimmons saw improvement this past fall at the plate even if didn’t know if that would lead to more playing time or not.

“I really just stepped in there and did what I could with my chances and here I am today,” he said adding that baseball has been a part of his life since age 4. “It was football and baseball for me and I almost played football in Division II in col-

lege. But my parents met here, my dad played football here so this has always been a dream school of mine. It’s been an unreal experience.

I love Oxford and Ole Miss baseball.”

Mike Clement instructs the hitters on the staff, and he couldn’t say enough good things about the way Fitzsimmons has played this year.

“His home run was huge for us and big for him, especially after his first at bat when he was in a similar situation,” Clement said. “He made the adjustment within the game and he didn’t let the situation overwhelm him. He doesn’t have a ton of bats and he’s had to work himself into the lineup. He’s done nothing but work. He is the ultimate teammate. He’s earned everything he’s gotten and I think if you were to ask any of our guys to a man, if there is one guy who could be put into that situation and do

what he did, they would be thrilled for him. He would be that guy. I’m just proud of him for lifting our team. To this point in the year, because we haven’t faced a ton of adversity, and we were in some adversity, that home run was as big as any hit.

Winning any series on the road is a huge accomplishment and we were staring in the facing going down 0-2 and he stretches that game out for us.”

With the nationallyranked Gamecocks coming to town for a three-game series, Fitzsimmons was really looking forward to seeing action amongst the great atmosphere.

“It will be electric. It will be great. South Carolina has a great team, and hopefully we will come out with a win,” he said. “We know about South Carolina and they’re a great program.” john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

Robinson FROM PAGE 17

“Then we noticed him leap frogging other people and him jumping to No. 3 and then the 2 and now, he’s our No. 1. He gets after it and we believe in what he’s going to do on the mound. He has really taken on that role. He wanted to pitch against Oxford, and that’s really the kind of guy you want out there. After he gave up those three runs over there in the first inning, you could tell he really bare down. He did a really good

job of staying in the game.”

Lafayette will return action against Division 2-4A foe New Albany this coming Tuesday. Robinson could start that contest, unless Lewis felt like he would be better to pitch on the road. Either way, it’s a complement about what he’s accomplished.

“He just has that same confidence whether he pitches here or there where another guy feels just a little bit better here,” Lewis said. “That would be the only thing that keeps him from starting that first game. Right now, I feel like he is our No. 1.

the morning and know somebody. Or you may not. It’s a big world in a small world in itself and you see it even better. I always appreciate it.”

Sam Kendricks added he was proud of his son, but the most proud day coaching him was when he got a medal as a ninth grader.

“I was so elated and he did so well. He was so small and he did it against the big guys and those days of him getting third, fourth and fifth when he was young prepared him to compete really hard now,” he said. “I think honestly, now, the big difference is he doesn’t get nervous at all. He loves to compete. He can’t wait for the event to start and that’s not all that common.

It’s because of all the preparation he did out here, traveling with Ole Miss and traveling the world last year. I’m proud of that, but honestly, I still see him running down there with the smallest uniform Oxford High School had and getting a medal at state. If he gets to the Olympics and he gets a medal there, that will be pretty cool, too.”

John Davis is the Oxford Citizen sports editor. He can be reached at john.davis@journalinc.com.

Follow him on Twitter at @oxfordcitizenjd.

What he does well is throws all three pitches.

That’s how he keeps guys off of him. He can throw that fastball and then he does a good job with the curve and the change and then he sneaks the fastball back up on you throw on you after he throws those other pitches. I think he throws 80, but he makes it look quick because of how he throws the other pitches. That fastball jumps on you.

He’s done a heck of a job up there.” john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

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