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Volume 3 | Issue 6

Sunday, May 8, 2016

JOHN DAVIS

Oxford’s track program made history Saturday as both teams won the class 5A state title on the same day.

Making History OHS track teams capture 5A state titles

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

PEARL – History. That’s what the Oxford High track teams made Saturday evening. For the first time in the same season, the Chargers and Lady Chargers won the MHSAA Class 5A state track & field championships.

The Lady Chargers

cruised to their state title, garnering well over 100 points with a handful of events left. They dominated the field, winning both on the track, and in the field events. After 13 events, the team had 112 points, 66 more than Natchez. It’s the first state title for the Lady Chargers since the program won three straight from 2010

through 2012. It was the first state title for coach Chris Patton.

“It feels great, it feels great and most of all, I wanted it for those girls,” said Patton, who led the team to a second-place finish in 2015. “Some of the girls have been on the team for four years and they have been working their butt off. To see their

faces, the end result, I know how it feels. You get so close to winning and you just don’t pull it off. I think that was fuel to the fire. To pull it off this year, that’s a great feeling.”

Oxford’s James Burnett, who won the 400 meter dash after a year away from track, said he has felt so bad for the Lady Chargers for getting so close the

past few meets, while the Chargers walked away with a title.

“The girls, they have fallen short the past few years and I really want them to win,” Burnett said. “I’m happy for them.

I wanted to cry for them when they got second. I want them to know what it’s like to be a champion.”

The Chargers, mean-

while, finished Saturday’s meet strong, winning relay events and long distance runs. It was the third straight state championship for the Chargers, who are coached by Chris Bush. It was also the program’s eighth overall state championship, all coming in the past 14 years.

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CHANING GREEN

Castens holds a cup of soil steady while 6-year-old Audrey Reed pours water in to help grow Sue Castens at her booth at the Midtown Farmers’ Market Saturday morning guides the Reed her watermelon seed. siblings through planting a seed to give to their mom as a Mother’s Day gift.

Sue Castens helps kids make Mother’s Day gifts at Midtown

BY CHANING GREEN NEWS WRITER

It was sunny and 70 degrees when the Midtown Farmers’ Market kicked off its first market of the season Saturday morning. Vendors from all over North Mississippi were out under their tents where they had fresh

vegetables, jams and jellies, baked goods and jars of pickled everything, all homegrown or homemade, spread out across tables.

Toward the front of the market was a table under a tent set up by Sue Castens.

She was there helping several children make presents for their moms as a

Mother’s Day gift. Little hands rifled through a basket containing seed packets of all different types of plants, countless flower varieties, squash, watermelon and others. The children were given small, clear cups full of fresh soil and a piece of paper. They traced their hand on the paper with a

Crayola marker and wrote messages like “Happy Mother’s Day” or “I love you.”

Kids were given a little red watering pail. They wet the soil and used a finger to push down a seed of their choice. A lid was placed on top of the cup to keep it from spilling in the car ride home. Castens taped a Popsicle stick to the back of the cup and attached the piece of paper, completing the Mother’s day gift. The children, proudly holding on to their creation, continued on into the farmers’ market with their parents.

This is just one of the many projects Sue Castens has been doing at the Midtown Farmers’ Market for 16 years. Castens became involved with the market when her husband, former reporter Errol Castens, wrote a story about the market opening. The couple has been involved ever since as board members, vendors or volunteers. Sue has always helped out with the children’s activates and is well qualified to do so.

For about 35 years, Castens has been a director, teacher and caregiver to children. She was the owner and operator of Happy House Preschool and Day Care for years before the school’s closing in 2011. The types of activities she does at the market are intended to engage children in educational projects where they can use their hands to learn more about the world around them. The kids learn about food sustain-

A young boy at the children’s booth dampens his cup of soil. ability, agriculture, healthy eating habits and what it means to know where your food comes from. They do small cooking demonstrations using locally grown produce. Toward the end of the market season when fall is approaching, the kids get to paint pumpkins.

“I guess it would be watching the children grow in their knowledge of eating healthier and just forming those relationships,” Castens said when asked what her favorite part of running the children’s activities was.

“I think it’s also necessary to grow the market. It’s a great place to meet their friends and to help them understand that buying healthy food helps to make them healthy.”

When she said relationships, Castens was referring to all of the children she sees returning to her booth every year. Some of the children she taught at Happy House are now grown and have children of their own.

She occasionally gets to meet their kids at the market and teach them too.

Ruby Kate Yow and her little brother Charlie were at the market with their dad Saturday morning when they stopped by the children’s booth. Castens guided them through the process of completing the project until each had a cup of soil containing a seed waiting to sprout. At home, the Yow kids work on a small indoor herb garden with their mother, so planting things and getting their hands dirty was not something new to them.

“I like planting seeds with my mother,” Ruby Kate said as she used her finger to push down a seed into her cup of soil.

“Me too,” Charlie chimed in, holding his own cup of soil containing a watermelon seed. “I hope she notices it’s a watermelon.” chaning.green@journalinc.com Twitter: chaningthegreen

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Sally Mann coming to Square Books

BY CHANING GREEN NEWS WRITER

Sally Mann is an iconic photographer. Her blackand-white photos have hung in the most prestigious art galleries around the globe. Her photo books can be found in most bookstores and often grace the shelves of Square Books.

Mann is coming to Square Books this Tuesday to sign copies of her latest published work. About this time last year, Mann released a different kind of book, a memoir, and is currently traveling to promote it. The book is entitled “Hold Still.”

She never set out to write a memoir. She, in fact, doesn’t really care for memoirs as an art form. It has the potential to be too self-serving or score-settling, she explained. She just never considered it to be her thing. But once while preparing to give a lecture at Harvard University as a part of their Massey Lecture Series, Mann began writing stuff down.

“I began writing about what it was like to be a creative person and the origins of that creativity and, in particular, the origins of my particular fascinations with the South and family and death and that kind of stuff,” Mann said. “By the I finished writing the Massey, I almost had a book. I kept going.”

Overall, the memoir took five years to get ready for publication. This isn’t unusual for the photographer.

Some of Mann’s most famous collections were produced with photographs taken over the course of several years. Currently, she is wrapping up her next book, entitled “Remembered Light.” The photos in the book span nearly a decade and showcase the studio of her late friend and fellow artist Cy Twombly. The book is set for release this September.

Whether she intended to or not, Mann wrote modern classic of a memoir.

The book has received widespread critical acclaim and was a finalist for the National Book Award. The book also claimed the title of the 2016 Andrew

LIZ LIGUORI

Internationally acclaimed photographer Sally Mann will be at Square Books Tuesday signing copes of her memoir “Hold Still.”

Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction.

The memoir chronicles Mann’s life and career, her successes and sorrows. It is a thick book that tackles a lot. Understandably, naming it was its own endeavor.

“My God, I could send you the list of title options, I mean, I tried everything,” she said, speaking from her Virginia home late Friday morning. “I used it because it’s in the book. That phrase, ‘hold still,’ I use it when I’m talking about taking the picture ‘The Perfect Tomato,’ my favorite picture. I was trying to find something from the book; I wanted to draw the title from the book. I love it. I think it’s the perfect title.”

Her upcoming trip to Oxford will not be her first.

Mann first came to Mississippi while working on her 2005 book “Deep South,” a collection of haunting landscapes from across the American South. She said that she loved her visit to the state, primarily the Delta, and looks forward to returning.

“I loaded up my car with all the camera equipment and headed down there to shoot and I had that ineffable experience where

you drive through Greenwood and then you drop down into the Delta,” Mann recalled. “Yeah, that was just extraordinary for me. Just the geography, for one thing, and somehow the whole psychological effect of doing that. I’ve spent a lot of time in Mississippi.”

Mann said that she is also excited to be back at Square Books. She has been to the bookstore before and received a warm welcome from everyone.

“I came there once before and they were so gracious and so kind,” she said. “They put my name up in big block letters in the window, and I still have a photograph of that somewhere. You know how difficult it is to bee an independent bookseller nowadays, and they’re one of the best. They’re actually at the top of the heap.

There are wonderful people there.”

Little Brown and Company published Mann’s memoir. The book will is currently available for purchase at Square Books and can also be bough during the signing. Mann is slotted to begin the signing at 5 p.m.

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BRIEFING Oxford Children’s Chorus holds final performance

Gulf Coast Chapter of the ICF is available at ICFGulfCoast.com. The ICF chapter’s membership Monday evening at 5:15 encompasses Louisiana, p.m., the Oxford Children’s Mississippi, Alabama, and Chorus will have their final the panhandle of Florida. performance of the season The International Coach at Paris Yates Chapel on Federation is the leading campus at Ole Miss. global organization for The chorus is under the coaches, with more than direction of University of 20,000 members and 16,000 Mississippi Associate Profes- credentialed coaches in sor of Elementary Music Ed- over 100 countries worlducation Andy Paney. Paney wide. The ICF exists to adbegan the choir in January of vance the coaching 2011 as a way to provide his profession by setting high university students with real ethical standards, providing world experience in working independent certification with children and music ed- and building a worldwide ucation. network of credentialed Chours members have coaches. For more informabeen working on their curtion, please visit rent set for the entire season. www.coachfederation.org.

The music will be from For more information, around various parts of the contact: Susan Hayman world. There will be a Hesusan@susanhayman.com ; brew song, a Dutch, a Mark 662-238-7754 Twain song and some othOxford Elementary ers.

“This is a great group,” Open House Luau Paney said of the children he’s been working with this Incoming first graders in season. “It’s a talented group. the Oxford School Disrict They’re kinda funny. They will have the chance to work hard and sing very meet their teachers and well.” tour their future classrooms There is no admission fee on Thursday, at Oxford Elementary School’s Open for the concert and it is enHouse Luau. The event will tirely open to the public.

Paney encourages everyone be happening from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. that day. Children to get there a little early to and parents will be able to make sure the whole pertour the school, meet formance can be seen. teachers and get a behind the scenes look at the International Coach school cafeteria. School officials ask that parents Week May 16-22 RSVP online before the The Gulf Coast Chapter of event so that they know the International Coach Fed- how many parents and little eration (ICF) announces In- ones to expect. Any questions can be directed to ternational Coaching Week OES at 662-234-3497 or is from May 16-22, 2016.

Coaching Week is an annual, OES Principal Tamara weeklong global celebration Hillmer at tlhillmer@oxfordsd.org. of the coaching profession.

Originally started in 1999 by ICF Member and Master Feed America Certified Coach Jerri N. collecting food Udelson, the week is intended to educate the public this Saturday about the value of working with a professional coach The United Way and and acknowledge the results Feeding America is collectand progress made through ing food to battle hunger in the coaching process. the country on Saturday.

Coaching is a distinct One out of six Americans is food insecure and nearly 16 service and differs greatly million children are living from therapy, consulting, in a food insecure housementoring or training. ICF defines coaching as partner- hold. One of seven Ameriing with clients in a thought- cans live at or below the poverty level. Visit provoking and creative process that inspires them to www.unitedway.org/findmaximize their personal and your-united-way for the nearest food agency to take professional potential. part in the event.

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JOHN DAVIS

Oxford's Jonathan Tyler took first in the 3,200 meter run at Saturday's Class 5A state meet.

Oxford's Arden Davis finished second in the pole vault.

Oxford’s DK Metcalf finished second in the 110-meter Addie Thompson won the 3,200 with a time of 12 minutes, hurdles.

28 seconds.

Track FROM PAGE 1

CHARGERS DK Metcalf was the first athlete to garner points as he finished second in the triple jump with a mark of 46 feet, 5 inches. In his final 110 meter hurdle race, Metcalf finished second.

The 4x800 relay team was the first win for the Chargers as they took the event in 8 minutes, 21.62 seconds. Senior Alex Thomas ran on that relay, and with a painful stress fracture in his right foot. He was excited to help the team, even if it meant him putting back on his boot immediately after the event.

“I felt like I had to run,” said Thomas, who hasn’t competed since the division meet. “I found out I had a stress fracture on my second third metatarsal in my right foot. I saw my team run and I wanted to get back out there. I wanted to run at state. I got a boot and stayed off it as much as possible and just go run at state with my brothers.”

Thomas was just one of may inspirational and impressive stories.

Jonathan Tyler took first in the 3,200 with a 10:22, while teammate John Owen Yoste was fourth with a 10:45.

In the discus, DQ Thomas was third with 135 feet. Jacquez Neilson finished seventh in the shot put with a 45-03.

LADY CHARGERS Oxford’s Lady Chargers dominated the field events. They took first and second in the pole vault with Charlie Kendricks and Arden Davis. Those two garnered 18 of the Lady Charg-

Oxford Jacquez Neilson throws the shot put during Saturday's meet.

Oxford's Alex Thomas helped the 4x800 meter relay team finish first in his last meet. ers’ 58 points after six events.

Former Oxford standout Sam Kendricks, who is making a bid to be in the Olympics this summer, sat in the shade as he watched his younger sister jump 9 feet. Davis also had the same mark, but finished second to Kendricks. She wrapped up her time on the medal podium so she could make it back home to take part in a dance recital.

“I felt pretty good coming in. I went in six inches higher than I normally do because I really cleared six inches more. That had me nervous coming in, but when I cleared the bar, I felt

better,” Davis said. “The pit here is a lot different than ours. It’s more bouncy, so it makes me feel like it’s going to come back up. And it’s shorter here.”

Davis was so excited about the possibility of both teams winning a title, she was considering driving all the way back to Pearl after doing her part in the recital.

“We’ve been working really hard for it this year. I want to be here but I have the recital and I’m hoping to get back,” Davis said. “I want to be here when we get a trophy.”

Addie Thompson impressed as she won the 3,200 with a 12:28, which was 28 seconds better than her seed coming in. Margaret Pepper Adams also competed in the 3,200 and finished fourth overall. Monya Baskin won the shot put with a throw of 3504.

The girls 4x800 relay team finished third, which got them six points. johndavis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

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May the fourth be with you

CHANING GREEN

Pennington and McElroy’s snythpop band played at the coffeeshop venue while a Star Wars Pennington and McElroy’s snythpop band played at the coffeeshop venue while a Star Wars film was projected on the roof above them. In between songs were excerpts from the film’s film was projected on the roof above them. In between songs were excerpts from the film’s musical score. musical score.

A young weirder of the Force, William Grem, 9, dances with his lightsaber during the light show that accompanied the performance at Shelter Wednesday night.

Left to right,Winn McElroy, Morgan Pennington and Lee Bowie dressed up as characters from he Star Wars franchise to help celebrate May the Fourth at Shelter on Van Buren.

Cannon Nissan, Olive Juice Gifts celebrate milestones

COURTESY

COURTESY

Olive Juice Gifts celebrated its fifth anniversary with a ribbon cutting ceremony hosted by the The Oxford-Lafayette County Chamber held a ribbon cutting ceremony for Cannon Nissan of Oxford-Lafayette County Chamber. Olive Juice is a friendly, one-of-a-kind, gift shop located on Oxford as the opened another dealership. They are conveniently located at 479 Hwy. 6 West in Oxford. the outskirts of the Oxford Square at 305 South Lamar Blvd.

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‘Project Butterfly’ takes off in response to Caterpillar closing us,” Maynard said. “There were a lot of people disturbed by hearing that Caterpillar was closing.

That’s not good news. The families that it actually affects, that’s really what is important. We’re here to do everything we can to make sure that those families are going to be employed in Lafayette County and have jobs to go to in Lafayette County.”

The Oxford site was one of five that will be closed by Caterpillar, and Maynard emphasized that it was not a reflection on what the city or county had done.

“It was a global issue that caused Caterpillar to close. So what we’ve got is a very viable, very strong work force and a very strong community,” Maynard said. “They’re leaving behind a facility that markets itself well in the future. We now have a mission. We’re now calling this mission Project Butterfly. This mission is to quickly back fill the jobs that Caterpillar is leaving behind just as soon as possible.”

The third quarter of 2017 is when the facility is scheduled to shut down. By the time equipment is moved out, Maynard didn’t think the building would be ready for any new tenant until 2018.

BY JOHN DAVIS OXFORD CITIZEN

Project Butterfly is officially up and going. That’s the name of the comprehensive plan that was outlined by Jon Maynard, the President and CEO of the OxfordLafayette Economic Development Foundation. The goal is to help find a new tenant for the building currently occupied by Caterpillar.

It’s been a week since Caterpillar announced that in late 2017, it will be closing the facility that manufactures couplings used on heavy machinery. There are currently 240 people employed at the facility.

Maynard gave a 10-minute presentation Thursday afternoon in the Lafayette County Chancery Building board room. A full crowd of local leaders, including Jeff Busby, the President of the Lafayette County Board of Supervisors, as well as Oxford Mayor Pat Patterson, were on hand to hear the early results, and the plan moving forward.

“Something that I always say at all of my presentations is change is disturbing when it’s done to us, but it’s exciting when it’s done by

JOHN DAVIS

Jon Maynard, the President and CEO of the Oxford-Lafayette Economic Development Foundation, speaks to a crowd of people about Project Butterfly Thursday inside the Lafayette County Chancery Court building.

“They’ve given us some time to make some of these things happen. What we’re going to do is moving forward with the marketing process,” Maynard said.

“When Emerson closed around 2002, they left about 500 jobs or so. Winchester came back in

three years later and they initially brought with them 100 jobs initially and then about another 100 or so to help fill the job loss. Winchester now has 1,401 employees.

That’s almost a 3 to 1 ratio from what Emerson left behind in that void.

“We have a model. We have everything we need in place to say that we can move forward with Caterpillar’s closure,” Maynard added. “The other part of this is we have been approached already by companies from Alabama and Arkansas asking how can they get in touch with those employees. They said they needed employees where they were and asked if they could get ours. My answer to them was absolutely not. It’s an economic developers responsibility to create jobs for those living in Lafayette County not in Helena, Arkansas. I told these companies to hold off and to stay where they are and work on their own work force and economic developer.”

Caterpillar currently pays the city, and county, approximately $1 million in taxes. That also doesn’t include the utility payments that directly help the area. Caterpillar does own the building, and Maynard talked about working with them, and any new company, in regards to that purchase. john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

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ugh Freeze was hoping to spend more time with his family this summer. Just before the Ole Miss Rebels wrapped up spring football drills, the discussion on satellite camps had been decided. Or so we thought.

At the time, the NCAA ruled that schools couldn’t hold them, that they couldn’t travel away from campus to hold clinics for youth from an instruction standpoint. Freeze gave his thoughts on the camps then, and some of his thoughts were criticized nationally.

Freeze said he selfishly liked his time away from coaching, and that satellite camps were just more time away from his family.

It seemed like Freeze was out of the woods in that regard, until last week, when the NCAA reversed course and decided to allow them, lifting the ban. The SEC, and the ACC, from a commissioner standpoint, were against them. Schools from the Big Ten have been for them. Michigan’s Jim Harbaugh has led the parade on this issue from a having the camps standpoint.

Some coaches in the SEC have embraced the idea. LSU’s Les Miles is one of those.

Florida’s Jim McElwain has also been upbeat about them. Some coaches have got all the camps planned out, some haven’t.

Freeze, and those involved in the football decisions, are moving forward with the camps. Freeze said Thursday, during the SEC spring teleconference, that he believed football recruiting was actually best focused in the high schools.

“We’re currently going through that in our recruiting calendar right now which is providing the opportunities for football prospectus all across the country,” Freeze said. “Coaches are out doing that and seeing guidance counselors and coaches. While we think that’s our best evaluation, now that it’s permissible for us to do camps, we’re still evaluating. I love for kids to come to our campus. At the same time, we’re going to see them in some aspect. I’ve been out of pocket TURN TO OLE MISS PAGE 13

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Sensational Seniors Osias, Martinez have enjoyed their OM careers

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

For two young ladies from California, Oxford has felt just like home. Madi Osias and Natalie Martinez, as well as four other seniors, are set to play their last game at Ole Miss this afternoon against Tennessee.

At the start of their careers, there were more downs than ups. This spring, the ups far outweigh the downs. Ole Miss has set a new school record in wins, and the Rebels will play in the SEC Tournament in Starkville next weekend. A year before the duo put on the red and blue, the softball team had to watch the SEC Tournament as spectators on their home field because they didn’t qualify.

In short, these two seniors have seen a lot of positive changes from a program standpoint. They’ve also seen a lot of change in their own lives, and all of it for the better.

“I think it’s been awesome, but it’s not over yet,” Osias said about the season just before the start of the Tennessee series. “Up to this point, it’s been really, really awesome. It’s been better than I expected it to be.

Breaking all the records and having such good camaraderie, it’s been such a memorable year.”

Martinez, who had four home runs and 20 RBIs heading into her final home series, used the words phenomenal and great to describe the season from her vantage point.

“Coming off last year, we’ve really come leaps and bounds,” she said. “We might not have broken all the team records (on offense) like we did last year, but our team chemistry and our will to win and never give up is totally different.

We’re different top to bottom. Each girl is going to give it their all. It’s a trickledown affect and that’s why we have been so successful.”

Losing games back in 2013 was OK, Martinez said.

Other things were more im-

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Madi Osias and Natalie Martinez are set to play their final softball game at Ole Miss today against No. 9 Tennessee. portant to many of the team members.

“I guess it’s because the girls came from where it was OK to lose so when they got the new coach, a lot of the same girls were still there and the mentality was the same and the new coach didn’t come and say this has to change,” Martinez said.

“She (Windy Thees) expected us to make a change because we had all come from winning programs and we had never expected to lose ever in our softball career. When the girls told us that it was OK to lose, we couldn’t handle it. I think that’s what really helped us

with this next transition with Coach (Mike) Smith. We said we wanted somebody to win just as much as we do and do as much as they can. It’s nice that our senior class never lost that touch, that fire to always win.”

The talent has always been on the roster, Osias believed. The Rebels started to emerge from the cocoon last season and now, they are flying like a butterfly out in the meadow.

“We finally have a stage where we can show that we care about softball and we’re not just complacent anymore. We want to go out and win big games,” said Osias,

who was named SEC Pitcher of the Week for her shutout win over Georgia. “We don’t want to be OK with losing.

That’s the big change. We’re not scared to say that we play Ole Miss softball. We’re a good team. There is no reason to overlook us and we want to come out and win every single game that we play. We’ve taken games from teams that haven’t necessarily overlooked us, but they just weren’t expecting us to be as good as we were.”

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Chargers advance to Class 5A north state title series

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

RIDGELAND — Four games in four days turned out to be no issue for the Oxford Chargers. For the fourth straight season, the Chargers are playing in the Class 5A north state title series. It’s a spot Oxford coach Chris Baughman, and his team, expect to be. They punched their ticket to the next round of the MHSAA playoffs with a 14-1 win over Ridgeland Friday night.

Reed Markle went the distance on the mound for the Chargers (24-8 overall). He only allowed two hits in his six innings, while the Titans finished with just four hits in two games. Markle had some time to prepare for his start knowing that the starters were taxed due to the amount of games in a row.

“I felt pretty good. I’m not going to lie. (Baughman) told me in advance and I had some time to think about it,” Markle said. “We knew we had three games in a row and Jason, Houston (Roth) and Carson (Stinnett) were all burnt. I was sitting around thinking before he even told me that I was going to get the ball Friday. I was ready for it.”

Markle threw over 80 pitches in the win, and 80 percent of those were sliders, he said.

“Me and Coach Baughman said they can hit the fastball OK even off Jason and we realized they were struggling with the slider really bad,” Markle said. “So we knew we would go with the slider a good bit.”

Proud was the word Markle used to describe how he felt about the team’s accomplishment, adding that it wasn’t fair to get the rain that pushed back the Center Hill series, which ultimately tied right into the series with the Titans, without any rest.

“It takes a special team to play four games in a row and to play the way we played,” he added. “I’m a little tired getting done with these games late at night, but that’s what’s special about this team even though our arms are sore. We can still go deep into our bullpen

and we can still have a good chance to win any game.”

Markle has only been with the program the past two seasons, but he knew that making north state was special for players like Barber and Roth.

“The way the coaches talk about the teams when I wasn’t here, I think it’s kind of an expectation for us to always make it to north half,” Markle said. “A guy like Jason deserves that. He’s been a great mentor to me. Jason Barber has helped me out so much with my pitching that I can’t explain it. I love him.

We’re busting our butts out here.

We’re not satisfied with one state championship, we want another one. We’re still hungry for it.”

Winning isn’t everything for Baughman, who said that his players have learned about a lot of other things along the way.

“That’s not all a program should be based off of. We have learned some lessons other than competing and winning because high school baseball is ultimately more than that,” Baughman said. “But while you’re out here, competitors want to win. This bunch of seniors has set the bar from the beginning.

Houston and Jason have both started since they were freshmen.

It’s going to be a goal of ours every year. I’m proud of them for that and I’m proud of them for achieving that goal. We still have two other goals in front of us. Two wins, we get to check off one other goal and then two more wins we check off another.”

Markle got a lot of run support as the Chargers collected 11 hits overall, but he was good enough to win a 2-1 game if needed.

“He’s a bulldog. Anybody that saw him throw against Houston and then he goes over there and throws against West Point, his last few outings, he’s been great,” Baughman said. “All year he’s been consistent. He had a tough outing the first one he threw but that was because we booted the ball behind him. He wants to compete so bad and when he gets his chance, he takes advantage of it. I’m so proud of him. To get him and Carson in

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Oxford's Reed Markle delivers a pitch during Friday's MHSAA Class 5A playoff contest with Ridgeland. The Chargers won 14-1. two big games this week, that’s going to help us down the road, too.”

Four Chargers had at least two hits in the win. Drew Bianco got the game ball for reaching base three times, and scoring three times. Barber, Sage Mullins, Bianco and Roth each had a double while Barber drove in two runs.

Oxford will return to action Thursday at home against Grenada, which defeated New Hope 9-7 Friday night.

“It’s the way it should be. I thought all year that we were the two best teams in the state in the north,” Baughman said. “They have two really good arms. The catcher is going to Delta State.

(Caleb) Morgan is their ace. He’s a fiery competitor and he’s going to run it up there 87, 88, 89. He might touch 90. It’s going to be a dogfight.

They fight tooth and nail and they play really hard.” john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

Oxford's Drew Bianco rounds third base to score a run in the first inning.

Oxford’s Jason Barber handcuffs Titans in Game 1 opener BEN MIKELL SPORTS WRITER

Jason Barber is pretty good on most nights. After the first inning, he made the Ridgeland Titan batters look silly.

Barber went the distance striking out 10 while allowing a total of four base runners as the Oxford Chargers defeated Ridgeland 5-1 in Game 1 of the third round in the MHSAA 5A playoffs to give

the Chargers a 1-0 lead in this best-of-three series.

Ridgeland got its lone run of the game with a one-out walk in the top of the first by Alan Merkle.

Merkle went to second on a Brooks Italiano single, and then scored on a sacrifice-fly by Carnell Funches.

Oxford gave Barber some run support in the third inning. Sage Mullins led the inning off with a single up the middle. Back-to-

back wild pitches allowed Mullins to advance to third and then a throwing error by Titan catcher Jeremy Powell allowed Mullins to score and tied the contest at one.

Duncan Graeber earned a oneout walk before Grae Kessinger launched a double into the leftcenter gap. Drew Bianco used a single to left to take the lead for good at 2-1. Barber got a basesloaded walk to help himself out on the mound with a 3-1 lead.

The Chargers scored two more runs in the fifth inning with a two-out rally. Bianco started it off with a double to the left-center gap. Thomas Dillard was then intentionally walked. Barber made the Titans pay for that move with a single to right to score Bianco.

Houston Roth followed that up with a single up the middle to score Dillard and help provide the final margin.

Barber went 1-for-2 with two

RBIs in the game to help himself out on the mound. Dillard was 1for-1 and was intentionally walked twice after his three home run performance Wednesday.

Bianco was the only Charger with multiple hits on the night. Ridgeland was led with a 2-for-2 performance by Italiano and reached all three times in the contest. Italiano got the only two hits the Titans could muster off of Barber.

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the last few days but by the end of the week, we’ll have a good feel and idea for exactly what we’re going to do.”

Freeze added that the camps “won’t be too many and at too many places.”

Dallas, Houston and Atlanta were the cities he mentioned as destinations.

There is a chance to have one on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. No dates were given for the camps, so we will have to wait and announce those at a different

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Freeze said on National Signing Day that additional players could be added to the 2016 class. Defensive tackle Josiah Coatney, who played last season at Holmes Community College, made a verbal pledge to the Rebels on Thursday, and then signed on Friday.

The 6-foot-5, 285-pound Coatney, who has three years left to play at Ole Miss, had 46 tackles, with 8.5 going for a loss in 2015. He is a native of Douglasville,

Georgia. Coatney chose Ole Miss over a myriad of offers, including Alabama. Coming out of high school, he was rated as the No. 31 defensive tackle in the country by ESPN.com.

Jeff Koonz coached Coatney at Holmes this past season. He raved about Coatney’s physical ability at the point of attack in the middle of the line.

“He has great vision and he can change direction.

He’s very athletic for a guy that size,” Koonz said. “He’s got a quick first step. That’s something Josiah had from day one. I knew he was going to be special. He got that naturally, and that’s one of the hardest things to teach. He’s a great pass rusher. He’s got some wiggle to him. He’s got some weapons in his arsenal. He’s not just a bull rusher. He’s a great three technique. He could play nose, but he’s so athletic, he’s not just an A gap stopper.”

Koonz went on to say that if Ole Miss runs twists inside, Coatney is perfect for that thanks to his hands and vision.

“Coach (Chris) Kiffin is a good d-line coach and he’s

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demic standpoint.

“He is an A-B student, a real intelligent kid,” Koonz said adding he did expect Coatney to be back with the Bulldogs in 2016. “I joke with him, I said I was mad at him that he did so well in the classroom. But that’s on him and our school. It does a great job with academic support. He took the bull by the horns. He is very intelligent and he didn’t have to take anything developmental that sometimes slows the usual junior college guy down. He went immediately into the classes that count. He took it on himself. We did a transcript evaluation when he was in his normal course mode and we found out that mathematically, he could graduate in May. We scheduled those classes and he did the school work. I hate it for us, but I’m proud for him because he’s a four-forthree guy now.”

Once word got out that Coatney could help a team in 2016, rather than in 2017, the offers exploded Koonz said.

“He had all the SEC offers within a week and a half time. We just didn’t know

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Coatney just finished his exams at Holmes, and he will graduate this coming

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Swindoll pleased with improvement of Lafayette tennis team

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

Debbie Swindoll doesn’t like to lose, but even she had a smile on her face following Thursday’s 6-1 loss to New Albany. The Commodores played well despite the setback, and the finish that the team had was very strong.

Lafayette will return most of the team that competed in the MHSAA Class 4A north state title match, and many of them have a lot of promise.

“It was a phenomenal season.

PREP SPORTS ROUNDUP Oxford golf Oxford men's golf team finished second in the MHSAA Class 5A golf championships held this past Wednesday and Thursday in Madison. The Chargers' C.J. Easley was named medalist for the event as he shot a two-day total of 142.

He carded a round of 69 in the first round. Oxford finished second to Germantown with a 603.

Germantown won the event with a 590.

Wilson Baker shot rounds of 71 and 76. Matt Sink finished with rounds of 77 and 72. Beau Ryals shot an 86 and then improved with a 79. Dee Fair also improved from the first day, shooting a 92 and then following with an 83.

West Jones, Pascagoula, Gautier, Pearl River Centeral, Neshoba Central, Center Hill, Picayune, New Hope and Grenada were the other teams that competed in the meet. Ridgeland and Brookhaven each had an individual golfer.

LHS Track Lafayette garnered 37 points to finish fourth at the MHSAA Class 4A state track meet Friday in Pearl.

Orianna Shaw won the 400 in 57.03 seconds, and then finished third in he 200 with a 25.71. Xhiir Burgess finished third in triple jump with a mark of 36 feet.

The 4x200 relay team finished second with a time of 1 minute, 47.86 seconds.

Brandon Turnage also had a successful first track meet as he finished second in the 800 with a 2:04.38.

For what I have, it was the best season I’ve had in my six years here,” Swindoll said. “We did make the same feat my second year here, but I have a really young team. I’m playing an eighth grader and a ninth grader in singles and only have two seniors out of the 12 players. We’ve accomplished a lot really to get to the top four teams in 4A. That’s a great feat for this team, if we build on it for next year. That’s what I told them.”

New Albany, conversely, has nine seniors and championshiplevel experience. Swindoll said her

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Volunteers. They beat Georgia for the first time in Athens since 2002 and overall since 2003. The Rebels also defeated ranked foes in Kentucky and Missouri, and took two of three games from Mississippi State. That doesn’t even count series wins over Arkansas and South Carolina.

“It’s a year of firsts. That’s the fun and exciting thing, but it’s also a year where we can say that we matched every team in the SEC as far as pitching to pitching, hitting to hitting and just the love for the game,” Martinez said. “Every girl gets here early and stays late. They do what they’re supposed to do, what they have to do, because they know the girl next to you is doing it. That has really showed and really helped us out this year. It’s also us expecting to win. We know that we’ve put in the work in every aspect of the game.”

Both Osias and Martinez love Ole Miss tremendously. Martinez even shed tears when trying to put her love for the school and her teammates into words.

“I think the thing that I’m going to miss most happened to me just a couple of days ago. I was walking to class and I just stopped and looked around for a second. I said ‘Wow, I’m really going to miss this,’” Osias said. “I’m going to miss walking around the Grove. I’m going to miss seeing students and seeing people who love Ole Miss.

I think that’s what I will miss the most, the community and feeling of home. Since I got to cam-

team can learn from their match, and use it down the road, starting with work in the summer and then work in the fall.

Improved roster (subhead) Swindoll felt all three of her male players that were on the junior varsity squad in 2015 really improved. A lot.

“Dawson Welch, Will Carter and Foster Roush, to me, improved leaps and bounds just because they hadn’t been in the fire,” she said. “I will say that most of the season, we relied on our girls that had the experience. I knew that

coming in. As far as the growth, I think the boys, my three guys, hopefully will be pivotal. Now I need a couple more guys to step up and for me to get my girls to play at the same ability level and hopefully exceed that. We’re so close. I want more. I’m awfully proud. I’ll look back and be proud of where we are, but I want to improve on it.”

Lafayette finished the season with 11 wins against six losses.

Two of those 11 wins came over Pontotoc. Another top moment for Swindoll was a playoff win over

Cleveland.

“We got much better as the year went on. We had a tough schedule. I played Oxford and New Albany early in the year,” she said. “I played Northwest Rankin and we took our lumps early on. We even played TCPS and they’re in the finals of 1 and 2A. We were under .500 early in the year and as the season progressed, and we worked towards our district, we started winning.” john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

pus, Ole Miss has felt like home to me. It felt like I’ve been taken in by this university and that my heart is here. I just absolutely love everything about it and I can’t speak enough to how incredible my experience has been here. I wouldn’t trade my four years here for any other in the world.”

Martinez’s feelings are similar, and it was tough for her to sum it all up in a few words. Coming to Oxford was the ultimate right choice, she said.

“The thing I’m going to miss about Ole Miss is the sense of family but taking in all the moments that have led up to this senior year and the opportunities that we’ve had here,” Martinez said. “Just the whole idea of family, from having the same six seniors, to going all through all the things that we did and all the achievements and the success that we’ve had.

This has been a home for us.

“A lot of us are from such far away places and having such a connected group of girls who have really just grown together and been there for a lot of different things,” she added. “Ole Miss will always be the place that we love the most and a place that has taken us in, even being all the way from California. It has given us the experiences to fall in love with a place that we may never had a chance to. We’ve seen the whole South. We’ve traveled abroad. We helped change this program and there have been so many who have had a hand in that, and so many that have loved on us and taken us in.”

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All Real Estate advertising herein is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act, which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, or an intention to make any such preferences, limitations or discrimination. We will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. All persons are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised are available on an equal opportunity basis.

If you believe that you may have been discriminated against in connection with the sale, rental or financing of housing, call The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) at 1-800-669-9777.

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