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Sunday, May 15, 2016

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The second Red Carpet Gala, benefitting the Oxford-Lafayette County Chamber of Commerce, will be held on Thursday at The Jefferson.

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JOHN DAVIS

Former NBC News broadcaster Tom Brokaw was the featured speaker at Saturday's University of Mississippi Commencement.

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Oxford Fire Department holds annual fire safety camp.

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Brokaw highlights 163rd annual event at UM

BY JOHN DAVIS OXFORD CITIZEN

Tom Brokaw captivated millions of Americans each night during his 20 plus years as the anchor for NBC’s Nightly News.

He did the same thing Saturday morning to the thousands located inside the Grove attending the University of Mississippi’s Commencement ceremony.

Brokaw was the featured speaker at the 163rd annual event, and his message lasted 21 minutes. He touched on a number of topics, from politics to social media, to race relations and violent acts that have divided the nation over the years.

He was affable throughout, even telling some jokes, including this one about the University of Alabama.

“I am so relieved to be speaking to a

graduating class from Ole Miss. If I were speaking at Alabama, I would have to use smaller words and shorter sentences,” Brokaw said a second before the crowd erupted with laughter.

His biggest message, the thing that he stressed to graduates, came at the end and revolved around keeping in touch with TURN TO COMMENCEMENT PAGE 4

Oxford captures 5A north state baseball title.

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SUNDAY, MAY 15, 2016

YAC to host several summer camps at Powerhouse

BY CHANING GREEN NEWS WRITER

Since its founding nearly 45 years ago, the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council is known for supporting arts in all its forms in Oxford. In recent years, the organization has been providing local children with affordable summer camp options.

Andi Bedsworth will be running the visual arts camps this summer. Painting, drawing, collages, and anything else Bedsworth can think of, she does. She has been teaching art camps at the Powerhouse in conjunction with the arts council since 2011. She had just begun giving art lessons though the business she founded called Art to Go when a parent suggested that she should start doing these lessons as day camps during school holidays. This would grow Bedsworth’s new business and provide an inexpensive daycare alternative to parents in the community. She is continuing this by offering 11 camps open to members of the community this

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Andi Bedsworth, owner and operator of Art to Go, teaches students at an art camp she held at the Powerhouse. Bedsworth will be returning to the Powerhouse this summer to teach 11 camps in conjunction with the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council. summer.

The first art camp of the summer will be taking place from May 23 to May 27 and is known as the Early Bird Art Camp. This camp is open to children aged 3 to 10 who will be split into two age groups when working

on projects. During the camp, students will explore a variety of different art techniques and art materials. Snacks will be provided, but children staying for full days during the camp are asked to bring a lunch. Similar camps open to the

same age group will also be taking place during the first two weeks of August.

Other camps Bedsworth will be leading will be more specifically focused and will target different age groups.

After the Early Bird Art Camp, the first camp taking place will be focusing on painting and drawing. The camp will be split into a beginner and intermediate level camp, open to ages 3 to 9, and an advanced level camp open to ages 10 to 17.

Students will be experimenting with different types of paint like watercolor, acrylic and tempera and learning how to work with them on a project to create different visual effects. The beginner and intermediate level camp will be taking place in the morning beginning at 9 a.m. and be split into separate age groups when working on projects. The advanced group will begin their classes at 1 p.m. The goal of the camp is to teach students basic drawing and painting techniques in order to give them the tools to create expressive work.

Both camps will be taking place May 30 to June 3.

The following week, there will be a camp held entitled Adventures in Art. Like the previous camp, it will be divided into age groups with the younger students being taught in the morning and the older students in the afternoon. The purpose of this camp is to explore dif-

ferent mediums of visual art expression. Students will be working with printmaking techniques, collages, painting, clay, pastels and several other different methods and tools. These camps will be taking place from June 6 to 10.

After that, the Junk Art camp will be taking place.

Like its predecessors, this camp theme is similarly divided into age groups. This popular camp serves as a means for students to experiment with a variety of different recycled and repurposed materials to, through trial and error, create unique sculptures and other forms of art. This camp will be taking place from June 13 to 17.

Fiber Arts is the theme of the following camp scheduled at the Powerhouse this summer is also divided into two age groups. This camp theme will be exploring things like felting, fabric collages, weaving, and quilt-inspired art projects.

This one will be taking place from June 20 to 24.

The theme of the next camp is Great Masters and will focus on some of art’s most legendary names inGogh, Van cluding Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Picasso and others. Students will spend their time learning about the some of the world’s most influential artists in history and their contribution to the field, while also working on fun projects inspired by those

artists. This camp is taking place from June 27 to July 1.

Students will be exploring various types of Asian art forms during the next art camp. Those participating will spend their time learning about Asian culture while also working on fun and engaging art projects. Origami, different styles of printing and painting as well as several other visual art mediums will be explored during this week of activities. This camp will be taking place July 10 to 17.

Three-dimensional art will be the basis of the next camp. Students will be exploring visual art in a way that jumps off the canvas by using various materials like wood, clay, papier-mache and others, all rendered in there dimensions. This camp will be taking place from July 25 to 29.

The last camp that is split into these different age groups will be the Experiments in Art Media camp.

This theme will be exploring the different ways visual art forms can be combined in order to create unique mixed media pieces. Students will learn basic techniques for mosaic, collage and printmaking. There will also be projects during the camp that will combine these skills. This camp will be taking place from July 25- 29.

In addition to the Bedsworth’s visual art camps, an acting and a musical theater camp will be taking place. Acting camps will cover topics like how to act for film, how to audition and produce a play and how to create a character for a play. Rhes Low, director of Oxford Acting Studio, will teach these acting camps. There are various classes that last thorough the summer that are available for kids of all ages.

Low will also be teaming up with vocal instructor Davis Jones for a two-week camp that will teach musical theater. Jones will also be running two camps in July where participants will have the opportunity to explore the music of the 1950s and 1970s.

Additional information that includes pricing can be found at oxfordarts.com. chaning.green@journalinc.com Twitter: chaningthegreen

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Oxford Fire Department holds annual fire safety camp

BY CHANING GREEN NEWS WRITER

Many children dream of growing up to become firefighters. It is one of the few occupations where those in the field are routinely classified as heroes. The world will always need firefighters because there will always be fires. A major portion of the Oxford Fire Department’s role in the community is to do everything they can to make sure those fires are prevented. When fires cannot be prevented, educating the community about what to do in these times of crisis saves lives. That’s the idea behind the summer camp that Oxford Fire Depart has been running every summer for the last eight years.

Public Education Officer William Stewart is in charge of organizing the camps.

The fire department actually does two five-day camps during the summer.

The camps last from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and are open to kids ages 6-12. Both camps teach the same things. How to respond to a fire, how to know the signs of a fire before you ever see a flame, how to call 911 and what to tell the dispatcher when you call and several other skills that could very well save a life during a fire-related emergency.

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Upon successfully completing the fire safety camp offered by the Oxford Fire Department, children receive a goodie bag, trophy and certificate as a reward.

Children participating in the camp get to learn fire safety while also learning what it’s like to be a firefighter. They get to have a demonstration of what the Jaws of Life do to a car. They also get to see all of the equipment a firefighter has to put on before they can even leave the station. After a demonstration, kids have the opportunity to see how fast they can put on a miniature version of the firefighter’s equipment.

The kids learn basic emer-

gency medical techniques like what to do when you break an arm and how to keep someone’s heart pumping if it stops. The camp focuses on different aspects of firefighting and safety each day. The exercises are taught mostly by Oxford Fire Department’s senior staff, many of whom are doing this during their off time. They care, Stewart said. This is just something that everyone at the department is passionate about.

The camp wraps up on the

Friday of the week with a graduation ceremony, trophies, certificates, pull string bags full of prizes and a day of water-based games and activities, where both the firefighters and the kids get soaked. Stewart said that one of the most popular events on this day are kid versus firefighter Slip N Slide races. Camps will take place June 6-10 and June 20-24.

This summer’s camps are already full. The department tries to keep the camp down to 25 kids a camp in

order to make sure each child receives maximum attention and has the opportunity to enjoy the camp as much as possible, but they will take more if circumstances allow. They opened applications for the first camp on April 4. By 5 p.m. that day, 34 kids had signed up for the camp. The second camp filled up rather quickly as well.

One of the reasons this camp is so hugely popular in the community is that they are completely free to participate in. The MS department of something or another originally provided the funding to keep the program up and running, but now the fire department has a special portion of their annual budget that goes specifically to keeping the camp free and open to the community.

Several Oxford businesses also make different types of donations to support the camp. For the Jaws of Life demonstration, Shivers Towing donates the car that gets ripped apart. Dominoes Pizza and Firehouse Subs have donated food for the graduation ceremonies.

Oxford Print Wear prints their shirts, the Trophy Shop provided the small trophies graduates receive at a discounted rate, specially for the fire department. Chick-

fi-la even provides a little gift card to go with the goodie bags the kids get at the end of the camp.

Stewart really enjoys working on this camp every summer. He lights up when he talks about it and the different activities that are planned for it. But, though they do have a lot of fun, Stewart said that the things he enjoys most about the camp, is knowing that the kids are learning valuable skills.

My favorite part is actually not here,” he said. “It’s when you leave, and someone comes up to you and tells you something you taught them. That’s it.”

Stewart then recounted a story about one of the graduates of the camp. A little girl who had gone through the program was outside of her home one day when she noticed smoke filling her neighbor’s house. She used what she had learned from the classes and went and reported back to her mother who called 911. The fire had begun in the kitchen, and because of the quick actions of the girl, spread no further.

The occupants had been in the back yard and not noticed the flames. No one was hurt. chaning.green@journalinc.com Twitter: chaningthegreen

OUS to hold annual summer camp

BY CHANING GREEN NEWS WRITER

Oxford University School’s summer camps are known for being one of the cooler places to spend the hot summer weeks out of school. The camps are open to any children in the community, they are not required to be enrolled in the school in order to participate.

This year, Gin Gin Carlton is in charge of the camp that is open to kids 3 to 7 years of age, known as the Eagle’s Nest. She ran the program for about five years before taking a break for a few years to spend the summers with her newborn daughter. Now that her daughter is a little older, she is back at the help running the camp. Her camp

will be taking place throughout the entirety of the summer, lasting seven weeks in all. There will be four weeks of camp in June and three weeks of camp in July with a break in between each week to give everyone a break and some time with their families.

Each week is a different theme of the camp. There will be an arts and crafts week, a week of music and dance, a week of gardening, a week of drama classes and a few others. The last two weeks of the camp are water games and circus themed. The camp is still taking sign ups. They have a lot of 3 and 4-year-olds signed up for the summer and could use some more 5 to 7-year-olds.

Carlton said that her favorite part of these camps

is watching the kids have a ton of fun, while also learning and spending their summer vacations doing something productive. She said that kids tend to have that mindset of no more school means no more learning, so you have to make sure to hide the learning in the fun until the two become indistinguishable.

Blaire Barlow is in charge of the LEGO robotics camp this summer, called EagleBots. The camp is open to children ages 8 to 12-yearsold and will be taking place from June 20 to 24. Barlow has been working with a technology specialist at the University of Mississippi to help her better understand the equipment she special ordered. Kids will be assembling a LEGO robot

and using Bluetooth technology that will synch up an iPad with their robot.

Students are asked to bring their own iPad for the camp. If they don’t have access to one, OUS has a limited number they can use to accommodate students if necessary.

Barlow is looking forward to helping the kids create something this summer.

“I think that as an educator period, it’s awesome to see that aha moment in a kid’s face,” she said. “When they’re creating something that is theirs and they came up with, and you see that aha moment on them, it’s just something awesome and impossible to explain.”

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Children participating in last year’s summer camp at Oxford University School learn about gardening.

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BRIEFING Tunes and Tails Fundraiser Saturday, May 21 at the Old Armory Pavilion, the Ole MissOxford Rotary Club is hosting the fifth annual Tunes and Tails fundraiser to benefit the Lafayette County Literacy Council. Prices for the event are $20 in advance and $25 at the door for all you can eat crawfish, while they last. Kids 12 and under eat free. For the adults, bottomless drinks are $15. The event will last from 3 to 7 p.m. and feature music by the Cakewalkers. There will be a kid zone with face painting, corn-hole and other games.

Kids meals can also be purchased for $5.

Charger Basketball Camp May 31-June 3 The annual Charger Basketball Camp, featuring Oxford High coach Drew Tyler and his players, will be held May 31 through June 3 at the Turner Center on the University of Mississippi campus. Cost for early registration is $110. Registration at the door is $120. It is open for boys ages through seventh grade. Assistant coach Tyler Reed is also part of the instruction on fundamentals.

Gym shorts, tennis shoes and T-shirts are needed each day for campers, who will receive a specific camp T-shirt, a regulation basketball, a 2016 Charger Camp medallion. Other special awards will be given out during the course of the camp, which runs each day from 8 a.m., until noon. Those interested in attending can pick up an application at University Sporting Goods or at the schools.

LHS hoops camp May 24-26 Lafayette boys basketball coach John Sherman is hosting a camp for children in grades one through six May 24-26. The camp will run from 8 until 11:30 each morning in the LHS gym. Cost is $45 for pre registration and $50 at the door. The $45 cost is good through Friday. Each camper will receive a red and white regulation size basketball, a camp T-shirt and certificate of participation. Fundamentals taught by Sherman includes dribbling, passing, cutting, shooting, rebounding, defensive stance, footwork, work ethic, motivation and a whole bunch of fun. Current Commodores will also take part in the instruction.

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Chamber’s Red Carpet Gala set for Thursday

BY KATHRYN WINTER STAFF WRITER

The second Red Carpet Gala, benefitting the Oxford-Lafayette County Chamber of Commerce, will be held on Thursday at The Jefferson. The Memphis Bouffants will provide entertainment, while Chamber Chef Shuffle will be providing the food. The gala starts at 7 p.m. and will continue on until 11.

The event will feature complimentary valet parking for guests, but there will also be on site parking as well.

“We are excited for our second annual event. This is an event where the entire community is invited to take the time to come together to celebrate our success as one of the best places to live in the country,” said Pam Swain, the chamber’s vice president. “We are a truly blessed community with amazing people who support one another in business, in family, and in growth. This events celebrates us all.

We were so thrilled at the success of last year’s event and the huge response for us to have it again. We love the opportunity to

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each other, and doing something to help the state of Mississippi in the future.

Brokaw, who wrote the book ‘The Greatest Generation,’ which focused on men who fought in World War II, talked about the paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division, and their jump into France just before D-Day. “They knew they would be scattered because the weather was bad and the planes would land in different places. They wondered how they could re-connect in the middle of the night behind enemy lines because the units wouldn’t be jumping in a unified way,” Brokaw said. “Someone came up with the ingenious idea of how they could stay in touch with each other.

(Click). Everyone in the 82nd Airborne had a brass clicker.

“The leaders of the squads would land, hide their parachutes behind German lines and in the dark of night, they would click once and hope they would hear a second click,” Brokaw continued.

“First click was I’m here. Second click was I’m coming to join you.

When they joined up there in the dark of night and fought heroically, they didn’t ask each other when they met ‘Do you remember the Tea Party? Are you a Republican or a Democrat? Or I they didn’t say I can’t work with you since we don’t have the same political views. They

take a break, celebrate together and have some fun.”

Swain said having the event at brand-new Jefferson was an “unbelievable opportunity.”

“It adds just another incredible dynamic to our event,” she said.

“We feel like many people will come just to see this spectacular space. But on top of that they get amazing food and drink with our chef shuffle, fellowship with their fellow Oxonians, and a great band to dance to! It is an event people do not want to miss.”

Tickets for the event can be purchased online for $75 dollars a

person, or two tickets for $125.

The Oxford Chamber of Commerce is a non-profit organization of over 650 member-businesses and individuals dedicated to preserving and promoting economic and community development. It was founded in 1940 on the principles of supporting local businesses and improving life for citizens in Oxford and Lafayette County. The Chamber offers seminars, focused events, leadership programs, or other means. Dues for a business membership with the Chamber are $200 a year.

Everyone in the community is in-

were only interested in doing one thing and that was winning the war, no matter how much personal sacrifice that took. Many lost their lives in their formative years so you could have the lives you have today. As you go forth from here, whatever you chose to do in life, as graduates of the University of Mississippi, you will (click) find ways to find each other, (two clicks) and stay together.”

There were over 4,000 graduates honored Saturday at the main ceremony. All of the schools held more intimate ceremonies over the weekend, some starting as early as Friday. It took almost 45 minutes for all the graduates to find seats in order for the ceremony to begin. Morris Stocks, the executive vice chancellor, told the crowd he remembered when it took 15 minutes for the procession to begin and end.

This was the first ceremony at UM for Chancellor Jeffrey Vitter.

He documented the moment by using his phone to take a panoramic picture of the crowd, and the sea of navy blue robes worn by the graduates.

“You could find that later on Twitter,” Vitter told the crowd after he put the phone away. “Today, is the pinnacle of the academic year.

It’s the day we recognize the success of our students, their families, our faculty and staff. It’s a day to be enjoyed and remembered, a happy day for all of us. The first group of Ole Miss students went through Commencement 163

years ago and through this ceremony, we continue the tradition of recognizing worthy achievement.”

Mary Kate Berger represented the Class of 2016 with some brief words at Saturday’s ceremony. She said college went by “in the blink of an eye.”

“This day marks a great accomplishment. In the amount of time each of us has spent working towards this moment is immeasurable,” Berger said. “We we have learned to be rebels. No, I don’t mean the Merriam-Webster definition, I mean we have learned to go against the status quo and that we have learned the true meaning of the creed. We have learned to respect one another and that it is not always easy or possible to be fair, but it is simple to be civil. We have gained the knowledge of holding ourselves to a high standard of personal and professional integrity.

We have been challenged to be honest not only in academics, but in life. And we have seized the opportunity of academic freedom.”

Presley Coleman, from Grenada, earned his degree in special education. He has helped coach basketball the past two seasons at Oxford High under the guidance of Drew Tyler. Coleman liked the overall ceremony that lasted almost an hour and a half.

“It was a great speech by Tom Brokaw. It’s something we can relate to in our every day lives. It was down to earth and it related to us well,” Coleman said. “He is a guy we all watched and idolized on the

vited to attend the event, it is not limited to members.

Local restaurants and caterers will be providing three to five of their favorite dishes. This is why it’s called the Chef Shuffle, because multiple eateries get to showcase unique dishes. Some of the restaurants include: Casa Mexicana, McEwen’s, My Michelle’s, Taylor Grocery, The Debutante Farmer, Bliss handcrafted ice cream, Mugg Cakes, No Time 2 Cook, Bacchus, and Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory. Raffle tickets can be purchased to win two-carat diamond hoop earrings, donated by Lammon’s Fine Jewelry.

The event was originally started last year to celebrate the Chamber’s 75th anniversary, but because it was so popular the Chamber decided to continue it again this year.

The Jefferson is Oxford’s newest venue, located off Highway 6 East.

Event organizers expect more than 400 people to come out and attend this year’s gala. Attendees are invited to come out, dance, and get a chance to be one of the first Oxonians to attend an event at The Jefferson. The Red Carpet Gala is presented by Allen Samuels. news every night. It was great to have him come here. It was a big honor.”

Coleman is headed back to Grenada to be an assistant coach at Grenada and work with the special education students in that district.

“It’s hard to describe the feeling.

It’s probably something where I will wake up in the morning and realize I’m a college graduate,” Coleman said. “Right now, I’m just in awe. It’s shocking because college has flown by.”

Daniel Hart, a graduate of Lafayette High, was unable to hear Brokaw’s speech. He was getting set to receive his master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction for the Mississippi Teacher Corps, and his ceremony was set to start not long after the main one dispersed. Hart has been teaching at North Panola High School, and he plans to continue that.

“It’s a great school, the teachers and students are fantastic,” Hart said of North Panola before talking about his graduation and advanced degree. “It feels really good.

It’s something I hadn’t thought much about, but I’m glad to be here. It will be nice to not have classes again. The biggest draw was the fact I could start teaching very quickly and the master’s degree was a side benefit of a sorts. It was an awesome atmosphere.

Everyone is very happy today.” john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

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University of Mississippi’s Commencement 2016 Over 4,000 students took part in Saturday's 163rd annual University of Mississippi Commencement ceremony held in the Grove.

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Bocce ball tournament coming to The Lyric

BY CHANING GREEN NEWS WRITER

Bocce ball and music have gone together as far back as anyone can remember. The game’s ancestor was at the forefront of Roman society and to this day remains popular in the areas surrounding the Adriatic Sea. The word “bocce” comes from the Italian word for a bowl.

Despite its ancient European roots, the game is hugely popular in different areas of the United States, and will be making its way to Oxford next week. The Lyric is working in conjunction with the American Bocce Company and Music in the Hall to have a bocce ball tournament and music video premier Thursday.

The event is being organized by American Bocce Company cofounder Ben Tudor and the mastermind behind Music in the Hall Daniel Morrow. Tudor’s company is based out of Chicago. He and a couple friends leased a vacant lot in the Windy City and they

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turned it into place for people to come and play bocce ball. Before they knew it, a leagued had formed and soon there were leagues popping up around the country in New York City,

Boston, Knoxville and other cities. The American Bocce Company is hoping to get a league up and running in Oxford as well.

Morrow is a graduate of the University of Missis-

sippi and was a part of the Oxford community for the better part of two decades.

He moved to Chicago just as Tudor’s league was first being established, and got in on the action.

Music in the Hall is video series that features bands in intimate setting like an attic, small venue or, unsurprisingly, in halls. The idea is to provide viewers the opportunity to see homegrown

talent in an intimate setting so that they can feel like they’re in the room with the artists, even if they are on opposite sides of the world.

During the tournament, several of Music in the Hall’s videos will be showcased at The Lyric, including some that will be making their world premier that night.

Once the Ole Miss baseball game scheduled to take place that night begins, it will be shown. The bocce ball tournament will consist of 12 teams set up in a traditional elimination bracket. Prizes include a six-pack of beer of from the Yalobusha Brewing Company, a free ticket to any future event at The Lyric and more. The courts are open games from 5:30 to 6:30, when the tournament is set to begin. The entry fee for a team of four is $60, attending the event is free to the public.

Any throw made without a drink in hand will be forfeited. chaning.green@journalinc.com Twitter: chaningthegreen

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Harrelson reflects on 2016 season, growth of Murphree twins

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decade ago, Richy Harrelson was leading the Lafayette Commodores to the MHSAA Class 4A state championship in baseball. This past Thursday, Harrelson, a former standout at Ole Miss, was in Arkansas watching the high school championships. Recruiting is now one of the main jobs of Harrelson, who just wrapped his first season as head coach of the Northeast Mississippi Community College Tigers.

Harrelson saw some positives from a young team in his first year, one that finished 20-26 overall. The bulk of his team will return to Booneville in 2017, and he was on the hunt for two more pitchers to round the class he had already signed.

Two former LHS standouts, John and Eli Murphree, both played for Harrelson this past spring. The twins had some good things happen for them, as well as some growing pains to overcome. Harrelson thought they both developed as a whole.

“It’s definitely a growing process and a difference between playing college baseball and coming out of the high school level,” Harrelson said. “You’re asked to change some things. They did a good job for us. They came to work everyday and we’re excited that they are a part of our program. They’re good kids, great guys.”

Even bigger things are expected from the duo. Harrelson added that he is a real “loud” coach and that he was different for them compared to Patrick Robey, their former coach at LHS. “To go from different mindsets, it’s just a hard transition. As the year went on, you could see both of them try to do some things,” Harrelson said. “They were trying to win at bats for us and trying to do learn how to compete. It’s not all about hitting all the TURN TO HARRELSON PAGE 12

Oxford players celebrate after defeating Grenada 6-3 on Friday night in Game 2 of the MHSAA Class 5A north state title series.

Champion Chargers Oxford captures 5A north state baseball title

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

GRENADA – Catcher Thomas Dillard was the first to hug Oxford pitcher Houston Roth Friday night. His embrace last a few seconds before the rest of the team met him in the infield following the 6-3 win over Grenada.

Once everyone met, it was a pile of bodies on top of each other.

For the second straight season, Oxford will be playing for the MHSAA Class 5A state baseball title. Two wins over Grenada in the north state title series made that happen. If the Chargers win two more games, they will be champions for a second straight season, and third time in school history.

Roth earned the completegame victory on the mound.

He was proud of his teammates for the accomplishment in a season where every school gave them their best effort.

“We lost a few games this year, but everyone loses

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Oxford second baseman Drew Bianco throws to first to get an out. games. Last year was just unreal. There was some doubters and if I’m being honest, I felt like going through this time, I felt a little more iffy than last year,” said Roth, who finished with six strikeouts and drove in two runs with a double. “I knew these guys could do it. We all got hot, everyone is hitting

the ball well. Duncan Graeber is just lighting it up and hitting doubles everywhere.

It’s huge to have a guy like that at the bottom of the lineup. It’s just a great feeling to go back again. You don’t hear of a lot of teams winning it two years in a row. It’s really special to go back two years in a row. We get another year

to prove our dominance again as a program. It’s really unreal to think about.”

Graeber collected two doubles in Friday’s win, and caught a number of balls from the likes of Grae Kessinger, Roth and Drew Bianco to garner outs at first base during the contest. He gave thanks to Jesus Christ, and his teammates, following the win.

“None of this is possible without my teammates. I’ve just been seeing the ball a lot better lately,” he said. “I changed my swing two or three times during the season. This one, I just went back to doing things simple.

I was short and quick to the ball and getting my hands through it. It’s been helpful.”

Oxford (26-8 overall) has done a much better job of keeping the ball out of the air since the 7-5 loss to Center Hill in the second round.

Even the outs Friday were on the ground for the most part.

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Doing his part Lafayette's McPhail has been key to NWCC's success

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

If Jake McPhail hadn’t signed with the Northwest Mississippi Community College baseball program coming out of Lafayette, there is no telling where the Rangers may have been. McPhail has been that critical to the success of the short-handed Rangers this year.

His ability to not only catch, but to play first base, and hit better than this experience level, have all been vital to head coach Mark Carson.

“He and Cody Cooper have basically split the catching duties in the doubleheaders and we’ve played him at first and he’s done a phenomenal job over there. We’ve DH’d him when he wasn’t catching. He’s been a guy for us,” Carson said. “He is hitting in the bottom part of the order for us, but that really fits him well. He is just one of those guys, just a very determined young man. He is going to somehow get it done. You couldn’t ask for a better person. They don’t make them any better and he has played a huge role. I don’t think we would be here right now if we hadn’t gotten out of him what we have.”

Carson was referencing the Rangers playing in the MACJC State Tournament this weekend at Jones JC. Despite a rash of injuries, NWCC has found a way to advance throughout the season.

McPhail, last year’s All-Citizen Player of the Year for Lafayette, has always been hard on himself when it comes time to access his game. He said that he has been “pretty pleased” with his first sea-

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time. It’s more so about having at bats to win games, moving runs. It’s a different transition. You could tell they were trying to make that adjustment. In junior college baseball, college baseball, it’s not easy.”

Nine of the last 10 games of the regular season resulted in a loss for the Tigers, and Harrelson said mentally, his team didn’t stay focused.

“We just didn’t do a good enough job as coaches. We didn’t do a good enough job keeping those guys ready and we have to do a better job of keeping them loose

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Jake McPhail, a former standout at Lafayette, has been very reliable for the Northwest Mississippi Community College Rangers this spring. son in Senatobia, even if he didn’t finish the regular season like he wanted to.

The biggest difference between playing at NWCC and Lafayette is the speed of the game.

“It’s a whole lot faster. Everything has sped up a whole lot. In high school, you had good players but not everyone was on the same level,” McPhail said. “When you get to college, everybody is good.

Every game. Anybody can beat anybody at any time. You can look at our record, or anybody else in

and focused all at the same time,” Harrelson said. “We didn’t really do anything different than we’ve done in the past. We just went flat at the wrong time.”

There were things that Harrelson learned about himself from a coaching standpoint. There were adjustments he had to make to understand where his players were coming from.

A lot of the players who saw significant action were new to the college game.

“We didn’t have any position guys that played over 25 innings last year with the exception of our catcher,” Harrelson said. “It’s for those guys to do that. I don’t think they understood what it takes mentally. John and Eli,

the state for that matter, and you can see that no one game is a given. Coach Carson says in high school, you beat people just because of the name across the chest. It’s not like that all up here.

It will be like that all the way until the end.”

McPhail was hitting .256 with a home run, 20 RBIs and seven doubles heading into the state tournament. Of the 37 games he has played in, 36 of those were in a starting role. Considering how much the Rangers had to over-

come, the season was deemed a success by McPhail.

“We’ve fought through it and come a long ways. This team as a whole has a lot of heart, a lot of fight,” he said. “It was a totally different team at the start of the spring than it was in the fall. We’ve had guys playing hurt. LeeMarcus Boyd has been playing sick for as long as I can remember. There have been a bunch of nicks and bruises that people have had to fight through and play with because they didn’t have any other

option. I have to give our trainer a lot of credit for keeping us up and going and making sure we get what we need. I probably have spent more time with him this year than anybody.”

Improvement has been made for McPhail, both as a catcher and at the plate. He credited the coaching staff with breaking things done from a mechanics standpoint.

“Most junior college teams are calling pitchers for their catchers and they just give it to us to call our own game, and that’s a big help to learn the game,” McPhail said. “As far as a hitting standpoint Coach (Bill) Selby and Coach (Taylor) Walker do a great job of giving us what we need to perform well.

They’ve done a good job on both ends.”

Summer baseball in Missouri was on tap for McPhail once the Rangers’ season finally comes to an end. He will live with a host family, and play with a current NWCC teammate.

“I was nervous about at first, but after talking about it with my parents, I just decided it was an opportunity I might not get again,” McPhail said, who has enjoyed his time in Senatobia. “I’ve had a good time. It’s nothing like high school.

I’m still not used to it all as far as the way classes work and school.

There is a whole lot more stress. I guess growing up is the term I should use. You don’t have mom and dad over your shoulder every five minutes making sure you’re doing this or that right. You have to take care of your own stuff.” john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

they’ve worked hard everyday and they’re going to be successful because of it.”

If Harrelson wasn’t able to land a pitcher, or two, in Arkansas, he was planning on attending the state championships in Mississippi next weekend from a scouting standpoint. He was there last year and likely would be in attendance even if his roster was completely full. Baseball is what he does. It’s been his life for years and he’s good at it. His 2006 Commodores were special for sure, and he was the one who made that program what it has become currently.

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do, if you hit a pop fly, it’s going to be 10 times easier to catch it than to hit a ball in the six hole or in the four hole and hit it hard to somebody and put pressure on them,” Graeber said. “Hustling your butt off to first, doing the little things, can escalate to big things. It’s a huge relief but it’s also bittersweet to go back. I love these seniors to death. I’ve been playing with them my whole life. I’m excited to go and play with them, but at the same time, I’m sad to see it go. I’m very thankful for it.

They’re my best friends, I’m with them seven days a week, on and off the field.”

Oxford coach Chris Baughman saw his overcome four errors by scoring runs early, and then making the plays when they really needed to.

“I’m super proud. I didn’t think we played our best, especially defensively tonight, but we got some big hits when we needed to,” Baughman said. “Houston probably felt like he wasn’t at his best, but he’s a winner. He’s going to go out and compete

and he made the big pitches when he needed to. The pitch of the ballgame to me was the strikeout to (Dane) Bevell, the first baseman. It was a 3-2 count and he fouled off two fastballs. I went with my gut, we call slider and it was an SEC pitch, without a shadow of a doubt. He spotted it right there and froze the kid.”

With the series now over, Baughman said some weight was off the team’s shoulders for making a return trip.

“When you accomplish one of the goals you set out to accomplish at the beginning of the year, it’s always a little weight lifted off your shoulders,” he said. “We’ve had a target on our backs, still do, whoever we play. We have the opportunity now and I’m proud for them to play for it again. Hopefully we will come out and play our best next week and finish off what these kids have started.”

Up next in Pearl’s Trustmark Park is a meeting with Hattiesburg in the title series. Game 1 is set to begin on Tuesday night at 7.

Baughman and his staff tried to scout the Tigers, who defeated Pearl River Central

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Friday, but were unable to stay at the ballpark after the MHSAA told them over the phone, once they arrived, that they needed to leave and not scout the Tigers.

Hattiesburg officials were upset the Chargers got to start their series a day earlier due to the threat of rain, and that they didn’t have coaches up to Oxford to watch the series opener with Grenada. Baughman said he was “infuriated” about the situation as a whole.

“It’s infuriating that somebody would think that is right. Disappointed in the MHSAA for making that call and very infuriating that the MHSAA didn’t communicate it to principal, AD or superintendent,” Baughman said. “We skipped practice (Thursday) the four of us. That happens with me because I have to be here or there. I’ve got six guys on this staff I wouldn’t trade for the world. I know without a shadow of a doubt when I’m gone, it’s going to be handled. It was very disappointing to miss that and not be able to stay for the game.”

CHARGERS WIN FOUR STATE TITLES

while Whitwell and Mounce went 3-1.

In singles play, Grace Anne Oxford won four more individual state championships last Jones won her title 6-0, 6-0 over an opponent from Center week at the MHSAA Class 5A state finals, two days after win- Hill. She won two of her three ning a ninth team title, in Jack- matches by 6-0, 6-0 scores, and only dropped one point durson at Parham Bridges Tennis ing her time on the court.

Center. The girls doubles team The other title for the Chargof Sarah Nash and McClellan ers came at mixed doubles as Davis won four matches, defeating teammates Anne Hardy the team of Abbie Vaughn and Max Mauney won 6-1, 6-2 in and Amanda Lowery in the fithe finals. The duo won their nals 6-2, 6-2. Lowery and semifinal match 6-0, 6-0 over a Hardy went 3-1 overall in the team from Long Beach. tournament.

Gus Morgan played for the In boys doubles, the team of boys singles title, but he lost a Will Swindoll and Bo Nash detight match in the finals, 6-7 (8feated teammates Gordon Whitwell and Ryan Mounce 6-3, 10), 2-6 to an opponent from Ridgeland. Morgan went 3-1 6-0 to claim its title. Swindoll overall, defeating players from and Nash were a perfect 4-0,

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OXFORD WINS SPRING FOOTBALL GAME The Chargers defeated Tunica-Rosa Fort 21-0 in their annual spring football game Saturday. The junior varsity also posted a 7-0 win thanks to a touchdown run from Lance Stewart. Hiram Wadlington had a rushing touchdown in the varsity contest. John Reece McClure threw a touchdown pass to Barry Flowers for another score, while the third touchdown came through the air from Montgomery to Jaquan Webb. Devin Rockette and Jamar James each had an interception in the win.

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Good things ahead in tennis for Lafayette eighth grader

BY JOHN DAVIS

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A medal hung around the neck of Lafayette’s Ally Bowen, minutes after her individual MHSAA Class 4A title match. The eighth grader was pleased with her performance against Senatobia’s Melody Pei, even if she lost 6-2, 6-1. Bowen admitted while she could have done better serving the ball, she liked most things overall.

“I felt like I could have moved my feet a little better than what I did, but I fought hard. I tried to make the points as long as possible before I got tired,” Bowen said. “I think if I had another chance to practice and play against her again, it should be a closer match.”

Bowen made an impressive run in the individual 4A tournament, defeating Cydney Myers 7-5, 3-6, 6-2 in the semifinals. She came into that final match happy to be playing, but looking to give Pei all she had, and more.

“I didn’t want it to be an easy match for her to win,” Bowen said. “I feel like I’ve played well through the season. Ms. Debbie (Swindoll) has helped me out a lot during my matches. She’s been there for me when I was down and it’s really helped me a lot. I’ve had my ups and downs during matches,

Ally Bowen but it’s been a really good season for me. It’s my first to be varsity singles.”

Former Ole Miss standout Kristi Boxx teaches Bowen during the year, two or three times a week, at 5 in the morning. That doesn’t include time she spends by herself working on tennis.

“I play with my brother when he’s home from college. I’m always out hitting,” she added.

Lafayette is gearing up to win a state team title in 2017.

The Lady Commodores are very strong, and Bowen felt like if everyone practiced hard, a championship is realistic.

The biggest strength for Bowen right now is her drop shot and her forehand. The biggest place to make an improvement is second serve, she said.

“I also need to be really consistent with my first serve. It’s good when it goes in, but it’s not really consistent,” she said. “I’m working on that everyday to get bet-

ter.”

Bowen has been playing tennis since was 6, and she knew it was her sport. She told her father that the goal was to play Division I tennis in college, and then be a professional if possible.

“I always wanted to make it far in tennis. I’ve always worked really hard,” said Bowen, who follows Serena Williams and Novak Djokovic in the professional ranks. “I like the girls a lot, but the guys are pretty competitive and it’s pretty cool to watch. Some have really long sets and they’re really good players. It’s good to watch and it helps me learn more things to do in a match.”

Tennis camp in Texas and playing with her brother are on the agenda during the summer. She is also planning to take part in some clinics and work with Boxx as well.

“I’m going to work really hard and just get as far as possible because I feel like I

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Lafayette's Ally Bowen competed in the MHSAA Class 4A individual state tennis tournament, advancing to the title match as an eighth grader. have potential. I’ve been told by people I have a chance to make it far,” Bowen said. “I have to get my footwork better and stay together mentally during a match. And be patient.”

Swindoll is one of the biggest fans of Bowen, and not just because she is Lafayette’s coach, but because of her overall skill level.

“I’ve coached three individual titles and two of them by the same people that played mixed and then my assistant coach and her partner, but I never had a

singles person make it beyond the first round,” Swindoll said. “For her being an eighth grader, for her to get three wins, and to beat a girl that signed with Meridian, is impressive. She also beat a girl that is No. 6 in the state in 18 and under. She far exceeded her seeding in the tournament, and her age where she was. She just met a great player who is No. 1 player in Shanghai in 16 and under in the finals. We’re talking an elite player.”

Bowen only learned from the experience of playing in the title match, Swindoll

said.

“I want her to learn from it and I think she will,” Swindoll added. “I think she needs to keep working on her serve and do it under pressure because her motion is good. She also has to work on her footwork and definitely volleys. The No. 1 thing for me is a focus thing.

Just staying in the match all the time. She can go up and down, and against really good competition, you have to be on every point.” john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

Rebels pound Kentucky to win final home series Hot bats were the theme of the night for the No. 13 Ole Miss baseball team Friday at Oxford-University Stadium. The Rebels had 21 hits in a 14-2 series-clinching win over Kentucky. Four senior Rebels (Connor Cloyd, Matt Denny, Cameron Dishon and Holt Perdzock) were honored before the game, a crowd of 9,142, which secured a new regular season total attendance record at Swayze Field.

The Rebels (38-13, 16-10 SEC) were outstanding offensively on the night as each Ole Miss starter tallied at least one hit. Twenty-one hits on the night were the most this season by Ole Miss, and most since 2008. The Rebels also had back-to-back homers for the third time this season.

Errol Robinson went 5-for-6 on the night with four runs and three RBIs, earning new career highs in hits and runs. Five other Rebels also earned multi-hit games.

Sophomore Tate Blackman and

junior J.B. Woodman each roped a home run, with Blackman going 2for-4 with a career-high four RBIs and Woodman finishing the evening 3-for-4 with three RBIs. Colby Bortles and Will Golsan added three hits and two runs apiece as well.

Left-handed pitcher David Parkinson (4-2) tossed six innings, allowing only five hits and striking out a career-high six to collect a victory. Freshman Andy Pagnozzi finished the game, pitching effectively for three innings (three hits, one run) to earn his first career save.

For Kentucky (29-22, 13-13), Dustin Beggs (8-2) suffered the loss after the Rebels tallied nine runs on 14 hits against the righty. At the plate, designated hitter Gunnar McNeill went 2-for-4 knocking in the two Wildcat runs.

After Parkinson posted a onetwo-three inning, the Rebels wasted no time getting the bats rolling. Robinson took the second

pitch of the game and sent it to right-center field for a double. With one out, Blackman went yard to put two runs on the board. Woodman’s turn was next and the junior sent one into the Ole Miss bullpen beyond left field for back-to-back homers.

The Rebels held a steady 3-0 lead until the bottom of the fourth inning when they added three more runs. Cloyd sent a double to right field before Robinson’s RBI single up the middle moved him across the dish. With four runs on the board, Olenek singled to center, and the Rebels had runners on first and second. Woodman singled back to center field to plate Robinson, and a wild pitch allowed Olenek to score to give Ole Miss a 6-0 advantage after four.

The Wildcats responded with a run in the fifth. Dorian Hairston singled up the middle to start the scoring inning. A ground-rule double moved Hairston to third

before McNeill’s groundout RBI ended Parkinson’s chance at a scoreless night on the mound.

The Ole Miss bats remained on fire in the fifth inning as the Rebels continued to rake the ball. Bortles, Golsan and Fitzsimmons hit three consecutive singles and Ole Miss had ducks on the pond with no outs. Cloyd executed his job and hit a sacrifice fly to score the seventh run. Robinson tallied his third hit of the night when his single through the right side added another two RBI to his big night.

Olenek reached first after being hit by a pitch and Blackman got his chance to extend the lead. The second baseman did just that, yanking a triple to right field to send two more Rebels home. When the dust settled, Ole Miss put a five-spot on the board to increase their lead to double digits, 11-1.

Parkinson headed back to the mound for the sixth inning and finished his effective outing on the

mound before Pagnozzi took over to start the seventh. The righthanded pitcher put Kentucky away in order, and Ole Miss went back to the bats in the bottom half.

An opposite-field single gave Robinson his fourth hit of the night. He later scored on Woodman’s RBI single to right field that extended the Ole Miss cushion to 11 runs.

In the bottom of the eighth, the Rebels added more runs as the bats couldn’t be stopped. Golsan raked his second triple of the weekend to plate Bortles. With Golsan standing on third, Cloyd grounded out to first base for is second RBI of the night.

The Wildcats scored a late run in the ninth. McNeill knocked in his second run with a single up the middle to score shortstop Riley Mahan. Pagnozzi finished the game and earned the save as Ole Miss defeated Kentucky for a final score of 14-2.

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We are an independently-owned multimedia company with numerous community newspapers, websites, regional magazines, and a digital services agency. We are looking for the right candidate to join our team of multimedia and digital sales consultants in educating and assisting businesses with their marketing and advertising strategies through the company’s print and digital products and services.

If you desire a challenge, then we want to talk to you. We are looking to hire full and part-time sales consultants.

Please send a cover letter and resume with references to: humanresources@journalinc.com Journal, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISERS When Placing Ads 1. Make sure your ad reads the way you want it. Then our Ad Consultants will read it back to you.

2. Be sure your ad is in the proper classification.

3. After the deadline, ad cannot be canceled or corrected until after it runs the first day.

4. Check your ad the first day for errors. If an error has been made, we will be happy to correct it; however, we cannot be responsible for errors after the first day.

If you cannot find your ad, call us at 1-800-270-2622 the day you expect it to start.

AUTO Cars LINCOLN LS 2005, 4 doors, automatic, Tan, 31,300 miles, Excellent condition., $5,200.

(870)897-5100

Vans

HONDA Odyssey EX 2009 V6, Auto, Burgundy, 129k miles, Clean inside and out.

Local one owner, 7 passenger, Oxford. $9,200 (662)791-1476 BE A BOLD ADVERTISER Regular Size Print Bold Words are only an additional $.50 each.

Call today to place your classified ad.

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